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Join the Virtual Sit-In against the MinuteMen
by SWARM the MinuteMen •
Tuesday May 24, 2005 at 07:09 PM
SWARM the Minuntemen invites people from all over the world who oppose racist violence to join the Electronic Disturbance Theatre action on May 27th, 28th and 29th, 2005 to engage in a virtual sit-in on the MinuteMen website during their "Unite to Fight" Summit. // SWARM the Minutemen Invita gente desde todo el mundo quien estan contra la violencia racista a una el accion de Electronic Disturbance Theatre en el 27, 28 y 29 de Mayo, 2005 para un "virtual sit-in" el el sitio de web de los MinuteMen durante sus conferencia de "Unate para Pelear".
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SWARM the Minuntemen invites people from all over the world who oppose racist violence to
join the Electronic Disturbance Theatre action on May 27th, 28th and
29th, 2005 to engage in a virtual sit-in on the MinuteMen website during
their "Unite to Fight" Summit.
Read on for the Electronic Disturbance Theatre call to action.
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
- “The New Colossus,” by the nineteenth-century American poet Emma
Lazarus inscribed on a plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
Dear sisters and brothers,
Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) in solidarity with Swarm The
MinuteMen action will hold a 3 Day Virtual Sit-In starting on May 27th
to May 29th (2005) on the MinuteMen Project. We call on all you to join
us and let the MinuteMen Project know that hard borders are alien in an
age of global interdependence and to the ideals of liberty as a “golden
door” that is open to all. An ideal that so many have died trying to reach.
To Join The Virtual Sit-In On Starting on May 27th Click:
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html
Why we must swarm the MinuteMen:
For Víctor Nicolás Sánchez, Adolfo Pérez Hernández, Daniel Barrientos,
Santos Orozco Aguilar, Raúl Hernández Soria, Sandra Edna Durán, Jesús
Medina Contreras, Edgar Venegas Brambila, José Gutiérrez, Melquíades
Gómez Baca, Martha Rivera
García...
Myth Number 1: Immigrants take jobs away from Americans.
Myth Number 2: Most immigrants are a drain on the U.S. economy or treasury
Myth Number 3: America is being overrun by immigrants.
Myth Number 4: Immigrants aren’t really interested in becoming part of
American society.
Myth Number 5: Immigrants contribute little to American society.
Facts to dispel to these myths from the American Immigration Lawyers
Association: http://www.aila.org/contentViewer.aspx?bc=17,142
We call on you sisters and brothers from all over the world who oppose
the MinuteMen Project and in the name of the 3,500 women, men and
children who have died crossing into “The Land of Liberty” since 1994 to
join the Electronic Disturbance Theatre action on May 27th, 28th and
29th, 2005 to engage in a Virtual Sit-In on the MinuteMen website during
their "Unite to Fight" Summit.
Who are the MinuteMen:
The MinuteMen are a non-governmental group of people vowing to patrol
the US/Mexico border with guns in order to stop migrant people from
crossing the border. They represent an intensification of the trend of
violence towards migrant people and people of color that has increased
since 9/11/2001. While they claim that they are not violent, their very
use and display of deadly weapons is a violent act in itself. How can
guns be used to detain people without being violent? Already there have
been numerous reports of people being forced to lie on the ground by the
MinuteMen and being forced to have their pictures taken with MinuteMen
volunteers, recalling Abu Ghraib style dehumanization.
SWARM the MinuteMen Group Statement:
http://swarmtheminutemen.com/
While the MinuteMen publicly claim to be non-violent, we here at SWARM
know a different face of the MinuteMen. We've received numerous death
threats and threats of violence filled with racial slurs. We plan to
publicly release these soon to let everyone know the exact kind of
hatred the MinuteMen are acting as a lightning rod for, attracting it
and focusing it towards migrant people.
Just as important though, the MinuteMen are a clear result of the
violent, us-versus-them mentality promoted by the Bush administration.
We are intervening into and dancing with the communication systems of
the MinuteMen because along with the physical violence they are
creating, they are extremely conscious of the violent power their
messages have and they had any measure of success thanks to the
complicity the corporate media. Their communications are a critical part
of their mission to send a message to legislators that more
militarization of the border is necessary. Their images and words can't
be separated from the violence of their guns, and both must be stopped.
We refuse to support the United States government's attempts to find a
scapegoat to blame this country's problems on while it bankrupts our
social services, wages wars on the world, sends our brothers, sisters,
friends and neighbors to die and profits off of the whole plan. Who
stands to profit from a more militarized border? Will the same
corporations that made billions in government contracts off of the war
in Iraq like Halliburton and CACI be the same ones to profit from the
war on the border?
We must stand together now to say that this country is made up of
millions of people of many different ethnicities and cultures and that
is due to migration. Migrant people have human rights, regardless of the
government's and the racist's attempts to deny that fact. Until the
United States has a sane immigration policy that allows people to move
as freely as capital and goods do, we will continue to struggle.
Why should you join the Virtual Sit-In On May 27th 2005:
For Benito González Cruz, Benito González Serrano, Javier Rojas
Bracamonte, Juan José Romo Zetina, José Luis Garza, Roberto Acegueda
López, Román Robles Rojas, Reynaldo González Corona and the thousands of
other people who have been murdered for simply trying to cross the
border into what is now the United States and which was once Mexico.
Contact:
For any questions on the Electronic Disturbance Theater’s action in
solidarity with SWARM the MinuteMen contact
Ricardo Dominguez (co-founder of the Electronic Disturbance Theater) at
rdom@thing.net
Electronic Disturbance Theater
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html
See our site for more info:
http://swarmtheminutemen.com
or our mirror:
http://www.autistici.org/swarmtheminutemen/
See our mirror sites to read our original content which our domain
registrar forced us to remove:
http://swarm.mahost.org/
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/swarm/index.php
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SWARM the Minutemen Invita gente desde todo el mundo quien estan contra la violencia
racista a una el accion de Electronic Disturbance Theatre en el 27, 28 y
29 de Mayo, 2005 para un "virtual sit-in" el el sitio de web de los
MinuteMen durante sus conferencia de "Unate para Pelear".
Leer la llamada de accion de Electronic Disturbance Theatre:
Dadme vuestros exhaustos, vuestros pobres,
Vuestras muchedumbres que ansían respirar en libertad,
Los miserables deshechos de vuestras rebosantes orillas.
Mandadlos a todos, a los desamparados, encomendádmelos a mí.
Que yo levanto mi antorcha junto a la puerta dorada
"The New Colossus," de Emma Lazarus, poetisa norteamericana del siglo
XIX, inscrito en una placa en la base de la Estatua de la Libertad.
Queridos hermanas y hermanos,
Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), en solidaridad con la acción
Swarm The MinuteMen, realizará una sentada virtual de 3 días los
próximos 27 al 29 de mayo (2005) contra el sitio de MinuteMen Project.
Convocamos a todos los interesados a unirse a nosotros para hacer saber
al MinuteMen Project que las fronteras infranqueables no pertenecen a la
era de la interdependencia global, ni a los ideales de libertad vista
como "puerta dorada" que está abierta a todos. Un ideal por cuya
consecución muchos han muerto.
Para unirse a la sentada virtual que comienza el 27 de mayo, clicar aquí:
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html
Por qué debemos bloquear MinuteMen:
Por Víctor Nicolás Sánchez, Adolfo Pérez Hernández, Daniel Barrientos,
Santos Orozco Aguilar, Raúl Hernández Soria, Sandra Edna Durán, Jesús Medina
Contreras, Edgar Venegas Brambila, José Gutiérrez, Melquíades Gómez
Baca, Martha Rivera García...
Mito Nº1: Los inmigrantes quitan los puestos de trabajo a los
estadounidenses
Mito Nº2: Tantos inmigrantes consumen la economía de los Estados Unidos
Mito Nº3: Estados Unidos está saturado de inmigrantes
Mito Nº4: Los inmigrantes no están interesados de verdad en formar parte
de la sociedad estadounidense
Mito Nº5: Los inmigrantes apenas contribuyen a la sociedad estadounidense
-American Immigration Lawyers Association, leé aqui para ver porque
esos Mitos no estan verdad:
http://www.aila.org/contentViewer.aspx?bc=17,142
Convocamos a todos los hermanos y hermanas del mundo que se oponen al
Proyecto MinuteMen, y en nombre de los 3500 hombres, mujeres y niños que
han muerto, desde 1994, tratando de alcanzar "La Tierra de la Libertad",
a que os unáis a la acción del Electronic Disturbance Theatre los días
27, 28 y 29 de mayo de 2005, realizando una sentada virtual al web site
del proyecto MinuteMen durante la convocatoria "Unite to Fight"
Quiénes son MinuteMen:
MinuteMen es un grupo no gubernamental cuyos miembros patrullan armados
la frontera México/Estados Unidos impidiendo el paso de inmigrantes.
Representan la intensificación de reacciones violentas contra los
inmigrantes y la gente de color que se ha producido después del 11 de
septiembre de 2001. Aunque proclaman no ser violentos, el mero hecho de
llevar y exhibir armas es un acto violento en sí mismo. Cómo no va a ser
violento detener a la gente a punta de pistola? De hecho se han
reportado numerosos casos de personas obligadas por los miembros de
MinuteMen a tumbarse en el suelo y a ser fotografiadas por los
voluntarios de MinuteMen, en el más puro estilo deshumanizante de Abu
Ghraib.
Informe de SWARM:
http://swarmtheminutemen.com/
Mientras MinuteMen proclama públicamente no ser violentos, nosotros en
SWARM conocemos su otra cara. Hemos recibido numerosas amenazas de
muerte y amenazas de violencia llenas de insultos racistas. Pensamos
publicar en breve estas amenazas para que todo el mundo sepa exactamente
cuánto odio están generando, atrayendo y difundiendo en MinuteMen
contra los inmigrantes.
Aunque sólo sea por eso, MinuteMen son el claro resultado de la
mentalidad violenta, de "nosotros -contra-ellos", que promueve la
administración Bush.
Vamos a intervenir en los sistemas de comunicación de MinuteMen porque
además de la violencia física que realizan, son extremadamente
conscientes del violento poder de sus mensajes, y saben hasta qué punto
tienen éxito gracias a la complicidad de los medios corporativos. Sus
comunicaciones son una parte crítica de su misión, el mensaje que envían
a los legisladores reclamando la necesidad de militarizar las fronteras.
No se pueden separar sus imágenes y sus palabras de la violencia de sus
armas de fuego, y ambas deben detenerse.
Nos negamos a apoyar los intentos del gobierno de los Estados Unidos de
encontrar un chivo expiatorio al que culpar de los problemas de este
país mientras lleva a la bancarrota nuestros servicios sociales,
emprende guerras por el mundo, envía a nuestros hermanos, hermanas,
amigos y vecinos a morir y se beneficia del plan al completo. ¿Quién
obtiene provecho de militarizar las fronteras? ¿Serán las mismas
corporaciones que obtienen billones en contratos con el gobierno gracias
a la guerra en Irak, como Halliburton y CACI.
Ahora debemos permanecer unidos para proclamar que este país se compone
de millones de personas de distintas etnias y culturas y que ello es
gracias a la inmigración. Los inmigrantes tienen derechos humanos, sean
cuales sean los del gobierno y los intentos racistas por negarlo. Hasta
que los Estados Unidos tengan una política de inmigración sana que
permita la movilidad de las personas igual que permite el libre
movimiento de bienes y capital, continuaremos luchando.
Por qué deberías unirte a la sentada virtual del 27 de mayo de 2005?
Por Benito González Cruz, Benito González Serrano, Javier Rojas
Bracamonte, Juan José Romo Zetina, José Luis Garza, Roberto Acegueda López,
Román Robles Rojas, Reynaldo González Coronav y los miles de personas
que han
sido asesinados por intentar cruzar la frontera de lo que ahora son los
Estados Unidos, pero que antes fue México.
Contacto:
Para cualquier pregunta sobre la acción del Electronic Disturbance
Theatre en solidaridad con SWARM the MinuteMen contacta con:
Ricardo Dominguez (cofundador del Electronic Disturbance Theater) a
través del e-amil: rdom@thing.net <mailto:rdom@thing.net>
Electronic Disturbance Theater
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html
Ve nos sitio para mas informacíon:
http://swarmtheminutemen.com
o nos espejo:
http://www.autistici.org/swarmtheminutemen/
Ve nos espejos para leer nos palabras originales cual nuestra compania
de DNS forzónos quitar:
http://swarm.mahost.org/
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/swarm/index.php
Fear of a Latin Planet
by Saab Lofton
Wednesday June 01, 2005 at 04:22 PM
saablofton@hotmail.com
Granted, the darker you are, the more hell you're statistically likely to catch from white supremacists, since their worst fear is that Human civilization will somehow collapse if there aren't enough natural blondes and redheads in the world to create new things (as if the only inventors in history have been white--hey, I never said these people were rational or even intellectual).
However, ANY attempt to cosmetically darken America is looked down upon, hence all this National Alliance/Minutemen drama. When I hosted a radio show on KLAV last year, this bigoted caller actually said on the air that he was for closing the border because he always wanted someone who spoke English next to him at a restaurant so he'd know where the Tartar Sauce was!! I swear I'm not joking! I have this fool on tape!
Blacks and Latinos have a common enemy: Those who fear global, ethnic miscegenation so much, they'll either pass laws or even end/ruin lives in order to force the future into resembling Ozzie and Harriet or Leave it to Beaver (might as well ask Mandela to go BACK to jail!).
We need to somehow (the debate still rages as to exactly "how") obligate the rich and the powerful to create a series of eco-friendly jobs. Imagine if Greenpeace were in charge of FDR's New Deal. Imagine if EVERY business was as ethical as Ben & Jerry's originally was ...
We have the CIA, the war on drugs (or for oil), nuclear proliferation and the School of the Americas to abolish--we don't have time to feud amongst ourselves. And how do whites prove they're on our side? Simple: by helping us while turning against white supremacy!
Though I'm no longer a member of the press, hopefully my past work can help protest this racist obession the Minutemen (or whatever they're calling themselves) have with immigration.
http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2002/06/13/export1046.txt
http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2004/09/10/opinion/fear_no_evil/fearnoevil.txt
http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2004/04/28/opinion/fear_no_evil/fearnoevil.txt
And try this ...
http://www.pww.org/article/view/3873/1/175/
... for this quote:
"The Venezuelan upper classes, along with some corrupt elements of the labor movement, closed businesses in a lockout/strike, including in the decisively important oil industry. They were convinced that the masses, largely darker skinned people of African and Indigenous origin, were incapable of organizing and sustaining economic life. (Chavez himself is dark skinned.)"
The fear of a Latin planet is global, but the head of the octopus; the heart of darkeness, as it were, is right here. Keep protesting! As far as I'm concerned, there shouldn't even BE a border! We're all Humans/Earthlings/Terrans/etc.! Act and invest accordingly!
Live long and prosper,
saablofton.com
One Small Question Here
by Donald Rilea
Wednesday June 15, 2005 at 08:18 AM
Beg pardon, Mr. Priestly, but what does Michelle M. McClellan and her affairs, sordid as they may be, have to do with the topic at hand????
Is she part of the MinuteMen Project, the American Patrol, whose link you included with your message, or with the opposition to these groups????
#9
by William Randolf Hearst
Wednesday June 15, 2005 at 11:18 AM
letters@sfgate.com
I love and respect swarthy people myself! I save a lot of money hiring them to do dirty work on my estate in San Simeon. Sure beats cowtowing to a bunch of union commies like Teamster Local # 631!
Why am I surprised the enemy put in an appearance?
by Saab Lofton
Wednesday June 15, 2005 at 07:38 PM
saablofton@hotmail.com
It's been said that Star Wars is for right-wingers in the sense that, within its mythos, conflict is the thing (how many times have I heard folks say the first two were too political and lacked fight scenes?!). And it's clear that the two inbreds (not Rilea, he's cool, I meant Priestly and Hearst's monkey asses) who just wrote in can only think in terms of conflict. Conflict insofar as the drug war and conflict insofar as folks competing for jobs, etc.
It's been said that Star Trek is for left-wingers in the sense that, within its story structure, the starring characters are supposed to be OUR descendants (as opposed to Human-looking aliens like Luke and Han--just as the Kryptonian Superman only LOOKS like a good ol' boy when in fact Kal-El is the ULTIMATE illegal alien--think about that when the new movie comes out next year), and as such, we have an OBLIGATION to unite and solve our problems collectively since the implication is Capt. Kirk is supposed to be SOMEBODY'S great, great, great, great, great great, great grandson. Take a look ...
http://www.popandpolitics.com/articles_detail.cfm?articleID=1438
http://www.treknation.com/reviews/enterprise/demons.shtml
http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2004/01/14/scorched_earth/fear_no_evil/fearnoevil.txt
I bring all this up because often times, the way in which one looks at life, the universe and everything will reveal where one stands politically. If folks see life as being filled with conflict, then they'll act, vote and invest (or divest) accordingly. If folks see life as being something beautiful; something to be cherished and celebrated, again, their votes and investments will reflect that as well.
If you "think" the odds of another 9-11 are just that great (ask any mathematician who ain't on the take how wrong that one is), then you won't mind half of our taxes going toward the military-industrial complex every year. However, that in and of itself is the primarily reason why there has yet to be a Greenpeace version of FDR's New Deal (and given how fucked up our environment is, they'll be plenty of clean up work for both the trailer parks and the barrios, so don't stress about jobs, y'all). And if you're ignorant enough to think there's such a thing as "Human nature", then you're not likely to be investing in Humans since they're supposedly, naturally evil or whatever the libertarians are claiming, now are you?
All drugs need to be decriminalilzed, period. And if all businesses were worker-owned, everyone would have a job because no one is going to masochistically vote to fire themselves!
Besides, even if we WERE to hypothetically close the borders and Mexico were to then share its wealth and provide free health care, college, etc., so that no one would be tempted by the so-called First World ever again, the CIA would immediately go in and treat whoever was in charge of Mexico at the time the same, exact way Lumumba was treated in the Congo in 1960 or the way the Big Three treated Preston Tucker: Six in one hand, half a dozen in the fucking other. Priestly and Hearst ain't got a goddman thing to say. Keep the chinsy-ass one-liners comin', boys! I can knock 'em back just as quick as you can type them!!
Live long and prosper, motherfucker,
saablofton.com
Thanks
by Donald Rilea
Thursday June 16, 2005 at 03:15 AM
Thanks, Saab, for your kind mention of me in your response to the comments posted to this topic so far.
To Mr. "Hearst", it's interesting that you use that particular name, however slightly mis-spelled, as a psuedonym.
The actual Mr. Hearst started his newspaper publishing career as something of a populist and advocate for the working man, albeit not being above the use of yellow journalism to push causes, like the American invasion of Cuba in 1898, that he believed in.
But, it was his stances on Asian, specifically Chinese and Japanese, immigration and residence in California, starting in the early 1900's, as well as his sympathy for Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in the 1930's, that have placed him in the rather ignominious historical position he occupies to-day.
Mind, his positions on these issues were not his solely, as they were shared by quite a number of European-Americans at the time.
However, simply because his positions were held by a number of his contemporaries , many of whom had been influenced by what Hearst's newspapers had to say about them, doesn't justify them in the slightest.
Ultimately, between those positions, as well as his well-known fling with actress Marion Davies(whom, it could be argued, was hurt far more professionally and personally by her association with Mr. Hearst than the other way 'round), William Randolph Hearst ended his life as rather something of a national laughing-stock.
A rich one, yes. But, then, riches aren't everything, as you know.
Finally, to Messrs Priestly and "Hearst", what do your responses have, if anything, to do with the issues originally presented?????
Would love to know.
Apres Moi, Le Deluge
by L'Empereur Napoleon III
Thursday June 16, 2005 at 11:00 PM
gayle.McCartney@kp.org San Leandro, CA
Après que ma règle du Mexique ait fini et la pléthore de 40 jours et de 40 nuits a décimé la nation entière, le Mexicain non documenté habitant maintenant aux Etats-Unis d'Amérique sera autorisé pour retourner au Mexique et pour nettoyer le désordre. Cependant, sur leur retour, tout le Mexicain doit rendre toutes les propriétés personnelles volées des citoyens américains, sur leur ré-entrée en le Mexique maintenant boueux.
En outre, un monument dans mon honneur sera construit dans le ciudad De Mexique de La, et aura une flamme éternelle brûler pour la mémoire de votre majesté, L'empereur Napoleon III. Le monument sera érigé par les travailleurs slaves qui ont été enseignés des techniques de construction aux Etats-Unis tout en résidant là en tant qu'étrangers illégaux.
Merci de votre indulgence, paysans!
~Sa majesté, L'Empereur Napoleon III
Quelle piece de merde
by Donald Rilea
Friday June 17, 2005 at 06:08 AM
A l'Empeureur, c'est ne pas un surprise que un merde comme toi producez une piece de merde comme ca.
Le vrai Empeurer Napoleon le Troiseme perdu la guerre de subjugation de le Mexique, et plus disastreux pour il et sa regime, perdu a la guerre avec la Prusse y sa allies en 1870, resultant en l'imprisonment de il et la fin de sa regime.
Seulment un idiot ou un imbecile escrivra usant un nom de plume comme Napoleon le 3eme, especialment depuis de la histoire tragi-comique de le vrai Empereur et sa regime.
A Bas l'Empereur!!!!! Vive la Republique Francaise, et Vive la Commune de Paris!!!!!
Je ne permettrai pas la célébration de "Cinco de Mayo!"
by L'Empereur Napoleon III
Friday June 17, 2005 at 07:50 AM
[J'ai résulté du mort, paysan!...¡Qué culero usted es!]
Après que je devienne le gouverneur impérial du Mexique encore, on
interdira la célébration du cinquième jour de mai! Toutes les
personnes attrapées célébrant le cinquième jour de mai, seront
émasculées, et doué aux juifs riches de Hollywood en Californie!
-- Sa Majesté, L'Empereur Napoleon III
Buena suerte, pendejos!
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"Allons enfants de la patrie,
Le jour de gloire est arrivé !
Contre nous de la tyrannie
L'étendard sanglant est levé ! (bis)
Entendez-vous dans les campagnes,
Mugir ces féroces soldats ?
Ils viennent jusque dans nos bras
Égorger nos fils, nos compagnes... !"
[etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.................]
Sinkhole de Mayo
by L'Empereur Napoleon III
Friday June 17, 2005 at 08:01 AM
moi@moi.net En Chateau
El Poso del Mundo:
http://www.humour.com/images/AffichageImage.asp?VIDImage=5026&VIDThemeImage=9
www.humour.com/images/AffichageImage.asp?VIDImage=5026&VIDThemeImage=9
Think you can evade me ..?
by Saab Lofton
Friday June 17, 2005 at 02:18 PM
saablofton@hotmail.com
Just like a cowardly supervillain: Instead of comin' at a motherfucker head on (a contest they know they'd lose), they sneak around the back. Did you really think using another language would spare you my wrath? And I saw your li'l cartoon, satire whatever about the toliet and whatnot. Cute. That's the best you pricks can do? An old, tired Mad Magazine-esque gag? My favorite four letter word is F-A-C-T. So where's your facts, son?
Yeah, that's just what I thought ...
I used to think black folks caught a lot of hell from you people, but this intense fear/anger/hatred (the steps to the dark side, by the way, in order) towards Latinos is like nothing I've seen in all my 20 years of fighting the forces of evil.
Here, you bastards. Here's a sneak peak into your future--what y'all are REALLY afraid of ..!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250224/
http://indyweek.com/durham/2001-07-04/movie2.html
http://mark-reviews-movies.tripod.com/reviews/C/crazy-beautiful.htm
... don't say I never did anything fo' ya! And the next time yo' asses are drolling over Kirsten "Mary Jane from Spider-Man" Dunst, keep the aforementioned in mind ...
Here, E-A-T T-H-I-S !!!
by Saab Lofton
Friday June 17, 2005 at 03:49 PM
saablofton@hotmail.com
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0617-23.htm
Published on Friday, June 17, 2005 by CommonDreams.org
Lynching Lessons
by Peter Dreier
Peter Dreier, professor of politics and director of the Urban & Environmental Policy program at Occidental College, is coauthor of Place Matters: Metropolitics for the 21st Century (University Press of Kansas, 2005) and The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable City (University of California Press, 2005).
WHAT DOES ALL THAT MEAN? IT MEANS HE KNOWS A LOT MORE THAN SOMEONE WHO'S GOTTEN BY THUS FAR SIMPLY BECAUSE OF HOW POPULAR/CHARISMATIC HE WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL!
On June 13, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution apologizing for its failure to adopt federal anti-lynching legislation, first proposed 105 years ago at a time when lynchings were a frequent occurrence. In the first half of the 20th century, several hundred anti-lynching laws were filed in Congress, and three were passed by the House of Representatives, but the Senate -- controlled by Southern Democrats, who used the filibuster -- consistently refused to adopt the law. One of the most powerful was Richard Russell (D-Georgia), whose name now adorns the Senate office building where the resolution was crafted.
What is outrageous is that 20 Senators initially declined to cosponsor the resolution, drafted by Sen. Mary Landreiu (D-Louisiana). Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) insisted on a voice vote, rather than a roll call vote, to avoid forcing members to put themselves on record. Even so, pressure from constituents pushed seven additional Senators to add their names as co-sponsors after the vote was taken.
Thirteen Republicans -- including Trent Lott and Thad Cochran from Mississippi, the state with the most lynchings - continued to avoid joining the list of cosponsors. (The other holdouts include Lamar Alexander [TN], Robert Bennett and Orrin Hatch [Utah], John Cornyn [TX], Michael Crapo [Idaho], Michael Enzi and Craig Thomas [Wyoming], Chuck Grasley [Iowa], Judd Gregg and John Sununu [NH], and Richard Shelby [Alabama]). Even today, it seems, lynching remains controversial.
SO FAR, THIS REMINDS ME OF SOMETHING I ONCE COVERED IN MY CENSORED COLUMN:
http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2004/10/15/opinion/fear_no_evil/fearnoevil.txt
in September 1946. Paul Robeson -- actor, singer and all-around Renaissance man -- had tag-teamed with Albert Einstein and other activists to pressure President Harry Truman into pursuing anti-lynching legislation. Inside the Oval Office, Robeson tried to read a prepared statement when Truman rudely interrupted him. The Democratic president said he was concerned about lynching -- but the time wasn't quite right for the passage of federal legislation because it'd alienate Southern Democrats. Robeson's response to this was best described in Martin Duberman's definitive biography on Robeson:
"Robeson -- who later told reporters he had felt it was important to be polite, but not 'excessively polite' -- said that if the federal government refused to defend its black citizens against murder, blacks would have to defend themselves. Truman declared the interview at an end." (Keep in mind this was 20 years before the formation of the Black Panther Party in Oakland. Robeson was a prophet.) Also in 1946, Henry A. Wallace -- FDR's vice president and Truman's secretary of commerce -- became increasingly vocal about the Faustian and Machiavellian way America dealt with Stalinism. Truman then 86ed Wallace from the presidential cabinet, prompting Wallace to run against Truman in 1948 under the banner of the Progressive Party -- a lost cause Robeson nonetheless supported.
AND NOW, BACK TO THE SHOW ...
The Senate resolution is purely a symbolic act, but if it reminds us of the horrors of racial hatred and helps us address contemporary forms of bigotry, it will have served its purpose. What lessons should we learn from the sordid history of lynching in America?
Many news reports of the Senate' s action noted that there were 4,732 recorded lynchings between 1882 and 1951, although there were certainly many undocumented lynchings before and during that period [JUST AS THE DOCUMENTARY SHOAH HELPED JEWS EXPOSED THE HOLOCAUST, A SIMILAR WORK SHOULD BE DONE TO GET AN EXACT DEATH TOLL OF HOW MANY BLACKS DIED BECAUSE SOMEONE WAS JUST THAT FUCKING AFRAID OF A TIGER WOODS/HALLE BERRY/LENNY KRAVITZ LOOKING GRANDCHILD]. Most of the recorded lynchings occurred before 1930. The vast majority of lynchings took place in the South and the border states, although lynchings were not unknown in the North and Midwest, too. Three-fourths of the victims were black.
