WTF People Wake up or It's Game Over Man

I often wonder why young Americans did nothing to protest the outrageous criminal regime that had taken control of the United States in 2004.  Where was the resistance? Two illegal wars, a growing police state, and several trillion dollars stolen by criminal bankers from the American people -- why didn't you protest, resist- burn tires in the streets?

Having grown up during the Vietnam War, I was immersed in the protest movement and vibrant anti-war music and culture of the 1960s.  "Lucky Man" by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer is a good example of the anti-war music of the time.  I find it odd that there is no similar anti-war movement or music today.  Faced with never-ending wars in the Middle East, today's youth seem completely apathetic and apolitical.

The photo of a summary execution by a South Vietnamese police chief showed the lawlessness of the war.

During those years, the United States was engaged in an undeclared war of aggression in Southeast Asia that nobody really understood.  Every week, the American people saw actual photos from the war in LIFE magazine and could easily see through the deception that we were fighting "communism".   After 8 years of war in Afghanistan and 18 years in Iraq, however, there is no similar photo-journalism of comparable quality coming from the "embedded" journalists covering these wars.  Likewise, there is virtually no anti-war music or protest movement against the criminal wars being fought in our name.

WHY?

The famous photo of Vietnamese children burned with napalm changed U.S. public opinion about the war.

An x-KGB agent said "Ideological subversion is the process which is legitimate and open. You can see it with your own eyes.... It has nothing to do with espionage... in reality the main emphasis of the KGB is NOT in the area of intelligence at all. According to my opinion, and the opinions of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85 percent is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare. What it basically means is to change the perception of reality of every American [so] that despite the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country."

So when Fox news or any of their Far right pundits spread one of the hate stories, they change the very soul of American reality to the point that is easily manipulated. 

If you announce a big enough lie and will repeat it, then people at the end will believe it" Mein Kampf, Adolph Hitler.

I will point out one of many stories for you. 

The constant rant that Obama is not from America. Proof can not dissuade them.  and now, thanks to people like the Fox News, birther's, etc. 1 out of 5 Americans believe that he is Muslim. Twice as many people believe this now than did a year ago. See how it works now?

If you are one that believe he is a Muslim. You will fight hard for what you "know to be true"

If you know he is not a Muslim. These people have two choices. Most likely, you will just sit there with your thumb up your butt. 

Us older people, we have seen this dance and we know the tune, We have stood up against the hysterical crowd before you were born and too long afterwords.

"He can not be president because he will run the government by and for his church!"

"He is controlled by foreign interests."

"A person of that religion can not and should not be president."

Sound familiar?

No, I am not talking about Barrack Obama. These are the reasons given for why John F. Kennedy should not be president because he was Catholic.

Your choice now! sit there and do nothing, we all lose to the rabble. Your freedoms will be taken away one by one as they have been but you have not been concerned to notice. This is how the Nazis took over Germany.

The controlled media today censors and sanitizes the images and information about the wars and the human suffering the aggression has caused to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan.  The public is kept in the dark about the true costs of the illegal wars, both human and financial.  Most importantly, the U.S. media keeps powerful images like these from the Vietnam and Iraq wars off the pages of our newspapers.

After nearly 19 years of fighting and bombing Iraqis, very few images of the human cost of the war have been published.  The ones that have been seen are horrible beyond belief and reveal the criminal nature of the war of aggression.

A U.S. Marine killing injured Iraqis in a mosque in Fallujah, November 13, 2004 (NBC/AP)

Cristopher Bollyn's blog pushed me to write this though I do not represent his views.

Steve

Rebublicans Hump bp's Leg!

  
WTF!!!!!!!Like the well paid whore dogs they are, Republicans are sticking up for bp! WTF!!!!!!!

Mississippi governor Haley Barbor (R) said that “It’s just as possible that what happens here will be manageable and of moderate and even minimal impact.” Barbour further went on to caution against “washing our face in it” but said the spill could still render the ocean safe enough to allow “jumping off the boat to ski.” 

Will killing all the animals in the Gulf of Mexico make the water safe for you wussy governor?

When the Obama administration did something useful and scored the $20 billion escrow account, Barbour expressed “concern” that the fund could cut into BP’s profits.

BTW, If you didn't know, bp's profits for the first quarter of 2010 were $5.6 BILLION.

Sen. Inhofe (R) of Oklahoma blocked a bill to raise the cap on corporate oil spill liability from the ridiculously piddling amount of $80 million. "Any company that can't afford to clean up its own messes doesn't deserve the right to drill off-shore.

Michele Bachmann (R) called the escrow account a “redistribution of wealth fund.”

  

Former Texas Representative Dick Armey (R) said that Obama lacks the constitutional authority to set up such a fund.

 

Georgia Representative Tom Price (R) said, "BP's reported willingness to go along with the White House's new fund suggests that the Obama administration is hard at work exerting its brand of Chicago-style shakedown politics. These actions are emblematic of a politicization of our economy that has been borne out of this administration's drive for greater power and control."

Joe Barton (R) of Texas, The top recipient of oil and gas industry campaign contributions of $1,447,880. left this steaming pile of dog shit on the Congressional Senate floor after his massive leg hump. 

I'm speaking now totally for myself. I'm not speaking for the Republican Party, I'm not speaking for anybody in the House of Representatives but myself. But I'm ashamed of what happened in the White House yesterday. I think it is a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation could be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown--in this case, a $20 billion shakedown--with the attorney general of the United States, who is legitimately conducting a criminal investigation, and has every right to do so to protect the interests of the American people, participating in what amounts to a $20 billion slush fund that's unprecedented in our nation's history, that's got no legal standing, and which sets, I think, a terrible precedent for the future ... There is no question that BP is liable for the damages. But we have a due process system where we go through hearings, in some cases court cases, litigation, and determine what those damages are and when those damages should be paid. So I'm only speaking for myself, I'm not speaking for anybody else, but I apologize. I do not want to live in a country where any time a citizen or a corporation does something that is legitimately wrong, he's subjected to some sort of political pressure that is again, in my words, amounts to a shakedown. So I apologize. 

So please leave the country! Only the oil companies will miss you bitch.

And the "CMA*" award goes to.........

Republican House leaders John Boehner (R), Eric  Cantor (R) and Mike Pence (R)  whom came out with the following statement.

"BP itself has acknowledged that responsibility for the economic damages lies with them and has offered an initial pledge of $20 billion dollars for that purpose,"

*Cover My Ass, not Country Music Awards.

 

With all these R's coming to poor, small bp's rescue from the tyrannical Obama, They sounds like a bunch of pirates to me!

WTF? people! These republicans are sending into the hole while pushing you off a cliff at the same time. These unamerican bitches do not care for you the SMALL people. Forget them when you vote, as if you could actually drag your sorry ass off the couch. You won't vote or you have no idea who you are voting for, such as the case of Greene-D in South Carolina. All you can do is sit and bitch, bitch.

"ARRRRR, we are here to plunder you! ARRRRRRRR" 

 Steve

Mission Statement

Sensibility, thought and decorum is vanishing into the Ether.

I find the need to ask questions of those in power, think that they are and those who are not. To comment on my observations and generally just sit here and ask....WTF?

Follow along as I try to amuse you while I amuse myself.

Just another Old Fart in the wind.

Steve