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The leader is incompetent and totally corrupt. The elected representatives sit on their fucking hands and do nothing, compliant and submissive. Sound familiar?

I’m talking about what’s going on in Thailand, not Americana.

The salient difference is that the people of America are doing little, to nothing, to exercise their constitutional rights and take back the government. When your elected representatives do nothing to check outrageous and flagrant violations of constitutional and civil law by the executive, it’s time for the people to take over. There is no alternative.

My wish is that your average American would closely watch the unfolding events in Thailand, and fucking learn how to do this.

Thailand has been stuck with a corrupt and inept Prime Minister, Samak, for some time now. He is best buddies with a former Prime Minister, Taksin, who was disgraced, prosecuted, and fled the country in fear years ago. Samak is Taksin’s boy, and does his bidding. The people have crossed the line of no return with this idiot.

Let’s do a quick synopsis of the people’s reaction and, hopefully, we can fucking learn how to get our government back and kick the bastards out (we seem to have forgotten how to do that, and no, it’s not too late).

Thousands of fed up citizenry recently stormed the houses of government and refuse to leave until Samak does. Hundreds of train employees, in sympathy, have been calling in sick — shutting down the railways! The police move in on the PAD (People’s Alliance for Democracy) demonstrators around the houses of government. They come equipped with batons and shields. They start beating the demonstrators but, since the PAD folks have resisted with a human wall as a shield, the pigs cannot break through to the leadership to presumably arrest them.

The pigs then surround the demonstrators and cut off their food and water supply. Eventually, seeing a no-win situation, the cops regroup in a nearby location later that afternoon. The PAD leaders then immediately call for the people to (and I absolutely love this part) surround the cops and cut off their food and water supply. Checkmate.

The demonstrations have now spread in reaction to the state violence against peacefully demonstrating people. Three major airports in the south have been closed down because people have surrounded them and allowed no transportation in or out. The railways are still shut down. The head of the electrical power generating authority in Thailand has said that power will be cut if the state-sponsored violence continues. The head of the major air carrier, Thai Airways, has said that all employees are free to take “sick time” if they want to support the PAD.

Now this is how you get your fucking government back, people. It’s called…action. Not snappy little letters to the editor, not head shaking, not the ever-useless, “Somebody should do something.” It’s simple and direct action: the peaceful yet unrelenting will of the people to take charge of their government.

Most people in this country are completely fucking clueless when it comes to what to do to redress the corruption and lawlessness of the Bush administration.

Turn to Thailand. Learn how to do it.

Hats off to the city manager of Golden, Colorado, one Mike Bestor, for saving us from the nightmare of knowledge.

At a recent city council meeting, a bunch of Stupid People showed up (my suspicion is that this probably happens all the time). Apparently, Al-Jazeera had been invited to broadcast from the city manager’s freaking backyard, no less, on the final day of the Democratic National Convention. They even planned a barbecue. Next thing you know, Attack of the Stupid People.

The Stupid People shuffle up to the microphone, knuckles dragging, complaining that the mere presence of Al-Jazeera would be disrespectful to veterans and active U.S. soldiers. Holy fuck. The city manager, in a “Yikes! If I tell the Stupid People they’re being complete dumbfucks, I might not get re-elected” fit of panic, totally caves. He even went the further ball-swallowing step of apologizing. Apologizing to…Stupid People. Imagine the degradation.

While living in the Middle East recently, Al-Jazeera was my preferred source of news. Back in Americana, I miss being able to watch it. It is fair and balanced to a degree not seen on, well, obviously FOX, but also MSNBC, CNN, or any of the other major “news” media we are allowed to watch here. And do be aware of that. We are not allowed to watch Al-Jazeera here.

Al-Jazeera presents professional and well-reported news — from around the world. It researches stories well, and some of their journalistic presentations show an angle that we are not allowed to think about here. It might make us…well, think, or something, I guess.

In the end, the Stupid People are correct. News shows that make us think, that explore issues from different angles, make us a smarter citizenry — a people who are more easily able to make thoughtful critical evaluations. And that is bad. Because then, I guess, we would not be Stupid People, like them. We in Americana simply cannot afford to get smarter, for if we knew the true extent of the corruption of our government, its illegal and unethical policies around the world, revolution would boil — over night. And how messy would that be? Too messy, that’s the anwer.

No. We need to stay stupid. It’s so much…calmer. So thank you again, Manager Bestor. We almost got smarter, but you knew better. Fuck, that was close.

Good night, Americana, and sweet dreams.

McSame is really starting to exhibit signs of Alzheimer’s Disease. There can be no other explanation.

