We bail GM out with our tax dollars for having bad business
practices while their CEO’s give themselves millions of dollars in bonuses and raises
while putting thousands out of work. Then
they pay America back by pompously and purposely letting our citizens’ die for
a decade to save another buck. This time no bail out, it’s time to sit back, do
nothing for GM, and watch them die for a decade with no help in sight until it’s
too late – Now that’s Justice!
Please help keep the truth alive - or all we have are lies!
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Monday, March 31, 2014
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Saturday, March 22, 2014
A Young Girl Looks upon the Sea
A Young Girl Looks upon the Sea
By Brian Thomas Armstrong
A child looked out upon the dawn and wondered of her father
The mother held her tears and watched the girl stare out the
window
A mast, a ship, a darkened haze floating in the horizon
But none was seen among the waves, and the child feared her
father taken by Poseidon
All day she stood there gazing out and not a word she said,
unspoken worries her mother shared
for she also feared her husband dead
for she also feared her husband dead
All night again the child stayed gazing at the darkened sea,
but in the new dawn still she waited
and still no relief for them had come to be
Some say the sad girl waits there still, and on darkened lonely
nights
If you go to her old cabin you can see her in the window staring
out upon the stormy waves
when you turn out the candle lightsI Have a Dream
My dream is that human nature catches up to human
enlightenment and that they become confidants and friends. When that happens I
dream that mass media will spread like lightning
mass understanding and cooperation rather than mass hysteria and public strife.
mass understanding and cooperation rather than mass hysteria and public strife.
My dream can be found in everyone, everything, and in every
religion. My dream is faith in humanity that gives me faith in myself.
Mine is a social dream of a
better world.
better world.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
The DC Obsession with Dr. Seuss
The DC Obsession with Dr. Seuss
Is DC Crazy, or just orally lazy? – Asked the common man.
The
Palin answered no! , and then babbled about her Uncle Sam.
Pork was served up Texas style, when Cruzy brought green eggs and ham.
The Markey
he then quoted the Lorax, in a Massachusetts scam.
Crazy! Lazy! Dumb, or Stingy, in D.C ask someone who knows,
even though who knows, who knows, why
their Dr. Seuss hat shows!
even though who knows, who knows, why their Dr. Seuss hat shows!
Monday, March 3, 2014
The New American State Capitalist: Pot, booze, and cigarettes; in that order.
With Washington
State and Colorado taking the lead
in the new American capitalistic experiment that is legal heavily taxed,
heavily demanded for by the public recreational marijuana, as long as the State of the Union doesn't
spin out of control because of new state
laws such as I-502 (WA.)
and Amendment
64 (CO.) other states are sure to follow Washington and Colorado like
dominoes. It seems unlikely our nation’s
kids will suddenly turn to hard drugs like heroin because marijuana is so readily
available now, if anything I should hope it will help steer people away from
the new national epidemic of heroin deaths and addiction, given an easily accessible
relatively safe alternative for self- medication such as marijuana. A sure bet is that every state in the union will
soon follow Washington and Colorado once the great experiment pays off in a
few years. How could they not follow when other states see Washington and Colorado’s
monumental debts disappear because of the gigantic revenue, jobs, and of course
tax income that legalizing marijuana will bring to both struggling post-recession
state economies?
One could say that the old “free capitalist” is returning to
the modern American state business man’s attitude towards their perceived states’
rights, and the Federal Governments perceived
authority over those rights. The other great American experiment happening
right now is how far these states can push it with the Federal Government
before having to run for cover? In the
age of the World Wide Web, the public opinion forum is truly becoming the new
supreme World ruler. This new people’s
media army can and will topple governments, dictators, and the like. If enough
public social hysteria is
generated through social media and the Nightly Fox News Team, public perception
and American drug laws
can change back and forth in American history quicker than most political
analysts can ever accurately keep up with or predict them.
A “free capitalist” can be likened to the good old small
business owner of the entrepreneurial capitalist days of the cowboy era. Basic and simple
to follow standard ethical rules consisted of: Unless it involves horse
thievery, outright murder, or too much public, social, or commercial
embarrassment, you can pretty much sell anything to anyone who wants it and will pay dearly for it,
without raising to many eyebrows. Back in the 1800’s until the early 1900’s,
this was just good old fashioned capitalism at its finest. In those days that
was the American dream, and semi-unregulated entrepreneurship was the only true
road to success for the little guy at that time.
