01.30.06
Posted in Poli-tricks, View points, Stop the f--king madness! at 10:12 am by daMan
we went into the middle east to "spread democracy", didn’t we?
our soldiers are dying every day to ensure that Iraqis can elect their own government, right? that’s the "noble cause" they risk their lives daily for, right?
so why is it that when the palestinians exercise this right, this noble cause, this great freedom, the first response of the "white" world is to question the judgment of the people themselves, then threaten to cut off all relations…. because they take issue (perhaps with good reason) with the people’s choice….
but that’s too fuckin’ bad, folks!!! if it’s really democracy, and not the chicken-shit "yes’m boss" crap that passes for "free elections" in Iraq, then the people elect who they want, and if you don’t like it, it’s too damned bad.
it’s their country. oh wait — they don’t have a country yet…. but that’s something else again…
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01.28.06
Posted in View points, Stop the f--king madness! at 3:43 am by daMan
last thursday, author James Frey got, well…. fried on live television for falsifying aspects of his memoir "A Million Little Pieces"…
Oprah was livid… the crowd was downright hostile… apparently, ameriKKKa does not suffer fools lightly, and has little tolerance for misrepresentation of the truth…. unless, it seems, it leads to war, or affects civil liberties….
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01.26.06
Posted in Poli-tricks, ...ism schisms at 11:47 pm by daMan
it was, admittedly, a "Hobson’s choice": side with Israel’s impulse to forbid elections in the Jerusalem, and risk derailing the "peace process"… or allow elections, even though it meant allowing Hamas to participate…
in the end, elections were allowed; spreading democracy in the Islamic world is, after all, is the reason finally settled upon as justification for ameriKKKan intervention in Iraq, so to have opposed democracy in Palestine would have called the entire Iraq intervention into question…
the gamble was that Hamas’ participation would be a calculated risk… well, now you see why i don’t gamble. NOBODY, not even Hamas, expected them to WIN…
but they did, and as the results roll in, none of the parties involved have a clue what the future will hold:
- Isreal does not trust Hamas as far as they could throw an F-16, and with good reason: this is a group that, even after the elections, maintains that the destruction of Israel is among their fundamental principles
- the current U.S. regime is between a rock, a hard place, and a sticky wicket: on the one hand, a substantial contribution to mid-east peace would be its legacy, outliving and outweighing any results in Iraq; on the other hand, there’s no way it can support Hamas as it is currently known, even if they are the legitimate leaders of the Palestinian territories; on the third hand, if the U.S. makes good of its threat to withhold the half-billion dollars of support to the Palestinians, this could contribute more to the destabilization of Israeli-Palestinian peace than any other factor
- Hamas will find that its one thing to shoot rockets and set off bombs, and something else again to function as political leaders. Despite all their "Israel must die" rhetoric, Israel must also be paid to keep electricity and fresh water flowing in the territories
much is made of the fact that Israel will not deal with terrorist, with very little mention of the fact that, from the Palestinian’s perspective, they are an occupied people, and see their violence not as terrorism, but resistance.
this is not to justify the excesses of Hamas’ brutality, but simply to point out that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter… as plausible as it is for Israel to portray itself as the victim, it belies the fact that, prior to the formation of Israel in 1948, some of their greatest heroes were considered terrorists by the same nations which are now their staunchest allies…
given enough time, all sides change… each July 4th, we celebrate our victory over England, now our #1 lackey ally… the Soviet Union Russia, the very reason we became the nuclear power we are today, is now an ally as well… so, who knows what the future may hold?
judging from the past, a gambling man would not bet on these results improving the mid-east situation, but one can always hope…
G*d only knows… let’s hope G*d knows something good, and decides to share the news sometime soon…
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01.25.06
Posted in View points, Stop the f--king madness! at 10:58 pm by daMan
…why is Osama Bin Laden still alive???
