The Great French Philosopher Voltaire once observed “ It is dangerous to be right when your Government is wrong”. I am afraid that observation comes very close to the political climate of the United States in this day and time.

Voltaire made that observation after he had been exiled to a penal colony Island by the King of France who didn’t take more harsh action because Voltaire was loved by the public who agreed with his writings that the King was a despot. Continue reading →

No one lives in a vacuum. What we do as a society always affects others. It is inevitable. And following that thought, aren’t we the product of those who preceded us? So are we victims of the past or heroes of the future?

The answer to that question is up to us. Continue reading →

Imagine that one day in the not to distant future you answer a knock on your door and find that the Police are there to arrest you for a crime that you haven’t committed, but someone has identified you as having the potential to commit that crime some time in the future. Sounds like 1984 Science fiction doesn’t it. But what if it was actually happening right then and there? What would you do? More appropriately, would there be anything you could do? Or are you one of those who loudly state “That could never happen here?” Continue reading →

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“It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it”

I recalled this statement while I was reading a very powerful look at the My Lai massacre that took place during the Vietnam War. The depravity of humanity gone mad is revealed in this account and one would think that we would never again commit such atrocities. But the powers that be convinced us that we should put it behind us and move on. And now it seems we have repeated the depravity again in Iraq.

Is it true that our future is shaped by what and how we react to events and realities of the present? Have we gone even deeper into depravity since My Lai? And if that is true, what did we not do that would have kept us from drifting into an open acceptance of torture and unjustified bloodletting today? If the future we get IS up to us, what failures of our past determine what we leave for our children today? Continue reading →

Recent News reports that Obama says those who actually did the physical torture of detainees cannot be tried for their crimes because they were “just following orders.” On the other hand, “those who ordered the torture cannot be tried as they only ordered it – They did not physically participate in the torture.” Therefore no one can be tried for torture. This is a perfect case of Circular Logic.

And a Carbon Copy of the Nuremberg Defense used by Nazi Torturers. Which didn’t save them. Bush, Obama, Congress, Cheney, Political Parties, people, are you listening? Continue reading →

Watching C-Span this week, I happened to take in what money Obama was proposing to spend as part of the Stimulus. One of those items was money to improve the availability of education for all who desire a better education, but can’t afford it. It reminded me of the rapid growth in cost to obtain a good education. And coupled with this proposal were two stories in the local paper the past few days concerning contributions of some college students.

It seems that the communications satellite to be put into polar orbit by India in April was designed by college students and their instructors at Madras University in India. Another newspaper story carried the information that a new method for detecting breast cancer had been developed by students and instructors at the University of Arkansas. The detection method analyzes the chemical composition of tears collected from the eyes to detect telltale indications of the breast cancer. Now that’s money well spent and knowledge and experience almost impossible for young minds to get in any other scenario. Continue reading →

The Iraqi war was brought against an innocent people who had nothing to do with 9/11, the war was unnecessary to effect regime change, it was ginned up by lies of those who sought a war to open a new profit line, and it is just one of the seven wars that was planned in the early ninety’s, to aid the American Neo-Con vision of Empire in the Middle East. FULL ARTICLE

While I was watching C-Span and CNN this afternoon covering the AIG bailout thievery, Edward Liddy, the appointed CEO of AIG said that he would not release the names of the receivers of bonuses totaling around $167 million. Liddy read some mail that suggested that those Executives who received the bonuses should be strung up with piano wire around their neck and also all the members of their family. These letter writers wanted names and addresses of the executives and even their children’s names. Continue reading →

Lisa Schneider writes at Newsvine.com:

It is time to call a spade a spade. There can be no other justification for the actions of the G.O.P. other than to say they are deliberately setting out to obstruct and incite anger en masse with what should otherwise be, at the very least, a representative voice of the people.

Lisa says it like it is. The GOP has abandoned all pretense of being American first, instead they are Party first. A cheering crowd gathered a few days ago to praise the GOP hero, Rush Limbaugh, after he admitted that his fervent hope was that Obama would fail. Continue reading →

I once wrote that Mercenary Corporations (Private Armies) are a threat to our freedoms. And they seem to be growing by leaps and bounds. Groups across the Nation are forming to stop this insane business and I would ask that you take the time to look at what is in our future if these Mercenary Corporations are not stopped. Scahill speaks of Blackwater and its move into the Intelligence business.

Embedded is a a Jeremy Scahill Video where he points out that our country is coming into peril with the spread of Private Corporate War Machines.

Watch it:

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