According to a recent CBS
News poll presented this past January; Americans who support legal weed finally
outnumber those who don’t in American society.
It is a close divide though on the legalization issue at 51% in favor of
legal marijuana, compared to 44% against. With a growing modern sentiment of indifference
against marijuana, and the perceived public need to move on when it comes to
weed and focus on bigger issues in American politics, and especially abroad, it
won’t be long now until most the other states turn to legal marijuana to cure
their financial ills. Now that neither political side cares anymore enough to
try to stop the inevitable pot invasion of America, it can now be seen as a much
better political and capitalistic tactic to make a profit on pot if people want
it, as long as everyone can get away with it by everyone paying the right happy
to take your money local authorities. Here’s
to you Washington State and Colorado for bringing back good old fashioned
American State Capitalism at its best.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
The Changing American Presidential Perception of Native Americans
Last year
in Nov of 2013,
President Obama welcomed for the fifth time 566 federally recognized tribal
leaders to the White House Tribal Nations Conference. As early as 2009
Obama showed an honest interest in not only the Native American vote, and his next
re-election bid, but also in re-building a positive connection between the
original American indigenous population, and the traditionally mistrusted by
Native Americans - American Federal
Government.
The American
President of the past mirrored the common white settler or
soldier's overly negative mistrust and blatant dislike for the Native
American. George
Washington compared them to wolves and as beasts. Andrew Jackson
was quoted as saying the Native American had neither intelligence nor moral
habits. With such presidential condoning of racism and fear mongering towards
the original inhabitants of North America, it’s plain to see how easy it was
for the governments of the time to remove, eliminate a perceived threat from
the Indian, and exterminate when necessary the Native American peoples’ in such
a grand scale that Adolf Hitler would certainly truly appreciate its evil
magnitude.
Of course
it would take decades and even centuries for an American president to
acknowledge the simple fact that Native Americans were the only ones
technically here first when President
Franklin Roosevelt said that only full blooded Indians were native to this
country, and everyone else was basically an immigrant or a descendant of
immigrants. As you can imagine, at that time in history Franklin Roosevelt was
certainly courting the immigrant vote and not the Indian one, but at least it
was a nice mention.
By the late
forties and early fifties, American Indians had become an American Christian
duty to civilize the old perceived savage into a non-scary educated member of
society. Unfortunately again for the Native American, this new
found white Christian perception of the Native American Indian was nonnegotiable by
the Indians themselves. Once more Native Americans were forced into unbearable
circumstances in the form of religious boarding schools in order to let Christ himself
cast the savage demons from them. Decades of this practice were echoed in President Harry
Truman’s words on the American
Indian when he stated:
"The United States,
which would live on Christian principles with all of the peoples of the world,
cannot omit a fair deal for its own Indian citizens."
Truman seemingly was
tired of the old Indian Office’s bureau style education and land use
regulations perpetrated on the Indians under their supposed care, but President
Truman was still of the popular belief at the time that total assimilation was the
only hope for the survival of the Indian race. As a consequence of this
misguided perception of what the American Indian’s true needs were, many
reforms and subtle breakthroughs in Indian rights and recognition were swept
aside to accommodate Truman’s way of thinking towards Native Americans.
Forms of this assimilation
theory towards the North American Indian populous remained all the way into the
Reagan years when then President Ronald
Reagan, obviously in his “clueless years”
stated that maybe America had made a mistake and shouldn't have humored
the American Indian in their wanting to stay in such a primitive lifestyle – Why didn't they just come out of the reservations and join us in the cities and
be good citizens right alongside us?
To re-iterate the
Republican perception of the plight of the Native American Indian some years
later, with a quote from the incredibly knowledgeable on the subject, George W. Bush:
"Tribal
sovereignty means that. It's sovereign. You're a… you're a… you've been given
sovereignty and you're viewed as a sovereign entity."
Which otherwise means
they basically got nothing coming from the Bush administration.
Barack Obama
has at least seemed to have ironically fulfilled one of his promises in both
his presidential terms, the promise of choice in American inclusion, rather
than past forced exclusion, assimilation, or threatened extermination for the
Native American.
