Wars of Credibility

What's this new diplomatic SOP where we dont talk to our enemies? I can't understand it. Of course, you talk to your enemies, you know what your friends are doing to hell with them you dont need to talk to them, that's how you find out what your enemies are doing. You know, there are other ways to force your political will on other countries without going to war, without using the military, without violence. You do it through talking. That is such retarded middle school bullshit. "We dont talk to our enemies." Then who the fuck are you talking to. Oh yeah, that's right you have a direct line to God and God tells you which of his people to kill and not kill. What's the number so I can call him and tell him he fucked up? Can I send him a text? I'm sure God has a blackberry. Maybe I can explain the ways of peace and diplomacy to him. Talking to your enemies is the first resort from the strategic to the tactical level. That's what you do first, not shoot them.
I know why they dont talk to our enemies because we have no leverage. We used to be able to leverage our credibility to build worldwide coalitions to force our/the WORLD'S diplomatic will. First that credibility is gone so we cant build a coalition to do a high school science project. Second we have gone so far over the deep end that noone knows what our strategic and national goals and/or will are anymore. And people are afraid to get behind us because we're like lunatic with a loaded gun. They just dont know where we are going to shoot and why.

"So you were attacked by OBL, what do you want to do about it America."
"Well, I think we'll attack Atlantis."
"But Atlantis is fictional Mr. President."
"That's just what the liberal media wants you to think, that's where all the WMD's and OBL are hiding, that's where they harbor all the terrorists."

I mean that might as well have been the conversation with us and the rest of the world the months following 9-11, because what was done in our name makes just as much sense. So, just like the schoolyard bullies I used to piss off with my smart mouth and quick wit our only reaction to any problem of diplomacy is violence. It wasnt hard to outwit the bully, but when I did, he had no other option but to punch me in the face in order to enforce his will upon me. At that point I would gladly give him my lunch money. I got punched all because he couldnt come up with clever scheme to outsmart me out of my money. I guess my point is, When all you have is a hammer every problem looks like a nail.

"Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part." Thomas Paine on Decolonization

EXTENSION!!!!

We knew it was coming all along...the extension of the 1BDE, 1AD. We have officially been extended to stay in Ramadi because there is no unit that could replace us without violating "dwell time" standards. For OPSEC reasons I wont say which unit or for how long we are extended but it's shorter than most extensions, considering last time 1AD was here it was for 15 months. This news comes on the day when I find these headlines on Army Knowledge Online or AKO for short:

Army Warns Rumsfeld It's Billions Short
An extraordinary action by the chief of staff sends a message: The Pentagon must increase the budget or reduce commitments in Iraq and elsewhere.
By Peter Spiegel, Times Staff Writer

They chose this goddamn war now they want to starve the military that's fighting it. Remember Mr. Secretary, we all know now this was a war of CHOICE. So, you better come up with the fucking money to fight it right.
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Washington Times: September 25, 2006
Army Considers More Combat Units For Iraq
Escalated deployments eyed to tackle violence
By Rowan Scarborough, The Washington Times

Escalated deployments such as for the unit replacing us.
"We'll be greeted as liberators." 2003
"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended." 2003
"I think what we are seeing here is an insurgency in its last throes." 2004
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New York Times: September 25, 2006
Unit Makes Do As Army Strives To Plug Gaps
By David S. Cloud

A story about 3ID training with minimal equipment and time because all of their equipment was torn up by the last deployment, or it got left behind as what is called Theater Provided Equipment. The Army version of hand-me-downs.
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Washington Times: September 25, 2006 Pg. 1
U.S. Soldiers See Inept Output By Iraqi Troops
By Antonio Castaneda, Associated Press

Look these Iraqis are never going to take over their own country they are too afraid. I talk to the Iraqi soldiers here in Ramadi and they are not from here. They are from completely different regions of the country. They tell me that "Ramadi is no good. All Ali Baba." Ali Baba is the word for a thief or a bad person. They dont like the people here and have no reason to want to defend them because they are outsiders just like us being attacked by them. On several occasions I've been asked to attach IA convoys to mine and have refused on the grounds that this is their country and if they are too afraid to drive a convoy at night in their own country then they are never going to take over and we are never going to leave.
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February 2003

I remember it like it was yesterday. It was another cold and brisk, but sunny February day in Muncie, Indiana in 2003. At the time I was attending college, an institution of enlightenment, I was in my second to last year. I was a telecommunications major with emphasis in television, radio, and film production, with a minor in military science. I remember leaving to go pick my future wife up from class right as Secretary of State Colin Powell stepped up to the microphone at the United Nations Assembly. I listened to the local NPR station as they carried the broadcast live. I yelled and screamed, to my wife, or anyone that would listen, “There it is, the proof, he’s laying it all out for you. How can we not go to war now? We must defend America from this grave and serious threat. How can the nations of old, most proximal to this threat, allow it to exist past today with this mountain of proof?” And it was not as if I had no skin in the game because I had been enlisted in the Army Reserve since 1999, and knew how much they relied on the Reserve in the support function in the last war in this same desert. Two life-changing events happened within the next month. On March 8th 2003 I married a woman who would also become an officer, and March 17th the US invaded Iraq.
The most important fact was that my wife and I were both going to be officers. Shortly thereafter I signed my Senior ROTC contract committing me to 8 more years, 3 of those on active duty, to an Army at war. At the time we were being told that the war would be over in no time. I remember seeing pictures of Chalabi, and stories on the Iraqi National Congress. I thought if there is someone willing to take over, let them. Take out the dangerous dictator; put Chalabi, who at the time I did not know was an international felon, in the charge of this country. I signed the line based on the promise of the civilian leadership of the military, and this country that we would be in and out quickly, and the Iraqis would quickly take the reigns of their own country. I was so naïve that I even remember lamenting, with my fellow cadets, that I would be in the Army from 1999 until 2012 and I would miss the chance to go to war. Yet, here it is 2006 and I have been deployed almost a whole year.
I can’t really recall what happened but I woke up. I can’t recall the exact incident or time, but I realized everything that I had been told was bullshit. I know it was later in the year of 2003 when I came to realize I had been duped. It could have been the information that I was gradually getting off the internet since none of the major news networks carried it. Maybe it was because we had been in country almost 9 months, by that time, and there was no sign of WMD’s that were supposedly parked in everyone’s garage, and under every floor mat. Maybe it was because NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING the administration had said had come to be true. Maybe it was because I saw my Commander-In-Chief stand on the deck of a ship and declare “Mission Accomplished,” but my brothers and sisters in arms were still fighting and dying in Iraq, and casualties were mounting in greater numbers than they did during the invasion.
I was not the type of person to question my government, or my commanders but by the end of 2003 a cynic was born, and I realized the grave mistake I had made. My wife and I had both signed the line to fight a war that we were told would be over long before we hit the force. It was a war that I had rooted for. I had gone so far as to counter-protest with my signs stating the facts given to me by Colin Powell. I wasn’t trying to avoid going to war, but if my leadership got so many things, perhaps everything, so wrong about this war how could I trust them for the rest of my tenure as an officer.
If the reasons they had stated to go to war in the first place were all false then why did we go to war in Iraq? If I can no longer trust the intentions of my leaders then how can I continue in this profession? Of course, I had already signed the line; I had and still have no choice but to continue until the end of my obligation. What I once thought was a noble profession, being a leader in the military, has been muddied inside of me by the same inalienable values and convictions that make this profession great, and those who do it great leaders. My conviction to moral principles and dedication to my subordinates and my country are at odds with my duty to obey orders of the Commander-In-Chief, and my superiors. With all the evidence against them, how can I trust what they say is true? How can I know that the orders I get are lawful and legal when the character of their producers is at the very least suspect, if not in violation of my own and the military’s moral code of principles and ethics? I’m sure if I thought about it, in my view, I would find violations of all of the Army’s 7 Core Values by the Commander-In-Chief; Loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity, and personal courage. What are they to them but words that keep me loyal, and to me convictions that keep me bound to service in a conflict where their anithesis is their creator.

A Quick Observation

If things are getting better shouldn't my chances of getting blown up when I roll out the gate decrease, not increase? Just thought that might be a good measuring stick for progress. Throwing it out there. You decide.

Who's the Fascist?

