“Denia” by Manu Chao
“In an interview with CBS 60 Minutes’ Scott Pelley, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta revealed more about the secret process the Obama administration uses to kill American citizens suspected of terrorism without trial. According to Panetta, the president himself approves the decision based on recommendations from top national security officials.”
“We should nuke them.”
I believe that a large portion of Americans are very, very ignorant when it comes to history and America’s relationship with other countries. I also feel that many Americans are very selfish, living in a world of black or white, this or that, right or left, good or evil —unable to see the other colors of the spectrum, and unable to see when they’re being manipulated. The average American is a robot told what to think, feel, say, and how to react. We hold ourselves as morally and socially superior to all other human beings and disregard a fundamental part of human nature - understanding.
Here’s a quote to support this:
In Rochester, a former mill town of 30,000 people, John Tibbets, 71, voted for Newt Gingrich “because he’s going to straighten out America. He ain’t like these other wiffly waffly guys.”
Tibbets’ priorities: “Secure the border and be tough on terrorism. … If Iran gets nukes, I think we should nuke them. Because if we don’t, I think they’ll do it to us.”
(via Burlington Free Press)
“Oh, the Places You’ll Go!”
Burning Man 2011
If you were to view these two presidential candidates only by their biggest campaign contributers it tells you something about both of them.
Mitt Romney’s top 3 campaign contributers are Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse Group, and Morgan Stanley. All three are involved with banking and business.
Ron Paul’s top 4 campaign contributers are the Ron Paul for Congress Committee (with $500,000; not on the list btw because the list isn’t 100% up to date), members of the U.S. Air Force, members of the U.S. Army, and members of the U.S. Navy. All campaign contributers were composed of your average Americans.
Clearly those in banking and big business have something to gain if Romney wins the primaries and the presidential election or else why would they have donated so much? An act of kindness? I think not.
*Note, to view a more up to date list with all candidates and slightly different numbers money-wise see here:
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/contriball.php?cycle=2012
“You Like Ron Paul, Except on Foreign Policy”
Above is a picture of Omar Khadr, abducted at 15, now 25 years old, he has spent a third of his life at Guantánamo Bay for a crime he never committed.
“Khadr is accused of throwing a grenade that killed a U.S. soldier in 2002 and conspiring with Al Qaeda. There is no credible evidence to substantiate the charges, some of which date to when he was 11 years old. Charges were not even brought against him until 2007. If convicted, the Obama administration will seek a life sentence for Khadr, prosecutor David Iglesias indicated.
Army Col. Pat Parrish, the tribunal’s presiding judge, on Monday denied defense appeals to bar confessions Khadr made under torture. In hearings held in May an unnamed U.S. military officer admitted that his interrogation unit threatened to gang rape and kill Khadr if he did not cooperate with an interrogation session at Afghanistan’s notorious Bagram air base in 2002.
A U.S. military psychiatrist has said that Khadr, who has now spent a third of his life at Guantánamo, is under extreme psychological stress after years of living through torture, abuse and appalling conditions. He has been subjected to stress positions, beatings, humiliations—including being used as a “human mop” to clean up urine, threatened attack with dogs, long periods of extreme isolation and sensory as well as sleep deprivation. (Read more here)How come we barely hear about cases like these in the news? If it happend to a white christian male, we would constantly hear about it, but when it happens to a muslim from Afghanistan, silence.
Omar Khadr has himself said:
Khadr wrote to his Canadian attorney Dennis Edney, on May 27. “And if the world doesn’t see all this, to what world am I being released to? A world of hate … and discrimination.”
Lt. Col. Frakt has said:
“It is appalling that the Obama administration is allowing charges to go forward in the military commissions against Omar Khadr. Clearly, Omar Khadr, as a juvenile of 15 at the time of his alleged offences, could not be tried as an adult in federal court, so they are allowing him to be tried as an adult in the military commissions, potentially making him the first child soldier to be tried and convicted as a war criminal in world history.” (Read more here)