"We also recommit
to supporting tribal
self-determination, security, and prosperity for all Native Americans.
While we cannot erase the scourges or broken promises of our past, we will move
ahead together in writing a new, brighter chapter in our joint history." -
Barack Obama
Sunday, February 9, 2014
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Remembering our Modern American Mass Shootings, and Those to Come.
On a cold January Thursday morning in 2010, Timothy
Hendron was in his car preparing to enter his work at the ABB Power Factory of ST.
Louis. What was different this morning was that Hendron was armed this time
with an AK-47 style assault rifle, two hand guns, a pump action shotgun, and hundreds
of rounds of assorted ammunition in which to re-load them with.
Timothy Hendren then proceeded to ruthlessly cut down and
kill two innocent fellow co-workers in the complex parking lot, and then killed
another person and injured two others when he entered the industrial building shooting
indiscriminately throughout the facility. His mass shooting
spree continued unhindered until an employee with a concealed handgun
started firing back at Hendron as he approached potential victims who were hiding
down the hallway in a break room.
Timothy Hendron then went on to take the easy way out as
many mass shooting spree perpetrators do; he blew his own brains out before the
cops could get to him.
It would be fairly obvious to conclude that Timothy Hendren
was not very happy with his employer or fellow employees, that fails to explain
his extreme actions though. Hendren’s neighbors seemed surprised when told the
news of his psychotic rampage and the outcome of his deeds. The only real clue to
what sent this man over the edge was that he was active in a labor lawsuit involving
the ABB Company’s pension plan. Now a pension plan would obviously stir
emotions in most of the people it pertains to, but going on a killing spree
over it is certainly like cutting your nose off despite your face, especially
if you don’t intend to be around to enjoy retirement anyway – What are these
people thinking when they turn into homicidal maniacs over daily life issues? –
Are these newly indoctrinated killers a different breed than your run of the
mill serial killer, or hopefully you and me?
What makes seemingly “normal” people do such unreasonably
abnormal violent things? That question has been in debate for as long as the
problem has existed without a clear cut scientifically proven theory as of yet,
outside of the basic age old faults of human nature itself.
Envy of ones co-workers would seem to be an obvious factor
in wanting to shoot them, along with of course a basic sense of daily aggravation
with the people they work with, but still these common irritants rarely end up in
a mass shooting spree. There has to be something about these “types” of people
that set them apart from the rest of us who don’t kill several people when things
start to not go our way.
Mass
shooting perpetrators are said to have similarities to their serial killer
cousins such as hurting animals in their youth, or some form of past abuse in their
childhood. This may tie them together according to an on-line article in the
Huffington Post Science section that was posted soon after the Sandy
Hook Elementary School shooting. Although their killer traits may be
similar to that of a sociopathic psychotic killer, they have a major difference,
a serial killer kills from obsessive compulsion or mental defect, or just plain
because they are evil rotten human beings, but these “mass shooters” held down
jobs and lived with family members. These
people weren’t there just for a cover story to elude detection from law enforcement
and the rest of society; these people dealt with these future mass murderers on
a daily basis, and they still had no clue or prior warnings about their neighbor,
family member, or co-workers evil intent welling up inside them.
Something made these people snap and suddenly
have no regard for any life what-so-ever, including and especially their own; call it an ultimate inferiority
complex that serial killers rarely share with mass shooters.
This type of
mass shooting epidemic was nothing new to the year 2010, society had already
endured a long string of violent, senseless shooting sprees. From Virginia Tech
in 2007 when Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 innocent souls on campus, and then of
course killed himself last instead of first like normally depressed people
would have, to the shocking shooting betrayal in 2009 at Fort Hood when Army
Major Nidal Malik Hasan killed 13 of his fellow soldiers and wounded 30
before being brought down by a police officer. Obviously with Major Malik the strains
of the gulf war and the rhetoric of Al-Qaeda had something to do with this shooting
spree; but then again the military found him “sane” enough to counsel their troops
as an active duty officer and trained psychologist – ooops to say the least,
obviously this had more to do with Major Nidal Maliks general mental state at
the time of the incident, rather than
the mental stresses of dealing with the war on terror, along with the strain of simultaneously being
an American Muslim officer in the U.S. Army.
