Monthly Archives: September 2004

Swiftboating Vietnam

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Patriotism the last refuge of the liar   VO: Thirty three years ago, a Republican war president Richard Milhouse Nixon, hired this man, John O’Neal to discredit a young John Kerry, who was leading a nascent effort to stop the war in Vietnam.
 
John O’Neal lost that round. Now he’s at it again.

 
This time around, O’Neal has assembled veterans who are angry because their service in Vietnam was tarnished by accusations of US war crimes.

No one said that THESE men were war criminals but war crimes were committed, of that there is no doubt. Was it John Kerry’s fault for making them known? In 1971 John Kerry and the Veterans Against the War wanted to stop the crimes and stop the Vietnam War.

Are the Swiftboat Vets really arguing today that the Vietnam War should not have been stopped?

If John Kerry and the anti-war effort had not been successful, maybe today we’d see three times as many angry veterans, minus of course some of the men standing here
who might not have survived the war.
 
The Vietnam War was wrong. Until Bush came along, we were all agreed that we never wanted it to happen again. 		  Vietnam survivors in spite of themselves

 
Was Iraq perpetrated by people who thought it wasn’t wrong the first time?

Reprinted from ArmchairCommando.com

Power of prayer

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I do not understand how people who preach so much about God and faith and blessings choose to ignore the most universal message of all prophets and spiritual guides – Blessed are the peacemakers.

There are far more spiritual people actively pursuing peace measures, speaking up for human rights, considering the implications of war on the world as a whole.

Religious fanatics have done nothing for peace and everything for war thus far. Please stop preaching and start listening. Stop asking from God and start asking from yourself.

E-mails about God sitting on his throne and ready to bless people’s finances is hardly what we need right now.

And would someone please tell me what exactly are the new revelations of god’s love and power?

A season of French hurricanes

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Hurricane Pepe

Who is naming these hurricanes? Hurricane Gaston? Hurricane Frances? Hurricane Ivan?

Sounds like a republican in the National Weather Service is naming this season’s major storm systems, recalling the countries who most opposed the war in Iraq. Is that idea too far-fetched?

GASTON? That’s a common name for a boy, in France! FRANCES? Well I suppose that’s something a little less subtle for Americans who don’t recognize any french. And IVAN? Let’s see, who else opposed us about the war?

What’s next? Hurricane Fritz? Gunther? Maybe just GERRY! The fourth signatory against us was Belgium. What’s a Belgian name? Hurricane JACQUES BREL!

It shouldn’t come as a suprise that the NWS might be politicized. After all, even The National Science Foundation is being made to refute the cataclism that is global warming, against all international consensus. Which leads me to another worry:

Absentee ballots. Everyone is hyping absentee ballots as a means to pre-empt republican operatives from stealing the elections. But those ballots have to be mailed in. We have to be able to trust the US Postal Service to deliver our ballots. Do we know there aren’t republican directors planning to re-direct non-republican votes into a circular file?

This just in. The next storm system after Ivan… brewing in the Atlantic… threatening the Dominican Republic… It’s… Hurricane JEANNE! JEANNE D’ARC?

It occured to me that weather systems are usually named in alphabetical order. They’re named early on, and the ones to hit shore are the ones we hear about. It looks like there were two other minor storms they thought might make the news: DANIELLE and HERMINE!

Kerry’s French some people say.

My idea for an Iraq War Memorial

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A box. Sunken in the earth. Like the foundation of an unfinished house.

Borrowing from Maya Lin’s Vietnam Wall obviously, this memorial foundation would be at the base of a hill. Preferably in te shadow of a hill. Looking up at the north slope with the sun beyond the hill.

On one wall, the thousand US casualties of the war.

On the next wall, blank space reserved for the next thousand who will die before we can extricate ourselves from Iraq. Without abandoning the Iraqi population.

Now it occurs to me that I’ve left out the casualties of the first Gulf War. The many who served in that conflict and have since died of causes related to their service. We’ll have to find a suitable memorial for them.

In the corner between the two walls already described will sit a small replica of Rodin’s THINKER. He’ll be seated on a stool and he’ll wear a dunce cap emblazoned with the logos of the corporate profiteers and media war mongers.

On the other two walls which rise against the hill -which rise higher and together in the fashion of the twin towers of the WTC perhaps- here will be engraved with the names of each Iraqi citizen casualty. Fifteen thousand names, many thousand whose names we neglected to record, and about which few relatives or friends remain to give testament. Those could each be listed as “Sovereign Citizen of Iraq.”

Why protest?

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Boston DNC arrest

Why protest the RNC?

Imagine they pull an October Surprise.
Imagine they postpone the election.
Imagine they fix the election.
Imagine they take away your rights,
Your job, your home, your air,
Your health, your environment.
Imagine the unimaginable.
What are you going to do?
What recourse will you have?
Are you going to take to the streets?
Seek redress from your government?
Only to get beat down by militarized police?

A confrontation in NYC
Might bring that point home.
There is no will of the people,
Only the action of our governement.
What the people want doesn’t matter to them.

Scott Robinson RNC kicker

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Young BrownshirtRNC NYC: A “Young Republican” was videotaped attacking an ACT-UP protester who’d managed to get inside the Republican Convention.
 
Although the handful of protesters were already surrounded by security agents, this enthusiast closed in, reached over several people, dragged a young asian-american woman to the floor and kicked her in the torso several times before being brushed aside by an agent.

Interviewed immediately afterward by the local ABC news affiliate, he denied having done it. Told that his actions had been captured on camera, he said “I don’t think that I did that.”

The footage is available online. While he remained unidentified he came to symbolize every-man, young republican that is. His name is now revealed, he’s Scott Robinson, a Pennsylvania University moral degenerate who was part of his schools’ chapter of Protest Warriors counter protesters. He was indentified at first from a photograph of interns at a flat tax lobbying firm.