Cap and Trade Passes the house!

Rep Markey has a lot riding on this cap and trade bill getting signed into law. About $100k to be more accurate. Apparently Rep. Markey along with Speaker Nancy Pelosi have invested heavily in the "green" market. This means that for their investments to pay off they need to make sure that the green industry can make money.

Introducing the Cap and Trade Bill!!! This bill makes it impossible for companies to be profitable unless they are "green." It will assess penalties and taxes to their carbon footprints. These new taxes will kill business and prevent the economy from rebounding. But They DON'T Care because they will get rich. They'll get filthy stinking rich off these green investments because they will have an uneven playing field.

The best part about this bill is that they call it a jobs bill. However it will most likely ship jobs overseas where the labor is cheaper and the environmental regulations are less strict. That means less jobs for Americans! Way to go! As long as you get rich who cares right?

This isn't about being green! It's about control and money! And the Democrats are perfectly happy with that control and money so long as THEY have it. If the GOP had this bill they would be blomumficating about how the GOP was doing this for money and power! But that's exactly what this is about!

Think about it! How does limiting emissions (i.e. production) and raising taxes (assessing penalties) on businesses make sense in THIS economy? What about all the people working in the coal, oil, and natural gas industry who will lose their jobs because of this? How about the fact that every green job created by the government will kill more than TWO private sector jobs? How does this make sense?

If it doesn't make sense then we need to kill it, not sign it into law. These idiots in congress didn't even read the bill! AGAIN!!!! Can we afford another mess like the BAILOUTS??? This is the most insane thing this government has ever done! WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?????

Cap and Trade LIE

The Cap and Trade Bill is about to pass. What kinds of things will we see with this bill?
GE, Goldman-Sachs, and other big businesses will get rich off cap and trade. Congressmen and women who are invested in green energy will be making a killing off this. Al Gore will become a billionaire!
This bill is about consolidating power and money with Washington Elites! According to the EPA it will cause domestic production to ship abroad!! It will increase greenhouse gas emissions as well as kill American jobs!
Green Peace even says that this bill will not reduce emissions!
Yet we are going to pass this bill and make politicians rich!
It will drive businesses out of this country! This is an exportation of labor!!
It's the biggest lie the government has ever told us!!!

Get Smart! Get Guns!

The King of Pop? How about people with REAL Problems??

So the King of Pop and one of Charlie's Angels has died today. But did you know that right now there is a massacre going on in Iran? I'd hate to be the guy who doesn't seem to care that two important American icons are dead, but this stuff that's going on in Iran is more important to me. This isn't people dying of heart attacks and cancer; this is people who are being killed by tyrannical governments.
It's sad to me that more people care that Michael Fucking Jackson is dead but people are being MURDERED in Iran with clubs and axes and guns. It's a fucking disgrace that more people care about Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. I don't want to hear anymore about it today.
It's pathetic that all the news agencies are now going to run all this coverage on Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett when there are people who got real problems.
Why am I so locked in on Iran? Lets just say that I think OUR government is perfectly capable of this kind of tyranny. If you don't believe me then lets go back in time to Ruby Ridge. Remember when federal agents shot the woman holding a baby? Remember how they shot their son? Why? Because they guy had some illegal rifles? He wasn't hurting anybody but the federal government decided that is was worth kiling a whole family over.
Remember Waco? Remember what that was all about? Was it about the wacky cult? No it was about guns. Again the Branch Davidians weren't doing anything to anybody but we felt that it was worth killing all those people over some assault rifles, which according to the constitution they were perfectly within their rights to do own. But what do I know?
Our government is out of control with spending and trying to take over people's lives with nationalized healthcare, auto and banking czars, restricting pay and trying to regulate every aspect of our lives. When are we going to understand? Iran? Yeah THAT'S GOING TO BE US!!! Maybe one day WE'RE going to be the ones on YouTube asking for help from other countries. Maybe we're going to be the ones who are forced to die because the government has no more health care funds for us. Maybe We're going to be the ones who are shot in the streets because the government already took out firearms away.
I'm not calling for a revolution... well not a violent one... but a POLITICAL revolution where people stand up for thier rights and don't let the government dictate their lives.


