Middle Class Populist

Today durning the papal visit to the World Trade Center New York Governor David Paterson knelt and kissed the Pope’s ring! While it is perfectly fine for the “regular citizens ” who preceded Governor Paterson to do this, no elected official and certainly not the “Head of the Sovereign State of New York” should kneel to kiss the Papal ring! I believe he has violated the principle of separation of Church and State!

Please don’t misunderstand me! I believe Pope Benedict is a very good and noble man. I am a liberal Anglican and would kneel and kiss the Pope’s ring if I had the honor of being presented to him! But when you are the Governor you represent a SOVEREIGN people!

Many of you may remember when Mrs. Regan was presented to the Queen and she refused to kneel! Nancy Regan as First Lady may or may not have been under the ban but certainly the President and Governor are banned from doing this as they represent our nation and state respectively!

I was very impressed by the Pope and his warm German accent! He is an old man who has dedicated his life to peace and the betterment of humanity. Governor David Paterson can be forgiven for his lapse but should be reminded by the press!

As has been reported Senator McCain does not seem to understand the difference between Shiite and Sunni! You know the two largest groups in Iraq that are at each other’s throats with us in the middle! Senator McCain was saved by his “puppy dog” Senator Joe Lieberman who corrected him in front of the cameras!

Remember some years back when many cars had small toy dogs in the back window! The head of the puppy would rock with the movement of the car in a “YES” fashion up and down! I dare you to watch Senator McCain as he always seems to have a smiling Senator Joe Lieberman with him! Nod your head up and down turn coat puppy dog Joe!

Gee what is it that Senator Lieberman is after with McCain and his pro Iraq strategy? No doubt I am sure he is interested in having McCain stop this nonsense about Iraq and instead help the starving people of Darfur who ALREADY have a genocide occurring in their homeland! So nice of Senator Lieberman to be against genocide now isn’t it! Then there is Chad and even Kenya which is heading in that direction. No doubt Senator Lieberman and his fellow traveler John McCain are so concerned about genocide that they just plain forgot the difference between “potential” and “REAL” genocide!

But then again after 4,000 deaths of American soldiers you would think Senator McCain would know the difference between Sunni and Shiite. Senator McCain did your puppy dog Senator Lieberman have anything to say about Darfur and the genocide that is occurring there right now?

Was it “NEVER AGAIN”! Perhaps it is ok to forget when the puppy dog wants to be Vice President!

Well it appears that while George Bush and his fellow travelers continue to involve our nation in their “social engineering” experiment in Iraq, our national preparation level has sunk to an all time low! Well look at the bright side at least our nation’s ports are not being managed by the United Arab Emirates. Thank God George Bush was not able to advance the cause of upper class “portfolio security” ahead of “port security”! Our Army Reserve and National Guard are being bled dry in Iraq years after “Mission Accomplished” while opium production is reaching all time high levels in Afghanistan and that nation falls further into Al Qaeda control! The combination of opium profits for Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, renegade nuclear scientists in Pakistan and our unsecured borders do not seem to upset the “Great Decider” and his minions in the Republican Party.

But the above report should come as no surprise as even our nation’s readiness for a natural disaster from hurricanes is at stake and was discussed in Congress last April. (See the Video Below).

Some members of the Vermont Legislature have decided to pass a bill that would declare President Bush’s authorization to call up the Vermont National Guard to be void as the authorization was for a mission that was already accomplished! Senator McCain apparently does not know about “Mission Accomplished”. Al Qaeda in Afghanistan apparently is also not an issue for McCain. The question is for those in the Republican Primary:

What about a STRICT CONSTRUCTIONALIST interpretation of the Constitution? What gives George Bush the right to create a “new unauthorized mission” for our troops? You know the very National Guard and Army Reserve that he never fully attended? McCain and his fellow travelers are going tor the “feels good” solution! The problem is we are a nation of laws. But then again what the hell we have no national borders anyway the laws that regulated them are violated daily? But corporate America needs cheap labor! These right wing fear mongers talk about genocide occurring in Iraq. What about what is going on in:

• Darfur
• Kenya
• And soon perhaps Chad

Yet these “champions of democracy” have turned a deaf ear to the cries of the oppressed in these lands! The time has come for our nation’s middle class to demand accountability from those who hold office in our land!

