If the US corporate daily press can’t label US terrorism when they see it, we on the US Left should at least be able to do so. Dozens dead in twin Damascus blasts.
Here’s a page from the Little Golden Book of Airplanes, which taught children in 1953 that “Bib big bombers carry bombs, guns and rockets. The big bombers help guard our country.” Unless kids understood the concept of nuclear deterrence, they might have wondered how dropping bombs on other lands helped guard OUR country? Even contemporary books about the US military use “defensive” to describe weapons that are obviously used to attack. The Corvair B-36 was an intercontinental bomber distinguished by the six weird pusher props, twelve cannons, a crew of 22 and it carried the first thermonuclear bombs. The B-36 never received an official name because the Air Force wanted to call it the “Peacemaker” but couldn’t overcome the objections of church groups who considered that idea beyond the pale. Today the USAF aeronautic death dealers are named “Predator” and “Reaper” and American churchgoers are cheering front and center.
The CS Fuzz Dept isn’t squeaking very loudly about the grenade they found at Prospect Lake a couple of days ago. There’s ways to make a booby trap from a hand grenade, take one and set it down, prop a rock onto it and set the rock on a small stick, so the rock will fall off if the stick is disturbed, lots of ways to make the stick fall out. Test the rig to make sure. assemble it and extract the safety pin then leave, and never go back. That doesn’t seem to be the case with the Lake Grenade. But it’s Apparently a U.S. Army hand grenade of which there are several types, standard enough in triggering style, weight and size of the device, many made by an Israeli based firm called LGB Ltd. The cops would have a database on who supplies them. NOW… Drugs.
The numbers are numbers of deaths attributed to various causes.,
Tobacco 435,000,
Diet/Lifestyle 365,000,
Alcohol 75,000,
Accidental exposure to toxins 55,000
ALL Illicit drugs, direct and indirect 17,000
Aspirin, Tylenol, Midol, Motrin 7000
Cannabis 0
Some results omitted, like prescription drugs. Homicide, Suicide and Gun Related deaths naturally overlap. But there’s Innkeeper laws that hold bartenders responsible if they allow an intoxicated patron to drive away.
There’s homicide laws that hold the supplier of the drugs responsible if the product causes the death of a user. Charge would be Murder actually. Somebody building a home-made grenade or gun would be charged with various wordings of Making an Infernal Device.
Manufacturers of small arms, hand grenades, rifles, pistols-Not liable. Tobacco manufacturers-not liable
Fat Food Restaurants who encourage patrons to eat more calories in one meal than they need in a week, and discourage walk-up or Bicycle up Business (try riding a bicycle in the Drive Thru lane at McToxins, they’ll call the pigs on you, and the Pigs will gladly serve their Corporate Masters) Not Liable. Prescription drug overdoses and accidental mis-dosing and toxicity, Bayer, Baxter, Abbott, Lilly, … not liable.
The manufacturer of the Prospect Lake Grenade… not liable.
The corporations who put out the small arms also put out propaganda designed to provoke, incite and prolong wars, mass murder actually, yet they’re not liable.
Their Propaganda Protectors at (worst offender, there are others) Fox HateSpeech Networks make sure they get to sell their Death Products AND create the market for them, uninterrupted by any silly little old laws like Thou Shalt Not Kill.
United States religious leaders can incite their followers to wars with impunity, tell their followers that the sixth commandment actually doesn’t include wars or death penalty, Because They Say So and if you question their holy word you’re an antichrist and a blasphemer. They tell their followers that if somebody dies while killing for them, in their Holy Crusade, that person goes immediately to Heaven to enjoy the blessings and adoration of God and all His host.
Somebody saying a mirror image of that same statement AGAINST the “crusaders” is judged as a terrorist and can be (according to the U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T.A.C.T. imprisoned for life or murdered based on the whim of a Military “justice” Tribunal or simply the command of the military leaders.
What wonderful wonderful wonderful leaders we have that they can make such decisions on our behalf and punish us if we don’t agree.
One law for the Corporate Rich and a regime of strict obedience imposed on everybody else.
And they call Liberals “elitists”.
Actually, they miscalculated just how much…
Suspected robbers in Germany appear to have miscalculated the quantity of explosives needed to blow their way into a rural bank.
