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Thursday, September 27, 2007 Arrogance and Insolence in the Age of Empire (1 comments)...Our president's bipolarity has now been unequivocally diagnosed: arrogance towards the world, and insolence towards his own countrymen. No second-guessing any more...
Monday, September 10, 2007 Upcoming Bipartisan Crime Against Peace ...Benchmarks, invalid progress reports, passing on the blame to Maliki and his corrupt government, lying assertions of how things are improving in Iraq, the non-stop shell game White House & Congress are playing with us...O what fools we're made out to be! Is it so difficult to see? The US is in Iraq for the duration, and that means indefinitely...
Wednesday, September 5, 2007 Slavery Revisited: The Military Draft (2 comments)...This idea is not new; periodically someone comes up with the idea that, with the U.S. fighting two wars, there is insufficient human cannon fodder to keep them going and prepare for Mr. Bush's next potential imperialistic misadventure. But, the draft is not now and never will be the answer, whether in Iraq, Afghanistan or anywhere else...
Thursday, August 23, 2007 Protect America Act: Cheetah for Tyranny ...Congress' criminal majority has once again raped the Constitution, this time with the PAA. Thank you, Congress, for showing us this superior mode of despotic governance. Thank you, Democrats, for confirming that you are a pack of power-mongering fascists every bit equal to the Republicans...
Monday, August 20, 2007 Private Mercenary Armies: A Looming Threat to Freedom ...There are over 100,000 private contract personnel in Iraq today and most of them are replacing what in the past has been tasks handled by Army personnel. So what you ask is wrong with hiring non-military men and women to help the soldiers? You might want to consider these few tidbits...
Wednesday, August 15, 2007 McPolitics and America's political palate ...Unlike McDonald's franchises which have found success in much of the world, McPolitics is probably reserved for the American political palate and no one else. One doubts that it meets enough criteria for export, even if aided by heavy subsidies from both the US State Department and the imperial peacekeepers at the Pentagon...
Wednesday, August 8, 2007 Christians, Hindus, and the American Challenge (7 comments)...If you support religious freedom then you must grant the same freedoms to other religions. Therefore, the Senate should next open with a Wiccan prayer, a chant to Zeus, a page from the Tao Te Ching, a paragraph from the Quran, and so on. But fundamentalists don't want this. Instead they seek the transformation of America into Iran...
Tuesday, August 7, 2007 Impeachment as Political Solution to Iraq War (1 comments)...Improperly framing Iraq as a war benefits those responsible for it and obscures the clearest path to a saner future. If instead Iraq was framed as the armed assault that it was (billed as "Shock and Awe"), there is a logical, expedient political solution at our disposal - impeachment...
Monday, August 6, 2007 Last Waltz on the Titanic ...James Howard Kunstler's book, The Long Emergency, makes it clear that our illusionary world of comfort and relative luxury is about to be shattered. America, under its present leadership, is like the Roman empire-growing weak from luxury, sloth & inflation on the inside, & assailed by a tough, fanatical adversary on our frontiers...
Saturday, August 4, 2007 Contempt for the Bottom Feeders in D.C. ...As a taxpayer and a voter, I want to know what happened. I want to know what happened to my Constitution, which you swore to protect and defend, not shred and discard. It is NOT just a g-d piece of paper. It is what distinguishes the United States of America...
Friday, August 3, 2007 You are Still Destroying America. ...The problem in America is extremism. The extremists will never be satisfied of course, but they have no business at this table anyway. Their next sip of icy cold Koolaid is being served up by the White House chefs, as the concept of "We the People" is burned quietly in the background...
Monday, July 30, 2007 In Remembrance of Jonathan ...Sadly, he died on July 26, 2003 outside Baghdad, Iraq, when the convoy he was riding in was attacked with rocket-propelled grenades. Remember Jonathan for his goodness; he was the opposite of his deceivers. Jonathan died defending what he believed to be his duty. His deceivers wouldn't even be kind to his mother's sacrifice...
Friday, July 27, 2007 Laws of War: Iraq ...Nowhere in the Constitution is any branch of government given the power and the option of giving away a power and function specifically assigned to that branch in the Constitution. To do so is 1) unimaginable in the context of constitutional law, and 2) a violation of our Constitution's separation of powers...
