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.

When we consider our Government, it follows that we need an accurate explanation of what is meant by “ when the Government is wrong”. And that explanation might be best described by using illustrations or examples.

Of course the most disruptive and harmful conflict is one of immoral or unnecessary conflicts of choice – armies conducting invasions, killing and destroying – for profits to war Industries or for Empire building. However there are many kinds of war – war between nations, religious wars, class wars, wars against drugs, wars against terrorism, even wars between political Parties. And certainly we shouldn’t forget Husband/Wife or Parent/Child conflicts.

But the sobering realization should be that all wars could be avoided. And as you raise your voice to condemn such an absurd statement, all I ask is that you hear me out since it has been proven that the human brain does not work well when it is inundated with facts that it does not want to hear. So lets see if we can agree on something:

War must have something to initiate it. And that thing must emanate from one or both of the potential combatants. Are you with me so far? When conflict arises there is always the opportunity for one or both sides to seek common ground. If either side fails to seek that common ground, physical conflict is likely to arise. The only scenario where armed aggression arises, when one side is seeking peace, is when the other side doesn’t want peace.

The question then becomes, does one side or either side really want peace? If one side doesn’t want peace, then there will be none. But even with this scenario, there doesn’t have to be war – it starts simply because one side chooses to start one. The other side then is forced to defend itself.

Has our Government sought peace in any one of the more than fifty incursions that we have been involved in since World War II? Or were we that side that refused a chance at peace simply because we had the might to assert our will? If you think we started wars only for peace, could you give a good reason why we didn’t invade Russia in the last half of the last century? Why didn’t we invade China? Why did we invade Iraq? Why does our Government want to invade Iran? Could it be that our Government has become a warrior Nation bent on building Empire? Can an honest American claim that all these fifty plus conflicts we have entered into since WWII have been “Wars for Peace”?

Would our Government be wrong if it is correct, that we have not sought peace? Would it be dangerous to oppose such a Government? Even for the citizen of the Government? How badly things can go wrong in a war is best illustrated by the Iraqi War. Remember, the Iraqis were predicted to greet us with flowers as our invading army marched in.

Our Government un-leased a war on Iraq for no reason other than to provide a profit stream for the War Industry and to provide fertile grounds for immoral Corporations to rape the Iraqi resources. While achieving this they used Depleted Uranium (DU) tipped munitions, a volatile radioactive weapon that is spread by wind currents and causes cancers, leukemia, and grotesque birth defects, and will continue to do so for up to 4.5 Billion years. Iraq today is staggered by the high rate of simply hideous birth defects that is causing Iraqi potential mothers to have to make a choice about chance.

Historians could very likely judge this atrocity to be the most heinous crime ever committed against human beings in the history of mankind. Dave Lindorff just recently wrote about this tragedy done to mankind. I hope you read it. What are we going to do about the criminals who are even today enjoying their Blood Profits? Smart money says we will never even scold them.

And to think, this war was wanted by no one except the War Industry, the Neo-Cons of the Republican Party, and the Energy Corporations. Could this historic massacre have been avoided? Absolutely! Should we let it go unpunished? Absolutely not! If we do, what does it say about us as a people? For thousands of years after History no longer remembers George Bush and Dick Cheney, the people of a land that was once Iraq, the cradle of civilization, will still be dying and grotesque births will still be occurring because of what we allowed to transpire in Iraq in the early twenty-First Century. And it may even spread far and wide, even to the United States, a once Great Nation, now just dust in History’s past, once hailed as the Ideal of moral and ethical people, who could even then lie in still radioactive graves, the detritus of an un-necessary war.

In the past year there was serious consideration given to enacting legislation that would approve the prosecution of “Thought Crimes”, with penalties including every thing from torture to imprisonment without trial and all the atrocities done in the name of this War on Terror, but this time the legislation was for prosecution of American Citizens as well as “Terrorists” – can you think “ For Thought Crimes against the State”?

And in spite of all the evidence of the evils of DU, the United States military still uses DU all over the World, and even in the United States.

Think long and hard before you answer those questions I have posed.

The answer to that question is up to us.

