Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Love Her or Leave Her, this fucking means you, neocon!
Today we end the Love Her or Leave Her trilogy. My original Idea came from some stupid-ass rightwing blog, where there was a Norman Rockwell-esque little pic on the sidebar where a WWII era soilder with good genes was holding a coffee mug saying, 'hey liberals, how about supporting America for a change?' I thought (well, after I had navigated away, cuz sometimes I'm a bit slow on the uptake) 'Hey neoconned dipshit, how about pulling your head out of your ass and living in the real America.' When I was in school, the detention supervisor had this swell little one liner, 'either you are part of the problem, or part of the solution. Mr. Wolf, are you going to be part of the problem, or part of the solution.' That man had wisdom dispite the horrible trainwreck that was his career.
Recently in the news we have George's pet court ruling against whistleblowers. If you find that the government agency you we're once proud to be a part of is breaking the fucking law, and you decided that your morality cannot tolerate a fencepost up your ass any longer - tough fucking shit. Try to tell the people about it, the gov' can drop the hammer on ya. Speaking truth to power is now fucking illegal.
Or how about this fucking bullshit with the appointment of the same cock-knuckle who ran the NSA's phone banking operation to now head the CIA?!? What the fuck? How many mai-tai's did mom have to slug down nightly during pregnency for that to seem like a good Idea? 'Oh, but nobody has proved they were actually listening to anybody calls . . . if I did nothing wrong I have nothing to fear.' Fuck you. Fuck anybody who lives in a stupidity bubble that big. Obviously these fucks don't know a fucking thing about the civil rights movement and how the government used their secret services to lean on the leaders of said movement. If somebody wants to stand up for the rights of their people or anybody else, if somebody wants to raise awareness regarding an illegal war that's killing millions, if somebody wants to use religion for something other than merely cheerleading the fucking executive branch - those people get leaned on. Dozens of black leaders sit in prison on charges then contest, in some cases they have been killed. American Indian Movement leaders have felt the same pressure. John Lennon was dogged by the CIA from his first 'bed-in for peace.' Now, thanks to fucking worthless phone companies all too eager to hand over private information, the fucking government has the potential to draw up a flowchart of any adult American's social network. They will know who you call, and how long you talk to them. They will fucking know who you care about, when they want to put pressure on you, it will fucking hurt.
Of course, if you are a fucking mailbox skull, then your understanding of the Civil Rights Movement can be summarized as, 'things had gotten kinda bad, the blacks had some protests, we saw it on T.V. and then people changed.' When a person's understanding of history is similar to a children's bedtime story, they can't fucking interact with the present. Howard Zinn's famous quote, 'if a person does not understand history, they have no solid footing. A person can tell them anything and they will likely believe it.' (my paraphrase) Understanding the history of racism in this country fucking sucks. Read one fucking description of a lynching and you will be sick for weeks. Take a step back and comprehend how that individual violence was used systematically to keep an entire population down, and you have taken a step towards understanding Bush's crusade in Iraq.
Love her or fucking leave her. That's what they say. I say you don't have a right to open your fucking mouth until you have taken just a little bit of your precious time on this planet to read the other point of view. How stupid does somebody have to be to listen to Rush Limbaugh or one of his clones interpet current events for them? The fuckers all get the same talkingpoints handed to them along with their morning coffee and handful of pills. We don't exactly live in the Matrix (although sometimes I think that's a damn fine analogy.) Understanding the way the world works does not require a high I.Q. or a college degree. Take one of those 4.5 hours a night spent on primetime to start on the path. It's not easy. The difficulty does not lie in the elusiveness of the information - Wikipedia, Mother Jones, ect. - but in the shitty grind one's soul undergoes as too much of the comic-book Amercia is peeled away.
I feel deeply for the poor soul who's been blogging for Bush for the last five years. How bad must one feel when they finally realize how shallow their world was?
Yet it is satisfying to feel that you understand how the world works. Comic book America is great for kids, but insufficient for citizens. Our greatest and bravest generation didn't get turned into fucking hamburger on the beaches of France, or some worthless little island in the Pacific, so that this generation can feel about America the way Hitler Youth felt about Germany. Time to have an adults understanding of the world. Time to be a citizen.
