Archive for January, 2009
A letter to Obama from Cynthia McKinney
President Obama, Don’t Become Complicit in Their Crimes!
On Thursday, January 29th, I sent President Obama this message:
“Mr. President: The Bush Administration lied to the people in pursuit of war. As a result, at least one million Iraqis and thousands of U.S. soldiers are dead. Thousands more are maimed. The stature of the U.S. is severely damaged. The U.S. Constitution is in shreds after signing statements, wiretaps, and torture. Your obligation is to investigate and bring to justice those who violated U.S. and international law, such as the torture treaty. Failure to do so makes you complicit in their crimes.”
On Wednesday, January 28th, I sat in front of the television and I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. Exactly what I’ve been saying, myself. But it was coming from an unexpected source: the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Manfred Nowak. I wrote down every word. He said that the United Nations has proof that former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld knowingly approved of torture as a policy for the United States. He said that President Barack Obama has a responsibility to investigate and prosecute those who condoned, conducted, or approved of torture.
Further, Jonathan Turley, in an MSNBC interview stated that if Obama fails to investigate or prosecute that he would be an “accessory.”
This is significant. It means that all of us, sadly, were right to pursue impeachment of the key figures in the Bush Administration. Impeachment was the Constitutional imperative; but the Constitution didn’t mean anything to either the Republican or Democratic national leadership.
And to think, on this day filled with impeachment news, Nancy Pelosi took impeachment “off the table” for this cast of villainous characters. I never will forget watching Rocky Anderson, former Mayor of Salt Lake City, say on national television that Nancy Pelosi should be impeached for impeding impeachment. But Nancy Pelosi isn’t the only one who obstructed justice.
In fact, how could Dick Durbin and Harry Reid, so voluble in standing up to Roland Burris because he was Governor Blagojevich’s pick for Obama’s vacated Senate seat, sit as quiet as church mice in the face of repeated calls for impeachment because of the reckless criminality of the Bush Administration?
And now, we have the United Nations tell us the equivalent of “Houston, we have a problem.”
Some of us knew all along, from the very beginning, that the Bush Administration was the quintessence of election theft, graft, corruption, and war criminality. Some of us recognized early on that our struggle was “against principalities, against powers, . . . against spiritual wickedness in high places.” It is impossible to “go along and get along” with illegal and immoral acts. But that is exactly what the national leadership of this country asked us all to do, and that is exactly what they did.
Dr. King was confronted with the expediency of staying on the civil rights track, remaining with his friends in the civil rights movement, or doing what his conscience impelled him to do. That’s when he made his famous statement, that popular chroniclers of Dr. King seem to have forgotten:
“When I first decided to take a firm stand against the war in Vietnam, I was subjected to the most bitter criticism, by the press, by individuals, and even by some fellow civil rights leaders. There were those who said that I should stay in my place, that these two issues did not mix and I should stick with civil rights. Well I had only one answer for that and it was simply the fact that I have struggled too long and too hard now to get rid of segregation in public accommodations to end up at this point in my life segregating my moral concerns.”
Dr. King had to leave behind some of his best friends in the movement when he decided to speak out against the Vietnam War. Dr. King could have bowed to the pressure and stayed in his “civil rights” lane. But he knew that the war was wrong and he had to use every fiber in his being to stop it. Even his life, itself.
One of the first underreported acts of President Obama was to sign an order continuing the drone airstrikes, resulting in at least 22 killed so far. For the dead children of Afghanistan or Pakistan or Gaza, it doesn’t matter to their parents if the bomb was dropped by Bush or Obama or the client state they support. And President Obama has made it clear that the bombs will continue to drop; it is up to us–the people of the United States–to stop them. That’s why it was on my birthday, in front of the Pentagon in 2007, that I declared my independence from every bomb dropped, every child killed, every veteran maimed in the name of U.S. wars. I said it, and I meant it, and I knew I was going to have to do something I’d never done before if I was ever going to have something I’d never had before. So I left the Democratic Party.
