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16 Sep
Unite and Come Together – We Are Many – They Are Few #SEP17 #OccupyWallStreet
7 Aug
Ishtarmuz’s rebuttal to Warof2010 posting 07/26/10 of – Our first mission, American Patriots.
This is Ishtarmuz’s rebuttal to Warof2010 posting 07/26/10 of – Our first mission, American Patriots.
The first thing you will often notice when you see a post from a bigoted Tea Party bastard is that the words are not sufficient to carry the message. They need to colorize their words into red and blue with multiple font changes like teenage girls needing to hide their shallowness of experience, attracting narcissistic attention with whorish makeup. Tea party English will have buzzwords and neologisms in abundance to cover their ignorance of the basic fundamentals of writing English and their lack of understanding of how to frame a rational argument.
You will see a fine example of this authoritarian narcissism exhibited by the Tea Party post shown below. The first point that is made has to do with the number of undocumented aliens in this country. I must first say that currently this alien issue is more a semantic one than a legal one in many cases. My grandmother had a baby, my father, out of wedlock in 1915. She went to Canada to have her baby and had the minister sign the birth certificate to avoid the scandal. My father never knew this until he was forty years old. What he never knew was that she eventually married the brother of the actual father and my father had taken on his name never knowing the real story. All my father’s life he could never prove he was a citizen without his Honorable Discharge from the Army. Such a lack of documentation would swell the number of ‘illegals’ in this country to well over what the tea party want to contend. They support legal measures that would make many such people non-citizens. Some of us are bastards due to an accident of birth, some, like the tea partiers, are self-made people.
The second erudite point made below has to do with Unemployment Insurance Benefits. Note first that insurance, by definition, is designed to pay out more than you ( via you employer) put into it for the few that need to use it. This, like Social Security benefits RSDI (Retirement Survivors Disability Insurance), is an insurance designed so that of the large number paying into it, only a fraction actually collect, but often collect more than they paid into it. Such measures were put into place to stabilize the frequent economic swings that put ‘free’ market capitalism into recession or depression leaving large segments of the population on the street. The only effective method that has ever been applied to such depressive times, once in them, has been to spend money; and the only source of such willing spending has come from the government. Short of slave labor, no self respecting capitalist would invest in labor as its value continues to fall. This brings up the other stabilizing enemy of the Tea Party, the union. If the Tea Party had existed in the Great Depression, the 25% unemployment would still be with us today. The unemployed would continue to own the street for the more fortunate.
The third erudite point returns to the undocumented workers. There is a complete disconnect with reality here. Citizenship is strictly the purview of the federal government as stated in the Constitution. The problem of undocumented workers is a supply and demand issue and their employers need to be made felons for hiring them. You know, all those fortunate anti-union people not on unemployment, hiring slave labor to support their way of life. You can picket all those employers of undocumented workers if you please, but a few good court cases, a good boycott as well as your picket would be more effective. Yet, even better, would be to have a consistent set of principles that would not promote the practices that you fight.
The article (Note that my skill at recreating the full glory of the original article is limited. So you will have to go see it.):
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Our mission, American Patriots
the APPP, has two immediate requests/demands of Congress
#1. First, simply for your edification:
there are closer to 30 million illegals in our United States. than 12 million.
IMMEDIATELY: make it illegal, for an illegal, to illegally solicit work,
anywhere in “Our United States of America”
*In November the extended/extended/extended unemployment benefits will end again
Don’t borrow any more more more money, it simply results in more compounded debt,
You must allow American workers to own the streets,
so that more-fortunate Americans may provide them a day’s work
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#2. in the meantime, please don’t make things any worse, between now, and then.
#3. At a point in time, We the People, will want:
Illegal immigration, federal & state, laws, to be changed.
from a misdemeanor, to a Class I Felony
http://bit.ly/a3US1J $10,000 3-1/2 yrs
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Facing Reality Fellow Americans
http://bit.ly/bb2Uht
this is step #1 in our platform, We are the American Patriots
Patriots: in planning PATRIOT STRIKES every precaution
will be taken to protect our forces. more to follow.
1. DHS has a list of U.S. employers employing approx. 8 million illegals
“8,000,000 Illegal Immigrant Workers Working At American Jobs”
http://bit.ly/dtHtSN
2. obtain the list
we have the list, 219 large/semi-large employers selected, so far
3. based on geographics/demographics,
and American Patriots, one business/per state,
known to be employing numerous illegals
will all be heavily picketed on a given day,
in coordination with job-seeking locals
in a quick, efficient, completely coordinated,
but unpublicized in advance, lightning strike
with every concern for safety.
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4. Each state contingent will consist of a given-size picket team,
with an equal-size team operating in a support capacity.
(begin discussing contingent framework)
5. Calling all Patriots, from all organizations
to begin connecting, and cueing up, by state.