Missing from most recent news accounts of the Senate's apology are the underlying social conditions that led to most lynchings and the resulting fluctuations in lynchings.
Between 1880 and 1930, 2805 people - 2500 of them black - were killed by lynch mobs in the 10 southern states. According to Stewart Tolnay and E.M. Beck's authoritative study, A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, on average, "a black man, woman, or child was murdered nearly once a week, every week" during those years by a white lynch mob.
But the number of lynchings each year fluctuated widely, highly correlated with the price of cotton. Low cotton prices -- an indication of poor economic conditions -- led to an increase in lynchings. When economic conditions improved, lynchings declined.
THAT'S ONLY HALF OF IT, FOLKS. FOR THE OTHER HALF (YIN AND YANG), CHECK THESE OUT IN ORDER TO KNOW THY ENEMY:
http://www.newnation.org/Millard/Millard-Looney-Tunes-Whacko-Blenders-Push-Genocide.html
http://natall.com/national-vanguard/117/racemix.html
http://www.angrywhitefemale.net/exterminating.html
LEAVE IT TO THE RIGHT-WING TO BE AGAINST LOVE ITSELF ... NICE TO SEE GOOD AND EVIL SO PLAINLY LAID OUT ...
This suggests that while most Southern whites -- especially rural farmers and workers -- held racist beliefs, they did not always act on these beliefs through mob violence. Economic hard times brought out the worst in these people, pushing them to act out their frustrations.
Obviously, the victims of lynchings were not responsible for the value of cotton or the general level of business activity. In that way, lynching was an irrational act, a form of scapegoating, not unlike the way the German people vented their frustrations by vilifying and killing Jews when their country was thrown into economic depression in the 1930s.
Most lynchings took place in small towns and isolated [ISOLATED, AS IN IGNORANT, NOT INNOCENT, GODDAMN IT] rural communities, characterized by widespread poverty and illiteracy [ILLITERACY, SEE?]. Participants in lynch mobs were typically sharecroppers, tenant farmers and common laborers. Their economic position was similar to that of African Americans.
Of course, most people who joined lynch mobs were probably unaware of the underlying conditions that triggered their behavior. Rather than blame general economic conditions or specific people and institutions with economic power, they justified their actions by pointing to the behavior of blacks, especially violations of racial manners. Lynchings were often triggered by a rumor of a sexual offense such as rape (typically unfounded) by a black man against a white woman [THE PRICE OF LIBERTY IS ETERNAL VIGILANCE AND WHEN YOU FORGET HISTORY IT REPEATS ITSELF, SIMPLE. THAT GOES FOR THE FEAR OF MISCEGENATION TOO; DOESN'T JUST APPLY TO THE HOLOCAUST OR THE TRAIL OF TEARS, YA KNOW] or by other offenses which whites interpreted as blacks not "knowing their place," such as insulting a white person, trying to vote, murder, or stealing.
Back then, rural southern white society was divided into two major classes -- the dominant planters and major employers, and the class of day laborers, sharecroppers, and tenant farmers. The planters and big employers depended on cheap white and black labor. When economic conditions worsened, poor whites felt threatened by competition from even cheaper black labor. At the time, groups like the Farmers Alliance were trying to mobilize a coalition of white and black laborers and tenant farmers to regulate the banks and railroads that were gouging small farmers. But racial fears and violence undermined the Southern Populist movement. By identifying with the ideology of white supremacy and segregation, most poor Southern whites chose to form political alliances around race rather than class lines.
Most upper-class and middle-class Southern whites, and most white politicians, condoned lynching as a form of maintaining the racial hierarchy [SAY ANARCHISTS, HOW DO Y'ALL FEEL ABOUT HIERARCHIES?]. Although the white elite may not have directly participated in most lynchings, they benefitted from them [IN OTHER WORDS, THE KINGPIN DIDN'T KILL ELEKTRA; THE KINGPIN HIRED BULLSEYE TO KILL ELEKTRA ... GRASP THE CONCEPT AND QUIT TRYING TO HELP GREAT POWER DUCK GREAT RESPONSIBILITY, YOU LIBERTARIAN/IMPERIALIST-APOLOGIST FUCKS!!!].
The number of lynchings peaked at 230 in 1892, which coincided with a dramatic softening in demand for southern cotton. The bloody 1890s were followed by several years of rising cotton prices and a decline in violence against southern blacks. Following World War One, cotton prices bottomed out, accompanied by a new wave of racist extremism - white-on-black riots in northern cities like Chicago and Detroit and the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan in the South.
By the 1930s, lynchings had declined to about ten a year, falling to three a year the following decade. Historians and sociologists credit the urbanization of the South, the accelerating migration of blacks to Northern cities, the NAACP's persistent (though unsuccessful) campaign for a federal anti-lynching law, and the growing embarrassment [EVOLUTION] of Southern opinion leaders (including some newspaper editors and businessmen) by the stain of lynching.
Although the number of lynchings fell by the 1940s, segregationists continued to use violence and terror to keep African Americans second-class citizens and to thwart the civil rights movement. Indeed, the Senate's apology comes at a time when a number of prominent racist murder cases -- including the killings of 14-year old Emmett Till in 1955 [ALL BECAUSE TILL WHISTLED AT A WHITE WOMAN] and civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner in 1964 -- are being reopened.
What are lynching's lessons for American society today? If there is one truism about race relations, it is that overt bigotry, hate crimes, and discrimination flourish during economic hard times. These acts of racism decline when the economic improves, when almost everyone who wants to work has a job at decent wages, and when people have economic security.
Although it is simplistic to argue that if you give people a job, their hearts and minds will follow, it is certainly true that full employment at decent wages makes interracial co-operation much more likely. [I HEARD THAT!] Otherwise, competition over economic crumbs will lead to resentments, bitterness, and racial tensions. [CAN I GET AN AMEN IN THIS HOUSE OF GOD?] In recent times, economic hard times are correlated with increases in the murder rate, racial violence, hate crimes, and opposition to immigration and remedies like affirmative action.
This is exactly what occurred during the 1990s. Aided by a tight labor market, the nation's poverty rate dropped from 15.1% in 1993 to 11.3% by 2000 -- the lowest rate since 1973. The poverty rate fell significantly in central cities and for black Americans. These trends also account for the decline in violent crime in America's cities during this period. . Because unemployment was low, employers hired people who they may not have hired when there was a "surplus" of workers. Workers with fewer skills and less education, particularly black men, got "pulled" into the labor market. Because whites were doing better, too, there was less competition for jobs and fewer incidents of racial hatred.
In contrast, when times are tough -- or when economic prosperity primarily benefits the wealthy, and the gap between the rich and everyone else widens - racial prejudice is more likely to trigger hate crimes and a political backlash against minorities and the poor.
The history of lynching should remind us that economic justice is a precondition for racial justice. Currently, the vast majority of Americans -- white, black, brown, yellow, and all shades in-between -- are not benefitting from the nation's recent economic upturn and will certainly suffer even more during the next inevitable downturn of the business cycle.
WE THE PEOPLE NEED AN EARTH DAY/GREENPEACE VERSION OF FDR'S
NEW DEAL AND WE NEED IT YESTERDAY!
Is it just a coincidence that the Bush Administration - and almost all of the Senators who failed to cosponsor the apology for lynching -- steadfastly opposes policies to promote full employment, raise the minimum wage, provide universal health care, and guarantee affordable housing for all?
NO, IT AIN'T A FUCKING COINCIDENCE! WHAT ARE YOU, KIDDING ME?!
Vraiment Imbecilique
by Donald Rilea
Friday June 17, 2005 at 10:23 PM
Monsieur le "Empereur": sa dernier message ete vraiment d'un classe d'imbecilite pas de unique.
C'est de la classe d' "humour" que est tres commun a l' extreme droite en tout le monde, et, aussi, est tres fatiguee et inducent de l'ennui.
Quel specimen d'intellectual manque que tu est.
Ah, je tien deux ponts de correction pour toi.
Le vrai hymne national de la France durant le regime d' Napoleon le 3eme ete "Partant A La Syrie", ne pas "La Marseillaise". et "vendejos" se deletre avec un 'v", ne pas avec un "p", Mon Empereur Analphbetique.
En partant, un "ourra" par le "Empereur", "Un, Deux, Trois!!!! Merde!!!!!", comme au Sedan en 1870.
En l'future, serait mieux pour toi que escritez d' le nom de guerre, "Napoleon Le Quartorze", ou "Pipi du Chat", comme ca sa opinions tient egal valeur comme de le chose depuis-liste.
En les mots des victeurs Prusses a les prisonniers de guerre francaises depuis de Sedan, "Aufmarsch, Franzoisch schweinhunden!!!! Raus, raus mit dich, meinen kleinen, mit dich und deinen Kaiser, auf zum Teufel!!!!"
L'audace!!!
by L'Empereur Napoleon III
Friday June 17, 2005 at 10:45 PM
L'empereur@mexicomail.com 1-800-DUNSMUIR Mon Chateau en Lac Catemaco
Vous êtes un imbécile, Monsieur Saab. En fait, un crétin ! Je choisis de ne pas mouler mes perles avant un porc tel que vous-même ! Pour un paysan tel que vous, je dois seulement répondre : Mangez de la merde!
Bonjour!
~~Sa majesté, L'Empereur Napoleon III
Yellow Journalism, ETC
by Wm Randolph Hearst
Friday June 17, 2005 at 11:14 PM
letters@sfgate.com La Cuesta Encantada
Speaking of Yellow Journalism, Donald, I am reminded of the drawings by Aubrey Beardsley in the infamous "YELLOW BOOK." I've always been fond of porn in a perverse sort of way, and decided to carry it over to mass media in the form of political punditry. It fact that is what piqued my interest in Marion Davies... couldn't say that she could act worth a shit, eh? But she's dead and living as a ghost in another castle somewhere... probably with that commie bastard, Charlie Chaplin.
It's not easy living as a ghost in my ol' castle in San Simeon. The State Park bastards turned it into a homeless shelter for Santa Cruz junkies and other misfits! That deadbeat Kahn from HUFF now has a room with an ocean view in the castle, and sleeps in the very same bed that Charlie porked Marion in... the bastard!
You're probably wondering what all this has to do with Mexican Invaders, eh? Well, nothing really... I just digress a lot these days/daze. Anyway, I've always been fond of the notion that what keeps America great is its weak and bountiful underclass. Nothing I hate more than some pinko commie union bastards telling me that I have an obligation to pay a "decent" wage to the workers of this country. Sheeeeuuuut!! Give me more tired and huddled masses, I say! Nothings blows a commie's pinhead logic better than to have an endless and perpetual influx of starving peasants lined up to take their jobs, heh, heh...
Well, gotta go now, Donald. It's about time for State Park Ranger, Linda Cooper, to come up to the castle and have group sex with the homeless deadbeats that live here now... I like to watch.
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Glitzy Talk Show Interviewer: "What was it like growing up "Hearst," Patty?
Patty "Tania" Hearst(after her recent release from prison): "Oh, it was perfect."
www.zpub.com/sf/history/willh.html
Plus l'audace!!
by L'Empereur Napoleon III
Friday June 17, 2005 at 11:27 PM
LeBeegWheel@LeChateau.org
Vous êtes cochon, un fils d'une putain! Quelle témérité ! Comment le défi vous insultent sa majesté avec de telles déclarations rurales ! Imbécile ! Je commanderai le déplacement de vos testicules, qui seront ensuite donnés à mes chiens de cour !
www.humour.com/images/AffichageImage.asp?VIDImage=5026&VIDThemeImage=9
Get Hispanicized!
by Pomponio Magnus
Friday June 17, 2005 at 11:41 PM
mechisto@bigfoot.com Brownsville, Tejas
Simon que Yes! Spanglish is my language! ¡Tell all the Vatos en Las Vegas que WE are going to reconquer Aztlan!
Read the Jesus' Sermon on the Mount sometime, buddy!
by Saab Lofton
Saturday June 18, 2005 at 04:18 PM
saablofton@hotmail.com
"Nothing I hate more than some pinko commie union bastards telling me that I have an obligation to pay a 'decent' wage to the workers of this country. Sheeeeuuuut!! Give me more tired and huddled masses, I say! Nothings blows a commie's pinhead logic better than to have an endless and perpetual influx of starving peasants lined up to take their jobs, heh, heh..."
And nothing would get a sick fuck like you off more than to see some a commie break, turn to the dark side and be just as cruel and heartless as yo' ass clearly is (given your aforementioned quote) upon facing the prospect of losing a job to a so-called "peasant". Watch Dickens' A Christmas Carol for Christ's sake!
Lemme tell ya somethin': My best friend is a blond, blue-eyed German and he didn't even blink when he learned that he wouldn't be going to Berkeley because of Affirmative Action. He now has a Ph.D. in physics out of UCSD and is happily married with child, HE TURNED OUT JUST FINE, AND HIS ASS AIN'T ONLINE WHINING ABOUT HOW THE SYSTEM ACTUALLY HELPED A MOTHERFUCKER FOR ONCE!!
If everyone on Earth has to be either lower-middle, middle-middle or upper-middle class in order to keep another child from starving and to keep another motherfucker from ever being homeless, so be it. If that means stuck-up pricks won't be able to afford to water ski behind yachts anymore, so be it. Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly and the rest of those apologists for evil can use their free speech to whine about it all they want, but as far as I'm concerned, THY WOULD BE DONE ANYWAY.
Lofton in 2008!
One last thing:
http://www.crisispapers.org/essays/jesus-vote.htm
Saab's Nazi Friend
by Wm Randolph Hearst
Saturday June 18, 2005 at 07:52 PM
editor@sfgate.com Hearst Castle
Saab wrote:
"Lemme tell ya somethin': My best friend is a blond, blue-eyed German and he didn't even blink when he learned that he wouldn't be going to Berkeley because of Affirmative Action. He now has a Ph.D. in physics out of UCSD and is happily married with child, HE TURNED OUT JUST FINE, AND HIS ASS AIN'T ONLINE WHINING ABOUT HOW THE SYSTEM ACTUALLY HELPED A MOTHERFUCKER FOR ONCE!!"
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Well, dear friend, Saab. It's nice to know you have found a friend in Jesus and Socialist Democracy. I always admired Adolf Hitler... and Eva Braun wasn't such a bad looker herself, if I do say so myself. As you must know, Marion and I visited Der Furhrer in Germany back in the forties. Smatter o' fact, he convinced Marion and I to become Vegetarians. Of course, I occasionally cheat a little... had half a cow for dinner last night, and the Pope's Nose for dessert.
That aside, to get back to the subject of blond, blue-eyed ubermensch college graduates who are happily married and employed, I couldn't be happier for you and your friend, Saab. Adolf, as you must know, was a quarter Jew, and unemployable in a "real job." That would explain how he took over Germany and strengthened its economy and cultural integrity. I kinda/sorta think this also explains why Marc Klaas and John Walsh can't get real jobs themselves... nobody wants to hire a closet pedophile, eh? So, they had to, of necessity, seize the opportunity of becoming celebrities by way of arresting and killing people of their own ilk, just like Adolf did.
Well, so much for Hitler and company. As for Jesus, well, I always thought that he was immensely overrated as a person. Now Paul (aka Saul) is a different matter entirely. He is much more responsible for spreading the gospel and institutionalizing Christianity. And, like me, he was a man for the power of the Press. Those "epistles" really did the trick. What a salesman!! My hat goes off to that Huckster Jew. Nobody sold a bill of goods to the world better than Paul. I believe that he deserves a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for performance and propoganda. I stand in awe, and am humbled by this swarthy little scribe. Then again, I doubt he could have held a real job, without the benefit of affirmative action.
www.df.lth.se/~micke/wholemanifesto.html
Parting Shot
by Donald Rilea
Saturday June 18, 2005 at 08:46 PM
To Messrs Hearst and Napoleon, one final word, yawn.
Wake Up Call
by Paul Revere
Saturday June 18, 2005 at 10:48 PM
Paul@minutemanHQ.com
Wake up, Donald!! If you snooze, you lose!!
THE MEXICANS ARE COMING!!
THE MEXICANS ARE COMING!!
YOU GOT NOTHING
by Saab Lofton
Monday June 20, 2005 at 07:04 PM
saablofton@hotmail.com
Just as I suspected: You people got nothing. Absolutely nothing. No facts, no figures, no statistics, not a goddamn thing.
I imagine if someone were to actually say the aforementioned to my face, it'd be a different story. But it's a bit different to read such racist, bigoted bile from a far and from some cowardly, chickenshit bastard who won't even put his real name. From this perspective, all I can do is laugh and cry.
The ORIGINAL point here was to address y'all's fear of a Latin planet. And sure enough, you proved (even more so than all the documentation I presented ever could've) two things:
1) Latinos and Latinas ain't exagerating in the slightest when it comes to the grave danger that these damn Minutemen (called that, no doubt, because of how long they last in bed) represent ...
... and 2) racism still exists. So the next time some naive, ignorant-ass motherfucker claims that racism doesn't exist anymore, I can always refer them to yo' monkey ass. For that, I have to thank you because I've been looking for some idiot to point out to folks for a while now. Given the way y'all have come across thus far, no one will EVER be able to call me or anyone in the Latino community paranoid ever again!
The price of liberty is ETERNAL, not occasional, vigilance; when you forget history it repeats itself, and whoever was stupid enough to equate themselves with Paul Revere and say "the Mexicans are coming" might as well have said "the niggers are coming" or "the bitches are coming".
The bottom line is this: If you are actually fucked up enough to "think" that a bunch of folks looking for jobs and having families is somehow, supposedly equal to the British Empire of the 1700s, then you need a psychiatrist. Y'all need help. Seriously.
Pass the Tax to Lofton
by Miriam Haskell
Tuesday June 21, 2005 at 01:23 AM
miriam@jewels.biz My Penthouse Suite
Pinhead apologists for the bottom feeders like you, Lofton, are why we now have tens of millions collecting various forms of "disability" or "bipolar disorder" or "attention deficit" or "aid to families with dependent children" or "women, infants and children" programs. And more millions each year.
I can't wait to see what happens when the millions of illegal immigrants who Bush plans to "make legal" discover they can find a doctor to declare them "bipolar." Then they get a monthly "disability" check and watch Univison and Telemundo all day.
Sure beats working in the hot sun picking strawberries!
restrict access to rich white men, not Latinos
by babba-ette
Tuesday June 21, 2005 at 12:50 PM
Hold up. Are you suggesting that lower-income folks and people on disability are stealing tax money and that the more immigrants who have access to these services, the more services our tax money will have to pay for? So, if you are, you're implying that it's not important how the CEO's and other corporate employees steal our tax money as well. And steal much more. For instance, one CEO at Lockheed Martin Corp. makes millions of dollars if not billions of dollars in salary, $20 billion or so that's used to pay that salary comes directly from our taxes. So, you're implying that the one person on disability or welfare is taking more than that one CEO. $1 billion in ONE person's salary or assets is equal to 50,000 people receiving $20,000 worth of benefits each. Is one person really more valuable than 50,000 people? The table below shows how some corporations are benefiting directly from our tax money:
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| Sources: World Policy Institute (www.worldpolicy.org) and Directorate for Information Operations and Reports, Dept. of Defense, www.dior.whs.mil/peidhome/procstat/p01/fy2004/top100.htm | |||
And this is only 10 of the corporations that are taking our tax money. In 2006, the U.S. government will spend over one (1) trillion (or 1000 billions) dollars on past and current military expenditures. That same U.S. government will spend $842 billion on Human and Physical Resources that include: Education, Health/Human Services, HUD, Food/Nutrition programs, Labor Department, Soc. Sec. Admin, Agriculture, Commerce, Energy, Interior, Transportation (streets and highways), Environmental Protection, Army Corps Engineers, NSF, FCC, Homeland Security (25%).
Most of the needs of the U.S. people are taken care of with less than $900 billion, while the military alone gets over $1000 billion. Most of the money spent on Human and Government Resources is put into government funded programs whereas most of the money spent on the military is put into the hands of private corporations. I think it's called, privatization.
Basically, you're complaining about spending too much money on welfare while ignoring the fact that the U.S. government spends over $1000 billion on the military with a large portion of that going directly to CEO's and other corporate lackeys of multinational military-based corporations.
While your beloved rich, white, male elected officials and corporate figureheads talk about and convince lower-income white folks of the importance of occupying Iraq, privatizing government services, lowering taxes, and being against immigration because it'll be better for the white people of the U.S., their corporate friends and themselves are simultaneously and happily accepting government subsidies in the form of corporate government contracts which takes tax money away from the lower-income white people of the United States and deposits it directly into personal and corporate bank accounts located somewhere half-way across the world via direct deposit. Would you like a receipt with that?
www.warresisters.org/piechart.htm
My Remaining Cent
by Donald Rilea
Tuesday June 21, 2005 at 04:21 PM
After posting what I thought would be my last comment on this topic on Saturday last, I had decided to abstain from any further discussion of this topic, as not to encourage more shit-artistry from the Scheiss-Meisteren Hearst and Napoleon.
However, on further reflection, I decided that, if I did say anything more about this subject, it would be that, while there should be, and are legitmate grounds for discussion of "illegal" immigration, and its social, cultural, economic, and political impacts on the peoples of the US and Mexico, no arguments, good, bad nor indifferent, had been advanced by the Minutemen Project's erstwhile supporters who posted here.
Instead, what they posted was a set of painfully unfunny, racist, and quite nasty jokes and japes at Mexicans and African-Americans, combined with a fifth-rate Monty Pythonesque version of Napoleon the Third, revived from the dead, and projecting his plans as to what to do with the population of Mexico, and Mexican expatriates living in the US, once he'd "reconquered" Mexico.
Ha, ha, fucking ha. Very funny.
-Next!!!!!
But, both Mr. Lofton and Ms. Baba-ette have beaten me to the punch on this score, with a set of counter-arguments that make the same point, with kudos to Ms. Baba-ette for her presentation outlining her point about the beneficiaries of "White Man's Welfare", as I like to call the corporate-military-political alliance in this country and others, so it's rendered what I was going to say rather redundant and moot.
Still, as a white, working-class male who is on disability myself, I can tell you this, "Miriam", I don't want nor need your pity, approbation, nor condemnation.
I don't especially care if you think I'm one of "the deserving poor" or not, nor should anyone on disability, nor disabled people in the work-force, have to care what you, your family, friends and associates think or feel about me and the other 'bottom feeders", because, quite frankly, you aren't God, Jesus, Odin, Zeus, etc, etc, etc.
You are a human being, nothing more and nothing less, as are Mr. Lofton, Baba-ette, myself, and every other human being walking(or wheeling)around on this planet to-day, breathing air and trying to get through the day as best they can.
If you wish to be a snob, fine. If you wish to be a racist, fine. If, in your heart of hearts, you wish to kill, en masse, everyone who isn't like you, your family, friends and associates, fine.
But, the minute you express these sentiments to other people, do not be shocked, stunned and more than a little amazed that they may feel at least just slightly offended, in some cases, and bloody well appalled, in others, by those sentiments, and they jolly well tell what they think of you and your sentiments, in no uncertain terms.
Personal prejudices, of whatever sort, are rarely, in fact, are never a sound basis for good public policy in any society, whether it be the US, France, Germany, or Rwanda.
In fact, what those policies represent is an admission of weakness and failure at the very highest levels, as well as among the ranks of their supporters, of a country's governing classes to solve economic, social and political problems of long-standing.
So, when in doubt, find a scape-goat, or two, twenty, or twenty million, on which the govering classes and their supporters can take out their frustrations in various forms on the scape-goats, while profiteers and opportunists, of various classes, shades and degrees, loot as much as they can of the scape-goats' belongings as possible, to sell or re-distribute as they see fit.
Such people are reffered to as "vultures", "rats", or "buzzards", with the occasional jibe of "worms" thrown in for good measure.
However, the creatures from which those insults are derived serve a very important function in the eco-system, in that they dispose of corpses and other forms of waste found therein.
That can't be said of their human counter-parts, however.
For they have, through their own volition, rather than the dictates of biological necessity, chosen to prey on the weaknesses, mis-fortunes and follies of their fellow siblings in the human family, and do so quite happily at that, for as long as the feeding frenzy that is genocide in any given culture lasts.
It is this element of choice, freely given, that allegedly differs the human species from the rest of the so-called lower animals, and, if your choice is to be a racist snob, then so be it.
But, do not expect your utterances to go un-challenged, especially if they are made in a public forum such as this one, do not expect your wishes to become public policy, at least, not without a long, protracted and exhausting battle on a variety of fronts, and, if you should ever be so imprudent, rash and grossly stupid, as to take up arms on behalf of your beliefs, do not expect those whom you would kill, injure, maim, etc, etc, to submit meekly to your will embodied in said force of arms.
There is a French word, genocidaires, which, imperfectly translated into English, means "genocidists" or "mass murderers", take your pick, and which refers to those who advocate and practise genocide.
I learned this term in the course of my limited study of the Rwandan genocide of 1994, and I find it a useful one in describing people who advocate such horrors, however covertly.
That genocide, like all modern genocides, occurred with a great deal of advance preparation, especially through the use of radio and newspaper propaganda, of the Hutu population, to condition them into believing that the Tutsis were "cockroaches", and similar such vermin, to be expunged and eliminated at all costs, along with Hutus who dissented against the government and its supporters.
There was substantial recruiting, indoctrination and training of Hutu paramilitary groups by segments of the Rwandan Hutu governing classes to carry out this set of grisly tasks, and, when the time came, they, along with many "ordinary" Hutus, did just that, and more, with gusto.
That is, until the Tutsi rebels approached the outskirts of Kigali, Rwanda's capital.
Then, the Rwandan Hutu elite, their immediate supporters, Rwandan soldiers, police and paramilitaries, and many of the Hutu civilians who participated in the genocide, and many who didn't, but feared possible reprisals by the Tutsi rebels, fled, first to western Rwanda, then, eventually to eastern Zaire, where they settled in refugee camps under the protection of Zaire's then-dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko(Remember him?).
Still, in the end, many of these people have had to answer, either to Rwandan or UN courts, for the crimes they committed during the genocide.
Some of them have been sentenced to death, while others to life imprisonment, and others still to long terms in prison.
Either way, the Rwandan genocidaires' deeds have caught up with them, and they are, in one way or another, paying for it, and for the disgusting and utterly morally bankrupt choices they made in the late 1980's through mid-1990's.
Do not think that you, or those of similar ideological ilk to you, will get away with whatever you plan for Mexican nationals, because, ultimately, you won't.
Even if you yourself don't pay for your deeds, your children, grand-children, etc, will pay for them, in one way or another.
It may be monetarily, socially, or with blood, but someone will pay for the deeds that you, and others like you, propose to do to your fellow human beings, and the cost will NOT be cheap. It never is.
I neither know nor care what your belief system is, but, even if it's merely that of saving your own skin, the fact that you or your descendants will have to pay for your folly should at least make you take pause before inflicting yourself and your beliefs on others.
For, it is the forcible infliction of one's beliefs on others, that is perhaps one of the worst offences to God and Humanity alike, and it is an infraction neither easily, if ever forgiven, by either.
One more item before I go, and that is, an apology to the readers here on this site for going along with the simpletons, however unwittingly, in posting replies to their puerile and useless comments, which culminated in the disgusting piece of juvenile trash posted by "Hearst" on Saturday last.
I had read the post after making my last comment, and did not post an immediate reply to it, as I should have.
The fault for that is mine alone, and I make no excuses for not having done so.
I will not do so again in future.
I am quite glad that Mr. Lofton and Ms. Baba-ette responded as they did to that bit of dreck(mud or filth in German), as well as to "Miriam"'s piece of schmutz.
