As you watch the reports about the Greatness of President Ford there is one little fact that will not be present. In December of 1975 Gerald FOrd and Henry Kissinger met with Indonesian Dictator Suharto. IN that meeting Ford gave Suharto the green light to invade the country of East Timor. As a result of that invasion an estimated 300,000 people were slaughtered. The reason Ford supported the invasion of East Timor and it subsequent slaughter. These bastards were communists. Yes I said communists. These TImorese needed to be massacred for the belief that the people should have a fair and equal distribution of wealth and power. How dare they not embrace free market economics and the rape of their resources.
See you in hell President FOrd.
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
President Carter
So it seems President Carter has caused a little stir in America. It turns out he has written a book critical of Israeli policies towards the Palestinians. As a result he has had at least one prior engagement canceled. He was to give a talk at Brandeis University but was told that he would have to debate the ravenous plagerizer Alan Dershowitz. Carter refused saying something to the effect that Dershowitz doesn't know what the fuck he is talking about.
The book hadn't even been released and the Israeli Lobby was already in full swing. We had Speaker-elect of the House condemn Carter's use of the term apartheid. Ironically or maybe not Israel blocked Rev. Desmond Tutu from going to Palestine on a fact finding mission. From where I sit it seems as if the Lobby has done it job, for the most part. They are trying so hard not to allow the term apartheid from being used. I had a letter to the editor printed in the Journal Sentinel calling Israel an aprtheid regime and was surprised that there was no response.
Is apartheid a legitimate word for what is happening in the Occupied Territories? I would have to say of course. There are roads that only Israelis are allowed to travel on. They criss cross the West Bank in an attempt to grab more and more land while relegated the Palestinians to little Bantustans or "homelands" like they had in SOuth Africa. People are given certain rights in the Occupied Territories due to their ethnicity. There are Palestinians without enough water yet the settlers have swimming pools. THough, what I just read in Haaretz(Israel's New York TImes) is that the government has passed a law making it illegal for an Israelis to drive a non-Israeli in their car. No shit. It will be against the law in January for an Israeli citizen to transport a Palestinian or any human rights worker. Now if that isn't apartheid I don't know what is.
Now just imagine for a moment what the US press would say if Iran made it illegal for an Iranian to transport a Jew in an Iranian car. Better yet, imagine the what the press would have had to say if the Soviets made it illegal to transport a Jew in a Soviet car. There would be outrage. Not in this case though. Business as usual. Fuck the Palestinians. Thank Speaker Pelosi.
Haaretz Article. If you don't believe me.
The book hadn't even been released and the Israeli Lobby was already in full swing. We had Speaker-elect of the House condemn Carter's use of the term apartheid. Ironically or maybe not Israel blocked Rev. Desmond Tutu from going to Palestine on a fact finding mission. From where I sit it seems as if the Lobby has done it job, for the most part. They are trying so hard not to allow the term apartheid from being used. I had a letter to the editor printed in the Journal Sentinel calling Israel an aprtheid regime and was surprised that there was no response.
Is apartheid a legitimate word for what is happening in the Occupied Territories? I would have to say of course. There are roads that only Israelis are allowed to travel on. They criss cross the West Bank in an attempt to grab more and more land while relegated the Palestinians to little Bantustans or "homelands" like they had in SOuth Africa. People are given certain rights in the Occupied Territories due to their ethnicity. There are Palestinians without enough water yet the settlers have swimming pools. THough, what I just read in Haaretz(Israel's New York TImes) is that the government has passed a law making it illegal for an Israelis to drive a non-Israeli in their car. No shit. It will be against the law in January for an Israeli citizen to transport a Palestinian or any human rights worker. Now if that isn't apartheid I don't know what is.
Now just imagine for a moment what the US press would say if Iran made it illegal for an Iranian to transport a Jew in an Iranian car. Better yet, imagine the what the press would have had to say if the Soviets made it illegal to transport a Jew in a Soviet car. There would be outrage. Not in this case though. Business as usual. Fuck the Palestinians. Thank Speaker Pelosi.
Haaretz Article. If you don't believe me.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Iraq Study Group Pt.I
So the much-anticipated Iraq Study Group has published it finding and printed out copies for us all to read. Of course, I went and got my copy the day they were released and boy what exciting reading. Most of it had already been leaked to the press so there really wasn’t a whole hell of a lot of new stuff for a discerning news junkie like myself. Still I read it anyways just so that I would know what was actually in it. This way when the “free” press reports on it I will be able to sift through the disinformation and see which parts they leave out of their reporting. Mostly three things, one of which surprised me, not because it made sense but because it was even mentioned in America, interested me. The other two weren’t surprises just a reaffirmation of what I already truly believe.
I won’t start with the surprise but instead on of the things that least surprised me. Upon reading this, one thing stood out at me immediately and reminded me of why things get done the way they do. It came to my attention that we could gather ten politically intelligent people, I’m not talking Poly-Sci grads just people who pay real attention to the world, set up a committee and that group of ten people could have written this report. First off the writing is below the level that newspapers are written in. It seems like it is written so that even a child could be able to read it.