So the King of Pop and one of Charlie's Angels has died today. But did you know that right now there is a massacre going on in Iran? I'd hate to be the guy who doesn't seem to care that two important American icons are dead, but this stuff that's going on in Iran is more important to me. This is people dying of heart attacks and cancer this is people who are being killed by tyrannical governments.
It's sad to me that more people care that Michael Fucking Jackson is dead but people are being MURDERED in Iran with clubs and axes and guns. It's a fucking disgrace that more people care about Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. I don't want to hear anymore about it today.
It's pathetic that all the news agencies are now going to runn all this coverage on Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett when there are people who got real problems.
Why am I so locked in on Iran? Lets just say that I think OUR government is perfectly capable of this kind of tyranny. If you don't believe me then lets go back in time to Ruby Ridge. Remember when federal agents shot the woman holding a baby? Remember how they shot their son? Why? Because they guy had some illegal rifles? He wasn't hurting anybody but the federal government decided that is was worth kiling a whole family over.
Remember Waco? Remember what that was all about? Was it about the wacky cult? No it was about guns. Again the Branch Davidians weren't doing anything to anybody but we felt that it was worth killing all those people over some assault rifles, which according to the constitution they were perfectly within their rights to do own. But what do I know?
Our government is out of control with spending and trying to take over people's lives with nationalized healthcare, auto and banking czars, restricting pay and trying to regulate every aspect of our lives. When are we going to understand? Iran? Yeah THAT'S GOING TO BE US!!! Maybe one day WE'RE going to be the ones on YouTube asking for help from other countries. Maybe we're going to be the ones who are forced to die because the government has no more health care funds for us. Maybe We're going to be the ones who are shot in the streets because the government already took out firearms away.
I'm not calling for a revolution... well not a violent one... but a POLITICAL revolution where people stand up for thier rights and don't let the government dictate their lives.

Iran's President calls Obama 'just like Bush'

Well FINALLY someone gets this right! Of course he's just like Bush. Especially in the who Big Spending arena. But in this case Obama's stance on Iran is also very similar to Bush's albeit maybe a bit softer. I think Ahmidboobeeepoop is going to be sorry for calling Obama a Bush. That's just a bad word in Democrat land.... Iran's best hope to be re-integrated into the mainstream world (while still remaining under the current totalitarian regime) was with Obama. Now he wants Obama to apologize...

Sorry Charlie, Obama only apologizes for Bush not for himself you got this guy all wrong. And Obama shouldn't apologize because his stance on the violence in Iran is correct (I wish he would have condemned the police state sooner and shown more support for the protesters sooner) for the most part. So go eat pig poo Ahmedimwitpawn.

I'm glad for one thing, much of the rest of the world sees the Republicans and Democrats for what they really are, the same train moving at different speeds. Remember Elliot Spitzer? Yeah what a douche, now the GOP has Gov. Sanford who was apparently flying to Argentina to see his mistress... Another one bites the dust. Both Spitzer and Sanford were presidential hopefuls for the near future. I guess we all can't be as slick as Bill Clinton... Oh wait, he wasn't that slick either. In fact cheating on your wife is no reason to stop running for president!

But back to Iran. I think the Iranian President is going to be unhappy for a couple of reasons. 1. he is losing his country and the people will overthrown him and his Ayatollah puppet masters. 2. The Ayatollahs in a desperate attempt to regain control will relent to the people's demand for a new election and Ahmedirkaderrr will lose.

Witnesses report clashes around Iran's parliament

More riots in Tehran! As those who wish for freedom and democracy in Iran make their voices heard, the police and the government are still cracking down on them! It’s too bad that it had to come to this but sometimes revolution is violent. Remember that Freedom is not free, it is paid for. You want something for free then you’re going to have to live under tyranny. You can have all of that you want without paying for it.
The loving and peaceful government of Iran is promising swift and painful action against the protestors. Yay for the supreme ruler! How dare those peasants challenge his authoritahhh?

