Wow. This is hella cool. Make your very own South Park character. I made mine to resemble me.
Monthly Archives: June 2002
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Jun 02
Great Site!
I just came across New World Disorder. Awesome site. Here are some goodies I found there:
- Air force colonel accuses Bush of letting 9/11 attacks happen for political gain: “He did nothing to warn the American people because he needed this war on terrorism,” wrote Colonel Butler, who is nearing retirement. “His daddy had Saddam and he needed Osama. His presidency was going nowhere.”
- Psy-ops teams sells war to Afghans: “It’s just like advertising, like ‘Buy Coca-Cola’,” Maj. Patrick Flanagan, of the 354 Tactical Psy-Ops Company from Bagram Air Base, said Saturday. Except the product that these marketers are selling to Afghans is the American presence on their soil.
08
Jun 02
My Hero!
I worship the ground that Greg Palast walks on. He is one guy doing some great investigative journalism. He needs to start a school for this. Anyway, good interview with him from June 6, 2002 at Buzzflash.com.
The media said Chavez is unpopular. Where’d they get this? In fact, not only did they say he was unpopular, but they put out as a fact that his popularity dropped to 30 percent. Where’s the 30 percent figure? Who did you get that from? You know what it was? It was the leaders of the coup. The leaders of the coup owned the media, literally, in Venezuela. And they issued these statements. Well, the truth is that there’s only one poll that counts. It’s called a presidential election. I know that George Bush doesn’t have much faith in a presidential election, but Chavez won 58 percent of the vote recently. And I got to tell you — no one doubts that he won 58 percent of the vote, because the opposition controls the electoral machinery.
Bravo!
Oh, and, by the way, the American Ambassador Shapiro ran down to Mira Flores after the coup and had his picture taken with the coup leader, Mr. Pedro Carmona himself. Then, the U.S. had the nerve to say we weren’t endorsing the coup. Since when does the United States ambassador go running off within 24 hours of a democratically-elected president’s kidnapping, and has his picture taken with the kidnappers? I mean, why didn’t Shapiro just go off and meet with the guys who killed Danny Pearl? It would have been about as appropriate.
08
Jun 02
On the lighter-side
Okay, I’ve been prone to rant the past few days…well the past few months. Anyway, I’m not a one-trick pony! I’m not just an anti-Bush-Clinton-evil pissed off American. I also enjoy kicking back, having a Shiner Bock, and watching Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. Good stuff.
08
Jun 02
Ronald Reagan: Stool Pigeon Fascist
Good article from USA Today showing how the FBI lies, lies, lies and then when they get caught in a lie with hard evidence they finally tell the truth. What makes anyone think things are different today? I’m sure most ground level FBI agents have noble intentions, but unfortunately the FBI and the CIA are tools of murderers and thieves. In recent weeks, we have seen stories of FBI complicity with the mafia, CIA buffoonery, and now this story finally coming out despite the best attempts at killing the story.
This article also shows what an evil, contemptible piece of crap Ronald Reagan was. I would say IS but the man’s brain has long been swiss cheese. He probably can’t even wipe his own once evil ass:
The documents obtained by the Chronicle show just how extensive these activities were in California, how Kerr and others were targeted, and how eagerly Reagan worked to quash protests.
Gov. Reagan intended to mount a “psychological warfare campaign” against subversives, file tax evasion and other charges against them, and do anything else it could to restore moral order, Herbert Ellingwood, Reagan’s legal affairs secretary, told the FBI in a request for confidential information about people on campus.
The records show FBI director J. Edgar Hoover agreed to provide such information from the agency’s files.
“This has been done in the past,” the director said, “and has worked quite successfully.”
The Office of Ronald Reagan referred the Chronicle’s questions to Edwin Meese III, Reagan’s chief of staff as governor. Meese said the FBI, as far as he knew, gave Reagan no special political help, and that he did not remember planning any activities against “subversives.”
“There was never any concentrated strategy to do these things,” he said.
The documents also show that the FBI tried to protect Reagan from being implicated for lying about his own past as a member of several groups officially deemed subversive by altering his security clearance.
Reports that Reagan informed on his fellow actors at a time when the FBI was trying to root out suspected subversives have surfaced before, but were downplayed. In 1985, when the FBI released some documents about Reagan, a Reagan spokesman said he had only a “very minor” involvement with the bureau at a time when he was president of the Screen Actors Guild.