Thursday, July 26, 2007 Obama's trip to the confessional (1 comments)...It's sacred dogma to accept that only the U.S. is enlightened to know which nations - or their leaders - are renegade angels, and which have the true vision of God. Willingness by an American president to break bread with people like Castro, Chavez, Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong II, al-Assad, is verboten until approved by the Pentagon...
Monday, July 23, 2007 The Consequences of Staying in Iraq ...Much is said daily about the consequences of getting out of Iraq. But there is little media attention about the consequences of staying. The media is filled with what will happen if we leave - chaos, civil war, terrorists will come over here, and on and on. But if we stay, I think we're very likely to suffer a continuation of much the same...
Wednesday, July 18, 2007 You are Destroying America. Yes, You. (3 comments)...Terrorism will never destroy America. It will come from within. From fear-addicts who have raped the U.S. so much that they should be drawn up on charges of treason. The cowards who want a nanny state to coddle them, hug them, and ultimately contain them in a little crib with bars and monitors and cameras...
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 The Value of Financial Viability ...A healthy economy is a Financially Balanced Economy. Neither Business nor Government can thrive, long term, operating in an environment that doesn't have financial balance. Our Society is currently out of balance...
Friday, July 13, 2007 No Pork, No Side Issues and No Riders! ...The three greatest threats to the Constitution are the Executive, the Legislative, and Judicial Branches. All of the things that We the People have worked for, fought for, and died for, are being destroyed by politicians who neglect their oath of office and trample upon the Constitution every day! The Read the Bills Act seeks to end this...
Tuesday, July 10, 2007 A Letter to My Son Regarding the Problem of War ...All war will end when young people tell their leaders that they will no longer go to war, that they will no longer continue to kill, that if war is to continue it must be fought by those who make the decisions to go to war!
Sunday, July 8, 2007 Candidate Hillary Does Iraq ...Hillary believes that "the President should abandon his escalation of the war." She chooses not to say "his" war because it could not have been "his" war without the help of people like "her."
Friday, June 29, 2007 The Shock and the Inevitable Pain from the After Bite ...If we could ask our founders today, I am sure that they would tell us of the time when they tired of the lion chewing on their shoulders too. They knew that eventually the pain would become unbearable unless the lion was removed...
Thursday, June 28, 2007 What The Hell Was Cicero Thinking? ...When you read Cicero, the great Roman Philosopher, and his Six Mistakes of Man, you cant help but think that he may have been wasting his time. After all, no one needs to be reminded what should be simple common sense ... particularly the leaders of powerful tribes, religious institutions, villages, towns, cities, or vast empires...right?
Friday, June 22, 2007 The Rampaging Rapist ...Of course, it is impossible to imagine that any one who has ever enjoyed the freedoms of our nation would ever attempt to deliberately rape and destroy it and its great people for personal gain ... or would they?
Thursday, June 21, 2007 The Day America Died ...If we don't turn things around, the spirit, the constitutional construction of a once great country, the democratic freedoms once granted to each and every one us, will have been lost. Someday such will be nothing more than a distant memory of what perhaps could have been if we don't have the strength to return to our Constitutional principles...
Tuesday, June 19, 2007 The Extinguishers: Perpetuating Blindness and Division Among the People ...Dens of deception are poorly lit. To 'light a candle rather than curse the dark' is a difficult task when some are on call with water and air to extinguish our view, and thereby our perception, and thus the truth. This, it seems, is the intent of the extinguishers: to perpetuate blindness, confusion, and division among the People...
Monday, June 18, 2007 Impeach Pelosi - NOW! (11 comments)...Our government has become a contest between an incompetent and obstinate President and a Congress that is satisfied with changing nothing - no matter how bad things gets - no matter how many people die - no matter how much tax money is wasted on wars - no matter how many of our civil rights and freedoms are violated - no matter what...
Friday, June 15, 2007 Censorship's New Ally: The Digital Razor (1 comments)...An entire generation grows up knowing only what a click of the mouse tells them, unaware that the slice of the Digital Razor to accommodate someone's politics has emptied out real history into a hidden wastebasket. Tapeworm programs, which can hunt down and locate specific phrases, can go about their censoring with automation. While we sleep...
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 We Must Return to Our Constitution ...We the Citizens of America need to return to the rule of law. Not just a law for the masses, no, we need to bring especially those we have elected into compliance with the Constitution - the law governing our government. They were elected for this purpose...