We were attacked on 9/11. We reacted. Eight years later, with over a million dead, many more millions displaced, infrastructures destroyed, Billionaires made, our economy shattered, Torture accepted, Mercenary Corporate Armies empowered, a World aroused against us, and a Future threatening wars and more wars, who do we blame – those who attacked us, or should we blame ourselves for the reaction ( The War on Terror) and the carnage that has followed?

Although millions of foreign innocents have suffered, we have suffered mightily also – so who are the victims? Are we the victims, or is it those others that have suffered so much?

Did those foreign innocents do something to us to bring this carnage on themselves or are we to blame for allowing those that would profit from war to seize on an opportunity to instigate a war for profit?

Was there an avoidable event that happened prior to 9/11 that brought on that tragic morning in September and the consequences that followed? If there was such an avoidable incident what could it have been? If it could have been avoided, and we didn’t make any effort to avoid it, why did we allow it to happen? If that were true would that make us victims or perpetrators?

Wouldn’t it be beneficial to review the past and see if there was or were events that we should have paid heed to, and if we could identify those points, shouldn’t we make sure we remember what they were and examine how we addressed those impending problems in order that we might head off another 9/11?

What were the warning signs in those years before that morning, that we should have noticed, and when noticed, what should have been done? Well for one, Osama Bin Laden, a Saudi citizen, at the advent of Desert Storm, promised a declaration of war if the United States placed a Military base on Saudi soil. But at the time Bin Laden was a friend of the United States and was a freedom fighter in Afghanistan working with the United States to expel the Soviet invaders, and his transition from friend to foe could have been avoided. Unfortunately the Military wing of our Government wanted a base in Saudi Arabia and using Desert Storm, a conflict between Iraq and Kuwait, as its basis, pressured the Saudi Government into allowing a United States Military base to be placed on Saudi soil. Ben Laden then declared war on the United States.

Another warning sign was Desert Storm itself. For those who have forgotten, that war was to be between Iraq and Kuwait because of oil piracy committed by Kuwait against Iraq. But before Saddam invaded Kuwait, he asked the United States if they would intervene for Kuwait after he gave Kuwait an ultimatum to stop the piracy. The well-documented reply by the United States delivered to Saddam by U S Envoy April Glaspie was “The United States considers the argument between Iraq and Kuwait a local issue between the two and the United States would remain out of the conflict”. Saddam gave the ultimatum, Kuwait ignored it, Iraq invaded, and the United States went ballistic. And as they say, the rest is history. We should never forget that history plays itself out over many years and this episode most likely isn’t over yet, which brings me to some more happenings we shouldn’t forget – if we want to learn from history.

The Project For a New American Century outlined its proposal to promote the United States to Sole World Power in the early 90’s. One of the items of interest should be the word “Sole”. That word would indicate Empire building – The Worlds Policeman and the Worlds subjugation. Little countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, and the rest of the Middle East shouldn’t be a problem, we can run over any one of them easily or any two or three, but there are some other strong Military powers on this earth, and embarking on subjugating them might be quite risky. One thing for sure is that “There will be blood” when the attempt starts. And blood is the fertilizer for the War Industry Profit garden.

Our Foreign Policy of conquest and domination of the Worlds resources can take us to the goal of Empire, but it can also take us to defeat and our own eventual demise. It is risky business for you and me, but is it risky for those who would initiate wars of conquest? The most dominant of the World’s organizations is the Financial sector. Wars don’t start without their funding and like several of the Nazi Financial and Industrial Corporations, they survived WWII and their Upper Management just moved into the winning Country, the United States, absorbed by U S Companies who were in partners with those Nazi Corporations before and during the War.

Every time you buy medicine or aspirins just remember Bayer is a name now identifying the German Industrial War Giant I. G. Farben, who’s business management were allowed to skip Nuremberg and go directly to work in the U. S. That’s what happened to the elite.
For regular people like you and me, somewhat over a hundred million died. But some U S Companies like say Ford, continued to supply German war needs, even after the war was ongoing. We didn’t do anything to them and they found that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, or should I say the World’s financial and War Industry Corporations came out of it better than they went in. That’s called profit.

So whether we know it or not, what we do, or don’t do, will affect the future and the future inhabitants of the world.

What we can do, and what we must do, is always punish criminals even if they are our leaders. Today’s Political Parties work our populace into a frenzy opposing the other Party. They keep us divided so that we are easy prey for their criminal activities.