I want someone who advocated the abuse and torture of prisoners to talk to me about fascism. I want an administration that is classifying documents at the highest rate in our history, in a supposedly open government, to speak to me about totalitarianism. I want to be lectured by a government that solves all problems through military force about the dangers of power run amok. I want a government that spies on 20 million of its own citizens to define the fight against despotism. I want a man who has spent his time in public office, in the name of my country, supplying brutal dictators with chemical and biological weapons and contra soldiers to define, for me, the global struggle against fascists. I think the first person to speak out against fascism should be a government that is stripping its own people of “certain unalienable rights” that it hypocritically tries to spread around the world as a guise for its imperialist ambitions. I want a government that has more citizens imprisoned than any other nation in the world to speak of fascism. In a country where peaceful protestors are wrangled into fenced off areas to redress their grievances against their government. It is in this country that political dissenters are put on no-fly lists and harassed by executive law enforcement agencies. It is in America where political protestors have been shot, maced, and gassed without provocation by representatives of the executive branch of our government. A government where day after day the executive violates rules and laws they swore to uphold. The same government that imprisoned its own citizens for years after 9-11-01 with no due process should know full well the dangers of fascism. I want an executive that uses religion to justify its political stance against life saving medical procedures to lecture me about the dangers of religious fanaticism. The fight against fascism needs to start at home. These Orwellian “newspeak” speeches given around the US to unite people in a struggle against the supposed fascists on the outside, while we forget the tactics we use to fight this “enemy” are the creation of the fascists on the inside. These people we fight are not fascists; they are missing one important ingredient…the corporations. Fascism by definition is the blending of corporate interest with public government. I can’t think of anyplace on the planet where it is more the case, than it is in the US. In a country where you are hard pressed to find legislation that is not bought and paid for by corporate interests. Or try to find the individual senator or congressperson that isn’t bought either; it will be a hard find. Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. If we are going to fight an all out war on fascism we should start at home. Only then will we have the moral authority to demand and end to totalitarianism around the world.

On a More Somber Note

We like to think and say we are making progress over here, but there is one thing I notice as I drive down Iraqi streets. Men wandering aimlessly, staring out at my convoy with a listless, hopeless stare that seems to ask why have we done this to them. These men have nothing to do. Go out at all hours that it is not curfew and you will see all the men just standing outside their homes, or markets staring off into the distance. We want to know why they join the insurgency, its because they have nothing better to do, and no other way to make money. Let's see I can stand here and do nothing to support my family all day, or I can go plant this bomb and make $100. I mean really what would you do? I know the US is doing the best they can, but so are the insurgents (Iraqi and Foreign) at thwarting our every attempt to improve life for these miserable bastards. It just doesnt seem like there is any progress as month after month I see the same dudes starting at me from the same place everytime I roll out the gate. I guess the one bonus is that this means more IA/IP recruits which means more of a chance of the entire military pulling out sooner.

Northwest Union CANT STRIKE

Apparently workers in this country no longer have the right to assemble to redress grievances against their employer. One of the top things that have made America what it is today and give people the opportunity for success are labor unions and their ability to use their mass as a bargaining chip for job improvement. I didnt know that a judge could order people not to strike...not to speak out against their employer. This judge is taking the only bartering chip they have away from them and it cant be constitutional or fair.
FUCK IT. GO ON STRIKE ANYWAY show this government run amok who this country actually belongs to. This is a country of, for, and by the people no the corporation. STRIKE. This, I think is pivotal, to the future of unions and the future of worker rights in this country. I dont care if they're striking because they want caviar and limos, it's a workers right and not a judges business. One judge cant stop all of them.

American Idiots

• Let's start talking about things in the context of reality. Americans are dumb, ignorant, and practically illiterate. You know, most polls are stupid and some just show how stupid we're getting as a country. More people can name the winner of American Idol than can name a Justice of the Supreme Court. Nothing against these idol winners but I think it's fitting that the only talent our American "Idol" has is the ability to sing karaoke. I've seen guys so drunk they can't remember their name, but they can still sing karaoke with the best of them. It's pretty bad because my wife who absolutely hates politics and pays absolutely no attention to it could tell me about Justice Alito and the controversy surrounding his appointment. I love my wife and she's a smart woman, but she pays absolutely no attention to this crap (seems strange huh, considering how impassioned I am about it) and she could tell me about two of the Supreme Court Justices (Justice Bader-Ginsberg and Justice Alito). My point is what kind of vaccuum do you have to be living in to know absolutely nothing about what is happening to your own country. I understand people are probably distracted by Iraq, but 60% of high school graduates couldn't point to it on a world map. Most Americans only read and comprehend at a seventh grade level. What the hell? Americans like to tout that people come from all over the world to attend our universities and colleges. Yeah, that's right they do. But they go to our colleges and they attend a class taught by a professor, more than likely, not from this country either, especially in the sciences and math. I guess the magical being theory just doesn't hold up in college level chemistry and biology, now does it Kansas Board of Education. That's because these foreigners come from education systems where they teach you things like math and science in math and science class, and not fables like creationism. Why dont we just start teaching history from the Bible also?

You know, I'm very libertarian, you Christo-Fascists can have your own schools where you teach your future idiot Bush supporting children that a big bearded man in the sky made the earth magically appear 4,000 years ago, just don't take my country down with you. We want to accomplish things and progress, not retard, our society.

• Another thing. No more medical treatment for anyone pro-lifer or Chirsto-fascists. Because every medicine and procedure probably had people die in the course of its development. I dont want that hanging on your conscience as you take the viagara before slipping into your gimp outfits. That means no more surgeries, no more prescriptions. All you get to do is pray. And if 50% of the country is pro-life then that's 150 million people that we wont have to put on the national health care plan which would really make it cost productive. From now on medicine is only for people who believe in science. You can believe in God and still believe in science, and when you come to that realization then you can have the medicine and the doctors.
• I'm tired of hearing about Islamo-Fascists in the news and never hearing about the Christo-Nazis who want to dismantle our country from the inside out. The real threat is the people who want to turn America into a theocracy and force their beliefs onto everyone because they are so insecure in their own faith they can't live and let live. The American Taliban is no different than the Afghan Taliban other than the fact they don't wear burkahs and the men are a little more clean shaven. But we give them a pass because they look like us.

Mel Wasn't All Wrong...

But how can an unabashed liberal say such a thing. Let me tell you why. Just as our government was hijacked by a group of hawks, mostly of the chicken variety, so has the Israeli government been. The NeoCons of the US, I am positive, collaborated with the Likkuds in Israel to start this war. To say Israel does anything over there without our consent is insane. When they are the #1 purchaser of weapons from the #1 arms dealer in the world (US) with the 4th largest army in the world they sort of dance to our tune.
For whatever crazy reason the NeoCon movement has always had a vested interest in the returning of all Semitic lands to Israel. I dont know why. NeoCons by their doctrine are not religious people, but think religion is something that should be used to con people into putting you into power. (Don't believe me then read Leo Strauss). So its not because of faith or belief. I dont know if the Neo Cons were conned into this policy belief, or what, but it is their driving doctrine. It seems as though they are controlled completely by this policy and will spend whatever American capitial to ensure it happens. But I see no reason why we should have anything to do with Israel's mess. Sure we created Israel with the help of the UN, but if they want to continue to live in a place where they constantly get bombed and killed, NOT OUR PROBLEM. If they want to go on a rampage and try and kill all the Arabs around them NOT OUR PROBLEM. We have bigger problems that directly affect the U.S. to worry about than a safe secure Israel. How about a safe and secure U.S.? or a Safe and secure IRAQ?
And dont give me that tired ass line of well we're fighting them over there so we dont have to fight them here. Uhhh they weren't over here (Iraq) until we made it possible for them to get here. Dont confuse the war on terror with this mistake. Hezbollah. Not our problem. They want to kill Israelis fine let them do it or let Israel kill all of them. I really dont give a shit. I'm just tired of seeing whiny fucking -Bergs and -Steins on television crying about how they are always the fucking victim when the have the complete support of the US government and have all the weapons we have in our aresenal and an army that is better trained but falls a little short on the numbers. You are responsible for the wars there. Quit acting like the victim. Attacking sovereign nations and killing innocent people doesn't exactly make you look innocent and doing it with the equipment provided by the US doesnt make us look any better and doesnt help win the hearts and minds of Arabs and Muslims here in Iraq. So, you are in fact making the situation in Iraq here worse. Example as we have for the past two years been able to quell the Mahdi Militia of Al Sadr they are making a comeback so they can go fight Israelis in Lebanon. If these two fucking bullshit religions want to slug it out for shitty piece of property where some fucking stories from their books of fables took place, fuck it, let them.
The other argument I dont want to hear is, "We cant allow countries to harbor terrorists, and any country that harbors them should be attacked." Well, in that case you are insinuating that America should be attacked as we harbor terrorists here. Or do you just me Muslim terrorists? Example Posada Carilles, who, after nearly annual attempts at extradition by the Venezuelan, Cuban, and Nicaraguan governments for terrorist acts committed in or against those countries still lives the good life in the US under US protection. He was the main conspirator in the bombing of a Cubana Airliner killing 73 INNOCENT people and was also one of the main leaders of the Contras terrorist acts in Nicaragua. So, those who live in glass houses. But I forgot that over the past 5 years we only make rules we dont have to follow them, and the rules we abided by before we dont have to follow if those in power now consider them quaint or contrary to our goals. Like a schoolyard bully we use our brutishness to change the rules so that we can win.

NeoConservative Middle East Peace Plan:
Step 1. Incite as many Arabs in fighting in Israel and Lebanon as possible.
Setp 2. Get involved in as many wars as possible with those Arab countries.
Step 3. Kill all the Arabs and take all their oil.
Step 4. Return all of Israel and ME over to the Israelis
Step 5. Wait for the second coming of Jesus.
Step 6. Use oil for war with China and Iran.