North Korea getting ready to Launch

Intelligence officials state that North Korea is preparing to launch short and medium range missiles instead of long range ones that could possibly hit the U.S. This brings up an interesting question: Is North Korea backing down from it threat? Is it just unable to fulfill its promise to attack the U.S. if we interfered with their weapons programs? Do we call their bluff?

As a veteran I can assure you that calling another country's bluff is the most terrifying thing you can do. On one hand you have great intelligence telling you that you've got the upper hand, but on the other hand there is always that level of uncertainty. I can imagine that for President Obama it is even more a daunting task since he is not exactly in-tune with his military side yet. But that's not a dig on the President, it's just a statement of fact. Bush didn't have a handle on the military this early into his presidency either (or ever some would argue... but I digress).

If the U.S. shoots down the North Korean missiles, there could be further tension on the Korean peninsula and a war that was put on pause 50 years ago could suddenly break out again. The level of intelligence uncertainty as it pertains to North Korea is even more exasperated since it is the single most dangerous spot for a U.S. Intelligence agent. Over 7000 U.S. agents (American, South and North Korean in nationality) have disappeared since the Korean Conflict ended. There is no way to know for sure what the North Koreans are planning to do.

One thing is for sure, we probably can shoot down anything that comes our way. The real problem is how to deal with the communist country on its own turf. An undertaking that was proved very difficult (or impossible) in the 1950's.

Diplomacy has proven over the last three administrations to be ineffective but no one has ever called for all out war against the country as that could prove fatal as China is their biggest supporter. And with China holding $2.5 Trillion in U.S. debt we can't really afford to piss them off can we?

Neda Soltan was an Angel of Freedom

The Iranian Government has banned anyone from mourning her. So for those who cannot mourn her courageous life, we will mourn for them.

Her friends and family describe her as "full of joy," "A beam of light," and "Angel of Freedom."

The image of her brutal murder by Iranian State Police has bolstered support for protesters as they speak out against this senseless killing even though they are not legally allowed to mourn her bloody death.

Neda was gunned down during protests in the capital. You can see videos and photos of it all over twitter and youtube. They show her bleeding from the mouth and nose as her friends try to stop the blood loss. The most moving part is when her music teacher is holding her in his arms begging her to stay alive and to hold on. "Neda, don't be afraid. Neda, stay with me. Neda stay with me!”


Click here for photos. (WARNING: Graphic)

She was very fond of traveling and had been to Dubai, Turkey and even Thailand. She apparently gave up studying in Tehran in order to become a tour guide and possibly travel with Iranian Students abroad. Her music Teacher Hamid Panahi described her as an accomplished singer who had taken up piano lessons with him.

Her parents asked her not to go protests but she was so angered by the injustice that she was compelled to go.

Around 6:30 pm Neda, her piano teacher Panhi and two others were stuck in traffic as they went towards the protest. At one point they got out of the car to get some air when they heard a distinct "Crack." Neda Soltan was on the ground.

The L.A. Times quotes Panahi, "we were stuck in traffic and we got out and stood to watch, and without her throwing a rock or anything they shot her. It was just one bullet."
"I'm burning, I'm burning!" Were her final words.

She was rushed to the hospital where the doctors tried to save her life but she was reported as dead on arrival. Cut down by a brutal regime only because she wanted freedom and honesty in the government.

Mehdi Khalaji, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near Eastern Affairs, told FOXNews.com that Neda has become "one of the pillars of this movement now," and the bloody images of her dying in the street are its "main icons and symbols."

To add insult to injury the Iranian government has forbidden all mosques in Iran from holding any kind of ceremony, or vigil, not even a eulogy for the fallen woman. Her own family was denied a ceremony and funeral then they tried to hold one in Northern Tehran. "Grave consequences" awaited those who gathered. Outrageous.

"They were threatened that if people wanted to gather there the family would be charged and punished," Samsami told FOXnews.com.

Ayatollah Khomeini is being blamed at least in part for her murder. His threatening speech was given just prior to the violence breaking out.