I believe that all valid POW’s should not be tortured and that water boarding is torture! But what about using this technique on terrorists? I believe this is a more involved issue! In regards to terrorists, Alan Dershowitz the famous liberal attorney, has stated that he believes under some conditions it is alright to employ torture so long as a special “warrant” is issued. I concur with Alan Dershowitz! Despite what the World Court has to say concerning this matter, America should reserve the right to use “torture” to break a captured leader of Al Qaeda who is in our custody! However what is the method for our society to “decide” on this issue? Simply because I believe it is a good idea does not make it legal! I would be against water boarding as a standard practice against Americans and all valid POWs.

Terrorist do not follow the rules of war! This may come as an “inconvenient truth” to some in this nation, but there are bad guys out there who want to use WMD against our cities. I believe Alan Dershowitz’s proposal is the correct method to deal with this issue. We must never water board Prisoners of War - period! What I find disturbing about the CIA’s destruction of tapes pertaining to the water boarding of several Al Qaeda leaders is that they are interfering with the decision making processes of our society! Simply because one does believe, as I do, in the limited use under special circumstances and on certain validated individuals of torture, does not mean it should occur without the decision being made by our society!

I suppose the justification is that these individuals fall outside of the constitutional rights of suspects. I do not know that to be the case. I do agree with the three times it was used but the tapes should not have been destroyed! It is the ultimate decision of our Courts and Congress if it was proper! The President is the “Executer” of decisions made by our society via our Congress and Courts, he is not the “Great Decider”. We cannot allow “Reichstag Fire Enabling Acts” in a democratic nation! The Constitutional use of water boarding must be specific and “above board”! What next the water boarding of Nancy Pelosi?

If this technique is needed to fight terrorists it must be done under the law! What our nation does not need is those who believe they “own” the law. The President and his Cabinet are NOT the Government of the United States. Our Government is comprised of three co-equal branches!

The news media is actually showing Pro-Conservative News Media Biases by terming the “Administration” as the “Government”. It is not but only a part of our Government.

Just because an idea is a good idea, and I think the torture of the three captured Al Qaeda leaders was a good idea, does not make it legal! Nor does a good idea allow the President to decide for this society. That is why we have a Constitutional Government of President, Congress and Judicial! If the military acted in good faith then they must testify to Congress. Failure to do so constitutes criminal obstruction of justice! We must not allow the “feels good” approach to govern our laws! If the water boarding of the three Al Qaeda leaders was correct then these acts by the Administration must be open to Congressional and Judicial investigation!

PC Liberals would argue that water boarding should never happen even to terrorists. Because this President was wrong on Iraq and Iran there is a tendency to believe all is well in the world. This is not true. Bush has got America side tracked in Iraq while we are losing the war on terror in Afghanistan! I believe both the PC Liberals and Neo-cons are wrong. I would hope that our Administration would be accountable for it’s use of water boarding while at the same time hoping that it’s limited use would be approved against terrorists. We must not allow either side to use fear to advance their agendas!

Both the Neo-Cons and the PC Liberals have dangerous agendas and I really mean what I say below!

NEO-CONS: They believe WMD is everywhere with a mushroom cloud ready to pop up over our cities unless we fight endless wars that don’t address the real enemies! If it does occur it is God punishing a morally decadent America!

POLITICALY CORRECT LIBERALS: They believe that there really is no danger of a terrorist nuclear attack against our cities. They resent even the usage of the word “Homeland” to define America. If such an attack did occur they would believe it is the Law of Karma punishing a consumerist decadent Bourgeoises America!

