And The Band Played On
By Ernest Stewart
Evolution, revolution, gun control, sound of soul.
Shooting rockets to the moon, kids growing up too soon.
Politicians say more taxes will solve everything.
And the band played on.
Ball Of Confusion ~~~ The Temptations
"Obama is saying so long to the old guard of the religious right, and Warren's selection is a nod toward the future." ~~~ Randall Balmer
Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
~~~ 18 U.S.C. § 1385. ~ Use of Army and Air Force as posse Comitatus ~~~
Apparently the Zionazis who control Palestine and all three branches of US political life, i.e., the House, the Senate and the Fuhrer Bunker, found there were still a few un-murdered children who had yet to starve to death or die from lack of medicine and so decided to finish them off by bombing everything in sight in the ghetto of Gaza.
This war crime and mass murder was, of course, blamed on the victims. How dare they not die and give up this little strip of bloody sand to the Israeli co-prosperity sphere like good little slaves? How dare they fight back against their 60 year-long genocide with bottle rockets and such?
Of course, everyone outside of Washington and Tel Aviv are beating their chests and calling for both sides to stand down but, as we all know, talk is cheap and no one will do a thing. Egypt, of course, is busy keeping their border closed from Gaza and even though a few managed to break out of the trap, Cairo is doing their Jewish masters' biding like the good little death camp guards that they are. The UN is totally worthless. You may recall that it was the UN that created Israel with genocide in the first place! They won't lift a finger to stop it, not a finger!
Bush and Obama's spin masters are backing these war crimes and crimes against humanity to the hilt like the good little 5th columnist traitors that they are. Like Bush yelling 911 every time he got caught committing a crime, Tel Aviv is mumbling about their holocaust, wa wa wa. Of course, I, too, as a lad, bought the bullshit that Hitler killed the Jews because he thought they were inferior. I've since come to the conclusion that Hitler killed the Jews because he knew they were competition! We, of course, got into the war because Hitler wanted to rule the world, which is our job!
The Zionazis are just doing what we taught them to do; destroy the natives and steal everything not nailed down. Perhaps they'll let a few score Palestinians remain alive to someday build casinos? Meanwhile your tax dollars continue to flow to monsters killing innocents and covering your hands in the blood of the children. Try as you might, America, it won't wash off!
In Other News
The centralist drone has now reached ear-splitting decibels. The Obama apologists are out in force from each new pick for his cabinet to his inaugural ceremonial disaster. My current favorite is that it was a small mistake picking Rick Warren, just an oversight because of his busy days. But, of course, nothing could be farther from the truth.
Warren was chosen to send a message, just as Donnie (pray the gay away) McClurkin was during the run up to the election. Obama is playing the bigotry card to his base. Black Protestants are more closely aligned with white evangelicals on gay marriage and same sex civil unions than any other social issue. Barry's made gays the new niggers, just the latest victims of the age old American tradition that has made Catholics, Jews, Blacks, Italians, Irish, Chinese and Indians the low man on the totem pole from time to time! And who to choose to get that message across but Warren who campaigned long and hard for Prop 8!
Barry was going to reach out and make everyone inclusive but his choices are far from inclusive. He's been reaching out to everyone except the left. Funny thing that, eh? Not really, as Barry isn't even a liberal but just played one on TV during the election. For example, name one leftist that he's reached out to? Name one! He could have made Al Gore head of the EPA, Nobel prize winning Al Gore, but instead chooses a right of center EPA director from New Jersey. Lisa P. Jackson is a woman with little experience as an EPA director. I wonder how that bodes for the environment?
He could have nominated Paul Krugman as Treasury Secretary, a left of center economist, also a Nobel Prize winner, but instead we get another bailout banker from the right, Timothy Geithner, who is somewhat responsible for our current financial mess. The list goes on and on.
