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I remember the Republicans used to say that foreign policy differences ended at our shore line! I guess that does not apply when they want to criticize President Obama and his handling of the Iranian Crises! Yet the Republicans and their fellow travelers in Halliburton had no problem doing business with the terrorist nation of Iran’s Mullahs! (See Video below)

These CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS who want to be the pals of terrorists not only Iran but China also. Isn’t it amazing how the Republicans criticize our President in these difficult times yet I did not see them attempting to place a hold on American companies doing a “CUT AND RUN” to China after Tiananmen Square to make a buck! What is even worse is that brave students are using the internet as a means of communication in both the current Iranian and Tiananmen Square revolt. Yet American Corporations in their pursuit of profit before people have even assisted the Chinese Government in policing their internet and capturing dissidents! (See video below).

We live in an era of licentious permissiveness where “Individual Freedom” is subjugated to needs of the CORPORATE COLLECTIVISTS of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others. Did they care about the freedom loving students of China? Yet these same pompous asses preach “individual freedom” and the danger of big government! What about the effects of the CORPORATE COLLECTIVISTS with their usage of K Street on the American body politic?

The Republicans say President Obama is timid and weak in dealing with Iran and they mock him for his past desire to talk to the Iranian leadership about their nuclear program. Yet they have no problem talking to China and shipping American jobs, technology and wealth to China as long as they profit from such transactions. We in the Middle Class have seen these CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS conduct a massive wealth redistribution program from the middle class to their own pockets while our national security suffers from such transactions!

President Obama realizes that both candidates in the recent Iranian Presidential elections were similar. However the followers of Mir Hossein Mousavi are evolving. First they opposed Ahmadinejad but now they are moving against their Supreme Leader and this could place them in opposition to the entire concept of the “Islamic Republic”! The crucial factor is not only their leader, Mir Hossein Mousavi, but the educated classes of the cities! By being placed in this evolving situation they are becoming outcasts of the Islamic Republic and ripe for conversion to real change! Hopefully as I mentioned in my prior post, to restoring some sort of Constitutional Pahlavi Monarchy!

Understand this crucial factor:

Change of that nature comes when anchors are cut. That is the reason for Obama’s reaction. Not simply that the Fundamentalists will crack down if we speak up. That is not the issue. The issue is the attitudes of the Iranian middle class in the cities. If the masses feel America is threatening them then the fundamentalists will succeed in their propaganda. Remember the VIETNAM WAR when blue collar workers where recruited by Republicans to fight the college students? The fundamentalists in Iran are attempting a “Richard Nixon” on the Iranian Silent Majority! They are claiming to be the advocates of “law and order” and defending the nation. Richard Nixon made the middle believe communists where behind the peace movement. The Islamic Fundamentalists are saying it is “the great Satan America”.

Yes the time is coming when Obama can come out of the closet and attack the fundamentalists.

But in social psychology when you wage psychological operations you change attitudes when the individual comes to the conclusion on his own. The young of Iran are now coming to that conclusion and most importantly “owning that conclusion”! As that occurs then we must overtly support them. Till then we must twitter away the time while using covert operations!

Let us just hope that American Multinational Corporations don’t sell their internet expertise to the current Iranian government! The time has come for all Americans to rally around our President!

Yes I am a Social Democrat and voted for Jimmy Carter. I believed the Shah had to go at the time. Now I feel the opposite. Partially because I believe both Liberals and Persian Monarchists have both matured.

While our direct support could hurt the forces of “Change” in Iran, I do believe in the Audacity of Change and that the vehicle for such change is the restoration of the Pahlavi Monarchy in a Western Constitutional framework! While the Shah has passed on, his son the Crown Prince, is alive and capable of becoming the new Shah. (See the video of him below) History has given the Crown Prince the opportunity to serve his nation by becoming a Constitutional Monarch whose future, like the restored Spanish Monarchy is to serve his nation as a respected “Referee” and Constitutional Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.

Above the Crown Prince addresses an audience at an American University. Despite the fact that his father had some flaws, under the Shah, Iran advanced in Western Liberal values. I believe his son has learned from the mistakes of the past. I believe we western Liberals have also learned and matured.

Under the Shah there was religious tolerance. The older religion of Iran “Zoroastrianism” has suffered under the mullahs. This heritage of Persia must not be snuffed out by extremists!

If we who label ourselves as “Liberals” decry religious fundamentalism and the Christian Right then we should also decry Islamic Fundamentalism. Just as we should denounce “atheistic fundamentalism” of communist states. All of the above have their rational tolerant advocates. The two films above show the pride that many Iranian “Persians” take in the monarchy and their history.

When a monarchy acts like the British and now Spanish Monarchies they insure the survival of Western values and freedom by placing their future not as “rulers” but as respected “referees” who enable “Parliamentary Democracies” to flourish without fear of a military takeover or one party rule. The forces who are fighting Ahmadinejad are slowly realizing that the so called “Islamic Republic” is as dangerous as we view a Christian theocracy. By the way I am an Episcopalian not an atheist.

