Tuesday, May 17, 2016
The US does not deserve UN membership
Article 4.1 Chapter II (Membership) of the UN Charter reads
"Membership in the United Nations is open to all other peace-loving
states which accept the obligations contained in the present charter..."
If being a peace-loving state is a requirement of UN Membership then
the United States has no right to be a UN member because it Is a
war-loving state!
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
'Sanders backs Obama “kill list,” troops to Syria' My Response
Bernie Sanders backs Obama's program of drone murders, and when asked
"Do you think what’s being done now is constitutional and legal?"
Bernie Sanders said "In general, I do, yes."
The drone program is both unconstitutional and illegal.
The targeting and killing by drones is the weapon of a
brutal dictator.
The use of drones to kill people is murder. Bernie Sanders has
no problem with that; neither does Killary Clinton and others.
The Constitution of the United States was written in light of the
experiences of British domination. The Constitution was not written
to protect the rights of all people. People of color, slaves and Native
Indians and women were excluded.
When a person is a suspect and arrested for a crime they are
guaranteed certain rights under the constitution and Court
precedents.
The IV Amendment guarantees "The right of the
people to be secure
in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against
unreasonable searches
and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants
shall issue, but upon
probable causse."
Drone killings abolish this protective measure. Instead of a warrant a
drone comes flying through the air killing the person beofre they are
presented an indictment with a list of charges.
Drone victims, or people on a President's Kill List are deprived of the
right to consult an attorney.
They are deprived of the right to hear the charges against them, and
to have a fair trial before an unbiased court, and with a jury of their peers.
Drone killings do away with the Amendment V protections against
being tried for the same charge twice (double jeopardy). And, as for the
being tried for the same charge twice (double jeopardy). And, as for the
famous V Amendment right against self-incrimination in criminal cases
"without due process of
law" There is no due process when a person is
killed by a drone.
speedy and
public trial, by an impartial jury" to see the evidence against
oneself and provide witnesses and cross examine the State's witnesses.
All this is done away with as a drone comes through the roof.
Drone killings make a mockery of the Amendment 8 protections
against "excessive bail; there is none your dead. As for "cruel and
against "excessive bail; there is none your dead. As for "cruel and
unusual
punishments" drone killings are both cruel and unusual
punishments because they are committed upon persons who
have not been brought to a court of law, nor tried, much less
convicted.
The Amendment 14th states that no State shall deprive any
person of life, liberty, or property, without due process
of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection
of
the laws."
Kill Lists is something a fascist dictator has, and drone weapons
are killing without a conscience. So much for "Change you can
believe in." And, Bernie Sanders supports drone killings. Well
over 90% of the people killed have been innocent, and 100% of
them were not convicted in a court of law.
Gone are the days when the government sent agents to arrest
someone and present a case against them. Drones are something
out of a 1984 World a la George Orwell!
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Sanders backs Obama “kill list,” troops to Syria - World...
Sanders’
statements underscore the unity among all the candidates of the
Democratic and Republican parties in favor of war and drone
assassinations.
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Sanders backs Obama “kill list,” troops to Syria
By
a reporter
27 April 2016
Towards the end of a town hall meeting in Philadelphia broadcast
last Monday night over MSNBC, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders declared
his support for the Obama administration’s program of assassination by
drone-fired missiles and its steady build-up of US troop strength in
Syria and Iraq.
These statements underscore the unity across the bourgeois political
spectrum, among all the presidential candidates of the Democratic and
Republican parties, in favor of stepped-up military intervention in the
Middle East, including the use of drones that have killed thousands of
civilians.
The discussion was initiated by a 29-year-old Sanders supporter, not
by MSNBC host Chris Hayes, the moderator of the town hall—a significant
fact, since no journalist for the corporate-controlled media has pressed
any of the candidates about drone missile assassinations or other
lawless actions by the Obama administration.
The questioner, Miguel Garces, was clearly skeptical about Obama’s
claim to legal authority to conduct indiscriminate air strikes against
targets supposedly linked to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. The
exchange went as follows:
Question: Senator Sanders, you said that you think that the US air
strikes are authorized under current law, but does that mean that the US
military can lawfully strike ISIS-affiliated groups in any country
around the world?
Sanders: No, it does not mean that. I hope, by the way, that we will
have an authorization passed by the Congress, and I am prepared to
support that authorization if it is tight enough so I am satisfied that
we do not get into a never-ending perpetual war in the Middle East. That
I will do everything I can to avoid. But the president, no president,
has the ability willy-nilly to be dropping bombs or using drones any
place he wants.