The upshot is that Obama's apologists certainly have their work cut out for them. I'd clear my calendar, if I were they as the next four years are going to be very busy indeed. Meanwhile, as Obama genuflects to his Zionazi masters, the people's candidate, Cynthia McKinney, is off to Gaza, at great risk to life and limb, to help the Palestinians in their time of need.
UPDATE: An Israeli navy ship rammed the supply ship Dignity that Cindy was on trying to bring medical supplies to Gaza. The ship was forced to make for the Lebanese port of Tyre before it sank. McKinney was slated to travel by car to Beirut where she was expected to conducted media interviews and meet with Lebanese government officials, said Paul Larudee, a co-founder of the California-based Free Gaza group. The Dignity is undergoing repairs in Tyre.
And Finally
You may remember a few weeks ago in issue 404 when I reported on the illegal actions of the Marine Corps Air and Ground Combat Center Provost Marshal and California Highway Patrol, Morongo office which were running police check lanes together out on highway 62? Now are you hip to a U.S. Army War College report that warns an economic crisis in the United States could lead to massive civil unrest and the need to call on the military to restore order. And I bet you thought those new Happy Camps were for the Mexicans, huh?
Retired Army Lt. Col. Nathan Freir wrote the report "Known Unknowns: Unconventional Strategic Shocks in Defense Strategy Development," which the Army think tank in Carlisle, Pa., recently released.
Colonel Nate says, "Widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities ... to defend basic domestic order and human security, in case of unforeseen economic collapse, pervasive public health emergencies, and catastrophic natural and human disasters," among other possible crises.
The report also suggests the new (Barack Obama) administration could face a "strategic shock" within the first eight months in office. Does that sound off any alarm bells in your noggin?
You may recall that earlier this year I reported that, Pentagon officials said as many as 20,000 soldiers under the U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) will be trained within the next three years to work with civilian law enforcement in homeland security. You may also recall that all of this is treason as it is in direct violation of Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which, no thanks to Smirky, is still a federal law!
If troops are needed, then state governors have the ability to call up National Guard units to assist in an emergency.
As Charles Boehmer, political science professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, said about this plan, "The military was not called out during the Great Depression, and I don't think our economic problems are as bad as they were then."
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Mass Murder And Mayhem In The Ghetto
By Ernest Stewart
"Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich." --- Peter Ustinov
And they also threw this in my face, they said...
Anyway
You know good well
That It would be beyond the will of GOD... God... god...
And the grace of the King
Grace of the King
1983... (A Merman I Should Turn To Be) ~~~ Jimi Hendrix
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. ~~~ Amendment V to the US Constitution
I see there another round of mass murder, war crimes and crimes against humanity going down in Palestine. Soon Israel may rival the numbers of Nazi Germany's death camp genocide. Oh, and lets make one thing clear, this has absolutely nothing to do with Hamas and their bottle rockets. Far more Israelis die in auto accidents and Israeli-on-Israeli crimes daily than have been killed by Hamas in total!
This is all about two interlocking things:
One: Endless War!
I've said it on many occasions and I'll say it again. Israel could not exist without a new war, a new enemy or, in a pinch like today, an old enemy. The invasion and mass murder of the helpless residents of the Gaza ghetto will guarantee a whole new crop of "terrorists" for future wars. It's not about getting them to stop (and they could with sincere peace talks). It's about getting them to keep firing those same ineffective rockets! Remember Israel started this round. Before a single bottle rocket flew, they sealed the border and cut off all normal supplies, both of which are war crimes. Do Jews call the fighters inside the Warsaw ghetto terrorists for resisting the Germans? They do not. Funny thing that, eh? Since before it's founding in 1948 Israel has been stealing everything in sight and murdering innocent men, women and children by the tens of thousands in a war that has continued to this day. Without this constant siege mentality Israel would soon crumble to dust with most Israelis moving elsewhere. Their whole economy is based on a constant state of war. Their armaments industry dwarfs all other Israeli businesses combined! It's a self-perpetuating machine, just like the one Ike warned us about! I wonder if we taught them or they taught us? America, too, is in an endless war and the armament industry is our largest employer. Which came first folks, the chicken or the egg? Of course, as nations, we did. Lincoln warned us in 1864...