Any party that advocates fear of the future instead of a mutual solution to problems is not worthy of our votes. How we use those votes will determine the shape of the future.

Would it surprise you to know that this very concept has been seriously proposed in our government both under the Bush administration and now under the Obama hypocrisy? Bush advocated seining the Internet for “thought” that could be considered criminal and formulated a plan to subject those potential criminals to imprisonment to “prevent the thought from becoming reality”. The Obama White House is now contemplating similar action.

HR 1955, the “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Act” was introduced and actually passed the House, but thank God it never passed the Senate. It was placed into committee and any statement of its death would be premature. It can still be brought back so we must remain vigilant about this Bill. It would have stripped citizens of their rights and specifically targeted the Internet for investigative scrutiny. The Internet part of the plan was to form a Group that would search the Internet for thought patterns that could be construed as a “potential terrorist” violation of HR 1955. A Terrorist could be a “Homegrown” citizen of the United States or anyone in the world and such a violator could be deemed “an enemy of America”, by the President and would be subject to clandestine arrest and placed into a prison indefinitely, with no access to rights such as Habeas Corpus, or even notice to next of kin. They could simply disappear, forever.

Obama in a recent speech called for laws that would allow for “preventative detention”. He said he was working on a means to imprison people for crimes that they might commit sometime in the future, legislation he said that would be a legitimate, legal framework for this imprisonment. This Preventative Imprisonment would be open ended, that is, a person could be imprisoned forever, very similar to what was proposed in HR 1955.

Preventative Imprisonment may be a new concept for most Americans but rest assured it is not the last time we will hear those two words discussed. It seems that President Obama has signed a Presidential Directive to put in place such a plan. What does this mean?

Preventative incarceration as suggested by Obama is a means to prevent the happening of some crime or illegal activity by means of imprisoning a person or persons before they have the opportunity to commit that crime or illegal activity. The upshot is that a person who has not committed a crime but has been identified as dissident may be placed in prison indefinitely to keep him or her from committing some future crime against the State. Please take a pencil and a piece of paper and list everything you can think of that could be construed as “Illegal Activity”. And let yourself add to that list anything that you as President could decree to mean “Illegal Activity”. You now have a list of things that could be used to quell dissent about illegal Government actions. And you have a list of “ thought crimes” that could be used to imprison an innocent person, forever.

But you say “We need protection from our enemies”. And in answer I will refer you to a very popular National Leader who once told his adoring citizens that if they would give him special powers not allowed by their Constitution, he would be able to protect them from the Country’s enemies. So the electorate gave Adolph Hitler what he asked for.

One day the German Citizens woke to discover, they were the enemies of the State as long as they remained free to disagree with its directives and policies. Dissent was no longer an option because to do so would subject them to clandestine arrest and indefinite imprisonment. They could and many did, simply disappear forever. Call it Preventative Imprisonment.

Our hold on our freedoms is as strong as our resolve to keep them. We need to remain vigilant in protecting our Constitution and Rule of Law. We are slowly sliding down a slippery slope to becoming servants of the State. And all the while the State is evolving into an incestuous marriage between Special Interests and Corporatism. We are looking at our descendants living in a Rollerball Society if we don’t reverse this trend. What are you willing to do about it?

Featured Post for 05-/22-05/28:

“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?

Please take a read.

http://rwor.org/a/027/vietnam-destroy-village.htm.

The above link is a very descriptive anti-war piece about Vietnam. You might also notice that it is reflective of the Iraqi and Afghan wars of today. The parallel left me to doubt about our children’s future, but then I realized that we can set the tone of morality and ethical behavior, all we need to do to is reach out and do what is necessary to become what we want to be.

What is it we want the future to be? If we know that, and if we know what was failed to be done in the past, that caused our today, then we should know what must be done to set the tone for the future of our Country.

So why not look at Vietnam and see what it is that we have failed to learn from My Lai? Discover what would have prevented us accepting torture and massacre of innocents in Iraq and Afghanistan. I think we ignored red warning flags in the run up to Vietnam and then we failed to prosecute War Criminals for their crimes after that war.