Monday, June 11, 2007 Lucy Never Had it So Good ...Members of Congress are in a position not far removed from where the Colonialists found themselves when petitioning the tyrannous King George III and his Court. It's time to get out the shovels, and move the dead wood out of the way...
Sunday, June 10, 2007 Religion: Freedom Versus Fundamentalism ...Thomas Jefferson said religion was "a matter which lies solely between man and his God." Therefore, the citizens of the fledgling country Jefferson helped create would have an unparalleled freedom: To seek Truth and Knowledge without the leash of government telling them how to do it...
Thursday, June 7, 2007 Understanding the Constitution and War Powers: Can Congress End War? ...With regard to whether or not the U.S. Congress has any constitutional right and responsibility as to the disposition of the military forces of the United States, Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution provides guidance...
Wednesday, June 6, 2007 Should Bush be allowed to choose which laws he has to obey? ...But why did this Administration bring their assault on the Constitution to full fury? The reason is clear for all but the Ignorant to understand and those inept people took the easy route - "Support the President"...
Thursday, May 31, 2007 Hypocrisy Abounds: The Show Must Go On (1 comments)...It is just as easy to believe a systematic lie as a systematic truth. In time, with suitable repetition, one can seem as the other. Rare admissions can conceal more than they reveal. Hypocrisy is the norm.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007 Revealed: Why Your Sons and Daughters Died in Iraq ...Do you still think we went into Iraq for Humanitarian reasons or to protect the United States from an awful dictator? Well, if you read about the lastest "oil sharing" deal, you just might think differently...
Friday, May 25, 2007 Some take an oath, we all have an obligation: Defend the Constitution ...Bush, Cheney, & Congress have failed to support and defend the Constitution. What can we do? We can ask those in our local governments who have taken the oath, what they are willing to do to support and defend our Constitution. Will they speak out in defense of it, and if not, why not? Perhaps it's time we have that conversation...
Wednesday, May 23, 2007 New faces, same "ugly mirror" for Iraq ...All the current political games being played in Congress have little or nothing to do with funding the troops, but rather with the funding of an unjust, imperialistic war that should never have been waged, and under no circumstance maintained. Terrorism, is what's being funded, and it's being done with astounding success...
Wednesday, May 23, 2007 An Open Letter to Congress: End the Wars Now! ...If you choose not to change your position, after it has become clear beyond reasonable doubt that the justification for war was fabricated, you are a co-conspirator in the prosecution of war. All of the blood that has been and will be spilled is on your hands...
Monday, May 21, 2007 Our Human Duty ...Are we human? Are we awake? Or are we happy robots, enjoying the things we are offered as bribes for our complicity in our monstrous empire's service...
Thursday, May 17, 2007 The Immorality of the War in Iraq ...We the people need to take our country back. We need four Linchpin basics - The Rule of Law, Financial Viability, Guaranteed Public Redress, Morality & Fidelity of Leadership. We need to start right now, this moment, and commit to continue until sanity is returned...
Tuesday, May 15, 2007 Some Thoughts about Jesus, the Church, my Country, and the War (1 comments)...There can be no misunderstanding that Jesus' mandate to love is uncompromisingly opposed to the mass slaughter that defines the character of war. But because so many have distorted His teachings, our country has been allowed to launch a campaign of death & destruction to destroy all who refuse to play "the game" according to our rules...
Monday, May 14, 2007 Hellfire, Godly punishment, and Murder (2 comments)...God hates America, the Westboro Baptist Church tells everyone. He hates us because we are a nation which tolerates gays, blacks, Catholics, Muslims, and just about everyone who isn't them...
Friday, May 11, 2007 Legislators, Remember your Oath of Office ...The American People should contact their various legislators, remind them of their oath, and inform them that they will not receive another vote unless they do their duty and uphold the Constitution they promised...
Wednesday, May 9, 2007 Target Iran: Are you a Warhawk or Peacenik? (2 comments)...The problem in America is not liberalism or conservatism, but extremism. There's a big difference between opposing war and opposing a war. The former is puerile idealism. The latter is a freethinking choice...