I would respectfully advise posters to this site, however, that, unless the posts by these trolls(rather a kind term for them, I think) to generally ignore them, and, if possible, for the Editorial Collective to consider putting this topic, and related commentary, in the Hidden Posts section of the site, if they feel it is necessary.
The reason I advise the first part of my last statement, is not to add any more chum to the feeding frenzy that this topic has become, and to eventually discourage, any further postings by "Hearst", "Napoleon III" and their ilk.
I don't believe that such a strategy will immediately work, but, given enough time and in-attention, these children in grown people's bodies will eventually get bored if no one comes out to play with them.
Such people are tiresome at best, and stupidly dangerous, both to themselves and others, at worst, and should be regarded as the poor, sad, attention-seeking, little wretches that they are.
That is, until and unless, they decide to inflict themselves forcibly on other people, especially via force of arms, then they are something else entirely, and should be dealt with as such.
That is really all I have to say on this subject, except to again apologise for having fueled a good part of this intellectual atrocity and waste of time myself through my responses to the poster or posters for the opposition.
Unsubstaniated libel, foul attempts at "humour" and undisguised racism do not arguments make.
They do, however, make their wielders look like the silly fools that they are.
My Remaining Cent
by Donald Rilea
Tuesday June 21, 2005 at 04:23 PM
After posting what I thought would be my last comment on this topic on Saturday last, I had decided to abstain from any further discussion of this topic, as not to encourage more shit-artistry from the Scheiss-Meisteren Hearst and Napoleon.
However, on further reflection, I decided that, if I did say anything more about this subject, it would be that, while there should be, and are legitmate grounds for discussion of "illegal" immigration, and its social, cultural, economic, and political impacts on the peoples of the US and Mexico, no arguments, good, bad nor indifferent, had been advanced by the Minutemen Project's erstwhile supporters who posted here.
Instead, what they posted was a set of painfully unfunny, racist, and quite nasty jokes and japes at Mexicans and African-Americans, combined with a fifth-rate Monty Pythonesque version of Napoleon the Third, revived from the dead, and projecting his plans as to what to do with the population of Mexico, and Mexican expatriates living in the US, once he'd "reconquered" Mexico.
Ha, ha, fucking ha. Very funny.
-Next!!!!!
But, both Mr. Lofton and Ms. Baba-ette have beaten me to the punch on this score, with a set of counter-arguments that make the same point, with kudos to Ms. Baba-ette for her presentation outlining her point about the beneficiaries of "White Man's Welfare", as I like to call the corporate-military-political alliance in this country and others, so it's rendered what I was going to say rather redundant and moot.
Still, as a white, working-class male who is on disability myself, I can tell you this, "Miriam", I don't want nor need your pity, approbation, nor condemnation.
I don't especially care if you think I'm one of "the deserving poor" or not, nor should anyone on disability, nor disabled people in the work-force, have to care what you, your family, friends and associates think or feel about me and the other 'bottom feeders", because, quite frankly, you aren't God, Jesus, Odin, Zeus, etc, etc, etc.
You are a human being, nothing more and nothing less, as are Mr. Lofton, Baba-ette, myself, and every other human being walking(or wheeling)around on this planet to-day, breathing air and trying to get through the day as best they can.
If you wish to be a snob, fine. If you wish to be a racist, fine. If, in your heart of hearts, you wish to kill, en masse, everyone who isn't like you, your family, friends and associates, fine.
But, the minute you express these sentiments to other people, do not be shocked, stunned and more than a little amazed that they may feel at least just slightly offended, in some cases, and bloody well appalled, in others, by those sentiments, and they jolly well tell what they think of you and your sentiments, in no uncertain terms.
Personal prejudices, of whatever sort, are rarely, in fact, are never a sound basis for good public policy in any society, whether it be the US, France, Germany, or Rwanda.
In fact, what those policies represent is an admission of weakness and failure at the very highest levels, as well as among the ranks of their supporters, of a country's governing classes to solve economic, social and political problems of long-standing.
So, when in doubt, find a scape-goat, or two, twenty, or twenty million, on which the govering classes and their supporters can take out their frustrations in various forms on the scape-goats, while profiteers and opportunists, of various classes, shades and degrees, loot as much as they can of the scape-goats' belongings as possible, to sell or re-distribute as they see fit.
Such people are reffered to as "vultures", "rats", or "buzzards", with the occasional jibe of "worms" thrown in for good measure.
However, the creatures from which those insults are derived serve a very important function in the eco-system, in that they dispose of corpses and other forms of waste found therein.
That can't be said of their human counter-parts, however.
For they have, through their own volition, rather than the dictates of biological necessity, chosen to prey on the weaknesses, mis-fortunes and follies of their fellow siblings in the human family, and do so quite happily at that, for as long as the feeding frenzy that is genocide in any given culture lasts.
It is this element of choice, freely given, that allegedly differs the human species from the rest of the so-called lower animals, and, if your choice is to be a racist snob, then so be it.
But, do not expect your utterances to go un-challenged, especially if they are made in a public forum such as this one, do not expect your wishes to become public policy, at least, not without a long, protracted and exhausting battle on a variety of fronts, and, if you should ever be so imprudent, rash and grossly stupid, as to take up arms on behalf of your beliefs, do not expect those whom you would kill, injure, maim, etc, etc, to submit meekly to your will embodied in said force of arms.
There is a French word, genocidaires, which, imperfectly translated into English, means "genocidists" or "mass murderers", take your pick, and which refers to those who advocate and practise genocide.
I learned this term in the course of my limited study of the Rwandan genocide of 1994, and I find it a useful one in describing people who advocate such horrors, however covertly.
That genocide, like all modern genocides, occurred with a great deal of advance preparation, especially through the use of radio and newspaper propaganda, of the Hutu population, to condition them into believing that the Tutsis were "cockroaches", and similar such vermin, to be expunged and eliminated at all costs, along with Hutus who dissented against the government and its supporters.
There was substantial recruiting, indoctrination and training of Hutu paramilitary groups by segments of the Rwandan Hutu governing classes to carry out this set of grisly tasks, and, when the time came, they, along with many "ordinary" Hutus, did just that, and more, with gusto.
That is, until the Tutsi rebels approached the outskirts of Kigali, Rwanda's capital.
Then, the Rwandan Hutu elite, their immediate supporters, Rwandan soldiers, police and paramilitaries, and many of the Hutu civilians who participated in the genocide, and many who didn't, but feared possible reprisals by the Tutsi rebels, fled, first to western Rwanda, then, eventually to eastern Zaire, where they settled in refugee camps under the protection of Zaire's then-dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko(Remember him?).
Still, in the end, many of these people have had to answer, either to Rwandan or UN courts, for the crimes they committed during the genocide.
Some of them have been sentenced to death, while others to life imprisonment, and others still to long terms in prison.
Either way, the Rwandan genocidaires' deeds have caught up with them, and they are, in one way or another, paying for it, and for the disgusting and utterly morally bankrupt choices they made in the late 1980's through mid-1990's.
Do not think that you, or those of similar ideological ilk to you, will get away with whatever you plan for Mexican nationals, because, ultimately, you won't.
Even if you yourself don't pay for your deeds, your children, grand-children, etc, will pay for them, in one way or another.
It may be monetarily, socially, or with blood, but someone will pay for the deeds that you, and others like you, propose to do to your fellow human beings, and the cost will NOT be cheap. It never is.
I neither know nor care what your belief system is, but, even if it's merely that of saving your own skin, the fact that you or your descendants will have to pay for your folly should at least make you take pause before inflicting yourself and your beliefs on others.
For, it is the forcible infliction of one's beliefs on others, that is perhaps one of the worst offences to God and Humanity alike, and it is an infraction neither easily, if ever forgiven, by either.
One more item before I go, and that is, an apology to the readers here on this site for going along with the simpletons, however unwittingly, in posting replies to their puerile and useless comments, which culminated in the disgusting piece of juvenile trash posted by "Hearst" on Saturday last.
I had read the post after making my last comment, and did not post an immediate reply to it, as I should have.
The fault for that is mine alone, and I make no excuses for not having done so.
I will not do so again in future.
I am quite glad that Mr. Lofton and Ms. Baba-ette responded as they did to that bit of dreck(mud or filth in German), as well as to "Miriam"'s piece of schmutz.
I would respectfully advise posters to this site, however, that, unless the posts by these trolls(rather a kind term for them, I think) to generally ignore them, and, if possible, for the Editorial Collective to consider putting this topic, and related commentary, in the Hidden Posts section of the site, if they feel it is necessary.
The reason I advise the first part of my last statement, is not to add any more chum to the feeding frenzy that this topic has become, and to eventually discourage, any further postings by "Hearst", "Napoleon III" and their ilk.
I don't believe that such a strategy will immediately work, but, given enough time and in-attention, these children in grown people's bodies will eventually get bored if no one comes out to play with them.
Such people are tiresome at best, and stupidly dangerous, both to themselves and others, at worst, and should be regarded as the poor, sad, attention-seeking, little wretches that they are.
That is, until and unless, they decide to inflict themselves forcibly on other people, especially via force of arms, then they are something else entirely, and should be dealt with as such.
That is really all I have to say on this subject, except to again apologise for having fueled a good part of this intellectual atrocity and waste of time myself through my responses to the poster or posters for the opposition.
Unsubstaniated libel, foul attempts at "humour" and undisguised racism do not arguments make.
They do, however, make their wielders look like the silly fools that they are.
Pick on the powerful, N-O-T the powerless
by Saab Lofton
Wednesday June 22, 2005 at 10:05 PM
saablofton@hotmail.com
"As for genocide, those darkies have been massacring each other for millennia ... let the bastards wither away with the blessing of God and microbes, I say!"
I SHOULDN'T EVEN HAVE TO WASTE MY TIME POINTING OUT HOW UTTERLY PERVERTED THE AFOREMENTIONED IS ...
... (sigh) BUT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE WHO SPENT THEIR HIGH SCHOOL YEARS PARTYING INSTEAD OF READING ...
A) LILY WHITE MOTHERFUCKERS HAVE BEEN MASSACRING EACH OTHER FOR FAR LONGER THAN A MILLENNIA (UNLESS YOU'RE STUPID ENOUGH TO BLAME BLACK FOLKS FOR WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE TIME OF WILLIAM "BRAVEHEART" WALLACE).
B) IF YOU KNOW SO LITTLE ABOUT MATHEMATICS TO THE POINT WHERE YOU ACTUALLY "THINK" MORE MONEY IS BEING RIPPED OFF BY WELFARE CHEATS THAN BY THE LIKES OF ENRON AND HALLIBURTON, YOU'RE PROOF THAT COUSINS SHOULDN'T BREED--NO MATTER HOW FEW NATURAL BLONDES/REDHEADS THERE ARE OUT THERE ...
"You know they have wheelchair ramps at all the McDonalds now. It's about time for you to go back to work and earn your keep, hm?"
THIS IS PROOF THAT CAPITALISM EQUALS CRUELTY. IF I RECALL, OVER THE GATES OF NAZI DEATH CAMPS READ THE PHRASE, "WORK WILL MAKE YOU FREE." BETCHA LIKE THAT, HUH ..? GETTIN' YA HOT ..?
IT'S ALSO PROOF THAT SPOILED, STUCK-UP PRICKS LIKE YOURSELF NEED TO SUFFER ANOTHER GREAT DEPRESSION JUST TO TEACH YOUR KIND HOW REALITY REALLY WORKS. IT'S SAD, REALLY: THE REST OF THE WORLD SHOULDN'T HAVE TO SUFFER WAITING FOR YOU PEOPLE TO WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0614-25.htm
Published on Tuesday, June 14, 2005 by CommonDreams.org
America's Corporate Benedict Arnolds
by Scott Klinger
'That's un-American' is the cry heard whenever the unwritten code of American values is breached, Compassion, fairness and equal opportunity are hallmarks, and although you might not be able to recite chapter and verse of the code, you know when it is broken.
On this the 204th anniversary of the death of Benedict Arnold, one of America's most famous traitors, it's time to consider whether some of America's largest corporations that pay little or no federal taxes, have indeed become traitors.
Large corporations are in full retreat from paying their fair share of taxes. In 2003, corporations paid just 7% of the cost of the US government, according to a study by Citizens for Tax Justice.
It wasn't always this way. At the end of the Second World War, a time when paying taxes was viewed as a patriotic duty, corporations paid half the cost of the federal government. Even as recently as the 1970s, corporate taxes accounted for 20% of federal treasury receipts.
This dramatic change has shifted the cost of paying for government to smaller businesses and individual taxpayers, while at the same time boosting corporate profits and their executive's pay.
In 2003, ten companies each reported more than $1 billion in profits to their shareholders, yet paid no federal corporate income tax. Collectively, these firms that have claimed the only way they can remain competitive is through tax breaks, earned $30 billion in profits and paid their CEOs $126 million in 2003. The average pay of the CEOs of the corporate Benedict Arnolds was $12.6 million, 51% higher than the pay of the average large-company CEO as reported by Business Week.
Who are these resurrected Benedict Arnolds? A new report published by United for a Fair Economy entitled Corporate Traitors: The Decline of Corporate Taxes and the Subsequent Rise of CEO Pay(.pdf) bestows awards on some of these tax avoiders.
Boeing, the nation's second largest defense contractor, is honored with the 'Taxes are the Real Enemy' Benedict Arnold award. Boeing received the largest federal tax refund in 2003. So large was Boeing's $1.7 billion tax refund that it dwarfed the company's $1 billion in reported earnings, giving the company an effective tax rate of -159% according to Citizens for Tax Justice.
Viagra maker Pfizer took home the 'Taxpaying Dysfunction (TD)' award. Despite $14 billion in profits between 2001 and 2003, Pfizer couldn't get excited enough about paying taxes to perform sending just $1.2 billion to the federal treasury, a miserly effective tax rate of just 8.2%. In contrast, Pfizer's industry competitor Merck paid 32.5% of its $12.7 billion in three-year profits in federal taxes.
Pfizer saw no need to be Scrooge-like when it came to paying its CEO Hank McKinnell, however, who walked away with $21.4 million in 2004, more than three times what Merck paid its CEO.
These disparities in tax rates adversely affect the competitive playing field not only between giant companies like Pfizer and Merck, but to an even greater degree between large companies and small businesses. While the average large company today pays only 18% of its income in federal taxes, many small businesses owners pay 34%.
Two centuries after Benedict Arnold used his power and influence to gain a plum assignment as commander of West Point, and then used that position to surrender this important fort to the British, we are witness to other powerful players using their privilege and standing to rewrite the nation's tax laws for their own gain.
Corporate tax and accounting departments have morphed from backwater cost centers to sexy profit drivers. Investments in research and development have shrunk as investments in aggressive lobbying and accounting have blossomed. These corporate Benedict Arnolds, like their namesakes, are jeopardizing the nation's security.
The American public, angered by Arnold's betrayal, went on to fight and reclaim West Point from the British. Today the fight is about restoring the fairness of the tax system by assuring that corporations pay their fair share to maintain the society upon which their vast wealth depends.
The fight has many fronts
* Congress should reform and simplify the corporate tax code, lowering the rate, eliminating the myriad of tax breaks and implementing progressive tax principles that would tax Big Business at higher rates than small family businesses, reversing the current reality. -The corporate alternative minimum tax, eviscerated by the Clinton Administration, needs to be restored, so that all profitable companies pay taxes.
* We need to withdraw from tax treaties with many of the 90 tax haven nations who aid and abet corporate tax avoiders.
Those who continue down Benedict Arnold's path might, like the infamous traitor, consider taking themselves to another country. Their current behavior is un-American and unacceptable.
Scott Klinger is the corporate accountability coordinator at United for a Fair Economy and author of the report: 'Corporate Traitors: The Decline of Corporate Taxation and Subsequent Rise in CEO Pay.' Scott Klinger may be emailed at sklinger@faireconomy.org.
LEARN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DAVID AND GOLIATH, YOU INBRED RETARDS!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underdog_%28competition%29
"An underdog is a party in a competition, frequently in electoral politics or sports, who is popularly expected to lose. If the underdog wins, the event is known as an upset."
NO WAR BUT THE CLASS WAR! ANY QUESTIONS ..?
Get a Real Job, Saab!
by Lamar Holt
Wednesday June 22, 2005 at 11:26 PM
Parumph, NV
Pick on the powerful, N-O-T the powerless
by Saab Lofton Wednesday June 22, 2005 at 10:05 PM
saablofton@hotmail.com
"As for genocide, those darkies have been massacring each other for millennia ... let the bastards wither away with the blessing of God and microbes, I say!"
I SHOULDN'T EVEN HAVE TO WASTE MY TIME POINTING OUT HOW UTTERLY PERVERTED THE AFOREMENTIONED IS ...
You could have fooled me.
... (sigh) BUT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE WHO SPENT THEIR HIGH SCHOOL YEARS PARTYING INSTEAD OF READING ...
Is this why you're so muddle-headed?
A) LILY WHITE MOTHERFUCKERS HAVE BEEN MASSACRING EACH OTHER FOR FAR LONGER THAN A MILLENNIA (UNLESS YOU'RE STUPID ENOUGH TO BLAME BLACK FOLKS FOR WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE TIME OF WILLIAM "BRAVEHEART" WALLACE).
This certainly does not confute what William said about African Tribal History.
B) IF YOU KNOW SO LITTLE ABOUT MATHEMATICS TO THE POINT WHERE YOU ACTUALLY "THINK" MORE MONEY IS BEING RIPPED OFF BY WELFARE CHEATS THAN BY THE LIKES OF ENRON AND HALLIBURTON, YOU'RE PROOF THAT COUSINS SHOULDN'T BREED--NO MATTER HOW FEW NATURAL BLONDES/REDHEADS THERE ARE OUT THERE ...
William did not so much as even suggest that welfare costs exceed that of American Corporate malfeasance. As for incestuous activities, how about that black guy in Bakersfield?
"You know they have wheelchair ramps at all the McDonalds now. It's about time for you to go back to work and earn your keep, hm?"
THIS IS PROOF THAT CAPITALISM EQUALS CRUELTY. IF I RECALL, OVER THE GATES OF NAZI DEATH CAMPS READ THE PHRASE, "WORK WILL MAKE YOU FREE." BETCHA LIKE THAT, HUH ..? GETTIN' YA HOT ..?
Capitalism/Free Enterprise has nothing to do with cruelty. It is a system that spurs economic freedom. Without people with capital, there would be no new business formation, and the economy would immediately stop growing. That is exactly what
happened with all the attempts at socialism. In regard to your "Nazi" reference, fascism exalts one nation and race over all others. A capitalist
hardly favors putting the nation above the individual.
IT'S ALSO PROOF THAT SPOILED, STUCK-UP PRICKS LIKE YOURSELF NEED TO SUFFER ANOTHER GREAT DEPRESSION JUST TO TEACH YOUR KIND HOW REALITY REALLY WORKS. IT'S SAD, REALLY: THE REST OF THE WORLD SHOULDN'T HAVE TO SUFFER WAITING FOR YOU PEOPLE TO WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!
Your so-called "STUCK-UP PRICKS" like the "real" William R. Hearst did experience the depression and apparently did have a grasp on the nature of social attrition in free economies.
Everything you "liberals" favor regarding economics involves force. Money taken from one group and given to another is never done voluntarily. Liberals try to force their morals on everyone else. For example, if I believe it is immoral for anyone to earn less than a "living wage" per hour, or that anyone should not be able to live on capital invested, and try to get the government to enforce that, I am forcing my morals on everyone else.
If our friend, Donald, is a cut above employment at McDonald's, then he can apply himself in endeavors that would far exceed such employment, as well as earn him much beyond the limits of a welfare check. Naturally, you and your friends would make an effort to cut [TAX] his profits in half or more in order to support illegal immigrants and welfare scam artists.
As a Mormon, I find your outlook on life somewhat dismal and self-serving. You use the depravity of the masses to bolster your bitterness about immensely successful people. The world, you know, suffered heavily as a result of that pompous doctor of philosopy, Karl Marx, not getting that promised job at the Rheinische Zeitung. In Russia alone, 60 million perished in the Gulag. Get a clue, Saab. Socialist Pity and Liberal Guilt are piss-poor substitutes economic freedom and the success of those with reasonable goals.
So like where are all the mexicans?
by Joe
Thursday June 23, 2005 at 02:12 PM
Las Vegas
Where are all the mexican posters? arre they too illiterate to read and write and contribute their prejudices in this forum?
"Economic freedom" my ass!
by Saab Lofton
Thursday June 23, 2005 at 04:13 PM
saablofton@hotmail.com
First, I did refute what that prick said, because his racist use of the term "darkies" suggests that violence is supposedly inherently/more likely to be found amongst those darker than a shopping bag. What I did was bring up an example of how white folks have been slaughtering each other just as much as most any other ethnic group. Fortunately, it's all about CULTURE, n-o-t nature, and as a result, slaughter is going out of style bit by bit. Don't believe me? Ask an army recruiter! And while you're at it, tell HIS ass to get "a real job", fucker!
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0623-03.htm
The headline happens to be ...
Military Enlists Marketer to Get Data on Students for Recruiters
... which demonstrates the connection between the military and the industrial (something to keep in mind) ...
"Army officials said it was unlikely that the service would meet its 2005 recruiting goals, and Army Maj. Gen. Michael D. Rochelle, head of Army Recruiting Command, said recently that he expected even more recruiting problems in 2006 than the Army had this year [HOORAY!!]. With recruiters struggling to meet monthly quotas, dozens of reports have surfaced of overzealous recruiters using unauthorized tactics — even threatening some potential enlistees with jail time — to sign on recruits [THAT'S EXACTLY HOW MY STEP-DAD WOUND UP DOING NOT ONE, NOT TWO, BUT THREE TOURS IN 'NAM]. Last month, the Army conducted a national one-day recruiter 'stand down' during which every Army recruiter received a refresher course about methods prohibited under Army regulations."
And if recruitment DOES continue, then yo' ass will be proven wrong because it'll show that capitalism will in fact put nationalism above Humanity! Then again, when hasn't it? So much for capitalists repsonding to Human need ... Lockheed defence contract, anyone ..?
Second, your quote about bitterness and success and such is at the very core of your weak-ass argument. "You use the depravity of the masses to bolster your bitterness about immensely successful people."
Pull that shit out and your whole armor falls in pieces. How so? What you're sick enough to call "economic freedom" is slavery for everyone who ain't spoiled somehow by this evil system/Matrix/Establishment, whatever. Let me ask you something, "mormon", would your God mind if you just won the lottery and then ignored a homeless single mom with two kids asking for spare change? As a so-called man of God, what have YOU done in the way of charity? Can we say, Sermon on the Mount? Look up Luke 3:11 sometime ...
It's a miracle Spider-Man has been allowed any household name recognition at all by America's corporately owned media, given the character's motto: With great power comes great responsibility. One can only extrapolate this to mean that with little power comes little responsibility. And as someone who's been homeless myself (June 12th, 1991 to July 3rd, 1992), I'll take Spidey's advice over Ayn Rand's skanky ass any fucking day out of the week ..!
"Get a real job" ... tell that capitalist scum you're sucking off to invest and create some! They don't need a yacht on EACH coast!! I've been screaming for a Greenpeace/Earth Day version of FDR's New Deal for months now! Pay the ghetto, the barrio AND the motherfuckin' trailer parks to recycle, grow hemp, errect wind mills, install solar panels, and other eco-friendly things. I know this is difficult for you to grasp (THE WHOLE PLANET'S SUFFERING BECAUSE OF SOME RIGHT-WINGER'S LACK OF AN IMAGINATION), but it's called killing two birds with one stone: End poverty and polution by paying the poor to save the world. Now, the only way to afford what I just described is to tax and rich and cut the military--and yes, even after doing both of those things, America would STILL be the richest, most powerful political entity in Human history ...
... but so long as Neantherdals like you stand in the way of Human progress ... rent A Christmas Carol, all right, buddy? I know it ain't nowhere near the holiday season, but evidently, yo' ass needs it--N-O-W. In fact, just fast forward to the end--when the Ghost of Christmas Future is showing Scrooge his grave within the alternate timeline in which he remained just as dim and obtuse as your sorry ass clearly is. I'm sure if you look close enough you'll find that somewhere on Scrooge's tombstone are etched the words: "economic freedom" ...
Finally, insofar as "force" goes, I'm anti-Stalin, always have been, always will be. Real leftists are more like Dickens' Christmas ghosts--they never laid a hand on Scrooge, but they sure turned his monkey ass out just the same ...
Ya wanna worry about force? Worry about Gitmo, Abu Gharib, the Patriot Act, etc., again, PICK ON THE POWERFUL, NOT THE POWERLESS, "Lamar"!
http://www.adelphia.net/news/read.php?id=11998729&ps=1012
U.N. Uncovers Torture at Guantanamo Bay
Thursday, June 23, 2005 8:48 AM EDT
The Associated Press
By BRADLEY S. KLAPPER
U.N. human rights experts said Thursday they have reliable accounts of detainees being tortured at the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba [BY THE WAY, THAT'S THE PART OF CUBA AMERIKKKA RUNS, NOT CASTRO].
One more thing ...
by Saab Lofton
Thursday June 23, 2005 at 05:09 PM
saablofton@hotmail.com
PROVE THIS WRONG OR SHUT YOUR MOUTH!
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0525-31.htm
Published on Wednesday, May 25, 2005
by The Progressive
US Poor Fare Badly by Comparison
by Amitabh Pal
The New York Times has been publishing an excellent series on class in America. One quote in that piece particularly stood out for me. Berkeley economist David Levine told the paper that "being born poor in the U.S. gives you disadvantages unlike anything in Western Europe and Japan and Canada."
I decided to verify if that's true. One of the sources I used was the website of the Organization For Economic Cooperation and Development.
The numbers spoke for themselves.
In both the statistics for overall poverty and child poverty, the United States performed badly.
For overall poverty, the U.S. numbers (17.1 percent) for 2000 were significantly higher than for most European countries. France, Germany, and the United Kingdom had poverty rates of 7.0 percent, 9.8 percent, and 11.4 percent, respectively. Canada and Japan were lower than the United States, too, with a poverty rate of 10.3 percent and 15.3 percent, respectively. The organization average was just 10.2 percent.
For child poverty, the story was not much different. The U.S. rate (21.7 percent) was much higher than most members of the organization or the organization's average as a whole (12.1 percent). The Scandinavian nations had child poverty rates in the 2 to 3 percent range.
The Economic Policy Institute comes out with an excellent book every two years called "The State of Working America." The latest edition, "The State of Working America 2004/2005" contains a lot of very useful international comparisons.
A series of tables and charts lays out the level of inequality in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Canada. By a number of measures, the United States is the most unequal country of the lot, such as the ratio of the income of the bottom 10 percent of households to that of the top 10 percent.
When it comes to health indicators, the United States fares worse than most other industrialized nations. A table available at the U.N. Economic Commission for Europe shows that the life expectancy for American women in 2000 was less than for women in 11 of the 15 European Union countries, Canada, and even Israel, while for men, it was less than for all but one (Ireland) of the 15 EU members, Canada and Israel. When it came to death among infants and children, the patterns were the same. Both the U.S. child mortality rate (8.6 per 1,000 births) and infant mortality rate (6.9 per 1,000 births) was higher than those for Europe, Canada, and Israel.
All this should not be a surprise. The European and Canadian social democratic model does a better job of taking care of its vulnerable--the poor, the young, and the infirm--than the laissez-faire U.S. approach.
Amitabh Pal is Managing Editor of The Progressive.
THE LAISSEZ-FAIRE APPROACH SUCKS DICK!! EVEN WHITES SUFFER FROM IT!! BEHOLD ..!
http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/04/06/int04033.html
BuzzFlash: Earlier this month, you went on a tour in Appalachia to speak with working families to encourage them to start voting in their own self-interest. You asked people to not be duped by the Republicans and to support a political party that will create jobs, rebuild America, and start helping middle class families afford healthcare and college tuition instead of giving tax breaks to the rich. Tell us what you hoped to accomplish and if you felt you met your objective.