While a Constitutional Monarchy is not for us in America, I strongly support the restoration of the Pahlavi Monarchy in Iran in a Constitutional framework!

Once again in this era of licentious permissiveness the BLEEDING HEARTS of the Republican Party whine about how the Corporate Wealthy are so overburdened by regulations while they have driven our economy to the ground! Now apparently they have used OUR SOLDIERS to ground their profits by installing faulty electric equipment in our military bases in Iraq! One of Halliburton’s subsidiary’s fellow travelers, a company called “KBR” has now been blamed for the death of Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth. He died from electrocution due to faulty electrical workmanship while taking a shower! He is not the first.

What we are seeing my friends is just another example of an era of Licentious Permissiveness, where anything goes when it comes to corporations making money! Why not with Halliburton after all they not only do contract work for us in Iraq but also our sworn enemies, the Shiite nut jobs in Iran! Oh dear but we won’t want to put “REGULATIONS” now on these giant CORPORATE COLLECTIVISTS who make their money while we in the Middle Class work! Well that is at least those of us who have not seen our jobs off shored to foreign lands by these CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS who have no loyalty to the nation that gave them birth, protection and profits!

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I would not want to hamper the profit making style of my “social betters” like those who invest in Halliburton? So what they invested in Iran, the nation who is sending arms to cripple and kill our soldiers! <See Video Above>. Saying “no” to corporations would undermine “freedom”! We need to know our social place! What place nasty “Regulations” on these advocates of 21^st Century Collectivization? Never I say!

I believe in FREEDOM From Corporate Responsibility!

• We should “Know our place” in the new scheme of “CORPORATE COLLECTIVIZATION”.
• So what that de-regulation has placed us in a situation where we had to spend at least $700 billion to bail out Corporate America! Far better that we deregulate then spend $100 Billion on Universal Health Care. If we did that then people would be able to feel some “independence” from the CORPORATE COLLECTIVES they are employed by! We don’t want that!- NEVER!
  
• Due to the large size of these Corporate Collectives we cannot let them fail thus we must  pay to bail them out ! But look at the bright side! Our futures will be bleak and we will fear for our jobs and being without universal health care, with fear of unemployment we can fall behind on either our mortgages and/or credit cards and thus pay higher interest to our SOCIAL BETTERS!

Yes my fellow Middle Class Americans and that is how they define “FREEDOM”!

I want freedom from corporate responsibility because it means:

• Freedom from Universal Health Care!
• Freedom From A secure economic future! Today on the MSNBC Website we have more good news! Business Week Magazine says we can forget about Retirement! Isn’t that wonderful!
• YES FREEDOM FROM RETIREMENT! – Ah yes only in America! I only wish George Bush had his way and had privatized Social Security!

This is pure bull shit! When is the SILENT MAJORITY – our great Middle Class going to say enough of this! If my tax dollars are going to bail out these companies then we should collectively own a majority of their stock, at least till the government can recoup it’s losses! Who are these people to make millions of dollars in salaries while the President makes only $400K per year and has far more responsibility!

Look at what has happened to blue collar jobs but also white collar technical jobs! What jobs have not been off shored are now being filled legally by foreign H1-b Visa holders to force down the wages of those who are trying to adapt to the new age of technology! Some white collar employees are even unionizing in the computer field! Meanwhile these CUT AND RUN CORPORATIONS leave the nation and even take up phony Headquarters on Caribbean Islands to avoid paying their taxes! Haliburton however really is moving their Corporate HQ!

That is why I use the term “CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS”. These are both corporations and individual investors who send America’s jobs, wealth, technology and security off shore, and frequently to the enemies of America! Look at the recent Dubai Ports deal! They don’t care for Port Security but “Portfolio Security” – theirs! Well the deal was stopped but none the less Halliburton has moved their Corporate Headquarters to Dubai! I guess they want to be closer to their fellow travelers in Iran! While you cannot always fault individual investors who buy foreign stocks, we need a program to protect America’s “PRODUCERS” – no I am not talking about rich Trust Fund kids who don’t have to work or even Heiresses! I am talking about the Silent Majority of America! That is to say our great forgotten Middle Class! Have you noticed how these effete snobs of privilege like to appropriate the term, “producers” for themselves? To hell with just rolling back the Bush Tax Cuts. We need to roll back the Reagan Tax Cuts! Strange isn’t it that in Europe they still have millionaires even with their higher tax rates! I am not against those who are rich. What I resent is those who are rich making it impossible for others to have a decent life! Do any of these people contribute 100 times more to society then those of us in the Middle Class?

The time has come to STAND UP FOR AMERICA against these effete snobs of privilege!