Over and over again, be it school,
workplace, or movie theatre, the
main theme in these maniacs picking places to enact their twisted revenge on
the rest of us, is designed to hit us
exactly where we usually feel the most safe, at school, at work, and of course a military fort
or movie theatre. These violent nuts have one thing in mind and in common during
their mass shooting sprees – teach society a terrible lesson they won’t soon
forget for kicking them around mentally or financially for so many decades, and then of course after their terrible deed immediately
opt out of life’s contract. This suicidal tendency of snubbing their nose at
society one last time by giving us the same guarantees they were given when arriving
on earth, seems to serve as their final explanation of their heinous actions –
No One Said Life Was Fair! This mortal trait seems to be another defining difference
between the mass killing spree shooter and the average serial killer – I’ve
never heard of a serial killer wanting to commit suicide on purpose, even when surrounded
or caught red handed by the police. A serial killer’s ego usually would never even
consider taking such a societal commoner’s mentally un-superior way out such as
self-murder.
The modern accepted definition of
a “spree killer”
is someone who has committed two or more murders without a cooling off period.
This is what separates them from your ordinary serial killer. Not having a
proper cooling off period seems to be another of the most prevalent traits that
all “shooting spree killers” have in common. If someone in their lives saw the
warning signs a head of time, possibly
these terrible incidents would be growing fewer instead of more frequently, if the perpetrators simply had a cooling off
period to get their heads together and realize that shooting co-workers, or perfect strangers simply because your angry
has no basis in rational “normal” societal thought and should be deemed as what
it is – absolute insanity with still no definite reliable diagnosis, prognosis,
nor cure to imply this national epidemic of indiscriminate shooting sprees will
end anytime soon.
With Newtown’s
26 dead being freshly remembered, let us remember all the other shooting incidents
that fell before it, and also remember that without some sort of drastic action,
regardless of the latest politics on gun control, we will still have no more
control over stopping mass shooting tragedies in the future, than we do today.
Friday, November 29, 2013
The Black Tooth
In this insane world when
does sanity finally give up, letting society tear itself apart from within?
When life’s pain becomes unbearable, like a black tooth that rots the skull
around it killing its host; death shall come riding in on its pale white horse,
infecting us all with a murderous rage of insanity. BTA
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Monday, November 4, 2013
Guns, Murder and Mass Shootings: The Established American Way?
In the last seven years more than 900 people have died in mass shootings in the United States according to a USA TODAY analysis of gun related slayings. In the analysis those deaths accounted for only 1% of all gun related homicides in America.
The extra attention that workplace, shopping mall, and especially school shootings get in the national media compared to domestic violence type murder suicides, and other mass shooting incidents are a reflection of the American audiences need for the extreme in order for mass media to get people’s attention in this technologically busy self-centered world we live in.
The Federal Bureau of Investigations calculated that in 2012 one person was murdered in America every 35.4 minutes. According to the FBI crime report firearms were used in 67.8 percent of the carnage nation-wide.
I live in Seattle Washington, and in May of 2012 Seattle got another taste of the senseless mass shooting virus that seems to infect the public regardless of where they live. Ian Stawicki opened fire at the Café Racer Espresso shop in the University District killing four at the coffee shop, and then killing a woman in a parking lot while stealing her SUV. Stawicki finally shot himself in the head after being spotted and confronted by the Seattle police.
Neither Ian Stawiki’s father nor the Seattle police department have yet to come up with a “rational” motive for his actions. Bouts of mental illness were scrutinized and an infatuation with the barista worker was also implied, but those are only guesses and vague clues as to what makes these indiscriminant killers go “Ape Shit Nuts” on people that did nothing in most cases to threaten or physically harm them.
Obviously people and society in general were perceived by these homicidal maniacs as a dangerous threat to their mentalities, egos, and/or ideologies, not to them physically.
Can society blame violent video games like the notorious Grand Theft Auto, with their murderous and tacky tasteless digital gangster gore? The aggressive fantasies of enacting human degradation to others that games like “GTA” provide to angry dark apathetic teenagers and their grown up counterparts who devoutly play these types of games are too easy an explanation for the nation’s unrelenting rash of mass shootings; I believe that the problem goes much deeper into our society’s perception of who’s to blame when life or the world refuses to go our way.
Everyone in our society ends up being the ones who pay when these blamers finally snap and attack. Their irrationality eats away at our rational ideals making us eventually numb to their unexplainable violent actions towards indiscriminant strangers, and thus apathetic about them.