In his latest memory failure, a reporter asked him what kind of car he drove. Yet again, the potential next president of Americana — can’t remember.

Let’s quickly summarize his most recent memory failures (flagrantly stolen from the Daily Kos).

Q: What kind of car do you have?
A: Ask my aide

Q: How many houses do you have?
A: My staff will have to get back to you.

Q: What is your position on abortion?
A: I’ll have to check with my staff on my position

Q: Should health plans cover viagra but not birth control?
A: Uh, I don’t know how I voted

The truly awesome thing about all this is that there are millions and millions of Americanans who think he’d be a great president. Fuck’s wrong with you people?

John McCain will be exactly the same kind of leader as Chance was in “Being There”, played by Peter Sellers in 1979. For those of you even playing with the idea of voting for McCain, fucking watch Being There, and substitute McCain for Seller’s character, Chance. The fit is amazing. The only difference is that Chance didn’t have Alzheimer’s Disease. I’m now convinced that McCain does!

I hate the fucking Olympics

The F.B.I. will get new powers to spy on you - without even needing an excuse, if our illustrious “Justice” Department’s Mukasey has his way. What could possibly go wrong with this? Never mind the fact that it’s just one more trashing of the Constitution which the Bush administration has become so fond of.

We are now well and truly on our way to fascism.

And don’t make the mistake of thinking that Congress will come to the rescue. Our panty-waste “representatives” are insisting on “hearings” on this issue. Oooooo. That ought to do it. Look how they’ve responded in the past when those under subpoena simply don’t bother to show up. What’s happened to them? Nothing, that’s what. And they will surely do nothing this time. They’ll have their showboat hearings, maybe whip off a couple of snappy letters in token protest, then…nothing.

And Mukasey won’t even release to Congress the full details of the sweeping new powers he will bestow on the F.B.I. Fascinating - the details of their expanded spying powers are a secret.

It’s revolution time. Violent and bloody or otherwise, it is revolution time. It is time to take down the houses of government, by any means.

I’ve thought long and hard about how much “trouble” I’d get into if I espoused on this blog the killing of Bush, Cheney, Pelosi, and Harry Reid (along with so many others). There’s a solid block of political correctness that says we should never never ever promote violence on a blog - of any kind. Curious, that.

Luckily, the internet and blogs were not invented in Thomas Jefferson’s day. If so, he’d of gotten into a shitload of trouble for saying stuff like, “The tree of democracy must be regularly watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots,” or something to that effect. Bad, Tommy. Bad, Tommy.

The sad truth is that we are now at that point. There is no one to come to our rescue, but us. Not Congress, not the Supreme Court, not the “Justice” Department, not the executive branch, or the C.I.A. or F.B.I., or local police. There’s no one left but us to take back our rights and fight for what’s right.

And there are no legal, peaceful means by which this can be effected, either. There is nothing left but to take up arms against the government - as Thomas Jefferson demanded. And not that it makes a goddam fucking difference anymore, but the Constitution of the United States also provides for the overthrow of the government.

Can I get in “trouble” for siding with the Constitution and Thomas Jefferson? Fucking A right, I can. Do I give a shit. Fuck no.

Bring on the revolution.

I don’t give a fuck about the Olympics. Can I just say that?

I don’t give a fuck who’s the fastest swimmer. I don’t give a fuck who’s the fastest runner. I don’t give a fuck if the 100 meter dash dork dissed the other runners. I don’t give a fuck if the Chinese gymnasts compete in diapers ’cause they’re 5 fucking years old or some shit.

I don’t give a fuck.

For as long as I can remember, the conditioned response to this part of the world was - always - Israel is surrounded by hostile neighbors hell bent on destroying it. I, for one, never fell for that and started reading. A great book I started with was Blaming the Victims — a compilation of articles edited by Edward Said.

This idea that Israel is surrounded by hostile neighbors is one of the larger steaming piles of dog shit lies that major media shove down our unsuspecting throats.

Finally, IfAmericansKnew.com has put together some numbers for us all to ruminate over (September, 2000 until July, 2008).

Number of Children Killed

• Israel: 123
• Palestine: 1,040

Total Killed

• Israel: 1,057
• Palestine: 4,862

Total Injuries

• Israel: 8,341
• Palestine: 32,744

U.S. Foreign Aid (per day)

• Israel: about 7 million dollars, although the arrangements between the U.S. and Israel are extremely serpentine and not very transparent, and this figure is probably, in reality, much larger.
• Palestine: 300,000 dollars.

U.N. Resolutions Against

• Israel: 65
• Palestine: zero

Political Prisoners and Detainees

• Palestinians held by Israel: 10,756
• Israelis held by Palestine: 1

Home Demolitions

• Israeli homes demolished: zero
• Palestinian homes demolished: 18,147

Who’s the hostile neighbor? How do you spell terrorism again?

