Once upon a time, Americans had the Constitutional right to freedom of speech. Wait a minute you say. What do I mean, "once upon a time"?
Well, we no longer have that right. Just go and read about the latest "decision" by the US Supreme Court. The case is Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project. With this "decision", the majority have told us all that it is now illegal to even offer to teach people how to make peace with their adversaries. Yes, even teaching the Palestinians to try to make peace with the Zionist entity is now considered "material support" to a terrorist organization. If we protest against the war crimes, crimes against peace, and crimes against humanity being perpetrated every day by the Zionist entity, well, those are no doubt now illegal acts as they provide "material support" to supposed terrorists.
That may even mean that the very act of writing this entry is illegal now. It may even mean that by your reading this post, you could be prosecuted for giving "material support" to a terrorist. How so? Well, by extension, as I am against this new abuse of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights by this "decision" I am probably damn close to being labeled a "terrorist". Does that sound "far fetched" to you? With what has happened to America since 9/11 I would not be so sure.
The phrase that "9/11 changed everything" seems to be more true that anybody would admit. Since then, our Constitution has been run through the shredder. First by the Cheney/Shrub gang, and now continued by the Go-bomb-them crew.
This administration won the last presidential election by giving the people the illusion of "hope" and "change". Well, this just shows how very little hope we have left. It also shows just how much change we got from that election.
e still have the same wars going that we had in 2008. We still continue to give total, blind support to the Zionist entity. We have even increased the number of countries that we are fighting in. Yes, we have added military "actions" in Yemen, Somalia, and greatly increased our "strikes" in Pakistan. In fact, in his very first week in his new job, Go-bomb-them authorized drone aircraft strikes in Pakistan. In his very first week on the new job. Well, no doubt he wanted to "assure" us all that he was a macho tough guy. This president has authorized more drone strikes against Pakistan in his one and a half years on the job than Shrubbie did in eight. And you all thought that this guy was an "anti-war" candidate? Fooled us all, big time.
This latest "decision" by our(??) Supreme Court is going to make for some very interesting times for us all. How long will web site and blogs be allowed to speak out against war crimes? How soon before many of them, including sites like Wikileaks, be allowed to continue? I might even wonder if this little "corner" of the net will be shut down. Well, if they decide to do so, it will get done I suppose. Whatever comes, well, I'll deal with things as best I can. No, I refuse to get paranoid about it. They can call me whatever they wish. Hell, I spent four years in the Marines, I have been called just about everything and anything you can imagine. Just ask any one who has been through Marine Corps boot camp about what the drill instructors call the recruits. Not many of the names used are acceptable in "polite" company.
All this "decision" does for me is make me even more disgusted at what passes for leadership in this country. This court case did not have to ever get to this point. In my opinion, it should never have even gone to trial at any court level. How can the act of trying to teach people to act peacefully be considered any sort of "aid" to terrorists? What the hell was the government thinking in even taking this case to trial in the first place? Have our rights to freedom of speech been flushed down the old toilet without letting us know? Apparently that seems to be the case.
Well, screw that shit! The following is exactly word for word, the first amendment to the Constitution.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for redress of grievances.
Copied, exactly, from my pocket copy of the Constitution.
In MY opinion, this "decision" is not valid. It is un-constitutional. Maybe the ACLU or some other group will mount a challenge to this crap. Maybe.
One more rant for today. Both governor Bobby and senator Vitter want Go-bomb-them to lift the moratorium on drilling in the Gulf. Yep, these guys want to "drill baby drill" right now. They claim to be "concerned" about the loss of jobs for the folks who work on the drill rigs in the Gulf. Well, I also share that concern for those folks. They will not have jobs for six months under this drilling ban. That is not a good thing for them and their families. BUT in my humble opinion, until they know just what went wrong to get us into the current mess, they should not drill any more wells.