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.: The intent of the Appalachian tour was to build a coalition among working poor people. I convinced them to vote their interest over their fears. The focus was on tax cuts for the wealthy, our war in Iraq, jobs being shipped overseas – and how all these issues affect working families. Working poor people cannot put on big fundraisers. The working poor do not attract cameras. In this part of the country, when their children graduate from high school, it is difficult for them to afford to go to college. Jobs are harder and harder to come by so they go to the military and thus become your Jessica Lynches and they come out of Appalachia and other poor communities disproportionately to the rest of the country.
For example, in those hills, and West Virginia, and Southern, Southeastern Kentucky, Ohio area, those making minimum wage are at 65% the poverty level, so they’re working poor. Most of the people are not on welfare. They work every day. A coal miner still dies every six hours from black lung disease. When you speak to and focus on the working poor, you begin to rebuild the heart strength and the soul of America again. We need to reinvest in America, put America back to work, and revive the great American promise.
BuzzFlash: It seems that you’re trying to unify the country by having a dialogue with various groups that, at first glance, some people might believe are in opposition to one another. And you’re talking, as you say, to poor, rural, often times white men and educating them that Bush’s policies are hurting them just as much if not more than other demographics in the country, despite the fact that most consider them the GOP base.
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.: It’s interesting that these are mostly white coal miners but they have received me so well. I was meeting and and staying with a different coal mining family every night. But in spite of all of their deprivation – by the way, 30 steel mills have closed -- they still have the power to vote their interest and not their fears and decide the next president. They have the power to determine the next Senate. A small number of votes in that region determine everything. And so it is an attempt to convince even the working poor to not surrender and to vote their interest and not their fears. The last time, Bush and Cheney campaigned in 2000, they were wolves in sheep’s clothing to the people of Appalachia. For example, Bush and Cheney campaigned on guns. Well, the people in Appalachia still got their guns but they don’t have jobs and they don’t have healthcare.
LEARN SOMETHIN', MOTHERFUCKER!!!
You're lower than a Nazi!
by Saab Lofton
Sunday June 26, 2005 at 04:43 PM
saablofton@hotmail.com
"All this malarky about Appalachia is just commie propoganda."
Talk about missing the point entirely!! Are you retarded or simply being obtuse on purpose? The point is that the wealth must be shared in order to save Appalachia and all the other, similar suffering communities. If they're mining coal, they NEED to be installing solar power panels instead! They also need free, universal health care so they can LIVE.
Now, in order to afford the switch from coal to solar and the free doctors, THE RICH MUST BE TAXED AND THE MILITARY MUST BE CUT, PERIOD. You won't get away with obscuring this fact with a bunch of coy, snide, stuck-up, sarcastic comments. This ain't high school, motherfucker! This is real fucking life, with real people who are dying while yo' ass is talkin' shit. Stop writing off everything your tiny mind can't grasp as "commie propaganda"!
Maybe you're not racist, after all (despite your constant use of the term "darkies"). At least a Nazi would look at Appalachia and demand that the poor Aryans there be attended to. See, the Nazis were for national socialism--or socialism for a particular nationality only, and in the Nazis' case, it was whites only ... In constrast I'm for UNIVERSAL socialism, which means I don't want to see anyone suffer--including your sorry ass (to paraphrase Voltaire, I can't stand you but I'm willing to die to get you something to eat). But you? You're LOWER than a Nazi. You're so greedy--so afraid of some precedent being set by taxing the rich--that you're willing to sacrifice all those lives in Appalachia (the lives of people who presumably look more like you than I do) just to keep it from ever occurring to anyone to share. Libertarian scum. You're truly a sick fuck.
I'm a Trekkie because the only moral solution to overpopulation is space exploration and I don't want overpopulation to EVER be used as an excuse to turn a blind eye to suffering. If people aren't dying because of oil-based warfare, unsafe products (Firestone tires come to mind--Ralph Nader, where are you?) or from any of the all-too-many sins of capitalism, then there will obviously be all the more people in the world. Therefore, instead of worrying about your jobs or how dark your descendants will be, worry about funding NASA so that EVERYONE'S descendants can have a positive future. Eco-friendly jobs and free doctors for everyone! And if the rich has a problem with footing the bill, tell their monkey asses they ought to be grateful a Che or a John Brown or one of the Black Panthers ain't got a gat up in their ass ... GRATEFUL, motherfucker!!! As Malcolm X said, the choice before Scrooge is the ballot or the bullet!
Oil, Land, and Immigrant Labor
by Lamar Holt
Wednesday June 29, 2005 at 04:28 AM
Parumph, NV
I found the following post at one of the IndyMedia sites. IndyMedia is best known for censoring and/or deleting any post that doesn't take their usual hard-line pro-socialist-pity platform. This one was too
intelligent to rebuff apparently:
The Minutemen- Not A Left Or Right Issue 26.Jun.2005 16:43
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Kevin Quail b...@comcast.net link
The Minuteman Project
Miscellaneous - 4/24/2005 12:36:33 AM
The Minutemen Project, Not A Left Or Right Issue
This project seems to have been quite successful. A CNN story stated
"The Border Patrol has acknowledged receiving 317 calls from Naco and
Douglas, resulting in 846 arrests, but the agency will not say whether
any of those calls came from project volunteers." From the Washington
Times quoting one of the Minutemen organizers: "Mr. Gilchrist noted
that fewer than 5,000 illegal aliens will be apprehended this month by
the U.S. Border Patrol in the Minuteman Project's 20-mile patrol area
compared with 64,000 in April 2004 and 73,000 in April 2003" and "The
U.S. Border Patrol has acknowledged making hundreds of arrests after
receiving calls from the area being patrolled by the Minuteman
volunteers, but has not confirmed whether any of those calls came from
the volunteers." The San Francisco Chronicle wrote "And, according to
the Border Patrol, the Mexican military is now actively helping illegal
immigrants, including known drug runners, reach safer border-crossing
points in order to avoid the Minutemen. No doubt this little citizen
uprising didn't figure into the handbook on how to enter the U.S.
illegally the Mexican government distributed to citizens last year."
So they proved it can be done. Yet our government tells us we can't
secure our borders but plans to spend another 81 billion in Iraq and
Afghanistan. Its primary job is to protect us and it is failing to do
this both physically and economically. It is supposed to regulate
business, not act as an accessory in flooding the country with cheap
labor to drive down wages for higher profits. If a neighboring country
is encouraging and abetting its citizens to break our laws, and those
same citizens are sending home more money than that nation makes
selling oil, its motives are plain. Yet our president agrees with
Vicente Fox that the Minutemen are vigilantes and wants to implement a
thinly-disguised amnesty program. Some state legislatures have voted to
give illegal aliens in-state college tuition while denying that right
to American citizens from other states. Others have passed laws
allowing them to obtain drivers licenses. The matricula consular visa,
an ID issued by the Mexican government, is starting to be accepted by
banks as a form of identification necessary to open an account and
obtain a mortgage loan, a direct violation of federal law. Meanwhile,
over 3 million people around the world are on the waiting list for US
visas.
Our elected officials are acting in violation of their oath to uphold
the laws of the country and are themselves encouraging and abetting
illegal immigration by granting these privileges. There are three
obvious benefits the federal government reaps from this.
1) The influx of people will drive the housing market, one of the few
industries that can't be completely outsourced. The federal government
owns 42% of Americas land, most of that in the western states. For
example, they own 87% of Nevada. Las Vegas is expanding onto government
land that was auctioned off to consortiums of homebuilders. The same
thing is happening near Mesquite, NV, about 90 miles northeast of
Vegas. Here's a specific example.
At this government site, http://propertydisposal.gsa.gov/property , it
shows land and other property the government is selling or has sold.
Recently, lots A thru J just north of Mesquite were auctioned off. Lot
J was 1250 acres. The government assigned a pre-auction fair market
value of $335,000 to this parcel. The winning bid was $4.1 million.
There are many other parcels around Vegas that have been sold with
similar results, where the sales price was substantially more than the
fair market value. There is currently another federal auction of land
near Laughlin. Once that land gets sold for exorbitant amounts, it
immediately inflates the value of that land and the surrounding land,
etc., etc. The government will continue to sell off America to the
highest bidder to help finance its overseas war on terror. Accepting
the matricula visa as required identification to get loans will
encourage this process.
2) The special interests that fill campaign coffers are well served.
Since labor costs make up on average 70% of the total cost of doing
business, cheap labor makes for better profits. This means more
independent contractors, less benefits for workers and more money for
executives and shareholders. Of course lobbyists will then have more
cash to spread around in Washington which will send more congressmen on
free golf trips overseas.
3) This flood of workers drives down wages and raises unemployment to
create more poverty. More poverty brings more crime which helps to fill
up the increasingly privatized prisons. This also creates a slave labor
class that performs tasks for a fraction of the cost in free society.
The joke of a drug war contributes even more inmates. And you can't
have an all-volunteer army with full employment. The US birthrate alone
can't provide enough cannon fodder for the new crusades in the Middle
East.
The government, therefore, is just unwilling to change what benefits
them. Corporations run the world and national borders have become
nothing more than public relations. Many on the left take a generic
liberal stance that it is racism driving those who would control our
borders since the majority of illegal aliens come from Mexico. This
issue is now beyond politics- its a matter of survival of this country.
We cannot continue to absorb Mexico's poverty at this alarming rate.
Our leaders should have taken Vicente Fox and others to task long ago
for their feeble efforts to improve the lives of poor Mexicans.
Otherwise they will continue to use the US as the safety valve for the
discontent of the impoverished. Mexico wins both ways - immigrants
remit billions back home and as our population grows we import more of
their oil. The current situation cannot stand.
Do something- e-mail or call your congressmen and senators, both on the
federal and state levels. E-mail the White House; its easy, just type
in White House in any search engine and that home page will come up. If
elected officials become afraid that they wont get re-elected, maybe
they will get off their collective ass and do something.
Nobody fucking asked you to ..!
by Saab Lofton
Wednesday June 29, 2005 at 05:52 PM
saablofton@hotmail.com
"We cannot continue to absorb Mexico's poverty at this alarming rate."
First of all, Lamar, don't you fucking dare claim you're being censored. EVER You know damn well the fascistic FOX News will forever put your unworthy ass on a pedestal ..! You're N-O-T the underdog in this story, but then again, you clearly don't know what an underdog is, so ...
Second, the only thing you people understand is standing guard. MIGHT MAKES RIGHT. Trust ain't in your limited vocabulary, so you spew out the whole orignal sin, nature of man crap and use that as a cheap ass excuse to play Rambo/Robocop--like the world's just that dangerous in order to justify y'all playin' cowbody and shit ...
Finally, no one fucking asked you to "absorb Mexico's poverty" as you put it. The answer is obvious: Tell Mexico to tax ITS rich and cut ITS defense so that every Mexican can have free doctors, free colleges, etc. However, we all know (least those who don't rely on FOX News and actually READS) that the minute Mexico starts sharing its wealth, the CIA will come in and ruin them just like it ruined every other country in the so-called third world trying to be self-sufficient, so fuck off you historically ingorant bastard! Y'all wanna camp out somewhere and point guns at people? Go to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia! Like I keep telling you savages, pick on the powerful, not the powerless! Look at the ROOT of a problem for a fucking change and NOT the fruit!!
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/CIA_ThirdWorld.html
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA%20Hits/CIA_GreatestHits.html
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zepezauer_Mark/Boomerang.html
... and since you're clearly a dumb motherfucker, let me explain this to you like it's your first day at school:
In his book 10 Reasons to Abolish the IMF and World Bank, Kevin Denaher wrote that a Guatemalan peasant was hacked to death with machetes in front of his wife and children by the military for being a subversivo (rebel). When the peasant's widow was asked why this atrocity occurred, she explained that her husband was teaching other peasants who slave away in military-run plantations (while being sprayed with pesticides) how to raise rabbits so that "we can feed ourselves without being forced to go and sell our labor for a dollar a day."
Now I know how your kind is always obsessing over the supposed glories of being self-sufficient ... pull yourself up by your bootstraps and all that? Well, all this dude wanted was to raise rabbits and a military the CIA created and RONALD (six letters) WILSON (six letters) REAGAN (six letters) later funded KILLED HIM! NEVER TALK TO ME ABOUT SELF-SUFFICIENCY EVER AGAIN YOU FUCKING HYPOCRITE!
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA%20Hits/Guatemala_CIAHits.html
LEARN SOMETHIN', MOTHERFUCKER!!!
More Imbecilic Drivel From Slob Loften
by Lamar Holt
Wednesday June 29, 2005 at 11:38 PM
Parumph, NV
Slob Lofton spewed forth as follows:
"Now I know how your kind is always obsessing over the supposed glories of being self-sufficient ... pull yourself up by your bootstraps and all that? Well, all this dude wanted was to raise rabbits and a military the CIA created and RONALD (six letters) WILSON (six letters) REAGAN (six letters) later funded KILLED HIM! NEVER TALK TO ME ABOUT SELF-SUFFICIENCY EVER AGAIN YOU FUCKING HYPOCRITE! "
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Having another one of your brain-drain conniption fits, are you?
Apparently, you are incapable of interpreting the intelligent profferings written by Kevin Quail that I copied and pasted to this forum. Perhaps it would be better to refer you to one of the "brothers," Larry Elder, instead. Like most black Americans, you probably hate this pillar of success... that speaks to the generations of government welfare addiction for blacks that you seem to manifest so well in your depthless rants. Of course, if you were a success yourself, like Larry Elder, you'd be singing a different tune/rant, and much less likely to have a desire to be heavily taxed to support the likes of bottom-feeding flatworms and other parasites.
Get your fucking priorities straight!
by Saab Lofton
Thursday June 30, 2005 at 05:20 PM
saablofton@hotmail.com
"Like most black Americans, you probably hate this pillar of success... that speaks to the generations of government welfare addiction for blacks that you seem to manifest so well in your depthless rants. Of course, if you were a success yourself, like Larry Elder, you'd be singing a different tune/rant, and much less likely to have a desire to be heavily taxed to support the likes of bottom-feeding flatworms and other parasites."
"She's a Jew cunt ... better hurry befor the wetbacks finish her off."
And y'all motherfuckers got the GALL to claim that y'all ain't racist ...
First, most of the people on welfare are white. Second, I already live like a monk, fiscally speaking, and I've sworn an oath to GOD that if I WERE to ever become rich one day, then three/fourths (that's gross, not net) of my income would go toward charity. THEY WOULDN'T HAVE TO TAX ME, YOU MORON, 'CAUSE I'D ALREADY HAVE BEAT THEM TO THE PUNCH, AS IT WERE ...
And again, corporate welfare is the problem, NOT a bunch of poor folks looking for a better life. The mere fact that y'all keep avoiding the issue of how the likes of Enron and Halliburton rip off the public
F-A-R more than any immigrant ever could only goes to show who you're an apologist for: the rich and the powerful. Which again shows which side of the fence you're on. You're not kidding anyone; you're not an underdog, you're not fighting for a good cause, you're simply a spoiled, ignorant piece of shit who's unfortunately decided to pick on the powerless instead of the powerful.
If you want to know where Amerikkka went wrong, simply imagine a timeline in which Scrooge made the WRONG choice--and then look in the mirror ...
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1224-06.htm
A Year of Contrasts: Courage, Sacrifice and …Corporate Greed
by
Congressman Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
Case in point is the Enron Corporation, which, just last year, was the seventh largest company in America with revenue exceeding $100 billion and over 20,000 employees. Having contributed millions in campaign contributions to the Republican Party and the President, the company was strongly positioned to influence the direction of energy policies in the Bush Administration. One of the results of their efforts was a huge increase in electric rates in California.
Earlier this year, Enron was forced to admit that it had over-reported its profits by nearly $600 million. This led to the largest bankruptcy in history. While Enron was exaggerating its profits, and before its artificially high stock price plummeted, three top executives in the company, Lou Pai, Kenneth Lay and Jeff Skilling cashed in stock options worth some $560 million. Like rats on a sinking ship, they got their money out just in time. But they didn’t give that same opportunity to their employees. While Enron’s stock was crashing, the company forced more than 12,000 of its employees to retain Enron stock in their 401(k) pension plans. This caused massive losses for the workers and many lost their entire retirement savings.
Taxpayers will be delighted to know that the House Republicans included a $254 million corporate welfare check for Enron as part of their so-called “economic stimulus plan.” But it’s not just Enron.
The American people continue to pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. Many of the same drugs sold in this country by American drug companies are sold abroad at a fraction of the price. The result is that millions of Americans suffer, and some die, because they are unable to afford the medicine they need.
Meanwhile, year after year, drug companies constitute the most profitable industry in our country. Last year, they had profits that exceeded $30 billion. At a time when elderly citizens cut their dosages in half, nine executives at the top pharmaceutical corporations in the U.S. were given $890 million in stock options according to Families USA. This is on top of the $169.9 million in wages, bonuses and other compensation that these executives are already receiving.
How does the pharmaceutical industry manage to rip off the American people, generate huge profits, get massive tax breaks and provide outrageous compensation packages for their top management? Easy. As the wealthiest political lobby in Washington they have spent, over the last three years, more than $200 million in campaign contributions, lobbying activities and media advertising ...
... But wait, corporate self-dealing doesn’t end there. Take, for example, Big Blue. As the holiday season approached, IBM announced a new round of job cuts. According to published news reports, the company has cut more than 5,000 jobs in the United States since July. Meanwhile, they are building two new micro-processing plants in China where workers are paid a fraction of what American workers receive. To IBM watchers, this latest act is par for the course.
Two years ago, despite record-breaking profits and a pension fund surplus of some $10 billion, IBM slashed pension and retirement health benefits for workers in 1999 and 2000 and curtailed salaries in 2001. Meanwhile, the CEO of IBM, Louis Gerstner, raked in $176 million in total compensation and stock options over the past 2 years. In addition, he has accumulated over $260 million in unexercised stock options from IBM during his tenure. While slashing the pension plans of IBM employees, he negotiated a retirement plan over $1.1 million a year for himself.
Once again, no bad deed goes unrewarded. If the House Republican leadership gets its way IBM will receive $1.4 billion in corporate welfare this year.
NOW, ARE Y'ALL SORRY ASS MOTHERFUCKERS GOING TO ACTUALLY CLAIM THAT THE MEXICAN PEOPLE ARE SUPPOSEDLY A GREATER THREAT THAN THE CORPORATE ELITE?! IF SO, YOU'LL PROVE EVERYTHING I'VE EVER SAID ABOUT YOUR KIND TO BE TRUE ...
Get your fucking priorities straight!
well izn't thiz nice
by mutiny
Thursday June 30, 2005 at 05:25 PM
damn gang...i see why i nVr got a chance 2 read thiz thread...i'm sorry i did...i should of just kept passin by...the thing that shox me the most iz how eazily people 4get eVrybody iz black...ain't nobody no othR race but black...black people produced the whitez, the azianz, the latinoz, the native americanz, the jewz, the arabz-n-anybody who i might have 4got 2 include...the second thing that disturbz me iz how some people 4get this country will alwayz b-long 2 the indigenous population...it doez not b-long 2 outlandRz who road the boat oVr here 2 steal...
A PUNY 200 YEARZ OF BULLSHIT US-HYPE DONT STACK UP IN THE FACE OF 12,000 YEARZ OF FAMILY HISTORY...
where'z the muthRfuckin respect?...
!!!magarawal-n-sing-a-te-em!!!!
hontonii anno gei-jin no shito wa chot iizi-waru da ne...baka-chan go home!
kimo-chi-warui...
Ah, Minstrelsy!!!!
by Donald Rilea
Friday July 01, 2005 at 09:37 AM
"Mamma": your attempt at a modern version of Amos 'N' Andy or a Stepin Fetchit routine is neither successful, funny, nor even a patch on the originals.
Leave the minstrel-show antics to the professionals, and save your act for the boys 'round the American Legion hall or Hammer-Skin beer-bust.
Am quite sure that those audiences will find your attempts at humour to be quite amusing, until they lapse into an alcohol-and methamphetamine-induced stupor, that is.
Rating: Negative Ten out of Four Stars.
Tax Them to Pay Your Salary and then Steal the Rest
by Lamar Holt
Saturday July 02, 2005 at 01:16 AM
Pahrumph, NV
This hit close to home. About 35 miles away lies the tiny hamlet of Tecopa Hot Springs, a favorite for some of us Parumphians and also some LV people. Last year a Inyo County employee was arrested and charged with theft from and abuse of an elderly woman. Ms Lawhead reminds me of that jerk, the honorable Reverend Ray McKinley of Imperial County, California, who ripped off even more feeble, helpless old people by depleting their bank accounts after getting their ATM cards and PIN numbers... TSK, TSK:
Posted on Thursday, December 09, 2004 @ 00:19:16 PST
Tecopa woman charged in theft
By Robin Flinchum
TECOPA, CALIF. - When the head of the Tecopa Senior Program and popular community service volunteer Jacque Lawhead was laid off because of a controversial change in management at the Tecopa Hot Springs Park, many local residents were grieved. When Lawhead left town before her notice was up, apparently distraught, they were concerned. But when they learned she'd allegedly stolen approximately $50,000 from one of their neighbors, most of them were just plain stunned.
Jacque Lawhead, whose position as head of the Tecopa Senior Program and as office manager of the Inyo County Hot Springs Park placed her in a position of authority and trust, was officially charged just after Thanksgiving with grand theft and elder abuse, says Inyo County Sheriff's Office Investigator Marston Mottweiler.
She turned herself in at the Inyo County courthouse in Bishop on Dec. 1 and was arraigned there. After entering a plea of not guilty, Lawhead was appointed a public defender and released on her own recognizance.
Until the case is resolved, said Deputy District Attorney Tom Hardy, Lawhead is forbidden to be employed or volunteer in any capacity that would require her to manage other people's money.
Up until last summer, 69-year-old Tecopa resident Ilana Breger, plagued with an uncommon environmental illness, had depended for the past four years on Lawhead to help manage her finances. Lawhead, to whom she had given her ATM card and PIN, withdrew cash for Breger, Mottweiler says, and helped her to pay her bills. Breger, housebound and unable to access the bank account herself, never suspected that Lawhead was siphoning off her life savings at the rate of about $1,000 a month.
By the time Breger's new attorney filed a complaint with the Inyo sheriff's office, Breger's life savings were wiped out, Mottweiler says, and Lawhead had already left Tecopa. When she was contacted, Mottweiler says Lawhead issued a statement through her then attorney Hank Mosier apologizing for the theft and promising to repay the money. Hardy says Lawhead's not guilty plea is standard procedure in a criminal case.
For some Tecopa residents, the announcement of Lawhead's imminent arrest raised concerns about her position of trust with the hot springs park's financial records, since she also ran the park office for Inyo County. The county's claim that the park was operating a growing financial loss led to a controversial decision to lease the park to a private concessionaire. In the process, four county workers, including Lawhead, lost their jobs.
Inyo County Deputy Administrator Chuck Hamilton says there is no reason to believe that Lawhead had anything to do with the county's shortfall. "We do tight deposits and receipts," Hamilton said. "It's not impossible, but it's highly unlikely." The shortage, county officials maintain, was the result of high expenses and little revenue.
For other local residents, the information came as a heavy blow. "Jacque Lawhead gave more of herself to this community than the next 10 people combined," said Jennifer Viereck of the Hummingbird Family Resource Center.
The center, which vied for the concessionaire contract when the county put the hot springs park out to bid last year, was under the auspices of the Southeast Inyo Children's Council. Lawhead was a member of the volunteer board of directors of the Children's Council, as well as the local school board. "She was not only highly professional, she was compassionate, generous beyond the call and kind. Her loss is felt every day in a hundred ways."
Lawhead is rumored to have a gambling addiction that led to the theft. "Apparently, in some people, gambling can cause intense cycles of brain chemistry that are as hard to break free from as narcotics," Viereck said. "I only wish that she had not struggled with it alone, and that others had not been victimized financially. I hope she gets high-quality support, and that she remembers all the good she has done for so many in the difficult days to come."
Mottweiler confirms that there have been no other complaints or indications of wrongdoing against Lawhead. However, he said, "if she handled money for other senior citizens and they're concerned, they should contact the sheriff's department."
Deputy District Attorney Hardy said Lawhead could face up to four years in prison for the felony charges if convicted, but that she had no significant prior criminal record. A settlement conference is scheduled for Jan. 4.
Copyright © 2004 Pahrump Valley Times
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The zero sum game: poor working folk ripping off poor retired folk.
"This distribution of the wealth is rather more difficult than I thought it would be."
~John Cleese, as Robin Hood, Monty Python Skit
Something To Remember Here
by Donald Rilea
Saturday July 02, 2005 at 07:51 AM
Mr. Holt: Thank you for the account for the hideous and nasty bit of thievery pulled off in Pahrump last year.
However, contrary to the unspoken implication made by you in posting this, I would say that even if the woman guilty of thievery had worked for a church or private charity, her crimes still would have been shocking and disgusting, because of their nature, and because of the nature of the victims of said crimes.
One can split hair after hair after hair about cases like this, as to whether or not it would have occurred under this set of circumstances or another.
Either way, the thievery was disgusting, especially because of the vulnerabillity of the victims of said thievery, and should be punished by whatever means that fit the crime.
That said, the fact is that such news doesn't change for one second the very nature of modern capitalism, which is essentially everyone for him- or herself, and the Devil take the hindmost.
Some people can live with that sort of logic and society, but, I, for one, cannot.
There are far too many vulnerable people who need aid and succor of whatever sort that can be provided by a big, rich country like this one to allow people to starve to death, or at least come close to it, without at least some sort of reasonable explaination as to why that should be so.
It is especially shameful in an ostensibly Judeao-Christian society as this that so many Jews and Christians should knowingly and willingly violate the tenets of their respective faiths by harbouring and holding an uncharitable spirit towards the poor and downtrodden of the Earth.
Those Jews and Christians that do just that are in the same league as the Pharisees and Sadducees that Jesus denounced as being hypocrites, no????
How many American Christians and Jews over the past three centuries have died, having lived thoroughly self-centred and nasty lives, only to hope that, by some sort of last-minute act of repentance, that they would be redeemed and brought by God into Paradise?????
But, why should God redeem any of their lives, and let them into Heaven, when those sinners themselves would have, if the positions were reversed, have cast themselves into the lowest regions of Hell and have done with it.
No one, regardless of Earthly position and status, is immune from judgement, nor should they be, if what the Torah, Old and New Testaments and the Quran say is true in the slightest.
Even if what those books say isn't, there is a an almost in-born sense of right and wrong that most people live by, and that should, along with wisely and humanely crafted laws, help to try, convict and imprison the the truly nasty and guilty.
Either way, your example neither proves the notion of the inherent corruption of government agencies, nor proves that the private sector can do the job of ministering to the most vulnerable of society's members all by itself.
You will either need to find a better example, or concede the debate, which has thus far, strayed so far from its original subject, illegal immigration and its effects on American society, as to be incredibly silly.
Please, in future, kindly confine yourself to the discussion of said topic at hand, and why you feel as strongly as you do about it, or don't debate this subject in this particular part of the forum at all.
Quite frankly, enough time, energy and effort has been wasted on both sides on this particular issue, and especially on the various insults and brickbats flung around by both sides, over, what essentially is so next to nothing as to be disgusting.
From part of the tone of your essays, Mr. Holt, I take you to be a person of at least some education and manners, and I would ask you to conduct yourself accordingly in this forum, thank you.
If I were to come into a forum in which you were an actively participating member and post nasty, non sequitur messages, then I should be held up to the same kind of public scorn and ridicule as you yourself currently are.
I don't ask you to tone your messages to please the intended audience for this site, but I do ask you to keep your messages on topic, and to please mind your manners when on this site.
I would also hope that you'd expect no less of me if I were to visit a site that you patronise regularly.
Thank You In Advance for your kind attention in this matter.