Bush said he wanted OBL "dead or alive"… Cheney said he’d willingly accept OBL’s "head on a platter"…. to refresh the memory of those of you just waking up, the whole justification for this "war on terrorism" was:
9/11 -> Al Qaeda -> Afghanistan invasion to destroy Al Qaeda and capture/kill OBL
yet, almost five years later, he’s allegedly still alive and well, and broadcasting press releases on TV….
tempting as it may be, i’m not going to speculate about why this so-called "world’s most dangerous terrorist" is allowed to chill out in an allied country and increase recruiting… although i suspect that our killing innocents who are supposed to be on our side isn’t helping our cause there….
no; i’ll end where i began — wondering why the only time we hear about OBL, is when he serves as a convenient jolt to scare the ameriKKKan citizenry into submission…. notice that even now, as Tweedle-D.C. offers him up as justification for this open ended "war on terrorism", there’s no mention of the fact that Osama, not Saddam, was the original target of this war
…if we can’t catch this one bastard, how confident should we be that we’ll accomplish any of our "wartime" objectives…???
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01.24.06
Posted in Poli-tricks, Stop the f--king madness! at 11:59 pm by daMan
how’s this for "Through the Looking Glass"?: now the story is that, if the pResident had the power to illegally wiretap U.S. citizens before the tragic events of the fall of 2001, he might have prevented it…
waitaminit? didn’t Condoleeza Rice state, famously, that "noone could have imagined" the event’s of 9/11:
"I don’t think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon — that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile." - Condoleeza Rice, 16 May 2002 press conference
this, despite a Presidential Daily Briefing which stated:
We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a [text redacted ] service in 1998 saying that Bin Ladin wanted to hijack a US aircraft to gain the release of "Blind Shaykh" ‘Umar ‘Abd al-Rahman and other US-held extremists.
Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of Federal buildings in New York. - Presidential Daily Briefing, August 6th, 2001
the question remaining is this: if all this was not enough to have foreseen "9/11", then what good would encroaching upon our civil liberties do?
keep us safe, i suppose — like Rigoberto Alpizar….
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01.23.06
Posted in View points, Stop the f--king madness! at 2:12 pm by daMan
Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer Jr. covered Iraqi Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush’s head with a sleeping bag… sat on his chest until the man suffocated… but was only convicted of negligent homicide…
In an e-mail to a commander, [prosecutor Maj. Tiernan] Dolan said, Welshofer wrote that restrictions on interrogation techniques were impeding the Army’s ability to gather intelligence. Welshofer wrote that authorized techniques came from Cold War-era doctrine that did not apply in Iraq, Dolan said.
"Our enemy understands force, not psychological mind games," Dolan quoted from Welshofer’s message. Dolan said an officer responded by telling Welshofer to "take a deep breath and remember who we are."
negligent? …seems to me, you gotta be paying attention to sit on somebody, and hear them struggle for breath ’til they breathe their last… and, explain something to me: how is suffocation supposed to be an interrogation technique?
ameriKKKan justice, two K point six…
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01.22.06
Posted in ...ism schisms, View points, Stop the f--king madness! at 11:48 pm by daMan
has the heat affected their brains: what is up with these fuckwits in the "Middle East"???