The time has come for America’s Silent Majority - our great Middle Class, to take our country back from these stupid agendas!

The death of the innocents in Armenia will not go away! Why the vote just now? Well it has been proposed year in and year out. This time it has a prospect of succeeding and I hope it does! This is not an attempt to brand the current Turks as Nazis. But the fact is that this Holocaust did occur and Nazi Germany was not the only place where these atrocities happened. Perhaps if the world loudly condemned the Armenian Holocaust and punished those who committed these crimes after the war then the Nazis would have had second thoughts about committing the Jewish Holocaust.

Question: Why bring this up now with the war in Iraq taking place we need Turkey as an ally?

Answer: We could have left Iraq after the removal of Saddam and placed a friendly Baath Party LE (Light Edition) regime in its place. But we chose to engage in a Neo-Con Social Engineering Experiment. We demanded a western style democracy in Iraq as a social force against Islamic Fundamentalism! Well it seems right next door one of our allies still does not want to deal with the issue of genocide and religious self-righteousness! Turkey screwed up our invasion of Iraq by not allowing us to transport troops through her territory. What is worse is that Turkey did this at the last minute. So when the bleeding hearts in Republican Party whine about us hurting our relationship with Turkey lets us remember that Americans lost their lives because of this last minute turn around by Turkey. Also the fact that we did not have a fast northern access into Iraq aided the insurgency! But we cannot blame the insurgency on Turkey, but rather the bad planning of the Bush Administration which should have prepared for the Iraq occupation and even this Congressional Resolution! This resolution was proposed every year. But even more important is the moral issue!

I just love these political and even religious conservatives. They point the finger at liberals and accuse liberals of “ethical relativity” and “moral relativism”.

Question: But isn’t there a difference between what happened in Nazi Germany and Armenia?

Answer: It was wrong in Nazi Germany and it was wrong in Turkey. There is a difference! In modern Germany it is a crime to deny the Jewish Holocaust as well it should be! Nazis are outlawed! Yet in Turkey it is a crime to say the Armenian Holocaust even existed! Germany has repented and now has model laws to prevent the horrible crimes that where done against the Jews. Turkey on the other hand has not developed a sense of social responsibility! Some of their fellow travelers in the Republican Party and yes even the Democratic Party want to be “enablers” for the Turkish Government. Maybe Germany can serve as a role model for Turkey. No one is calling the present day Turks killers. I would support language in the resolution for a face saving mechanism for modern Turks. Hell we Americans realize we killed Native Americans and had slaves. We admit we were wrong! What I find amazing is that some Jewish groups are not supporting the Armenians! What is this some kinky sick neurotic contest for “My Holocaust Was Worse Than Yours”! All genocides are wrong! I am a religious person but all religions have gone through this stage. The Muslims are not the only ones. They however just don’t want to take responsibility. Genocide is as old as mankind. We Christians and Jews have undergone growth and don’t take our scripture above reason. Muslims have not had a reformation and “modernity” is an evil concept to them. But we have overcome delightful tidbits like these in our scripture!

Deuteronomy 20:16

16 However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.

Joshua 6:21 AND 26

21 They devoted the city to the LORD and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it-men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys”

26 At that time Joshua pronounced this solemn oath: “Cursed before the LORD is the man who undertakes to rebuild this city, Jericho:

Jeremiah 48:10

10 “A curse on him who is lax in doing the LORD’s work!

A curse on him who keeps his sword from bloodshed!

Sometimes not all where killed in our Judeo-Christian “good ole days”.

Numbers 31:17-18

17 Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, 18 but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.

(A virgin is a terrible thing to waste! Why not ravage one for the Lord today!) Hey this is “upfront” payment not bye and bye in the sky when you die! Just kidding, but we in the West have learned to value “Reason” with just plain religious faith.