Consider these red flags from that sorrowful episode in our history: (1) The Lie about the Gulf of Tonkin that was used as a justification to invade Vietnam. Shouldn’t we have learned to deeply question our Government when it is promoting a preventative War?

Then we let President Johnson off the hook when the Gulf of Tonkin was exposed as a lie. And remember the justification using the fear that “If we ignore the Communists in Vietnam, the rest of the Far East Countries will fall to the communists like Dominoes”?

Isn’t this rationale much like the fear of the Saddam “Mushroom Cloud” sprung on us by the Bush Administration? Just compare the Vietnam “Domino Theory” to “Weapons of Mass Destruction” about Iraq.

Consider another Vietnam War red flag (2) “Those people are Godless people who want to overrun the world and it would be better to fight them over there instead of over here”. Really, isn’t this the same chant heard about Iraq today with only the name of the people, Countries, and cultures changed?

Isn’t the prelude to any war propaganda to demonize the people? Would either the Vietnamese or the Iraqis have the capacity to “take over the world”?

And (3) the red flag of questioning the patriotism of the American Citizens who oppose the war, by stating that to support our soldiers we must support the war: Look at the phrase “Support the Troops” and the implication by the war mongers that if you don’t support the war, you don’t support the troops. Does it not sound familiar?

It was also used during the Vietnam War. We must learn to be aware of these red flags when we start hearing why we should start a preventative war of self-defense, against a Country or people who are not doing anything to us. So isn’t this what we should have done before we invaded Iraq, to keep us from repeating the mistake of Vietnam?

Lt. Calley, the leader of the My Lai massacre served all of two days in jail for his crimes. And he spent only three years under house arrest (was free to leave the house and roam about town as long as he was accompanied by his keepers).

After the house arrest Calley went on to rake in a fortune as a speaker to Right Wing groups especially the Religious Right. You know who the Religious Right is – those Bible thumping, God fearing, Ten Commandments, Good Samaritan, clean Moral living people, who support the most immoral, most vile, most ungodly Administration in history, the Republican Bush bunch, yes that’s the good people I’m talking about, the core of the Republican Party.

We must learn to be careful in how we use our vote.

Those Vietnamese who were massacred at My Lai and those killed in Iraq including those tortured to death, are still dead. And Calley was the only My Lai soldier convicted while no one who authorized torture after 9/11 has even been charged. Is there any wonder that people around the world hate us?

And would you agree that the hate is with good reason? What have the many “Police Actions” since World War II (over 50 to date) gained us if not hate? They were called police actions because our Constitution proscribes to Congress only, the ability to declare war. And yet not one single one of those military events since WWII has been a declared war, as the Constitution allows, not this Iraq War, and not the Afghan War, currently being escalated by Obama.

Because of the Constitutional requirement that Congress only can declare war, the Executive has usurped a “right” from the Constitution, of wartime powers, therefore many things now are called “wars”. We must learn to hold accountable those who lead us into un-necessary military actions. War should be an action of last resort.

Not an opportunity for a hefty profit stream to War Industry Corporations. A failure to punish people and entities for criminal activity is nothing more than an approval of that criminal activity and that failure to hold accountable, generates more of the same.

“We had to destroy our Country to save it” Is this what we have come to? Isn’t this the general excuse by the last Administration for the destruction brought on America? It started well before the Bush Administration, but the big move came under that despotic Bush era. Remember that on 9/12 a committee authorized by Bush and Cheney and headed up by Feith was formed to mine data that could be useful to sell the need of an invasion of Iraq to the American people.

It later took on the name of the Office of Special Plans. And it seems to make no difference that it was the Bush bunch. Reality has shown that we are now in the first installment of the continuation of those Bush policies. Once again the electorate have proven that a vote for the lesser of two evils gets you the same result – evil.

We must learn to hold accountable those Parties that claim the high road and yet exude corruption.

The destruction to America under Bush is almost unimaginable: We have lost many rights guaranteed to us by the Constitution, We have lost our Moral position in the World, We have become a pawn of Corporate Interests, We produce for the profits of the War Industry, We have become a bankrupt Nation, and we have subjugated the financial future of our children to the International Banking Cartels.