I don’t regret my decision one minute. I draw my strength from Dr. King, who in his own way, did the same thing when he refused to segregate his moral concerns.
My neighborhood in Los Angeles, Watts and South Central, is already a police state. Tonight, 25 to 30 young black men, standing handcuffed, outside the barber shop. Every night, routine dehumanization is carried out in black and brown neighborhoods by LAPD. I see it. I never miss it. It’s all around me.
Oscar Grant murdered in cold blood by law enforcement. Robert Tolan, murdered in cold blood by law enforcement, for driving his father’s car, mistaken for stolen.
Filiberto Ojeda Rios assassinated by the U.S. government; I met his wife and heard the entire story of what happened as he was shot by the FBI and then bled to death.
Innocent black and brown and poor white men on death row. How many Troy Davises and Mumia Abu Jamals will we allow to exist in our country?
Native Americans trying to survive despite genocide and ethnic cleansing, struggle against drug and alcohol abuse and poverty, and try to keep their culture alive.
And yet the likes of Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, Nancy Pelosi, and now Barack Obama say nothing about the pain I see on the mean streets and reservations across our country, and the miscarriages of justice that are its regular feature, but they allow Bush and company to get away with the highest of crimes, involving millions of deaths.
In each of these writings, I ask you, too, to write to the White House and let them know that you exist. We didn’t recruit President Obama to run, so I am clear on the limitations of a White House letter writing campaign. But trust me, our collective efforts will congeal into the movement for dignity, real peace, and true justice that we so desperately need for ourselves and the rest of the world.
Add comment January 30, 2009
THE STIMULUS PACKAGE EXPLAINED
This year, taxpayers will receive an Economic Stimulus Payment.
This is a very exciting new program that I will explain using the Q
and A format:
Q. What is an Economic Stimulus Payment?
A. It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers.
Q. Where will the government get this money?
A. From taxpayers.
Q. So the government is giving me back my own money?
A. Only a smidgen.
Q. What is the purpose of this payment?
A. The plan is that you will use the money to purchase a
high-definition TV set, thus stimulating the economy.
Q. But isn’t that stimulating the economy of China ?
A. Shut up.
Below is some helpful advice on how to best help the US economy by
spending your stimulus check wisely:
If you spend that money at Wal-Mart, all the money will go to China.
If you spend it on gasoline it will go to the Arabs.
If you purchase a computer it will go to India.
If you purchase fruit and vegetables it will go to Mexico, Honduras,
and Guatemala (unless you buy organic).
If you buy a car it will go to Japan.
If you purchase useless crap it will go to Taiwan.
And none of it will help the American economy.
We need to keep that money here in America. You can keep the money in
America by spending it at yard sales, going to a baseball game, or
spend it on prostitutes, beer and wine (domestic ONLY), or tattoos,
since those are the only businesses still in the US.
Add comment January 29, 2009
One damn freedom at a time!
Sorry for the language but this is getting ridiculous!!!!
FREE COUNTRY MY ASS!?!?!?!?!?! THIS IS NOT FREEDOM and don’t give me that bullshit that I should be happy I was born here.
The police state is here! I mean…. FOR REAL…. it’s like George Orwell’s 1984! When is enough ENOUGH!?!??!?!
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that police officers have leeway to frisk a passenger in a car stopped for a traffic violation even if nothing indicates the passenger has committed a crime or is about to do so.The court on Monday unanimously overruled an Arizona appeals court that threw out evidence found during such an encounter.
The case involved a 2002 pat-down search of an Eloy, Ariz., man by an Oro Valley police officer, who found a gun and marijuana. A bag of fucking weed and a gun?!?!?!?! I thought we were still allowed to carry weapons?
The justices accepted Arizona’s argument that traffic stops are inherently dangerous for police and that pat-downs are permissible when an officer has a reasonable suspicion that the passenger may be armed and dangerous.
The pat-down is allowed if the police “harbor reasonable suspicion that a person subjected to the frisk is armed, and therefore dangerous to the safety of the police and public,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said.
