This was originally written on: Sunday, October 7, 2007
Well I want to ask you a question then. The Freedom of Information Act; it sounds so good in theory. After X amount of years documents become declassified because your government has nothing to hide. Well you need to learn the difference between theory and reality! The fact is that to request something through the Freedom of Information Act you first have to know of its existence! Let me recap so you will absorb this, you have to know of the existence of a classified document, like this will not make you popular with Homeland Security (and affiliated agencies) to begin with. Then you have to file the appropriate paperwork, wait years to get a decision as to whether or not your request is going to be honored. Very rarely you will get a copy of the pristine document_ What is pristine? Well you are more likely to get what is called a sanitized copy of said document_ Sanitized being someone went crazy with a black magic marker covering up anything they do not want to become public. There is always a chance you will get rejected for any sort of reasons that I am sure there is a very large list of or even you will be told that such a document does not exist.
Now if we were talking about stuff that is going on in Iraq right now, if (JUST IF) the government was doing right, I can understand the argument that lives must be protected. However the usa government is still refusing to release some documents involving World War I !!! Now if I remember correctly, the last World War I veteran died a few years ago, so who in the fuck are they protecting?
Let me throw out a theory. If people were able to see the amount of corruption and lack of respect for the citizenry that not only exists today, but has always existed by those in power, a popular front would rise that would make demands of real change upon the government!
To quote Thomas Paine, "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."
Just a little something I had to throw out as I prepare for finals next week...
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This was originally written on: Sunday, August 26, 2007
I want to tell you a story that was relayed to me last week. This is a story of a something that happened to the daughter of a woman I work with. The mother is a Black woman in her forties who has worked hard all her life for any little thing she has. Despite this she still thinks that I am being corrupted because I listen to Public Enemy and the words of Malcolm X. She also thinks Nelly is the best thing ever… and I am not sure what to say about that in itself. Her daughter is 15 or 16, not sure about her grades in school but I do know that she is on the high school volley ball team.
Now on to the story; her mother gave her a few hundred dollars to buy some school clothes before the new school year started. While at the mall she either ran into some friends or happened to be talking to some people she knew when the whole group was arrested. Shoplifting was the charge. Now everything she had in her bags, she also had receipts for those items. So she was charged with conspiracy in assisting the others that were shoplifting.
This creates a number of problems. First off was not conspiracy laws made to bring down organized crime syndicates that could not be caught through direct actions? Why is conspiracy laws needed against a teenage girl who is shopping for clothes to start off the new school year? Now I have got this story from her mother. I have not had the chance to talk to her and her mother blames her for the problem. Why is she responsible for the actions of people who are her friend or who she runs into? Who is to honestly know if she knew these people were shoplifting? Was she even with them in the store in question that was being shoplifted? Or was she snagged later just because she was also Black and talking to them! How much do you want to bet if this was a group of White teens that the only ones who would have been charged would have been those with stolen goods on their person.
Is this a racist issue? In part, however it is more of a class issue. If it is racist, it is because Blacks have a disproportionate number of lower class people due to the environment they are raised in. Some is racism, but mostly it is just money. The real problem is why have the powers that be switched from concepts of civic responsibility to punishing people who do not inform on the people they know are up to no good? In NYC they have a massive program that works off the call in tip program. You can get five thousand dollars if your tip helps to convict someone who shoots a cop. We also see efforts to promise anonymity and monetary reward to people that will inform on criminals. Why are these efforts being done? To divide and conquer the poor? In part, however fifty years ago and more that was not needed. So there must be more to the story.
People no longer see that they have any civic responsibility. Sometimes they do not talk to their neighbors anymore, in the case of suburbia. However in the inner cities many neighborhoods are very close. It is just that they see the government as just as evil as criminals that do their own people no good. The line is not blurred between right and wrong, it is nonexistent! So the powers that be have tried bribery with only limited success. In frustration they have attempted to make it a crime to not inform on people during a criminal act. This also has had limited success. Despite the fact that this girl's mother blames her for getting into trouble and the situation has called untold amounts of drama for her to deal with at home. Is this going to help make her a good citizen? Or will it just foster more mistrust between her and the system that oppresses all of us?
I said that even this has not worked. This is why all over the place you see cameras going up. Go to google, you can tap into traffic cameras in various parts of the country. How far is that from the 1984 world Orwell saw of the two way televisions? How long would it be before they would want to attach a weapon to these many cameras, just so they can be used to fire at someone that is up to no good? When the government and the system serve and protect the smallest minority with wealth and power, why do the majority protect them when it is NOT in their best interest?
Just a few random thoughts I had when I found out about a teenage girl being picked on by the pigs and the sad fact that her mother blamed her for the problems, forgetting what it is like to be a Black teen in america.
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This was originally written on: Thursday, August 2, 2007
Obesity an Alternative View
While half of the world starves and suffers from various degrees of malnutrition the other half is facing obesity as what some people call a medical emergency. Now I could go on about how ignorant it is for half of the population to starve while the other half gets fat. However the problem is not that simple. People tend to try to package the problem in a way they can deal with or in a way too complex for them to understand. If it is too complex to understand, they do not have to deal with it. If it is something they feel they understand completely, they are an expert and no one can convince them they are wrong.
