The Tucson Massacre

As an Arizonan resident, I have a strong opinion about this. I have a fairly decent rant coming up but I presently don't have the time to write it up. To all you people who don't read my blog, fear not. I'll get to it soon.

The Fiesta Bowl

First off, I'd like to wish you a Happy New Year and Happy/Merry whatever it is you celebrate. Now then, OU came out for the Fiesta Bowl. It was amazing. Bob Stoops = awesome. They finally won this year after choking in the epic Boise State game and again against West Virginia. It was amazing but at the same time it was the most boring football game I have ever been to. We got started off with God Bless America, some other pro-America song and then the national anthem. By the time that ended, I was a little annoyed. All I came here to do was watch a football game, not worship a flag and sing meaningless dribble. Anyways, that's not the point.

Now hear me out before cursing me for calling the game boring. If you were there then you would understand. There were SO many times that play was delayed because the people in charge of the Fiesta Bowl wanted to "Honor so-and-so" or "Recognize Jane Doe" or whatever. It was getting to be infuriating. We couldn't go through one change of possession, end of quarter, or get through a kick-off after a score without this crap. It was so... Ugh. Even my brother agreed. I actually took out my phone and used the stopwatch to see how much time passed between a PAT and the ensuing kick-off... 2.5 minutes. Football is a game of intensity and adrenaline and you build off the things happening. When you get delayed for 2.5 minutes then you take out the excitement and level of play. I was getting so mad.

But for me, that was not the worst part. Not by a long shot. We got to the point where we honored a few veterans and the last guy that was introduced was an immigrant. The announcer spat out this bunch of crap that made me VERY angry: "And finally, we honor [his name], who earned his citizenship through protecting our freedom".

"Earned his citizenship through protecting our freedom."

That is the biggest load of bullshit I have heard in a long, long time. He had to risk his life on the battlefield just to be able to live in the United States? It's good to see how benevolent we are.

Fight and kill for us. Okay, you can live here now.

I don't really know how to describe how ridiculous that is.

2010 Racism against Latinos,
You're stealing our thunder.
Warmest Regards,
1860's Irish and Chinese Racism

That's all I got for now. Nationalist asshole Americans, feel free to send me hate mail. Rational humans, feel free to send me whatever.

~Your friendly neighborhood sarcastic prick and Someone Impoortant

What does it mean?

What exactly does it mean to "serve your country"? Lately I've been asking myself that question. Virtually all things I have seen around the internet and in the media point to being in the military. It's a little bit baffling to me. The way you are serving your country is by killing others in the name of what some see as "freeing" Iraq or Afghanistan. I am a fan of not doing this, thus the reason of the picture of the lion and the lamb. I saw this somewhere and think it is pretty fitting (at least in my mind) for Veteran's Day: Killing for peace is like fucking for chastity. I don't know who exactly said that, but I definitely agree.

Anyways, I am getting off point. I was aiming at what exactly "serving" your country means. Does it mean being willing to die for a piece of land? Being willing to kill to take control of others? Unknowingly being indoctrinated to kill by words like "freedom" and "patriotism"? Personally, I think it's the latter. I wanted to be in the military when I was naive and only 18 years old. I was ready and willing to go to a military academy and go off and kill for Dick Cheney, George Asshole Bush and Karl Rove. And I was very close to getting in but I started having seizures while I was 18. Maybe I should be thanking God for giving me epilepsy that prevented me from being in the military.

Anywho, I am a little curious about this question: How am I not serving my country? I am giving back to my country as best as I can by showing a little truth in a nation in the grips of mind control by corporate media who are in bed with corrupt politicians. I think that is a bit "patriotic". When given the truth, true civil disobedience is the best form of "patriotism". I may not be willing to say the "Pledge of Allegiance" but I think that, in itself, is pretty goddamn “patriotic”. That’s my rant for now. To all you people who don’t read my blog, keep on keepin’ on.

~Someone Important


Post Script (a pretty long Post Script):
You may have noticed that I used quotation marks when using the words “patriotic” or “patriotism”. In case you were wondering, that was on purpose. Patriotism is a made up word by assclowns who want you to do their bidding. As Emma Goldman writes, “Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill, and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others.”

I thought Stephen King's commentary on the Black Ribbons album by Shooter Jennings might be kind of fitting for my message:

"From the center of nowhere, Atop the shoulders of giants, Above the creeping fog of disinformation that clouds the American union, this is Will 'O the Wisp. And this is The Last Light Radio. Your last beacon of truth and defiance

I've always started my shows by saying that: All ships lost in the night search for the lighthouse on the rock of the enlightened. But, for truth seekers out there, the battery is fading and the light is dying. I see that freedom has failed us and with no light the night's going to be a long one. Woody Guthrie said: This land is your land, this land is ... my land. Great words, but this land is their land now.

This will be the last time your ears and my voice will be getting together. Because, as of midnight tonight, the previously public airwaves will be commandeered for government approved and regulated transmission. The last breath of free speech will blow itself out. What rises in its place is going to be the wind of thought control. Bad guys win folks!