Monday, May 7, 2007 Lack of courage facilitated Iraq's invasion
...We seem to be politically satisfied in this nation as long as those who govern can be judged to be "decent men," something that implies conformity to a recognized set of standards in both propriety and morality of today. To expect leaders with honor and courage is not just hoping for a bonus, but tapping into the delusional...
Friday, May 4, 2007 The Death of American Debate They call it partisanship; in reality, it is cowardice. Thinking is not what the partisans want for the American population. They seek an unquestioning multitude. They seek the obedience of blinded eyes and heads pressed to the earth...
Wednesday, May 2, 2007 Depleted Uranium and the Price of an Argument
The excerpt below is a small piece of the new book I'm close to finishing, "Without a Shot Fired: The Dustin Brim Story." This is a heart-wrenching true story - about Dustin Brim - a 22 yr. Old U.S. Army soldier that died shortly after being deployed to Iraq - and some stuff called Depleted Uranium. It is not my nature to share my writings premature of the final draft. However, due to personal reasons, I have made the decision to open a crack into the book so that no one forgets what has happened and what is important. It is my genuine hope that your heart is touched, your spirit inspired, and your will ignited.
Tuesday, May 1, 2007 America's "Soldier's of Misfortune"
...Our uncrowned monarch seems to have a predilection for unjust, painful long wars. And our poor soldiers of misfortune are immolated in the fighting of those wars. At least the ant and termite soldiers perish in defense of their colonies. But can anyone give us a good reason why our soldiers' lives are sacrificed...
Monday, April 30, 2007 Freedom in a Surveillance State (1 comments)
Consider this: In a not-too-distant year an ordinary American - whom we'll call Eric Blair - gets up each day to go to work. Cameras mounted on every traffic light monitor his route. Computers at his workplace door register his arrival and departure. Each time he visits a store, dines out, or attends a movie, cameras controlled by such programs as TIA watch and record him and every purchase he makes.
Friday, April 27, 2007 The Carrot of Peace and the War Machine
John McCain claims it's safer in Baghdad, Cheney tells us it's getting better, Bush screams we need more time, and the carrot dangles in our faces, as blood pours down the streets of Iraq.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007 Winds of change again blowing across America ...The terrorism and threats we face at home include the daily reports of horrific killings of innocents, moral corruption in high places, damage to our honor, "blowback" from misguided and deceptive foreign policies, threats of the loss of our basic liberties and prospects of long-term economic decline and national debt...
Monday, April 23, 2007 Has John McCain turned into a political has-been?
It won't be long now before McCain's presidential ambitions are laid to rest marked by an appropriate R.I.W. (Rest In War) instead of an R.I.P. (Rest In Peace).
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 Blacksburg and Baghdad: Sister Cities for a day
Shock from death. and shock from fear! Baghdad has been experiencing such horror on daily basis for well over 1000 days. But that has been for us, in these United States, a subject of limited political discourse and little else.
Monday, April 16, 2007 As Tax Day Arrives, See America: Freedom to Fascism
The film first focuses on the US Internal Revenue Service showing that the federal income tax on an individual's wage-paid labor is illegal and unconstitutional because there's no law written requiring that anyone pay it...
Friday, April 13, 2007 Economic bloodbath required for Bush's impeachment
Americans are just not quite ready to put themselves on trial. Accusing Bush and Cheney of high crimes and misdemeanors on the Iraq war is nothing short of passing sentence on ourselves.
Wednesday, April 4, 2007 Are Iraqis creatures from a different creator? (4 comments)...Our prejudicial feelings, whether cultural, ethnic or religious have very little to do with any conflict that may be found in the Quran, the Bible or the Talmud. It is disregard or denial of what is written in those books that brings the conflict...
Monday, April 2, 2007 Politicians Lie? Say it Ain't So! ...Lying may be the lifeblood of politics, but sometimes it gets so obvious and so absurd, that I just can't let it go...
Wednesday, March 28, 2007 A Lonely Plan Makes a Lonely Man ...Today we stand on the precipice of a most divided union. These United States have become the most divisive and unilateral entities our country has ever known. We, collectively as a nation, have certainly exercised our right to autonomy and individualism, and that, to an extreme. No longer does "one" mean the same as it did in the beginning of mankind, no matter your personal beliefs, but the "one" in oneness now seems to shade to different shadows and shades away to shine in a different room...
Monday, March 26, 2007 On the Fall of Empires ...It is interesting to note that the United States is never officially referred to as an empire, although our country has assumed many imperial characteristics...