Instead I am going to ask why is obesity suddenly such a problem in the West? I am sure the West has had more people with weight issues than other places for many years. However it has gotten steadily worse in the past 50 years or so. Let's try to look at this logically.
Can we honestly say that modern fast food is so much worse than what people used to eat in the past? Is the grease you get from Wendys really so much more terrible for you than the lard your grandmother or great-grandmother cooked everything in? Now I am not a nutritionist. However I will bet money that if you compared the diet people have today with diets of people from 1890ish to 1950 or so, you would be able to find plenty of pros and cons with both. Until the glory days of the liberal dream during the 1950s (in the West) most people lived in rural areas. You ate fresh eggs daily; you slaughtered or hunted your own meat. Now getting past all the additives and questionable practices of factory farms and just looking at the basic pros and cons of such diets. I really do not see much difference between people using the most fattening ways to make food tasty then, with the food we eat now.
Okay, so if we can actually agree that the diets are similar. What in the world is the problem? I already touched on it, ever so gently. The problem is not the food we eat, it is us. We, as a species, used to live in rural communities. We used to be farmers. Farmers used to have to till the soil by hand, farming was hard work. You did not have a lot of help from technology until the late 20s or so. Even in urban areas you had to work hard for a living. Factory work was not automated. Construction was done more by muscles than machines. Yes you took in a lot of calories and fats, but you burnt them up in your daily life.
Now let us look what happened as society became blessed (or cursed) with advances that enabled machines to help us work more efficiently. I will not say these advances were bad or that we should try to go back in time. That is pure foolishness. However as machines made it easier for us to travel over distance quicker, the suburbs popped up. Now people had yards to care for. They may have been working less hard in the factory or in office jobs. However caring for their yard was hard work. You had a push mower that was not gas powered, it was powered by you! As you pushed it, it caused blades to rotate which cut the grass. If you wanted to edge the concrete, you had to do that manually. Trimming bushes, trees, weeding flower beds all had to be done by hand. When you played, you played hard! People would go for bike rides; sports in parks, even bowling took physical effort.
Now what has happened since? Well computers have made factory lines more and more automated. Computers force people to sit in front of a monitor for 8 or more hours a day, sitting on their ass! How many physical jobs are honestly left? Even farmers have equipment which is so costly, they either have to rent it or have farms worth tens of millions of dollars. They are sitting in the seat of a combine for 14 or more hours a day trying to get a harvest done. That is a lot different from dealing with oxen for the same amount of time.
What about our yards? For those of us that have yards. How has lawn care evolved? Well that push mower became gas powered, but you still had to push it manually. Then it became a walk behind, walk behind because all you had to do was direct it, the wheels were powered. Let's not forget riding mowers. Don't need to edge manually anymore, thanks to machines. Now you can buy powered trimmers, edgers, hedge trimmers, you can even blow the grass and leaves away rather than rake them up! However the fact that industry has become automated has decreased the need for so many employees. Luckily the mass production of powered equipment for lawn care has made it cheap enough for almost anyone to enter the lawn care business. No longer do you see an industrious 12 year old or young teen walking down the street with a lawnmower and gas can. Now you see pick ups, with trailers full of lawn care equipment. These people will cut and trim more lawns in a day than one of those teens of old could do in a week.
Now this efficiency could be good, if we got to use this extra time we had for reward pursuits. Maybe more of those community sports, intellectual pursuits or even local political action. However what do we end up doing? People end up working 50, 60, 70 or more hours a week. Sitting on their ass. Both husband and wife are doing this; there is no time to cook what is referred to an old meal. So we eat more fast food, with all of its preservatives and junk that even bacteria does not want to deal with. However if we do not have to work so many hours, what do we do with our time? We sit in front of the computer playing video games; talking to people we could call or even see in person! We research useless information and deal with a mass abundance of fallacies that does not help our mental health or common sense.
If you think about it, you can see this progression in almost any area of modern life. Think of hunters. They used to go walking into the woods or maybe on horseback, looking for some game to kill. Now many hunters go off hunting on ATVs. People used to go to the beach to go swimming or surfing. Now you got jet skis. Fisherman would go walking to look for a secluded spot where the fish would bite or maybe row out to a similar spot. However now you have cheap outboard motors and trolling motors. Fishermen say that it really does not matter how many fish they catch. Then why do they spend thousands on fancy toys to help them cheat nature?
Even in sports you see a similar progression. What is the fastest growing sport in the usa? NASCAR. People that they call athletes that drive around in circles for 4 hours and they call it a sport. How much more technology would we really need for the cars to be completely automated and race themselves, without the drivers?
I am not saying I am not guilty of any of the above situations. I live in the West and I am basically Western by nature. However we really do need to be realistic in why the West is growing in weight, despite the fact we are shrinking in population. The only way we can hope to deal with our weight problem is to have honest facts on the causes. If we ignore some of the reasons, any solution we try to enforce will most likely fail. Then, maybe, we will be able to deal with the greater problem of people starving in the other half of the world. As the clock ticks and we run out of time, a very select few enjoy the good life. While the majority of us suffer in our own private hells.