The Angry Middle East Peace Plan
Step 1. Kill all the Arabs/Palestinians
Step 2. Kill all the Israelis
Step 3. Claim all the land in the ME in the name of the US
Step 4. Kill anyone who has a problem with that.
Step 5. Wait for the second coming of Jesus (or first coming of Jesus if you're Jewish).

The Common Sense ME Peace Plan
There isn't one. You might as well face it these people will be fighting until one side or the other is completely annhilated. Hahahahaha. And we can't tell Israel to stop a preventative war because we have no moral ground to stand on in that arena as we are embroiled in the aftermath of a preventative war in Iraq. So all we can say is..."Well, uhhhh be nice and try not to kill innocent people." We've lost our moral standing. We have created a new monster in foreign policy that we can't control. The preventative war. I just wonder when the first preventative war is going to be launched on the U.S.?

In all seriousness I see no peaceful conclusion to this mess I'm in or that one over there and they are both connected.

Iraq...its Hot...its sandy...its Hell...

Well, I am in a certain province that begins with an "A", and city that begins with an "R." My time so far has not been that bad. We've hit a couple of IEDs had a few rounds fired at us but all in all we are doing pretty well. Not too long before we get to go home where we get to redeploy our Brigade first from Iraq to Germany then from Germany back to Texas. No rest for the wicked. But we are over the hump on the downhill slope and from this side of the mountain the downhill side doesnt seem that bad.

There is no Zionist Conspiracy...

The fact that people tell me I'm crazy when I tell them the government at the very least was complicit in the attacks on doesnt give me much hope when I try to convince them that there are people in our government who wholeheartedly believe in the Book Of Revelations and will do anything to insure those prophecies come to fruition. Hence the complete acceptance by this Admin and the rest of the world that it is OK for Israel to conduct terrorist attacks on other nations. The 4th largest military in the world attacking a country that is already weak. My question is, if Israel kills an American in Lebanon do we get to invade Israel? Not to mention the attacking of a Muslim state by Israel, with the support of the US with US weapons and munitions, is not boding well for us over here in Iraq. Call me a cynic, but did Hezbollah ever show proof they had captured Israeli soliders? You would think something like that would be on Al Jazeera. There is not much you can do to stop the march of "Armageddon" now. Just sit back relax, enjoy the light show, and hope they all wipe each other out first.

I'm Still here

Well I'm in Iraq still...long lapse in posts because all of my anger has been vented towards insurgents/Iraqis, whatever you want to call them, the guys trying to blow me up, in a new spot in Iraq. On top of that internet has been scarce. Well we've relocated and are settling in the only downside is my wife and I are split up now. It really sucks because we've been there to comfort each other when we started feeling down about leaving our son behind but now we're too far apart to do that and rarely get to email each other. It sucks. Everyone tells me that now I get a taste of what everyone else has to deal with being separated from their spouse, which is not true at all because they dont have to worry about their spouse getting hit by an IED, or a sniper, or a mortar round. So its not the fucking same at all. The only thing you have to worry about is your spouse choking down too many little debbies from stress and putting on a few pounds before you get back, that's a little different than wondering whether everyday you'll get a call to come to the commander's office and him giving you the bad news.

But anyway the world of politics has gotten beyond my grasp...I dont get it, the guy has no popular support and has broken national and international law and is somehow still the president. What the fuck ever? Then we have his cronies in the White House leaking secret information and still able to keep the security clearances and hang around. Jesus. I dont know what more he has to do to just get impeached. I'm just tired of thinking about it. And really I dont have the time or energy anymore. I've lost all hope for the restoration of our republic.

Oh Yeah if you have a myspace account there is a band on there called Biteboy look them up and give them some money so they can go annoy the shit out of Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church for a day Sunday June 18th. Phelps is the guy protesting at soldiers funerals saying thank god for IEDs and all that happy horseshit. Apparently there is a biker gang that is going with biteboy as support. I dont know, I think kissing a few of those people with an aluminum baseball bat might be worth it. Fuck Fred Phelps and the pseudoChristians of the Westboro Baptist "Church".

Study: Bush tax cuts making rich richer

Some headlines just catch your attention...No fucking shit Sherlock, I thought we learned two things from the 80's 1) Cocaine is not a good meal replacement, and 2) Voodoo economics fucks the lower and middle class. Holy shit...you know when CNN has caught on we just may be onto something, economists have only been screaming this for 25 years.

That is Democracy

People keep asking when will democracy take over in Iraq? When will the big plan of the 5th reaon for invasion come to fruition, when will all the war stop? Fact is democracy has been implaced in Iraq, and the minority doesn't like it. Because what have we as Americans taught the Iraqis about Democracy, if not that, democracy is the tyrrany of the majority. We are trying to avoid handing the Iraqi government over to religious fundementalists who think everyone should be and do as they, but we allow the same type of people with fairer skin, no facial hair, and a different moniker (Pastor, Reverend, Born-Again Christian) to take over the American government. We allow the religious majority to dictate what people can and cant do with their own bodies, and in their own bedrooms because they see it as immoral. Robertson, Falwell, and that group from Missouri aren't any different ideologically than the ayatollahs, imams, and clerics on Al Jazeera. Sure they look more like "us" so we give them the pass, but their message is still one of intolerance and the institution of a theocracy. They have created a tyrannical religious majority that does not want to live and let live, but wants to order and command everyone to live as they wish to live.
I have one question for all the theocrats out there. Supposing that there is a God: Did he not give us the ability to make our own decisions? Or are you saying he made a mistake and that ability should be taken from us based on your lowly interpretation of God's word? So, I guess you work directly for God and know exactly what he wants, and he wants to you to take all free will and all temptation away, so that everyone will live by his word; or at least your interpretation of it. So does God talk to you on a two-way radio, cell phone, or do you have a direct line?
Democracy has taken hold in Iraq the same way it has in the US, the tyrannical majority has taken over. The only difference is the minority in Iraq is not going to stand aside while they are pushed around and subjugated to be second class citizens. Democracy should be majority rule with deference to the minority's opinions and beliefs. This wont happen in Iraq, and it certainly is becoming less and less likely to happen in America, the supposed land of the free, and for some odd reason the plague of religion seems to be the infection that keeps people from being able to live free and work together. Here in Iraq it's Sunni vs. Shi'a in the states it's tyrannical Chritian Aytollahs vs. open minded freedom loving Americans (many regular Christians included). Coinicidence...I think not.

I Just Dont Care

I think I may be able to get into trouble for some of the things I say on here. But I just dont care anymore. These Fascists have gone too far and I took the same oath they did to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, they didn't live up to their oath so IMPEACH them. They have violated the Constitution but they don't care. Make them care Congress. America is behind you. The loonies who think it's alright for the "President" to abuse power are in the minority. At least Censure and have a trial to find out whether or not he comitted an impeachable offense. That's why you are there. IMPEACH this unelected and criminal organization that has taken control of our government. This Cabal should govern no longer. IMPEACH. Do your fucking job Congress, or you wont have one next election cycle.

Troops Morale Hurt by President's Undermining of Democracy

Here's a post for all you brain-dead, flag-waving, red-state, lobotamized Coservative, Republican, Neo-Cons, and TheoCons, especially members of the Straussian Bush-Cheney Neo-Con deathcult. I'm going to try and not use any big words, but go ahead and pull out your dictionaries just in case you need some help, and dig in because its going to be a long one.

"Conservatives" keep spinning Rep. Murtha's comments by saying that he is hurting the morale of the troops. Well, I consider myself a soldier, not really a troop, because I am not officially in a Cav unit, but anyway, I've been in the Army since 1999. I'm a soldier, and I see what John Murtha says as the truth. I'm not signing back up, and almost everyone I talk to isn't, so when he says he wouldn't reenlist, he's following the sentiment of most of the people in my circle, maybe my circle isn't representative of the Army, I dont know. I just know 60-70% of the people I know aren't signing back up. It's sad but true. So, Rep. Murtha is expressing popular sentiment amongst myself andmy peers, and being honest with the American people and expressing his OPINION as someone who has served gallantly in the military for an extended period of time that he wouldn't enlist today. Fair enough. Didn't hurt my morale, as a matter of fact it boosted it, because if someone of his experience in the Armed forces sees the problems I do, 1) he's actually paying attention and listening and 2) he's probably going to work on fixing them.
There have been many reasons given for invading Iraq, it's gone from he was a threat to spreading freedom like it's Avian Flu and once it's in the air it infects everyone it's around, and apparently in Iraq has the same mortality rate, but I digress. So, we are there to institute a Free Iraqi State. OK, I'll buy that for a dollar. I like freedom, and my neighbors seem to like it, so, why the hell not? Just last week it came out that the Federal government has been spying on citizens private phone calls without warrants, not even the bullshit pseudo-warrants issued by the FISA that allow the government to moinitor your calls for three days to collect evidence to have probable cause to get a real wiretap warrant. So, the Federal government with the blessing of the executive is violating the Constitution, specifically the 4th Amendment. The President also had to be coaxed to sign a bill saying we wouldn't torture people, which would seem like a pretty American thing to not do. On top of that the government has been whiddling away our freeedoms bit by bit.
Now, the Murtha comment, I believe came out the same week as the wirtapping fiasco. I am now going to ask a question, in a mostly rhetorical fashion, what hurts the morale of the "troops" more 1) an elected representative of the people speaking his mind and opinion, which, seems to be a mostly true sentiment, or 2) the President of the United States colluding to violate the freedoms that we are supposedly fighting to spread around the world and institute in Iraq by our example, and therefore undermining our credibility on such matters in the face of an already seemingly impossible mission. Therefore, giving us no leg to stand on in the institution of a free and open society in Iraq, ergo making the mission in Iraq infinite.