The case is Arizona v. Johnson, 07-1122.
1 comment January 28, 2009
I want to move over to Pinal county, where they keep it real
Arizona County shelves speed-camera program
Lindsey Collom
The Arizona Republic
January 22, 2009
Pinal County supervisors Wednesday bid goodbye to photo enforcement.
Their vote to terminate their contract with Redflex, the company that operates the cameras, came at the recommendation of the county’s top law-enforcement official, new Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu.
“I’m against photo speed enforcement completely,” Babeu said, walking the three-member panel through a detailed PowerPoint presentation. “Here in Pinal, it’s failed miserably.”
Babeu said speed cameras created dangerous road conditions and offered little financial benefit for the county. He plans to boost traffic enforcement through additional manpower.
Although Pinal County’s contract with Redflex wasn’t set to expire until Feb. 20, two mobile speed cameras have not been in operation on Pinal roads since Babeu took office Jan. 1.
Add comment January 28, 2009
David Icke Interview
This is an extremely engaging interview. You don’t have to watch it, only listen to it. If you are going to listen to it don’t waste your time unless you listen to the interview in it’s entirely. Because it gets good at the end.
Add comment January 28, 2009
CBS 60 Minutes, Time Running Out For A Two-State Solution? Palestine, Israel (Part 1)
Add comment January 28, 2009
Dennis Kucinich States His Intention To Put The Federal Reserve Under Government Control
Add comment January 27, 2009
Excuse me, am I hearing this shit right?
Wasn’t this supposed the era of post-racialism? Robert Reich apparently didn’t get that message. In his appearance before Congress on structuring the stimulus plan on January 7th, Reich suggested that the package discriminate against white male workers:
I am concerned, as I’m sure many of you are, that these jobs not simply go to high-skilled people who are already professionals or to white male construction workers. … I have nothing against white male construction workers. I’m just saying that there are a lot of other people who have needs as well. … Criteria can be set so that the money does go to others, the long term unemployed minorities, women, people who are not necessarily construction workers or high-skilled professionals.
Basically, Reich wants Congress to create some means testing that doesn’t explicitly keep stimulus funds from paying the salaries of white males. He suggests that the lawmakers create “criteria” that will have that effect in practice without being crass enough to say, No Whites Need Apply. Congress has done this in milder form for the last few decades by mandating set-asides for women- and minority-owned businesses in government contracts, but even those don’t require the businesses to refuse to hire white male construction workers.
This sounds a lot more like a paternalistic welfare program than a real effort to improve American infrastructure. We’re building roads and bridges for all Americans, using tax money from all Americans. Everyone should have equal access to the jobs created by this stimulus plan. What Reich proposes is flat-out official racism by government, refusing to hire people on the basis of their skin color. Didn’t our last election demonstrate a rejection of that kind of thinking? And note that Reich offers the racist rationalization that he doesn’t have anything against white male construction workers. Maybe some of his best friends are white male construction workers, too.
Add comment January 27, 2009
Nancy Pelosi defends why taxpayers are now paying for abortions.
Now I would like to preface that BO did some pretty good things last week w/his EO reversals. I was sincerely impressed. However, I didn’t like that on Friday Obama lifted a ban on federal funding for international groups that promote or perform abortions.
Or Fox News for those that don’t like CNN you ol’ Silly Billys!:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/01/23/obama-lift-ban-overseas-abortion-funding/
I look at it like this, people are going to get abortions. Sorry “conservatives” it’s true. People are going to do whatever they want. However, I don’t want to pay for it. If you’re going to have careless sex or your kid is having CARELESS sex…
THEN YOU PAY FOR IT SON! I AM NOT YOUR FATHER! = )
Besides, didn’t Bush AND Barack tell us that we’re broke and on the verge of suffering “dire consequences?”
I really DON’T like her.