America needs to look into this epidemic of indiscriminant unwarranted mass murder, dig past the easy politically correct issues like whether guns are to blame, or is it really the fault of the mentally ill.
What we as a people need to do is look deeper at our society as a whole, then we will find out whether guns, murder, and mass shootings have become the everyday norm and established way of American life; or whether this epidemic of gun violence is really a warning sign of the ever-growing American societal lack of respect for everyone else’s lives but their own.
http://voices.yahoo.com/guns-murder-mass-shootings-all-american-way-12393349.html
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Friday, October 18, 2013
Our human capitalistic value on earth
Our human capitalistic value on earth is only calculated by our governments in terms of the made up man made numbers they can theoretically bring back to their coffers, in order for them to use for themselves to better their lives while burdening ours. (BTA)
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
A Bought and Paid For U.S.D.A: But Not by the American Taxpayer
A Washington
State alfalfa farmer got a nasty surprise when he took his product to a
broker for sale; he found out that he’d been somehow GMO’ed on the crop he planted.
The standard test findings by the brokers found traces of “Round
Up” resistant genetics in the crop, this was a major blow to the farmer,
especially since he was counting on selling the product to a mostly anti-GMO overseas
market.
This newest genetically altered organism scandal would have been
alarming enough to both the farming community, as well as the consumer, given
that the tests proved this incident was not a case of cross-pollination by
another farmers GMO tainted crop, but
unbeknownst by the farmer, was planted
from illegal seeds he was sold in 2010 while the crop was banned.
To add insult to injury to the farmer, along with American
society, the
U.S.D.A neither cared, nor bothered to investigate how something like this
could have happened; even though the offending seeds were illegal at the time
they were sold to the unsuspecting farmer.
The fact that the United States
Department of Agriculture could turn a blind eye to this revelation like a
paid off cop during prohibition, also points out how most of us do not have a
clue what’s GMO tainted whether it is in our store shelves, or on our American
farming fields. Washington D.C has obviously already been bought by the Monsanto Corporation to
begin with, just like all the other major corporations have done so in the past
with impunity.
Why should the U.S.D.A do anything about GMO’s being
silently and illegally filtered in with the rest of the nation’s crop stores so
that eventually, everyone will just have to give up their protests and conform
because it is already too late to do anything about it.
Everything including our environment and our government is
tainted regardless, so why even bother trying to stop it – This seems to be the
rationality the Federal government would like us in America and the rest of the world to
believe in; then we would all realize that resisting the corrupt establishment
is futile at best.
I myself would rather still believe in a world without
corrupt, self-centered politicians, and that the governments they run should be
quickly and efficiently purged of them. Instead
of wasting our time listening to more paid off bullshit from both major
political parties, we should all vow to run the crooked bastards out with a
simple cast of the vote in 2016 and beyond. That is the true American dream of “change”
for our nation, and hopefully will be every election year from now on!
http://voices.yahoo.com/a-bought-paid-usda-but-not-american-12366270.html
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Saturday, October 5, 2013
The Man Who Couldn’t Catch Aids Killed Himself
In the early dawn of the 1980 s,
a gay man named Stephen Crohn started to wonder why he himself had not
contracted a terrible disease after his boyfriend’s, and several other close
friend's deaths from a new virus that was plaguing the gay community.
After receiving many more perplexing
negative test results for the deadly virus over the coming years, Crohn decided
to track down a researcher in the field to test his blood, and in 1996 after 14
years of wondering why he was so graced and not others, scientists discovered
that Stephen Crohn was indeed gifted in this world with a genetic
mutation that made his blood cells impervious to the Aids virus.
When learning of his bitter
sweet gift, Crohn immediately and enthusiastically volunteered in several
studies involving the genetic mutation that was hidden in his blood to help
pave the way for new drugs to combat and slow down the progression of the disease.
Remarkably and coincidentally,
the man who is noted to have discovered Crohn’s disease, Burrill Crohn,
was Stephen Crohn’s great uncle. Stephen Crohn was an idealist painter, sculptor
and artist along with working as an editor for Fodor’s
travel guides. He went on to become a social worker and ran support groups
for Aids patients and other terminally ill patients at the same Mount Sinai in New York that his famous great
uncle Burrill Crohn was established at so many decades before.