The building housing the bank in the northern village of Malliss was largely destroyed by an overnight explosion.
The bank’s cash machine survived intact and the suspected thieves are not thought to have made away with any money, Germany’s Welt Online reported.
No-one was injured, though the blast damaged nearby cars and buildings.
Investigators were working on the assumption that robbers had placed their explosives, possibly made from petrol or acetylene, at the entrance to the bank, German broadcaster NDR said.
The presence of a delivery van near the site of the explosion indicated that the suspected thieves may have intended to drive off with the cash dispenser, local media reported.
It also indicates that they didn’t need a carload of gasoline to do it, nor a bunch of really useless (except for propaganda) firecrackers. Gas is really touchy stuff, you know. Fuel + Air + spark = KABOOOOOOM!! It doesn’t take much either, get a couple of 5 gallon cans and just enough gas to fill them with THE FUMES. Liquid gasoline doesn’t explode.
Take for instance the truckload of Ammonia Nitrate fertilizer that Tim McVeigh used in Oklahoma City. Peeled off the front of the building. and the front of the buildings across the street. Very powerful, but to knock down buildings, bridges, railroad trestles, you need more than the half dozen sticks of dynamite they used to show in the old Western movies. More than just a barrel of black powder. The structures are made to withstand the forces of nature, over long periods of time, with minimal maintenance.
The Oklahoma City buildings had withstood at least one tornado. And, of course, they used a small truckload of the Blasting Powder (not giving away secrets here, hillbillies who can’t read their own names use this to clear stumps. Easier than chopping and digging, and a helluva lot faster) and it peeled the fronts off the buildings.
Witness, however, THIS destruction.
...from a device they hand-carried to the front of the building...
Terrorists? Maybe. Simple thieves more like it. Police still haven’t caught up to them, if you noticed from the article.
So, let’s see, A “Major Break” in terrorist infiltrators involving somebody with Pakistan ties “confessing” to buying large amounts of a solvent used as PVC cement that you can buy in 55 gallon drums without raising any suspicion, Methyl Ether Ketone, in a weaker formulation used for nail polish remover at a rough estimate of maybe 100 times as much price. That’s enough to raise my ol’ Suspicious Meter a hair. It’s touted as “sharp eyed Citizen Detective Work” or some similar bullshit.
Next there’s the Panty Bomber… hummmm….
Now, a bomb that should have been, from the description thereof, a large smoking hole in the middle of Times Square with a few tons of Human-Burger spattered on the walls of adjacent buildings.
It even started smoking. Had a great big timer made from a child’s toy clock in the windshield. Yep, nothing says discrete like
A Cartoon Time Bomb Even Worse than THIS...
I mean, Dayumn, son, why not have the Keystone Kops parade a few of these in the Evidentiary Hearings at court?
yep, a smoking gun if ever I saw one.
I tried to find a cartoon of a gun leaning up against a lamp-post smoking a cigarette, the pun is beautiful.
Now, we’re not talkin’ a couple of guppies that died a few hours ago, we’re talking about a whole boatload of dead fish that’s been out in the sun for a few days. There’s so much “setup” involved here, it has to be a joke, except the “Kill them all, then waterboard them” crowd takes it as Gospel.
Each of these “GWOT Success Stories” comes right at a crucial juncture, like during a debate over whether the Gitmo Concentration Camp Detainees should be defined as Real Human Beings who actually deserve PROOF or at least more proof than “we said they’re guilty, what more do you want?” Torture Freak Perverts who run the Illegal Prison.
And once again, I’m going to remind the Torture Freaks of the fact that Torture is Rape, and the torturers are Unregistered Sexual Predators (Perverts of the worst order) and need to be imprisoned in solitary confinement for the rest of their unnatural lives.
It doesn’t help the case of the War On Terror propagandists that they actually promised to lie to us and told us bluntly that we were morally required to believe anything they tell us, no matter how stupid and obviously false it is.
Oh, to continue, somehow, this fellow has confessed to not only attempted the Car Bomb That Looks Like A Car Toon but that he was a Highly Trained al Qa’eda Bombmaker. Uh… No. Propane or gasoline bombs are on the internet, the makings for them are simple.