The records obtained by the Chronicle reveal who it was that Reagan and his first wife, Jane Wyman, named during a 1947 meeting with FBI agents: Larry Parks (The Jolson Story), Howard Da Silva (The Lost Weekend) and Alexander Knox (Wilson). Each was later called before the House Un-American Activities Committee and blacklisted in Hollywood.
The new documents also show Reagan’s contacts with the bureau were more extensive than he acknowledged or has been reported: Files show he repeatedly gave the FBI names of people he suspected of being communist over the years.
My favorite part is the justification for trying to destroy the lives of young americans:
In its unsuccessful battle to keep them secret, the agency had said its actions had been proper — that it had merely tried to protect civil order and national security during a time when the nation feared Communism and waged war in Vietnam.
What hubris.
08
Jun 02
Words of Wisdom from the J-Man
I have a few things to say for you. Haven’t we learned anything? Non-violence tastes great and is less filling. Remember the Sermon on the Mount from Sunday School?
- Matt 5:5: Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the earth.
- Matt 5:7: Blessed are the merciful, For they shall obtain mercy
- Matt 5:9: Blessed are the peacemakers, For they shall be called sons of God.
- Matt 5:20: Ye have heard that it was said of them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment.
- Matt 39: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy
coat, let him have thy cloak also.
41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
08
Jun 02
Cheney is a murderer.
Dick Cheney should think seriously about having another heart attack. It might do everyone in the United States some good. He is absolutely insane. He reminds me of Hitler in the last days. I wasn’t there, of course, but you catch my drift. He wants nothing more than to get revenge on Hussein for surviving ‘the Gulf War’. Nevermind that Hussein is a creation of the CIA like Osama bin Laden. Nevermind that Cheney is a corrupt charlatan. Because he wields power through our bumbling, inept leader we will invade Iraq. Hussein will most likely survive, but untold thousands or millions of human lives will be lost. And for what? So some fat, unhealthy piece of trash can get his rocks off with the rest of the leeches who draw breath pulling the levers of this country? On the subject of Iraq, regarding why exactly we have to invade them and blow their country to smithereens the justification has always been that they have WMD (weapons of mass destruction), and that they’re a rogue nation. Well, shit. Half the world produces WMD, and most of these WMD were manufactured by the US. This sounds like a bunch of hypocrisy to me.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. What we need to do is shrug off these mental bonds that make us think we need these assholes, get bin Laden, Bush, Cheney, Hussein, Powell, and all the rest of their ilk and maroon them on a desert island where we can record the ultimate season of ‘Survivor’. We don’t need them. They’re not helpful, and all they do is get innocent people killed. Most of them are draft-dodgers. This goes for Gore, Clinton, Bush, AND Cheney. It’s the hypocrisy that makes me sick.
08
Jun 02
The Death of America
And so it begins, the end of liberalism in American government and the birth of American-style fascism. The Bush administration is doing everything they can to subvert American tradition by working in deep secrecy to bring forth a huge domestic law enforcement agency. As if the bumbling of the FBI, NSA and the CIA wasn’t enough, Bush recently announced a massive overhaul in the police state by creating the cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security which will have an annual budget of $37.5 billion and will employ 170,000 jack-booted thugs. This makes it the biggest US government department after the Pentagon. Be very afraid.
Strangely, although this is the largest change to the law enforcement bureaucracy in 55 years this new department will have no authority over the FBI or the CIA. It is unclear to me exactly what this huge budget and massive work force will be up to. No doubt checking out subversive, dangerous, terrorist web sites, or looking under rocks for shadowy terrorists. They could go door to door to make sure everyone’s papers are in order. Seriously, 170,000 employees is around the same number as a large-size company like Fedex. That’s a lot of fascist cogs running around taking pictures and making notes. Maybe Americans will get wise before this shit goes too far.
08
Jun 02
Great quotations
I lifted most of these from here.
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“They blow themselves up in order to get at us, and we launch 3 million dollar missiles off of giant floating iron islands 2000 miles away – Who are the real cowards?” — Bill Hicks
“Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone and you are God.” — Jean Rostand, biologist
“The place where optimism flourishes is the lunatic asylum.” — Havelock Ellis
“We live, as we dream – alone.” — Joseph Conrad
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” — Havelock Ellis
“What we call “morals” is simply blind obedience to words of command.” — Havelock Ellis
“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.” — Dante Alighieri
“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.” — Leo Tolstoy
“War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. ” — Leo Tolstoy
“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.” — Leo Tolstoy