Unfortunately his important
work with the ill might have been too much of an overwhelming reminder of the
constant grief and devastating personal toll from the Aids virus that took over
70 of his friends and companions over the years.
On August 24 of 2013, Stephen
Crohn committed suicide at the age of 66 in New York City. Crohn in the end
gave back to god the gift he was given; that gift must have seemed to Crohn as
more of a curse than a blessing over the long painful years.
A clue into the obvious survival
guilt and unbearable grief that seemed to stem from Crohn’s incredible personal
loss, due to the disease that he himself was impervious to, was a 1999 Nova documentary on PBS in
which Crohn stated:
"What's hard is living with the
continuous grief,” an unbearable grief that was able to do what even Aids was
powerless to do – kill the man who could not catch Aids.
Thursday, August 29, 2013
The American tale of the Traitorous Tranny
Bradley
Manning is not your average old school spy for money or secret foreign intelligence
cell member type traitor. Although ”he” ( Yes I know, I’m breaking the rules of
Political correctness) stole and sent hundreds of thousands of documents to WikiLeaks that included battlefield reports from Iraq and Afghanistan,
along with politically embarrassing diplomatic
cables collected from the worlds classified E-mails, along with profiles of
Guantanamo detainees, and not to mention
the real “elephant in the room,” sobering
footage of senseless inhumane and unwarranted American military airstrikes that
have killed hundreds of innocent civilians.
These facts would have otherwise been buried deep in more governmental cover-ups, blatant to the public lies, and other dirty tricks
from our nations generals and politicians if not for Manning’s betrayal. Bradley/Chelsea Manning, according to him/her committed treason out of humanitarian
convictions rather than any apparent ill intent towards the American people.
After receiving 35
years in Leavenworth for “his” ethical and moral convictions, Chelsea
Manning came out to the world as a woman and cast off his constricting male shell
as Bradley Manning, ready to face his impending life at the all-male military prison
as a woman while further prolonging the governments embarrassment
by legally challenging the Pentagons still ongoing aversion to trannies in the
military, let alone in their biggest prison.
When I was in the military being gay was an instant ticket out of the Armed Services, and trannies were something you played jokes on with the new recruits on their first R&R leave in sleazy bars and dirty downtown allies. The military’s views on trannies has not changed much since the early eighties when I served; gays in the military have come a long way but the Armed Forces have not progressed to the point yet where the government is going to grant Manning’s request to have his junk cut off, and then get a pair of hooters implanted in his chest in preparation for basically life in prison. One thing that is very clear in this Tale of the Traitorous Tranny is that unless they put Manning in solitary confinement, someone or everyone is going to get some tail the night Chelsea Manning arrives at Fort Leavenworth.
When I was in the military being gay was an instant ticket out of the Armed Services, and trannies were something you played jokes on with the new recruits on their first R&R leave in sleazy bars and dirty downtown allies. The military’s views on trannies has not changed much since the early eighties when I served; gays in the military have come a long way but the Armed Forces have not progressed to the point yet where the government is going to grant Manning’s request to have his junk cut off, and then get a pair of hooters implanted in his chest in preparation for basically life in prison. One thing that is very clear in this Tale of the Traitorous Tranny is that unless they put Manning in solitary confinement, someone or everyone is going to get some tail the night Chelsea Manning arrives at Fort Leavenworth.
According to the Court House News
Service -Before his detection, Manning confided in Internet chats with ex-hacker
Adrian Lamo, "i wouldn't mind going to prison for the rest of my life, or
being executed so much, if it wasn't for the possibility of having pictures of
me... plastered all over the world press... as [a] boy."
Text Copy of Chelsea Manning’s letter to President Obama (the
Washington Post)
The decisions
that I made in 2010 were made out of a concern for my country and the world
that we live in. Since the tragic events of 9/11, our country has been at war.
We’ve been at war with an enemy that chooses not to meet us on any traditional
battlefield, and due to this fact we’ve had to alter our methods of combating
the risks posed to us and our way of life.