Police State...

U.S. Supreme Court to Decide if Police Can Barge in Unannounced
The police are becoming willing participants in the creation of a police state. They have decided that the constitution is crap as long as the job gets done. I'm fine with cops, they keep law and order in society and have a pretty rough, scary, dangerous, and sometimes thankless job (that I can empathize with). The only problem is they are not above the law. They cant just go crashing into peoples homes in five man stacks without a warrant, and say that the evidence they found is justification, after the fact. That's like the Office of Pre-Crime in the movie Minority Report.
They may think they have the authority to do it, but we as American citizens must put them in their place. I would hate to condone violence against law enforcment officers, but if that is what it takes for them to get the point that they are not above the law, then so be it. My job, and the job of every American, is to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, when people violate that document they become the enemies of freedom and our country and should be shown NO quarter; especially when executing such actions in a violent and hostile fashion.
It would be one thing if they knocked on the door and pushed their way into his house and started snooping, but they were doing it in a violent fashion, which is the most aggregious abuse of power to destroy the 4th Amendment.
This time they've been caught and it has been appealed to the Supreme Court, but what happens when search and seizure without and warrant, and without probable cause becomes the norm? Or has it already? What happens when you are automatically suspect just for being a citizen? Or are you already? Have your phone conversations been monitored or wiretapped? Are you on the governments No-Fly List or the No-Flay Watchlist? You dont know, do you? And there is no way to find out...

"When I Dream about the moonlight...

...On the Wabash, then I long for my Indiana home."



Not really...when I get out of the Army I'm moving as far away as possible.

"...to defend the Constitution against ALL enemies foreign and DOMESTIC." That's all I'm going to say.

Same story as before

Alright, first of all I dont trust the story of any government official any further than I can throw them, especially over the past 5 years. Well, it turns out there is a fraud being perpetrated by the mainstream media(No, say it isnt so!)...Alpizar in Miami never said he had a bomb, at least not while on the plane. I think two different sources do a good job of 1) debukning the official STORY and 2) drawing paralells to the de Menezes shooting in London.
Remember the original official story was that he was running from police in the London underground before they tackled him and shot him in the head 8 times..when it turns out he was already in a subcar seated???? Hmmmm a bit suspicious.
Well dont take my word for it.

Happy Holidays...no lunch for you.

Well, the Republicons have made the payback for all the money that got them elected. In usual form Republicons in a money laundering scheme on the highest order have shuffled money from those who need it to those who dont. They were able to pass 4 tax cuts worth $100 billion dollars, which will primarily go to the top 0.5% of all people in the nation. No free or reduced lunches, which I used growing up. Cutting of federal loans and grants for higher education, which I used to get through college. Cutting of programs like WIC and welfare programs that help feed kids, and my parents used sparingly when I was a child.
These fucking CRIMINALS are stealing food from the mouths of babes in their very literal FAUSTIAN bargain with the rich that got them elected. FUCK YOU ALL. Conservative, Republican, NeoCon, TheoCon, ChristoFascists whatever you call yourself, you're fucking criminals.
For all of you Christians, that for some odd reason, in fit of hypocrisy, maybe, agree with this administration stealing from the poor to give to the rich. What the fuck are you thinking? You are a disgrace to your religion, and Jesus will most certainly send you to your Hell. You are not Chrisitians...if that is the bargain you want your religious leaders to make to institute a theocracy in America. You'll let them make the bargain that goes against all of Jesus' teachings. Did Jesus say to forsake the lepers and kill the beggars? "As I have loved you love one another." I'm confused you must be following the other Jesus' teachings. Admit it your not Christians, your fascsists using religion as a diguise for your digusting antiAmerican antiChristian agenda. You may win the fight to keep gays from getting married, but, by your own beliefs, you will lose the war to save your own souls. Any time a child goes hungry while a CEO uses a tax cut to buy a $16,000 umbrella stand, you people who support this robbery should feel disgusted and ashamed.
You "Christians" want to stop all these abortions, but you'll let the children starve after you force women to have children they cant afford.
On a more cynical note, we are the only country or civilization EVER to cut taxes in a time of war. How is it the Army and Marines have equipment that is pushed to the breaking point, but the "pro-military" Republicons vote to cut taxes before they fix our equipment. Republicons arent pro military they're pro war there is a difference.

Happy Holidays

Watching Fox News recently I discovered that the biggest news was not the debate over the beginning or the end of the war in Iraq, or the fact that the VP's chief of staff is indicted for a treasonous act, but that "Christmas is under attack." I wouldn't have known this if not for the crack teams at Fox News. Apparently there is war on christmas? I dont know. This war is being fought by "secularists"? Are they like the people that we fought in Panama, like separatists? I dont know. I thought secularism was a good thing but I could be wrong. E pluribus Unum. I only took six years of Latin I'm pretty sure that translates into "Out of many, one." There are more than just Christians in this country, I'm getting fucking sick and tired of hearing about Christian Persecution.

I dont think 90% of the Christian Population was wiped out by "secularist missionaries" between 1492 and 1896, as was the Native population of the US.

I dont think there was a problem with Christians in the US Military getting religious support until 1999, as it was with Wicca. I dont think the current Leader, and I use the term lightly, of the free world has ever said your religion should not be recognized. I dont think there was ever a bill put twice before the Senate to ban Christians from joining the military.

I dont think Christians, although appartently the most violent of all the religions, are stopped and searched every time they take a flight.

And the list goes on and on and on...Christians are the persecutors. Everyday you prosecute the war on the separtion of church and state and religious freedom. You have a religion that is apparently very intolerant and exclusive, which goes against the very ideas upon which America was founded. Whatever happened to "give me your tired your poor?" I guess it's alright as long as they're Chrisitan and their skin tone matches.

The Bush's sent "Happy Holiday" cards, and this gives them one point in my book, so they are now at -1,368,478.36, because they wanted to be "considerate and inclusive." I have to say, I was mighty impressed at this show of respect for other religions and cultures. I began to think, maybe I had this guy all wrong afterall. Then came the ChristoFascists with their bellicose statements of why the cards didnt say Christmas, except this attack on Christmas was coming from "Great and Glorious Leader" so they dare not question. Or did they? So, needless to say there is a big shit storm brewing over what we call this time of year. Why dont we just call it what it has always been called, and was called way before the time of the Chrisitans and Jews...Yule. Since Jesus was actually born in April I think this takes contention down to Hannukah and Yule, and since Yule is older it wins. Why do the "Elitist Exclusivist Christians" want to change the name of my Holiday? Why are they attacking Yule? I've said it more than once and I'll say it again...I HATE PSUEDO-CHRISTIANITY.

Hillary Clinton

First let me state that I am a progressive. I dont think I'm Republican Lite, or Libertarian with half the calories of Republican, I consider myself a Liberal and Progressive. I will not support any candidate that does not run on the platform of progress. That's right, the "extreme" left needs to take control of this donkey and ride it into Washington so we can accomplish something. Just because Hilary puts the big D after her name doesnt mean you have to vote for her. Hilary, just like Bill, is Republican lite. It's been so long that we cant remember, but that is what a moderate Republican looks like. It's been so long that we haven't seen one that doesnt look like a NeoCon, TheoCon, or ChristoFascist, that they're going to lull us into voting for them on a lesser scale. Dont fall for the trick. If you want progress, vote for the progressives, if you want the same old shit...vote Republican or Republican Lite (D).

Traitors???

I hate it when I hear theright spewing filth about people who dissent being traitors, when, if they want to see the real traitors, all they have to do is look at the company they keep. Rush Limbaugh is the biggest culprit of calling people traitors for their dissent, I would just like to restate that Rush Limbaugh denied service to his country by having a family friend sign a statement saying he had a boil on his ass. I've have done a lot of things in the military and a boil on my ass has never stopped me from doing any of them.
But lets get to the real traitor here...the one I've been pointing at all along.