I believe this Resolution MUST pass. Besides what is the worst that could happen? We might have to end this Republican Social Engineering Experiment in Iraq sooner! Now wouldn’t that be just aweful!

The University Of Florida apparently values tasering students rather than embarrassing guest speakers and the practice of free speech! On the Keith Oberman Show it was stated that the young man in question may have jumped the line to give his question! I cannot comment on that as I was not present.

If he did jump the line then I believe in order to protect the right of free speech for the other students, the police should have removed him immediately rather than wait. From some of the videos presented on the media I originally thought he brought it on himself until I viewed the following video from You Tube. This shows what happened plus the events just prior to the police starting to remove him!

Rush Limbaugh and an Air America commentator have both condemned the police for this incident. Rush even jokes that the police did not move in until the student asked if Senator Kerry was a member of George Bush’s college fraternity “Skull and Bones”! Now I ask my readers to compare the news media video coverage of the event with the one above which shows the events just preceding the police grabbing the student. This proves to me that they were trying to spare Senator Kerry an embarrassment about his political views. But then again was there a video of the student bumping the line?

What I am against is the “Tyranny of The Self Righteous”. It seem there is a lot of that from both the conservatives and the liberals. Let me make one thing clear. If someone bumped me while I was in line and hence attempted to deny my right of free speech I would want them to be tasered! Yes that’s right. In Politically Correct left brain hemisphere speak “I am being genuine and an authentic human being in touch with my feelings”! But since I don’t know that to be the case and because the campus police seemed to be trying to spare Senator Kerry embarrassment, I must support the student. I believe he was wrongfully tasered. I agree with the questions he asked the Senator. I would like to add one more!

Senator Kerry, how much where you paid for this speech and how about giving it to this kid? Can you profit from Andrew Meyer being tasered knowing you where a youthful protester also?

Gosh yesterday it was Attorney General Gonzales and now the Republicans have a new hot potato - Idaho’s Senator Craig! Yes we can all laugh that a conservative family values Republican, who is against Gays, is accused of being one and soliciting sex in a bathroom. But wait there is an escape for the Republicans! With the Department Of Justice in turmoil perhaps Senator Craig can be nominated as “Solicitor General”!

Despite the fact that there were allegations about him and the Congressional pages years ago, let’s give Senator Craig the benefit of the doubt just for the one minute! Isn’t it strange that he should fall victim to “homophobia”! Now what would the Senator say if it was someone else who was charged? Being a good “Law and Order” Republican would he back the police in their Glorious Crusade to make our toilets free of those vile homosexuals! You would think if those vile homosexuals wanted to perform fellatio they would stay home and do it inside the context of a Gay Marriage! — OOPS seems the Senator is against Gays being allowed to marry or even serve in the military!

We must ask the question, “if it was someone else would the Senator believe them or the police if they claimed they were just taking a krap and they were just looking for toilet paper on the floor”? After all with a turd hanging you kind of get desperate! Something to think about the next time you are in a public toilet! Just moving your hands can get you into one hell of a mess! But then again the nice police can never be wrong now can they Senator Craig?

Well if the Senator is a closet bisexual then he is a damned hypocrite! If Senator Craig is NOT Gay or Bisexual then he is learning first hand how flimsy rules of evidence can convict someone of sexual solicitation! What is this? Are we not to accept the police and demand strict constructionalist rules of evividence! You know Senator this is something those homo loving, sissy pink liberals have been talking about for years but you conservatives believed that the police should not be questioned!

Finally we can all sit back and laugh as the Republicans receive their just reward of TOILET JUSTICE! I assume that being a conservative Republican Senator Craig served in the military!

Let’s just hope for the Republicans that when he was in the military his record for “dropping the soap” was within acceptable Republican parameters else his career will be flushed away!