I initially
agreed with these methods and chose to volunteer to help defend my country. It
was not until I was in Iraq and reading secret military reports on a daily
basis that I started to question the morality of what we were doing. It was at
this time I realized that (in) our efforts to meet the risk posed to us by the
enemy, we have forgotten our humanity. We consciously elected to devalue human
life both in Iraq and Afghanistan. When we engaged those that we perceived were
the enemy, we sometimes killed innocent civilians. Whenever we killed innocent
civilians, instead of accepting responsibility for our conduct, we elected to
hide behind the veil of national security and classified information in order
to avoid any public accountability.
In our zeal to
kill the enemy, we internally debated the definition of torture. We held
individuals at Guantanamo for years without due process. We inexplicably turned
a blind eye to torture and executions by the Iraqi government. And we stomached
countless other acts in the name of our war on terror.
Patriotism is
often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in
power. When these cries of patriotism drown out any logically based dissension,
it is usually the American soldier that is given the order to carry out some
ill-conceived mission.
Our nation has
had similar dark moments for the virtues of democracy — the Trail of Tears, the
Dred Scott decision, McCarthyism, and the Japanese-American internment camps —
to mention a few. I am confident that many of the actions since 9/11 will one
day be viewed in a similar light.
As the late
Howard Zinn once said, “There is not a flag large enough to cover the shame of
killing innocent people.”
I understand
that my actions violated the law; I regret if my actions hurt anyone or harmed
the United States. It was never my intent to hurt anyone. I only wanted to help
people. When I chose to disclose classified information, I did so out of a love
for my country and a sense of duty to others.
Monday, August 19, 2013
The Governmental Transparancy of Liars
Our Governmental system has been based on lies from the beginning. More and more naïve "sheople" are adding to the societal American mix of the New World Order. The lies get even worse when apathetic idiots that only care about their own lives and when their next paycheck is coming in so they can buy more shit for themselves - Keeps on being the American societal "norm." Transparency in Government is obviously in the eye of the beholder! And I see the Transparency of endless Governmental lies.
http://news.yahoo.com/everyone-knows-politicians-lie--why-don%e2%80%99t-reporters-say-so--194213534.html
Thursday, August 1, 2013
Standing up to Obamas World Wide threats over Snowden
Yea! That's how you do it - legally, After Obama Threatened third world countries with economic ruin, forced down the plane of a south American leader, threatened China, threatened Russia, and tried to pull every dirty trick in the world so people wouldn't find out what a fraud he is - Every socialist based country he threatened not to exercise their sovereign rights to their own laws, ethics, and constitutions had the balls stand up to his threats and extortions, showing the World what an inept, pretentious, hypocritical little man with a hero complex and an inflated sense of importance and political competence he really is! Now it's time for the American people to stand up and do the same!
Obama
has shown to have NO Believable Moral Authority in which to guide
America, due to the President of the United States un-ethical foreign and
domestic policies!
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
The Pen State Pain of 2011 that Still Hurts
It is about time the "Moral" Authority finally
gets nailed for being immoral and un-ethical - Of course if this happened at
the White House instead of Pen State College, the victims and the journalists
that broke the story would be in jail or on trial right now.
There is no question about the three ex-big wigs that
allowed Jerry Sandusky to rape young boys in the college’s showers being guilty
as hell. Why is the big question in my mind? If I was in charge and people repeatedly came
and told me Sandusky is raping young boys in the showers, I would call the
police first, call Sandusky into my office second, and then of course confront
him with the charges and put him on Administrative suspension until the issue
was all sorted out. If the allegations against Sandusky were found to be true, I
Would Drop His Ass like a Hot Potato and then call the legal department and
tell them to get some settlement checks ready.
For ex-President Graham Spanier, former vice president Gary
Schultz, and ex-athletic director Tim Curley, their choices to cover up decades
of blatant deviant child abuse were simply a self-serving monetary choice to ensure
their cushy jobs and prestige was not jeopardized. They were then trapped by
their own fears and greed into a conspiracy of the worst kind; one that held
the value of money over the value of a child’s welfare.
The prosecution is right on the mark this time and social
hysteria has seemed to lost interest in this case so there is not much pressure
for over-prosecutorial excess in this trial. The prosecutor rational is this: “The
men engaged in a ''conspiracy of silence,'' prosecutor, Bruce Beemer said.
This amounts to conspiracy to rape children on the Pen State
Campus. Well they made their choices and now they will most likely get their just
deserts in prison, just like Jerry Sandusky is now – Giving blow jobs surrounded
by painted cinderblocks rather than receiving them!
