War and the debates

I now have three debates under my belt. I certainly need to improve my skills in this area.
I have noticed the urge of some to spew as much out as possible in the alloted time. . I stumbled on questions relating to current events in Montpelier but that was to be expected. My strength which I need to rely on is my independence from party politics and my willingness to discuss the war and its stranglehold on our economy. I have come to the conclusion that the failure of our economy is due to the manipulation of money by the Federal Reserve and Wall Street, the use of the Pentagon as a police force for these agencies and the impotence of Congresss and the President in regards to these policies.
The more I examine what is going on the more I am convinced that we need a revolution. Ron Paul has suggested it and so have many others. I am not in favor of something resembling the French revolution but we are at a point quite like early Americans in relation to the British.I recently read a long passage from Thomas Jefferson and if the word Federal Government was inserted in place of British the similarities were frightening. Our liberty,freedom,and justice have been squashed by abusive laws and fear rules the day. King George is back with a vengence and its time to liberate ourselves again and restore civility,humanity,and peace.

War Profiteers

Today the U.S. announced the sale of 13 billion dollars in weapons to Iraq. Wars are all about profit not terrorism or nation building. War profiteers sell weapons to the enemy. They sell weapons to the U.S. We destroy the enemy and their weapons. The war profiteers sell more weapons to the depleted enemy and replenishes the U.S. The cycle repeats with four rounds of profit for each cycle. War profiteers don't take sides . That would be bad for business. U.S. companies financed and supplied Hitler before and during WWII.
The U.S. invades a country destroys its infrastructure, depopulates, destabilizes its government and then sells them weapons. What do we think might happen? Its like letting someone out of jail and denying them food and water but giving them lots of guns and ammo.
Just wait till we act suprised when they use the weapons without reading the instructions.
Cluster bombs, white phosphorus,and aerosolized uranium should only be used for peaceful purposes like crowd control. Just follow the model of our friends in Israel.
We live in a society that values profit above life. If humanity is to survive this must change.

F-35 meeting

Went to a meeting last night concerning bringing the new F 35 jets to Burlington. I was one of about 20 hostile anti-military, anti government people in attendence. One retired military man gave a speech quoting Eisenhower and talked about the fact that the Military Industrial Congressional Complex has taken over our lives. I talked about the corruption, incompetence and waste of the Pentagon. I also spoke about how politicians are afraid to take a stand against this slaughter and I think it is cowardice. The choice between slaughter and non-intervention is an easy one. Many expressed the difficulty of denouncing the war and not saying we don't support the troops. I will continue to say I do not support killing and support the troops if they are home in Vermont protecting Vermonters. I do no support war or intervention. The Pentagon is using our children as corporate goons . It was a great meeting and I met a lot of nice people who were passionate about the same things as I am.

Who's the terrorist?

The term terrorism has become very confusing to me. The U.S. invades a country i.e. Iraq and one million people die. Depleted uranium, a weapon that is banned under international law, is spread in huge quantities across the country ensuring toxicity of soil and water for a million years. I know of not one Iraqi citizen or soldier that has invaded the U.S. and done harm to one American.
If a citizen of Iraq attacks one of our invading troops that is occupying his country and uses a car bomb he is labeled a terrorist. Is this because we don't approve of his primitive weaponry? His weapons certainly do less damage than ours. Why is he just not a warrior defending his country or part of a grassroots civilian militia?
I will take this argument one step further. Not one person from Pakistan has invaded our country and killed an American yet we are bombing their country using remote control devices, and the targets are chosen from the advice given by enemies within this country. This is the same thing that got us into the quandry in Guantanamo. We gave ransoms to people and they turned in their enemies regardless of their crimes against the U.S.
Would it be O.K. if someone who hated my neighbor told me he was planning on doing me harm so I then dropped a bomb on his house and killed his whole family? Who is the terrorist here? A man has his whole family killed by a drone and then walks into a CIA station and blows himself and 7 agents up. Why is this man labeled a terrorist? He is simply fighting back. We invaded his country and killed his family. Would he have still been a terrorist if he used an f16 to drop a bomb on the CIA agents?
Recently a man in NYC failed to detonate a car bomb. Why is he labeled a terrorist? He would be called a freedom fighter if the shoe were on the other foot. He owns no advanced weaponry so he makes do . He invaded our country and tried to kill someone because we invaded his.
Another sad twist in this war of words is that if THEY think about doing us harm or display patterns of movement consistent with terror activities we kill them . U.S. forces kill people who have not attacked them but they are not labeled terrorists. Is it worse to think about doing harm or actually doing it?
War is terrorism. War is murder. No ground rules apply. All participants are warriors and potential muderers. The media and our government has twisted the english language and helped foster the belief in some Americans that our methods of killing are not terrorism. This is false.
Depleted Uranium is worse that a car bomb. Cluster Bombs are worse than rifles. Our invasions have caused the death of over 1 million people. Their invasions of the U.S. have killed not one person. Martin Luther King once said "My country is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today." This is even more true today than it was in 1969.

