Peace and Love for Egypt, that IS where it's at.

Over a long period of time a few years ago I had on line chats with lots of people in the middle east, including a reporter at Al Jazeera. One of them was a law student in Iran who when at school was surrounded by his classmates and when at home his mother was often present. One was an officer in the military in Turkey. There were also some in Egypt. I wanted to know how they felt about the people of the United States after the Bush regime invaded a country for power and capitalist reasons. All of them said they hated our government, but not the people. They said people are the same everywhere. It was repeated often by people in many countries that the people will change things. They said they believed the people in the United States would make huge changes after the Bush regime...well we tried. While I was called an infidel by the reporter at Al Jazeera, which is certainly true, most of the people said they believed everyone has a right to their own choice of religion. Someone in the military told me that most likely the FBI was monitoring me. I did not care at the time because we were having cultural discussions. I know a lot more about the malfeasance of the DOJ and how many people were wrongfully imprisoned due to the Iraq war now, then there are the FBI raids on peace orgs.  When I saw the revolution in Egypt starting I was ecstatic. They did it, after all this time, they did it, they got rid of Mubarak and took their country back. Now, if they can just establish a real democracy without U.S. interference they will be well on their way to a better life. 

One of my favorite hippies discusses the revolution in Egypt. He has some harsh words to say about Tea Baggers and the former half-governor.

ELITISM ON THE FAR RIGHT:TAKING FROM THE HAVE-NOTS TO BENEFIT THE HAVES

Do corporate puppets like Joe Miller and Alan Simpson understand that countries in Latin America working on building their infrastructure and growing their economies have added social security as a benefit to their people? Social security is one of the best protections for the economy and certainly ends up being cheaper in the long run than having masses of homeless people using expensive services because there is no support for them. This is why communities all over the world are finding ways to put homeless people into some kind of permanent living situation. The same is true of the disabled on social security. The unemployment insurance that Joe Miller has called unconstitutional also benefits the economy in exactly the same way as social security.
What do they propose to do with the disabled? Maybe like the Third Reich they can be among the first to be eliminated. Our society is increasingly becoming polarized, will they now create a line between the “fit” and “unfit” like the Nazis? Will the elderly and disabled become enemies of society because people who can't work for the corporations don't deserve life? The Third Reich called the disabled useless eaters and unworthy of life.

If masses of elderly and disabled people are living in poverty they can’t go to the grocery store to shop, pay rent, or buy anything else. If masses of elderly and disabled people are living in poverty huge increases in the number of calls for emergency services will result.  Increases in health problems will result in elderly and disabled in critical condition being admitted to hospitals in larger numbers. Poor people develop health problems to begin with due to poor living conditions and the inability to buy healthy food. Poverty also puts a huge amount of stress on people leading to depression, causing an increase in health problems as well. The rapid rise in obesity is due to the rapid rise in poverty and the inability to buy healthy food. Perhaps they are hoping the elderly and disabled will just die younger. This is the real Death Panel being put into action and a huge majority on President Obama's debt commission are for cutting social security.
Joe Miller and a lot of others in the Tea Party don't like the social systems of the United States, they want to tear down the middle class, the working people, along with the safety nets for disability, health care and retirement. If they don’t like this country there are many others they can migrate to. It seems anything that benefits the low to middle income population (most of us) is a problem for them and they seek to destroy it. The parasitic corporations have become so greedy they are now destroying their own life blood. A system like social security only works because they can pool huge amounts of money. State run social security type systems are a risky solution to retirement survival. The real thinking behind the elimination of social security is a benefit to the banking industry and insurance companies. Huge state administered retirement programs would make some people very rich, but are very risky to working people who could loose their retirement if something goes wrong with the economy or a particular corporation.
Like so many others on the far right and in the Tea Party Joe Miller has an elitist attitude about the poor and middle class. These elitists feel they are superior and deserve a very high standard of living while those they feel are below them don’t deserve what they have now. They scheme to take more away from the people of this country while giving themselves more. We have seen many examples of this, banks that were bailed out paid executives huge bonuses, Mayor Dan Sullivan in Anchorage Alaska wants pay cuts for union employees while considering an increase in pay for city executive employees. Let me also add that Mayor Sullivan’s arguments for this increase in executive city employee pay is clear elitist bullshit. Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Carey (I am not saying he is a Tea Bagger, just that the thinking here is similar) made this statement about pay raises he issued to his chief of staff, special assistant, and many others, "They are paid a professional wage...Those professional wages are relatively constant, even with the poor economy. I think these are absolutely appropriate." In other words he believes they are in the elite class so they do not have to make any sacrifices in a bad economy, in fact they each got $10,000 to $20,000 raises. The Tea Party followers and others with their warped agenda do not have our country’s best interest or the people’s best interest in mind, only the interests of their class, their party, their religion, their category of job, everyone else is considered expendable. Where is their humanity?
The leaders and those who finance the Tea Party movement hide their real interests which are about Theocracy for some and corporate money interests for others or even both. In their attempts to change the basic systems and principles of this country for their own benefit they are using a combination of religion and false patriotism to design propaganda to use as “the opiate of the people” to compel those who can’t think for themselves to follow them.

