- Listening to: Glenn Beck
- Playing: Spider Solitaire
- Eating: Nothing
- Drinking: Diet Coke
Listen, feel free to ignore me on this at your own peril, but here is something that needs to be said: This country is headed down the road of fascism. When our president, who has no legal or Constitutional authority, can fire CEOS, GMs, and now an Inspector General, and then not even give a reason unless a bunch of people in the media (mostly non-mainstream media at that, after ignoring mass pprotests against the spending and irresponsibility and overstepping of boundaries by nationwide protests from hundreds of thousands of people multiple times during this year) and give a reason which is proven a lie and flimsy just because this Inspector General happened to be investigating a friend and supporter of President Obama, then a warning bell must be sounded. We need to rise up as a people and shout until our voices are heard. And if you're not willing to do it, fine, but do not say you were not warned. I have tried my best to warn people via the Internet about all this, but the time for people to wake up is now, and it is not my decision, but theirs, that will effect the history of this country in the longrun. So there you have it. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, look some of these things up on Google. And if you need to be reminded of what the Constitution says, google "Consource". You get everything available for free there. I feel like no one is paying attention. So if no one does, fine. But I will not stop until this country is either free again or until I am penalized for exercising what is a guaranteed right by our Constitution. While our government tramples on our rights and tries to convince people that they are entitled to this or that without working for it or that they've been held down under an unfair system (complete BS), I demand that the government back out of the private sector and stop intruding on our privacy and basic rights and freedoms. Despite what Progressives in the government in both parties believe, the Constitution was meant as a LIMITING document to prevent this very fiasco from happening. But the Progressives think that government is somehow a living, evolving thing and they can just do what they want. To them, the Constitution is irrelevant and outdated. But it's not. It is what worked and kept us free from two hundred years or so. What has socialism ever done for anyone except repress them? How does fascism equate with human rights? And how has any of these--communism, socialism, fascism, dictatorship, totalitarianism--ever worked out for the betterment of mankind? Never. That's how many times these systems have worked to make people free and happy. Wake up, America, because if you don't, these are not going to be options: they're going to be your daily life. It's in the process of being forced (legislatively) on you right now. Congress is making sure of that. Don't believe me? Look at what happens to people when they dare to cross Obama: Joe the Plumber suddenly gets harrassed and audited, anyone like Rush Limbaugh or other conservatives get scolded publicly by the president or blamed for ridiculous things like the Holocaust Museum shooting or D.r Tiller's shooting, and finally, an Inspector General who is trying to do his job gets fired, lied about, and made out to be senile. Does this sound familiar? Should. Nazi Germany, Communist Russia under Stalin, Mussolini in Italy, and China under Mao Tsdung (and even today, China's citizens suffer from a cruel and inhuman government). How can we look the other way anymore? This government has got to be stopped! That is why I'm joining the nationwide Tea Party Protest on July 4th. What about you, fellow Americans?
It beats "Something To Be" by a massive long shot, in my opinion. I was quite impressed. More dynamic than any other work he's ever done.
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"Why won't you let anyone in?" "Because as nice as these moments are, they're evil when they're gone."--from "Ultra Violet"
As for Napolitano, I own Constitution In Exile and Constitutional Chaos. Have read the former, the latter is on a long waiting list of books for me. After I read it, I'm going to get Nation Of Sheep, which I started to read in Border's one night and enjoyed. He is a very informed man. He also is on an online Fox show called Freedom Watch, which often stars the likes of Peter Schiff (one of my favorite economimsts), Texas Representative Ron Paul and his son Rand Paul, and a few other regulars who I can't remember at the moment. Jesse Ventura has been on there too. And if there's ever a man with an opinion without the fear of expressing it, it is Ventura. He is an interesting one.
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"Why won't you let anyone in?" "Because as nice as these moments are, they're evil when they're gone."--from "Ultra Violet"
Who else would be caught saying this openly to the media:
"Give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney, and one hour and I will make him confess to the Sharon Tate murders."
He's also compared the two-party system to wrestling, whereas both showcase two sides duking it out in the open and showing much hate towards each other, but its all scripted, and behind the scenes they're best of friends.
I love Ventura, too
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"Why won't you let anyone in?" "Because as nice as these moments are, they're evil when they're gone."--from "Ultra Violet"
"Enhanced interrogation techniques" is just a legal cover, another product of the corrupt lawyer John Yoo. The one thing people forget is that Al Qaeda may fall out of the jurisdiction of the Geneva Conventions because they torture, but if we do it, by all technicality that puts us outside of the Geneva Conventions and our violation exempts us from its coverage. There is a Spanish judge who has made a name for himself for going after war criminals globally and more recent he has launched an investigation for war crimes into John Yoo. Yoo was so bad that even people within the Justice Department opposed and derided his policies and legal opinions. It works both ways in the end though.
In the end though, torture is counterproductive because it does nothing. Most people, if they were sleep deprived for days or waterboarded for a period of minutes would likely end up telling their captors what they want to hear. This is the case in places like Guantanamo Bay. We're getting people who are feeding us what we want to hear. Just like another Gitmo practice is rewarding prisoners for their information by upgrading them to better areas on the facility that offer sporting grounds and better food. Who wouldn't tell a captor what they wanted to hear to get better food and have something to do other than be locked in a jail cell with a mat and copy of the Koran (which is standard practice in Gitmo, which is pretty racist).
In the end, we're better off sticking to our intelligence field. First we need to clean up and condense. Having the NSA, FBI, CIA, DHS, and other agencies serving the same purpose is counterproductive because it leads to competition among agencies. If we condense it, the objectives would be easier, cheaper, and more achievable. The CIA is a very complex and welltrained agency. Most people don't know it. But a common saying among CIA agents is "our failures are well-documented and published, but our successes are not." I'm not a big fan of them, but it's better than engaging in practices that will just serve to provoke radical extremist groups and nations to oppose us and seek aggressive action towards us.
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