Eminent Domain and the Mexican Invasion: Something to Think About Here
by Lamar Holt
Saturday July 02, 2005 at 06:44 PM
Eminent domain (from Latin dominium eminens meaning: supreme lordship) is the power of the state to appropriate private property for its own use without the owner's consent. It gives the state, and - therefore - whoever controls it, powerful, and in some countries, draconian means to redistribute private wealth among, supposedly, all members of the community or society. Although in the U.S. the exercise of eminent domain is restricted by prohibition in Fifth Amendment that "private property be taken for public use, without just compensation," the recent ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States (see Footnote) creates a reasonable doubt about the extent to which such a restriction can withstand pre-emptive pressure mounted by eminent domain's prospective beneficiaries.
This doubt is particularly disturbing in today's America that has been a target of million man invasion of foreign (mostly, Mexican) have-nots, often referred to as "migrants," who due to their sheer numbers and exorbitant fertility rates may soon gain enough political clout to force use of eminent domain as a vehicle of involuntary transfer of property from wealthy Americans to the "migrating" hordes (in order to "improve their lives," as they say). If the present "migratory" trends continue, particularly if the taxation remains at the current levels, condemnations of private property for public housing and infrastructure that are needed to properly accommodate poor "migrants" and their countless kids may become a political necessity that no federal judge can resist. And since the term "just compensation" of the language of Fifth Amendment is equally vulnerable to court's capricious interpretation as "public use" has been, don't hold your breath if you expect to get a fair market value for your home that your city council decided to turn into an apartment complex for four families of "migrants" (and additional relatives from abroad that may wish to be "reunited" with these families).
Take, for instance, Los Angeles, not much more than just a cow town with population of few thousand in the middle of 19th century, and a megapolis inhabited by almost 4 million people and the second (after Mexico City) largest concentration of Mexicans on Earth today. US Census statistics show that slightly less than 50% of L.A.'s population, or about 1.7 million, is Hispanic (although some estimates suggest that there are as many as 2.7 millions Mexicans living in L.A.), some 1.3 million of whom have settled in the city in the last 15 years. The proportion of Hispanic (mostly Mexican) pupils in L.A. Unified School District reached the astounding 80% and is indicative of future demographic composition of the City of Angels. With poverty rates among Hispanic "migrants" and home prices soaring, it's not difficult to predict the pressure that will build to redistribute private real property among the dominating but poor Mexicans as their numbers grow. And the City Council (guess, what ethnic group will have a majority of vote there?), empowered to condemn a private property by the last week's decision of the Supreme Court, will be the least likely body to not yield to that pressure.
The above scenario is but one example of ways and means with which the "migrating" hordes can redistribute Americans' wealth among themselves. In a country that is so vulnerable to arbitrary interpretation of its constitution by five judges with political agendas of their own and ruled by a majority of vote (for which a proof of citizenship is usually not required), as the U.S. is, due enforcement of the border and immigration laws is a necessary condition for meaningful protection of liberty and property of its citizens. If the border and the immigration laws are not fully enforced, the only way for Americans to survive the mass invasion of poor but prolific "migrants," a hostile take-over if you will, and to keep their "wealth" intact, would be to abandon birth control altogether, like so many "migrants" do, and enter a spiral of exponential population growth. This would resemble the nuclear weapon race that characterized the by-gone Cold War era - a strategy that once was deemed losing for all parties involved in the race.
Wouldn't it be much better to keep the invading hordes out? The eminent domain law is one of the many reasons for resounding "Yes" to this question. It may well be the most important one.
FOOTNOTE. The term "public use" in the Fifth Amendment used to be narrowly interpreted as projects of obviously public nature such as public roads or schools, but not anymore. The 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court decided last Thursday (June 23, 2005) in Susette Kelo et al. versus City of New London et al. that a city can condemn (seize with just compensation, that is) a private property for projects that, although not obviously public, would increase city's tax revenues or boost employment. "As a result, cities now have wide power to bulldoze residences for projects such as shopping malls and hotel complexes in order to generate tax revenue" (quotation from "Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes," by Hope Yen, The Washington Post, June 23, 2005, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/23/AR2005062300783_pf.html ). Although a vast majority of critics of the Court's ruling fear that, as a result of that decision, wealthy entrepreneurs may be able to de facto evict fixed income citizens from their homes now, I see the future Marxist-style "social justice" as being more likely to use the ruling as a precedent. If generating tax revenue or boosting employment is enough for condemnation why would one expect that cheap housing for poor "migrant" workers and their families is not? Just remember that out of five justices that were in favor of the ruling, four (Ginsburg, Stevens, Breyer and Souter) concurred with Al Gore in Florida recount controversy in 2000, and one (Kennedy) was a notorious swing vote that often sided with the liberal faction of the Court.
Racist Xenophobic Crap
by No National Alliance Here
Saturday July 02, 2005 at 09:47 PM
What a bunch of racist xenophobic crap, go back to your compound with the rest of your Nazi friends.
VAMPIRE WANNABES
by Saab Lofton
Sunday July 03, 2005 at 05:39 PM
saablofton@hotmail.com
"This distribution of the wealth is rather more difficult than I thought it would be."
~John Cleese, as Robin Hood, Monty Python Skit
Cute, Lamar. For those of you who didn't see Time Bandits, there's a point in which the movie's time traveling stars stumble onto a satirical version of Robin Hood's Sherwood Forest. That version of Robin of Locksley is a self-serving Stalinist instead of the selfless noble he's usually depicted as being. And from the point of view of an apologist for capitalism and imperialism*, that Monty Python Skit is a gift because one can use it as an ready-made excuse not to share.
And that's what all this ultimately comes down to: These pricks reaching like Plastic Man or Mr. Fantastic deeeeeeeeeeep in their asses for ANY excuse not to share. Jesus, if these motherfuckers were Scrooge, A Christmas Carol would be a ten hour long mini-series! Even the ghosts would lose their patience with these fucks! This is what I meant before about libertarians being lower than Nazis--at least the Nazi believes in providing for whites (only). A libertarian, in contrast, will sit back with a copy of Atlas Shrugged and watch ANY and EVERYONE starve and suffer ...
"Invading hordes" ... you actually are sick enough to consider civilian families to be invaders, huh ..? Again, you people really can't/won't distinguish David from Goliath, can y'all ..? Here, read your history ...
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/engAMR510031998
Until World War I, crossing the border was easy and people entering from Mexico could do so legally. When US economic growth created a need for workers, Mexican immigrants were welcomed. But during the Great Depression of the 1930s, hundreds of thousands of people of Mexican descent were ''repatriated'' to Mexico even though more than half were US citizens. During the Second World War, Mexican workers were again welcomed, to meet labour shortages. But in the 1950s, the Federal Government launched ''Operation Wetback'' to expel Mexicans from the United States. Once again, many US citizens were forced to leave their country of birth. More than a million people were expelled in 1954 alone; many were denied hearings and thus US citizens were denied their constitutional rights.
CAN WE SAY FLIP-FLOP? NOW, STOMACH THIS--IF YA CAN (no pun intended) ...
... a migrant woman fell on her stomach while being chased by the Border Patrol on 22 August 1997. She was pregnant, and immediately experienced severe abdominal pains and vaginal bleeding. Her complaints of pain and bleeding, and the probability that she was about to miscarry, were apparently ignored by the El Centro Border Patrol station agents with whom she was in contact during her two-hour detention.
In the Blade trilogy, a familiar is a vampire WANNABE, and since most right-wingers aren't doing much better financially than the rest of us, the right consists of rich/powerful wannabes. And just as the familiars in Blade masochistically serve vampires in hopes of being bitten, these fucks who keep coming onto OUR website are essentially the same: THEY DEFEND THIS EVIL SYSTEM AT EVERY TURN SO THAT THE TAX CODE WILL STILL BE AS UNFAIR AS IT IS NOW IF/WHEN THEY FINALLY GET THEIR BIG BREAK* (and Vegas odds dictate it's more like "if" than "when", so ...)
Therefore, the very idea of having to share with our neighbors to the south (or anyone else for that matter) is offensive to them. I addressed this many times when I was a member of the press:
http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2005/02/03/opinion/fear_no_evil/fearnoevil.txt
In Michael Moore's Dude, Where's My Country?, Moore confesses: "We drank the Kool-Aid. We bought into the drug, the lie that we, too, could some day be rich. So we don't want to do anything that could harm us on that day we end up millionaires."
Moore later alludes to what's meant by "harm" when he describes how "the [American capitalist] system drafts an army of consumers and taxpayers who gladly, passionately, fight for the rights of the rich, whether it means giving them billions in tax breaks while they send their own children into dilapidated schools, or whether it means sending those children off to die in wars to protect the rich man's oil."
America's economic masochism is partially behind the latest rash of racist hate mail sent my way. What they're essentially saying is: "If ending poverty in the black community might 'harm' my chances of ending up a millionaire some day [because the rich would be taxed], then I'll constantly regurgitate Bill Cosby's claim that blacks only have themselves to blame for their problems so I can feel let off the hook."
Except poverty has also driven the palest among us to desperation and self-destruction [SO QUIT BRINGING UP CRIME REPORTS, LAMAR! IT CAN HAPPEN TO ANY IMPOVERISHED PEOPLE, YOU PRICK!] -- so since most poor whites ain't exactly fans of gangsta rap, yet another justification for suffering besides hip-hop culture will have to be pulled out of somebody's ass. ...
Besides, as the New York Times put it, "If Cosby's worried about poor grammar and so forth, why isn't he ranting about the Bush 2005 budget, which would end a slew of programs for dropout prevention, recreation and school counseling?"
Today, it's blacks ... tomorrow, it's fill-in-the-blank ...
ONCE AGAIN, LET'S SEE IF THE CIA/NSA WOULD ALLOW MEXICO TO SHARE ITS WEALTH AND PROVIDE FOR ITS PEOPLE SO NO ONE WOULD WANT TO LEAVE IN THE FIRST PLACE ... LET'S SEE IF THEY CAN RESTRAIN THEMSELVES AND KEEP FROM INSTALLING A DICTATORSHIP LIKE THEY DID IN CHILE IN 1973 AND THE CONGO IN 1960 AND IRAN IN 1953 ... LET'S SEE IF THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX DOESN'T SANCTION OR SABOTAGE MEXICO IN SOME WAY AFTER IT HAS FREE DOCTORS AND FREE COLLEGES ... AND FINALLY, WATCH AS A BETTER, SOCIALIZED MEXICO IS FOUND TO BE SO ATTRACTIVE THAT SORRY-ASS MOTHERFUCKERS LIKE LAMAR WILL DEFECT AND MOVE THERE!!!
Viva La Raza!
Joe Gould, Greenwich Village Derelict VS The Bourgeois Socialists at the Brevoort Hotel
by Joseph Mitchell
Sunday July 03, 2005 at 10:47 PM
Haper's Heaven
"This prissy hedge in front of the Brevoort
Is but a symbol of the coming revolution.
These are the barricades,
The barricades,
The barricades.
And behind these barricades,
Behind these barricades,
Behind these barricades,
The Comrades die!
The Comrades die!
The Comrades die!
And behind these barricades,
The Comrades die--------
Of OVEREATING!!!!"
Joseph Ferdinand Gould
Saab Lofton as Sheriff John
by Lamar Holt
Monday July 04, 2005 at 02:44 AM
Parumph, NV
VAMPIRE WANNABES
by Saab Lofton Sunday July 03, 2005 at 05:39 PM
saablofton@hotmail.com
"This distribution of the wealth is rather more difficult than I thought it would be."
~John Cleese, as Robin Hood, Monty Python Skit
>Cute, Lamar. For those of you who didn't see Time Bandits, there's a point in which the movie's time traveling stars stumble >onto a satirical version of Robin Hood's Sherwood Forest. That version of Robin of Locksley is a self-serving Stalinist >instead of the selfless noble he's usually depicted as being. And from the point of view of an apologist for capitalism and >imperialism*, that Monty Python Skit is a gift because one can use it as an ready-made excuse not to share.
Somehow you always manage to come across as a hypocrite saint. You see yourself as some kind of "nice guy type" Robin Hood, theorizing about the "proper" distribution of wealth. But you're no better than that ne'er-do-well jackal, Reverend Ray McKinley, who robbed the "poorer" to enrich himself, all the while justifying it by "sharing" a bit of it with some of the homeless junkies and other misfits of the Imperial County desert region. That's just part of the price for promulagating a facade. Some of the money went into to his self-styled church, which was basically a private property real estate investment for himself. But bad drug habits and philandering got the best part of him. He was finally busted and driven out of the desert... I can only hope the same for the likes of a weekend-socialist like yourself. Your "share and share alike" translates to "YOU share what Saab likes." You're best advised keep your self-serving interests within the confines of the zero-sum subculture that you persistenly poormouth about.
>And that's what all this ultimately comes down to: These pricks reaching like Plastic Man or Mr. Fantastic deeeeeeeeeeep in >their asses for ANY excuse not to share. Jesus, if these motherfuckers were Scrooge, A Christmas Carol would be a ten hour >long mini-series! Even the ghosts would lose their patience with these fucks! This is what I meant before about libertarians >being lower than Nazis--at least the Nazi believes in providing for whites (only). A libertarian, in contrast, will sit back >with a copy of Atlas Shrugged and watch ANY and EVERYONE starve and suffer ...
Libertarians smash the state. The state is your only salvation, Saab, since you're not of a substance for self-reliance. Apparently, Larry Elder's mother raised him with a different outlook than yours did you. Libertarians may enjoy the writings and perpective of Ayan Rand, but I doubt they spend too much time laying about reading... Free Enterprise is a demanding concern for those who wish to succeed.
>"Invading hordes" ... you actually are sick enough to consider civilian families to be invaders, huh ..? Again, you people >really can't/won't distinguish David from Goliath, can y'all ..? Here, read your history ...
>http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/engAMR510031998
We're under siege, you moron! A sovereign nation has a right and duty to control its own borders. A nihistic attitude like yours, of course, doesn't find any comfort in this "univeral" concept. There are many in Mexico who would deny you basic human rights, should you decide to embrace their culture and live amongst them. Afterall, you're not their "token Negro" to be honored and put on a postage stamp. As for your "hyperlink," amnesty is not something to be gifted to any barbarian with an attitude problem. I don't, by the way, see Mexico offering refuge to all the Haitians fleeing their Island. Mexico is more of a profit-minded conduit for smuggling riff raff into this nation, than it is a democratic and caring entity. And your generous attitude towards the invading horde must be a blessing, and very appreciated by the Rich in this country, who profit from the tidal wave of cheap labor upon our shores. I say "keep your tired and huddled 'messes'!"
>Until World War I, crossing the border was easy and people entering from Mexico could do so legally. When US economic growth >created a need for workers, Mexican immigrants were welcomed. But during the Great Depression of the 1930s, hundreds of >thousands of people of Mexican descent were ''repatriated'' to Mexico even though more than half were US citizens. During >the Second World War, Mexican workers were again welcomed, to meet labour shortages. But in the 1950s, the Federal >Government launched ''Operation Wetback'' to expel Mexicans from the United States. Once again, many US citizens were forced >to leave their country of birth. More than a million people were expelled in 1954 alone; many were denied hearings and thus >US citizens were denied their constitutional rights.
More than likely, these people were a "mixed lot," comprised of native-born sons and daughters, with familial ties to parents who were not legally citizens. Would you divide these people into "packets," King Solomon?
>CAN WE SAY FLIP-FLOP? NOW, STOMACH THIS--IF YA CAN (no pun intended) ...
>... a migrant woman fell on her stomach while being chased by the Border Patrol on 22 August 1997. She was pregnant, and >immediately experienced severe abdominal pains and vaginal bleeding. Her complaints of pain and bleeding, and the >probability that she was about to miscarry, were apparently ignored by the El Centro Border Patrol station agents with whom >she was in contact during her two-hour detention.
Yes, yes, Saab, and as many and more heinous incidents have occurred as a result of undocumented criminals entering this country to perpetuate their illicate activities. USBP agents are frequently assaulted, and even fired upon by illegals... two recently near nogales were wounded by gunfire. These wetback cretins must love your socialist pity rap. It aids and abets their criminal concerns.
>In the Blade trilogy, a familiar is a vampire WANNABE, and since most right-wingers aren't doing much better financially >than the rest of us, the right consists of rich/powerful wannabes. And just as the familiars in Blade masochistically serve >vampires in hopes of being bitten, these fucks who keep coming onto OUR website are essentially the same: THEY DEFEND THIS >EVIL SYSTEM AT EVERY TURN SO THAT THE TAX CODE WILL STILL BE AS UNFAIR AS IT IS NOW IF/WHEN THEY FINALLY GET THEIR BIG >BREAK* (and Vegas odds dictate it's more like "if" than "when", so ...)
>Therefore, the very idea of having to share with our neighbors to the south (or anyone else for that matter) is offensive to >them. I addressed this many times when I was a member of the press:
Yeah, yeah.. Michael Harrington found this out when he prosyletized unorganized Cuban immigrant labor back in the sixties. These peasants Called Harrington a commie bastard and told him in effect to go straight to hell. What goes for them and other poor working folk is just as true for an illegal who has been here long enough to buy real property (THANKS HUD!) and suddenly have an attitude about rent control, welfare, etc. Once they've got theirs, they in effect join the ranks of the have-more-than-the-littler-guy.
>http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2005/02/03/opinion/fear_no_evil/fearnoevil.txt
>In Michael Moore's Dude, Where's My Country?, Moore confesses: "We drank the Kool-Aid. We bought into the drug, the lie that >we, too, could some day be rich. So we don't want to do anything that could harm us on that day we end up millionaires."
>Moore later alludes to what's meant by "harm" when he describes how "the [American capitalist] system drafts an army of >consumers and taxpayers who gladly, passionately, fight for the rights of the rich, whether it means giving them billions in >tax breaks while they send their own children into dilapidated schools, or whether it means sending those children off to >die in wars to protect the rich man's oil."
Yeah, sure. But I'm not a "Stupid White Man," and don't buy his entire line of shit. However, it's understandable why "Cuhluhd folk" would sympathize with (and Profit from!) his social viewpoint. Thanks to the Bush administration, he got a major tax break for all his ill-gotten gains... btw, has Michael sent you a check lately?.... didn't think so!
>America's economic masochism is partially behind the latest rash of racist hate mail sent my way. What they're essentially >saying is: "If ending poverty in the black community might 'harm' my chances of ending up a millionaire some day [because >the rich would be taxed], then I'll constantly regurgitate Bill Cosby's claim that blacks only have themselves to blame for >their problems so I can feel let off the hook."
Funny, you never mention the immense wealth held by the American Black Muslims, Black Movie Stars, Black Capitalist Entrepreneurs, et al... Have they personally contributed to your "cause?"... didn't think so!
>Except poverty has also driven the palest among us to desperation and self-destruction [SO QUIT BRINGING UP CRIME REPORTS, >LAMAR! IT CAN HAPPEN TO ANY IMPOVERISHED PEOPLE, YOU PRICK!] -- so since most poor whites ain't exactly fans of gangsta rap, >yet another justification for suffering besides hip-hop culture will have to be pulled out of somebody's ass. ...
Gangsta rap and hip-hop is making billions for some, and typically nothing for many others. Have these rich black folk contributed to your pocketbook?... didn't think so!
>Besides, as the New York Times put it, "If Cosby's worried about poor grammar and so forth, why isn't he ranting about the >Bush 2005 budget, which would end a slew of programs for dropout prevention, recreation and school counseling?"
Bill Cosby is right! Blacks have been brainwashed and bred to dependency on lies that black power brokers profit from.
Today, it's blacks ... tomorrow, it's fill-in-the-blank ...
"We are not a Minority!"
~Che Gueverra
>ONCE AGAIN, LET'S SEE IF THE CIA/NSA WOULD ALLOW MEXICO TO SHARE ITS WEALTH AND PROVIDE FOR ITS PEOPLE SO NO ONE WOULD WANT >TO LEAVE IN THE FIRST PLACE ... LET'S SEE IF THEY CAN RESTRAIN THEMSELVES AND KEEP FROM INSTALLING A DICTATORSHIP LIKE THEY >DID IN CHILE IN 1973 AND THE CONGO IN 1960 AND IRAN IN 1953 ... LET'S SEE IF THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX DOESN'T >SANCTION OR SABOTAGE MEXICO IN SOME WAY AFTER IT HAS FREE DOCTORS AND FREE COLLEGES ... AND FINALLY, WATCH AS A BETTER, >SOCIALIZED MEXICO IS FOUND TO BE SO ATTRACTIVE THAT SORRY-ASS MOTHERFUCKERS LIKE LAMAR WILL DEFECT AND MOVE THERE!!!
Mexico's problems are of Mexican origin. Stop blaming US government agencies. If we should be blamed at all, it's for giving the fuckers millions in aid each year!
>Viva La Raza!
Chinga los mojados! (Y chinga tu pinga, pendejo!)
>saablofton.com
An Advisory
by Donald Rilea
Tuesday July 05, 2005 at 01:37 AM
To everyone participating in this debate: please be advised that the sort of insulting rhetoric, especially the kind of racist rhetoric that has appeared in a number of posts on this topic over the past ten days or so, will not be tolerated on this site in future.
The only reason that such posts haven't been removed before, is simply that there was no functioning Editorial Collective at Indy Media Las Vegas since May of this year.
That situation has now been resolved, with the creation of a new Editorial Collective in the past two days.
As a member of this Editorial Collective, I feel that I have to advise you to kindly refrain from the use of racist, sexist, homophobic and other sorts of insulting rhetoric, including personal attacks, during the course of this debate.
Such rhetoric sheds more heat than light on the topic at hand, and does neither the advocates, nor the causes they advocate, any good whatsoever.
If anything, it makes them look angry and idiotic at best, and their causes like poor things indeed, if the only means by which they can be defended is through the use of vitriolic insults and crude racism.
Also, if you will kindly look at the bottom of this site's front page, you'll find a notice that states that racist, sexist, homophobic and other insulting forms of speech, as well as such nasty bits as child pornography and nonsense posts, may be removed from the site at the discretion of LVIMC and its site managers.
This provision hasn't been recently enforced, but, it will be now, and in future.
This doesn't mean that you cannot debate this issue as spiritedly as possible.
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Saab Lofton's last stand
by Saab Lofton
Tuesday July 05, 2005 at 06:18 PM
saablofton@hotmail.com
Aww, c'mon, Donald! One more ..? I think I of all people am entitled to the last word insofar as this goes--before this new policy you speak of goes into effect, that is, huh ..? How 'bout it?
"Funny, you never mention the immense wealth held by the American Black Muslims, Black Movie Stars, Black Capitalist Entrepreneurs, et al... Have they personally contributed to your 'cause?' ... didn't think so! Gangsta rap and hip-hop is making billions for some, and typically nothing for many others. Have these rich black folk contributed to your pocketbook?... didn't think so!"
Lamar, Lamar, Lamar ... They haven't "contributed" because they're just like your cruel ass! "Bling bling" is just another way of saying "bootstraps", don'tcha know? Isn't that obvious? Another thing that's obvious is that, once again, you're picking on the underdog and letting the Ubermench off the hook! Why are you bringing up black dollars when you know goddamn well the white corporate elite rule this planet and that NONE of these black entertainers would have shit to begin with without a corporate outlet (unless they're as obscure as yours truly)!! God, I hate being redundant: TO PARAPHRASE SPIDER-MAN, WITH LITTLE POWER COMES LITTLE RESPONSIBILITY AND WITH GREAT POWER COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY.
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1224-06.htm
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0525-31.htm
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0614-25.htm
Speaking of responsibility, you claimed the following:
"Mexico's problems are of Mexican origin. Stop blaming US government agencies."
This was, of course, in reference to how the CIA/NSA wouldn't alow Mexico to improve from being, as you put it, "a profit-minded conduit". The answer, of course, is to LEAD BY EXAMPLE by NOT being a profit-minded conduit yourself, you libertarian fuck!
You also insult the dead by dismissing or outright ignoring the CIA's genocidal track record during the Cold War. Didn't I tell yo' monkey ass to do your homework?!
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/CIA_ThirdWorld.html
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA%20Hits/CIA_GreatestHits.html
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA%20Hits/Guatemala_CIAHits.html
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA%20Hits/Chile_CIAHits.html
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA%20Hits/ElSalvador_CIAHits.html
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA%20Hits/Nicaragua_CIAHits.html
"Libertarians smash the state," my black ass!! If that was the case, they'd have "smashed" the CIA a lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng fucking time ago! Nigger, please! Then again, it's the ANARCHISTS who have a heart, whereas the libertarians only care about their greedy selves. How many libertarians have OPENLY protested the Patriot Act or were even at the Battle of Seattle? Yeah, that's what the fuck I thought ...
Jesus, the CIA has raped most of Latin America over the past fifty-odd years, and all yo' dumb ass knows how to say is "Mexico's problems are of Mexican origin. Stop blaming US government agencies"?? QUIT WATCHING FOX NEWS!!!
And for the last time, we are N-O-T under seige, you fucking moron!! If you're too still retarded to tell the powerful (Enron, Halliburton, Lockheed, the REAL enemy) from the powerless (a pregnant woman trying to cross an artificial--and therefore, ultimately mutable--border), THEN GET SOME FUCKING HELP. Otherwise, stay out of the political kitchen, 'cause you're gonna get burned ...
General Lofton's Last Stand: Bury His Heart At LV Indymedia
by Lamar Holt
Friday July 08, 2005 at 12:18 AM
Saab Lofton's last stand
by Saab Lofton Tuesday July 05, 2005 at 06:18 PM
saablofton@hotmail.com
>>"Funny, you never mention the immense wealth held by the American Black Muslims, Black
Movie Stars, Black Capitalist Entrepreneurs, et al... Have they personally contributed to
your 'cause?' ... didn't think so! Gangsta rap and hip-hop is making billions for some, and
typically nothing for many others. Have these rich black folk contributed to your
pocketbook?... didn't think so!"
>Lamar, Lamar, Lamar ... They haven't "contributed" because they're just like your cruel
ass! "Bling bling" is just another way of saying "bootstraps", don'tcha know? Isn't that
obvious? Another thing that's obvious is that, once again, you're picking on the underdog
and letting the Ubermench off the hook! Why are you bringing up black dollars when you know
goddamn well the white corporate elite rule this planet and that NONE of these black
entertainers would have shit to begin with without a corporate outlet (unless they're as
obscure as yours truly)!! God, I hate being redundant: TO PARAPHRASE SPIDER-MAN, WITH LITTLE
POWER COMES LITTLE RESPONSIBILITY AND WITH GREAT POWER COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY.
Dear, dear, Saab,... The ubermenschen have always been a problem. "Plutocrat" (from the
Greek) literally means "power over wealth." When Alcibiades got the political shaft from
the "nouveau ubermenschen" of Athens, he did what he had to do to survive... he joined the
ranks of the Barbarian Persians against the Greeks themselves. Black power over wealth is
no different in its political acumen. This does not absolve "rich black folk" from
cupability as regards power brokering and retention of their wealth (rather than, as you
suggest they should, distributing it equitably). Ergo, you're letting these particular
ubermensch off the hook yourself. You only bash the rich ones such as Bill Cosby, because
he's outspoken about what he sees as their negative social self-stereotyping. The rich
inherit their great responsibility, regardless of race, creed, or culture.
Members of the House of Saud are just as cupable as the stalwart WASP corporate entities.
Neither you nor I have much direct contact with these ubermensch. We do, unfortunately have
ample opportunity to come across the various social levels of "untermenschen." These are
the people who are most likely to stick their hands in my pocket directly. In fact, their
kind keep me busy enough as it is, leaving little time to concentrate on the machinations of
the "corporate elite." The wetbacks are a fine example of this (in keeping on subject to
some degree in this forum). Without a degree of vigilance on my part, I would have already
been stolen blind by them. Also, it is not a conclusive fact that they only take jobs that
"even blacks won't do." Whites and 10th generation Mexican-Americans have been greatly
affected as well. Way back during the Ice Age, in 1973, I lost a job to an undocumented
Mexican worker. Affirmative action also rudely discriminates in its hiring practices as
well. Add that to millions of illegal immigrants and you have a recipe for major social
attrition in the future. The ubermenschen don't care because they can afford that "pathos
of distance" that keeps the third world and others at bay. When it comes time to lock and
load, Saab, you're less likely to put a bullet in Steve Wynn that you are the gangsta
muthafucka trying to put one in you.
