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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01.25.06
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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01.23.06
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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01.16.06
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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01.05.06
Posted in Poli-tricks, View points at 6:23 pm by daMan
i can even understand how the mixup could have occured: it’s easy to see how "only one survived" could be misheard, by a hopeful eavesdropper, as "all but one survived…
surprisingly, before the shock had worn off, there were immediate cries for an investigation… the mine’s owners apparently knew in less than an hour that 12 had died, not survived; for some reason, they took nearly three hours to correct that mistake, and many are demanding an explanation
yet, three years into a war based on information as faulty as the mega-mindfuck dealt the families of those doomed coal miners, there is no such heated insistence that the truth be revealed or and, more importantly, that those responsible for the lies be held accountable…
the more things change… happy fuckin’ new year, folks…
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12.18.05
Posted in View points, Stop the f--king madness! at 4:11 pm by daMan
last month, i asked "who mourns for Jean Charles?"…. from the events of this month, so far the answer, it seems, is noone — except maybe the family of Rigoberto Alpizar…
supposedly, words he uttered about a bomb caused a scene, and he was pursued off the plane and shot dead on the jetway… at first, to be honest, the title of this blog was "SAM - Suicide by Air Marshal"… until it occured to me that, in these times of hair-trigger responses, there are too many unasked questions…
- like, "did he really say he had a bomb?"
days after the shooting, no less a source than Forbes.com published an article in which several passengers on that ill-fated flight were interviewed… none of them heard Mr. Alpizar say anything about a bomb. they recalled his being agitated; they figured he was merely afraid of flying… none of them were really that concerned, until guns started being waved around…
…conventional wisdom has it that we’re "better safe than sorry", but are we? is Rigoberto? are you telling me that we’re no longer allowed to freak out on airplanes any more, without the risk of being shot dead by the people supposedly protecting us from terrorists???
- and, "don’t they check for bombs BEFORE YOU BOARD THE PLANE?"
the same day i found the Forbes article, a blogger posted a link to CNN footage from the airport’s security cameras showing, according to the blogger, "an agitated Rigoberto Alpizar"… he posted this link, and bade us view for ourselves what the air marshals "may have faced" on that tragic flight…
interestingly enough, in seconds :35 to :42, i noticed what noone else in all the coverage of this, appears to have picked up: Rigoberto taking off his backpack and jacket and passing them thru the X-RAY MACHINES…
what the FUCK, people???… x-ray machines at every fucking gate: don’t the Air Marshals and airport security coordinate intelligence? people with guns sit ready to summarily execute us, and they don’t even know what just happened at the goddamned security checkpoint designed to… do what? keep us safe???
- or how about, "is any of this security stuff WORKING?"
chicken little is obviously in charge of security policy now…. we’re so scared of a potential threat, that armed Air Marshals don’t even trust the security we’ve had in place for years… it’s not supposed to be possible to sneak a bomb in a fuckin’ backpack, people — so what were they thinking?
four years after the events that have triggered all this panic, hasn’t anyone considered real-time communication between the existing security infrastructure, and parties authorized to use deadly force?
in the face of the possible threat of terror, our response must be practical, coordinated, built upon what sane methods we have already implemented, and based on reason, not fear — otherwise, we’ve spent millions on tools and training, and thousands of years waiting at airport checkpoints, to accomplish nothing…
either way, "shoot first and ask questions later" is a cliche, NOT a policy.
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12.10.05
Posted in View points at 10:56 pm by daMan
Richard Pryor and Eugene McCarthy died today… Pryor was the lead story…
…don’t tell me that ain’t progress…
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11.22.05
Posted in View points at 4:34 pm by daMan
the USDA Forest Service celebrated its centennial this July 1st; Norway, suprisingly, is also only a hundred years old as well, as of October 30th.
women here in ameriKKKa, however, have another fifteen years to wait, before the centennial of their right to vote. And not because female suffrage was inadvertently overlooked, and reluctantly included after neglect and delay: women’s right to vote was taken away from them after the founding of our nation….
For a nation which purports to be schooling the world on the whole "representative government" tip, this is an indefensible admission. England, India and Israel have all had elected female heads of state — c’mon, people… India? Hardly the world center of progressive gender politics…
ameriKKKan women had only been permitted to vote for forty-six years when India elected a female prime minister, who would ultimately serve more years as PM than FDR served as President!
"Old Europe" outpaces US in this regard as well: Germany elects it’s first female chancellor, and even Liberia, not the world’s best example of effective goverment, has elected a female ruler.
yet the big news here is that "Commander in Chief", the TV show about a female POTUS, has been picked up for a full season… wow: progress…
at this rate, ameriKKKan women will celebrate the centennial of their right to vote long before they’ll get to use it to elect one of their own as President of these United States…
who knows? if we’re actually successful over there, Iraq may elect a woman leader before we do…
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