The recommendations that the panel came up with are also very, very weak intellectually. I swear that we could grab ten people off the bus, random people, and they would have come up with basically the same ideas. Here is just one example of what the Washington Brain Trust came up with. “Recommendation 77: The Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary Of Defense should devote significantly greater analytic resources to the task of understanding the threats and sources of violence in Iraq.” No really this is what the great and revered Statespeople and “realists” were able to come up with. Basically the government should try to find out why and where violence is coming from. This is what they suggested. What is funny is that the press did their part to tell us how this panel was going to come up with great ideas and they fell all over themselves to praise the members.
Virtually every recommendation is obvious. For instance, #40 “The United States should not make an open-ended commitment to keep large numbers of American troops deployed in Iraq.” Basically, we should not occupy the country for ever or let the Iraqi government think we will provide for the security of the State of Iraq, which is, of course, our duty due to international law.
As a kid, I used to think that our leaders/rulers were smarter than us or me. I used to think that in order to be Secretary of State, Supreme Court Justice or Secretary of Defense one had to be intelligent. As I slowly got older I began to realize that these leaders may be marginally more intelligent then the average American. The last six years have proven to me that not only does one not have to be intelligent to be in government but also it may actually be a hindrance to one’s career. How Americans could ever accept leaders of this poor quality is truly depressing. Luckily for me like the rest of America, I have “must see T.V.” that can distract me from the real world.
I won’t start with the surprise but instead on of the things that least surprised me. Upon reading this, one thing stood out at me immediately and reminded me of why things get done the way they do. It came to my attention that we could gather ten politically intelligent people, I’m not talking Poly-Sci grads just people who pay real attention to the world, set up a committee and that group of ten people could have written this report. First off the writing is below the level that newspapers are written in. It seems like it is written so that even a child could be able to read it.
The recommendations that the panel came up with are also very, very weak intellectually. I swear that we could grab ten people off the bus, random people, and they would have come up with basically the same ideas. Here is just one example of what the Washington Brain Trust came up with. “Recommendation 77: The Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary Of Defense should devote significantly greater analytic resources to the task of understanding the threats and sources of violence in Iraq.” No really this is what the great and revered Statespeople and “realists” were able to come up with. Basically the government should try to find out why and where violence is coming from. This is what they suggested. What is funny is that the press did their part to tell us how this panel was going to come up with great ideas and they fell all over themselves to praise the members.
Virtually every recommendation is obvious. For instance, #40 “The United States should not make an open-ended commitment to keep large numbers of American troops deployed in Iraq.” Basically, we should not occupy the country for ever or let the Iraqi government think we will provide for the security of the State of Iraq, which is, of course, our duty due to international law.
As a kid, I used to think that our leaders/rulers were smarter than us or me. I used to think that in order to be Secretary of State, Supreme Court Justice or Secretary of Defense one had to be intelligent. As I slowly got older I began to realize that these leaders may be marginally more intelligent then the average American. The last six years have proven to me that not only does one not have to be intelligent to be in government but also it may actually be a hindrance to one’s career. How Americans could ever accept leaders of this poor quality is truly depressing. Luckily for me like the rest of America, I have “must see T.V.” that can distract me from the real world.
Monday, December 04, 2006
My letter to the editor 12/1/06
U.S. must find a way to get out of Iraq
-title theirs not mine-
Thank you for printing Sen. Chuck Hagel's thoughtful analysis of the Iraq war ("How U.S. must exit Iraq," Perspectives, Nov. 28). It is crucial for our politicians to find a way out of Iraq.
Many pundits claimed that the Democratic victory in November was a referendum on the war. Yet almost the next day, Democrats assured the country that they weren't going to do anything to speed our exit from this disaster.
As a member of the so-called left, I find it humorous that I may have a choice in the 2008 presidential election between a Republican who is against the war, Hagel, and a Democrat, Sen. Hillary Clinton, who is for the war. If it truly comes down to that, I know which side I will be voting for. Some things are far more important than party affiliation.
Justin Loper
Shorewood
Journal Sentinel
-title theirs not mine-
Thank you for printing Sen. Chuck Hagel's thoughtful analysis of the Iraq war ("How U.S. must exit Iraq," Perspectives, Nov. 28). It is crucial for our politicians to find a way out of Iraq.
Many pundits claimed that the Democratic victory in November was a referendum on the war. Yet almost the next day, Democrats assured the country that they weren't going to do anything to speed our exit from this disaster.
As a member of the so-called left, I find it humorous that I may have a choice in the 2008 presidential election between a Republican who is against the war, Hagel, and a Democrat, Sen. Hillary Clinton, who is for the war. If it truly comes down to that, I know which side I will be voting for. Some things are far more important than party affiliation.
Justin Loper
Shorewood
Journal Sentinel
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