"For the first time since the election it seems that people are including in their slogans 'Down with Khomeini,' and 'Death to Khomeini,'" says Khalaji.

The Iranian government of course denies that they used any lethal force to put down the protests and blames faction groups loyal to deposed and exiled rulers.

Neda's fiance says Caspian, says that she did not even support a single candidate but was outraged at the corruption and oppression of the Iranian government.

Neda wanted "freedom for all," he said.

Reference: FoxNews.com - Iran's Angel of Freedom
Click here to read more on this story from the Los Angeles Times.
Click here to read more on this story from the New York Post.

Fastest Recount in History

As Iranians beg for freedom and fairness the "guardian council" (the most laughable name for a government body) has declared that there was no fraud. Obviously they have magic powers as they did when they counted the first time. This is what happens when a country has supreme leaders and such. The only thing the guardian council was guarding was its own ass. In a totalitarian regime anything is possible if the government says it is. Millions of Ballots can be counted in a matter of minutes, fraud can be determined in the same amount of time. With a wave of a magic wand this all happens to the wonderment to the people. WOW!

I know that this is not a surprise to anyone, but this is the place that WE are headed. In this country we now have Czars. We have people with massive regulatory powers who were never elected and serve at the pleasure of the President. These Czars can say or do anything and the people have no power to remove them from office or even check their work. We have Bank Czars, Auto czars, bailout czars, pay czars... I think there's 8 in all but whatever right.

Look we can all sit here and believe that Obama was "Forced into these actions by the Bush administration" or we can believe the truth. Obama is doing EXACTLY what Bush was doing by taking power from the people and giving unbelievable powers to the government. We can believe the truth that Obama had other options that could save our economy and those options he intentionally ignored in order to consolidate power for himself and his buddies.

We are becoming Iran. We are slapping chains on ourselves as they fight to brake theirs off.

Another strike against individual liberty

Another strike against individual liberty

Look, I don’t think there is a person alive in America that doesn’t know that smoking is unhealthy. And if you haven’t seen the reports and the ads and the literature, then it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out that pumping smoke into your lungs isn’t good for you.

But for some reason, despite all the warning signs against it, millions of people choose to smoke every day. This is a personal choice and even teens know that it’s bad for them… hell that’s probably why most teens start smoking anyway. But nevertheless kids do it as well as adults. There isn’t much more you can do when it comes to smoking. We have truth campaigns (which tell a lit of mistruths… but I digress) and all kids of other ways to educate people about the harmful effects of smoking. Enough already! If people want to smoke, let them smoke.

Oh that’s right, smokers are being blamed for the high cost of healthcare. Never mind that GOVERNMENT is proven to be the biggest problem in the health care battle. Lets blame smokers! They’re an easy scapegoat.

The problem is that with a looming national healthcare service in the midst this is just a taste of how the government is going to regulate your life under the auspices of reducing health care costs. First it’s something like smoking which most people don’t do, and a lot won’t have a problem if it goes away. But then they will turn their eyes toward something else… maybe McDonalds.

Then it’s people who don’t exercise. Or people who eat excessively fatty foods. Soon we’ll have government sponsored heart monitors implanted in us that will notify the Department of Health and Human Services that we don’t exercise enough and that our universal health care coverage has been revoked. All in the name of saving money.

Iranian Propaganda Machine

The Story in the newspaper... one of the STATE CONTROLLED newspapers in Iran...

The headline? $400 million CIA budget to start riots after election.

So even though this is a true demonstration of people wanting to be free the tyrannical government finds a way to ty to spin this. Too bad many Iranians will believe this.

Personally I think it would have been money well spent, but in light of our nearly $2 Trillion deficite this year, probably not.

It's better this way because the people are really doing this! The people want to be free to chose their own leadership. They want to throw off the Ayatollahs and their iron-fisted grip on the people! They need something from us. A word of support perhaps?

Since the President will no doubt use some diplomatic mumbo-jumbo in his speech I'll have to say it.