And the justification for all these woes is that it had to be done to protect us from “Them” and “They”, people who hate us for things like My Lai and the newest atrocities, over a million dead in Iraq, over four million displaced in that country, a country ruined for the next several generations. And why? – Sadly the excuse heard today was that it was done to free the Iraqis, yet we still occupy their land, kill their people, and steal their resources.

And the damage done to America in the name of protecting America from it’s enemies, could be paraphrased, “We had to destroy our Country to save it”. Criminals and War Criminals must be punished without exception. There are consequences for not doing so.

The future we get is truly up to us. Haven’t we proven that time and again? We let those atrocities in Vietnam go unpunished. Even worse was the Vietnam War itself, one now proven to be brought about by lies and propaganda.

And most telling, we didn’t learn from the lie (Gulf of Tonkin) that was the excuse manufactured for going to war. In every military excursion since WWII there has been a pre-war PR run up promoting fear of the “enemy”, immorality of the people, followed by a manufactured excuse to exercise military action.

Would we be in war in Iraq today if we had charged President Lyndon Johnson and his War Mongers for their Vietnam War Crimes and successfully prosecuted them? Would prosecuting the Bush bunch for their War Crimes stop a Vietnam or Iraq of the future? How many victims would be alive today if we would have had the courage to do the right thing? We need to put a stop to war criminals.

The one sure way to effect that stop is to make liable those who become War Criminals and those who promote the business of war for profit. When we learn from our past and act on that knowledge, the future we get will no longer be the past we ignored, we will re-set our future, for the better. And surely our children and their children will benefit from our actions.

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?

Further the news released about the torture techniques left the impression (by making the claim) that the ordering of torture also made clear that the detainees were not to be physically harmed. And the inference was that none were actually harmed, (thus the claim water boarding used only three times). You’ve all read it, heard it, and seen it.

Problem is, hundreds of detainees were tortured to death. So by what means were they killed? Manadel Al Jamadi was tortured to death at Abu Gharib by Palestinian hanging.

In the Documentary “Taxi to the Darkside”, is a story, among others, of a detainee who was beaten so severely on the legs over a period of weeks that his leg bones were crushed to mush before he died. In this Documentary the testimony of the torturers is given by the torturers personally.

Hundreds of detainees have been tortured to death, but I don’t recall in all this news gush that there ever was a mention that any detainee was actually ever physically hurt. Do you recall hearing about anyone actually being physically harmed? Tens of thousands were tortured, but none were ever physically harmed, or so they say, and I question if none were ever harmed, why did those detainees die during this “non-physical” torture?

What do you think the message of this news spate is all about? Could it be “ We never tortured anybody, and even if we did, nobody was ever hurt”? You think the message might be seeds to sell a horrific lie?

Thank you Steve for the following:

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, – for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension- the truth, is the greatest enemy of the State.”

Joeseph Goebbels
29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945

“Naturally the common people don’t want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same for any country.”

Herman Goering to Gustave Gilbert at Nuremberg, 18 April, 1946

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.

That the instructors and students collaborated to provide something useful to society is proof that this method can be replicated at every classroom in every school in America. And the cost benefit ratio could be beyond the breadth of imagination. Maybe a cure for cancer could someday come from just such an activity. What we can imagine is the only limit to our achievements as a specie.

Concerning the affordability of education, I began to consider that with high cost comes a paring of the intelligence pool from which innovations arise in the world. Intelligence is not a product of wealth, but wealth is a limiter on those able to enhance their education, and by inference, the ability to use the intelligence structure that was given at birth. Speaking to a couple of college students recently and talking about the cost of education, one of the students told me that he had already spent in excess of $100,000 seeking a degree for his future. Not many young people have access to that amount of money to spend on education. And those who can borrow that amount would face a formidable obstacle to solvency when they graduate.

Obama wants to make higher education more affordable by changing the ratio of grants to loans, from 70% loans to 70 % grants. I think this is a good idea, and would be money well spent, but I also would like to see more emphasis on providing “projects” for the students in collaboration with instructors. Obviously this would require better instructors and more cooperation with all segments of society to identify needs and prioritize them. This need would also indicate that teacher pay should be tied to performance. However that idea is a hot potato with teachers unions and tenure at Colleges and Universities. There is a wealth of opportunity for improvement in our educational system. We need to direct money there before we bailout another “To Big to Fail Private Enterprise”. Because if anything on our planet is “To big to fail” it should be the vast untapped potential of our educational system.