Friday, March 23, 2007 Johnny-come-latelies to the reality that is Iraq ...It seems that not a day goes by without yet another political analyst, or person in the public eye, making some type of declaration as a solution seeker, or critic, to the mess the US has made in Iraq. Not that these folks are apologetic or repentant for their prior pro-war stance, they just want to be [or appear to be] conciliatory, to join the more harmonious choir of hope and reason...
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 America's Two Illicit Addictions: Drugs & Immigration ...We have been 'at war' with those who supply illicit drugs to our population for more than two generations, failing to admit that drug-addiction is mainly a demand problem, not supply. Again, just like the illicit drugs issue, immigration should not be treated as criminality...
Friday, March 16, 2007 The Drug War and the Totalitarian Nightmare ...The drug war is based on a repugnant assertion: that you do not have ownership over your own body; that you don't have the right to decide what you'll do with your body, with your property and with your life. The position of the drug warriors is that you should be in jail if you decide to do something with your body that they don't approve of...
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 Imperial Pathologies - Comparing America to Rome and Britain ...The US Republic has yet to collapse, but an imperial presidency now places great strain on it with a dominant Pentagon and culture of militarism undermining Congress, the courts and our civil liberties...
Friday, March 9, 2007 Will Congress continue pimping for the White House? ...What's happening in Congress, or rather what is not happening in Congress, defies the most basic political sense. It's not just Democrats in Congress who should be asking for the political heads of the malicious-duo, Bush and Cheney, but Republicans as well...
Wednesday, March 7, 2007 The Right to Know - Secrecy in Government ...Please your superiors, stand erect when the national anthem is played & salute when that flag goes by. Genuflect to leaders who mouth words like liberty, justice, & democracy. Following the cues will lead one in the desired direction of conformity where ideas are framed in ways that assure American motivations are cast in the most favorable...
Wednesday, February 28, 2007 It Seems To Me (1 comments)...War is supposed to be hell and we are going to make sure that this reputation is not tarnished by our troops. Our troops are taught that dying for one's country is not an objective; making the enemy die for his is...
Friday, February 23, 2007 Let's stop beating around this Bush ...If Americans want change, and they really mean it, they must force it at the local and state level, and forget about the people they've sent to the Capitol in D.C. It's the small towns and big cities that need to make declarations rebuking America's foreign policy and its byproduct: war, war and more war...
Wednesday, February 21, 2007 Freedom to Fascism: Outing the Constitutional Criminals (1 comments)...The purpose of the personal income tax is to redistribute wealth upward and to control the civil society. The purpose of the Federal Reserve is to redistribute the wealth upward and to control the civil society. The receivers of the redistributed wealth and the controllers of the society are the private owners of the Federal Reserve, not us...
Wednesday, February 14, 2007 Is the US a nation of laws, of conscience, or of a new manifest destiny? ...Some Americans will proudly and faithfully proclaim that the United States is a nation of laws, of conscience and also of a divinely granted manifest destiny. At times, in my politically pessimist days, I grow afraid that it may not be just some but most Americans that feel that way. It's then when my faith in democracy is shaken a bit and I have to dig deep in search of greater strength...
Thursday, February 8, 2007 On Coming to Terms with Society ...Every human being is required to make a choice; to be controlled by society or else to rebel against it.to allow one's self to have become a slave of the powers that be or to strike back. Ultimately, each of us must figure out how to best cope with society; to become an obedient slave or to challenge the status quo...
Friday, February 2, 2007 Will Bush, Cheney attack Iran? When and why? ...Despite recent election results reflecting Americans' concerns about the Iraq War and related matters, will George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and their associates choose to use U.S. military forces to attack Iran?
Wednesday, January 31, 2007 The Decider's Plan to Provoke War With Iran ...The troop surge is about provoking and preparing war with Iran and has nothing to do with stabilizing Iraq. The plan is to escalate tension further so sectarian violence divides the Middle East along ethnic lines. It has always been divide and rule. Wake up people and take America back for our children and our childrens' children. We are running out of time but time enough remains for us to act...
Friday, January 26, 2007 Some Call it Patriotism (1 comments)...It should be clear by now - should have been clear long ago - that rulers of all kinds will cloak their most base and secret motives in the decent clothes of morality and goodness to win the approval of the masses...
