Also problematic, the barbaric Teutons failed to “coventrate” with equal efficacy anywhere else. But the Allies sure did. By night and by day, the UK and US bombers respectively “coventrated” the German and Hungarian homelands, with all the more ferocity because they were giving the Nazis a taste of their own medicine. Ho ho.

The bombing of Coventry was an enormous tragedy, and might have been prevented had Churchill chosen to risk betraying that the Brits had long been intercepting Germany’s secret ciphers. Allowing Coventry to fall victim without forewarning was one of the high prices of keeping ULTRA a secret, but Hitler’s choice to bomb the historic Coventry Cathedral was to provoke much enmity with the English public. Britain’s propaganda ministry was able to compound the resentment against the Germans for the devastation of Coventry portraying the enemy as not just Philistine, but Bombast.

Of course more German cities suffered under the 24-hour US-UK tag-team bombing raids, many incurring orders of magnitude greater casualties than the 600 dead of Coventry. Notable among the Axis cities was the medieval capital of Dresden which possessed not one legitimate military target. No mention of those victims in the History Channel’s records of military misdeeds, meanwhile propagandist Newscorp property HarperCollins is weaving the coventriert detail for revisionist Dresden-deniers.

America’s bombing methods would later be described minus geographical references, as simple carpet bombing.

The History Channel is part of the A&E network, co-owed by warmongers Disney, Hearst and NBC/GE. Their mention of “coventrate” came in a program about Lao Tsu’s Art of War, as his military edicts might have predicted, Nostradamus-like, the outcome of the Viet Nam War. Here’s an example of the program’s perspective:

The Vietcong lost the public support of many Vietnamese when they executed thousands of South Vietnamese under the employ of the US.

Meanwhile the American cause lost its public support when the US public caught sight of photographs of US war casualties.

Sound like a fair comparison? The Vietnamese weren’t demoralized by the millions killed in their midst, while the antiwar movement was not galvanized by the revelations of US atrocities? Right.

That would be “property taken away from the original owners, at gunpoint and at Public Expense.” And any of the Original Owners who objected slaughtered. Also any people who didn’t exactly voice an objection to this Corporate Welfare giveaway of their tribal lands would be slaughtered as well, just because it made the killers feel good to do it. Those would be the ones who were not yet able to speak because they were babies.

The Elite Group didn’t even agree with each other, not one single facet of the Revolution or the formation of the U.S. government and laws was unanimous. NOT ONE. Even the right to free speech, opposed by such “Freedom loving libertarians” as John Adams, who had people jailed for any criticism of his Regime. He threatened to jail his fellow Revolutionaries like Hamilton and Jefferson as well. Not that Hamilton and Jefferson agreed much on anything.

The Bill of Rights, in fact, voted down by the majority at the Constitutional Convention. The constitution sans a declaration of Rights was rejected by the People. That’s why they’re the first ten Amendments.

People who were not property owners, not white or not male, even if they had Fought In The Revolution, actually, unlike the Adams family or Revere or Jefferson, who didn’t go to the battles and take arms against the British soldiers, forbidden to vote.

There was a big ol’ stinky issue over Freedom of Religion, to be sure. The Original Intent crowd say that the Very Narrowly Defined Small Group of Rich White Non-Combatants “founding fathers” (Praise Founding Fathers from whom all wisdom flows, praise them all creatures here below, praise them above ye heav’nly host, Praise Washington, Adams and all their ghosts) had quite a lot of Deists in their midst. As in, Not Christian. That would raise the ire of many of Today’s Worshippers of the Founding Fathers Myth.

In fact it does. We hold these truths to be self evident, that All Men except for debtors, tenants, Indians, blacks, apprentices or bondservants, and of course excluding the WOmen Are created Equal but some are more Equal than others and endowed by their Creator who half of the signatories to this document wouldn’t say was Jehovah or that He had anything to do with Christ with certain inalienable rights unless the Founding Fathers held them as slaves, or had liens on outstanding debts owed, which pretty much worked out to be “slavery” and among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness unless, of course, the Almighty Founding Fathers or their anointed replacements over the century decided otherwise. In which case you can F.O.A.D.

For those not familiar with the phrase, that stands for “F off and die” and you can provide the first word yourself…

Praise Ye the Founding Fathers, for they are Wise and Mighty!

John Adams had a man arrested for saying his ASS looked funny. Yet his Worshippers today burn in effigy the President of the United States, because they say he’s a “Dictator” and his policies (which don’t include, obviously, rounding any of these Jackasses up and tossing them in jail for threatening the President and any of their Fellow Americans who happen to disagree with their T. Potty “patriotism”) are called “Tyranny!”