RACISM ON THE FRONT PAGE OF AN ARKANSAS NEWSPAPER

When I read Shannyn Moore’s post on Tim Griffin running for congress in Arkansas I decided to check the newspaper in a small town in Arkansas where I have relatives. I did not find a thing mentioning him, but there was a very telling article written about the 9-12 Tea Baggers event. I already knew that Arkansas is not like the deep south in that they have a mix of conservatives and liberals. I also know there are some highly educated people there. That is why I was surprised to find a paper printing an article with such racial bias. Frank Wallis of the Baxter Bulletin interviewed a couple from Mountain Home Arkansas and wrote about their participation in the 9-12 protest:

One of the largest assemblies ever to converge on Washington, D.C. — dubbed the 9-12 Project by television pundits and organizers — included two people from Mountain Home who say they were changed and encouraged by the message, the number and the orderliness of the throng estimated at 1.3 million by some attendees.

Myself and others commented on this false number of attendees.

Roy Gould, 75, and Joann Gould, 73, conservatives married for 58 years, traveled the 850-plus mile journey from Mountain Home via St. Louis where they picked up a son, a daughter and a friend. The Goulds said no one in their party had any idea what to expect by way of turnout for the event last Saturday.

"Some of the people who attended had to make some financial sacrifices to be there," Mrs. Gould said. "When I saw that crowd, I just stood there and cried."

I think I would have cried too, but it would have been from the tears running down my face from laughing. The article is mostly the same right wing conservative dominionist guano crazy crap we have all heard from the tea-baggers before. Below is what is so striking about the article.

Another image showed a protester with what appeared to be the head of a black man on the end of a pole raised high above the crowd.

Mrs. Gould said black people were not entirely absent from the assembly, but their numbers were small.

Mr. Gould said he met 10 black people and shook hands and greeted each one.

"I walked right up to them and stuck out my hand and said 'I want to shake a patriot's hand',” Mr. Gould said. "They had the same brightness and determination in their eyes as we did."

What a great guy. I have known people like this and they actually think they aren't racist.

Mr. Gould said a black woman actually spoke to the crowd. In her message she called out black members of Congress by name and called on each one to "do the right thing" by Americans whose insurance for heath care is at risk if insurance carriers are forced to compete with a costly government-run insurance group proposed by the Obama Administration.

A black woman actually spoke to the crowd. What year is this? Because if we have gone back to the 1970s I have a lot of things I would like to do differently and my Levis are back in fashion. Why would they even mention that she was black? I could see mentioning that there were not very many black people there, but the way this was written clearly shows the racist attitude.

The Goulds both say the 9-12 event is proof that fiscal and political conservatism in the U.S. is not about to run out of energy.

"This is just the beginning," Mrs. Gould said.

No actually Mrs. gould this is the end. The Republican party has so many uneducated, backwards, dominionists that I can hear it's death rattle. If they only knew the truth behind this movement they would feel betrayed. The problem is the party as a whole will be unable to change their line of thinking towards reality now. They are simply too brainwashed and it is hard to learn when you believe that knowledge is the enemy. Clearly they believe in complete fabrications without doing any fact checks. The demented are leading the demented.

When I read the comments I felt better because there were people who mentioned the racism and other issues. I posted the video from this post: http://frozenjustice.blogspot.com/2009/09/tea-baggersis-it-early-onset-dementia.html in the comment section.

President Obama Jimmy Carter is right. Are you in denial?


http://www.baxterbulletin.com/article/20090921/NEWS01/909210340&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL

TEA BAGGERS:IS IT EARLY ONSET DEMENTIA?

This video needs no explanation, really it speaks for itself. The New Left Media wades into a sea of Tea Baggers and interviews the totally uninformed moronic protestors. Nurses have several comedy diagnoses, one of which is, too stupid to live. How do these people survive? How do they make decisions? To make any major decisions in our lives we have to do some research and weigh the options. They just do not have the skills. I also saw some of that racism that Obama and other sources have said isn't happening. It is hilarious, but if I think about it too hard I become frightened and sad. I laugh because it helps me to cope.