Monthly Archives: July 2002

Military and defense — 1 Comment
18
Jul 02

Perpetual War means we need your children

NEW LAW LETS ARMY GET INFO ON HIGH SCHOOL KIDS:


    — U.S. military recruiters have the authority to demand that education officials turn over the names, addresses and phone numbers of high-school students under a new federal law.
    President Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” law orders school bosses from New York and across the country to comply with the new edict – or risk losing federal funds. …

    But U.S. Rep. John Isakson (R-Ga.) told The Post he pushed for the amendment after a school district in his area refused to provide military recruiters with information to contact students, which he found reprehensible.

If you’re reading this and you’re not yet 18, do not register for selective service. It is unconstitutional. I wish I had known better. Do not let anyone tell you it is your patriotic duty to commit murder.

Politics — Comments Off on Buchanan is right again
18
Jul 02

Buchanan is right again

From World Net Daily:


    Non-state actors have adopted their own rules of warfare to justify what they do, even as we justified Nagasaki. To us, Timothy McVeigh is a mass-murderer and a terrorist. To McVeigh, the United States was the enemy on which he had declared war, and he attacked a U.S. command post with unfortunate “collateral damage” – i.e., the kids in that daycare center. Seeing himself as a soldier, McVeigh was no more remorseful than the British bomber pilots who did Dresden.

    Of Nagasaki and Dresden, we say, “That was war!” But Osama bin Laden declared war on us, and al-Qaida says it is waging war to drive Americans out of their region, as we once drove the British out of ours. We reply, “You are terrorists!” They reply: Before 9-11, our targets were U.S. embassies, Marine barracks, the USS Cole and Khobar Towers – all political or military command sites.

Military and defense — Comments Off on Blowback or Orwellian calculation?
18
Jul 02

Blowback or Orwellian calculation?

CIA funneled Islamic terrorists into the United States for training:


    The mystery about the bizarre situation disappeared around 1994, well after his departure from the foreign service. A one-time colleague told him Saudi Arabia was being used to funnel Islamic militants to the United States for training before heading for the battlefield in Afghanistan. “I got the whole story and it all hung together,” he said.

    “They were running people (to the consulate) from the CIA’s recruiting office,” he said, obviously exasperated that he wasn’t told at the time. He said the entire consular operation was run by the CIA. The State Department had no comment on Springmann’s allegations except to say final authority over visa decisions rests with the consular officer in charge, not with Springmann, a junior officer. Looking back on his experience in Jiddah, Springmann said he found the idea of using the Jiddah consulate as a US gateway for Islamic militants to be “sleazy and disreputable.”

General — Comments Off on .mil buddies
17
Jul 02

.mil buddies

17 Jul, Wed, 10:13:12 BELVOIR-SUN1.IERN.DISA.MIL Netscape 3 Other

No referrer on this one. Defense Intelligence Systems Agency.

General — Comments Off on Quotably Big Brother
17
Jul 02

Quotably Big Brother

“Don’t get enamored of the truth. There’s no money in it.”

— George Herbert Walker Bush

If you’ve ever seen the documentary Feed you’ll see what degenerates the Bushes are. When Papa Bush didn’t know the camera was rolling he talked at length with Larry King about the types of psychoactive drugs he was on including sleeping pills like Halcyon. When I worked at a photolab here in Austin I saw some pictures of George Bush the First looking very intoxicated. His hair was greasy and mussed up. He face looked like melting wax, sweaty and puffy.

Politics — Comments Off on Richard Boucher, little Mussolini
17
Jul 02

Richard Boucher, little Mussolini

Regarding the detainment of Joel Mowbray by State Department thugs:


    On Friday, after Mr. Mowbray cited the cable and said he had it with him, Mr. Boucher said:

    “I do have to point out, sir, that you’ve written a lot of things and said a lot of things recently. You said that visas are decided by travel agents, and that’s not true, is it? You said that this is the only country that we do accept documents from third parties, and that’s not true, is it? You’ve said that performance of Foreign Service officers is measured on courtesy, and that’s not true, is it? So let’s be careful about the facts.”

    Mr. Mowbray responded, “I am being careful, and no need to smear the work.”

I’d like to punch Boucher in his smug prep-school face.

General — Comments Off on The Disappeared: US Military Tribunals
17
Jul 02

The Disappeared: US Military Tribunals

Ex-U.S. officials warn that U.S. policies threaten repression:


    “When I was in the Carter administration, I was in Argentina and I saw mothers in the streets protesting, asking for the names of those being held, those who had disappeared,” Christopher said.

    “We must be very careful in this country of not holding people without revealing their names. It leads to the ‘disappeared,”‘ he said. “The names of people should be revealed so that relatives will know what has become of their loved ones. It’s a good precaution against having the ‘disappeared.”‘

General — Comments Off on Mind boggling
16
Jul 02

Mind boggling

It blows my mind that a dupe like John Walker Lindh can get 20 years in the federal pen for being a footsoldier for the Taleban, and yet the very people who created the Taleban, Osama bin Laden, Al Quaeda, Saddam Hussein, ad nauseum, still draw breath and a fat government paycheck. I’m talking about corrupt individuals in the highest places of power in this country. What are we fighting for here? The opportunity to get eaten by wolves in sheep’s clothing? The freedom to be enslaved? Humbug.

Politics — 1 Comment
15
Jul 02

The Beast Wants Loose

The Pentagon wants to weaken congressional oversight, the checks and balances of our system, and wants more ‘freedom’.


    The Pentagon has proposed eliminating requirements for filing hundreds of reports on its activities to Congress every year. Pentagon officials also are drafting proposals to ban strikes by contract workers, eliminate federal personnel rules protecting civilian workers at the Pentagon and bypass environmentalists in Congress.

    Some proposals are more provocative. They include allowing the Pentagon to send its initiatives directly to Capitol Hill before other agencies could review them. Once there, the legislation would require Congress to vote quickly, with only limited debate.

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