Friday, January 19, 2007 The "V" and the "T" Words ...Like the Iraq War, terrorism was a real phenomenon in the Vietnam War. However, it was never offered as its raison d'etre...
Wednesday, January 10, 2007 Bush must have his victory, no matter how pyrrhic ...While we are facing the reality of Bush's catastrophic bequest to this nation - by defiling the world's trust, by reckless blood-spilling, and by his fixation in applying socio-economic engineering - there is another reality that we, as a people and a nation aspiring to freedom and peace, must never overlook. Nothing, absolutely nothing, can be done to right the ship of state until the man living in the White House is forced to vacate...
Tuesday, November 28, 2006 What would Kennedy have done? ...Kennedy would not have treated war casually. He would not have cast other nations in ridicule. Kennedy would not have lied to the American people to start a war. Never would he have given up on the principles of peace and cooperation...
Saturday, November 18, 2006 Iraq: Rape without a morning-after pill ...The Iraq problem, or whatever we wish to call the predicament of the people in Iraq, as well as an invader that never became a successful occupier, needs to be addressed from its inception. Whatever the reasons for Bush et al to invade Iraq such action needs to be measured on 2 scales: morality & competence, with morality taking precedence...
Tuesday, October 31, 2006 Could Santa come early this year...say, on November 8th? ...The master plan would need to be written and adopted by the Democratic leadership, and also made public, before the 110th Congress convenes on January 3, 2007. And it would have to be placed on the congressional table, displaying the impeachment of Bush and Cheney as its centerpiece...
Friday, October 20, 2006 Thank you, soldier, but you needn't fight for my freedoms (1 comments)...I may be helping to pay the fare for the military, but I much prefer to get nothing in return. I mean nothing! Soldiers aren't fighting to defend America from enemy nations, nor are they fighting any frontlines of the war on terror. As for the idea that they are fighting for our freedoms, it borders on the ridiculous!...
Thursday, October 12, 2006 Insurgents don't fight invaders...repulsers do ...These repulsers have been called just about everything under the sun, from patriotic heroes and martyrs to terrorist thugs. It's all a question of who is vocalizing either the accolades of admiration or the pejorative Rumsfeldian verbiage...
Saturday, October 7, 2006 No Rest, No Relief, and No Peace ...And, exactly two years and a half from this day, U.S. Army Specialist Dustin Michael Brim left the battlefields of a country called Iraq and a military operation called "Operation Iraqi Freedom." For my brother, there is rest, there is relief and there is peace. For "Operation Iraqi Freedom" there is no rest, no peace and no relief in sight. For Dustin Brim, he has peace, he does rest and he has been relieved of duty with honor...
Tuesday, October 3, 2006 Direct and Extreme Democracy In Civil Society ...Citizen-proposed law that is offensive to money-power is stopped -- or worse, passed and turned into a nightmare of anti-DD, anti-people, and anti-public-education machinations, as was the case with California's Prop 13, limiting property taxes, in 1978. Citizen-proposed law that is NOT offensive to money-power sails right on through, demonstrating that the system works...
Monday, October 2, 2006 The Forgotten Deficit ...What happened to our country while we traded food, vacations, and college degrees for goods, and lost six trillion dollars in the process? While the Pacific Rim was booming, corporate downsizing, factory closures, and mass layoffs became an economic way of life for American workers. Per capita incomes have soared throughout the Pacific Rim, while wages in the US have stagnated...
I have fought long and hard over this decision. At a time when I have faced the greatest challenge of my present life and future, I have battled what I should and should not share of this work. The excerpt below is somewhere within the first quarter of the manuscript that I'm currently working on - about Dustin Brim - a 22 yr. Old U.S. Army soldier that died shortly after being deployed to Iraq - and some stuff called Depleted Uranium. It is not my nature to share my writings premature of the final draft. However, due to personal reasons, I have made the decision to open a crack into the book so that no one forgets what has happened and what is important. It is my genuine hope that your heart is touched, your spirit inspired and your will ignited. I covet your prayers, Lonnie
Wednesday, September 13, 2006 A Time to Heal ...this is about healing, about moving on. We need to leave the bandages and the stitches in place long enough for the wound to heal. Then the stitches can be carefully removed. There will be scars, but they will fade in time. Our grief will lose its sharp edges and be replaced by memories of our loved ones. We will move on. If we try to heal, other nations will help us. Compassion is not dead in the world, though it has taken some tremendous hits in the past five years...