Former Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R) California has admitted guilt to taking bribes from a defense contractor MZM. Well, just this past week the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force issued a recall for 18,000 IBA's, or in civilian lingo, bullet proof vests. Apparently MZM is somehow connected with the shoddy vests. I say let the Dukestir test all 18000 vests out himself by walking IED Alley next to BIAP.
How much more fucking treasonous do you get Republicons? It is not treasonous to dissent, I do, however, feel it is treasonous to sell out the people who are fighting the war most you wouldn't. I feel it is treasonous to sell out your own soldiers to make a few bucks. This is treason and conspiring against the government...where is the outrage and calls for this man to be hanged by the Republicans. Last time I checked nothing Howard Dean said actually killed anyone, but FUCKED UP VESTS HAVE. You dumb fucking inbred, dumbass, hillbilly, hypocrite, xenophobes. People have been executed for less. So Randy Duke Cunningham if this is indeed true...FUCK YOU ASSHOLE. YOU FAT TREASONOUS SACK OF SNAKE SHIT. I HOPE YOU BURN IN HELL. (I dont belive in Hell, but I know you do, and guess where you're going). And this is were I part from my liberal friends, because I believe in the death penalty for only the most lude and vile of criminals, this would include people such as yourself Dukestir. People that sell out their country to the highest bidder. You and every politician Democrats included that puts the dollar ahead of the ideas and values that made this country great. But it seems to be festering in the Repulican party right now. Where is the outrage Rush??? This guy sold out the troops and his country. Where you fat, drug pushing, hypocrite?

Melancholly Joy

I cant help but be happy as every republican goes down in a blazing ball of fire and the "minority" of the US pounces on them to attack the wounded animal. I mean who in their right mind still believes these subhuman vermin. These people that lie, cheat, and steal at every turn. Put their own personal interests before the welfare of the country, or fellow countrymen.

It's happiness followed by sadness as I think they damage they've done in 6 years to our Republic may be irrepairable.

People touting the power of the "free market" as GM and Ford lay of thousands of workers in order to pad the pockets of already too wealthy CEO's. The final steps in the institution of a fascist, corporate-friendly economy devoid of worker's rights taking us back to the "Gilded Age" of the 1890's when robber-barons ruled the US and were given a free pass.

We should be ashamed as we are the only industrialized nation that doesnt GUARANTEE healthcare to the our citizens. Noone's going to last forever, but this is a benchmark to measure the evolution of a society or culture, how well they treat their own.

What is it these people have against progress? Why do they want to take us back to the dark annals of American history when women were second class citizens and workers slaves to the owners of corporations? Only fascists would wish to enslave their own people.

I'm Baaaaack...

First of all let me start off saying I have been in the field since Sept 11th (let me tell you not the best date to go) but I had fun training. I love the training. It's when you find the weak links and can work on fixing them. But I guess alot has happened in the political world since I've been gone. I've only been able to keep track through the slightly skewed view of Stars and Stripes. Stars and Stripes doesnt do a bad job, but let's face it their audience isnt exactly the Garofalo and Franken loving types.

So we had a couple of victories for governships, and the Terminators proposals got terminated. The presidents approval rating continues to fall as he just keeps twising himself in the barbed wire that is anything his administration tries to do. This administration has just turned into a blazing ball of fire ready to implode at any moment. It isn't even just the Administration it's the entire fucking political party. Oh I think Johnny Cash said it best, "I fell into a burning ring of fire..." You know how it goes.

My internet is out at home because I havent been home to pay the bill, no telling how long that will take to fix in this country. But my wife left to go to the states to pick up my son and bring him back to us. It's only been two months but it feels like a lifetime since I've seen him. Four to 6 months they sure do grow up alot. I'm dreading neither one of us being around to watch him grow up for one whole year.
Cant wait to see the little man...only two more days...

Yeah its 9/11

OK so today is September the 11th 2005 and this inept, incompetent administration has failed to do what it set out to do after 9/11 2001...capture Osama Bin Laden "dead or alive."
Maybe its not from not having the ability but not having the desire because they contracted the hit on the WTC??? I believe at the very least the government was complicit in letting 9/11 happen. For about 6 months afterwards, I was walking around yelling fuck, go fucking kill all the towelheads. Excuse the racial epithet, remember it is just to make a point. And then shit started to not add up, and not add up, and all the sudden I had heard every part of the official story contradicted by EVIDENCE, just by paying attention to the news.

To make a long story short there are a couple of documentaries that I found a few months ago that pretty much sum everything up. First is Alex Jones' Martial Law:9/11 and the Rise of the Police State gives the motives, and presents some evidence showing why it had to be a setup; and a documentary called Loose Change which can be found somewhere on his website but his produced by someone else gives all the physical evidence that completely discredits the official story of what happened 4 years ago, ON GEORGE W. BUSH'S WATCH!!!!

If you enjoy being oblivious, and you enjoy nationalist fascism then these videos and sites arent for you.

See you in a couple of months bloggers,
M.

In honor of Chickenhawks everywhere Operation Yellow Elephant planted this sign outside the Chickenhawk in chiefs roosting area... 

"Ha, Ha, ha...eat this poor people. I'm on vacation..." 

In honor of the white man's fear of terrorists, that was falsely created this day 2001... 

I think the caption pretty much sums it up... 

Jabbor Gibson...Medal of Freedom? Presidential Pardon?

Jabbor Gibson...Hero.
He was in the middle of a crisis faced with a moral dilemma. He chose the path of saving lives, even if it was to his own demise. I dont know anything else about this 18 year old, but I know he's a stand-up man. He stole a bus that was sitting in New Orleans and picked up 100 people along the way and drove 7 hours to the Astrodome.
Hey Kanye West, buy this kid a lawyer so he can beat this wrap. I guess he's going to be arrested for stealing the bus. I think he'll beat it.

Why doesnt he care?

People keep saying we can do so much in Iraq why cant we do it here?

Because they dont fucking care...
None of their buddies are getting rich from them taking care of the American people.

Money is their God.

AS AMERICA AWAKES FROM A 5 YEAR SLUMBER.

FUCK.

Tired of Hearing about New Orleans Yet...

...Not as tired as Bush is going to be, come the impeachment hearings for gross and embarrassing incompetence.

So, all you red state fucktards this is the guy that's going to protect you from a terrorist attack? Can't even put food and water into the mouths of Americans on American soil. It's fucking pathetic. Consider this rescue effort a dry run for what's going to happen when a bomb goes off in an American city, especially one containing any sort of BioChem weapons. This is something I dont actually consider a threat beacuse "we're fighting them over there." But just something for all you xenophobic, dillusional, fear-mongers to snack on. Any sort of BioChem would delay aid even longer and result in even more casualties. Only people in proper equipment would be able to go in to rescue survivors.

Every report I hear just makes me sadder and sicker. Here I am in Germany and I cant do anything. People getting shot, dying from lack of food, water, and medication. The diseases havent even begun to spread yet. We still have Hepatitis and other outbreaks that could occur due to people walking through sewage. Standing water creating hatching pools for mosqitoes spreading disease. This disaster is just beginning. The elderly, children, and babies just sitting out in the heat and dying. It's very very sad.

Did the Government of Free Market Fail???

Who is to blame for the decrepit levees that have led to the disaster in New Orleans? They say it's too early to "play politics" or the "blame game." The politics have already been played and its cost many people including, small children and babies, their lives.
Bush has paraded people out, who, knowing their careers on the line, are covering for the Bush Cartel by saying that the funding cuts did not have any effect on the safety of the levees that broke. So, under duress, these "experts" are "testifying" on the news media to the same.
There is only one problem with this argument for the Bush-Cheney-Straussian-Free Market-Neo-Con Death Cult. If the government didn't do the repairs or pay for them, then it was left to the free market system the Neo Cons pledge allegiance to. So, the Neo Con Death Cult government failed to react in a timely manner to a crisis created by their passing the buck to the free market system.
So which failed the government they control or the system of government the swear to???

I wish I could go on vacation.

What is with the King Georges and their vacations? In the '90's when we told the people of Iraq that we would help them fight if they rose up against Saddam guess where King George I was, that's right he was on vacation. And then during another supposed "major turning point" in the Iraqmire that he lied us into, King George II goes on vacation.
He spent 60% of his first term on vacation, and I think he's going to fall into the same category again. I wish I could take a vacation. Or how about those 130,000 or so troops fighiting his war in Iraq doesnt he owe it to them to not take a vacation until he has a solid plan for getting them the fuck out of there. Maybe we should be thankful he goes on vacation so much, that's just less time he's around to fuck shit up. Or maybe it's just better if junior is out of the way so the people actually in charge can run shit.
All the Bush lovers yelling at Cindy Sheehan for being in Crawford maybe they should yell at the guy that is the reason for her being there. Dont you think it's a bit odd and a bit disrespectful to those fighting his war that he's on vacation every other fucking month.

American Legion Post Removed

After receiving information on the Hypocrisy of the AL, and also reading an article on how they are following the Repug party line and declaring war on war protesers, I have decided to remove the post heaping praise upon the organization. I am now have a stated policy of indifference and nearly apathy towards their organization. I will not pay any more dues to the AL, not because they dont agree with war protestors, but because they equate protestors to being the enemy, and I will not support such actions as equating American Citizens engaged in legal and rightful protest for redress to being the enemy.

What about the oath???