You know I don't always play a lot of music on the show, as most of it these days is processed, bubble gum bullshit - churned out by the overlords of doublespeak and made to turn a gray world grayer. But tonight I won't go without leaving a message. Tonight I've chosen to play the one band the American Fascicrats don't want me to play. Tonight I'm going off the air with the music of Hierophant. For those of you not familiar, you'll get a taste of Hierophant's music tonight. Their message, their light

I started you off with Wake Up from their 2009 album Bohemian Grove, their first and most radical. Remember what the song says: Don't let 'em get you down. The most important truth is love, all you know and all you need to know, as the poet says. “What was that beauty, what's the difference? Love your family, love your neighbor, love your enemy as yourself. Go on loving, it's what humans do best and the one thing they can't kill.” Got it?

This is Will 'O the Wisp. The time now is no time. The temperature is cold. And the news is blue. But for now the light still shines. Off the same album, this is Triskaidekaphobia. That's fear of thirteen my sons and daughters, as in thirteen o'clock. You're listening to the last night on The Last Light"


Take care.

Visual torture

I stopped watching after about 6 seconds, around the time Gretchen Carlson uttered "There was this big rally put on by comedians which many people unfortunately think are news people". Such a large amount of stupidity in so short a time could have caused spontaneous combustion if I had kept watching...

Fox & Friends being Fox & Friends (Link)

I'm just flabbergasted she would even say such a thing. Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart provide more and better news in one show than Fox Noise does in 6 years of coverage. At least Colbert and Stewart actually say they ARE satire. I wish Fox & Friends would say the same thing about themselves, but they insist they are a "news" station that is "Fair and Balanced".

Lame...

Sorry

To all you people who don't read my blog, sorry I haven't "blogged" in over a month. I've been busy and I have just been slacking. I promise I'll post another rant about things that grind my gears when I get around to it. In the meantime, keep on keepin' on.

PS:
I just got the books I ordered: "Hopes & Prospects" and "Breaking the Sound Barrier" by Noam Chomsky and Amy Goodman, respectively. I haven't started to read them but I'm jacked that they're here.

Business leaders with a conscience? That's possible?

I never thought I'd see the day when people who would benefit from campaign contributions (bribes) would actually not put the dollar above the person. Although I still see the system as broken and the system still continuing after this, it is a bright light in a very, very dark place. I'm sure business leaders may be nice people, good values, good morals and the whole 9 yards. But in the grand scheme of things, I don't see them as much more than lords with the American people as mere serfs in a feudal system. It always seems like they put the dollar over the person, wealth over equality, inhumane-ness over decency. However, after reading letters sent by business leaders who value the people, I have developed a small level of hope. Perhaps the system can change no matter how many doubts I have.

I am damn proud to see business execs who actually have a moral compass.

http://rawstory.com/2010/01/business-leaders-finance-ruling-extremely-troubling/


Letters to the house and Senate:

http://www.publicampaign.org/sites/www.publicampaign.org/files/business-leaders-letter-house.pdf

http://www.publicampaign.org/sites/www.publicampaign.org/files/business-leaders-letter-senate.pdf

These lone acts of courage are not going to change much without the support of the people and responsible politicians like Alan Grayson (D) of Florida. It is going to take the will of the people and the acts of the people. Those in power are only in power because we, the people, let them be in power. Those in power become powerless when the people refuse to be mere serfs. It can be seen all through history that with a few sparks and educated individuals, the world can change drastically.

I wish I had read this article when it was first written back in January but I suppose I was just seeing red from then until now. Those 5 Supreme Court Justices' who voted to allow this limitless corporate finance should be ashamed of themselves. They just corrupted the election process of a democracy. Lately I haven't had much hope for the future of the Corporate States of America but this one little light made me think twice. Maybe we can go back to the United States of America but that's all going to take time, time that I hate to give up.

People need to be kept educated. You cannot take news from corporately owned media at face value. All stations, whether it be Fox, MSNBC, CNN or whatever, they distort and mislead. Real research is required in a democracy. DemocracyNow.org and other indepent news stations are probably the only ones worth trusting. Democracy is not a spectator sport. Change does not happen overnight. It takes struggles and sacrifices. Change may take years and years as seen in the civil rights struggles of the 60's. Apathy has crippled us the past few decades. People need to get off their asses. The ill-informed tea-partiers are admirable, although they are ignorant of what they are fighting against. But we should look at them as something that shows people can actually be united under a common cause. I have not seen that kind of unity in the States for quite some time.

Now then, back to my point of this post. This kind of feudal-like institution needs to change. When the public is misinformed, it votes against itself. Trickle down economics is a perfect example of the widening gap between rich and poor. That kind of policy does not work. Tax cuts for the rich is just as bad as giving money to the rich. That won't make them want to bring jobs to the States. It will just make their wallet a little heavier. Incentives need to be made to bring jobs to the United States. You have to make things cheaper to make in the United States rather than having workers in Chinese sweat shops who are paid pennys on the dollar. Perhaps increases in trade tariffs, or increased taxes on corporate products. Whatever the solution may be, it is possible, but it is not easy to achieve. I hope some may read this and find it interesting, but my true hope is to inspire people to educate themselves and make up their own minds. You cannot parrot the teachings of nimrods on major news networks on both ends of the spectrum. Make up your own damn mind.