Meanwhile supporting the actions of the Former President who WAS a dictator and DID have people arrested, beaten, tazered, etc, for wearing tee-shirts criticizing his Baby-killing Wars-for-profit and his very real and very Tyrannical Police State.

All in the name of the “Original Intent”.

“You can see them
out for dinner
with their piggy wives
clutching forks and knives
to Eat the Bacon”

You know, if guns aren’t outlawed, ALL the outlaws will have guns.

Oh, and the Memphis Police spokesman, the one who DEFENDS this as a money saving deal, How much of that money made its bloodstained way into HIS pockets?

How many of these “Police Auction” guns have managed to kill Citizens, you know, the ones the Police say they protect?

We only hear about two cop-shooting incidents, what about the others? How many of them are in the hands of dangerous Idiots like the Tea Party or the Minutemen? Could it be that the guns used to slaughter the AMERICAN Child Briseña Flores, age 9 of Arivaca AZ and her AMERICAN father…came from similar actions, rather than from the MinuteMurderers using stolen guns bought at the same Crack-house where they bought their dope?

The MinuteFreak leader who pulled the trigger on young Briseña Flores, age 9, DID in fact mention that their motive for invading the Flores Home and shooting the family, two of them (and especially Briseña Flores, age 9) Fatally, was they hoped to find large amounts of drugs, money and guns which they could take and use for their little old Anti-American Terror Spree.

That’s significant because, really, there’s not a lick of difference between that and what the Memphis Police are doing.

Again, just because it’s really damned important to note this, Are the Memphis Cop guns being used in anti-American Babykilling like the murder of Briseña Flores, age 9 of Arivaca AZ?

I like pointing out the disgusting hypocrisy of the Baby-Killing so-called “conservatives” especially since they object so strongly to being called “babykillers”. If they object to it so much they could, you know, just quit killing Kids.

Of course, and you Simply KNEW there would be an “of course”, that would mean ending their Baby-killing wars for profit and their Baby-killing opposition to Health Care.

It’s part of the relevance though, that’s why I included it. The fact is, though, in our Throw-Away Society, where everything including Human Beings is disposable, paper products are among the worst offenders.

First they take out the native, healthy, sustained ecosystem forests and put in “better managed” forests where all the trees are planted at the same time, no underbrush to get in the way of the Organized, Efficient Harvesting of them when the Corporate Owners decide it’s their turn to die, and the Corporatists who will no doubt object to this analogy are going to say

“Why, oh why, can’t we get all “our” workers organized like that, where they’ll perform their jobs efficiently for our profit and then die off in an orderly manner, instead of being, you know, Human?”

Of course the planting of tree-farms where forests used to be not only allows for the Dehumanized Workers and their more-valuable-to-the-company machines to access the “product” for maintenance and harvest, it also hastens erosion and provides no nutrition for the animals, either the Cute and Fuzzy winners of the Insane Popularity Contest, like the deer and the bears and the rabbits (Did you know there’s actually been a recent extinction event, a species of RABBIT? It’s true… you might think to yourself “Self, how does a species that breeds like, well, Rabbits, go extinct?”) and the squirrels and chipmunks which are “good” animals, and the slugs, beetles, very large species of cockroach, vultures, rattlesnakes, worms, you know, the ones that are much harder to paint as Furry People, aren’t normally eaten directly by people and it takes more than a couple of very quick and short sentences using only one-and-two-syllable words, to describe how they fit into the “food chain” far less the enormously complex and beautifully orchestrated Ecosystem.
Then at the other end of the process (middle actually, the “profitable” output of it still has to be shipped, marketed and then “disposed of properly” whatever the hell THAT means) the process of shredding the once-living trees into pulp, instead of long fibers (remember, they’re not aiming for quality, they’re aiming for the Corporate Trifecta: Fast, Cheap and Disposable) then glued back together, pressed into paper and rolled out into sheets. All this uses a lot of water and releases a lot of chemicals that would tend to kill, say, FISH, and bears, and Humans, into the water flow. Which has already been altered by the way the Tree Farms and Logging Roads are organized.

Now, Children, wasn’t THAT a special story? Very “cute and fuzzy” yes?

The Corporatists probably won’t want you to hear that, not because it would give you nightmares of Bears and Children flopping around like fish with nothing to breathe and drowning in poison water. No, they don’t want you to hear that, kids, because then you wouldn’t be nearly as likely to buy their product.

