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Some 45 years ago I became aware of the fact that the government of The United States was trying to kill me. I wasn't paranoid or anything. I mean I knew the government wasn't out to kill me personally. They just wanted to kill as many Vietnamese people as they could. And if it took killing tens of thousands of Americans to do it ... well, that's policy, not paranoia.
Since then I've been leery of, and tried to keep track of, my government's "policies." The truly horrendous ones, like the Vietnam War, were based on lies.
When I was a five years old, in my neighborhood in the yard of the house at the end of the block, lived a big mean ol' German Shepherd named Rex. Every time I walked by, Rex would be at the end of his rope, furiously barking and snarling, straining to murder. One day I walked by and noticed Rex's rope had broken, and there he was ... right in front of me ... free ... and growling.
The government's rope was seriously frayed when Ronald Reagan occupied the Oval Office, and completely snapped when The Supreme Court installed George W. Bush as president.
In the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., " the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government" -- today roams the globe free and unfettered.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 I Thought My Grandfather Was Dead
If my grandfather were alive, he would have watched Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally in 2010. Now I hear the tenets of the twisted Christianity he adhered to coming out of Rick Santorum's mouth. My grandfather's dead but his place has been filled by someone else who wants to take the country back.
Friday, February 17, 2012 That Don't Make No Sense (3 comments)
Have you ever watched a FOX News program from start to finish? I can't. I tried a couple of times to watch Bill O'Reilly, or Glen Beck when he was on, but I could never make it to the first commercial break. It hurt my head too much. Ten minutes of FOX and I'm yelling at my television in pain and outrage.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 Up a Lazy River (1 comments)
Stolen elections? No problem. Another War Crime? Forget about it. Mythical "terrorists" blow up a couple skyscrapers and the Pentagon? Go Shopping. A Democratic president signs off on Fascism? It's not really as bad as all that. 150 to 200 species go extinct on planet Earth every day? I'm sure "they'll" think of something.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 Kookoo for Cocoa Puffs
We're screwed if we keep wasting time talking about politics as if it means something to the 99%. We're screwed as long as we don't talk about what we really can do to go in a different direction.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 Even Hate My Rock and Roll (3 comments)
I don't know what it's like to banter with a war criminal for a paycheck. I can't imagine sitting across from Rice, or for that matter, Donald Rumsfeld, George Bush, or Dick Cheney, unless we're in all in a court room.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 A Hard Act to Follow
For the first time in my life I've contemplated self-censorship. It was John Cleese as Basil Fawlty who said, "Well let me tell you something ... this is exactly how Nazi Germany started!" But this is no joke. This is exactly how Nazi Germany started. People in all walks of life censored themselves out of fear.
Monday, January 2, 2012 From Now On ... Our Biggest Mistake is Believing We Are Free (4 comments)
By signing this perversion, Constitutional professor Barack Obama has put himself above the Constitution. From now on the President of the United States is a king. We have to depend upon his noblesse oblige to keep us out of the gulag.
Friday, December 16, 2011 I Wish We'd Stop Doing This (5 comments)
I am not going to vote for a Capitalist in 2012. I don't care whether they're a "moderate" capitalist or not. I don't care if they're short, tall, fat, crazy, stupid, black, white, Conservative, or Liberal Capitalists. I will never vote for any of them again.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 All the World's a Grave (2 comments)
David Goodstein, a professor of physics and vice-provost at the California Institute of Technology, said the easiest energy alternatives -- coal and natural gas -- might carry us through to the end of this century, but ... "By the time we have burned up all that fuel, we may well have rendered the planet unfit for human life."
Monday, November 28, 2011 Not as Smart as Lemmings (6 comments)
Occupy Everything. It's as simple as Not Buying Anything for God's birthday and Staying Home on a national strike day ... and the next day ... and the next ... until the psychopaths understand we're not walking up to that cliff any longer. We're going to stop. And talk about where to go from here.
Thursday, October 27, 2011 The Trick (5 comments)
We've got to realize that psychopaths play for keeps and they have enough power to use it to stay in power. They don't play the Right vs. Left Game. They control the game. They push buttons to make Conservatives jump one way and Liberals jump another.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 Noise (1 comments)
The Mainstream Drones in front of television cameras, radio microphones, or behind news desks don't crank out stories as much as they manufacture premises. And these premises generate The Noise that becomes The News.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 The Land Beyond Beyond II
Suddenly, somebody blew John Kennedy's head apart and the government decided it was best if they just lied to us about everything from that point on. They lied ... the country went to war ... and year after year we lost more and more ground. The country took a wrong turn. And then another ... and another ... because, as it turned out, the people who ran our institutions didn't want Things To Get Better For Everybody.
Saturday, September 17, 2011 Why We Left The United States: (10 comments)
The policies of the Bush/Cheney Regime are still in place under the Obama administration. We still have the wars of aggression and occupation. Innocent people are still killed every day. We still hold prisoners in Guantanamo Bay who after almost ten years have yet to be charged or tried for any crime.