Add comment January 27, 2009
Alex Jones’ The Obama Deception — Coming March 15
Infowars
January 26, 2009
Alex Jones The Obama Deception will be the first hard-hitting film to expose Obama, his agenda & handlers cutting through all the media hype, side-issues and Left/Right rhetoric. Alex has made several films exposing the Bush agenda and will approach the Obama Administrations plans from the same non-partisan point of view looking past the frontman in the White House to the real owners on Wall Street, in the Bilderberg group and at the Federal Reserve.
Please help spread the word about this powerful new film. Make sure everyone you know whether they claim to be a Democrat, Republican, independent or none of the above sees this film before it is too late. The Obama Deception hits DVD on March 15
Add comment January 26, 2009
Alex Jones and KRS One
Great interview w/KRS One and AJ. What’s wild about this interview, is KRS uses my analogy of Obama to the bankers exactly as I did, even down to fast food chain! I made the analogy a few weeks ago, this aired on Friday. The only difference was Burger King over Wendys. I found it to be wildly ironic!
Part of my Epiphany:
What registered was that no matter who is in office, Barack or Bush. It simply does not matter, they can’t do shit. They are the ultimate puppet. The spokesperson so to say. Nothing more than the Dave Thomas to Wendy’s or for you basketball fans the Steve Nash to Nike. They can not end wars, bring troops home from aboard, they can’t shut down the Fed, they can’t stop bailouts, stimulus packages or the destruction of the Constitution through FISA, the Patriot Act, etc. If for a second they thought about shaking things up a bullet would be placed in there head (JFK) within weeks or they would simply be shut down from lack of funding from the Fed. The Fed is the funding of all that is the USA. Without funding comes complete chaos and without funding there would be no military to govern this chaos. That’s not to mentioning when the cut off the funding they would also ask the Gov to make good on it’s deficit that is primarily owed to the Fed (over 10+ trillion on the books – that is admitted.).
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
– Thomas Jefferson
Add comment January 25, 2009
Paul on Glenn Beck
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
— Thomas Jefferson
Add comment January 22, 2009
Glory!
Arizona Freeway Speed Camera Toppled Speed camera on Interstate 10 freeway in Arizona is knocked over mysteriously. Knocked over speed cameraOne of the dozens of the new, permanent speed cameras in use on Arizona freeways was found knocked on its side Monday on westbound Interstate 10 at 16th Street. While stuck in traffic Irwin M. Fletcher, a member of the activist group CameraFraud.com, noticed the stricken machine on the side of the freeway. He used his iPhone to document the incident before Australian camera vendor Redflex had the chance to recover its expensive ticketing hardware. “Looks as if someone got pissed off and took out some aggression on the scamera location,” Fletcher wrote. State officials have not issued a statement whether they believe the device was disabled by a deliberate attack or a hit-and-run accident. Although the speed camera in this case does not appear to have caused any direct injuries, falling photo enforcement devices have proved deadly elsewhere. In a May 2005 accident, a red light camera fell on a twenty-four-year-old woman in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The woman later died of the injuries inflicted by the camera. In May this year the camera victim’s family filed suit against Fayetteville and Dallas-based contractor Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) because they “knew or reasonably should have known that mounting a red light camera weighing approximately 300 to 600 pounds to an aluminum pole designed to ‘break away’ upon impact presented a hazard and an immediate threat of injury to drivers and passengers,” the lawsuit stated.
Add comment January 16, 2009
You simply know better this way.
Kennesaw, GA’s | Mandatory Gun Law, A Proven Success By Chuck Baldwin 11-6-99
The New American magazine reminds us that March 25th marked the 16th anniversary of Kennesaw, Georgia’s ordinance requiring heads of households (with certain exceptions) to keep at least one firearm in their homes.
The city’s population grew from around 5,000 in 1980 to 13,000 by 1996 (latest available estimate). Yet there have been only three murders: two with knives (1984 and 1987) and one with a firearm (1997).
“After the law went into effect in 1982, crime against persons plummeted 74 percent compared to 1981, and fell another 45 percent in 1983 compared to 1982. And it has stayed impressively low. In addition to nearly non-existent homicide (murders have averaged a mere 0.19 per year), the annual number of armed robberies, residential burglaries, commercial burglaries, and rapes have averaged, respectively, 1.69, 31.63, 19.75, and 2.00 through 1998.”