If you truly love your country you would want to understand her, not blindly support whatever she does in the world. If you love a woman who has a chemical addiction or a problem with the credit cards, do you just blindly support her? Or do you seek to understand the problem and get her help?
This is not a 'liberal' vs. 'conservative' thing. It's not a 'republican' vs. a 'democratic' thing. The behavior of institutions of power has changed little since Machievelli wrote 'The Prince.' Just like that scene in Matrix II that didn't make any sense at the end, some debate and dissent in figured into the system to diffuse those who would seek real change.
Just look at the slave media and how they cover the Iraqi Crusade. To steal Chomsky's insight, the corporate media covers this war the way a high school newspaper covers the football team's season. There might be some debate as to who to put in as QB, or how to tighten up the defense, but the notion that the home team should be winning is just taken for granted. How many voices in the mainstream press ever ask if we should win in Iraq? Was the war legal? No. Was the information that advertising firms used to 'sell' the public on the war legitimate? No. Are we making Iraq a better place than it was under Saddam? Un-fucking-believably, the answer is no. Perhaps christians with guns on the streets of a holy muslim city can never make the world a better place.
We are citizens, not soldiers. The troops over there do not have access to the information that we do. That is why over 80% still think that Saddam was responsible for 9/11 and that's why we invaded his country. A soldier's duty is to follow orders and kill. A citizen's duty is to have some informed say in when and who those soldiers kill. A soldier's place is not to question why . . . a citizen's fucking job is!
The fact that 80% of our troops are still afflicted by a propaganda machine that 'motivates' them with mistruths is a fucking travesty of democracy and freedom.
I'm not always right, you don't have to always agree with me. But their is a greater understanding to how the world works than anybody is going to force you to memorize in highschool or even 95% of university experience. Why would they?
Yo neoconned bitch, the love of country is not blind love.
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i think i love you....
besides that..yeah...yeah...yeah..wish i had said it...
best speach i have read since i started blogging...may the Goddess bless you...jac
besides that..yeah...yeah...yeah..wish i had said it...
best speach i have read since i started blogging...may the Goddess bless you...jac
"I say you don't have a right to open your fucking mouth until you have taken just a little bit of your precious time on this planet to read the other point of view".
Correct.....I think this is what many lack, that understanding of the other. One of the reasons why I will leave the army this year.
Well said man.....
Correct.....I think this is what many lack, that understanding of the other. One of the reasons why I will leave the army this year.
Well said man.....
I always try not to blog angry. When I want to see angry I come to your site. I am a strong believer in 1) looking at all sides of a story, and 2) what we choose to believe or not believe is a good example of my "relative reality" theory. Good series of rants. I don't believe you, but your opinion is well worth reading. Keep up the good work.
It is almost beyond comprehension how things could have gotten this bad, this quickly. We should all be pissed as hell about where this country's heading, and pull her back from the oblivion she is racing towards.
It would be extremely interesting to know how the folks bloging for W. are doing today? Is there any kind of moral awakening happening among them and has there been a sizabel reduction in numbers? Or is it (horror of horrors) going on undiminished and on the course despite of everything?
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: Saturday, June 03, 2006 4:59:00 AM
: Saturday, June 03, 2006 4:59:00 AM
I'd love to find some conservative bloggers who still try to defend W with rational arguements. Most of them are either obviously just posting the dejecta that Rush or Mike Savage has put into their brain that afternoon, or they are paid to provide the internet with 'conservative content.'
The former has a long journey to grow up and see beyond tiny world of black and white that right wing propaganda provides. The latter have decided to leave their morality at the door. If they can make a buck they'll sell anything- cigarettes, fatty fast foods, or an ideology of racism and hate.
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The former has a long journey to grow up and see beyond tiny world of black and white that right wing propaganda provides. The latter have decided to leave their morality at the door. If they can make a buck they'll sell anything- cigarettes, fatty fast foods, or an ideology of racism and hate.
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