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This was originally written on: Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Fuck Your Revolution!
That is right, fuck your revolution! If any of you base the need for change on the fact that drug laws are keeping you from getting high, Fuck You! If any of you say there is a need for revolution because you are having a due to gas prices and may have to give up your SUV, Fuck You! If any of you complain that taxes take away too much of your hard earned money, meanwhile you wonder what is the best investment for your IRA or 401k, FUCK YOU!!!!
While you want to sit at home and get high, there are people that are picking up arms because they are tired of seeing their children die of malnutrition! While contemplate how you are going to keep a vehicle that gets 15 mpg highway, there are people in an oil rich country that blow themselves up because people as white as you are holding guns on them! While you cry about taxes and wonder how to invest your money in the challenging future, people not only do not have an infrastructure that can provide them with clean water. But the country's water department was sold to Western investors to help cover their debt and now the department is more concerned about sending profits to their owners than providing a service to the public.
If you are reading this on your computer, do not talk to me about how you are suffering. Do not tell me how Ron Paul (or any other Nazi ass usa presidential candidate) is out for your best interest. If you cannot think of the whole human race in your future. Then you are not thinking further than 5 years down the road! No matter how bad your life is, ask yourself one question. "How hard would it be for me to find someone whose situation is worse than my own?" Is credit card debt killing you? Why do you have that debt? Did you buy an expensive HDTV? Are gas prices killing you, with your SUV? Why did you buy a railroad car on wheels? Why are you supporting candidates that offer only minor change that is not even a real change, when ignoring a coming problem will only make it worst in the future.
People! You are suppose to be the enlightened ones! You are supposed to be the ones that care for something greater than yourselves. The fact that everything you say is, "ME! ME! ME! ME!" and you do not even realize it. This scares me! Do you not realize that you are no better than the richest capitalist scumfuck?
The only way to decrease gas prices without creating shortages is by decreasing demand. So do you want to destroy China? Since China is one of the major causes to high prices. Incase you do not understand. China is industrializing at a very rapid pace, petroleum is needed for this. The fact that China has so drastically increased their need for crude oil is one of the major reasons that crude oil has gone up in price. That and the fact that it is a finite resource. We must seek alternatives as our supply dwindles.
The only way to bring about real change and cut government waste and thusly actually bring about any hope of lower taxes is for the government to serve the masses. The people! The same people the liars in every damn capital on this planet claim they serve. This will only be done by limiting wealth and power. Wealth and power and twin corruptors. Do not believe the lie the rich tell you. "Anyone can be wealthy like me, if you work hard enough." That is BULLSHIT! These people are born with wealth. Do not covet them. Do not wish for what they have, do not wish you were them. See them as having too much. As having what they do not deserve. Realize that they do not care about you or your loved ones. We are nothing but numbers to them. We are not even human.
As for all of you that argue about drugs. Do not tell me about your rights. Have you not ever heard about civil responsibility? I admit that most governments deserve no respect. However as long as you cry, ME ME ME ME! You also deserve no respect. Make the world a better place, and then tell me about your rights. When everyone, every single human being on this planet and that is yet to come to this planet have those same rights… BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!
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This was originally written on: Sunday, July 15, 2007
United We Stand and Divided We Fall!
The above statement is as old as civilization itself. As long as people have grouped together for mutual benefits and safety they have had to face this simple fact. It is mentioned in Aesop's fables, and has been used as a rallying cry for thousands of years. Many different cultures have many different parables to show how people are stronger united than divided. Breaking a reed in your hand, than try to break a handful of them. When you can break the individual, because they have no support. The group is able to stand strong.
So why am I writing this most basic of concepts as a rant? It is because I do not see it! When I say I do not see it, I do not see unity. I see how we are all divided amongst ourselves in Western society and I am sure people are divided in similar fashion all over the world. The only unity I see is a very questionable one among the elite who are in control of way too much wealth and power. These people did not earn this position; they gained it either through inheritance or questionable business practices. Even their unity is more of necessity, but they realize it. They are willing to cut each others throats for more money or power. However they realize they need to be on the same page most of the time. If they were not, it would not take many people to be able to overthrow them.
However us, the huddled masses, the citizens, the majority of the population in every single nation, we the poor, the working poor, the middle class, the blue collar workers, the lower end professionals, we are all who are divided against ourselves! We would rather blame our position or misfortune on those who are different than us rather than the system which only profits and keeps running as long as people are at the bottom. Think of the attitude in the usa when comparing it to the rest of the world. Instead of talking about we are so great because: 'insert reason.' It is more like, 'the rest of the world is so shitty and that is why we are the best!' People cannot find reasons to convince themselves that they are living in a better country, so they attack other countries to make themselves feel better. It is negativity, a feeling of no hope that is creeping up the lower ladder of society. It is not just affecting people in the ghetto; it is affecting people who are in the suburbs. This fear and concern forces people to react in irrational ways.