>>"Mexico's problems are of Mexican origin. Stop blaming US government agencies."
>This was, of course, in reference to how the CIA/NSA wouldn't alow Mexico to improve from
being, as you put it, "a profit-minded conduit". The answer, of course, is to LEAD BY
EXAMPLE by NOT being a profit-minded conduit yourself, you libertarian fuck!
Horseshit! The CIA, et al, merely take advantage of the prevailing corruption for their own
political ends. BTW, get a clue... I am neither Libertarian nor a Corporate millionaire
with a golden parachute.
>You also insult the dead by dismissing or outright ignoring the CIA's genocidal track
record during the Cold War. Didn't I tell yo' monkey ass to do your homework?!
Genocidal track records are not the subject at hand in this forum. If it helps, I'll
mention Idi Amin, Reverend Jim Jones, et al, just for the record.
>>"Libertarians smash the state,"
>my black ass!! If that was the case, they'd have "smashed" the CIA a
lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng fucking time ago! Nigger, please!
Then again, it's the ANARCHISTS who have a heart, whereas the libertarians only care about
their greedy selves. How many libertarians have OPENLY protested the Patriot Act or were
even at the Battle of Seattle? Yeah, that's what the fuck I thought ...
Libertarians come in all polital shades. Being Libertarian doesn't necessarily infer that
one is "for" or "against" the Patriot Act or the WTO. Greed comes in all shades as well,
and is manifested in all classes. I could tell you stories about greedy poor people!
>Jesus, the CIA has raped most of Latin America over the past fifty-odd years, and all yo'
dumb ass knows how to say is "Mexico's problems are of Mexican origin. Stop blaming US
government agencies"?? QUIT WATCHING FOX NEWS!!!
The CIA "collaborates," it doesn't have the wherewithal to operate within other countries or
foreign organizations without their complicit cooperation! And just what degree of
involvement did the CIA have in the recent executions in Nuevo Loredo? Did they have
anything to do with the hundreds of young women murdered in Juarez? Is the Minutemen group
a front for the CIA? Did J Edgar Hoover really sleep with a nite light?
>And for the last time, we are N-O-T under seige, you fucking moron!!
Horseshit again! Apparently, you haven't read the tractatus of MEChA: "La Plan de Aztlan,"
with its "reconquista" propaganda. Part of the program seems to include its own kind of
genocidal tactics, such as the recent race riots in LA schools where the smaller number of
blacks are frequently told to "go back to Africa," by largely recent immigrant Mexican
youths, who now represent as much as 90% of the student body on some of these campuses.
Tell the "brothers" that we're "N-O-T" under siege, you friggin' Pinhead!!
> If you're too still retarded to tell the powerful (Enron, Halliburton, Lockheed, the REAL
enemy) from the powerless
I happen to be quite aware of who the plutocrats are at both levels. As I said, I'm still
too busy keeping you and yours from picking my pocket in order to fatten your own! If you
jerks ever give me some down time, I just might deal with WorldCom, Enron, and the rest!
> (a pregnant woman trying to cross an artificial--and therefore, ultimately mutable--
border),
There is nothing "artificial" about a free and soveign nation keeping out the rabble who
want automatic citizenship and the benefits that come with It for their soon-to-be-popped
progeny. Pregnant Mexican Women crossing the border have been well informed about the
abundant benefits programs for illegals. Many of these programs do not include privileges
for our own poor citizenry. In the early 90's in California, wetbacks automatically
qualified for MEDICAL, something denied to many of California's own indigent at that time.
This nation can't possibly be as bad as you portray it... afterall, 20 million entrenched
illegal aliens can't be wrong!
> THEN GET SOME FUCKING HELP. Otherwise, stay out of the political kitchen, 'cause you're
gonna get burned ...
The only person that appears to be on fire in this forum is YOU!!
>saablofton.com
Revenge of the Saab
by Saab Lofton
Saturday July 09, 2005 at 11:59 AM
saablofton@hotmail.com
"... in 1973, I lost a job to an undocumented Mexican worker."
Ah, HAH! Now we know your secret origin! The Joker fell in a vat of acid, Vader fell in some lava, and yo' ass didn't get a job! Sounds like all the more reason to be a commie, to me! That way, EVERYBODY can have a job!
"The CIA, et al, merely take advantage of the prevailing corruption for their own political ends."
No, I've never let the black elite (such as it is ... again, pick on the powerful, Lamar, NOT the powerless) off the hook, but the aforementioned quote about the CIA makes it clear that you're letting the most genocidal agency in history off the hook!!
Finally, "I happen to be quite aware of who the plutocrats are ... If you jerks ever give me some down time, I just might deal with WorldCom, Enron, and the rest!" This quote only goes to show you STILL can't tell David from Goliath. Dealing with the most powerful and dangerous of threats means making them your TOP priority ... not something you wait for there to be "some down time" to deal with! Deal with WorldCom and Enron NOW so that EVERYBODY can have an eco-friendly job!
EVERYBODY!!!
Saab Lofton es muy estúpido!
by Jose Vasquez
Saturday July 09, 2005 at 05:21 PM
jose@macsa.org
¡Tú eres muy estúpido, Huevon!
Ah, I get it ..!
by Saab Lofton
Tuesday July 12, 2005 at 01:55 PM
saablofton@hotmail.com
I see ..! Since the Minutemen (called that because of how long they last in bed) couldn't beat me, they sent some Latino equivilant of Colin Powell or Condi Rice in the faint hope that folks are retarded enough to think "Well, if the Latinos themselves have turned on Saab Lofton, then nothing he's ever said was valid." They even managed to attach a vaugely leftist site to the (probably ficticious) name in order to cast the illusion of legitimacy. Cute trick. Problem is, it's an old one. The CityLife recently pulled that shit too. No sooner than this one, righteous dude wrote in to say I was censored because I "upset rich white assholes," as he put it, did a letter from a black Republican appear THE VERY NEXT WEEK claiming I was the most racist person in all of Las Vegas just because I didn't buy into the notion that Powell and Rice were signs that progress was being made, as it were! Can you believe that shit?!
As a friend of mine told me just last night, this is just another attempt out of all too many to duck the facts. The fact is, the CIA has raped the Third World for decades, making it so that folks have no choice BUT to come here (since "here" is where all the wealth has been hoarded). The fact is, Amerikkka's corporate elite is the REAL villain in this story--N-O-T a bunch of civililans crossing a border to escape poverty.
The fact is, if the wealth was shared, then there could be a Greenpeace/Earth Day version of FDR's New Deal that'll employ EVERYBODY; that'll kill two birds with one stone: Save the poor (of all colors and faiths) and the planet at the same time! Good thing I use my 200-plus IQ to come up with ideas like this instead of picking on the powerless, eh, Lamar ..?
To paraphrase wrestling's the Rock, PROVE ME WRONG OR SHUT YOUR MOUTH!!
So I'm "muy estúpido," huh?
by Saab Lofton
Saturday August 06, 2005 at 03:41 PM
saablofton@hotmail.com
"... the nation's largest neo-nazi organization, the National Alliance," which means that since NEVADA is the only state in the union with the National Alliance/Vanguard trying to get on the ballot (according to my arch-nemesis, the Review-Journal), the front line is right here, NOT on any national border ...
http://www.ftimes.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=28570&TM=24214.69
7/30/2005 6:32:00 AM
Hispanics New Target of Hate Groups
By BILL POOVEY, Associated Press Writer
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - Organized hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan have historically terrorized blacks and Jews in the Southeast. But the recent influx of Hispanic immigrants to the region has given hate groups a new target, and officials say Hispanics are increasingly targets of hate crimes.
Former Klansman Daniel Schertz, a 27-year-old from the southeast Tennessee town of South Pittsburg, was indicted in June on charges of building pipe bombs to kill Hispanic immigrants.
Imperial Wizard Billy Jeffery of the North Georgia White Knights denied any connection to the bomb plot and said he banished Schertz from the group, but he readily admits he isn't happy with the flow of immigrants to the region.
"The blacks fought for their civil rights. These illegal immigrants are coming in here and having everything just handed to them," Jeffery said.
Advocates say there are no precise statistics on hate crimes against Hispanics. Victims don't always call the police because of their precarious immigration status.
"People feel they will not be protected, and they are risking deportation," said John Bernstein, director of federal policy at the National Immigration Law Center in Washington. "That is more and more a problem with hate crimes."
Hate crimes against Hispanic immigrants have been common in other parts of the country, but Southern states saw their Hispanic populations boom in the 1990s. Arkansas' Hispanic population rose by 337 percent during the decade, Georgia's by 300 percent, Tennessee's by 278 percent and South Carolina's by 211 percent.
One of the first signs of organized anti-Hispanic activity in the South occurred in Gainesville, Ga., in 1998, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, an Alabama group that tracks hate crimes.
The American Knights of the KKK held a rally on Hall County Courthouse steps, followed by a cross-burning in nearby Winder. A few years later, in 2001, the nation's largest neo-nazi organization, the National Alliance, staged a rally in Hall County.
Santos Aguilar of the Alianza Del Pueblo, an advocacy center for immigrants in Knoxville, said he believes the number of hate groups taking aim at immigrants continues to grow.
"The majority of the crimes are not reported to the law enforcement agencies," he said.
While a member of the North Georgia White Knights, Schertz was caught by an undercover federal agent and a confidential informant. Court records show he took them shopping for bomb materials at a home improvement store.
"Once at Lowe's, Schertz picked out five end caps and some silicone for the pipe bombs he was making," the agent's affidavit says. He then explained how to wire the explosives.
After returning to a shed at his home, Schertz gave instructions "down to the proper order of laying gun powder and shrapnel material." He made five pipe bombs and sold them for $750, records show.
Schertz is charged with teaching and demonstrating how to make a weapon of mass destruction and interstate transport of explosive material with intent to kill or injure. He is being held without bond.
Schertz's attorney, Mike Caputo, declined to comment on the charges, but said he was working on a plea agreement. He said Schertz is a military veteran and has no previous criminal record.
His Klan leader, Jeffery, said Schertz was thrown out of the Klan for unrelated disobedience in mid-May — weeks after the alleged bomb making and selling in April.
"We kicked him out for breaking his oath that he swore before God," Jeffery, 43, said in a telephone interview. "We are not a violence-making group, and we don't believe in that. This isn't the '50s and '60s."
Federal agents say hate groups always deny involvement when one of their members is charged with a crime.
"There are always a percentage of these people who are ready, willing and able to go off," said James M. Cavanaugh, special agent in charge of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Nashville field division.
Cavanaugh said that "when the group burns the cross, worships under the swastika, you dehumanize the people ... that has been a plague on the world for centuries."
The Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report counted 762 active hate groups in the United States in 2004. South Carolina had the most, with 47, and Tennessee had the most Klan chapters, with 13.
David Lubell, director of the Nashville-based Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition, said the Schertz case shows how supremacist talk can prompt violence.
"It is what happened in the civil rights movement. All of a sudden it is acceptable to incite hatred of immigrants, whether Latino, or from Africa, or Asia or wherever," he said.
Lubell said "usually it is a lone wolf kind of person who listens to these messages and acts on them ... This is just a symptom of what has been anti-immigrant sentiment, much more freely used by radio talk show hosts, anti-immigrant groups and even politicians."
Y'all were saying ..?
by Saab Lofton
Tuesday September 06, 2005 at 03:15 PM
saablofton@hotmail.com
http://www.saveourstate.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=4379
By the way, USA, since you're from Las Vegas, you might check out the Indymedia site on the web, based in LV. Go to "http://www.swarmtheminutemen.com" and scroll down to the hyperlinks for various indymedia sites and click on the Las Vegas Indymedia link. Then scroll down to comments area at the bottom. There is a jerk named Saab Lofton who promulgates the open borders idea and rages with socialist sophisms. The Moderator there is more even handed, and does not seem to censor and delete opposing opinions. So do your duty and slam Lofton and the pinheads for fun and games.
AS USUAL, WE LEFTISTS ARE WAAAAAAYYY AHEAD OF Y'ALL ...
stop racism
by anon
Tuesday September 06, 2005 at 04:54 PM
saab-
have you ever thought about NOT fueling the fire of racism? maybe if you had walked away from this thread a long time ago, it wouldn't have 64 comments now! geesh
without fuel, a fired cannot burn.
Somewhere between Ghandi and Che
by Saab Lofton
Friday September 09, 2005 at 06:52 PM
saablofton@hotmail.com
In this case, "fueling the fire of racism" means "confronting right-wingers instead of hiding from them." Did y'all really think you people could go the rest of your lives and never have to engage in a debate with one of these motherfuckers? And if ya thought that said debate could ever be polite and subtle, then obviously, the issues at hand don't mean that much to you. The ghost of Ghandi ain't gonna give y'all points for letting a motherfucker walk all over you ...
No squirming on eggshells here ...
by Saab Lofton
Friday September 09, 2005 at 10:53 PM
saablofton@hotmail.com
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1213-23.htm
What’s worse is to watch the pathetic sight of the DLC (the conservative, pro-corporate group of Democrats) apologizing for being Democrats and promising to “purge” the party of the likes of, well, all of US! ... And watch the Democratic Party leadership walk on eggshells, try to meet him, please him, wash the windows better, get out that spot, distance themselves from gays and civil rights. See the Democrats cry for the attention and affection and approval of the President and his followers. Watch us squirm. Watch us descend into a world of crazy-making, where logic does not work and the other side tells us we are nuts when we rely on facts. A world where, worst of all, we begin to believe we are crazy.
Open borders in the age of terrorism?
by Rob
Tuesday September 13, 2005 at 08:33 PM
This is obviously a pro-Mexican board based on the rhetoric used. Do you really think that the US should open their borders to all with no checks and balances?
What would the migrant workers of today say if they started losing their jobs because migrant workers from Vietnam started flooding into the USA because the borders were open to all. The Vietnamese may decide that they can work for half of what the Mexicans do and put all the Mexicans out of work in no time.
If that happened, I would bet my life savings that the Mexicans would start crying for the US to lock down the borders.
Open borders also allow our Muslim friends who want to kill everyone into the country freely, along with their explosives and weapons. Open borders will allow them to easily strike and kill innocent people, destroy the farmland that you Mexicans work in and wreak havoc.
Sure glad you Mexicans have found an ally in the leftist, communist fools in America. Good luck on that.
Rob
Here we go again ..!
by Saab Lofton
Thursday September 15, 2005 at 03:08 PM
saablofton@hotmail.com
Funny you should refer to "our Muslim friends," because that's exactly what Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden initially were. The CIA funded and empowered both of them and Donald Rumsfeld himself was shaking Saddam's hand. Our foreign policy is the equivalent of a bored fireman becoming an arsonist in order to keep his budget from being cut. Actually, it's more like Capt. Amazing from Ben Stiller's Mystery Men--the character who purposely lets his arch-nemisis out of jail all so he can continue to have someone to duke it out with in public. Granted, no one knows the future (only the black man, Master Mace Windu, knew Anakin would be trouble for the Jedi), BUT after DECADES of constantly backing evil like the Shah of Iran, Mubuto in the Congo, Pinochet, etc. YOU'D THINK THAT DR. FRANKENSTEIN WOULD LEARN HIS FUCKING LESSON BY NOW!!!! QUIT WASTING OUR TAXES CREATING MONSTERS ALL OVER THE SO-CALLED THIRD WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/
Shaking Hands: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein greets Donald Rumsfeld, then special envoy of President Ronald Reagan, in Baghdad on December 20, 1983.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zepezauer_Mark/Iraq_Boomerang.html
Saddam Hussein first made a name for himself in a CIA-backed assassination attempt against General Abdel Karim Qassim, then in charge of Iraq. In 1958, Qassim had overthrown and executed the unpopular British-backed monarch, King Faisal. The CIA was taken by surprise, and U.S. Ieaders watched in dismay as the Qassim regime pulled out of the pro-Western Baghdad pact, founded the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and asserted Iraq's long-standing claim of sovereignty over Kuwait. Soon the U.S. Iet it be known that it wouldn't mind if Gen. Qassim went to an early grave as well. One of those who answered the call was young Saddam, then a minor officer of the Ba'ath Party.
The assassination attempt was not successful, and Saddam went into exile in Cairo, where he kept in contact with the U.S. embassy. He returned in 1963, when the still-popular Qassim was successfully liquidated in a Ba'athist coup. Saddam and his colleagues quickly went to work on a bloody purge of 700 Iraqi leftists, using hit lists helpfully provided by, who else, the CIA. Over the next dozen years, through a series of murders, purges, and shifting alliances, Saddam worked his way up through the ranks. He became head of security, then vice-president, and finally, in 1979, supreme leader of Iraq.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA%20Hits/Afghanistan_CIAHits.html
As for the CIA, its aim was simply to humiliate the Soviets by arming anyone who would fight against them. The agency funneled cash and weapons to over a dozen guerrilla groups ...
In this case, "anyone" meant Osama bin Laden (think about that the next time you see a pick up truck with Calvin from Calvin and Hobbs pissing on Osama ... who the hell do you think Rambo was hanging out with in Rambo III?????????). And according to the Oscar-winning Bowling for Columbine (how many Oscars have YOU won, Bubba?) ...
http://www.answers.com/topic/bowling-for-columbine
1980s: U.S. trains Osama bin Laden and fellow Muslim terrorists to kill Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan War. CIA gives them $3 billion.
Three billion ... no wonder there are so many homeless crazies on the street; those third-world Frankensteinian creations had to be paid for SOMEHOW ..! And all those folks talkin' to themselves in mental asylums were just a bunch of freeloaders, huh Jethro?
These are NOT "conspiracy theories," these are FACTS. Just 'cause yo' ass ain't seen it on FOX News before doesn't mean it doesn't exist!! Don't engage in solipsism! Where are YOUR facts, son ..?
Also too, in his book, Dude, Where's My Country?, Moore states that you're more likely (and in Vegas, it's all about the odds, baby) to commit suicide than to be anywhere near a terrorist attack! BUT SO LONG AS YOU INBREDS FALL FOR EVERY CON OF THE PENTAGON'S, WE THE PEOPLE WILL FOREVER SPEND HALF OF OUR TAXES (AT CURRENT COUNT, $400/$500 BILLION WITH A 'B' A YEAR) ON MASS TORTURE AND MURDER. NO WONDER NEW ORLEANS SUFFERED SO ... ALL OUR RESOURCES WERE BEING WASTED IN THE MIDDLE EAST STEALINIG SOMEONE ELSE'S OIL (INSTEAD OF ON RESCUE/RELIEF EFFORTS) WHEN WE THE PEOPLE COULD'VE JUST AS SOON GONE SOLAR YEARS AGO ... HISTORY WILL REMEMBER YOU FUCKERS AS AN ABSOLUTE PLAGUE!!!
New rule: Libertarians can precide over free speech, gay marriages and the decriminalization of all drugs, BUT STAY THE FUCK OUT OF ECONOMICS!! Damn hypocrites! Y'all don't ever seem to mind BIG GOVERNMENT when it comes to the Patriot Act, etc. We the people need a Greenpeace/Earth Day version of FDR's New Deal so that EVERYONE ... Mexican, Asian, American ... EVERYONE can have a job they can be proud of! Solar power panel installation for the college educated on the one hand and increased recycling for the lowly tweaker/crackhead on the street on the other hand: Imagine (I know imagination is in short supply on the right, but try anyway) it being the case that every can/bottle, etc. is a dollar or five bucks a pop instead of a couple of cents.
Who's gonna pay for all this (DECENT job creation ain't cheap, motherfucker)? Simple: We're spending almost 500 billion a year on "defense." CUT THAT IN HALF TO $250 BILLION AND AMERICA WILL STILL ... I REPEAT ... WILL STILL OUTSPEND THE NEAREST SUPERPOWER BY TENS OF BILLIONS!!! $250 billion a year plus taxing the RICH (not yo' ass, Bubba, relax) oughta do the trick ...
In the end, the lily white suburbs and trailer parks don't have the right to FEEL safe that damn bad (to actually BE safe, vote Nader). To claim otherwise is inherently white supremacist ...
Here we go again ..!
by Saab Lofton
Thursday September 15, 2005 at 03:08 PM
saablofton@hotmail.com
Funny you should refer to "our Muslim friends," because that's exactly what Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden initially were. The CIA funded and empowered both of them and Donald Rumsfeld himself was shaking Saddam's hand. Our foreign policy is the equivalent of a bored fireman becoming an arsonist in order to keep his budget from being cut. Actually, it's more like Capt. Amazing from Ben Stiller's Mystery Men--the character who purposely lets his arch-nemisis out of jail all so he can continue to have someone to duke it out with in public. Granted, no one knows the future (only the black man, Master Mace Windu, knew Anakin would be trouble for the Jedi), BUT after DECADES of constantly backing evil like the Shah of Iran, Mubuto in the Congo, Pinochet, etc. YOU'D THINK THAT DR. FRANKENSTEIN WOULD LEARN HIS FUCKING LESSON BY NOW!!!! QUIT WASTING OUR TAXES CREATING MONSTERS ALL OVER THE SO-CALLED THIRD WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/
Shaking Hands: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein greets Donald Rumsfeld, then special envoy of President Ronald Reagan, in Baghdad on December 20, 1983.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zepezauer_Mark/Iraq_Boomerang.html
Saddam Hussein first made a name for himself in a CIA-backed assassination attempt against General Abdel Karim Qassim, then in charge of Iraq. In 1958, Qassim had overthrown and executed the unpopular British-backed monarch, King Faisal. The CIA was taken by surprise, and U.S. Ieaders watched in dismay as the Qassim regime pulled out of the pro-Western Baghdad pact, founded the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and asserted Iraq's long-standing claim of sovereignty over Kuwait. Soon the U.S. Iet it be known that it wouldn't mind if Gen. Qassim went to an early grave as well. One of those who answered the call was young Saddam, then a minor officer of the Ba'ath Party.
The assassination attempt was not successful, and Saddam went into exile in Cairo, where he kept in contact with the U.S. embassy. He returned in 1963, when the still-popular Qassim was successfully liquidated in a Ba'athist coup. Saddam and his colleagues quickly went to work on a bloody purge of 700 Iraqi leftists, using hit lists helpfully provided by, who else, the CIA. Over the next dozen years, through a series of murders, purges, and shifting alliances, Saddam worked his way up through the ranks. He became head of security, then vice-president, and finally, in 1979, supreme leader of Iraq.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA%20Hits/Afghanistan_CIAHits.html
As for the CIA, its aim was simply to humiliate the Soviets by arming anyone who would fight against them. The agency funneled cash and weapons to over a dozen guerrilla groups ...
In this case, "anyone" meant Osama bin Laden (think about that the next time you see a pick up truck with Calvin from Calvin and Hobbs pissing on Osama ... who the hell do you think Rambo was hanging out with in Rambo III?????????). And according to the Oscar-winning Bowling for Columbine (how many Oscars have YOU won, Bubba?) ...
http://www.answers.com/topic/bowling-for-columbine
1980s: U.S. trains Osama bin Laden and fellow Muslim terrorists to kill Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan War. CIA gives them $3 billion.
Three billion ... no wonder there are so many homeless crazies on the street; those third-world Frankensteinian creations had to be paid for SOMEHOW ..! And all those folks talkin' to themselves in mental asylums were just a bunch of freeloaders, huh Jethro?
These are NOT "conspiracy theories," these are FACTS. Just 'cause yo' ass ain't seen it on FOX News before doesn't mean it doesn't exist!! Don't engage in solipsism! Where are YOUR facts, son ..?
Also too, in his book, Dude, Where's My Country?, Moore states that you're more likely (and in Vegas, it's all about the odds, baby) to commit suicide than to be anywhere near a terrorist attack! BUT SO LONG AS YOU INBREDS FALL FOR EVERY CON OF THE PENTAGON'S, WE THE PEOPLE WILL FOREVER SPEND HALF OF OUR TAXES (AT CURRENT COUNT, $400/$500 BILLION WITH A 'B' A YEAR) ON MASS TORTURE AND MURDER. NO WONDER NEW ORLEANS SUFFERED SO ... ALL OUR RESOURCES WERE BEING WASTED IN THE MIDDLE EAST STEALINIG SOMEONE ELSE'S OIL (INSTEAD OF ON RESCUE/RELIEF EFFORTS) WHEN WE THE PEOPLE COULD'VE JUST AS SOON GONE SOLAR YEARS AGO ... HISTORY WILL REMEMBER YOU FUCKERS AS AN ABSOLUTE PLAGUE!!!
New rule: Libertarians can precide over free speech, gay marriages and the decriminalization of all drugs, BUT STAY THE FUCK OUT OF ECONOMICS!! Damn hypocrites! Y'all don't ever seem to mind BIG GOVERNMENT when it comes to the Patriot Act, etc. We the people need a Greenpeace/Earth Day version of FDR's New Deal so that EVERYONE ... Mexican, Asian, American ... EVERYONE can have a job they can be proud of! Solar power panel installation for the college educated on the one hand and increased recycling for the lowly tweaker/crackhead on the street on the other hand: Imagine (I know imagination is in short supply on the right, but try anyway) it being the case that every can/bottle, etc. is a dollar or five bucks a pop instead of a couple of cents.
Who's gonna pay for all this (DECENT job creation ain't cheap, motherfucker)? Simple: We're spending almost 500 billion a year on "defense." CUT THAT IN HALF TO $250 BILLION AND AMERICA WILL STILL ... I REPEAT ... WILL STILL OUTSPEND THE NEAREST SUPERPOWER BY TENS OF BILLIONS!!! $250 billion a year plus taxing the RICH (not yo' ass, Bubba, relax) oughta do the trick ...
In the end, the lily white suburbs and trailer parks don't have the right to FEEL safe that damn bad (to actually BE safe, vote Nader). To claim otherwise is inherently white supremacist ...
Look at what I found!
by Saab Lofton
Thursday September 15, 2005 at 03:41 PM
saablofton@hotmail.com
Look at what I found on some blog!
"... the essential dichotomy of the superhero: good men and women seeking peace, yet compelled to utilize combative means to foster it."
But NO, that does N-O-T describe Amerikkka. THIS describes Amerikkka:
http://www.answers.com/topic/mystery-men
"Captain Amazing (played by Greg Kinnear), Champion City's real superhero, faces a problem: he's running out of supervillains to defeat, and if his public image suffers, so do his corporate sponsorships. When he aids in the release of his greatest adversary Casanova Frankenstein (played by Geoffrey Rush) from an insane asylum, it's up to the 'other guys' to save the day."
The Minutemen, Not a Left or Right Issue Addendum
by Kevin Quail
Wednesday October 26, 2005 at 09:37 PM
byas@comcast.net
Further Proof Of My Original Statement
14.10.2005 14:53
Here's an excerpt from a Chicago Tribune editorial, 10/9/05, entitled "Back To Immigration Reform", concerning some rules of the guest worker program legislation currently before Congress:
After the first six years of work here- and proof of some English proficiency, additional security and criminal record checks, medical exam and registration in the armed forces- temporary workers could apply for permanent residency.
The average age of the current American population is 36. Mexico's is 24.93, Honduras-19.15, Dominican Republic-23.88, Nicaragua-20.56, etc. The average ages of the populations in Middle Eastern countries, where most terrorists come from, are even lower. (Check the CIA Factbook) The young people sucked across the border from Latin America will find themselves legitimized alright- legitimized to the point where they can serve in the US armed forces and participate in a prolonged ground war in the Middle East.