GO IRAN! Fight for freedom, liberty, the rule of law and democracy!

broadcasting from Tehran! (sort of)

I've moved the time zone settings on this blog to match those of Tehran. I do this because I hear the Iranian Government is cracking down on blogs coming out of Tehran. I hope they see mine and know that the American people stand with the Iranian people even if our president does not!

The Iranian Example

So we have Iranians protesting in the streets about the results of their elections. We have a brutal police state cracking down on the protests at every turn and (according to the Iranian government) killing at least 17 protestors in the process. What are the Iranians protesting? Are they protesting the results of a single election? No.

They are protesting the Ayatollahs! In reality the Iranian people are sick of being offered “choices” instead they want actual choices. The Ayatollahs set the real policy by approving candidates. You can rest assured that no candidate can be approved without following the Ayatollahs policies. So if the Iranians want a free election they must remove the Ayatollahs

In a twisted way we have a very similar situation here in the U.S. We’re told that we have two choices in government: Republicans and Democrats. Both are run by the political elite. Both conduct themselves in secret back room meetings and push policy that is contrary to the wishes of the American People. Yet we’re told that these are our only choices. Red or Blue and there are no other colors.

Maybe Iran isn’t lagging behind us in the philosophy of democracy. Maybe we are looking at the future of the U.S. Maybe we’re going to be in the streets one day getting beaten down by police simply because we want freedom. We want real freedom and not the appearance of freedom, not “choices” but actual choices.

Balance

God was missing for six days. Eventually, Michael, the archangel, found him, resting on the seventh day.
He inquired, "Where have you been?"
God smiled deeply and proudly pointed downwards through the clouds, "Look, Michael. Look what I've made."
Archangel Michael looked puzzled, and said. "What is it?"
"It's a planet," replied God, "and I've put life on it. I'm going to call it Earth and it's going to be a place to test Balance."
"Balance?" inquired Michael, "I'm still confused."
God explained, pointing to different parts of earth. "For example, Northern Europe will be a place of great opportunity and wealth, while Southern Europe is going to be poor. Over here I've placed a continent of white people, and over there is a continent of black people. Balance in all things."
God continued pointing to different countries. "This one will be extremely hot, while this one will be very cold and covered in ice."
The Archangel , impressed by God's work, then pointed to a land area and said, "What's that one?"
"That's Washington State , the most glorious place on earth. There are beautiful mountains, rivers and streams, lakes, forests, hills, and plains. The people from Washington State are going to be handsome, modest, intelligent, and humorous, and they are going to travel the world. They will be extremely sociable, hardworking, high achieving, carriers of peace, and producers of software."
Michael gasped in wonder and admiration, but then asked, "But what about balance, God? You said there would be balance."
God smiled, "There's another Washington . Wait till you see the idiots I put there."

What I'm reading now

Right now I'm reading Gelnn Beck's Common Sense! It's a great book! It really gets to the heart of some of the major problems that we are facing right now including the runaway government spending, over regulation, and other insane things out government is doing to destroy us.





The great thing is that both parties ar killing us and we support them. We give them our money and time and blood, and sweat for what? I don't know. So they can hose us? Yay us!

Get this book and read it. Well actully read the 5000 year leap first. THEN read this one! We need to stop this insaity before we follow the same fate as the Weimar Republic.

The Liberty Library

Check out the Liberty Library (http://astore.amazon.com/indeinexil-20) where you can arm yourself with the knowledge that you need to defeat progressivism and tyranny! I'm working on embedding the store intot he Blog but I'm having trouble so please follow the simple link for now. :)

Random thoughts today

What have we become? A nation of codependents? Why must the government solve every problem that we have? Why is it that this administration’s answer to everything is more government regulation and control?

A couple of random concerns from me today.