If that was the only reason I would not be so concerned. However there is also a complete lack of understanding of different cultures. I see it in people that are supposed to be more open minded and accepting of differences between people. Yet they say the same old tired arguments which are basically racism. "All Black people want reparations for slavery." "White people are going to be a minority in america and we are a persecuted people!" Those statements were not from racist ass skinheads, they were from fans of Rage Against the Machine, fans that will talk about and usually agree with Rage politics.
We also cannot forget about how some people have suffered so much that their hatred for their oppressors makes them completely irrational. The Nation of Islam is one example of this. Not the entire Nation or every speaker. However there are people who claim to be members of NOI and they preach genocide as evil as anything a Klansman or Nazi nut would say. The problem I have with genocide is not the act. If we were to commit genocide against those who are ruining the planet, the future of all of our children and all those who would support or get in the way of the justice which could be called genocide. I would shed not a single tear over their dead bodies. However when you try to blame an entire ethnic group or religion for what is wrong. That is irrational. Like Malcolm X said, "It is not a question of whether there are good Blacks and good Whites. It is a question of good and bad human beings."
If you think you can trust someone just because they are the same faith, ethnic group or political party as yourself, that is just another form of dividing you from your allies. Say you support Ron Paul, John McCain, Hilary Clinton, or Barack Obama for the 08 election. Now honestly would any single one of those people really be your friend or ally? Could you honestly count on them if you needed to? Can a woman trust Hilary just because they are the same sex? Can a Black person trust Obama just because he is Black? Can someone against the Iraq war trust Ron Paul just because he voted against it? Can a Republican trust McCain, just because he is a Republican Senator with a long history? If none of these people would march by my side or look out for my interest equal to their own. Than they do not deserve to be trusted with a position of power!
Something else that bothers me. Religious and Cultural intolerance. My boss is Palestinian. He tells me I need to be proud of my country; I cannot convince him duty to country is part of the problem. Duty to our species, our children, should be the battle cry. Despite his personal hatred for Israel, his politics are very conservative. I find it very strange. If he was my only contact with Muslims I would worry if there was any hope for honest change among people of the Muslim faith. He is not a radical Muslim. He preaches, but does not force his ways on others, not even his own children. I can respect that. However he supports morals being legal obligations. Like death for homosexuals. He hates the various installed royal families in the Middle East, yet has no problem with the massive disparities in wealth. Saying things that resemble Social Darwinism, that we choose our own lot. He also tends to fall victim to a lot of the historical manipulations of Holocaust deniers.
The point of this is to make you think. As long as we fight amongst each other over such minor things. As long as we are willing to kill each other over petty squabbles. As long as we keep trying to kick each other out of the life raft we are all in. The few that oppress us will disappear over the horizon in a luxury liner. The smallest minority of people will have more control over your lives than you can imagine. This control will only increase with time as technology makes it easier for a few to control many and as they increase in wealth and power.
We need something to unite us. To make us bury our differences and respect each others basic rights. We need to realize that we do not have the right to force someone else to live in a way that we find distasteful, as long as it does not affect us in an adverse manner. We need to unite to make the world a better place. We need to unite to guarantee that there will be a world for our children and their children. We need to unite so we can make sure all the true criminals in society face justice! We need to unite and show no mercy to the enemies of the human race. We need to unite because the longer we wait, the greater the loss of life will be.
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This was originally written on: Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Happy Illusion of Independence Day. That is right, ILLUSION! The Freedictionary.com defines an illusion thusly: 1. a. An erroneous perception of reality. b. An erroneous concept or belief. 2. The condition of being deceived by a false perception or belief. 3. Something, such as a fantastic plan or desire, that causes an erroneous belief or perception.
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Could someone tell me where these promises are? Not only where are these promises, but where have these promises been for the last 231 years! Now to try to tackle all of the evils that this country has done in 231 years would be more writing than I can hope to finish in a few hours. It would also bore many people and drive them to the flag just so they do not have to read anymore of what I say. So I will try to tackle only a few key points.
First thing we need to remember is that all the people who signed this declaration were in colonial government. They were politicians that served a system put in place by the King and English Parliament. They did not want to gain independence for the masses or provide the people with a better life. They wanted to provide themselves with more power than they could achieve any other way. Look at all the signatures. Read up on all their histories. They were all wealthy, land owning people. None of them were of royal blood. They had reached a peak in the amount of power they could achieve, they knew this. However they wanted power to be on this side of the Atlantic and not in London! They wanted power for themselves, not for those of royal blood or for the common man.
So how do a bunch of rich bastards motivate the masses to fight? Racism. The victory that the British had in the French Indian wars gained England massive amounts of land in the New World. They gained Quebec, then known as New France. They gained massive amounts of land on the other side of the Appalachian Mountains. Now to avoid a war with the various Indian nations that lived in those territories the Crown promised that no settlers would go into those territories in the near future and made laws preventing people from settling there. These laws were never intended to be permanent, this fact was well known to the politicians that were in Colonial Government. However they told the masses that the King loved Savages more than White men. They knew full well that the Kind would of allowed settling once those lands were properly mapped and soldiers were available to deal with local inhabitants. However it was easier for them to jump up and down trying to inspire hatred not only in their King but in the Natives that controlled the land first.