Hayes then intervened to press Sanders on whether he was actually
expressing a disagreement with current US government policy in relation
to air strikes and drone warfare:
Hayes: The current authorization which you cite in what Miguel just
quoted, which is the authorization to use military force after 9/11—that
has led to the kill list. This president—
literally, there is a kill list. There is a list of people that the
US government wants to kill, and it goes about doing it. Would you keep
the kill list as president of the United States?
Sanders: Look, terrorism is a very serious issue. There are people
out there who want to kill Americans, who want to attack this country,
and I think we have a lot of right to defend ourselves. I think as
Miguel said, though, it has to be done in a constitutional, legal way.
Hayes: Do you think what’s being done now is constitutional and legal?
Sanders: In general, I do, yes.
After obtaining confirmation that Sanders supports Obama’s drone
warfare as “constitutional and legal,” Hayes asked about Obama’s
announcement Monday morning that the Pentagon would greatly increase the
number of Special Forces deployed to Syria—an action that is illegal
under international law, since the Syrian government has not given
Washington permission to do so.
Sanders replied, “Here’s the bottom line. ISIS has got to be
destroyed.” While emphasizing that he favored the use of Muslim Arab
ground troops, rather than American troops, except as “advisers” and
“trainers,” Sanders reiterated, “We have had some success in the last
year or so putting ISIS on the defensive. We’ve got to continue that
effort.”
Sanders made similar comments during an interview Sunday on the CNN
program “State of the Union,” telling host Jake Tapper that he would
support legislation providing a new authorization for the use of
military force in Iraq and Syria, giving a new legal basis for the
military operations that now involve more than 5,000 US troops in the
two countries.
These statements do not represent a shift in the candidate’s
positions on war and violence, but their open, public repetition
underscores the political reality: Bernie Sanders is an imperialist
politician, a defender of the global interests of the very “millionaires
and billionaires” he claims to oppose.
The entire MSNBC exchange with Sanders can be viewed here, starting at 35 minutes and 20 seconds.
Thursday, September 3, 2015
Irish Water and the right of the people to rebel
Irish Water and the right of the people to rebel
Most Gardai I’ve met are nice people, and mean to protect
the people.
I got to know several when I moved here in 1997, and also
over the
years.
But, in every police force there are criminals wearing a
badge.
I could say the same about a number of policemen when I
lived in
Boston. But, I knew some slime who worked nights shaking down
pimps, and Black prostitutes, took their money as well as expecting
a blow
job. They took bribes, protected the mafia’s business while
harassing legitimate business owners.
There are people like that in every police force.
I am a Vietnam veteran and those in the police forces and
military
have a common defect. They ‘obey orders.’ And ‘don’t question
authority.’ Garda, like police and members of the military say they
don’t get
involved in politics, but they do; their job is to uphold the
vested,
criminal interests.Even if they never intended to.
What you see in this video is the Gardai (police) protecting
a
corporation that is despised by the overwhelming majority of the
Irish
population.
They are also protecting another class of criminals: the
political class,
or most politicians who do not work for the people, but for the
powerful
and unseen interests – people, banking families and other
people who
rule the country like it was their personal fiefdom. Not to
mention the
so-called ‘investors.’ Parasites.
Remember, what Malcolm X said is true: “Power never takes a
back
step only in the face of more power.” And, in every case of the
people
coming up against Garda, or even the army protecting the financial
interests that run the country behind the scenes we must never forget
that
a numerically inferior group can rewrite the destiny and course of
history.
Remember Michael Collins, Tom Barry and others.
What would they tell the people of today?
You have the power. Do not let them do this to you.
Remember, your numbers are far superior to them.
The Gardai are on the wrong side of the conflict with Irish Water.
Many years ago the Gardai arrested women, and eventually delivered
them into virtual slavery: the Catholic launderies!
Many years ago and even recently the An Garda Siochana avoided
treating members of the clergy who sexually abused, raped, buggered
and degraded children as criminals. Others, in the civilian population
would be arrested, and prosecuted, but the Catholic church was off-
limits.
In every case of developers bribing politicians to rezone land for the
benefit of their financial interests how many did they arrest and
prosecute?
In Iceland, they appoint a women to investigate the financial interests,
and the result was bankers and others ended up in jail!!
When the CIA was flying their planes into Shannon that ferried
innocent prisoners in chains and drugged and gagged, our politicians
repeatedly denied they knew, or that prisoners were aboard. But,
they refused to investigate and check the planes as is their duty under
international law.
Both the Army, and An Garda Siochana turned their heads.
When US troops were going through Shannon on their way to illegal
wars they were not stopped, nor ever checked.
Last week police at Vienna airport stopped a group of American
soldiers who appeared to have no weapons. They were catching a
connecting flight to the Ukraine. The police in Vienna airport searched
the soldier's luggage and found weapons, broken down so as to fit in
suitcases, so they could hide them.