Today, to its great shame, the Cherokee Nation voted to disenfranchise the descendants of Black slaves who were owned by the Cherokee’s. Yet these people maintained a Cherokee identity and are now being expelled. The claim has been made that the vote is one of “self determination”! Well I am sure we can all be proud of these Native American CRACKERS who are exercising their right of “self determination”. Funny but I would celebrate this vote of “self determination” right next to the “right of self determination” by Mississippi in maintaining segregated schools in the 1950’s!

Back in my hippie college years I remember a song extolling the Cherokee Nation in it’s forced flight from their homeland in Georgia to Oklahoma! Gosh golly now we learn they brought their slaves with them! Kind of puts the dampers on an icon from my past. The noble Native American! Yet in the south today Blacks vote and even hold political office. Are things perfect? No but we whites have learned our lesson. Ah but the Cherokee want to be pure bloods! Yet they are really a fiction as most of them have white blood!

Meanwhile on the other side of the world the Japanese government has reversed it former apology to the victims it forced to engage in prostitution. The Japanese are another group that loves racial purity! Just ask the Ainu! Some Ainu try to cover up their racial identity to protect themselves from the effects of Japanese racism.

This blog is by a NON-PC liberal. The next time you hear the annual “mea kulpas” each august due to our nuking the Japanese, you might want to remember the Japanese who forced woman into prostitution and now want to deny it! Not to mention the large groups of Koreans, who as forced laborers, died in the nuclear blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki yet the Japanese never mention them. It seems racism is not limited to the American white middle class. But I believe we have learned our lesson. It seems the Japanese have not!

Finally let us not buy this nonsense by the “Cherokee Crackers” concerning “self determination” especially with the casinos going up. I would “wager” this is just plain Native American “CRACKERISM”! You bet it is!

I see no problem with the Vice President’s daughter being Gay and wanting to be a single mom. Recently Wolf Blizter, an anchor on CNN, asked the Vice President about his daughter being both Gay and a single mom. The VP got annoyed, refused to answer and told Blizter he was out of line.

Isn’t it amazing how these elite have two sets of values. They rant and rave against gays and try to push a constitutional amendment to define “marriage”. Yet they have no problem with a single mom who is Gay when it is one of “THEIR CHILDREN”!

While I agree that the VP’s situation should be handled respectfully and tastefully, none the less he is a GOD DAMNED HYPOCRITE when he does not speak out against Republicans trying to use Gay Marriage as a wedge issue to cover up their failures in Iraq. Sure it is hard on his family. But the man is in the public limelight and this country has made him rich and given him it’s second highest office. Why should he be isolated and feel safe while many Gays have to be persecuted by Republicans who seek to build wedge issues to cover up their failures. Meanwhile the VP has said that we are having enormous success in Iraq! Now isn’t that a queer thing to say! Vice President Cheney needs to accept reality both abroad and at home. He should tell the Christian Right to just SHUT UP.

Oh they talk about us Democrats using “fear” tactics as if marriages are breaking apart due to the conversion of one or both partners in their sexual orientation. The Vice President and his fellow travelers of effete snobs would due better to out law divorce if they want to protect the American Family. Though I should not write this as I suppose some in the wacko religious right would like to do that also!

Perhaps if the VP were not so latently ashamed of his daughter he would tell the religious right to shut up instead of Wolf Blizter!

READER RESORUCES:

Read about the incident on the Fox News Website.

See CNN Website for the VP’s delusional rants that we are doing great in Iraq.

Bush seems to believe that by spreading democracy we can end Islamic Terrorism.

• Ask the Israeli’s that with Gaza next door to them. Hamas got elected to office not necessarily because the Palestinian’s wanted war with Israel but because the Palestinian electorate wanted to punish the P.L.O. for allowing corruption. Now Hamas runs Gaza.
• Next we have the case of Iran. While not a secular democracy they elected the current President primarily to improve their economic condition. Unfortunately he seems to have an agenda to arm his nation with nuclear weapons.