Now what is the most cherished right that the usa constitution is supposed to provide to everyone equally? I know many people are saying the right to bear arms. However read that carefully.
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Now Freedictionary.com defines militia: 1. An army composed of ordinary citizens rather than professional soldiers. 2. A military force that is not part of a regular army and is subject to call for service in an emergency. 3. The whole body of physically fit civilians eligible by law for military service.
An army that is filled by a draft is considered to be a citizen army and not a volunteer or professional army. Various state guard units are called up in emergencies. The whole body of well of eligible citizens really does not qualify. Since it is not a well regulated. Well regulated or better, under control, militia. They did not care about the common person's rights. They were already thinking of a police state. However this is not the right that most people say is the most important.
What happened to the right to free speech? When did people really get the right to free speech? In 1791 when the first amendment (of the bill of rights) said.
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 a redress of grievances.
Congress shall make no law. Congress shall make no law. CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW!!! Well would someone then explain to me why Congress passed so many different sedition laws? Sedition laws made it illegal to criticize the government. It made you a traitor for speaking up. Even the famous case where the Supreme Court Justice stated, "Free Speech is limited by the concept of shouting FIRE in a crowded movie theatre. Where you speech can cause imminent harm, it is limited." That seems reasonable enough. The only problem the Justice was comparing criticizing the government to shouting fire in a crowded movie theatre! It was not until 1964, Alabama vs. The NY Times that there was true freedom of speech. A redneck ass sheriff took the NY Times to court saying that the way they glamorized Dr King made it hard for him to maintain law in his jurisdiction. The sedition laws were finally struck down. So in 1964 the usa finally got free speech for all citizens. Now I honestly wonder how much has been lost with the various patriot acts. I guess 37 years of free speech was way too much.
Without going on and boring any of you anymore, I just want to close out with what I believe the constitution and founding fathers represent and did. All men are created equal. That is always said so many damn times I find it annoying. If all men are created equal, why does justice seem to be related directly to how much money you have? What the founding fathers really wanted was power. What they were really saying was. All well to do, educated, land owning, white men were created equal. This really did set the stage of the next 231 years of action in the usa. Even the Apostle Paul said you judge a church by its works. So I judge the usa by its works and not what it says. Faith without works is dead. So are pretty words without works equally dead.
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This so proves (in my eyes) several things I preach. How inheritance passes money and power into the hands of those who are not capable. This also proves how these people are spoiled and think they are better than everyone else. It also shows how smug they are in their attitude that they are better than others. Finally it proves how they are fucking coward fucks that do not deserve a goddamn thing, not even fucking pity!
She cries for her mommy? Fuck her!
She has to be in isolation 23 hours a day. Because if you think being locked up as a male is bad. Women get downright psychotic! Fuck I wish some ghetto momma would get ahold of Paris and rip the living shit out of the bitch. Ofcourse Paris would sue and get all kinds of pity from her fans. Does not matter shit like that happens all the time in jails anyways.
She had a complete disrespect for law, thinking she was above it. On probation for driving while license suspended or revoked and what does she do, she drives anyways. Then cries for mommy and says it is not right.
This whining bitch is worth 500 million dollars. What she does and what she wants will affect the lives of thousands, if not more, in an adverse manner. We can even say that some of her actions may be responsible for the deaths of people that she considers not even human. They are more like pets, because they are beneath her.
People get real. This is the enemy. They are weak! They are soft! They have no right to be in their position of wealth and power. The only reason they stay in power is because of those they hire. The people that are hungry for power. The people that want to belong in their clique. The problem with society is that us, the modern field slaves, are not willing to kill the masters, not willing to kill the house slaves and not willing to kill the overseers. Instead we are complacent. Or worse, some of use strive to become an overseer, a house slave, thinking we will be accepted by the masters as equals. They will always look down at us. If you do not understand or accept that, you have no clue...
By William Booth and Peter Perl Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, June 8, 2007; 4:30 PM
LOS ANGELES, June 8 -- A sobbing, shouting Paris Hilton was led from the courtroom Friday and ordered by a judge to return to jail to serve out the remainder of her 45-day sentence.
"It's not right," yelled Hilton, rising from her seat at the defendant's table.
"Mom! Mom! Mom!" she cried out to her mother, Kathy, who collapsed in tears in the front row of the courtroom.
Hilton, who was brought from her home to the court in handcuffs in a sheriff's car, entered the courtroom red-eyed and trembling, and she cried throughout the hour-long hearing, dabbing her face with tissues, biting her knuckles, and shaking her head. She sat slumped at the table throughout the proceeding, wearing a gray sweater, her blond hair pinned up.
Hilton was released from the county jail Thursday by Sheriff Lee Baca because of an undisclosed medical condition, and the sheriff said she would serve the duration of her term confined to her home in the hills above Sunset Strip, wearing an electronic ankle bracelet to monitor her movements. Late in the day, however, she was ordered back to court Friday so Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer could review the situation.