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caN'T be neutral on moving trains
by Saab Lofton
Thursday October 27, 2005 at 02:07 PM
saablofton@hotmail.com
With all due respect, Kev, to be left-wing means to defend the poor/oppressed and to be right-wing means to defend the rich/powerful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-Right_politics
Historical origin of the terms
The terms Left and Right to refer to political affiliation originated early in the French Revolutionary era, and referred originally to the seating arrangements in the various legislative bodies of France, specifically in the French Legislative Assembly of 1791, when the moderate royalist Feuillants sat on the right side of the chamber, while the radical Montagnards sat on the left.
... think back to Zorro and the Scarlet Pimpernel. Both were masters of disguise and excellent swordsmen, but the causes they crusaded for differed greatly. Zorro fought on behalf of peasants under the heel of a police state, whereas the Pimpernel smuggled elitists out of post-Revolutionary France even after they sat back and watched their own people starve. Zorro: left-wing ... The Scarlet Pimpernel: right-wing ...
How does this apply here? Simple (despite claims to the contrary): Latinos (and other immigrants) come across the border primarily because they're either poor or oppressed. The whites who're so damn worried about them coming here are either rich or powerful. Period. Even those libertarian, poor white trash supremacists who live in trailer parks and sit in lawn chairs with ice chests on the Mexican/American border with night vision goggles are powerful because they have what is called "white skin privilege". It's not easy to perceive, but believe me, it's THERE. Ask a college professor, OK? This ain't a conspiracy theory ...
We the people--and ALL the people of the world--need a Greenpeace/Earth Day version of FDR's New Deal. This would kill two birds with one stone, as it were: You could end poverty and save the environment all in one, fell swoop. The environment is so utterly FUCKED UP to the point where the laundry list of shit to do to in order TO clean everything up is soooo long to the point where there's a job--on some level, be it intellectual or manual labor--for everybody. And EVERYBODY means EVERY-FUCKING-BODY; black, white, tan, gay, straight, Jew, Muslim, Klingon, Vulcan ...
In order to afford an eco-friendly New Deal, the rich MUST be taxed and the military MUST be cut. Problem is, the rich would rather spend more money on mass propaganda, etc. for the purpose of AVOIDING fair/proportional taxation than actually just come up off the money for said job creation. And yes, it IS their responsibility if they're soooo concerned with someone mugging them in an alley at some point since poverty is the number one cause of crime. Curb poverty and you curb crime.
As far as the military is concerned, if America were to cut its military budget in half from $500 billion to $250 billion, we'd still outspend the nearest superpower by BILLIONS, so there's no worries--unless you're talking about some spoiled suburbs who're willing to bankrupt America both fiscally and morally just to feel safe.
And since that corporate propaganda about how the rich are supposedly over-taxed already (BULLSHIT, read the work of Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele--they are the only reporting team in history to have received two Pulitzer Prizes) and how the military needs more money to defend us (BULLSHIT, we were at $350/$400 billion a year when 9/11 happened) reaches far more people than li'l ol' moi, guess what kind of world we live in and guess what's motivating those inbred idiots on the border? What did Mark Twain say? A lie will be 'round the world before the truth can get its boots on? Well, it's time for the truth to be struck by lightning like the Flash from DC Comics, gain some superspeed, and catch up with those right-wingers once and for all ...
For all you good ol' boys out there
by Ghost Dog
Thursday October 27, 2005 at 04:53 PM
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1027-30.htm
The rate of terror attacks worldwide has tripled since 9/11, so the world is no safer. No one has "won the war but lost the peace" in Iraq -- one of the most Orwellian phrases imaginable, repeated like a drunken mantra to sustain denial about the reality of Iraq. The war has never been won. All that was accomplished was a bloody occupation. According to every poll, the majority of Iraqis want the occupation out, so the majority will is not being respected in this alleged attempt to build democracy at gunpoint.
Yeee-HAWWW!!!
Jobs Americans Won't Do
by Kevin Quail
Friday October 28, 2005 at 03:49 AM
byas@comcast.net
Both NAFTA and CAFTA have achieved one thing- they enable the US to sell it's highly subsidized agricultural goods to Mexico and Central America, thereby drivng small peasant farmers who can't compete on price off their land and over the southern US border, providing a cheap source of labor for both the private and military sectors. The US armed forces are already having trouble meeting their recruiting goals. There was a recent article in The Nation about how actively they are recruiting Latinos. It has already become one of those jobs Americans won't do, and, our population is aging like so many other Western industrialized countries. I am simply stating what the government is up to.
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Life is far more than today
by Saab Lofton
Friday October 28, 2005 at 01:56 PM
saablofton@hotmail.com
So the government is up to no good--as Sean Connery asked in the Untouchables, WHAT ARE YOU PREPARED TO DO? Yes, AS THINGS CURRENTLY STAND, Latinos are unfortunately cornered into taking shit jobs (just as black folks once were/occasionally are) and they're also disproportionately targeted by military recruiters (as blacks still are), BUT GUESS WHAT? That ain't got to be! Unless you're advocating that there should to be a permenant underclass in our society, YOU HAVE TO IMAGINE BETTER as a commie would! My God, man! Watch some Star Trek for Christ's sake!!
Life is more than today! FAR more!!
http://www.st-hypertext.com/ds9-3/past1.html
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
"Past Tense, Part I"
Airdate: 1/2/1995
Teleplay by Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Story by Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Directed by Reza Badiyi
Review by Jamahl Epsicokhan
"Twenty-first century history is not one of my strong points--too depressing." -- Bashir
Simply put, "Past Tense I" is one of the best episodes of the series. It works terrifically as a refreshing time-travel story (the first for DS9) as well as a provocative allegory, characterized by heaps of brilliantly realized character moments. Sophomore director Reza Badiyi gets a chance to shine two months after helming the relatively pedestrian "Civil Defense."
A transporter mishap sends Sisko, Bashir and Dax centuries into the past to a point in time just days before a violent incident that will lead to a turning point in Earth's history. Now they must find a way back to the 24th century, being sure to avoid disrupting the time-line while in the past.
Sisko and Bashir wake up on the streets of San Francisco in the year 2024, finding themselves separated from Dax. Caught by the police without ID, the two are placed in a "sanctuary district"--an isolated section of the city composed of thousands of homeless, jobless, poverty-stricken citizens.
Before long, Sisko, an avid history buff, realizes that he and Bashir have landed just days before the infamous Bell Riots--one of the most violent civil disturbances in American history, scheduled to unfold within the very sanctuary district where the two have become prisoners. History states the event begins with district residents taking hostages at the processing center. It ends with armed forces killing hundreds of innocent people in an attempt to secure the situation as it turns into a rally. A man named Gabriel Bell plays a pivotal part in the incident by sacrificing himself to ensure the safety of the hostages [VERY KEY--WHY DO YOU THINK PHASERS HAVE STUN SETTINGS?]. Sisko tells Bashir the incident will cause public outrage of the nation's condition and a major step forward to solving Earth's social problems.
Brooks and El Fadil both deliver memorable performances, and the pairing of their characters provides a poignant subtext: Sisko as the wise teacher from a future that remembers its past, and Bashir as the student whose eyes are opened to grim, depressing history for the first time.
When the two have an unexpected confrontation with street thug B.C. (Frank Military), a fight leads Gabriel Bell to intervene. B.C. kills him in the brawl, thus altering the future. Without Bell to save the hostages and take his proper role in history, Sisko realizes that it is imperative he and Bashir make sure history unfolds as it should. When B.C. takes the hostages in the episode's closing minutes, Sisko decides he must take Bell's place in history even if it means sacrificing himself in the process.
The most notable aspect of "Past Tense I" is how it affects Sisko's character. It's nothing short of a breakthrough as the writers put him into an extremely volatile situation and allow him to make monumental decisions. The results are Sisko's best actions yet as DS9's leader and hero. This is the Sisko that's been in the making for two years now. Sisko's decision to take Bell's place is an act of heroism that deserves to go down in Trek history right along with Kirk's saving of Earth in Star Trek IV.
And as a social commentary, the episode is intelligent and effective. Set in what we would call the near future, homelessness and economic problems [HOW DID YOU PUT IT, KEV? "jobs Americans won't do"?] have escalated to the point where the urban unemployed are merely shoved into these districts (prisons would be a better description) where the government and more fortunate can simply forget they exist. Some gritty production design and interesting photography set the tone, turning a few city locations into a fairly convincing reality.
In addition, the B-story is sensible and subtle, characterized by some details that make a difference. Dax is found unconscious by communications executive Chris Brynner (Jim Metzler), who gives her access to a terminal she quickly uses to establish a proper 21st century identity. It's interesting how Dax winds up with people on the opposite end of the economic scale (Brynner is a multi-millionaire who hosts upscale business parties). Dax has a discussion with some of Brynner's snobbish friends [CAFE ROMA, VEGAS] that reveals the general public's uncaring attitude on the sanctuaries--one party guest dismisses them as "the only way to keep those people off the streets." Brynner comments that the sanctuaries exist solely for the residents' benefit, but he can't offer an answer when Dax asks why there is a wall around it.
Resembling The Original Series episode "City on the Edge of Forever" in many respects, this installment redelivers the poignant nature of the concept and remains true to the idea (with exception to the obligatory '90s Trek time-travel technobabble). Delivering on-target drama while keeping every element of the plot in sync, "Past Tense I" is a season highlight.
http://www.trekmania.net/conference/chronology.htm
En route to a symposium in San Francisco, Sisko, Dax and Bashir are lost during transport to Earth from the Defiant. The trio materializes in San Francisco, but in the year 2024 [as opposed to WHEN they're from, the far more enlightened year 2371]. Apprehended by a pair of policemen, Sisko and Bashir are taken to a "Sanctuary District" - a gated area of the city where homeless, mentally ill and unemployed people are locked away from the rest of society.
Separated from the others, Dax is found by a prominent businessman named Chris Brynner, who takes her to his office and helps her obtain the ID card necessary to exist in this society. Dax doesn't reveal where she comes from, but tells him that her friends are missing. Meanwhile, in the Sanctuary District, Sisko and Bashir are taken to a processing center, where no records of their existence are found. Sisko learns the date and realizes that they have arrived just days before a crucial event in history, the Bell Riots, which occurred in the area of the city where he and Bashir are now confined.
Sisko tells Bashir that residents in the District will take hostages, but a man named Gabriel Bell, after whom the riots were named, will sacrifice his life to save them. Hundreds of innocent people will be killed during the riots, but Sisko and Bashir can do nothing, or this pivotal moment in history, which led to sweeping social reforms, could be altered forever. Later, Sisko and Bashir are given ration cards to obtain meals and sent out to find a place to sleep among the abandoned buildings.
On the Defiant, Kira, Odo and O'Brien realize their comrades were transported back in time, but cannot pinpoint the exact date, and have only a limited number of search attempts they can make. In the Sanctuary District, Sisko and Bashir meet Webb, a homeless but proud man who asks them to try and help the community, but they must refuse his request in order to avoid any contact that could change history. Later, Sisko and Bashir end up in a scuffle over Bashir's food card, during which a bystander who steps in to help is killed. Sisko is shocked to discover the dead man is Gabriel Bell.
When Kira attempts to contact Earth to discuss the situation, she learns that everything connected with Starfleet has vanished. Odo, O'Brien and Kira realize their missing crewmates have altered history, and that the Defiant is all that remains of the Federation [AMAZING HOW MUCH OF AN EFFECT ONE BLACK MAN CAN HAVE, HUH?]. Back in the past, Chris Brynner does some research and learns that Jadzia's friends are among the thousands of people behind the walls of the Sanctuary District. Meanwhile, Sisko and Bashir realize that they must step in to undo the damage to history resulting from Bell's death. They arrive at the processing center just as the residents take hostages. As the riots begin, Sisko joins the aggressors, identifying himself as Gabriel Bell.
Sisko, posing as Gabriel Bell of the 21st century, takes charge of the hostage situation in the Processing Center as rioting begins within the Sanctuary District, and tells the angry residents that this is their chance to voice their grievances. Bashir reminds him that Bell is destined to die at the end of this turning point in Earth history. On the outside, Dax realizes that Sisko and Bashir are in danger and prepares to locate them. Meanwhile, Kira and O'Brien attempt transporting into different time periods to find their friends, with no success. Back in the center, Sisko convinces Webb, a decent family man, to act as their representative, but Webb is cut off from the computer interface terminal when he tries to communicate their plight. Then, police Detective Preston contacts Webb and asks to meet him.
Sisko joins Webb for the meeting, where they demand that all Sanctuary Districts be closed and the Federal Employment Act reinstated, and Preston agrees to present their demands to the Governor. Preston is later met by Chris and Dax, who can't convince the official to help them locate Sisko and Bashir. Determined, Dax waits until they aren't looking and slips away.
Kira and O'Brien transport once more into the past, but again choose the wrong time period. Meanwhile, as the riots continue, Preston offers to reduce the charges against Sisko and Webb if they release the hostages, but the two refuse to back down from their demands. Later, Dax is brought to the center, her combadge taken after having been captured upon entering the Sanctuary District.
Dax plays along with Sisko and Bashir, then tells them she can convince Chris to restore the group's computer access. After recovering her missing combadge, Dax slips back into the outside world. Soon, scores of residents are telling their stories to millions of people over the computer interface. Unfortunately, the Governor is unmoved, and tells Detective Preston to send in her troops.
Kira and O'Brien transport to the correct time period and soon locate Dax. Meanwhile, Sisko and Webb herd the hostages into a safe area of the center, just before a SWAT team bursts in, killing Webb and most of the others. One of the officers accidentally shoots at a hostage, but Sisko jumps in front of the man and takes a bullet to the shoulder. As the SWAT team leaves the center and National Guard personnel take control of the Sanctuary District, Sisko and Bashir are allowed to leave, and their ID cards are switched with those of two dead men. The former hostages promise to tell what really happened, and Sisko and Bashir return to the future, having restored history to its normal course.
eye SEE you ..!
by Saab Lofton
Sunday November 27, 2005 at 06:06 PM
saablofton@hotmail.com
"I see you guys have a bunch of terrorist wetbacks tagging the hell out of your fine city. Your mayor has got it right. Cut off their thumbs. Then cut off their balls."
Stephen and Stuart, huh? It's been a while since I've taken on two supervillains at once, let's see ...
Yep, y'all motherfuckers were put in the Hidden Zone, where fools who're just TOO bigoted and fascistic are kept, like Non, Ursa and General Zod were ...
The decision was made by the good people who run Indymedia. Personally, I disagree with it; the shit smacks of Stalinism, but then again, Stalin WAS trying to defend the (economic) Revolution from ig-nant-ass motherfuckers like yourselves ...
Still with me? Ass-u-ming you people ain't pigs, plants or whathaveyou, y'all probably sharing one IQ between you (possibly due to inbreeding caused by your eugenics-obsessed ancestors who allowed cousins to breed out of fear of a brown-skinned world), so I'll keep this nice and simple.
1) ONE day, you young Jedi will learn to tell motive from method, but FOR NOW ... Not every leftist is a terrorist. Not every leftist censors, tortures or murders their enemies. There are as many types of leftists as there are stars in the sky or grains of sand on the beach. THIS leftist for instance loves both of you and would save either of your lives were they actually in danger. HOWEVER, THE SHIT YOU TYPED IS FUCKED UP, AND WERE IT UP TO ME, I'D CORRECT YOUR STUPIDITY IN PUBLIC--LIVE, IN FRONT OF MILLIONS ...
2) WHAT YOU SAID WAS IN FACT STUPIDITY. MORAL RELATIVISM HAS ITS PLACE, BUT NOT HERE. SCIENCE HAS ALREADY PROVEN WE THE PEOPLE (AND THAT INCLUDES THE PALEST, GAY JEW TO THE DARKEST-SKINNED, STRAIGHT MUSLIM AND EVERYONE INBETWEEN IN SHADE, FAITH, ETC.) ARE GENETICALLY EQUAL, SO EVERYTHING THAT YOU'RE SAYING ABOUT YOUR AFRICAN OR LATIN BROTHER/SISTER YOU'RE ALSO SAYING TO YOURSEF--MY EUROPEAN BROTHER ...
3) HOWEVER, when my brother needs to be put in check, I'm on it like white on rice (no pun intended). In this case, y'all seem to think that you'll lose something in the process of allowing your brown skinned Human family to enjoy a lower middle class existance. Well,
a) though we are genetically equal--which is just another way of saying we're all children of God--we SHO AS HELL AIN'T ECONOMICALLY OR POLICALLY EQUAL. THE STATISTICS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES, SO BEFORE YOU SAY SOMETHING ELSE THAT SOUNDS LIKE IT CAME OUT OF THE SIDE OF YO' NECK, DO THE MATH! Start with rates of unemployment, compare and contrast with rates of imprisonment, and go from there ...
b) Given how FUCKED UP the environment is and has been (again, do the math), there's ENOUGH JOBS FOR EVERYBODY! And everybody means exactly that, EVERYBODY. Imagine (that is, if you people can, 'cause I suspect I've lost both of y'all by now AND NOT ONE STAR TREK REFERENCE, SO KISS MY ASS! Proves MY point!) ... imagine an eco-friendly version of FDR's New Deal--and if you need someone to explain what that means, try your local college and ask a poli sci major ...
4) If we the people were to cut our military budget in HALF, we'd still outspend the nearest superpower by Billions, with a capital 'B'. Beyond it being dishonorable to be the Goliath in any struggle, the money left over would pay for the aforementioned jobs program (I don't believe in welfare, either--free colleges, free dare care and free health care, free public transportation are NOT forms of welfare because NO one is being paid to simply stay at home, something I've always opposed. They're NECESSARY in order to be good workers, and y'all DO want folks showing up to work with no as in zero excuses, don'tcha ..?). If we the people were to tax Wall Street a measly one percent per day, that'd make doubly sure the eco-friendly version of FDR's New Deal, free colleges, free dare care and free health care, free public transportation could be paid for and maintained without any Stalinistic bureaucracy (it HAS been done; look in on your Dutch brothers and sisters sometime ...).
5) We're ALL brothers and sisters in the Human family (unless you're one of our E.T. neighbors, etc.). but even brothers and sisters fight, so let's keep it NON-lethal. Let's prove that the pen IS mightier than the sword, but even when the sword is (hopefully will increasing rariety) whipped out, let's STILL keep it NON-lethal. How? Tasers, tranquilzer darts, knockout gas, that sticky stuff the Marines pioneered during the late 1990s in Afrrica--think Batman, OK?
http://www.ex.org/4.1/04-feature_ruroken1.html
"When Kenshin meets Kaoru, he is no longer Hitokiri Battousai, for he has sworn never to take another life again. His sword is not a regular sword, but a reverse-bladed sword, meaning that he cannot kill anyone with his sword, but he can defend himself. Kenshin is a man who is trying to escape his past, and create a future for himself."
In conclusion, y'all suck. However, you people can choose to UNsuck, so long as you can grasp EVERY-SINGLE-FUCKING-THANG that you've just read. If you can, e-mail any questions you may have. Your journey out of the darkness and into the Light has ironically begun on a Sunday of all days. To quote Gordon Gecko from Oliver Stone's masterpiece, Wall Street, "Go to work ..."
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA%20Hits/CIA_GreatestHits.html
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zepezauer_Mark/Boomerang.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/cohn07302003.html
July 30, 2003
Why Iraq and Afghanistan?
Cheney Tells All: It's About the Oil
By MARJORIE COHN
Now that the rationale provided by Bush & Co. for attacking Iraq is unraveling, it's time to ask what the true motivation was for the rush to war. Many dismissed the signs of antiwar protestors, which read "No blood for oil." But if we connect the oily fingerprints, beginning with Vice President Dick Cheney's, it appears those protestors were right.
Marjorie Cohn, a professor of law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, is executive vice president of the National Lawyers Guild. She can be reached at: cohn@counterpunch.org
"Those protestors were right", AS IN CORRECT, AS IN ACCURATE, SO ...
"completely vacuum-less"
by Saab Lofton
Monday November 28, 2005 at 02:07 PM
saablofton@hotmail.com
Couple of things: First, when I said "hopefully will increasing rariety", I meant to say hopefully WITH increasing rariety. Second, I wrote "free dare care" instead of free DAY care--I guess I had Daredevil on the mind, 'cause Lord knows I wasn't thinking about that horrible D.A.R.E. program ...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287978/
http://www.manwithoutfear.com/daredevil.shtml
http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2003/01/02/export1.txt
http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/d/daredevil-script-ben-affleck.html
FOGGY NELSON: Speaking of bills ... your client, Mr. Lee, made his first payment.
MATT MURDOCK: Great. You should be very happy.
FOGGY NELSON: Yeah, it's fantastic. He paid in fluke ... Fluke is a fish. Did you know that? I didn't.
MATT MURDOCK: Mr. Lee is a good man and doesn't have much money ... and he fishes on weekends.
I guess it's--
FOGGY NELSON: I salsa dance on weekends, but I don't shake my ass to pay my phone bill. We need better clients. I'm tired of pro bono cases.
MATT MURDOCK: What is your problem with our clients? We have good, honorable clients. What's your idea of better? Define "better."
FOGGY NELSON: What would be a better client Better means rich and guilty, okay? Law school taught us to create a moral vacuum so you can represent people who aren't innocent.
MATT MURDOCK: That was your best course, as I recall ...
FOGGY NELSON: You don't have a moral vacuum; you are completely vacuum-less.
... AND LATER IN THE MOVIE ...
FOGGY NELSON: What time are you gonna pick me up?
MATT MURDOCK: I'm not going.
FOGGY NELSON: What? Are you crazy? That place is gonna be crawling with rich people. People who pay legal fees with money, not with fish. Or with wheels of cheese. Or with sports supplies. I'm gonna fill you in on a secret. This place doesn't look like a law office. lt looks like the set of "Sanford and Son."
I'm waiting for Lamont to walk in.
... A LAWYER THAT WORKS FOR BARTER--PRAISE THE LORD! AND EVEN BETTER, HE'S BLIND, SO YA AIN'T GOTTA EVER WORRY ABOUT HIM JUDGING YOU BY THE COLOR OF YOUR SKIN, imagine that ...
will u please see the real issue?
by me
Sunday April 30, 2006 at 06:48 PM
the issue is not "white supremacy" or a fear of not having any more "natural blondes and redheads". the reason the minute men are patrolling the border is to keep out the ones who try to come here ILLEGALLY!!!! where did that word get lost?
its not migration they have an issue with, because if that was the problem, everyone in this country, who isnt native american, would be guilty. its the fact that there are so many people who go about getting into this country the correct and legal way, why should we lend a blind eye to those who arent? think about this, as a tax payer YOU are paying for the 12 million people living on this soil not contributing to our government. not only that but these are 12 million people who arent voting, arent enlisting for our armed forces, arent serving jury duty, etc. yet now they are taking advantage of the rights that american CITIZENS have (the right to protest, etc.) everyone seems to be missing the point. these mintue men arent racists (i met one lady yesterday who was born in mexico and she came here the legal way and thats why shes joined the minute men, because shes pissed off she could do it right, and 12 million couldnt) so stop and think about the real issues before you start pointing fingers and calling people racists.
Saab Lofton Returns
by Saab
Sunday April 30, 2006 at 07:18 PM
1) You people ain't concerned with the letter of the law--if y'all WERE, you'd be proportionately more upset of the ILLEGAL war the Bush Administration declared against Iraq, Enron's shenangians, etc. etc. etc.--something that actually does the planet some real damage ..!
2) That lady who joined the minutemen you mentioned no more legitimizes them any more than a sellout in the black community joining the Republican Party.
3) I better not catch a single one of you RACIST fucks in line this summer to see Superman Returns. The single most famous, most popular character in Human history is by dictionary definition an illegal alien. AT NO TIME did Ma and Pa Kent go to INS and declare that they found baby Kal-El in a starship--in fact the whole legend HINGES on them keeping that a secret (see Smallville on the WB for details). I'm sick of this white supremacist hypocrisy. Fuck waving American flags pandering to ignorant patriots and kissing the asses of FOX News fans. If anything, Latinos and Latinas should wear Superman T-shirts when they march; it'd make a lot more sense ...
Saab Lofton Returns
by Saab
Sunday April 30, 2006 at 07:18 PM
1) You people ain't concerned with the letter of the law--if y'all WERE, you'd be proportionately more upset of the ILLEGAL war the Bush Administration declared against Iraq, Enron's shenangians, etc. etc. etc.--something that actually does the planet some real damage ..!
2) That lady who joined the minutemen you mentioned no more legitimizes them any more than a sellout in the black community joining the Republican Party.
3) I better not catch a single one of you RACIST fucks in line this summer to see Superman Returns. The single most famous, most popular character in Human history is by dictionary definition an illegal alien. AT NO TIME did Ma and Pa Kent go to INS and declare that they found baby Kal-El in a starship--in fact the whole legend HINGES on them keeping that a secret (see Smallville on the WB for details). I'm sick of this white supremacist hypocrisy. Fuck waving American flags pandering to ignorant patriots and kissing the asses of FOX News fans. If anything, Latinos and Latinas should wear Superman T-shirts when they march; it'd make a lot more sense ...
Saab Lofton Returns
by Saab
Sunday April 30, 2006 at 07:19 PM
1) You people ain't concerned with the letter of the law--if y'all WERE, you'd be proportionately more upset of the ILLEGAL war the Bush Administration declared against Iraq, Enron's shenangians, etc. etc. etc.--something that actually does the planet some real damage ..!
2) That lady who joined the minutemen you mentioned no more legitimizes them any more than a sellout in the black community joining the Republican Party.
3) I better not catch a single one of you RACIST fucks in line this summer to see Superman Returns. The single most famous, most popular character in Human history is by dictionary definition an illegal alien. AT NO TIME did Ma and Pa Kent go to INS and declare that they found baby Kal-El in a starship--in fact the whole legend HINGES on them keeping that a secret (see Smallville on the WB for details). I'm sick of this white supremacist hypocrisy. Fuck waving American flags pandering to ignorant patriots and kissing the asses of FOX News fans. If anything, Latinos and Latinas should wear Superman T-shirts when they march; it'd make a lot more sense ...
Saab Lofton Returns
by Saab
Sunday April 30, 2006 at 07:20 PM
1) You people ain't concerned with the letter of the law--if y'all WERE, you'd be proportionately more upset of the ILLEGAL war the Bush Administration declared against Iraq, Enron's shenangians, etc. etc. etc.--something that actually does the planet some real damage ..!
2) That lady who joined the minutemen you mentioned no more legitimizes them any more than a sellout in the black community joining the Republican Party.
3) I better not catch a single one of you RACIST fucks in line this summer to see Superman Returns. The single most famous, most popular character in Human history is by dictionary definition an illegal alien. AT NO TIME did Ma and Pa Kent go to INS and declare that they found baby Kal-El in a starship--in fact the whole legend HINGES on them keeping that a secret (see Smallville on the WB for details). I'm sick of this white supremacist hypocrisy. Fuck waving American flags pandering to ignorant patriots and kissing the asses of FOX News fans. If anything, Latinos and Latinas should wear Superman T-shirts when they march; it'd make a lot more sense ...
Saab Lofton Returns
by Saab
Sunday April 30, 2006 at 07:20 PM
1) You people ain't concerned with the letter of the law--if y'all WERE, you'd be proportionately more upset of the ILLEGAL war the Bush Administration declared against Iraq, Enron's shenangians, etc. etc. etc.--something that actually does the planet some real damage ..!
2) That lady who joined the minutemen you mentioned no more legitimizes them any more than a sellout in the black community joining the Republican Party.
3) I better not catch a single one of you RACIST fucks in line this summer to see Superman Returns. The single most famous, most popular character in Human history is by dictionary definition an illegal alien. AT NO TIME did Ma and Pa Kent go to INS and declare that they found baby Kal-El in a starship--in fact the whole legend HINGES on them keeping that a secret (see Smallville on the WB for details). I'm sick of this white supremacist hypocrisy. Fuck waving American flags pandering to ignorant patriots and kissing the asses of FOX News fans. If anything, Latinos and Latinas should wear Superman T-shirts when they march; it'd make a lot more sense ...