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 A pawn in the game of Chinese checkers ...The game of Chinese checkers, if played out geopolitically, includes a "human wave" military axiom. The number of lives does not matter. They are all crunched into a soulless buffer. The Americans should be kept out at all costs to preserve the yin and yang of tyranny and impoverishment...
Monday, September 11, 2006 Homegrown American Fascism (1 comments)...The elevation of GW Bush by SCOTUS in Bush v. Gore created a presidential usurper, not a president. The SCOTUS decision -- in violation of the Constitution's Article 2, paragraph 2 -- is so far beyond the Constitution as to truly make it nothing more than Bush's "goddamned piece of paper". Bush v. Gore also violated the rights of all Americans to have a president elected in accord with the Constitution, thus violating 18 USC 241 -- felony conspiracy against rights. Further, Bush v. Gore failed to protect the rights of Americans as given in the Constitution and laws and is therefore an act of treason -- as defined for the secessionist state legislators of the 1860s. Bush v. Gore is unconstitutional, felonious, and treasonous...
Saturday, September 9, 2006 Why is there a Palestinian Right of Return? ...No doubt, the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, and the subsequent decades of expansion from war have been a blistering experience for every side, most notably the American taxpayer. Attacks against civilians are common. Both sides in the fighting claim the moral high ground, and in most cases, victory. In the name of self-defense, Israel's military has made mistakes which cost her political gold, Jewish blood and reputation in the world body. Expulsion of Palestinian Arabs is no small part of the problem and herein lies the groundwork for the right of return...
Thursday, September 7, 2006 Americans' unrealized "peace dividend" ...The era of America's political chameleonic experience saw its apogee with charismatic Bill Clinton. It was during his two terms in office that the scant waters of American liberalism were forced to pass through a filter to get any and all progressive impurities out of the way. before they could be allowed to merge into the American "mainstream." The surviving Democratic Party became de facto indistinguishable from the Republican Party: the same church, a similar domestic agenda, and identical foreign policy dogma. just two different collection plates for politicians to attain power...
Wednesday, September 6, 2006 First the Facts, Then the Acts ...Politicians are increasingly isolating themselves from the people they are supposedly representing. It is virtually impossible to contact a politician unless you are a constituent, regardless of the committees they sit upon. If you are a constituent, you receive a form letter with the blanks filled in. I have dozens from my representatives and they all read the same, regardless of the issue...
Thursday, August 31, 2006 Bush-Cheney Usurpation: Wounded Beast ...Bush's claim to dictatorial powers as "commander-in-chief" have been shredded by SCOTUS' Hamden v. Rumsfeld decision and Judge Taylor's ACLU v. NSA decision. The two decisions define many of the Usurpation's actions as felony conspiracies against citizen rights -- in violation of 18 USC 241 -- including years of violating the Geneva Conventions and warantless wiretapping against US citizens. Congress is guilty of nonfeasance in not breaking the obvious DOJ obstruction of justice with a new Independent Prosecutor law. We need to force our Congress to create that law. We also need to force a constitutional amendment to meld fully independent citizen lawmaking with our national rep govt so that the Usurpation and its many corruption machines can be ended. Fully independent citizen lawmaking is the only way for us to resolve many of our critical political problems. It's especially needed to abolish and punish the unconstitutional, felonious, and treasonous Bush v. Gore decision -- so that we can prevent the recurrence of any such presidential usurpation in the future...
Wednesday, August 30, 2006 Open letter to the President of the US ...Mr. President, I don't wish to see you removed from office. I wish to see you punished. Punished for the war crimes you've committed, punished for the crimes of commission and omission against the American people, and punishment for all the influential and subordinate people who helped you...
Tuesday, August 29, 2006 How about "cut and walk" instead of "cut and run"? ...What appears as unforgivable to the Afghan people, perhaps more so than anything else, is the indifference in which they are treated, and the whitewashing of misdeeds by the occupiers. Although Karzai has been vocal demanding accountability for the coalition's behavior, particularly on key incidents where innocent Afghan lives were presumed lost at the hands of Americans, the lack of credible resolution has rendered him just another puppet head-of-state. His strength and resolve, Afghans say, start and finish in his vocal chords - whatever the Pashtun saying for "all talk, no show." ...
