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freshwest's JournalIrony hung Itself long ago. North should be sent to Guatemala to answer for his crimes:
Like shooting puppies: Guatemala's Iran-Contra war on the Mayans
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/03/27/851597/-Like-shooting-puppies-Guatemala-s-Iran-Contra-war-on-the-Mayans
Guatemala: Why We Cannot Turn Away
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/science/jan-june13/guatemala_05-08.html
Rec excluding paragraph re 2nd. Paul Ryan says to turn the states RED to repeal the
14th Amendment because of the Citizenship Clause. Ryan in the video posted her at DU said that, purportedly to stop the children of emigrants being citizens, a favorite among the xenophobes and baggers.Don't think they'd stop there. All we hear between now and 2014 is being done to get more RED states for their national plans.
They likely want the entire 14th repealed, in order to end its Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses as well.
Not to mention the 14th dealt with the Confederacy and its officials. What better way to 'restore' the country back to pre-Civil War standards?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
I believe eliminating everything after the 10th is their first goal to get rid of the IRS, women's sufferage and other amendments.
Their next goal to 'restore' the nation to what it was centuries ago, going after any of the first ten amendments. After that the clauses of the Constitution itself they find objectionable related to equality.
Their final goal is 'restoration' of the Articles of Confederacy to end federal power and devolve the USA into states again. I've been reading for years the writings of the Constitution Party, the sovereign citizen movement and Libertarians. That would be perfect for them.
Their propaganda leads to this final outcome, that is the tenor of what they push. They have been making laws against civil rights to dismantle federal power, state by state. They demonize every aspect of government to get people to accept shrinking it enough to drown in a bathtub by cutting off tax revenue. People have bought the idea nebulous persons should magically fund it, but resist paying to keep state and federal government going.
Don't mess with the Constitution until the American people are of one mind on it. They have a lot of money to brainwash people to work against their best interest. It's working very well.
They have no choice, the world is changing.
The ones you are noticing are more terrified than anything else. They are lashing out because they are comfortable; and to acknowledge what is happening is a threat to that comfort.
Ignore them, for they are not the voices that will rise in the coming days, months and years. They are not the voices of our collected humanity. They are the old voices of fear and impotence.
~ Anonymous
A Delusional Liz Cheney Projects Her Father’s Mistakes onto President Obama
By: Rmuse Apr. 6th, 2013
The identifying traits of fantasy are the inclusion of fantastic elements in an imaginary setting where inspiration from mythology and folklore drive a consistent theme that generally includes good guys versus a bad guy. Since 2009, Republicans have fabricated fantastic narratives of good, white patriots against their made-up bad guy, Barack Obama, and it never fails they take their good guy inspiration from the senile dead man they made into a god; Ronald Reagan. True to form, on Thursday, Liz Cheney told a fantastic tale replete with a quote from Reagan he “borrowed” from Thomas Jefferson, and used it to attack the President for all manner of make-believe offenses typical of conspiracy theorists and dysfunctional conservative sycophants...
Cheney must have enlisted her vile father, Dick, to give her talking points the ignorant and “freedom-loving” patriot types would understand, and she went through a laundry list of assertions about the President so far removed from the truth there is little doubt she is a typical lying Republican fear monger. She began with the requisite “President Obama is the most radical man ever to occupy the Oval Office,” and accused him of creating diversions using manufactured crises meant to cover over “real threats to the republic.” As with every other Republican assertion about the President, Cheney claims his wont to borrow, spend, and high taxes agenda is the result of his lack of awareness of the free-enterprise system, and his ignorance “explains his hostility toward the private sector.” The private sector incidentally, is thriving because of the President’s economic policies and historically low tax rates, but when you are fantasizing about a bad guy, facts do not matter...
It was the subject of war, or the hopes of new wars, that Cheney followed her father’s typical script and accused the President of “so effectively diminishing American strength abroad that there is no longer a question of whether this was his intent. He is working to pre-emptively disarm the United States.” Cheney parroted neo-conservatives’ assertion that President Obama is sending a message to Islamic extremists that if “you attack us with impunity. You will suffer no consequences.” According to Cheney, “President Obama stood by and did nothing when al Qaeda’s affiliates in Libya killed the U.S. ambassador and three other brave Americans in Benghazi on the anniversary of 9/11,” and “turned his back on America’s allies around the world and ignored growing threats.” It is likely that Cheney missed the months of perpetual attacks on this President from the right and left for unmanned drone attacks on al Qaeda’s leadership and Islamic extremists in the Middle East, Pakistan, and Africa...