The link above goes to an article explaining that a senator in California wants an investigation of the National Guard for spying on its own citizens released to the public. If this isn't proof of the encroaching police state I dont know what is. Citizens of the state, funded by the state, spying on their own fellow citizens.
This is a symptom of a larger problem. You see, there are people following these orders that took an oath to protect and defend the constitution of their states, and if they are in the Reserves or Active duty, the constitution of the US. Every constitution either has implicit or implied rights to assemble for a redress of grievances and privacy. By these Citizen Soldiers following orders to spy on their own citizenry, the citizenry that foots their bills, they have violated that oath to protect and defend. They have become the domestic enemy that our freedoms must be protected from. I take the oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the U.S. against all enemies foreign and domestic very seriously and very literally. Enemies of the Constitution are not the people that attack us with bombs and guns, but the people that attack our freedoms by usurption, these people are more dangerous by far, because what are we in America if we don't live by the ideas we were founded to uphold.

These people are trying to blur the line of the rational, so that we just assume posse commitatus doesn't matter. They keep trying to stretch the law and blur the line so we just assume it's normal to have the military used as the nations or states police force. And people will just keep accepting this as long as they are scared of the encroaching outside "threat." Fear is creating the justification in the minds of the people to propel this agenda from the top down. Working off of their premise, every American citizen is the enemy, everyone is a terrorist or a suspect. Why else would they send OUR OWN army against us? Eventually someone from the inside is going to grow the fucking balls to stand up and say that is an UNLAWFUL order according to their oath and they will not follow it. You cannot get in trouble for refusing an UNLAWFUL ORDER.

AMERICAN CITIZENS are not the enemy and until the US Government declares, officially and for legitimate reasons, martial law I dont want to see member of the US Army used as a police force. Thats not our job. We are trained to kill and break things, we should not be used against our fellow citizens for any reason.

The problem is the ordinary man doesnt care because he thinks this is keeping him safe from terrorists. As he stands next to his SUV with the Yellow ribbon magnets wearing a "These Colors Dont Run" t-shirt, he will say, "I dont care what the government does, so long as the terrorists dont get us." Not realizing while he's looking outside for something coming in, the real threat is already inside, destroying everything America once stood for. Freedom to assemble, protest, and protection of the private citizens life from encroachment by a Big Brother system run amok.

Help the Terrorists...Take Our Freedoms

New York has now instituted a public policy of random bag checks at the subways. They say the bag checks are random, based on a number system. Now, we all know this is just a way of making all the brown people feel better about getting their bags checked, just to make it seem like a random occurrence that everyone of Arab or South Asian background is stopped and searched while every tenth white guy is stopped. I guess it's fair enough seeing that Arab Muslim extremists are doing the bombing and killing. The fact that they are searching Arabs is not the problem, the fact that they are searching AMERICANS IS. Supposedly these checks are random and optional but we'll see what happens when a "brown person" refuses the search, will they be tazered into submission, then sent to the secret FISA court and locked away without representation??? What's going to happen when someone refuses the search on the grounds that they will not submit to the terrorists and will live by the American credo of the right to privacy and being free of searches of their person without probable cause?

We are told the terroists attack us because they "hate our freedoms." Then by what logic is it, that we win by giving up our freedoms out of fear of being attacked. If the terrorists terrorize us into giving up our freedoms then they win. As we steadily slip farther and farther into a self induced police state out a fear that may or may not be real we destroy our credibility as a "freedom loving people."

If the terrorists hate us because of our freedoms then I propose that anyone who supports or advocates giving up said freedoms, by their own logic, is responsible for the demise of our country is aiding and abetting the terrorists' cause. Why are these people not questioned and arrested as enemies of freedom?

That includes anyone who supports the PATRIOT ACT, random bag searches, or any tactic that goes against the idea of personal freedom and liberty. These people are the greater enemies of freedom, and they arent brown, and they arent abroad, and they arent Muslim, they are here in our country, and members of our govenment, the people who are members of the New American Despotic Fascism, bringing in the American Police State, and ringing out our freedoms, little by little, hoping we won't notice until they control or monitor every piece of everyones' lives.

Benjamin Franklin said it best:

"Those who would give up essential liberty for a little safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Let me tell ya, I happen to agree. We should make no concessions of liberty for safety, every concession we make is a point for the enemies of freedom, terrorists or otherwise, and demeans our credibility on the topic of liberty and freedom.

Britain Says Man Police Killed Had NO TIES to Bombings:

His only crime was that he was slightly brown, a Brazillian electrician on his way to work. Yes, go forward and kill all the brown people. Fuck the brown, browner, and black people, they are all terrorists. Jesus Christ, where is the fucking outrage. The article from the NY Times is sort of, "Oh well, he shouldnt have been brown...wrong place, wrong time."
When the man got shot it was all the media could talk about, now that the story turns into an actual controversy of out-of-control trigger happy police officers gunning down innocent people in an ever increasing STAZI POLICE STATE the media is AWOL. Why? I'm sure its for the same reason I had to hear about a white girl missing on VACATION on a TROPICAL ISLAND for 3 weeks straight, while hundreds of black women go missing every year without a mention from the media, he was brown so it doesn't matter. If it was a white guy that was innocently gunned down we would hear about it for days, or even weeks.

When in the course of human events...

Could you imagine the courage these men had??? The ideas...much less the courage to tell the largest empire in the world because of their disrespect for these ideas they are no longer worthy to rule you...just unfathomable courage, genius, and insanity.



The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
Presented by the Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington

The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. —Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain [George III] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

Fuck KKKarl Rove

Damned Media

It's all the media's fault that we cant get anyone to go sign up to fight a war that isnt ours to fight. If they wouldnt do such a half assed job of showing what war was like maybe we could just keep people completely in the dark so they would have no idea what they were getting into by joining the Armed Forces. I dont know who it was in the Senate or Congress that made that comment, but I think he's damn lucky that he still has enough brain function to continue breathing. War is negative dumbass. War is the greatest failure of leadership and diplomacy. Little kids, men, women, and babies dying in a fight they didnt pick or want. What do you want the media to show. Maybe they should just show the footage of us finding the WMD's, or maybe they should show the footage of Saddam meeting with OBL to plan 9/11, or maybe they should show us being greeted as "liberators" with "flowers and sweets," or maybe they should show the President, VP, and SOD planning for the post invasion. Oh wait none of that happened did it. So, all that's left to show is the end result of the botched planning based on false pretenses and fairy tales believed only by the few who ran this show.

I dont think the media shows enough. Like the pictures I've seen where children have been decapitated by bullets, or the days rotted corpses of men and teenagers, or American soldiers laying in pools of their own blood while their buddies fight a battle around them. I think the media should show more of these images, not as a deterrent to service, but as a deterrent to those populists who think war is glorious and armchair quarterback and cheerlead for war at the drop of a hat, especially while never having FOUGHT in one. I think the media has covered the nitty gritty just enough to dissuade people from going to fight.

The Government Did it...

After watching 9/11 The Rise of the Police State by Alex Jones I have succumbed to the fact that the government, if it didn't contract the hit on the twin towers, they at least knew and didnt do anything about it.
+Marvin Bush (younger brother of George W. Bush) was in charge of security on the WTC and his two-year contract expired 9/11/2001.
+Cheney took control of NORAD on 9/11 and effectively took the power out of the hands of the Generals to act to defend the Republic. He had NORAD stand down in a "coincidental" series of exercises in the days before practicing reaction to attacks on WTC and Pentagon. When NORAD realized there was something wrong he limited the reacting jet aircraft to a flight speed of 350mph. Why would he not want them to get to the scene as fast as they could?
+The Joint Chiefs of Staff were supposed to be in New York on 9/11 but were called and told not to go by the WHITE HOUSE.
+San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown also was warned as were many other individuals, including an IM on a Jewish IM. These are not urban myths.
+No skyscraper has ever fallen from fire. If you watch the video you can see the secondary explosions, those that would be used to "pull" a building. The building just happens to fall in the same manner. Only buildings owned by Silverstein are destroyed.
There is so much more evidence you just have to watch the video to see it and how the NWO is taking over...or I guess has taken over our government.

Dismiss it as conspiracy theory...until you're living under the opressive thumb of FASCIST hegemony. Prescott Bush was a Nazi supporter and helped Hitler.

This is sick....

As you travel overseas you find that people generally dislike U.S. policy, its leaders, and have lost respect for the U.S. Some would argue that the loss of respect stems from our policy of preventative war, but I think that is just a symptom of a larger reason why we have lost our standing in the eye's of the world.

For more than two centuries America has been a beacon of hope for countries living in tyranny at the rule of despots around the world. People living under opressive regimes looked up the U.S. Why did they look at us as a sign of hope? They did not look for us to free them but we provided them the example of what could be done.