With all the attention that has been heaped upon the lawful possession of firearms lately, you would think that a city that requires gun ownership would be the center of a media feeding frenzy. It isn’t. The fact is I can’t remember a major media outlet even mentioning Kennesaw. Can you? The reason is obvious. Kennesaw proves that the presence of firearms actually improves safety and security. This is not the message that the media want us to hear. They want us to believe that guns are evil and are the cause of violence. The facts tell a different story.
What is even more interesting about Kennesaw is that the city’s crime rate decreased with the simple knowledge that the entire community was armed.
The bad guys didn’t force the residents to prove it. Just knowing that residents were armed prompted them to move on to easier targets. Most criminals don’t have a death wish. There have been two occasions in my own family when the presence of a handgun averted potential disaster. In both instances the gun was never aimed at a person and no shot was fired. Yet, in both cases the thugs bent on criminal mischief decided to take their ambitions elsewhere and my family remained safe. Only God knows what would have happened if a firearm had not been handy.
Yes, there are times when gun accidents occur. There are many more accidents involving automobiles, airplanes, bathroom shower stalls and backyard swimming pools, however. And let’s not forget that freedom is risky business. Freedom allows people to make mistakes recognizing that the alternative is worse.
A local newspaper columnist recently said that other nations are free without possessing firearms. He fails to see the obvious fact that people who are not free to own firearms are not free. Many people live their entire lives and never know a day of real freedom. And, while I’m sure that there are those who would choose to live without freedom, there are some of us who would rather die free than live enslaved.
Additional Info Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennesaw,_Georgia
Add comment January 14, 2009
A Rothschild vs. Obama – Interesting
A Rothschild vs. Obama – Interesting.
Add comment January 13, 2009
The Reality we are Gripping
Great video with a Dj Shadow soundtrack:
The Uniform Commercial Code plays a significant part in the theories of groups such as the Christian Patriot movement, Sovereign Citizen Movement, and the Posse Comitatus. Some believe that a secret treaty made in 1930 put the United States and other countries around the world in a state of continuing debt with the international bankers being the creditor/rulers: the makers of the currency for which everyone is forced to compete, who prefer commercial law to common law.
The newer Redemption Movement claims that the Uniform Commercial Code is now the supreme law of the land, generating perpetual debt for the citizens to the extent of necessitating poverty for the lower class while bankers remain the only source of wealth.
The Constitution Party of Pennsylvania argues that the UCC governs all human interaction in the United States, and that using the language contained in §1-207 of the UCC — such as the phrases “without prejudice” or “under protest” — protects the signer from being bound by any contract or that the use of this language means that the signer is not recognizing a government’s jurisdiction over the signer.
Add comment January 13, 2009
Some Positive News
Here are two very admirable men. This is what you call “Keeping it Real.”
Harry Mitchell, Ron Paul seek to block pay raise for Congress
U.S. Rep. Harry Mitchell is a lead sponsor of federal legislation to block congressional pay raises in 2010. Mitchell and U.S. Rep. Ron Paul argue that Congress should not be getting automatic $4,700 pay raises while the U.S. economy is in recession and consumers and various industries are hurting.
“We’re in the midst of a recession, and our elected leaders need to do the right thing,” said Mitchell, D-Ariz., in a statement. “For Congress to give itself a pay raise at a time when so many hardworking Americans are suffering is unconscionable.”
Mitchell represents Scottsdale, Tempe and Ahwatukee.
Congressional members just received a $4,700 raise bringing their salaries to $169,300 annually. They will get the automatic increase for 2009 without legislation to block it.
Mitchell and Paul, R-Texas, also opposed the 2008 increase. Why isn’t McCain, Biden or Obama’s name on this list? I thought (with the last two) we were going for CHANGE?!?!?!?!??!
Add comment January 12, 2009