Yes, the ones that Rivera and his Usual Gang of Idiotic Thugs have relegated to the status of Non-Human Non-Citizen are now being told that we have a Civic Duty to support “our” City. I guess this newly reinstated “citizenship” although in a second class worthy for SubHumans who aren’t wealthy… is of course only going to last until the count is verified by the census and then our citizenship will once more be revoked.

If your glass is half full, you might think the Tex-idiots have finally pushed illiteracy so far that American parents and teachers will simply laugh it off and adopt supplementary reading. On the other hand, this conservative surge compounds the devastation of No Child Left Behind. American schoolchildren are being made into absolute idiots, in the image of these 10 Republicans who voted along party lines to teach a history that challenges the separation of church and state.

If your kid doesn’t learn anything from the past, you have these folk to thank:

Don McLeroy- TA&M, dentist, veteran, sunday-school teacher
Gail Lowe- LSU, Lampasas County Conservative Club “Conservative of the Year”
Terri Leo- TA&M, Republican op
Barbara Cargill- Baylor, Methodist Wonders of the Woodlands Science Camp,
Ken Mercer- Texas Homeland Security Council
Geraldine “Tincy” Miller- SMU, TA&M, realtor
David Bradley- TA&M, insurance agent, Beaumont’s Citizens on Patrol
Cynthia Noland Dunbar- Spirit of Freedom Republican Women’s Club
Bob Craig- Texas Tech, SMU
Patricia Hardy- Howard Payne University

Then when the inevitable work accident happened…. Inevitable because it was Texas, no workplace safety regulation (it would infringe on the “liberty” of the Masters to be forced to provide good working conditions for their Wage Slaves.) and what a surprise, there was no requirement for the employer to carry any kind of insurance either.

The pendejo I was working for had taken the ladder to a second job site. And had us walking up and down a conveyor belt like a ramp.
Can’t refuse the job, if you REFUSE a work assignment in a “right to work” state, the Masters can force you to work, through such “vagrancy” laws like the No Camping Ordinance.

Right to work under the conditions The Masters decide are sufficient and for a wage The Masters decide is sufficient. Never mind if the wage isn’t enough to actually survive on, that it forces you into a downward debt spiral, debt you won’t have any chance of paying if, say, you fall from a God-Damn rigged up ramp made from a conveyor belt because your “self made, I earned every penny of it” Millionaire Master was too cheap to spend a couple of hundred bucks to buy sufficient equipment for the Slave Workers to actually get the job safely done, before contracting the job.

And in that twenty foot fall to the concrete below, I busted three bones in my right foot, and my left tibial plateau, which was fixed in the emergency surgery that was allotted to me before they figured out (to be honest, before I figured it out too) that the Master had sold the business to his brother in law, left the state, and the Massive Slave Corporation (Halliburton, by the way) which had rented out my labor at a cost of 5 times what they paid me… (but they too “earned” every penny of their wealth, right, Stephen?) and used some of their obscene profits to make sure I didn’t have a day in court… and thus, no medical bills resulting from the accident THEY caused were going to be paid by THEM.

For 14 years the Rich Bitches blocked any attempt to get any help, finally I came up here. And Camped. In the mountains rather than at Fountain Creek, coming into town about twice a week, riding a bicycle or walking down Rampart Range road for 30 miles. Step after painful step for those stretches where I couldn’t manage to ride the bike. Going to doctors and those Bad, wicked naughty SOCIALIST government offices who inherited the responsibility of trying to fix a worker the “Free” Market Capitalists broke.

Because the “self made we earned every penny of our wealth” so-called “Free” market capitalists couldn’t be bothered to pay their own way.
By that time one of the bones in my right foot had died. The metal which the surgeons had put in my foot and knee was supposed to be taken out after TWO years, and it was 14 YEARS before I got SSI and medicaid… 14 YEARS of exactly no treatment for the injuries, because the “Free” market Capitalists prevented it with obstacle after obstacle.

When I finally cleared their obstacle course, the Right foot is now trashed. They had to fuse my ankle, a procedure called Arthrodesis.
My left knee, a screw broke off right at the top of the tibia when they were removing the metal plate. I feel it every time the weather changes.
Because the earlier procedure wasn’t designed to last for 14 years, only 2. Then the LEFT foot started to die. Mostly from the circulatory and nerve damage from the injuries and the surgeries.

SOCIALIZED MEDICINE which the Right Wing Retard “self made I earned everything I have” Millionaires also oppose, saved the left foot. With a device that cost $500.

But under the No Camping Ordinance, my first year up here would have been in violation of the “law”. My very existence would have been prohibited by “law”.