But the hearing was delayed after Hilton's efforts to participate over a telephone link were turned down by the judge and sheriff's deputies were dispatched to her home to bring her to court.
Sauer rejected the argument of Hilton's lawyer, Richard Hutton, who said the court did not have the power to overrule a county sheriff.
Assistant City Attorney Dan Jeffries said "no good cause" was shown by the sheriff for overruling the judge's earlier decision that Hilton serve her time in jail. Jeffries said Hilton's early release "erodes confidence in the judicial system."
Hutton offered to have a private hearing in the judge's chambers to discuss Hilton's condition, but Sauer declined. The judge said he had been promised a medical explanation for her release, but never received it.
Hilton was led off sobbing by sheriff's deputies, while her mother cried and nearly fell to her knees.
On Monday, she began serving her sentence for violating the terms of her probation by driving with a suspended license following a drunk-driving plea. Hilton had been kept in 23-hour-a-day isolation in a small cell at the women's jail, and the gossip columns have alternatively reported that she was crying and not eating, or was holding up and doing fine.
This was originally written on: Saturday, May 26, 2006
Here we go again. I wonder how much time I waste attacking conspiracy theories? I wonder how much anger and sweat goes into trying to show people how illogical they are. I swear it has become a religion. People do not want to hear or deal with anything that does not support what they are saying 100%.
The government brought down the towers! The government? The Bush administration. The same idiots that cannot plan far enough ahead to foresee looting and problems that would happen in Iraq. Yet you want me to believe that in less than eight months after taking office they were able to plan and organize this massive 9/11 conspiracy you give them credit for? To assassinate this idiot all you have to do is send him a bag of pretzels. If he eats without supervision he is liable to choke to death. I know, it is the entire machine that did it, not just the Bush administration or even the Neocons. Then why in the fuck do you support a democrat or a republican that says something a little off center for the party. They have to be part of the conspiracy, or how the fuck did they get the job? Let me back up and look at this slowly and logically. I am sorry if I repeat anything from previous rants that I have made on the subject, but the damn facts have not changed!
The Twin Towers came down in a controlled demolition. Where is your proof? I see the films two engineer students showed. How many buildings have they imploded? How much explosives does it take to implode a building? How many man hours to set this up? If you go to implosionworld.com you will find that the largest building ever imploded was in Philly and it took 12,000 pounds of explosives to do. Now since Sept. 11 was on a Tuesday, when did they plant all these explosives? Controlled Demolition Incorporated is one of the foremost companies in the world for implosions. They imploded a building in Detroit which was a little smaller than bldg 7. CDI reports:
CDI's 12-person loading crew took 24 days to place 4,118 separate charges in 1,100 locations on columns on nine levels of the complex. Over 36,000 ft of detonating cord and 4,512 non-electric delay elements were installed in CDI's implosion initiation system, some to create the 36 primary implosion sequences and another 216 micro-delays to keep down the detonation overpressure from the 2,728 lbs of explosives which would be detonated during the demolition.
So when in the fuck did they find time to plant all the explosives needed to bring down both towers? Who had ever been under the towers at night? Well I have. I can tell you first hand that there is all kinds of shit going on at night there. You got cleaning going on, restocking, security, maintenance, etc…
"But don't you understand, that is the cover they need!"
The cover to bring over 12,000 lbs of high explosives into the towers?
"YES!"
Sigh! Okay I will play along. What kind of detonators did they use? Can't use wireless. If you have ever driven through a construction site that is blasting you will see signs all over. "Turn off all cell phones and two way radios" This is to eliminate any risk of such signals setting off explosives. The Twin Towers had a number of cellular repeaters on top, not to mention television and radio. Then take in account that I bet you there is not a city in the usa with more cell phones than NYC. So I guess wireless is out. Can't use timers. What if a plane misses, than the building implodes without any plane that hit it? Oh fuck! That would be embarrassing. So I guess you have to hardwire everything. Maybe if everything is kept in emergency stairways it will not be noticed. But wait all those fireman went up those stairways, they did not say anything about the place was wired to blow.
So to wire these buildings would of taken weeks if not months of preparation and effort. Now the longer it takes to wire these buildings, the greater the risk of getting caught or found out. Yet for weeks or months these buildings were carefully wired without ever attracting any attention? Without any explosives ever being found? Without anything out of the ordinary ever being noticed?
I have already attacked the way the towers were constructed in previous rants and really do not feel like repeating myself there. However I will address the cover up and one thing that really bothers me.
So not only do you want me to believe the government planned and executed 9/11, but you want me to believe they covered it up to avoid getting busted by the american people? They planned, executed and covered up something of this magnitude, in the most highly populated city in the usa? Yet they could not plot, plan and execute the discovery of Weapons of Mass Destruction in a country the size of Iraq that was completely occupied by the military? Hell Saddam never had any real WMDs the Iraqi's designed. What he had was mostly made in the usa. It came from Rumsfeld when he was a part of the Reagan Administration. It was to help them against the Iranians. So all they had to do was dig up some outdated ordinance, march some reporters through a secure area, showing off what they found. Then destroy it for the safety of everyone. Nice, simple and neat. However that did not happen? Why? Because these jackasses cannot think that far ahead that is why!
