Patriots, if they can, expose government wrongdoing. The hypocrisy of those in the upper levels of our Outlaw Fed Gov't is beyond the pale. If China, or Israel, or Russia, or any other country spies on us, the Feds go bananas; but when our Gov't spies on our own allies, oh, there's nothing wrong with that. The National Security State trumps any concept of Right and Wrong...and the Natural Rights that all humans possess.
In case you haven't heard, and as reported in Der Spiegel, the NSA has an elite computer hacking unit that has been remotely installing spyware and malware on computers using the Windows Operating System. Not only that, it has been intercepting the delivery of new computers ordered online, installing spyware, and then sending the machines on their way. This illegal process also includes cell phones. The existence of the hacking unit, Tailored Access Operations (TAO), was revealed in documents sent by Edward Snowden to Der Spiegel.
Judge Pauley, who contradicted another Fed Judge who said the NSA's phone records collection was "almost Orwellian", in a very real sense claims that if the NSA does it to everyone, then that's constitutional. Please, is he serious?! Judges have been throwing out court cases because the individuals bringing suit don't know for certain if their records are being collected...they have no "standing". It's clear to me that the Judicial System, in a very large part, is not independent of the Political System. That's called corruption. Read the Fourth Amendment; what the NSA is doing is blatantly unconstitutional. Unfortunately, we can't even rely on the Supreme Court to be totally independent...remember the Kelo v. City of New London case? The City seized private property using Eminent Domain and sold it to PRIVATE developers, claiming that the taxes to be generated qualified as "public use" of the property. If that's true, then anyone's property can be seized under the guise of Eminent Domain, and the seizure doesn't have to be for a public road or public building, etc. Where is the common sense in that? The same is true for Judge Pauley's opinion that as long as the NSA does it to everyone, that's constitutional. Have mercy.
If you look at History, you'll see that the Govt's response to Whistleblowers is to smear and criminalize them. The U.K. is as bad as the U.S.A. in that regard. Ask Glenn Greenwald, who now lives in Brazil. He's wary of returning to England because he's being investigated for "terrorism". Terrorism is the great catch-all now for governments. Constitutions can be ignored, Natural Rights can be ignored, due process can be ignored...just label the person a potential terrorist. In this country, because of the NDAA, such a person can be executed without a trial (according to an article in Forbes, & many other sources). When he signed that bill into law, Obama said, "I would never do that.", or something to that effect. Well, guess what? I'm not reassured. History shows us that no politician, present or future, is to be trusted.
Just my opinion.
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Part 4: Paying Homage to Gonzo
For decades I've watched politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, flush my beloved country down the drain. It continues. Years ago, I believed in the Mainstream Political System, but I was looking only at the surface...& I was drinking the Propaganda Kool Aid, gulping it down. For the last several years, I've looked beneath the surface and discovered the utter fraud, sham, and tragedy/joke that is American Politics. The widespread deceit, corruption, and criminality is truly incredible. Some of it gets reported by the prostitute Corporate Media (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News, etc.), but much of it doesn't. One has to go to other sources. I'll illustrate, using only one other source.
The following items have been reported just recently on Democracy Now, the War and Peace Report, with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. Perhaps you saw one or more of these topics on Corporate Media broadcasts, but I'd be willing to bet not.
1. This year in Iraq there have been over 8,000 deaths as a result of the ongoing civil war there. That's their highest number of casualties in the last five years. The Sunnis and Shiites have not stopped killing each other. Electrical service still is not provided to large parts of that country on a consistent basis. Corruption in their government appears to be rampant. [It makes one wonder why it was that our Fed Gov't expended so much of our blood & treasure over there. Other than lots of big bucks for mega corporations, what did we accomplish?]
2. Only a short time ago, Obama had millions of dollars of arms sent to the Shiite gov't of Iraq...to help fight the "terrorists". I'll bet the Arms manufacturers here were very pleased. Our Fed Gov't fully supports the Shiite government of Iraq...so does Iran's gov't. I find that somewhat odd. Basically, our Gov't is taking sides in a foreign civil war, and stoking the fires of that war by helping to arm one side. A couple of Arab political analysts (in Western dress) found that to be rather bizarre. I agree.
3. Just the other day, our Fed Gov't killed four more terrorist SUSPECTS in Pakistan with yet another Drone attack. This despite the fact that the Pakistani Gov't has told us to stop infringing on the sovereignty of the Pakistani people...by launching Drone attacks. [You see, when our Gov't commits a crime, it's not a crime. That only applies to other countries. As Nixon said in a David Frost interview years ago, "When the President does it, it's not a crime."...I guess that principle still holds in DC today.] Sorry Pakistan, you don't have any sovereignty; so says the Big Bully U.S. Gov't.
4. A few days ago, fifteen SUSPECTS were killed in Yemen by a Drone attack. It turns out that they were merely a wedding party going to a reception. I imagine that the warmongers in DC will chalk it up to "collateral damage", maybe pay the victims' families a few thousand dollars, and then forget about it. [This is shameful. It's both immoral and unethical to go around killing suspects. Terrorists are not soldiers, they're criminals. The so-called "War on Terrorism" is not a war at all. That's propaganda. If you believe it is a war, please tell me, with which country are we at war? When soldiers go to war, it's against soldiers from another country. That's war. This terrorism situation is a law enforcement issue.]
5. Former President Bush (Dubya, not Daddy) recently cancelled an overseas trip. He did so because sixty Human Rights Organizations around the world have been compiling evidence to be used to indict and arrest him for using/approving/ordering the torture of terrorist suspects during his administration. [It's about time.] Any such arrest would occur outside of this country, and the country he was going to agreed to give it a go. [This story is not a spoof; it's true.] Bush admitted to approving "waterboarding" in his fairly recent book. Whether or not you agree that suffocating a person to a point just shy of death is torture or not is not relevant. This is relevant: every other country in the world believes that waterboarding is torture...even the few countries that do it. I agree. The fact that our Gov't did it is shameful and obscene...and UNAMERICAN. Just because certain criminals are Neanderthal brutes doesn't mean that we should be.