Now, remember, I never have worked in the oil industry, but, it just seems to my old brain, that until you figure out why you have this huge mess, you don't just go on with "business as usual". The fact that a good number of people will be unemployed for a few months does not, to me, out weigh the need to understand why this well has failed. Hell, this probably makes me guilty of providing "material support" to some terrorist or other.
America, what a country.
4 comments:
I am with you 100% brother.
Here is the saddest part of all.
It is no longer a dem-repub thing. One where a person can say " oh those darn dems, or oh, those darn repubs."
They are all one in the same.
There is no hope, no alternative team to fight for, or against.
They are all one in the same.
The American people have been massaged to think that there is a difference between the two parties. There is none.
They are all one in the same.
The Manchurian Candidate [Obama] will lead us further into the abyss.
Our Congress is an 'Israeli occupied territory', as Pat Buchanan so aptly coined it.
Yet the American people fell asleep at the wheel. They allowed the Trojan horses to enter our gates. Now we are opening the gates to hell, for our future generations.
RZ, you got that right. Folks used to say something like "a dimes' worth of difference" regarding the donkey and elephant gangs. Well, we are seeing how that was being very generous. My opinion is that they are just the two sides of the very same coin.
Some choice, either a donkey or an elephant. Neither are house broken. The both tramp through our flower beds and shit in our yards.
Always good to hear you tell it like it is, Charlie.
' In fact, in his very first week in his new job, Go-bomb-them authorized drone aircraft strikes in Pakistan. In his very first week on the new job. Well, no doubt he wanted to "assure" us all that he was a macho tough guy. This president has authorized more drone strikes against Pakistan in his one and a half years on the job than Shrubbie did in eight. And you all thought that this guy was an "anti-war" candidate? Fooled us all, big time. '
I respectfully request that you change his moniker from Go-bomb-them to Drone-bomb-them. The image of an otherwise ineffectual bee being allowed its place in society because it enables that society to continue at a crucial time fits Obama well.
Time after crucial time The 800 Million Dollar Man comes through for his "contributors", allowing their regime to continue.
The fact that he was the mid-wife of the robo-killing machine that has come to dominate US military practice ought to be put as constantly before us.
There was no mistaking Obama's intentions before his election, unless you were one of those who wanted to believe.
' This latest "decision" by our(??) Supreme Court is going to make for some very interesting times for us all... '
Thanks for pointing this out. I live in Thailand now and I am missing more and more of the details of our decline. You have become one of my sources.
Another sleeping piece of legislation, signed by drone-bomb-them on 28 October, 2009, is the Matthew Shepard Act.
Ostensibly about protecting gays, especially, from "hate-crimes" this act opens up the identification of Zionism with Judaism and thus provides for the criticism of Zionism to be treated as a "hate-crime"... and to any enterprising local prosecutor it provides access to limitless federal funding to prosecute such "hate-crimes" and to start their own career as enforcer for The Lobby.
' In MY opinion, this "decision" is not valid. It is un-constitutional. Maybe the ACLU or some other group will mount a challenge to this crap. '
There is presenly NO legal recourse to a decision by the US Supreme Court... is there? Other than purpose-built legislation and/or a Constitutional amendment overturning its decisions.
' How can the act of trying to teach people to act peacefully be considered any sort of "aid" to terrorists? What the hell was the government thinking in even taking this case to trial in the first place? Have our rights to freedom of speech been flushed down the old toilet without letting us know? '
Yes. They have.
Reality Zone:
' There is no hope, no alternative team to fight for, or against. '
I beg to differ. I have seen the altenative and it is us, to paraphrase Pogo. We are The 800 Pound Gorilla in the room. All we need do is exercise our sovereignty.
It is true that we have allowed our democratic muscles to atrophy, but with a little exercise we can tone them right up and keep them limber and in shape to put things right once again whenever things do fall apart, as they will, in the future.
We used to be democracy's laboratory. No reason we can't pick up right where we left off...
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