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."
Two: Endless expansion.
America Jr. has been in a constant state of expansion since before it's founding and that expansion has never stopped. Just like us. You might say that the US stopped expanding in 1898 or maybe 1960 but that is not the case. We have troops at over 860 overseas military bases in almost sixty countries and separate territories! The sun never sets on the American Empire; eat your heart out Great Britain!
Israel has been taking other peoples' land since before the UN got a bright idea about how to effect its own final solution. They did this by stealing some land from Jordon and Egypt and giving it to the their bankers, the Rothschilds! Their two state solution was a joke from the start, as it is to this day. There will be no State of Palestine, just Israel. And need I mention, no Palestinians, either!
In Other News
Remember all of those rat-wing uber-monkeys that kept chanting that Barry was a Muslim and, if elected, would sell us all down the road to Allah? Remember? You might also recall that I said Barry was bought, paid for and an Israeli fifth columnist because, as soon as he was nominated, he ran directly to AIPAC to genuflect before them like the weasel that he is. Lately whenever asked about the war crimes being committed in the Gaza ghetto we get this little song and dance...
"President-elect Obama is closely monitoring global events, including the situation in Gaza, but there is one president at a time," said Brooke Anderson, Obama spinmaster.
Seems like if he were the Muslim Mullah that the right claimed he would have something to say, eh?
Also in the news was old Bill Richardson, one of the more corrupt Demoncrats (which is really saying something), who has been caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Seems Bill got caught taking a 10% kickback, much like the Catholic Church from a California contractor working for Bill's "GRIP" aka "Governor Richardson's Investment Partnership" scam.
If there was going to be any change Barry's flunkies would have looked elsewhere for a Secretary of Commerce candidate as Bill has all that other baggage from working for "Slick Willie" and "Dr. Strangelove" and that should have set off all sorts of warning sirens. Of course they knew, but since it's going to be business as usual, so what?
Speaking of business as usual, Barry picked Leon Panetta to head the CIA. You'll remember that Leon was "Slick Willie's" chief of staff and has absolutely no experience as a spy. Can you hear a future "Heck of a job Leon?" If there was a drop of justice in Obama, he'd have chosen Valerie Plame!
Sure, Barry was the lesser of two evils, but just barely. As Neil Young once said about Papa Smirk, "We got a kinder, gentler, Machine gun hand." Oh, and have no fear, Barry will speak out on the Gaza ghetto just as soon as Israel slaughters enough innocents and pulls out. And he gets the okay from AIPAC!
And Finally
Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? When did it become guilty until proven innocent? It seems to have started with the Pee test? A test to find marijuana use as it can hardly find anything else. Only pot stays in the system more than a day or two. In addition, we can't have all those free thinkers employed can we? At least with pee tests there are a thousand ways of foiling them!
Unlike politics where you are tried and convicted in the rat-wing owned press. Whether or not Rod Blagojevich is guilty for soliciting bribes is neither here nor there at present. I have no doubt that he's as guilty as sin, but that fact hasn't been established. As far as we know, Rod was attacked for being a Democrat by Bush's Nazi regime. At this point Rod is as innocent as a newborn babe. Legally that is.
Of course, Rethuglican lackeys on both sides of the aisle have refused to seat Rod's appointment for Barry's seat. Rod's appointment, former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris, is qualified, wasn't involved in Rod's shenanigans and should have been seated on Tuesday. However, as we've seen in the past, the law and the Senate are two different things! Now after the brouhaha stirred up by the Dems refusing to seat the only black in the Senate has swept across "Foggy Bottom" they're starting to backpedal and have second thoughts about this little act of treason. They now think something can be worked out!