The President is looking to give the Federal Reserve MORE power. This violates the Constitution which states that congress has the power to make currency. The Fed is a private bank and we are giving it regulatory powers. Of course there will be a government committee sitting over the Fed to watch it headed by none other than Tax Cheat Timothy Geithner. Yes! Good old Tax Cheat Tim will be making sure the Fed is following the law or whatever its supposed to do…

Government Healthcare is in the works. Here’s a little article that shows you that the government is responsible for the high cost of healthcare. In fact it is so responsible that it outweighs the cost of uninsured people not paying for their healthcare. But government is now going to fix it by mandate! Here’s a question. If the government mandates something that is already in short supply what do you think will happen? Could it become more expensive?

We put our faith in corrupt politicians who market themselves as saviors. Have we lost faith in OURSELVES? The individual reigns supreme in the United States! Why have we lost touch with that?

Putting our trust in government will only lead to shackles and oppression. Mark my words.

Beware the state controlled media and national health care

So we have ABC doing an all day broadcast in the White House really soon. It's unfortunate that this will only be a 24 hour propaganda cycle. We'll have Good morning America, and a National Health care Q&A in the blue room. Does anyone think for one second that there is going to be ANY tough questions on this health care thing? I doubt it. Most likely there will be two kinds of questions first there will be planted questions that the Administration Officials can knock out of the park, and then a few questions where people ask "what will I get? What will the government do for me?" These whiny excuses for Americans will be first in line to get a government handout even if they don't need one. But we're all expected to take the bullet on this because there are 45 million people uninsured.

What won't be in this Q&A? How about how it will add $1 Trillion to our national debt? That's not what it will cost, no. That's how much will go unfunded after the tax hikes and new taxes on health benefits. That's $1 Trillion in that the future generations are going to be on the hook for. But since they're already on the hook for $10 Trillion after Bush got done and it'll be $20 Trillion after Obama is done what the hell?

And the best part of all this, is that while we get these 45 million people insured, 37 million people will lose their insurance because it will be too expensive for them or their employers to keep the health benefits. That's another question you won't find during this little propaganda session. $1 Trillion in extra debt in order to insure a whopping 9 million people...

Another question that won't be on this little Q&A is how after this massive new insurance program is instituted it will pay for people's insurance who make over $200k!!! What? No! Yes. It's true. This plan will help people pay for health care who need absolutely no help. OK it's not quite that simple. A few examples are like a family of 4 making $110k would get government help paying for insurance. Octo-mom gets hers paid for even if she makes $203k. John and Kate +8 gets help even if they make $222k. This is absolutely retarded. People who make this kind of money aren't going to have problems finding health care. Remember that families that make $259k per year are rich enough to afford tax hikes but people making $222k per year are so poor they need subsidies.

The kicker is this. People who make less that $33k WILL NOT QUALIFY FOR NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE!!!!!!! HA HA HA! It's so insane. We're paying for health insurance for people who don't need the help, but we're stiffing the people who supposedly need the help the MOST!!! This is change you can believe in? HA!

Help the rich and screw the poor! I though that was the Republican M.O. not the Democrats who look out for the poor and down trodden.

Oh wait, that's right. The expansion of Medicaid will be considered in another bill. Considered! This is insane and heartless! It will destroy the private insurance industry and force people on to this back-asswords system. Where the federal government will choose what is best for us.

Think about this new Consumer Protection Agency that Obama has just created. In the speech he gave he said that it would review products and choose which is best for consumers. You may think I'm crazy but this is coming. You can thank both the GOP and the Dems for this stuff.

Big government can't solve problems! Did it keep GM and Chrysler out of bankruptcy with those hundreds of billions of dollars in bailouts? Nope. You think health care is gonna get cheaper with trillions of dollars in tax payer money?

But does all this mean that the media is state controlled? Yes. ABC is running propaganda for Obama. NBC, MSNBC, and CNBC are also running propaganda for the Obama administration. Why? Well GE got some bailout money. That means they officially have to play by the government's rules. GE has invested billions in healthcare products including devloping the system for a nation-wide health care database. GE wants those contracts. Lucky for GE, that it owns NBC, MSNBC, and CNBC!! And how nice of those companies to be running positive stories on Obama and his health care plan. Amazing.

