Less killing in ‘06!

Check out my new article at the Northwest Meridian, a cool alternative print and online publication with a distinct libertarian editorial flavor, taking Oregon state by storm.

In the article I reflect on the scandalous year of 2005 and hold out home for a continued revulsion against the government sector among the people.

Also, over at LewRockwell.com, I defend our great president, pointing out that at least he didn’t lie about sex!!

Oh, how I loathe the Democratic Party. How many times in reference to Iraq, torture, Plame’s name, the Military tapping our phones, etc. have I heard a Goddamn Democrat say, “Oh, boo hoo, the President’s bad policies are hurting the real war on terrorism.”

There is no real war on terrorism. The whole thing is a big lie. Though this may be pretty redundant to those who purposely read and think on a regular basis, if this war was ever to be legitimate at all, it would have been a war on al Qaeda in Afghanistan and the murder and/or capture of the top few ringleaders (which was about the entire group at the time) and been done before Christmas 2001.

Instead the entire political establishment in our greatest God-blessed state supported using September 11th as a pretext to expand our domination of the Middle East and Central Asia, splitting only on the question of whether efforts should be centered in the Stans or Iraq.

And they let bin Laden escape scot-free to serve as an excuse for more war later on.

As the Great Bill Hicks explained in the direct and honest language which was his forte, “All governments are liars and murderers.”

Perhaps the Democrats are worst of all as they are supposedly the opposition while leaving themselves in the position of accepting all the false premises of the administration, but lacking the guts to torture and kill enough to earn credentials as being “credible on national security.”

You want security? Stop meddling in the Middle East!

You want to be safe? Buy a gun.

Hey everyone, check out this great speech by Eric Garris, the founder and director of Antiwar.com, at the Perdana Peace Forum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia about the difference the web has made for those who oppose the warfare state.

“U.S. politicians are confused by the Internet. They have for years trumpeted military force as the best vehicle for changing humanity. With the Internet, we see the precise opposite principles and methods in play. Whereas American politicians believe themselves to be examples for the world to follow, even as they wage aggressive war, the Internet is an example of what the world’s billions of people are capable of, when only left in peace to cooperate, exchange, and share ideas freely with one another. The Internet unites and connects and uplifts humanity in ways that the U.S. empire never could, not with all the military bases and nuclear weapons in the world.”

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Check out this interview of him too.

William Arkin has some bad news:

“The Curious Section 126 of the Patriot Act

What is it that the National Security Agency began doing after 9/11 that necessitated Presidential authorization for warantless surveillance?

We have all learned in the past week that the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act of 1978 contains provisions that allow the government to conduct quick reaction surveillance of an individual and go to the court afterwards for a warrant.

So what would the NSA need to do that isn’t covered by the provisions of FISA?

My guess is the government decided after 9/11 to monitor everyone.”

Like you didn’t know that.

Read the rest here. (And get a load of the state’s defenders in the comments section)

What do you get when a foreign power, which used to prop up the minority dictator in its colony, turns and overthrows him without a real plan for his replacement? Civil war, that’s what. According to the Associated Press, under the misleading title “Keeping Iraq Intact“:

“Kurdish leaders have inserted more than 10,000 of their militia members into Iraqi army divisions in northern Iraq to lay the groundwork to swarm south, seize the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and possibly half of Mosul, Iraq’s third-largest city, and secure the borders of an independent Kurdistan.

Five days of interviews with Kurdish leaders and troops in the region suggest that U.S. plans to bring unity to Iraq before withdrawing American troops by training and equipping a national army aren’t gaining traction. Instead, some troops that are formally under U.S. and Iraqi national command are preparing to protect territory and ethnic and religious interests in the event of Iraq’s fragmentation, which many of them think is inevitable.

The soldiers said that while they wore Iraqi army uniforms they still considered themselves members of the Peshmerga — the Kurdish militia — and were awaiting orders from Kurdish leaders to break ranks. Many said they wouldn’t hesitate to kill their Iraqi army comrades, especially Arabs, if a fight for an independent Kurdistan erupted.

‘It doesn’t matter if we have to fight the Arabs in our own battalion,’ said Gabriel Mohammed, a Kurdish soldier in the Iraqi army who was escorting a Knight Ridder reporter through Kirkuk. ‘Kirkuk will be ours.’”

Great going, all you stupid government trusting fools out there who let the least credible president since Bill Clinton convince you to be scared - like a little child - of the terrible threat to yourself and family posed by Saddam Hussein. Remember how frightened you were, you trembling little bitches?

“Nuclear weapons program?! Unmanned Arial Vehicles that can fly across Jordan, Israel, the Mediterranian Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean to spray us with deadly chemical/germ weapons?! Saddam taught al Qaeda how to hijack jets?! Boo, hoo! Oh, no! Well then, I’m convinced! Iraq could kill us all any day! Let’s (you) go get Saddam and get out!”

Now you see what happens when you listen to politicians? They lie to you, you believe them, they kill people and set up circumstances for more stupid killing in the future.

There was once a report (which I can’t seem to find) that Bush/Blair wanted to keep the Sunni Ba’athist types in power, but when that “minor cleric” Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani insisted on direct elections, they apparently realized that if they didn’t do what he said they would have to start the whole war all over again. Oops.

Now, the Sunnis and secularists are protesting the election results, Iran rules the south, and the Kurds are preparing for war.

And it is all your fault.

It’s only a matter of time before someone falls on their sword for the emperor. Could it be Harriet Miers? Certainly they are saving Gonzales for other tasks.

Thanks, Scott, for the kind plug. I have a couple points regarding some of the defenders of Bush’s secret surveillance.

Some defenders of the surveillance powers have argued that a FISA court decision from 2002 effectively conceded that the president has the general authority to conduct wiretaps without a warrant. But the FISA court simply does not have the constitutional authority to grant such sweeping powers to the president.

We might wonder why the administration has not relied more on warrants since 9/11, instead of so quickly resorting to FISA or sneakily going through the NSA. Amazingly, top intelligence officials recently complained about the “inefficiencies” of judicial oversight and of satisfying the “probable cause requirement.” The current deputy director of national intelligence and former NSA director, Air Force Gen. Michael V. Hayden, grumbled about the burden of paperwork even for retroactive court approval.

But even Secretary of State Colin Powell, who said on Sunday, December 25, that there is “absolutely nothing wrong” with the NSA program, also said, “My own judgment is that it didn’t seem to me, anyway, that it would have been that hard to go get the warrants. And even in the case of an emergency, you go and do it.”

I think it is fair to say that the reason they didn’t just get warrants is the same basic reason that states do anything beyond their presumed previous limits—all states have a natural inclination to be totalitarian, and so they do all they can get away with.