Right now I’m this close (picture my thumb and forefinger nearly touching) to once more being Homeless. All it would take is for the Right Wing freaks who were embedded into Social Security by the Republican Party to make absolutely sure that nobody gets assistance unless THEY approve it, people who don’t believe that anybody deserves assistance in the first place get to make the decisions…
All it would take would be one of them making a procedural decision and I would once more be homeless.

And I’m not the only one. The City Council and their minions, and the Real Estate “professionals” all of whom claim to have earned every penny of their wealth (selling land that was taken violently away from the people who occupied it first, through acts of outright murder, by the U.S. Army and at considerable public expense, but that’s not Corporate Welfare of any kind, right Stephen?)
In short, the Stuck Up Rich Bitch “owners” of this town, the ones who declare people like me to be “Bums” and now, criminals, refuse to acknowledge that many if not MOST of us are in our condition due to circumstances far beyond our control.

But, it’s our fault we’re not rich like you, right, Stephen?

The Bush Twins actually went on a speaking tour Campaigning for their Coward Little Daddy but disguised as Promoting the Military Service as a “career opportunity”. Essentially told high school kids to drop out from education and join the Killing Machine.

Advice neither they nor the scions of their Fathers Accomplices took.

Nor did their father or any of his accomplices. (Pretending to be a Fighter Pilot doesn’t count, everybody ELSE who had the word “combat” in his MOS at the time got sent to VietNam, save for a very few, very privileged scions of the very rich… like GW)

Face it, kids, you really DON’T owe it to America to join the Army. The United States has been in constant wars since the end of World War 2 and has not actually had a congressional declaration of war since December 8, 1941.

Nor have ANY of those wars actually been about American or anybody else’s “freedom”. To the veterans of those wars, there’s two different sides to that. The one told to you by the Government, saying how much they love and respect you.

And those of us who actually respect you, America and ourselves enough to Not Tell You Those Lies.

It’s a hideous thought that your time and the killing in which you participated, and the lives of your comrades, was exactly that meaningless… that the blood shed and destruction wrought was merely to fill the pockets of the Richest Bastards on earth, and who themselves declined to fight for their own wealth.

But that’s how it is, bubba. That’s how it is.
Rather than get all outraged about somebody telling you the Truth, why not focus that rage on the Sons-of-bitches who sent you into that using Lies, and pat you on the head every Veterans Day and any other War-related Holidays?

Which are the majority of state and federal “holidays”.

I should point out that Holiday is an English merger of the two words Holy Day. There’s nothing Holy about War.

The Military is just an extension of the Servant Class who are used by the Wealthiest at their convenience. Like the Rich who say they gained their money without exploiting their workers.
In their eyes we’re all disposable, allowed to live as long as we make them their money.

It’s the very core of Capitalism.

What did KOS think of Kucinich forcing the majority party to take ownership of the American murder spree in Afghanistan?! (Here’s the list of those who rejected both party lines, Republicans are in bold: Baldwin, Campbell, Capuano, Chu, Clarke, Clay, Cleaver, Crowley, Davis (IL), DeFazio, Doyle, Duncan, Edwards (MD), Ellison, Farr, Filner, Frank (MA), Grayson, Grijalva, Gutierrez, Hastings (FL), Jackson (IL), Jackson Lee (TX), Johnson (IL), Johnson (E. B.), Jones, Kagen, Kucinich, Larson (CT), Lee (CA), Lewis (GA), Maffei, Maloney, Markey (MA), McDermott, McGovern, Michaud (Maine), Miller (George), Nadler (NY), Napolitano, Neal (MA), Obey, Olver, Paul, Payne, Pingree (Maine), Polis (CO), Quigley, Rangel, Richardson, Sánchez (Linda T.), Sanchez (Loretta), Schakowsky, Serrano, Speier, Stark, Stupak, Tierney, Towns, Tsongas, Velázquez, Waters, Watson, Welch, Woolsey)

I have my own qualms about Kucinich, he keeps the real Left sucked into concentric electoral circles. Activated voters who should be pushing for a third party are corralled by Kucinich types to hold their breath for the so-called party of the people to represent real people. I’d like to see Kucinich leave the Dems, and I’d like to see the Democrats fool enough to boot him of their own accord. They can’t quit Lieberman but they’d dump on Kucinich. What transparency we’d see then.

Hearing that call coming from the internet however, from the closest thing Americans have for representatives, our democratically followed Twitter sages, won’t do. When dumping Kucinich pretends to poll from the internet, we need to hoist those asses on their monetized petards.