Democracy also means the people ruling themselves and overturning
the established order and creating a new society that is more just, more
equal, and more democratic. Some say that is revolution. Yes, it is, and
it has been a feature of human societies that has existed, and will
continue until the human race has evolved further.
But, make no mistake about it, the people have every right to say
'NO' to the present order of the political class putting into place
measures to economically benefit the unseen, hidden financial interests
that rule this country no matter who is elected. History shows that real
change comes from the masses of people rising up and making revolution.
That's what the Irish War of Independence was.
The people have the right to mass and make the work of Irish Water
impossible to do.
The Irish people are already paying for the water. This is a company
set up so other domestic and foreign investors (scum) can take over
and charge the people and make a buck off it. There has been a big
push among the very wealthy to take over the control of water on
this planet and extort what they can out of people.
enriching themselves, and this must be resisted. Irish Water falls within
that, and 'IT IS RIGHT TO REBEL' and take control of our destiny away
from the banking and other interests.
VIVA LA REVOLUCION
9/11 was a False Flag attack - terrorism waged against the American people.
This is a response - a comment left to a video
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Brigitte Gabriel gives FANTASTIC answer to Muslim woman claiming all Muslims are portrayed badly » T https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry3NzkAOo3s
9/11 was a False Flag attack - terrorism waged against the American people. It unleashed a tidal wave of hatred that was deliberate on the part of America and the Zionist leaders of Israel.The tone she spoke to the Muslim woman was completely disrespectful, at best.
Hateful at worst.
She must have not read about the worst fundamentalism on the planet: Christian!
From the Crusades to today. And let's not forget there was relative peace in the
Middle East before the discovery of oil in the Middle East. Since then the leaders
of the U.S., UK, France carved up the region, installed puppet governments and waged
a terror campaign against the peoples of those countries.
There was peace in Palestine until the Zionists of Germany who struck a deal with
Hitler's regime (google the 'Transfer Agreement' - 'Haavara Agreement'). There was
even a medal struck with a Swastika on one side and a Star of David on the other side.
The Zionist ethnically cleansed the Palestinian people from their homes, lands, farms,
fields, businesses and put them in concentration camps like Gaza and the West Bank -
Indian Reservations of the Middle East.
Brigitte Gabriel sounds like a hateful and bigoted woman against Muslims. Let's get one thing straight right off the bat. No planes were hijacked on 9/11 by any so-called 'Muslim extremists.' It is a physical impossible for those commercial airlines to have brought down the WTC towers.
In 1947 a B-25 Mitchell bomber crashed in the 79th floor of the Empire State Building in Manhattan. The structural integrity of the building 'was not affected!'
The building was not imploded, though it appears charges went off at levels.
But, then reason we know it wasn't a classic implosion is because if the WTC towers
were imploded almost 1 million tons of steel and concrete would have come crashing
down, and the shock of that would have destroyed the 'bathtub' that kept out the Hudson river. The 'Bathtub' as it is called was built was built as a necessary prerequisite
to building the towers. It is a rectangle 'with sides about 980 and 520 feet, and at a depth of about seven stories below the surface.
That's why it wasn't an implosion. Firemen, and other experts were astonished at
the lack of debris that should have been on the ground. Almost everything was turned
to dust on it's way down. I've seen implosions, and that was extremely weird.
Where did 90%-98% of the steel and concrete go?
In all the history of steel and concrete buildings only two were destroyed by fire,
and that was on 9/11; the WTC towers!
In October 2004 a fire raged in a26 floors of a 56 story building in Caracas,
Venezuela for 17+ hours. The building did not collapse!
There have been horrendous fires in other tall structures:
- May 1988 a fire in the Interstate Bank Building in Los Angeles.
- Feb. 1991 eight floors were destroyed in the Meridian Plaza building
Philadelphia. the fire burned for 18 hours.
- Feb. 2005 a 'towering inferno' in Taiwan. Didn't collapse.
on and on and on.
How is it that some of the 9/11 planes were still in operation and with the
same tail numbers still in use years later.
9/11 was an act of terror from the inside. Another name for that is a 'False Flag'
attack used to provide a pretext for the US global wars.
The right wing neo-cons of the 'Project for the New American Century'
wrote in 'Rebuilding America's Defenses' pushing for global war that the
American people would not accept an aggressive war policy "...absent
some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a Pearl Harbor." Page 52.
In 1962 the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US military approved a plan to
in the words of 'Operation Northwoods'' "We could develop a Communist Cuban
terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even Washington..."
"We could blow up a ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba."
"Casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of indignation."
They talked about using drones.
9/11 was a new version of 'Operation Northwoods!'
Saturday, August 22, 2015
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