Saab Lofton Returns
by Saab
Sunday April 30, 2006 at 07:21 PM
1) You people ain't concerned with the letter of the law--if y'all WERE, you'd be proportionately more upset of the ILLEGAL war the Bush Administration declared against Iraq, Enron's shenangians, etc. etc. etc.--something that actually does the planet some real damage ..!
2) That lady who joined the minutemen you mentioned no more legitimizes them any more than a sellout in the black community joining the Republican Party.
3) I better not catch a single one of you RACIST fucks in line this summer to see Superman Returns. The single most famous, most popular character in Human history is by dictionary definition an illegal alien. AT NO TIME did Ma and Pa Kent go to INS and declare that they found baby Kal-El in a starship--in fact the whole legend HINGES on them keeping that a secret (see Smallville on the WB for details). I'm sick of this white supremacist hypocrisy. Fuck waving American flags pandering to ignorant patriots and kissing the asses of FOX News fans. If anything, Latinos and Latinas should wear Superman T-shirts when they march; it'd make a lot more sense ...
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Friday April 06, 2007 at 02:31 PM
I just interviewed Dr. Helen Caldicott--the number one anti-nuke activist on the planet. During said interviewed, the following was said by us ...
Lofton: In October, 2006, you told Tavis Smiley that, "terrorists don't need nuclear weapons. You've got 103 nuclear power plants deployed around the country." I consider this a complete refutation (one of many) of FOX News' pro-war argument. Have you ever been invited onto FOX?
Caldicott: No I have not and would like to be.
Lofton: Have any right-wingers--publicly or otherwise--admitted that you clearly proved them wrong?
Caldicott: No they never admit they are wrong even though they almost always are through the retrospectoscope.
... again, it could very well be the case that all this porn spam is the result of some computer program blindly spitting shit out--but I seriously doubt it. This is clearly the work of a right-winger who just won't admit that a NIGGER proved his sorry ass wrong ...
http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2004/08/06/opinion/fear_no_evil/fearnoevil.txt
A flat Earth in the center of the universe, the inferiority of brown-skinned people, "duck and cover," JFK's magic bullet, trickle-down Reaganomics, the threat Iraq posed to the world and the so-called liberal media -- all these things are about as real as professional wrestling.
One of the primary reasons America hates Cuba so much is because -- being the benevolent dictator that he is -- Fidel Castro will lock you up and/or beat you down for exercising the freedom to be wrong.
Obviously, that's not my method. I'd much prefer to simply insult those who're wrong rather than violate their civil liberty to be stupid white men, as Michael Moore's bestseller is so aptly entitled (hence my hate mail).
Castro took the quicker, easier, more seductive path and essentially figured, "Look, the poor and oppressed can't wait for Cuba's elite to become empathic intellectuals who'll contribute without being told to. We'll simply take what's needed and let God sort it out later."
In contrast, America does things the hard way. Allowing the far right to exist gives substance to the First Amendment, but it also means we the people still run the risk of becoming its next victim.
'Course, the Democratic Party could always use its massive advertising budget to enlighten reactionaries by backing radicals and liberals instead of its usual cast of Faustian/Machiavellian moderates. Unfortunately, Kerry's nomination proves the party clearly lacks the courage to do that, so ...
... and here's an example of "becoming its next victim" ...
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/05/325/
Published on Thursday, April 5, 2007 by The Miami Herald
No Hope in Guantánamo
by Joshua Colangelo-Bryan
On Monday, I was at Guantánamo Bay to meet with Jumah Al Dossari, one of the detainees my firm represents [SEE TANGREDI? LAWYERS CAN BE HEROES]. As always, I spent the first few hours of our meeting trying to convince Jumah to fight the desperation and hopelessness that threaten what little spirit he has left [WHY STAR TREK IS SO IMPORTANT] ... I walked slowly back to the room where Jumah sat shackled. I wondered if there was a good way to tell a suicidal man that all three branches of our government appear content to let him rot at Guantánamo. Nothing came to mind. Maybe I shouldn’t have worried. Jumah’s reaction to bad legal news has become as muted as his emotions generally. He long ago stopped believing that a court will ever hear his case and thinks I’m naive for hoping otherwise. Instead, Jumah believes that he has been condemned to live forever on an island where there is no law. He may well be right.
... by the way, Gitmo's in Cuba, but Castro doesN'T run it, AMERIKKKA DOES!!!!!!
This is why I come across the way I do. "He long ago stopped believing that a court will ever hear his case and thinks I’m naive for hoping otherwise." In a court, being polite and subtle and so forth is paramount, and guess what? Jumah’s STILL in Gitmo. An actual armed rebellion would literally free dude TODAY, but since I have no military training to speak of--nor do I have an army to back me up--shit talkin' is the best I can offer Jumah, for now ... and I'll bet next month's rent he appreciates that far more than he'll ever appreciate polite subtlety. Don't believe me? ASK HIM. Better yet, find this hate mail in the CityLife's archives ...
http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2002/12/24/export2127.txt
... the worst thing about the past year was when some sick motherfucker wrote CityLife on Sept. 12 and said the following: "I can't think of any better fate than years of torture for the Muslims being held at Guantanamo Bay." If there was ever an ideological sentiment diametrically opposed to everything I stand for, that was it ...
... so any of y'all who "think" my poverty is my own fault--that I burnt one bridge too many, etc.--you people find that letter, take it to Gitmo and show it to Jumah. If you're honest, you'll admit that the ONLY people I cussed out over the years were a) the ones who said that "years of torture" shit, or b) the ones who DEFENDED them because they're REALTED to them.
http://coanews.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=1744
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Thursday April 12, 2007 at 03:21 PM
I just interviewed Dr. Helen Caldicott--the number one anti-nuke activist on the planet. During said interview, the following was said by us ...
Lofton: In October, 2006, you told Tavis Smiley that, "terrorists don't need nuclear weapons. You've got 103 nuclear power plants deployed around the country." I consider this a complete refutation (one of many) of FOX News' pro-war argument. Have you ever been invited onto FOX?
Caldicott: No I have not and would like to be.
Lofton: Have any right-wingers--publicly or otherwise--admitted that you clearly proved them wrong?
Caldicott: No they never admit they are wrong even though they almost always are through the retrospectoscope.
... again, it could very well be the case that all this porn spam is the result of some computer program blindly spitting shit out--but I seriously doubt it. This is clearly the work of a right-winger who just won't admit that a NIGGER proved his sorry ass wrong ...
http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2004/08/06/opinion/fear_no_evil/fearnoevil.txt
A flat Earth in the center of the universe, the inferiority of brown-skinned people, "duck and cover," JFK's magic bullet, trickle-down Reaganomics, the threat Iraq posed to the world and the so-called liberal media -- all these things are about as real as professional wrestling.
One of the primary reasons America hates Cuba so much is because -- being the benevolent dictator that he is -- Fidel Castro will lock you up and/or beat you down for exercising the freedom to be wrong.
Obviously, that's not my method. I'd much prefer to simply insult those who're wrong rather than violate their civil liberty to be stupid white men, as Michael Moore's bestseller is so aptly entitled (hence my hate mail).
Castro took the quicker, easier, more seductive path and essentially figured, "Look, the poor and oppressed can't wait for Cuba's elite to become empathic intellectuals who'll contribute without being told to. We'll simply take what's needed and let God sort it out later."
In contrast, America does things the hard way. Allowing the far right to exist gives substance to the First Amendment, but it also means we the people still run the risk of becoming its next victim.
'Course, the Democratic Party could always use its massive advertising budget to enlighten reactionaries by backing radicals and liberals instead of its usual cast of Faustian/Machiavellian moderates. Unfortunately, Kerry's nomination proves the party clearly lacks the courage to do that, so ...
... and here's an example of "becoming its next victim" ...
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/05/325/
Published on Thursday, April 5, 2007 by The Miami Herald
No Hope in Guantánamo
by Joshua Colangelo-Bryan
On Monday, I was at Guantánamo Bay to meet with Jumah Al Dossari, one of the detainees my firm represents [SEE TANGREDI? LAWYERS CAN BE HEROES]. As always, I spent the first few hours of our meeting trying to convince Jumah to fight the desperation and hopelessness that threaten what little spirit he has left [WHY STAR TREK IS SO IMPORTANT] ... I walked slowly back to the room where Jumah sat shackled. I wondered if there was a good way to tell a suicidal man that all three branches of our government appear content to let him rot at Guantánamo. Nothing came to mind. Maybe I shouldn’t have worried. Jumah’s reaction to bad legal news has become as muted as his emotions generally. He long ago stopped believing that a court will ever hear his case and thinks I’m naive for hoping otherwise. Instead, Jumah believes that he has been condemned to live forever on an island where there is no law. He may well be right.
... by the way, Gitmo's in Cuba, but Castro doesN'T run it, AMERIKKKA DOES!!!!!!
This is why I come across the way I do. "He long ago stopped believing that a court will ever hear his case and thinks I’m naive for hoping otherwise." In a court, being polite and subtle and so forth is paramount, and guess what? Jumah’s STILL in Gitmo. An actual armed rebellion would literally free dude TODAY, but since I have no military training to speak of--nor do I have an army to back me up--shit talkin' is the best I can offer Jumah, for now ... and I'll bet next month's rent he appreciates that far more than he'll ever appreciate polite subtlety. Don't believe me? ASK HIM. Better yet, find this hate mail in the CityLife's archives ...
http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2002/12/24/export2127.txt
... the worst thing about the past year was when some sick motherfucker wrote CityLife on Sept. 12 and said the following: "I can't think of any better fate than years of torture for the Muslims being held at Guantanamo Bay." If there was ever an ideological sentiment diametrically opposed to everything I stand for, that was it ...
... so if any of y'all who "think" my poverty is my own fault--that I burnt one bridge too many, etc.--find that letter, take it to Gitmo and show it to Jumah. If you're honest, you'll admit that the ONLY people I cussed out over the years were a) the ones who said that "years of torture" shit, or b) the ones who DEFENDED them because they're RELATED to them.
http://coanews.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=1744
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Right & Wrong
by Saab Lofton
Thursday April 19, 2007 at 11:00 AM
I just interviewed Dr. Helen Caldicott--the number one anti-nuke activist on the planet. During said interview, the following was said by us ...
Lofton: In October, 2006, you told Tavis Smiley that, "terrorists don't need nuclear weapons. You've got 103 nuclear power plants deployed around the country." I consider this a complete refutation (one of many) of FOX News' pro-war argument. Have you ever been invited onto FOX?
Caldicott: No I have not and would like to be.
Lofton: Have any right-wingers--publicly or otherwise--admitted that you clearly proved them wrong?
Caldicott: No they never admit they are wrong even though they almost always are through the retrospectoscope.
... again, it could very well be the case that all this porn spam is the result of some computer program blindly spitting shit out--but I seriously doubt it. This is clearly the work of a right-winger who just won't admit that a NIGGER proved his sorry ass wrong ...
http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2004/08/06/opinion/fear_no_evil/fearnoevil.txt
A flat Earth in the center of the universe, the inferiority of brown-skinned people, "duck and cover," JFK's magic bullet, trickle-down Reaganomics, the threat Iraq posed to the world and the so-called liberal media -- all these things are about as real as professional wrestling.
One of the primary reasons America hates Cuba so much is because -- being the benevolent dictator that he is -- Fidel Castro will lock you up and/or beat you down for exercising the freedom to be wrong.
Obviously, that's not my method. I'd much prefer to simply insult those who're wrong rather than violate their civil liberty to be stupid white men, as Michael Moore's bestseller is so aptly entitled (hence my hate mail).
Castro took the quicker, easier, more seductive path and essentially figured, "Look, the poor and oppressed can't wait for Cuba's elite to become empathic intellectuals who'll contribute without being told to. We'll simply take what's needed and let God sort it out later."
In contrast, America does things the hard way. Allowing the far right to exist gives substance to the First Amendment, but it also means we the people still run the risk of becoming its next victim.
'Course, the Democratic Party could always use its massive advertising budget to enlighten reactionaries by backing radicals and liberals instead of its usual cast of Faustian/Machiavellian moderates. Unfortunately, Kerry's nomination proves the party clearly lacks the courage to do that, so ...
... and here's an example of "becoming its next victim" ...
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/05/325/
Published on Thursday, April 5, 2007 by The Miami Herald
No Hope in Guantánamo
by Joshua Colangelo-Bryan
On Monday, I was at Guantánamo Bay to meet with Jumah Al Dossari, one of the detainees my firm represents [SEE TANGREDI? LAWYERS CAN BE HEROES]. As always, I spent the first few hours of our meeting trying to convince Jumah to fight the desperation and hopelessness that threaten what little spirit he has left [WHY STAR TREK IS SO IMPORTANT] ... I walked slowly back to the room where Jumah sat shackled. I wondered if there was a good way to tell a suicidal man that all three branches of our government appear content to let him rot at Guantánamo. Nothing came to mind. Maybe I shouldn’t have worried. Jumah’s reaction to bad legal news has become as muted as his emotions generally. He long ago stopped believing that a court will ever hear his case and thinks I’m naive for hoping otherwise. Instead, Jumah believes that he has been condemned to live forever on an island where there is no law. He may well be right.
... by the way, Gitmo's in Cuba, but Castro doesN'T run it, AMERIKKKA DOES!!!!!!
This is why I come across the way I do. "He long ago stopped believing that a court will ever hear his case and thinks I’m naive for hoping otherwise." In a court, being polite and subtle and so forth is paramount, and guess what? Jumah’s STILL in Gitmo. An actual armed rebellion would literally free dude TODAY, but since I have no military training to speak of--nor do I have an army to back me up--shit talkin' is the best I can offer Jumah, for now ... and I'll bet next month's rent he appreciates that far more than he'll ever appreciate polite subtlety. Don't believe me? ASK HIM. Better yet, find this hate mail in the CityLife's archives ...
http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2002/12/24/export2127.txt
... the worst thing about the past year was when some sick motherfucker wrote CityLife on Sept. 12 and said the following: "I can't think of any better fate than years of torture for the Muslims being held at Guantanamo Bay." If there was ever an ideological sentiment diametrically opposed to everything I stand for, that was it ...
... so if any of y'all who "think" my poverty is my own fault--that I burnt one bridge too many, etc.--find that letter, take it to Gitmo and show it to Jumah. If you're honest, you'll admit that the ONLY people I cussed out over the years were a) the ones who said that "years of torture" shit, or b) the ones who DEFENDED them because they're RELATED to them.
http://coanews.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=1744
I'm STILL right, you're STILL wrong
by Saab Lofton
Thursday April 19, 2007 at 11:03 AM
I just interviewed Dr. Helen Caldicott--the number one anti-nuke activist on the planet. During said interview, the following was said by us ...
Lofton: In October, 2006, you told Tavis Smiley that, "terrorists don't need nuclear weapons. You've got 103 nuclear power plants deployed around the country." I consider this a complete refutation (one of many) of FOX News' pro-war argument. Have you ever been invited onto FOX?
Caldicott: No I have not and would like to be.
Lofton: Have any right-wingers--publicly or otherwise--admitted that you clearly proved them wrong?
Caldicott: No they never admit they are wrong even though they almost always are through the retrospectoscope.
... again, it could very well be the case that all this porn spam is the result of some computer program blindly spitting shit out--but I seriously doubt it. This is clearly the work of a right-winger who just won't admit that a NIGGER proved his sorry ass wrong ...
http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2004/08/06/opinion/fear_no_evil/fearnoevil.txt
A flat Earth in the center of the universe, the inferiority of brown-skinned people, "duck and cover," JFK's magic bullet, trickle-down Reaganomics, the threat Iraq posed to the world and the so-called liberal media -- all these things are about as real as professional wrestling.
One of the primary reasons America hates Cuba so much is because -- being the benevolent dictator that he is -- Fidel Castro will lock you up and/or beat you down for exercising the freedom to be wrong.
Obviously, that's not my method. I'd much prefer to simply insult those who're wrong rather than violate their civil liberty to be stupid white men, as Michael Moore's bestseller is so aptly entitled (hence my hate mail).
Castro took the quicker, easier, more seductive path and essentially figured, "Look, the poor and oppressed can't wait for Cuba's elite to become empathic intellectuals who'll contribute without being told to. We'll simply take what's needed and let God sort it out later."
In contrast, America does things the hard way. Allowing the far right to exist gives substance to the First Amendment, but it also means we the people still run the risk of becoming its next victim.
'Course, the Democratic Party could always use its massive advertising budget to enlighten reactionaries by backing radicals and liberals instead of its usual cast of Faustian/Machiavellian moderates. Unfortunately, Kerry's nomination proves the party clearly lacks the courage to do that, so ...
... and here's an example of "becoming its next victim" ...
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/05/325/
Published on Thursday, April 5, 2007 by The Miami Herald
No Hope in Guantánamo
by Joshua Colangelo-Bryan
On Monday, I was at Guantánamo Bay to meet with Jumah Al Dossari, one of the detainees my firm represents [SEE TANGREDI? LAWYERS CAN BE HEROES]. As always, I spent the first few hours of our meeting trying to convince Jumah to fight the desperation and hopelessness that threaten what little spirit he has left [WHY STAR TREK IS SO IMPORTANT] ... I walked slowly back to the room where Jumah sat shackled. I wondered if there was a good way to tell a suicidal man that all three branches of our government appear content to let him rot at Guantánamo. Nothing came to mind. Maybe I shouldn’t have worried. Jumah’s reaction to bad legal news has become as muted as his emotions generally. He long ago stopped believing that a court will ever hear his case and thinks I’m naive for hoping otherwise. Instead, Jumah believes that he has been condemned to live forever on an island where there is no law. He may well be right.
... by the way, Gitmo's in Cuba, but Castro doesN'T run it, AMERIKKKA DOES!!!!!!
This is why I come across the way I do. "He long ago stopped believing that a court will ever hear his case and thinks I’m naive for hoping otherwise." In a court, being polite and subtle and so forth is paramount, and guess what? Jumah’s STILL in Gitmo. An actual armed rebellion would literally free dude TODAY, but since I have no military training to speak of--nor do I have an army to back me up--shit talkin' is the best I can offer Jumah, for now ... and I'll bet next month's rent he appreciates that far more than he'll ever appreciate polite subtlety. Don't believe me? ASK HIM. Better yet, find this hate mail in the CityLife's archives ...
http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2002/12/24/export2127.txt
... the worst thing about the past year was when some sick motherfucker wrote CityLife on Sept. 12 and said the following: "I can't think of any better fate than years of torture for the Muslims being held at Guantanamo Bay." If there was ever an ideological sentiment diametrically opposed to everything I stand for, that was it ...
... so if any of y'all who "think" my poverty is my own fault--that I burnt one bridge too many, etc.--find that letter, take it to Gitmo and show it to Jumah. If you're honest, you'll admit that the ONLY people I cussed out over the years were a) the ones who said that "years of torture" shit, or b) the ones who DEFENDED them because they're RELATED to them.
http://coanews.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=1744
I'm STILL right and you're STILL wrong
by Saab Lofton
Thursday April 19, 2007 at 11:10 AM
I just interviewed Dr. Helen Caldicott--the number one anti-nuke activist on the planet. During said interview, the following was said by us ...
Lofton: In October, 2006, you told Tavis Smiley that, "terrorists don't need nuclear weapons. You've got 103 nuclear power plants deployed around the country." I consider this a complete refutation (one of many) of FOX News' pro-war argument. Have you ever been invited onto FOX?
Caldicott: No I have not and would like to be.
Lofton: Have any right-wingers--publicly or otherwise--admitted that you clearly proved them wrong?
Caldicott: No they never admit they are wrong even though they almost always are through the retrospectoscope.
... again, it could very well be the case that all this porn spam is the result of some computer program blindly spitting shit out--but I seriously doubt it. This is clearly the work of a right-winger who just won't admit that a NIGGER proved his sorry ass wrong ...
http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2004/08/06/opinion/fear_no_evil/fearnoevil.txt
A flat Earth in the center of the universe, the inferiority of brown-skinned people, "duck and cover," JFK's magic bullet, trickle-down Reaganomics, the threat Iraq posed to the world and the so-called liberal media -- all these things are about as real as professional wrestling.
One of the primary reasons America hates Cuba so much is because -- being the benevolent dictator that he is -- Fidel Castro will lock you up and/or beat you down for exercising the freedom to be wrong.
Obviously, that's not my method. I'd much prefer to simply insult those who're wrong rather than violate their civil liberty to be stupid white men, as Michael Moore's bestseller is so aptly entitled (hence my hate mail).
Castro took the quicker, easier, more seductive path and essentially figured, "Look, the poor and oppressed can't wait for Cuba's elite to become empathic intellectuals who'll contribute without being told to. We'll simply take what's needed and let God sort it out later."
In contrast, America does things the hard way. Allowing the far right to exist gives substance to the First Amendment, but it also means we the people still run the risk of becoming its next victim.
'Course, the Democratic Party could always use its massive advertising budget to enlighten reactionaries by backing radicals and liberals instead of its usual cast of Faustian/Machiavellian moderates. Unfortunately, Kerry's nomination proves the party clearly lacks the courage to do that, so ...
... and here's an example of "becoming its next victim" ...
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/05/325/
Published on Thursday, April 5, 2007 by The Miami Herald
No Hope in Guantánamo
by Joshua Colangelo-Bryan
On Monday, I was at Guantánamo Bay to meet with Jumah Al Dossari, one of the detainees my firm represents [SEE TANGREDI? LAWYERS CAN BE HEROES]. As always, I spent the first few hours of our meeting trying to convince Jumah to fight the desperation and hopelessness that threaten what little spirit he has left [WHY STAR TREK IS SO IMPORTANT] ... I walked slowly back to the room where Jumah sat shackled. I wondered if there was a good way to tell a suicidal man that all three branches of our government appear content to let him rot at Guantánamo. Nothing came to mind. Maybe I shouldn’t have worried. Jumah’s reaction to bad legal news has become as muted as his emotions generally. He long ago stopped believing that a court will ever hear his case and thinks I’m naive for hoping otherwise. Instead, Jumah believes that he has been condemned to live forever on an island where there is no law. He may well be right.
... by the way, Gitmo's in Cuba, but Castro doesN'T run it, AMERIKKKA DOES!!!!!!
This is why I come across the way I do. "He long ago stopped believing that a court will ever hear his case and thinks I’m naive for hoping otherwise." In a court, being polite and subtle and so forth is paramount, and guess what? Jumah’s STILL in Gitmo. An actual armed rebellion would literally free dude TODAY, but since I have no military training to speak of--nor do I have an army to back me up--shit talkin' is the best I can offer Jumah, for now ... and I'll bet next month's rent he appreciates that far more than he'll ever appreciate polite subtlety. Don't believe me? ASK HIM. Better yet, find this hate mail in the CityLife's archives ...
http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2002/12/24/export2127.txt
... the worst thing about the past year was when some sick motherfucker wrote CityLife on Sept. 12 and said the following: "I can't think of any better fate than years of torture for the Muslims being held at Guantanamo Bay." If there was ever an ideological sentiment diametrically opposed to everything I stand for, that was it ...
... so if any of y'all who "think" my poverty is my own fault--that I burnt one bridge too many, etc.--find that letter, take it to Gitmo and show it to Jumah. If you're honest, you'll admit that the ONLY people I cussed out over the years were a) the ones who said that "years of torture" shit, or b) the ones who DEFENDED them because they're RELATED to them.
http://coanews.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=1744
I'm STILL right and you're STILL wrong
by Saab Lofton
Thursday April 19, 2007 at 11:21 AM
I just interviewed Dr. Helen Caldicott--the number one anti-nuke activist on the planet. During said interview, the following was said by us ...
Lofton: In October, 2006, you told Tavis Smiley that, "terrorists don't need nuclear weapons. You've got 103 nuclear power plants deployed around the country." I consider this a complete refutation (one of many) of FOX News' pro-war argument. Have you ever been invited onto FOX?
Caldicott: No I have not and would like to be.
Lofton: Have any right-wingers--publicly or otherwise--admitted that you clearly proved them wrong?
Caldicott: No they never admit they are wrong even though they almost always are through the retrospectoscope.
... again, it could very well be the case that all this porn spam is the result of some computer program blindly spitting shit out--but I seriously doubt it. This is clearly the work of a right-winger who just won't admit that a NIGGER proved his sorry ass wrong ...
http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2004/08/06/opinion/fear_no_evil/fearnoevil.txt
A flat Earth in the center of the universe, the inferiority of brown-skinned people, "duck and cover," JFK's magic bullet, trickle-down Reaganomics, the threat Iraq posed to the world and the so-called liberal media -- all these things are about as real as professional wrestling.
One of the primary reasons America hates Cuba so much is because -- being the benevolent dictator that he is -- Fidel Castro will lock you up and/or beat you down for exercising the freedom to be wrong.
Obviously, that's not my method. I'd much prefer to simply insult those who're wrong rather than violate their civil liberty to be stupid white men, as Michael Moore's bestseller is so aptly entitled (hence my hate mail).
Castro took the quicker, easier, more seductive path and essentially figured, "Look, the poor and oppressed can't wait for Cuba's elite to become empathic intellectuals who'll contribute without being told to. We'll simply take what's needed and let God sort it out later."
In contrast, America does things the hard way. Allowing the far right to exist gives substance to the First Amendment, but it also means we the people still run the risk of becoming its next victim.
'Course, the Democratic Party could always use its massive advertising budget to enlighten reactionaries by backing radicals and liberals instead of its usual cast of Faustian/Machiavellian moderates. Unfortunately, Kerry's nomination proves the party clearly lacks the courage to do that, so ...
... and here's an example of "becoming its next victim" ...
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/05/325/
Published on Thursday, April 5, 2007 by The Miami Herald
No Hope in Guantánamo
by Joshua Colangelo-Bryan
On Monday, I was at Guantánamo Bay to meet with Jumah Al Dossari, one of the detainees my firm represents [SEE TANGREDI? LAWYERS CAN BE HEROES]. As always, I spent the first few hours of our meeting trying to convince Jumah to fight the desperation and hopelessness that threaten what little spirit he has left [WHY STAR TREK IS SO IMPORTANT] ... I walked slowly back to the room where Jumah sat shackled. I wondered if there was a good way to tell a suicidal man that all three branches of our government appear content to let him rot at Guantánamo. Nothing came to mind. Maybe I shouldn’t have worried. Jumah’s reaction to bad legal news has become as muted as his emotions generally. He long ago stopped believing that a court will ever hear his case and thinks I’m naive for hoping otherwise. Instead, Jumah believes that he has been condemned to live forever on an island where there is no law. He may well be right.
... by the way, Gitmo's in Cuba, but Castro doesN'T run it, AMERIKKKA DOES!!!!!!
This is why I come across the way I do. "He long ago stopped believing that a court will ever hear his case and thinks I’m naive for hoping otherwise." In a court, being polite and subtle and so forth is paramount, and guess what? Jumah’s STILL in Gitmo. An actual armed rebellion would literally free dude TODAY, but since I have no military training to speak of--nor do I have an army to back me up--shit talkin' is the best I can offer Jumah, for now ... and I'll bet next month's rent he appreciates that far more than he'll ever appreciate polite subtlety. Don't believe me? ASK HIM. Better yet, find this hate mail in the CityLife's archives ...
http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2002/12/24/export2127.txt
... the worst thing about the past year was when some sick motherfucker wrote CityLife on Sept. 12 and said the following: "I can't think of any better fate than years of torture for the Muslims being held at Guantanamo Bay." If there was ever an ideological sentiment diametrically opposed to everything I stand for, that was it ...
... so if any of y'all who "think" my poverty is my own fault--that I burnt one bridge too many, etc.--find that letter, take it to Gitmo and show it to Jumah. If you're honest, you'll admit that the ONLY people I cussed out over the years were a) the ones who said that "years of torture" shit, or b) the ones who DEFENDED them because they're RELATED to them.
http://coanews.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=1744
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