There was nothing new, or true, in Cheney’s attack on the President and she clearly was speaking to recalcitrant Republicans who are realizing that their entrenchment in right-wing extremism is not setting well with voters. In fact, her words will ring truest with teabaggers and pseudo-patriots who yearn for Bush’s cowboy diplomacy and libertarians anxious to privatize the government, but for the majority of Americans it was just another Dick Cheney, Paul Ryan, and Koch brothers’ speech that was void of truth, contradicted facts, and sheer fantasy. Cheney outdid herself and entered the rarified air of Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, and Ted Cruz who fight imaginary villains with imaginary facts and wonder why no-one in their right mind takes them seriously.
http://www.politicususa.com/delusional-liz-cheney-projects-fathers-mistakes-president-obama.html
She even snarls just like Darth...
Cheney has been worried since Obama was elected:
Daughter Liz: Dick Cheney is Afraid of Torture ProsecutionsMay. 22nd, 2009
Last night on CNN, Liz Cheney revealed that her father former vice president Dick Cheney is speaking out in defense of torture right now because he is afraid of being prosecuted for war crimes. Apparently, the person that Cheney is most interested in protecting is himself.
Cheney said, “I don’t think he planned to be doing this, you know, when they left office in January. But I think, as it became clear that President Obama was not only going to be stopping some of these policies, that he was going to be doing things like releasing the — the techniques themselves, so that the terrorists could now train to them, that he was suggesting that perhaps we would even be prosecuting former members of the Bush administration.”
I don’t think anybody should be surprised that a man who is motivated by, and motivates others, with fear is frightened of prosecution. Cheney is on the attack, not out some desire to protect the nation, he is trying to save his own legacy, and keep his butt out of prison. Guys with heart conditions don’t do well in the old pokey. Every once in a while a little bit of truth manages to sneak through, the GOP argument in favor of torture.
http://www.politicususa.com/Cheney-Torture-Fear.html
Lot of stuff at that link, too.
Same feeling and logic. Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching and Alan Watts influenced me as a teenager.
Loved it, the koans and Japanese Zen tales such as The Strawberry, that went like this:
There was once a man who was being chased by a ferocious tiger across a field.
At the edge of the field there was a cliff. In order to escape the jaws of the tiger, the man caught hold of a vine and swung himself over the edge of the cliff.
Dangling down, he saw, to his dismay, there were more tigers on the ground below him!
And, furthermore, two little mice were gnawing on the vine to which he clung. He knew that at any moment he would fall to certain death.
That's when he noticed a wild strawberry growing on the cliff wall.
Clutching the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other and put it in his mouth.
He never before realized how sweet a strawberry could taste.
Life is like that sometimes.
I love that example. It's very much like something my father told me one day when I was puzzled.
Well, more than puzzled, but I put it in terms of a question. The boys at the school felt they were entitled to gang up and throw rock at girls, call them names, and laugh at them. I got that treatment that afternoon, being called a witch by boys and asked my dad why they did such a thing and what did that mean?
He told me that they didn't know anything about me, so nothing they said was true. And that the names only showed what they were and would never be me.
(I also created a default position which I called the 'jerk box' part of my brain. To not puzzle over such things, just toss 'em there and forget 'em. Like DU Ignore.)
But back to the above, like the old master, I did not accept their gift and let them keep it. Because if you deny the abuser power within your own mind, you see just how miserable the person is.
I've told kids that anyone who comes to threaten or bully with an angry face or yells, 'I've got a problem with you!' - just slow yourself down and then break down what they said:
They have a problem.
And it's their problem.
It is not your problem.
Thus, it's not about you.
Don't let them make it about you.
You have a choice, now that you know what the anger is about.
Someone has a problem, you are not the problem.
Listen or do not listen, since you're doing them a favor by giving them your time.
But not yourself, never.
Enjoyed your story. See you later.
You'd be amazed at the many shades of meaning of a smile accompanied by the words,
'Thank you and have a nice day' in a tone of voice that indicates you really do mean it. The rude will be defused and whatever you think won't come back to bite you later.
No one knows what you really think or feel, nor do they care. It's just a social interaction like the question 'How are you' and the answer 'I am fine.' Friends may want to know in truth how you are; but strangers just do it to cut the ice and start business.
Or they don't. To answer 'I'm fine,' is more appropriate than telling them how you really feel, and faster. As far as blatant rudeness, I am often speechless. So I'm not going to give them anything more to work with.
If I must converse with them, I do it slowly and carefully and with little emotion. Because they may be having a bad day. A poster here wrote 'The person who is being rude to you is not really responding to you, but the person they were just with who was rude to them.'
Don't take any of it personally. They don't know you, and you don't know them. I hope that helps.
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