Now while all this was going on, Liddy reported that most Departments of AIG were very profitable. Also slipping by without any comment that I heard was that Britain had agreed to receive something on the order of $400 Billion of American Taxpayer funds. But possibly the most egregious statement was that when the additional bailout for AIG and others came up in February, It was discovered that someone had slipped into that big sprawling bill a short little item that stated: “that no bonus could be negated just because of the performance of AIG”.

Meanwhile, under the radar, a whole gaggle of financial firms who have received bailout money are making AIG look like honest brokers when it comes to the money stealing game. And they are getting a free run on taxpayer dollars. Let me give one example: Capitol One Bank and Credit Card Company extraordinaire.

Capitol One received $3.55 Billion in bailout money to help loosen up the credit flow. So what did they do with the money? Well the first thing they did was go buy a competitor bank. But it was the next thing that got my eye. You see, thieves care not the damage they do, if they have an opportunity to steal especially when they think they can get away with it, they go for it.

Anyway here is what they have done. They have sent out notices to most all of their approximately 50 million cardholders, saying they are sad to inform us that they have to raise the interest rate on their cards. Excuse me, that’s your and my card. The rate of increase is on the order double to quadruple what is the current rate on the cards. This after receiving the $3.55 Billion from you and me, something we didn’t vote to give, and something we had no voice in.

To add insult to injury, just take a look at this scenario:

If the average cardholder owes $1000 on their card and were paying 6.0% like me, and the new rate is say 15%, something that is about middle range of their increases, then Capitol One can expect an increase in income of 9% per year on that $1000. Fifty million cardholders would owe $50 Billion. At the $1000 scenario that would give Capitol One an additional $375, 000,000 of income – every month. I’ve heard of vultures circling waiting for prey to die. But at least the vultures wait for the demise. Capitol One decided to get you while you were still breathing. Just think of the American families that, on the edge, will go under because of this. The United States of Corporate America are aggressively dragging us into financial slavery. And our good Government is helping them.

Those in a rage at AIG could suddenly go postal when the Financial community begins to really gang up on them. They won’t be satisfied with anything less than blood. Obama can stop this tomorrow. He can put a freeze on Interest and impose a Usury limit in America. Otherwise, I fear there will be blood.

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.

That statement was made with full knowledge that a failure of this stimulus could doom the country to a minimum of a decade of strife, hardship, and a possible end to the American dream. But that doesn’t concern Rush Limbaugh and neither does it concern the GOP faithful. They have adopted the low road. Rush and his crowd want a return to power of the Republican Party, and they don’t care if they have to harm America to do it.

The National Debt didn’t quadruple during the Clinton Administration. No, that happened under the Bush Administration. And the National long-term liabilities rose an additional $50 Trillion during the eight years of Bush, not under Clinton.

I thought Clinton was our worst President ever – until Bush.

The Republican Party is the last of the two Parties in power to have had a chance to stem the corruption. They had a majority in the House, the Senate, and they occupied the White House. There was no one to stop them. Instead they chose to enrich themselves in wealth and power, but they shot themselves in the foot with the War, with De-Regulation, with disrespect for the rule of law.

Now they want to blame the President who the people elected to rebuild their damage. Lisa Schneider calls them out.

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:

The problem with these Corporations is that they are in the business of making war. No war, no profits. This should scare everyone. And to add to the bottom line, many of the companies are branching out as this video illustrates to privatize the CIA. Now you really should become concerned.

Ann Weston of CAPA (Citizens Against Private Armies) is leading a protest against a Company named Procinctu. Procinctu means “Gird for Battle Prepare for War” They want to locate a facility in California on land zoned public use and the Riverside Board of Supervisors has given the OK even though all indications are Procinctu does not qualify for a public use permit. The CAPA organization sees Procinctu as nothing more than a Blackwater wanna-be delving into Privatization of Government functions, a behavior that truly threatens our Democracy. There is a rally taking place on Tuesday 17^th of March at 8:30 in front of the Riverside County Administration Building, 4080 Lemon Street in Riverside, California. For more information contact ann3weston@aol.com .