As you said we are at a point in history and technology that is going to end with either the general population having the freedom to communicate globally allowing us to improve conditions for everyone everywhere, including the wealthy, or the wealthy elites controlling access to international communication and crippling global commerce.

The people clinging to their wealth and control, are dinosaurs. The evidence is plain to see in the way their corporations refuse to accept the new models of commerce created by the free flow of information. Instead of exploiting net neutrality and the free flow of information, they attempt to control access and content even to their own detriment.

Their belief in military force, monitoring communications, incarceration, and outright violence and oppression are ways they prove they do not understand the unique opportunities of our age. Allowing people to be free, educated, healthy, and prosperous will improve everyone’s lives including their own. Police states are not cost effective and hurt productivity.

You know, she might not be pregnant and trying to blow your truck transport up, yada yada yada. 

It is old school psychopathology 1o1. 

Say what you wish to maintain the illusion of innocence, but the truth remains, when we decide to stop the madness it will stop. All we need do is sit down and refuse to stand. Until then we are all covered in blood.

Not until more people are willing to die than comply will things change. This is why OWS has been so ineffectual.

We must all come to the simple understanding that we must be willing to starve to death before eating the scraps we currently fight over every day. Whatever it is so many think they’re doing to fight the man is meaningless except for the dangerous illusion it allows them to maintain.

If an armored car filled with armed Middle Eastern militants drove down an American street crashing into people, firing indiscriminately into crowds, and running people down, what word do you suppose we’d use to describe that?

Give it a generation or two and whatever name its given will probably be used to market sneakers.

http://boingboing.net/2011/02/24/report-army-deployed.html

The apples don’t always fall far from the tree…

Offer not valid for brown people with oil.

P.S. The only fervor I have allowed myself, in recent memory, was supporting Obama, who I begrudgingly continue to support.

The question is, what are we doing to try and prevent it from happening again? Here in Australia, we voted out the guy who took us to war in Iraq, just like you did. What did your guy do? He got us mostly Out of Iraq, started the process of leaving Afganistan, and when Libya happened,took a path that included the EU and the people on the ground (shades of WWII?).

We voted out the leaders who took us to the last wars, and hopefully we’ll continue to learn our lessons and elect better leaders. We cannot prevent our countries from making mistakes, however we Can fight to force our leaders to remember those mistakes and learn from them, and push our fellow citizens to remember, and learn.

 Not everybody wanted these wars so please don’t use “we” too much. I’m sorry if you got caught up in the fervor and supported it when you did but please don’t speak for everyone.

Fortunately Mayor Bill White made rick Perry his bitch and got us movable barriers and contraflow signals.We got through Ike just fine, and people actually followed the “shelter in place” orders so that people who really did need to evacuate could get away.

But why couldn’t White make Perry his his bitch again in the last governor’s election?

So Backwater never came. Sad, really. I had all these cans of spray paint saved up.

I suspect that letting Uncle Sam help you out is a great deal better for shareholder value.

UCMJ has nothing because they aren’t military. The locals have nothing because CPA Order 17 says exactly that. US civil or criminal courts don’t have jurisdiction because it didn’t happen over here. 

Rest assured, though, all the entities that did have jurisdiction conducted a thorough investigation.

So, no, not at all, I have it exactly as it is; animals only eat the food thrown their way.

Don’t hate these guys for wanting to stay alive. Hate the people that placed these vicious, soulless bastards in a situation where this type of behavior is absolutely predictable.

Then I saw this. If this is what was captured on video, my stomach sinks to imagine what was done when the cameras weren’t around.

If an armored car filled with armed Middle Eastern militants drove down an American street crashing into people, firing indiscriminately into crowds, and running people down, what word do you suppose we’d use to describe that?

Also, “We’re bringing them FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY!”