Israel is a terrorist state, run by terrorists. The first recorded terrorist cells in modern history were Zionist — the Irgun and the Stern Gang. The very first hijacking of an airliner was pulled off by Israelis, not Arabs.

Never again should we fall prey to the lying Israeli/Zionist propaganda that, “They’re trying to destroy us.” We know better.

I found these videos on The Daily Kos. They cannot be missed. They give you an insight into what life is really like in Baghdad these days, not what the pandering sycophants of major “media” want you to believe.

These videos will never be aired on CNN, BBC, NBC, FOX (naturally), or any of the other masters of news. You cannot miss these. They must be watched.

They can also be viewed on YouTube

I’d post them here, but my dumb blog host servers won’t save the freaking embed code! Sheeeeeeesh, fellas!!

Thinking of crossing the U.S. border with a laptop? Think again. The DHS, ever vigilant protectors of our freedom and very way of life(!), have instituted some new policies. Oh joy.

Federal agent Storm Troopers have now given themselves the right to…

• Seize anyone’s laptop, regardless of whether there is any probable cause or not — haphazard seizures are permitted.
• Your seized laptop can, at the discretion of the Storm Troopers, be taken off-site, to an unnamed location.
• It can be kept there as long as they want it.
• A copy of your laptop’s contents can be shared with basically anyone they want to share it with, and that includes other federal agencies and (here’s the best part) third party private entities for translation, data decryption, or anything else they want.

These latest revelations from our fascist overlords were released by two DHS agencies, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on July 16th.

Sen. Russel Feingold (D-Wis), one of the few remaining members of Congress with any balls to fight the fascists, stated “The policies . . . are truly alarming.” He’s looking into just what in the hell the Storm Troopers are doing at the borders and wants to introduce legislation that would actually constrain the pigs to having probable cause before seizure, as well as prohibit any profiling based on race, religion, or national origin.

What I find endlessly amazing about this is that…doesn’t the Constitution of the United States guarantee this — already? I thought probable cause and a court order were already required by the Constitution before surveillance or seizure. What did I miss?

It’s a measure of how far down the fascism road this fucked up country has gone when we have to pass laws that say the same thing as the Constitution. It’s also pretty spineless of Congress. They don’t need to pass yet more laws. All they have to do is, well…the obvious — declare the DHS policies in violation of the Constitution and inform the public that they should not give up their laptops without a court order.

It’s already the law. But as with so much else these days, that doesn’t seem to matter.

To reiterate a previous post, according to a recent Zogby poll — twenty percent of Americans are ready to secede from the Union! And almost fifty percent feel that the American system of government is broken and cannot be fixed! Those are nothing short of mind-blowing results.

It is time for a revolution in this country. It is time to reinvent this democracy. The rot is systemic when you cannot tell where Lockheed Martin ends and the federal government begins. (By the way, the motto of Lockheed Martin is “We never forget who we’re working for.”)

I used to get some kind of perverse pleasure out of watching these police video shows on TV. No longer. The “perps” usually end up being poor folks — black and white. Poor, hapless, desperate people who got fucked up in one way or the other before the pigs descended on their shit. And yes, they are pigs. Most police are fucking pigs. They cannot be trusted. They are not there to help you. And they, most certainly, are not there to “serve” you. They are there to bust your fucking ass and put you away.

In the shows, a video crew follows the pigs around to record the hapless writhing of the perps. Granted, some of them are truly bad folks who need to be put away. Many (most?) of them are just poor, fucked up folks who made a bad decision. Enter the pigs.

The thing I see over and over again is people who, after they’ve been read their “rights”, who simply cannot shut the fuck up.

Understand this — the pigs are well versed in their powers of intimidation. They understand quite well that when they pull over a car or whatever, the occupants are most likely scared — whether or not they’ve done anything wrong. The pig with the mirrored sunglasses and skin tight uniform, bristling with pistol and taser, most definitely has the upper hand in terms of fear factor.

They are fully cognizant of this. They are made aware of and trained in their power of intimidation. And they fucking work it.

The pigs are adept at getting information out of you when you’re under arrest — the probing, the innocuous questions, the “friendly” attitude (”I just want to help you.”). They are liars. They are out to put you away forever, if they can.

My advice: shut the fuck up. Say nothing. NOTHING. Say nothing to the pigs. They are not there to help you or make things easier for you. Shut the fuck up.

There is absolutely nothing you will ever say to the fuckpigs that will help your case — ever. It may only hurt your case. So SHUT THE FUCK UP.