More on political parties

So it’s no secret that I used to be a Republican… OK so technically I am still a Republican but that’s just a matter of going down to the DMV… which I dread. The DMV represents to me some of the worst things about government. There are 200 people in line and 3 tellers, with rotten attitudes waiting on you… but I digress

I realized that I still get a little huffy when people bash the GOP. I get to thinking something like “hey those are my people!” But if I think about it… The Republicans in Washington are not my people. They don’t know anything about me and for the most part what it’s like to be an average citizen. Most of them voted for the TARP and the bailouts when Bush was in office, but now that a Democrat is in office they suddenly find principles and a backbone?

It must be easy to be the minority party since you can say no without there being any real consequences. You can stand up there like John Kerry and tell people you voted against the war! Or that you are against the stimulus package! But I’m sure we can agree that if a republican had come up with that stimulus bill then they would have voted for it.

If John McCain were president and he asked them to shut down GITMO they would have done it. When the democrats were the minority party they railed against the GOP for being in bed with big business and giving out no-bid contracts to Halliburton. But now that they’re in power they are nationalizing big businesses, giving them bailout money and are well on their way to giving no-bid contracts to GE, who just so happens to own NBC, MSNBC, and CNBC which have been the most pro-Democrat/ Pro-Obama news agencies on TV. Hmmm. Both parties guilty but both point fingers at the other party.

This is the folly of political parties. It takes the argument of principle away and we end up focusing on D’s and R’s like its a family feud, a race riot, or a damn holy war. We can’t even agree on principle but we just know the other team is the enemy. If Americans would wake up they would see that both parties take us to the same place.

Support for the Iranian Counterrevolution.

As we go on about our daily lives the good people of Iran are being oppressed. Their government set up a phony election and gave them a phony result. We don’t need to go into the logistical impossibilities of counting 44 million votes in a matter of minutes, that’s barely the point. What must be noted is that the people of Iran were outraged by this and started to (rightfully so) protest in anger. The Iranian government first responded by trying to beat their people into submission and then, when that didn’t work, by shooting them into submission. I am proud to say though they have not been subdued as of yet.

If we as a country really respect freedom we should support the people of Iran as they rise up against their theocratic oppressors. Our government should be offering its support for a truly democratic Iran which is ruled by laws, not religions, not kings or clerics, but just laws that protect the rights of all, including women and children. Our government does not seem to be doing this, instead they are enacting caution.

It’s hard to blame someone for being cautious, but at what point do we stop playing the “let’s see who wins” game and start taking real sides. If we play this game as we did in Iraq in the 1980’s and 1990’s then the totalitarian regime will be able to repress the democratic momentum as was done in Iraq when we offered our support and then stayed our hand at the last moment. Thousands of Kurds were killed and we did nothing for a decade. It’s no wonder that so many nations feel as they do about the United States. We’re all talk. And when we do act its usually a decade or two too late.
But now it’s worse. We’re not even talking. We’re not even offering our support to the counterrevolution in Iran. It needs support. It needs to know that we are with them. They are encouraged by the results in Iraq. They see that freedom is a true possibility.

A Declaration of Independence from Political Parties

From time to time it may become necessary for a people to abolish a political system which neither works for nor seeks the consent of the people and to once again assume the status of Independence.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” For some time now this government, which has been poisoned with a two party system, has been inadequate, unresponsive, belligerent, and tyrannical. And a long train of offenses has once again been suffered by the people at the hands of the government that was once supposed to protect and defend them. It is our right and our duty to throw off this system in which the people’s rights, the security of our nation, and our economic liberties are not protected nor even considered. To prove this, let the facts once again be shown to the world.

They have refused to honor the rule of law, instead they have cared only for political pandering and rhetoric which frenzy the people to the support of their unjust causes.

They have passed bills tainted with thousands of unneeded earmarks resulting in financially irresponsible political favors for the congress but no help to the American People.

They pass bills without reading them.

They make law in closed-door meetings; shut out from public scrutiny.

They have obtained power in the private sector using taxpayer money with no intention of relinquishing that power, even after the so called crisis is over. Instead, they regulate it into bankruptcy and strip it of its right to self-govern and sell positions in the private sector to their political friends for campaign donations.