This leaves the Congressional hearings as proof of what the government did or did not know. Now it is a fact that they were warned about a plot to attack the usa. The question is: what did they do with this information? They could have discredited it, not believing a word of it. Thusly not taking it seriously and showing their own incompetence. Which is to be honest, the most likely answer when you look at the record these morons have. They could have allowed the attacks to happen in the hope of drumming up support for all their policies. Now this is less likely and a whole lot more difficult to prove. To get a smoking gun that they did this would not only get these fuckers hung on the gallows like Saddam, but it would end the Republican Party as a political force forever. The libertarians would come up as the friend of business and the rich. I am not sure what the Born Again Christians would do. How are you going to prove this was their intent?
So tell me again how can this happen? Not how can an implosion bring down the towers. Of course an implosion can bring down the towers, what goes up can come down. How did they organize it, how did they set it up, how did they execute it. Without it being found out before hand? When you think about that, remember this. The more people you get involved in the plot, the greater the risk of it being found out. So think about the how, before you accept the what if.
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What has changed? Only that it is more obvious today than ever before that problems are class based and not racial. Racism is only good for keeping those who are considered no better than animals fighting each other rather than fighting them. We are all like pit bulls fighting each other in a dog fight for our master's pleasure. Trying our best to please them while killing ourselves. Anyone that loves their pit bull would never fight the dog, that is fucking cruel.
Not a happy parable, but an effective one.
How much longer will we continue to be at each other's throats? Rather than drag the assholes to justice that deserve it! Will we pass the problem on to our children so we may not suffer, yet they may suffer more. Oh our parents could of risked life and limb to make the world a better place. However we all know what happened in the 60s. People in undeveloped countries all over the world risked their lives for freedom from oppression. The West used military force as it could spare to put down as many said actions as they could. Meanwhile the hope of any revolution in the West was destroyed by stoned hippies. YES! That is right, stoned hippies! These people thought they could get high, do civil disobedience and then instantly the revolution would come and the world would be a better place. Well that is a load of bullshit if I ever heard of one. To tear down this system it will take hardwork and alot of bloodshed. You cannot just shut down your college, get high and sing folk tunes. WTF? You have been taken care of all your life and you want the revolution just to appear and everything to be okay? Get fucking real!
Then after you have destoyed the system. Then you need to build something better, something that will be more resistant to corruption. You have to right the wrongs of the system that was here before. All of that is going to take even more work than tearing it down. So you cannot get high and just hope everything will get better.
So our parents failed us. Maybe some of you are young enough to say our grandparents failed us. The West was spread very thin trying to maintain it's power in the world. The opportunity for real and lasting change through a violent revolution was great at home. Instead it became a lost opportunity. Oh they claim so much progress was made. Really? Where? I do not see it. I see a temporary bit of progress that was made. However that has been rolled back and now things are worse than they were before! Things are so bad that it will cost more in human lives now to make the world a better place than before. So are we going to pay that cost? Are we going to be brave enough to do what our parents and grandparents were not? Or are we going to pass the problem on to the next generation? Even though the cost to our children and grandchildren will be even greater than the costs we are facing. The saddest thing is that another generation of corporate criminals, another generation of people born into wealth and power will continue to profit off of the suffering of the masses. Nothing will be done if we do not do it.
If we do not do anything, what will be said in 30 more years? What will be the problems they face?
This was originally written on: Sunday, May 20, 2007
Iraq is a Four Letter Word
In the present environment Iraq is rapidly becoming a four letter word. What is so commonplace in the usa, americans are starting to blame the victim. I have heard many people say that nuclear weapons should be used (well they are in a way, look up depleted uranium and its use in Iraq) and many people have even said that everyone there should be killed and it turned into a colony. This in itself is disturbing; however it comes from a complete lack of understanding of the Iraqi people, their Islamic faith and the Arabic neighbors who share their faith.
At the start of 2007 the usa military was trying to prove a connection to Iran with captured arms. I got a newsflash for you. Of course there is a connection to Iran and those fighting the usa occupation. There is also a connection to Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, and even Turkey and Kuwait. Anyone that knows even the most minor bit about Islam will understand that it is a Muslim's duty to assist any other Muslim that is being repressed by an infidel. This means that the Freedom Fighters are getting support (to some degree) from all the above countries and many more that I cannot begin to list. It is only a question of if the support is very minor so they can say they supported the effort if need be or if the support is complete and without question. However it is the duty of every Muslim to support their Muslim brothers against the occupation.