So just who is Bush trying to help here? Certainly not the “bastions of democracy” like Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E! In many Muslim nations however fundamentalists would win the election because the electorates would indeed favor their radical agenda!

What is missing is a crucial ingredient! What is that ingredient? Two words Mr. Bush needs to learn! “SECULAR LIBERALISM” is the answer.

Scriptural Islam is no more closed minded than Scriptural Christianity and Scriptural Judaism! By the way I am not an atheist but a liberal Christian. However both Christians and Jews underwent a modernization process after centuries of madness. Islam is just undergoing this process now! But comparing their scripture with our scripture does not give either a humanitarian superiority. Oh please don’t give me the passages about the 77 virgins in the Koran because there are also friendlier passages in the Koran. The issue is the “reader”. Which passages of any scripture does the believer wish to pay attention to! That is the issue. Today in Christianity and Judaism we just like to “make believe” we don’t have “fun passages”. So in case you missed some in my prior posts let me list them here.

The following are examples of what Judaism and Christianity would be like IF we did not mature with the help of SECULAR LIBERALISM! We have all been lead to believe that scriptural Islam is inferior to scriptural Christianity and Judaism. The Koran gives you 77 virgins when you die but our bible gives you a virgin for plunder in this life!

Numbers 31:17

¹⁷ Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, ¹⁸ but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.

What stops us from plundering a virgin today Mr. Bush? Secular Liberalism!

Genocide anyone? Why not do it Bible style!

Deuteronomy 20:16

¹⁶ However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.

Joshua 6:21

²¹ They devoted the city to the LORD and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it-men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys”

What stops us from Bible based genocide today Mr. Bush? Secular Liberalism!

What a waste! In the above they kill all the livestock! Our bible’s God in other passages did not remove the genocide but did remove the senseless waste of livestock!

Deuteronomy 2:33-35

33 the LORD our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, together with his sons and his whole army. 34 At that time we took all his towns and completely destroyed them-men, women and children. We left no survivors. 35 But the livestock and the plunder from the towns we had captured we carried off for ourselves.

Now that’s better we cannot “waste” plunder now can we? Notice men, woman AND CHILDREN are to be killed! That must be what is termed “pro-life”. Now you might think this is like the Nazi’s creating a “Final Solution” for the nasty Canaanite problem.

What stops us Mr. Bush from following a solid bible based “final solution” today? Answer “SECULAR LIBERALISM”!

But no the Bible is superior. Genocide must be done in an “earth friendly” manner! We don’t want to despoil the delicate flacura and fauna with the litter of corpses of men, woman and children now do we? Can the Muslims “boast” EARTH FRIENDLY PASSAGES for the conduct of genocide? Silly Muslims!

Deut. 20:19

¹⁹When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit. Do not cut them down. Are the trees of the field people, that you should besiege them?

What separates our society from this idiocy Mr. Bush? SECULAR LIBERALISM!

The next time you see a Muslim woman covered up remember good ole ST. Paul who said:

1Corth. 7:1

¹ Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Mr. Bush, what separates our society from this idiotic nonsense? Secular liberalism!

President Bush does not get it! But then again we still in this society allow Christian fundamentalists to decide our national policy stopping stem cell research and getting us even more involved in the Mideast so we can hasten the second coming! What is going to stop this madness? SECULAR LIBERALISM! Lets take our country back! As Americans our concern should not be with katusa rockets going 25 miles into northern Israel (bad as that is)! Rather we should be concerned with the fact that North Korea has nuclear weapons and is building ICBM’s to launch those missiles at the USA! Besides Muslims are killing Christian civilians on a genocidal level in the Sudan but no one seems to give a damn! Let’s get our priorities straight Mr. Bush and stop pandering to the Christian right and Israeli lobby!

Time for the silent majority which is American’s middle class, and those who aspire to be, to stand up and take back our country! How will that be done? By SECULAR LIBERALISM that’s how!