More than two hundred years ago we did somthing that had not been done up to the point of the American Revolution. All over the world people were living under the opressive thumb of despots who ruled Empires from many thousands of miles away. Americans finally took a stand against imperialism and displaced despotism, stood their ground, and chased the evil Empire from there shores. We then instituted a government ruled by the farmers, bankers, lawyers, and blacksmiths, because they suffer the plight of everyday existance, they would know the better policies by which to govern. The rest of the world looked to us as we expelled evil from our soil and claimed it as our own. The empirial slaves of Spain, England, and France looked to us as a big brother, and hoped one day for their own uprising that would cleanse the despot from their shores; allow them to live their life as they wanted, not as slaves to an unfeeling beast on a distant shore, but with every man as equals.

So, back to the question of why we have lost our standing. We are once again threatened by a new imperial menace and a new despotism. We have lost our standing in the eyes of the world because they watched us succeed and they are now watching our experiment fail to the fear that they will succumb the same fate. As the liberties we established are washed away one by one by the new despots who are above our own laws. The ruling elite have returned in the form of corporations, their owners, and rich heirs who have the money to purchase legislation in their favor. The ruling elite have also formed a new despotism through their purchasing of "elected" officials. The new despots rule in secret, and are usually members of the same secret elitist organizations. The Bush's, for example, are all members of Skull and Bones which was created in 1832 to overthrow the rightful government of the U.S. and replace in with a dictatorship, and they and their members of the new despotism have been doing it gradually and subversively.

So, instead of being slaves a king that rules by divine right, America is fast becoming and is the slave of, king money which rules by fear, greed, lies. The same nations that watched us conquer the demon of despotism two hundred years ago, now watch us succumb to its rule, in a different fashion but on all the same, gradually and unconsciously. That is why they dont respect us, because we have lost the will to fight. We are not we once stood for, and we do not stand up for what we once stood up for. Our own freedom.

Right to life???

I love the hypocrites encircled on the right to life side. These people are saving embryos by adopting them. Well, the only way to "save" these embryos is to plant them in a woman and then perform in vitro fertilization to make them a viable being, which the Catholic church is still anti-invitro fertilization. The ChristoFascists are saving the embryos because they dont want them destroyed by "crazy scientists" who want to find cures for diseases like Alzheimers, MS, and paralysis. You know, diseases if they were cured, would improve and save many lives, including the lives of those vets that these CHICKENHAWKS sent to war. Seeing how embryos, used in stem cell research are blastocysts, a group of cells, and are not viable beings. But I guess the problem is they could have been babies. Which makes no sense.

Of course, if these people spent more time reading Biology text books instead of banning them they might know that. Well back to in vitro fertilization, in order for this process to work normally many embryos have to be SACRIFICED, I heard one of these Christ-Fascist Zombies on the radio talking about she had 13 tries. Well, by your logic, you moron, that's 13 deaths all in an EXPERIMENTAL attempt at a unnatural way of having a child. You will certainly burn in HELL. Where is the outrage from the Zombie Brigade?

I am for individual rights so, I'm in no way against in vitro fertilization, or abortion, or stem cell research, the problem is these people run around yelling and screaming and spitting and wailing, "Save the Embryos," and by their own admission and complicit to their own logic are no better than abortionists. It is certainly no better to sacrifice an embryo, or 13, in an experiment, for the selfish purpose of having a child out of righteous indignation than it is to sacrifice and embryonic blastocyst, for the common good in having researchers find cures for diseases the kill LIVE people and destroy their lives.

These same people are they same anti-science, anti-academic, meat heads running around turning America piece by piece into a THEOCRACY. This was the idea of the Pilgrims. They didnt leave England to escape persecuction, the lie perpetrated by historians to give WASP's this identification with being a victim, they left England so they could persecute people as they pleased (witch burnings, the Natives). You see the Pilgrims were too uptight for the English. The forefathers thought that they had reversed this evil trap by guaranteeing the separation of church and state, little did they know that the power hungry CHRISTO FASCISTS would always find a way to usurp freedom to press their agenda upon a population in the form of THEOCRACY.

Then "President" Bush said he wouldn't use tax dollars to fund the taking of life. Well, even though I agree with the death penalty, it is the use of tax dollars to kill people. I know the argument for this one is that, "well embryos are innocent lives." First, embryos are eggs and are not a form of life technically until they become a FETUS medically at eight weeks and really not until they are born.
Well, if he is against taking innocent life then why did he lie to get us into a war where an estimated 100,000 innocent people have died. Not only at the hands of crazy IslamoFascist (the cousin of the Christo-Fascist), but also at the hands of American Soldiers put in a chaotic situtation similar to Vietnam. INNOCENT CHILDREN are dying everyday over there. Where is the outrage CHRISTO FASCIST ZOMBIE BRIGADE???

These people parade on a platform of pro-life, they want to save all the embryos, fetuses, blastocysts, tumors, and ovarian cysts, so they can make babies out of them. Well, what about the Bush twins they are of child bearing age why dont they adopt a couple of those embryos since this apparently so important. So, the wacky "flying-monkey" right wants all these babies, but they dont want to fund the SOCIAL programs to deal with all the babies that will be around when we force women in already decrepit situations, financially and socially, to have children they cant afford. Especially since they havent been taught SAFE SEX in school but been told to not have sex because the devil will make them barren or whatever right wing bull shit is being taught.

They want to save the embryos and fetuses but forsake the children that are the end result.

If these people are so anti-science, and dont want to be complicit in any RESEARCH that has taken human life, I dont expect to see them taking any prescription medications or using any medical advancement that has come as a result of human experimentation, or cellualar experimentation. After all, what's fair is fair. It's bad enough that it took their Ronald Regan having Alzheimer's to turn some of them onto the benefit of stem cell research. Yeah you know that LIVING BEINGS had to die to test that VIAGRA and VIOXX and LIPITOR and LITHIUM.

I think the only thing in real danger of dying is science. With the CHRISTO FASCIST ZOMBIE BRIGADE'S completely anti-science platform of no research and no teaching BIOLOGY, but instead teaching intelligent design, a PHILOSOPHY NOT a SCIENTIFIC theory, the only real thing that is dying is the spirit of research and experimentation. Once we fall prey to the realm of anti-progress we will slip too far behind to catch up. Because I don't think intelligent design is going to lead to as many MEDICAL and SCIENTIFIC breakthroughs as BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY, and PHYSICS.

Jes-had (gees-had)

The term jihad is well known as the Arab term for war, when it actually means struggles more of a spiritual nature. It has been misconstrued by Radical Muslims and ignorant Americans to mean war or a fight against something physical. What's not a well known term is a Jeshad, or the Christian Jihad. The Christian struggle against outside influences to stay true for their religion. Because these are people so doubtful and insecure of their own religious beliefs that they have to create a world in which it is safe for them to live without any temptation.
An example of a Jeshad would be the boycott of Disney by those kooky Christians because of their Gay Day. Jeshads are meant to bring to bear the full might of the radical wing of Christianity to bring war, usually economical, to any business that does things like support equal rights. Another example, and very recent, is the American Family Associations boycott of Ford for donating 1000 dollars to Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Discrimination for every Jaguar or Land Rover purchased by a homosexual. These people boycott on the premise that these corporations are destroying "traditional" American values. I hate to say this, but I think I agree with them, these corporations like Ford are destroying a traditional American value like DISCRIMINATION. I mean we always have to someone to ostracize and discriminate against in America. I mean what would America have been without the Natives, the slaves, the Irish immigrants, the Japanese, the Chinese, again the Blacks, Mexicans, and now Arabs and Homosexuals for the White Anglo Saxon Protestant right wing fascist xenophobes to stir irrational fear around.
Jeshads also work in politics. It's sort of the combination of the Muslim Jihad and Fatwah all in one.
The leaders of the "Christo-Fascist Zombie Brigade" will occasionally give out the orders for a Jeshad and usually have a new one every week. Now when I think about the people who sign these petitions I think of two types of people 1) really old people who lose all their money to tele evangelists to heal people by slapping them on the forehead, and 2) And weird redneck dumbasses insecure with their own sexuality who also lose all their money to tele evangelists and have a great number of weapons and guns to make up for shortcomings in certain nether regions, and are usually guys who claim to be talking to Jesus on their 15th child's baby monitor.

Jeshads have been put on politicians. For instance, after the recent Senate "compromise" that allowed three ACTIVIST hack judges into the federal court system, Dr. James "I Love Fascist Theocracy" Dobson was telling the Repugs to kiss their bids for office in the future goodbye. Because "they," the Christo Fascist Zombie Brigade, were disappointed that they did not have total control of everything. Their ultimate goal through use of the Jeshad is to turn America into a Corporate Fascist Theocracy based on the misguided "followers" interpretations of the King James or NIV Books of Fables and Fairy Tales.

They are the same exact thing as the Jihadists in the Muslim world except in America they are "Christian" so they should be called Jeshadists.

One of 4 letters I received anonymously on my car. I liked this one because it was handwritten and signed "concerned officerS" 

My "numerous" bumper stickers; these are mild compared to the ones I had on in college. 

Having been in student council in high school, a delegate to Hoosier Boy's State, and the president of the Thespian Society I knew a little about Roberts Rules of Order but I didnt know how they pertained to the Senate. This article on Buzzflash.com does a good job of explaining those rules and how the "nuclear" or "constitutional" option is actually very despotic and tyrannical. Who would expect anything less from the party that "loves freedom," in "newspeek" anyway?