so what comes next? Iran, encouraged by the fact that the U.S. is stretched too thin to even consider a militrary response, continues not only to develop it’s nuclear program (which is, quite honestly, its own business to do if it so pleases) but poppin’ smack about Israel, which is just plain stoopid on a variety of fronts…
…Israel, never known to back down from a fight, considers a pre-emptive strike thinking, foolishly, that this will be a replay of Iraq 1981
it won’t be. unlike the ‘81 sneak attack, Iran is ready, and damned near daring Israel or anyone else to attack or invade… the United States, thanks to the hubris and overreaching of the past few years, has lost it’s most valuable bargaining chip: the credible threat of overwhelming military response…
Iran is revealing that it has been paying attention to current events, particularly those of it’s neighbor to the east: unless you’re prepared to defend yourself, the U.S. will do whatever it wants to… Israel has learned as well: as long as you say "war on terrorism", anything goes…
if this war of words heats up, we may end up with only ourselves to blame; both World Wars started over much less than this…
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01.21.06
Posted in Poli-tricks, Stop the f--king madness! at 9:29 am by daMan
so — NSA eavesdropping isn’t enough: now, the lunatics in Tweedle-D.C. want the power to sift thru the entire fucking Internet, without prior cause, much less probable cause…
the excuse for this latest sideways assault on our civil liberties is, as always, everybody’s favorite old saw "saving the kiddies from pornography"… the guv’mint asked all the major search engines, ostensibly in support of an appeal of the Child Online Protection Act, to submit a week’s worth of, basically, everything everyone’s searched for…
it’s for our own good. to protect the children. no personal information will be divulged. the typical scare-tactic bullshit that passes for justification these days…
"People took a long time to get accustomed to using the Internet for shopping and other activities like researching movies. If they feel Big Brother is watching them, they will be concerned." - Mukul Krishna, analyst with Frost & Sullivan.
Yahoo! caved, as did MSN and AOL. Search engine leader Google has, thus far, politely but firmly said no… so predictably, their stock price fell immediately, and some even question their patriotism…
so far, Google stands alone, vowing not only to resist, but to resist vigorously, this egregious encroachment upon our civil liberties delivered in fluent Tweedle-D.C. doublespeak… well, they’ve got the money to take on the guv’mint lawyers… and perhaps this stance shouldn’t surprise us, coming from a company whose motto is "Do no evil"…
words to live by…
"If you are doing research on breast cancer and you put in the key word
‘breast’ do you end up on someone’s list? I hope Google resists the
subpoena." - New York City Councilwoman Gale Brewer (D-Manhattan), chairperson, Council’s Select Committee on Technology in Government.
they’re your rights… are they worth fighting for?
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01.16.06
Posted in ...ism schisms, View points at 12:58 pm by daMan
no references, no punchlines… just a few straight-up questions that i’d seriously like some answers to:
- just who exactly are "the terrorists"? and how, precisely, will we determine when/whether we’ve "beaten them"?
- which is more important — what we intended to do, or what we ended up doing?
- are we represented, or ruled, by those in
Tweedl Washington? - how many innocents, foreign and domestic, is it "acceptable" to kill in pursuit of a phantom enemy?
if you’re paying attention out there — and assuming you actually
give a fuck — let me know….
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01.15.06
Posted in Poli-tricks, Stop the f--king madness! at 3:30 pm by daMan
it has to be said: ameriKKKa is engaged in a war without end because, before the fall of 2001, we arrogantly presumed nobody would dare attack us on our own soil… but somebody did, and we’re still pissed!
- why else do we pretend that we are now facing the greatest threat to our nation? greater than the threat of nuclear war we lived under during the cold war? i don’t think so…
- why else do we allow our president to admit to us that most, if not all, of the intelligence that has us fighting in Iraq was wrong — yet use this very same war to justify the near martial law he has imposed domestically in the interest of protecting us against… what — the next Iraq???
- why else do we have our military spread so thin in misguided "war on terror" that North Korea boldly calls us on our ‘regime change‘ claims, and Iran feels free to kick-start its nuclear ambitions without fear of reprisal??
hey — i was five blocks away when the first tower went down, so i don’t need any flag-waving war stumpers raping the corpse of September 11th, 2001 to justify what amounts to an international temper tantrum… as citizens, it’s about time we take our thumbs out of our mouths, and from up our asses as well…
do we face threats at every turn? who doesn’t? it’s a dangerous world… but let’s stop pretending that the tragic events of four years ago give us, the world’s greatest military power, permanent carte blanche to bitch-slap the world as we please, because we’re frightened…
can we honestly pretend that we are more threatened than any nation on the planet that fears it may suffer Iraq’s fate, based on motives as vague, and justifications as fabricated? we fear a lunatic with a chest full of semtex; they fear cruise missles, and possible atomic devastation, for reason we will later regret were indeed unfounded…
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