NYC false flag

Sometimes I do get tired of blogging about the war but it is tough because we are wasting so much money on silly cowboy and indian games that it makes me ill. Bad dark skinned man on land that we want. We try to take his land. He fights back with crude weapons. We exterminate them with better weapons. We take their land and tell our people that it was rightous. Our people believe us because we of course always do good.
The latest fake terrorist who could not shoot straight in New York City just happened to be from Pakistan. Wow so now we can kill more innocent people and feel good about it. Sorry if I don't buy it or any other manufactured attack that helps justify U.S. terrorism abroad. It is amazing how the bombs always work in their country but never in ours. Bad fuses I suppose.
Gotta keep the 50% believing in this illegal war and it ain't easy when the rest of the world don't.
Thou shalt not kill always seemed like a good rule to me, if you only had one. No exceptions.

War and Oil

Any energy policy for the future that includes oil is a bad policy. Oil is a non-renewable resource. The U.S. economy currently is thoroughly reliant on oil. The United States has no local supply of oil, and the acquisition of oil necessitates war. Corporations trading on Wall Street now own all of Iraqi oil and the citizens of Iraq own none. Anyone who tells you that wars are about freedom, Saadam Hussien, The Taliban, or 9/11 is lying. These lies have led to servitude and misery,for our soldiers,their families, and the people of the Middle East. War is about energy and keeping Wall Street afloat.
Renewables can solve most of the worlds energy needs. Vermont can solve almost all of its needs with local renewables. Solar energy does not require anyone to leave town and sacrifice their life. Wind Power will not poison the earth, soil, water, and bodies of those who come into contact with it. Hydro power does not require the toppling of governments and installation of puppet regimes to keep the energy flowing. Vermonters can stay right at home and enjoy this local, guilt free source of energy.
Transportation is a problem that does need to be addressed. We cannot transport with wind, solar, hydro, or any other present energy source effectively. The good news is that if we eliminate oil usage in other areas we can buy a little time and work on the transportation problem for the future. The reality of one million dead in the Middle East and one half million permanently disabled U.S. Vets should be enough to change our energy path now. Cuba survived quite nicely during a long oil embargo. They all had gardens and walked a lot and became a very healthy society. Communities got together and helped each other to survive. This may be the key to our future and our survival, because no matter what devastation our leaders inflict on the world, oil will not become a renewable resource, it will eventually run out.

War and Taxes

I attended my third Democratic candidate debate last night in Shelburne. I asked the question about how we as citizens can stop paying taxes to fight wars. We have a deficit yet 1.5 billion of our money is being used to murder people. The candidates all claimed they opposed the war and were helpless to keep us from paying for it. Only Doug Racine choose to say he would not always walk heel to toe in regard to the Federal Governments demands. I knew they had no grand plan for keeping our money here in Vermont. My main goal was to point out that we as a state are wasting lots of our tax money on something that benefits us in know way. In fact it is a major detriment, and will burden our taxpayers for years to come. I still believe education is the key. Burlington College has a course on war that is being taught by an anti-war activist. We need to have these courses in every high school so that children learn the truth about conflict and we can help fight the propaganda delivered by the Military Industrial Complex. The best way to stop war might be to have nobody willing to join the military.