You need fuel, air and a spark. It’s the basis of the Spudzooka, the motor on your lawnmower and the motor in your car. You don’t need any kind of “special training” to make one.
Things that go “Boom” in the night aren’t a genius level implementation, the only thing that’s required is you have to somehow be smart enough not to off yourself or your neighbors. You learn how to make some really hugely powerful explosives in high school chemistry, simply learning What To Avoid Doing.
Some of the recipes are misleading on the safety side. The Anarchist Cookbook for instance offers a recipe for Mercury Fulminate, the basic explosive in blasting caps and percussion caps for firearm ammunition. The recipe leaves out something really important. When the stuff is reacting, transforming from mercury to the fulminate thereof, it fulminates. Makes “smoke” actually a chemical fog, that’s evil looking, evil smelling and will kill you if you breathe it.
That’s not good. Some Anarchists think that for that one reason that William Powell is a provocateur sent to snuff as many would-be anarchists as possible.
Then this Highly Trained al Qa’eda operative, for the past two days has had his PICTURE leaving the scene, all over the internet, the TV news, etc… Since yesterday the News had the person who sold the car as telling the cops “Yeah, I sold that car a few weeks ago” and had given a description to the cops that matched the video…so what does he do? Strolls to the Airport and casually tries to board what any al Qa’eda operative would know is closely watched, because it’s heading for RIYADH… And we, the People, are all supposed to be so STUPID that we’ll not ask any of the questions posed above. That most of them don’t have a (?) at the end doesn’t mean they’re not questions.
This whole scenario we’re supposed to swallow makes Hogan’s Heroes seem High Drama, with Intellectual overtones.
The bumbling Loveable Inefficient Gestapo and Luftwaffe goofs, the Wiley Allied Spies disguised as prisoners always thwarting the machinations of the Loveable Nazi Goofs, seems much more believable than the crap we’re being exposed to right now.
While in actuality, they were just prior to the kid getting blown apart, fighting to kill him.
Military Medics are NOT non-combatants. They’re COMBAT support. That was impressed on us in Basic Training and once again in Tech School, we were to be basically Monkey Mechanics, keeping the Human Fighting Machines in good working order. Every bit as dehumanized and coldly efficiently calculated as the base armorer keeping the Rifles in good working order. The base Veterinarians office keeping the Police Attack Dogs in good working order, and a subset of that, the Base Exterminator (yes, under the command of the Base Veterinarian) whose job is to control wild animals, like the flocks of birds near the runways, skunks, coyotes, rats, cats both native and feral, wild hogs, etc etc…
And to use Herbicides like Agent Orange to kill the native vegetation, so that there’s a clear field of fire.
They SAY all this is necessary because if we don’t do that, we wouldn’t be able to provoke and fight Wars.
Help me out here, I’m not seeing an actual Downside.
A far simpler solution than patching up the kid after first dismantling him, how about just Get The Fuck Out Of HIS Country, and stop using Massive Firepower to dismantle his country, and stop using that firepower to dismantle HIM and other PEOPLE like him.
You God-damn blow people apart then for a propaganda photo-opportunity patch one of them back together, to what, show that you’re not the Dehumanized Uniformed Drones (duds) who are forcing your “Superior” civilization on his people? Because you’re so God-Damned culturally and morally sophisticated that you Owe It To Him and his fellow Kids to murder them if they don’t bow down to that “superior” sophisticated culture? And of course the “superior” Military.
They told us in Tech School that in combat zones we should scrape that Red Cross off our helmets.
Told us that there was a Commie Propaganda campaign that started in the Korean war, saying that American Military used the Red Cross symbol to smuggle munitions. I’ll find the post I made about that, A Dynamite Box label for “red cross BRAND military grade Extra Dynamite 1949” written in Chinese.
The boxes I had found in a military landfill on Ft Bliss, Texas, had the inscription in English.
Which your average Chinese or North Korean soldier wouldn’t have been able to read any more than the Redneck War-pigs here would be able to read the same thing in Chinese.
All they would be able to understand would be the Red Cross symbol.
But of course the VietNamese people and the Laotian and Cambodian and Chines were just, you know, Lying because that’s what Commies do.
Besides, “We are here to win your hearts and minds…. or just burn down your goddam huts”