It's been too long since I last ranted

This rant is going to be a little one about US war crimes. The picture above is that of a SMALL portion of the masscare at My Lai in March of 1968 during the Vietnam war. This may be too long of a post to read and most will not read it because of sheer laziness. That's why this country remains ignorant to all of its crimes against humanity. Now then...

Sometimes, often times, the US refuses to admit wrong doing. It's just the way the United States works. If we had lost WW II there is a good chance much of the staff of the White House would have been tried for war crimes against humanity for the napalm bombings of towns like Dresden, the fire bombings of Tokyo, and the nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Other war crimes directly in conflict with the Geneva Convention took place through military coups in south America and south eastern Asia. Others took place in Israel, the US puppet in the middle east. Due to the fact that Africa does not hold key commodities like oil US involvement is fairly seldom. I find this pretty humorous and sad since we went in to Iraq under the disguise of preventing a murderous dictator killing his own people when this happens all the time in Africa.

Numerous massacres took place during the Korean war, usually between North and South Korea but if you research enough it is easy to find incidents of war crimes the US committed (Hoengseong for one) in the name of preventing the spread of communism. Others can be found through US backed coups and government take overs, specifically in south America. US support was given to known drug dealers and warlords who were well known to kill their own people, not unlike Saddam Hussein. That is yet another example of US hypocrisy. Condemning and starting a war against a person who killed his own people while at the same time backing others.

Now then, in to the Vietnam war where numerous massacres took place, we refuse to admit we were wrong. Just take a look at My Lai. Through the years it has become harder and harder to find evidence of US massacres. If you want absolute evidence of US war crimes in the present, look at the video footage showing the shooting of journalists in Baghdad:

http://wikileaks.org/

What it all comes down to is the propaganda shown on major media outlets and government cover-ups. Propaganda does not always include pro-US footage. It is not always the American superiority complex. A large amount of propaganda includes what we do not see. The control of information by major news networks is extraordinary. Conglomorates and corporations who are in bed with government officials are the same ones who own the air waves. Scandals kept out of the news networks are not uncommon. Look up the court case New Communs of Tampa, Inc v. Akre. That is a perfect example of propaganda. Manufacturing consent is the prime motive of corporately owned media.

Although we do not live in an authoritarian or totalitarian state, we do have somewhat of a limit on what we do and do not know. It is amazing when you think about it. We are not mad at our government because of what they keep from us. We are perfectly content with that because of the vast amounts of pro-America mindsets in this nation. The majority of Americans have become mindless drones, the tea-partiers for example. Ask them what they are protesting, the tenants of socialism or the stipulations of the health care bill and you'll find out they won't say anything out of ignorance or them parotting the things Rush Limbaugh and/or the clowns on Fox Noise say.

It's only going to get worse. About three months ago a decision from the Surpreme Court has doomed us all, but of course most of us don't know about it. Read Citizens United v. FEC. It is the most absurd decision since Dred Scott v. Sanford. To give some background, in 1886 the Surpreme Court decided that corporations are people under the law. Now then, the Citizens United case decided that since corporations are not allowed to donate literally limitless amounts of money to a candidates running for office, they are not getting their first amendment rights. Now corporations, the same ones who control what we do and do not know, can buy politicians like they are commodities.

I truly believe that it's all connected. People refuse to admit it because it seems too hard to believe. If Americans saw have the things we are responsible for then there is no way that we would support such a violent nation. Read up on the government coups in South America. Nicaragua, Panama, Brazil, Guatamala, Cuba, Columbia... All of those are places where the US has tried or did train people to overthrow the government or US troops have directly overthrown the government. The reason: we wanted a pro-US dictator in charge. We, through both direct and indirect ways, control most of middle and southern America. The US has probably the most amount of war criminals in the world. The reason we don't get in trouble: anyone who opposes us will be demonized, we will impose trade sanctions or just simply crush them with military might.

Many of our own people believe we are the police officer of the world. In reality, we're the criminals of the world. One question I keep asking other Americans is, "What if these massacres happened to American civilians? How f*cking furious would you be?" But the answer is always the same from the pro-American fanatics and it's always something like, "Well they attacked us. We're justified. Might makes right." They never address the question. Numbers have desensitized us. With numbers, there is no human factor. It's just a number. If people hear the number of Iraqi civilian deaths is upwards of 100,000, we'll just say "That's horrible" and go back to eating a burger. Each and every one of those people were a picture in someone's wallet. Those pictures were an aunts, uncles, fathers, brothers, sisters or mothers of that person. They were a person for f*cks sake! I want to know why this is happening. Why can't people just be peaceful? What is so scary about peace? Why don't people want it? Why do they want bigger and better bombs? I sometimes want to shake people and ask them "What the hell is wrong with you?! Are the innocent civilians not people?!"

I am getting to worked up. For more on US war crimes, go here:

http://www.uswarcrimes.org/index.php/download-war-crimes-report/

" I suddenly had this feeling that everything was connected. It was like I could see the whole thing; one long chain of events."

~Eric Finch (V For Vendetta)