Monday, July 29, 2013
NO Believable Presidential Moral Authority
I petition that a vote of no confidence be put to the United
States Congress calling into question President Obamas abilities to lead this
country in a democratic and constitutional manner that has been set down by our
forefathers in order to protect us from tyranny and dictatorship by our own
governing powers. The charges and accusations set forth against the president
shall include and conclude that: President
Obama has shown to have NO Believable Moral Authority in which to guide
America, due to the President of the United States un-ethical foreign and
domestic policies, and that his actions as President of the United States of
America has run contrary to his campaign promises to the American people to the
point of being intentionally deceptive to those who voted him into power. President Obamas assurances on his election
plat form that he was dedicated to promoting
governmental transparency, progressive governmental change, and social equality
to America, has proven be the opposite in effect and in implementation. I state
that the President has instead brought the opposite of what he has promised
American Society and the United States government, solely do to the president’s
inept lack of political experience in politics, his self-centered personal
agendas, and his blatant circumvention of upholding the Constitution of the
United States of America.
Petition of no confidence in President Obamas abilities to morally and ethically lead America.Sunday, July 28, 2013
4 in 5 in US face near-poverty, no work!
Electing a black president finally ended inequality in America! - By
spreading it around! - Thanks President Obama! You fulfilled your promise by
making everyone walk the streets asking for "change" equally, just to
get a meal for a day in America. Those who agree and aren't afraid of being
called a racist because they have common sense and a mind of their own, should
help call for a vote of no confidence for President Obama on the grounds of,
"No believable moral authority in which to guide America due solely by his
ethical foreign and domestic policies and actions as President of the United
States of America" Everyone who agrees with this rational assessment of
his progress and unfulfilled promises (intentional lies) to our once great
Nation, Please pass this on and look for the petition I intend to start legally
and constitutionally. Something our president has intentionally overlooked as a
constitutional lawyer!
Saturday, July 27, 2013
The 14 Billion Dollar Floating “Death Star” that is more important than the future of Americas Children
Hey all you parents who had babies in 2012, congratulations!
About now you are thinking about your child’s future, and in a few more years
when they learn to talk; when they are going to move out of the house!
Well unfortunately you do not have much help coming from the
Federal Government except for maybe some interference into your personal lives
and parenting skills by some ever-zealous under qualified government agency.
The United States Government that claims to represent you
would rather sink all your hard earned tax dollars into a new toy, (Floating
Death Star) rather than your children’s futures. The newest most expensive
Aircraft Carrier ever made on Earth, the
USS Gerald Ford, (anyone old enough to remember the Un-elected by the people,
President Gerald Ford, has to snicker
a little bit) is one more example of how the Federal Government thinks more war
is more important than spending it on their citizens health and welfare. It is obvious
that they plan to use this monstrous weapon to uphold/enforce the dominance and
supremacy of the United Corporations of America over all the world populations
heads in order to force their will and self-interests on every nation on the
globe through extortion and intimidation.
Here is an example of what 14,000,000,000 dollars could do
for the newest U.S. citizens born in 2012 if America truly was the Kinder,
Gentler nation of the New World Order it claims to be.
Approximately 4
Million babies were born in the U.S. last year in 2012, if the 14 Billion for the
construction of the Aircraft Carrier was divided by the 4 Million babies that
would give every child born in 2012 about $3,500 to invest in a CD (federally Insured
up to $250,000). At the current average percentage rate for that amount saved
of 1.8%, after 17 years that would add up to, and give your child approximately
$13,700 to start planning their move out of the house comfortably for all, at
the age of 18.
Wouldn’t that be a nicer goal for your new infant child than
world domination and tyranny to look forward to when they turn 18? Remember – The
U.S. government gave those same banks $700 Billion dollars in a bail
out $$$$ for robbing us all blind for years! Just think of what
$700,000,000,000 could and can do for every American citizen if it was used for
society’s benefit, instead of the benefit of those who attempt to rule over society
for their own personal gain and profit!
Friday, July 26, 2013
The Truth is solid and Lies are hollow
The true Traitors are still in the White House trying to cover up more crimes - To bad they don't realize that the truth is solid and that more truth comes out the deeper you look into it, but lies are hollow inside once you break through them.
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