They have used government contracts paid for by the taxpayers in order to intimidate the owners of media companies into reporting favorably on their misdeeds in the hopes of garnering the support of the people so that they can continue to misuse taxpayer money and abuse the citizens of the United States.

They have used financial and economic emergencies as an excuse and a means to invade and usurp the rights of the people.

They have funded organizations that are known to commit election fraud, intimidation and coercion to elect and re-elect themselves and their political friends.

They have refused to protect and defend the borders of this country while criminals, drug dealers and human smugglers infect our population, murder our people and cripple our standard of living through deflated wages and siphoning American money to other countries; while at the same time making it tedious and stressful to legally enter this country with endless and useless regulations all in the name of safety.

They have placed activist judges in areas of importance who violate the very Constitution they are sworn to uphold by creating policy and law from the bench in order to please their own political ideologies or that of their masters who placed them in their positions of power.

They have created useless, money-sucking agencies which fulfill redundant missions and cost more than twice what they were projected to cost.

They have abused our military first by undermining their mission, their morale, their security nd their lives for the purposes of political gain.

They have endeavored to make the citizens of the United States subordinate to other laws outside of the Constitution by signing treaties which are deliberately designed to undermine the American people and way of life.

They have housed the United Nations, a body of corrupt vipers and hate-mongering murderers, on our shores under the guise of peace.

They have held themselves above the law and safe from justice when they have committed crimes against the people.

They have regulated our industry in such a manner that it cannot compete with foreign trade.

For taxing citizens and businesses alike with obscene and never-ending taxes and confusing tax codes.

For burdening the citizens with an endless bureaucracy of incompetent federal employees who care not for the business of the people and make it impossible to get anything done quickly.

For failing to enforce or even follow their own laws with the full expectation of compliance by the citizens.

For nullifying legal contracts in the private sector.

For failing to protect the rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

For refusing the private citizen of the right to carry military arms and form lawful militias as per the Constitution.

For separating us by race, religion, gender, nationality and creed, pitting race against race, and man against woman, religion against religion and claiming political victory at the people's expense.

The have endeavored to pass laws that were knowingly in such contrast to the will of the people and would burden them in such a gross manner that the people had to all but revolt before the laws were defeated.

They have betrayed the American trust and violated the Constitution by creating a Federal Reserve which is a private bank that controls our currency, prints our money and controls our interest rates.

They have indebted us to foreign countries and shackled us with debt that is so high that no generation alive or the ones who have yet to be born will ever see the American people debt free.

They have burdened the people with high energy costs by refusing access to sources of energy here and instead mortgage the American people to the Kings and Tyrants of the Middle East.

They have created an entitlement culture which enslaves minorities and the poor to the government.

In every stage of these oppressions we have strived for resolution through new elections of representatives, senators, and presidents only to be answered with political rhetoric and inaction. A government that is thus marked with self-serving corruption and oppression can only be labeled tyrannical and thus unfit to govern a free people.Nor have our political parties been able to address the situation. Every two years we volunteer our time, energy, diligence and money to the causes of our parties and are rewarded every time with more corruption, greed and control by the government. We have had out liberties slowly chipped away by Congress and Presidents alike and every two years we reward them with the honor of office and pay them salaries as if to thank them for oppressing us. We appeal to God and to the people of this nation to free us of our political oppressors, the two-party system, and the politicians who keep us a people divided. We absolve ourselves from the political parties and the system of abuse that each enjoy over us. We cling to logic, freedom, liberty and all the risks and rewards that go with them. We declare Independence from this political neurotoxin that has become both Republican and Democrat; which has poisoned the Congress and the Presidents and declare ourselves a free and independent people.

“--And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”

James Alexander Courtney

Back from the grave... Independence in exile

Look people. We are living in a world where we are presented choices that we don't want. We have the GOP and the Dems and neither are good for us. It's like death by fire or by drowning? And chosing not to die is not a choice... I'm back. Cake or death? And we're all out of cake! So our choices are... or death.