Comments on: Mission Accomplished

By: HR

HR — Sat, 16 May 2009 23:23:31 +0000

There were a fair number of the over-worshiped founders who supported a monarchy, and much debate on how to “properly” address the President. The royalist mentality seems to be carrying the day, now more than ever. I shudder every time I hear Hail to the Chief or see red carpets laid out for our “representatives”. Even pseudoprogressive web sites caution folks to use “proper respect” when addressing elected officials, most of whom deserve no respect whatsoever, sold-out corporatist scum that they are.

By: Chris Ringwood

Chris Ringwood — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:49:37 +0000

Ah yes, the covert American Monarchy. A logical progression from the equally covert American Empire; and the epitome of rabid hypocracy. Something the U.S has made a sin qua non of being American these days. I suspect that Obama is presently imbibing a few too many heady drafts of !!!!POWER!!!!
Fairly normal unfortunately: Godhead remains permanently out of Man’s reach…”Thank God”!
As this grubby little tale illustrates, the control of USG by the neocons remains adamantine, to the extent that the latter’s modus operadi – imported from the mother country – maintains both infiltration and control, via key personnel placements, in the key corridors of American Government.
Once more, the term Hypocracy writs large since such methods were de riguer for the Nazis, and THEIR Role Model, the Russian Soviets: both camps our real and percieved enemies…

By: Mulga Mumblebrain

Mulga Mumblebrain — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:31:48 +0000

Torture is as American as apple-pie. The ‘water cure’ as it was known with that gift for sadistic euphemism that psychopaths so often display, was widely used in the Philippines as the US put down the liberation struggle with massive force, mass murder and racist brutality. The practice was introduced by veterans of the Indian Wars from the infamous Seventh Cavalry. No doubt its antecedents are even further back in time. In Vietnam we had Operation Phoenix, with its mass torture, assassinations and ‘disappearances’, and the practice of ‘pump and dump’ ie torture until death, then dispose of the body. Then there were the torture schools and torture manuals for military and police then unleashed on their home countries in Latin America, Africa and such stalwarts of pro-Americanism as Suharto’s Indonesia.
The purpose of torture is not to obtain information. Any information so obtained is clearly suspect with the victim prepared to say anything to cease their torment. Torture is all about intimidation, as in Israel’s decades of mass torture to demoralise and traumatise the imprisoned Palestinians, the recruitment of Quislings and informers, another Israeli speciality, and to slake the sadism of the psychopaths who practise it. I mean, water-boarding 183 times!!!I bet they sold tickets. I’d wager that Cheney had a video prepared, for his personal entertainment, and that of his croneys. That Obama has turned a blind-eye to this psychopathic savagery comes as no surprise, although a practised dissembler and confidence-trickster really ought to have come up with something less embarrassing than the ‘ We must look forward’ excuse. Imagine if the Nazis had used that exculpation at Nuremberg.Pure moral imbecility.

By: Michael Hureaux

Michael Hureaux — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:06:40 +0000

They’re absolutely useless. I liked to think last election season that in electing Obama, we would get a refresher course in hard experience why the “democrats aren’t about shit, but the silence remains deafening. At some point, we’re going to get tired of seeing how much pain we can take, but who knows when that will be?

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:19:58 +0000

Read about this decision in their history books? Don’t make me laugh.