"Parliamentary procedure is the Senate’s “rule of law.” Without that, there would be a tyranny of the majority and potential chaos, much the same as we see in the societies we are now trying to “civilize” who have not had a rule of law guiding their procedures. Saddam Hussein’s Iraq had laws, but he could change them whenever he wanted. That is a dictatorship."

-----Anita Rufus is a 2004 graduate of California Western School of Law, a Constitutional rights activist, and former Congressional candidate (44th C.D. 1996).-----

As if there isn't enough to worry about...

So, I've got friends in Iraq, buddies that have been, and I am going in the near future. As if there arent enough troubles and concerns in the middle of this chaotic war now soldiers are being charged with MURDER in the middle of a WAR zone. We have people outraged that Muslims are being unjustly put in prison, but nothing is said about soldiers and Marines being put on trial for doing the job they are trained to do.
I am not saying Iraq should be a free-for-all for American soldiers, which by all accounts it is as wel as the corporations, but now before I save my life or the life of my soldier by flipping my selector switch from safe to semi I am actually making the decision between living and going to prison or dying. I actually think that it is a shame that we have pulled out of all the World Courts because they wouldnt waste their time arguing the legality of every Iraqi shot by an American, but the legality of PREVENTIVE war in general.

A Castle on the Rhein River. There's about 2 or 3 dozen of them. 

The Best Wine Ever. Ressling Eiswine from Stefans Wine Shop in St. Goar Germany. Won the Rheinland-Pfalz and German Gold Ribbons. Runs about $80 for .375 Litres. But excellent stuff. It's as sweet as a piece of pie. People actually use it as a drinkable dessert. 

My always Beautiful wife and Son Hunter Paine Byrne at a Restaurant in Rudesheim Germany on the Rhein River. Completely by accident is where the Asbach Uralt store is. 

Vomitoriums and orgies???

I guess ideals are really just things to think about. You dont really have to have any intention of acting on them or inacting them, you just have to say you have the ideas and that's good enough.
I have recently been reading my favorite author and propagandist Thomas Paine, and it just really upsets me. That our country, a country built on so many lofty ideals, promises, and creeds will never be able to live up to them. At least not anytime in the near future. As our civil liberties are carefully eroded, and the rights of the minorities squashed for the stampeding agenda of the vulgar bully false majority we move farther away from the dreams of freedom. I would hate to have to look Paine, Jefferson, Washington, or Adams in the eye to describe what is going on today. How we did not heed their wisdom, how their ideas are butchered, misintrpeted, or ignored to suit the needs of the power hungry ruling elite. How they fought to toss the despot from this land, only for despots and dynasties to return in the form of rich well connected corporations and families. I do not have the courage they had. I do not posess their intelligence, but I do posess their love of freedom, enlightenment, and love of the ideals my country represents, and the love of my country. No people ever to live again will create anything as moving, motivating, or important as what those brave men sacrificed to create. Bless the Founding Fathers. Every man who signed the Declaration of Independence and ratified the Constitution. It almost makes me believe there had to be a higher being to create something so great as those documents and this country...ALMOST.

Onward Christian soldier...

CNN) -- Police have arrested the pastor of a defunct church in Ponchatoula, Louisiana, his wife and six former congregants in a sexual abuse case involving as many as 24 children, authorities said.e case may involve 24 children.
What is with the right wing? Maybe if they didnt repress their sexuality like they lived in the Victorian Era this wouldnt be a problem. But no, we must live by the King JameS Book of Heresay Fairy Tales and Fables.

Oh no they didnt!!!

From the administration that brought you a war built "on a pack of lies," comes Newsweek-gate. We have Scott McClelland, the mouthpiece for the administration that's "Worse than Watergate" (according to ex-Nixon officials) lecturing reporters on good journalism. All this stems from a supposed lapse of source from Newsweek on their Koran toilet story that has been reported since 2003, but supposedly caused riots in Afghanistan that killed 15 people, but according to the top brass ON THE GROUND was caused by the political turmoil and had nothing to do with it.
The administration that used secret source "Curveball" and convicted criminal Chalabi to collect lies to FEAR people into a war is now lecturing the press on using secret sources. This is all a diversion tactic. Maybe the fact that we've invaded two muslim coutries has something to do with why the Muslim world is mad at us. But no everything is newsweeks fault. And now another diversion the grenade in Tbilsi was live what is this the third change to the story and just when the world is about to come falling down around this administration. I dont think Rove has enough diversionary stories to cover all their lies that are coming to bare right now.

Ha Ha suckers....the Bush CHeney NeoCon death Cult and their Christo fascist zombi brigade is about to fall and hard...

Damn you NewsWeek

THAT DAMN NEWSWEEK
In the mid-nineties, NEWSWEEK formed the Project for a New American Century that formulated a policy of U.S. global dominance based on an American invasion of Iraq.
Once in power, NEWSWEEK failed to pick up on the intelligence that warned of the 9-11 attacks. Subsequent to 9-11, NEWSWEEK cooked the intelligence on Iraq that linked it to 9-11 and falsely verified its active weapons of mass destruction.
NEWSWEEK ignored the advice of senior military advisers who warned that more troops would be needed to curb a post-hostilities insurgency, and denied that an major insurgency was in progress when it was clear that one already was.
NEWSWEEK was singularly responsible for the lack of sufficient body and vehicle armor in the Iraq war, and for the pathetically slow response in supplying it once the shortfall was identified.
NEWSWEEK wrote the Justice Department memorandums that led to the prisoner abuses at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, and led to the practice of "extraordinary rendition."
Exhibiting shameless hubris throughout its tenure, NEWSWEEK claimed that it never made a mistake because God was telling it what to do.
Courtesy Jeff Huber, at Pen and Sword.

British "intelligence"

After two weeks the Bush Reich has come up with an attack plan for the "Downing Street Memo." Man these guys are slipping. I guess the Soc Sec Bamboozapalooza took alot of time and energy from the all spin team. The Reich is saying the memo is all wrong, and the planning for the Iraq war was completely open. OK those in power say it's wrong so it must be so. Except, when questions are raised about the "intelligence" leading to the Iraq War the Reich points their finger at the British saying hey we got our intelligence from them. So, their intelligence is good enough to start a war but not to refute it. Make up your mind Bush Reich...can we use British intelligence or not??? Can we trust them? Now you're saying they're all fucked up, but they weren't before. Well we must go with the current party line, I guess. Because dissent to 'the party' is treason, and you will be reported.
And of course every red state idiot is just going to say this is another assault on the Jesus Reich by the Liberal Media, which exists only in the paranoid mind of those who wish to control you. There is no liberal media, but that's a different topic for a different time.

Pictures Because I dont feel like writing...I just had a baby...well not me my wife had it. 

Fuck!!! "You wont like me when I'm angry."

Okay so now we have a memo demonstrating the FACT that Bush and Blair plotted to fix the facts to create a war with Iraq. Where is the fucking outrage? This is at the least conspiracy worthy of impeachment and maybe even conspiracy worthy of TREASON!!! He was cooperating with other intelligence agencies to fix the facts to create a war. Why? Who the fuck really knows? I sure as hell dont. Jesus Christ would you braindead, red state, party line, fascist, fucktards (my new favorite word) wake up long enough to realize you have been fucking duped by a man that has his own agenda and will do whatever it takes to insure its implementation. He lied, he lied, he lied and people died, and died, and are still dying and you dont care. You are apathetic and ignorant and you are stupid enough to believe everything the people in power tell you to believe, when this country was CREATED on the back of DISSENT. Dissent that I might add is squashed at every turn and event by this administration and party. I guess it's not your fault I mean afterall how many major news outlets have covered this story. It's not even a story it's a GODDAMN indictment of this administrations sleazy slimy ways and it is IGNORED. I guess since he didnt get a goddamn blowjob, or headjob while he was LYING it really isnt that big of a deal to the moral authority republicans.
This is enough for a revolution. Our forefathers would ask us what the hell we are doing sitting on our duffs while these people, hungry with power, continue to destroy and undermine our democracy? Well how fucking long? Do we still have to the RIGHT to protest and and ask for a redress of grievances? This is a huge fucking grievance...and someone better get on it.
Anger building...rage is growing...

Fucking Retards or Cheerio Fucktards!!!

Labour Party Reelected...
This just goes to show the British are just as big fucktards as the US. Now you have absolutely nothing to hold over us. And it's not a fucking Mandate you lying snakeshit eating foreskin on the prick of a toad.

Obnoxious Evangelical Christians???

Air Force Academy Rocked by Religious Scandal.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/03/airforce.religion/index.html
Apparently a bunch of Evangelical Christians at the AF Academy have been intolerant towards other religions. Noooo, certainly not level headed Evangelical Christians that we all know and love. They certainly wouldnt violate the Constitution to suit their agenda, we dont see that happening everyday.
CHRISTO-FASCIST ZOMBIE BRIGADE MORONS...