This mentality of all or nothing is much in part thanks to the Crusades of the Middle Ages. It was the duty of every Christian head of state to do their part to help free the Holy Land from the infidels. Heads of state reacted to different degrees. Much as different Islamic countries are giving different degrees of support to the Freedom Fighters. Oh you can say the usa is supported by Saudi Arabia any number of other countries. However those countries have different factions within them who are attempting to gain or hold on to power. They also have a faith that has a history of real repression and is more militant due to that. So yes the Iraqi Freedom Fighters are being supported by their Muslim brothers to different degrees. If the usa military wants to stop that support you may as well plan on occupying all countries that have an Islamic majority.
Also recently I have noticed the usa media finally admitting that things are out of control in Iraq. Mortar shells are landing in the Green Zone on a regular basis, with targeting becoming better. The usa army claims that they cannot fire artillery back because the mortars are being fired from residential areas. Well first off you built the green zone in the middle of the capital, so of course there will be a buffer of citizens around you. Second, the civilians and the "Iraqi Security Forces" are not stopping or assisting usa military in the stopping of strikes against usa targets. Why? Maybe because you are not welcome? Third, not willing to launch artillery because of a residential area? Considering that the usa military has been making war against the Iraqi people as a whole, it seems a little late to try to win hearts and minds. When your soldiers make random arrests, lock people up and torture them (then ignore the Geneva Convention and justify it legally), rape their women/children and do one thing that even Saddam did not do. Degrade them in a way to make them feel less than human. I think it is a little late to be worrying about a few civilian causalities. Maybe this should have been tried from day one? Maybe that Captain that shot a wounded Freedom Fighter should have been hung from the neck till death like Saddam? Or did the Captain also shoot wounded americans that were beyond the help of medical science? Thusly doing a mercy killing on americans as well as Iraqis? Little fucking late to think you can actually win the hearts and minds of the people. The long history of usa oppression continues and Iraq is just another page.
With this being an election year Iraq has become the topic that no one really wants. Oh political leaders would love to ignore it. However it is really impossible. Since it cannot be avoided everyone is making all sorts of promises on how they would deal with it. Irrational promises one and all. "I will stay the distance." or "We need a timetable for withdraw." are the two irrational extremes. Does staying the distance mean till every Iraqi is dead who does not accept a usa puppet regime? Timetable for withdraw? Create utter anarchy then when it becomes too much to deal with run away. Well obviously both will lead to Iraqi genocide. The first under the direct hands of usa Storm Troopers. The second with Iraq becoming ground zero for a multi-factional civil war, where everyone tries to copy what Saddam did and become the strong man of Iraq. Every death will be due to the errors and greed of the usa, in either case. It does not matter if you pull the trigger, supply the gun, or tear down the respect for law that causes the bloodshed. You end up responsible for the bloodshed. Democans cannot blame the Republicrats, because you voted to give Bush authority for the invasion. You were Hawkish when it suited your purpose and now you speak like a dove because it suits your purpose now. Both of you and all of you disgust me! There is not one good person in the lot. However that is another subject.
I am going to do something I do not normally do. I am going to offer a solution. It is not a perfect solution and it will not stop the bloodshed. However it is one that will help limit the loss of life with no order of importance placed on the heritage of any victim. I do not expect this to be followed or taken seriously, because it does not go well with usa interests or the patriotic mentality that exists in the usa. However here we go…
First thing that needs to be done, is the usa needs to give up any hope of having a usa friendly government inside Iraq. Read between the lines, a usa puppet government. If you truly want to set up something that resembles a democracy, well you are going to have to accept the fact that the usa is hated not only in Iraq, but in the entire region. If you do not understand why, than you do not understand history! Maybe by allowing the will of the people to become the rule of law, you might just develop the start of a little good will? However that is step one.
Step two would be to involve the entire Middle East (with the exception of Israel for obvious reasons). The only way you are going to get usa Storm Troopers out of there and not leave behind a bloody civil war would be forces from various Arab nations to assist a legitimate government during a rebuilding process. Any effort to keep usa Storm Troopers there will only build upon the seeds of hate that were planted. You also have to realize that fellow Islamic leaders have influence over the various factions inside Iraq, since I have already admitted they are supplying and training them to a degree.
You can see why it will not happen. Because the usa more resembles a person that will not admit when they are wrong. The more things go bad, the harder they try to make them become the lie they said. The more obvious it becomes they are wrong. Another reason anything but a puppet government is not acceptable in Iraq to the usa. It is profitable. Not only the profits made by the military industry and military support industries. Also the profits to be made from oil and rebuilding Iraq. The companies doing these are mostly american, they have lobbyist that influence the House and Senate. How many children of millionaires or billionaires have died in Iraq? This is a dream from some construction contractors. I am reminded of a scene from Apocalypse Now. "Every night Charlie blows the bridge and everyday engineers rebuild it. Just so a general can report to Washington that the bridge is open." People die not for a cause, not for freedom. People die for profit margins and the career/ego of the wealthy and powerful.
The point is, Iraq is becoming a four letter word. Because people do not see a profanity rationally. They look at it culturally as offensive, even though they never face the facts. In politics (usa and UK mainly) Iraq is a four letter word. All over the West, when you see people trying to justify what is going on, Iraq is becoming a four letter word. Profanities are not rational, it comes from culture. Or in this case, cultural misunderstanding.
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