Some of you may disagree with my views above, but that's not the point. My point here is that I doubt you were aware of those stories if you listen to/watch only the Corporate Media. Those networks are in league with the Fed Gov't to one degree or another, or in league with the Oligarchs of the mega corporations, or both. We get only the news they want us to hear. [Not long ago, CBS reported that for some unknown reason a man set himself on fire in DC, and died. There was no follow-up story. I suspect that the act was some sort of protest against either the Fed Gov't or mega corporations, or both.]
Incidentally, my investigator reports that the rumor regarding Ibocaine use in DC appears to be true. He estimates that somewhere between 90% to 99% of the Fed politicians use the drug. You may recall from Part 3 of this series that Ibocaine ingestion causes one to lose integrity and become a scumbag. Don't confuse this drug with Ibogaine, a psychoactive substance that has been very successful in getting many people off heroin, the most addictive drug in the world. [Ibogaine is probably banned in this country, which makes about as much sense as the ban on industrial hemp...we're the only developed country in the world that prohibits farmers from raising industrial hemp, a crop that is small-farmer-friendly and the products of which could replace many energy-gorging petro-chemical products.]
Just my opinion.
Dr. Gonzo
The following items have been reported just recently on Democracy Now, the War and Peace Report, with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. Perhaps you saw one or more of these topics on Corporate Media broadcasts, but I'd be willing to bet not.
1. This year in Iraq there have been over 8,000 deaths as a result of the ongoing civil war there. That's their highest number of casualties in the last five years. The Sunnis and Shiites have not stopped killing each other. Electrical service still is not provided to large parts of that country on a consistent basis. Corruption in their government appears to be rampant. [It makes one wonder why it was that our Fed Gov't expended so much of our blood & treasure over there. Other than lots of big bucks for mega corporations, what did we accomplish?]
2. Only a short time ago, Obama had millions of dollars of arms sent to the Shiite gov't of Iraq...to help fight the "terrorists". I'll bet the Arms manufacturers here were very pleased. Our Fed Gov't fully supports the Shiite government of Iraq...so does Iran's gov't. I find that somewhat odd. Basically, our Gov't is taking sides in a foreign civil war, and stoking the fires of that war by helping to arm one side. A couple of Arab political analysts (in Western dress) found that to be rather bizarre. I agree.
3. Just the other day, our Fed Gov't killed four more terrorist SUSPECTS in Pakistan with yet another Drone attack. This despite the fact that the Pakistani Gov't has told us to stop infringing on the sovereignty of the Pakistani people...by launching Drone attacks. [You see, when our Gov't commits a crime, it's not a crime. That only applies to other countries. As Nixon said in a David Frost interview years ago, "When the President does it, it's not a crime."...I guess that principle still holds in DC today.] Sorry Pakistan, you don't have any sovereignty; so says the Big Bully U.S. Gov't.
4. A few days ago, fifteen SUSPECTS were killed in Yemen by a Drone attack. It turns out that they were merely a wedding party going to a reception. I imagine that the warmongers in DC will chalk it up to "collateral damage", maybe pay the victims' families a few thousand dollars, and then forget about it. [This is shameful. It's both immoral and unethical to go around killing suspects. Terrorists are not soldiers, they're criminals. The so-called "War on Terrorism" is not a war at all. That's propaganda. If you believe it is a war, please tell me, with which country are we at war? When soldiers go to war, it's against soldiers from another country. That's war. This terrorism situation is a law enforcement issue.]
5. Former President Bush (Dubya, not Daddy) recently cancelled an overseas trip. He did so because sixty Human Rights Organizations around the world have been compiling evidence to be used to indict and arrest him for using/approving/ordering the torture of terrorist suspects during his administration. [It's about time.] Any such arrest would occur outside of this country, and the country he was going to agreed to give it a go. [This story is not a spoof; it's true.] Bush admitted to approving "waterboarding" in his fairly recent book. Whether or not you agree that suffocating a person to a point just shy of death is torture or not is not relevant. This is relevant: every other country in the world believes that waterboarding is torture...even the few countries that do it. I agree. The fact that our Gov't did it is shameful and obscene...and UNAMERICAN. Just because certain criminals are Neanderthal brutes doesn't mean that we should be.
Some of you may disagree with my views above, but that's not the point. My point here is that I doubt you were aware of those stories if you listen to/watch only the Corporate Media. Those networks are in league with the Fed Gov't to one degree or another, or in league with the Oligarchs of the mega corporations, or both. We get only the news they want us to hear. [Not long ago, CBS reported that for some unknown reason a man set himself on fire in DC, and died. There was no follow-up story. I suspect that the act was some sort of protest against either the Fed Gov't or mega corporations, or both.]
Incidentally, my investigator reports that the rumor regarding Ibocaine use in DC appears to be true. He estimates that somewhere between 90% to 99% of the Fed politicians use the drug. You may recall from Part 3 of this series that Ibocaine ingestion causes one to lose integrity and become a scumbag. Don't confuse this drug with Ibogaine, a psychoactive substance that has been very successful in getting many people off heroin, the most addictive drug in the world. [Ibogaine is probably banned in this country, which makes about as much sense as the ban on industrial hemp...we're the only developed country in the world that prohibits farmers from raising industrial hemp, a crop that is small-farmer-friendly and the products of which could replace many energy-gorging petro-chemical products.]
Just my opinion.
Dr. Gonzo
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