Saturday, August 26, 2006 Venezuela and the UN Security Council Seat ...The US anti-Venezuelan campaign's main thesis is that the Chavez government's presence as a Council member would be "disruptive (and) non-consensus-seeking," meaning, of course, that any vote against a US position is one to be avoided so the de facto ruler of the world will always get its way. One example of this is Caracas' refusal to support the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) US pressured resolution to have the Security Council vote and act against Iran's perfectly legal commercial nuclear program...
Thursday, August 24, 2006 Is the Return of the Draft Just Around the Corner? ...in my opinion this one will fester quietly until we have one or two major crisis situations and then all of a sudden we will hear we have come to the realization we need to increase our military ground forces. I think we are about six to nine months away from that dialogue. I certainly hope I am wrong, yet as I say, when one looks at the entire picture you get the impression that the train is rolling...
Tuesday, August 22, 2006 Judicial Independence: Zero Accountability ...From it's beginnings, the notion of judicial independence has had twin motives. First to keep the Constitution safe from predator politicians, and, second, to keep the three branches of government safe for the bigoted "gentlemen" of 18th Century predator elitism, in opposition to we the sovereign people, whom the "gentlemen" considered to be contemptible, licentious rabble...
Monday, August 21, 2006 Shut Up and Pay Your Taxes to the Pentagon! (1 comments)...Until we work together to stop feeding these Parasites with our overt and covert taxes, I have a few suggestions: Stop buying crap, stop recreational shopping. Boycott big box stores. Laughter is the best medicine, so have a good belly-laugh at the ads designed to disempower you because you haven't bought their product. Laugh uproariously at the swill served up as "The News" on MSM. Let's begin the revolution by acknowledging it's Us against Them, not Red State vs. Blue State, or any other foolish notion. It's America we're fighting for, and it's America they're destroying...
Saturday, August 19, 2006 A nation with an anesthetized conscience ...Nine-eleven gave Bush the anesthetics to put the nation to sleep, to get the population ready to go under the knife. And while the long protracted botched-surgery seems to keep going on with no end in sight, the anesthesia seems as effective today as it was five years ago, without any indication that it's loosing any strength. How can we tell? ...
Friday, August 18, 2006 Terror Nation: Lies, Injustice, and the American Empire's Way ...Suspension of civil liberties, concentration of power into the hands of the Executive branch, slaughtering hundreds of thousands of innocents civilians, collective punishment of millions through wanton destruction of infrastructure, widespread dissemination of depleted uranium, reduction of wasteful spending on "useless eaters" via massive cuts in entitlement spending, ongoing ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank, torture, denial of justice to "enemy combatants", massive tax cuts to the wealthy, obscene increases in defense spending, propaganda blitzes to keep the public believing horrendous lies, preemptive war, reduced government restriction of corporate exploitation of humans and the environment, and continued neocolonial expansion are all essential to the United States fulfilling its Manifest Destiny and ending the terrorist threat. Remember, they hate our freedom...
Thursday, August 17, 2006 Israel Must Be Held Accountable ...This scorched-earth blitzkrieg, primarily and willfully aimed at civilian targets of all types devastated Lebanon's major ports, the Beirut International Airport, much of the country's essential infrastructure including over 70 bridges, dozens of key roads, all the nation's radars, electrical power plants, 20 or more gas and fuel stations and the Jiyyeh power utility plant south of Beirut spilling about 14,000 metric tons of heavy fuel oil (over one-third the size of the Exxon-Valdez spill) along over 90 miles of Lebanon's and Syria's Mediterranean Sea coast posing a serious threat to biodiversity as well as a heightened risk of cancer because this type fuel oil contains benzene which is categorized as a Class 1 carcinogen...
Tuesday, August 15, 2006 Untying the Gordian Knot of The Christian Faith (1 comments)...Given the need to protect their own rather flimsily structured cosmology of life, it is no wonder that such folks are unwilling to engage in an open-minded examination of their beliefs. For if they, in fact, did such a thing and were found wanting (realized that the "rock-solid foundation of their belief in God" had been shaken), they would have little choice but to question the fact of their own salvation; if, as a result of having asked such questions, they might well be on their way to Hell...