20-10 feedback/suggestions are encouraged
American Patriots, remember: “being right is fun”
We Won’t Back Down http://bit.ly/9DOHhM
P.S. Patriots, you may become aware, over time,
that advertising is not purchasable on your website,
nor is it permitted, in any form, with American Patriots
we must disassociate ourselves from money
our cause must remain pure in motive.
Our next mission: American Patriots
DENYING ILLEGALS THE RIGHT to solicit work on the streets of America;
this right s/b reserved for 30 million unemployed Americans
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ArizonaCalifornia|Arizona|New Mexico|Texas
Apprehensions|Fence|Drugs
BirthrightCitizenshi ps|GreenCards|IllegalWorkers|ImmigrationReform
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Here’s what we are all about:
Taking Care Of Business http://bit.ly/aBL12B
That’s what we’re saying
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War of 2010 American Patriots: Mandatory Read:
Regaining Our Freedom http://bit.ly/8ZJnVw
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The tweet on my twitter stream that linked this article stated, “@MalevoFreedom @rascality @PiercedTedyBear @TheRiverWanders @ishtarmuz @MightyOCD YOU ARE PUSSIES EN MASSE http://bit.ly/9dFWcS.” Note that the Tea Party has quite an aversion to feminine qualities. I suppose that it is a mixture of an inferiority complex combined with a fear of latent homosexuality. One could well wonder given the name of the administrator and the Tea Party corporatist orientation, if the term fascist pig might actually be an understatement.
27 Jun
Are Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and Thomas Sowell taking the U.S. down a Slippery Slope To Tyranny?
Are Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and Thomas Sowell taking the U.S. down a Slippery Slope To Tyranny?
By Ishtarmuz Posted 06/26/10
In rebuttal to: Is U.S. Now On Slippery Slope To Tyranny?
Not this guy: View Enlarged Image Thomas Sowell
Adolf Hitler built up the Nazi movement in the 1920s by activating people who did not normally pay much attention to politics by his loud emotional appeals to patriotism (the fatherland), scapegoats, and all manner of fallacies in the manner of Glenn Beck and Thomas Sowell.
The value of people who blindly follow the political base of the tea party, like the Nazi party, is that they are particularly susceptible to Hitlerian rhetoric and have far less basis for questioning Glenn Beck’s or Thomas Sowell’s assumptions which lead to their unwarranted conclusions.
“Useful idiots” was the term supposedly coined by V.I. Lenin, but really was invented by the McCarthyites, to describe liberal thinkers that considered socialism, but were painted as red sympathizers of the Soviet Union. This is much like what Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and Thomas Sowell do today in regard to supporters of the Barack Obama administration.
Put differently, the tea party movement needs to disinform citizens if it is to thrive, or ultimately even survive.
In our times, the tea party movement is attempting to dismantle the protections of the citizens from corporate greed, piece by piece, before our very eyes. This by the very people that claim to love those freedoms most, and few people seem to be concerned about it.
The tea party numbers are going down because increasing numbers of people disagree with their half baked ideas, but the damage being done to the fundamental structure of this nation goes far beyond any particular half baked idea .
Many Presidents from Jefferson on down have warned the nation of the power of corporations taking away the rights of individuals. Today the multinational corporations have more power than nations and the President has the authority to bargain with nations. So just where in the Constitution of the United States does it say that a president has the authority to make a deal with a corporation? I don’t know, but in the BP incident I would have preferred the President to have asked the solicitor general to seize BP’s assets and put it into receivership until the crisis had passed, rather than allowing BP to voluntarily put aside any amount of money to be administered by an independent third party. The BP damage is as much an attack as the terrorists and we thought nothing of freezing the assets of suspected terrorist around the world without due process.
The $20 billion voluntary fund provided by BP to compensate people is in no way an abrogation of their due process, but rather it is BP’s wise decision to avoid due process where they risked a lot more.
Many people think this issue is simply whether BP’s oil gusher has done damage to those who ought to be compensated. If that was the case then they could deny blame in court and tie up any pay out for years. No, it is much more than just a legal haggling over such unconscionable minutia.
When the tea party say that our government is supposed to be “a government of laws and not of men ” and they speak of the rule of law and tort reform, they are really talking about limiting the rights of the individual and increasing those of the corporation by the same pettifogging they use on all other issues. Sadly this is the exact twisted process that our legal system has gone down for years. Law meant to protect people have come to protect corporations.
If our laws and our institutions determine what we ought to do, according to the tea party, then like the laws made in Nazi Germany should we sterilize imbeciles and homosexuals if such a law was passed? Or should we take up arms against such a government as the second amendment clearly was intended to allow?
The tea party says that the Constitution states that private property is not to be confiscated by the government without “due process of law,” but fail to mention that such a right was used to justify slave ownership and deny women property rights. When a man has a gun in his hand, I will take it, and he should be thankful that I did not lawfully blow his head off.
BP has agreed to the confiscation of the gun pointed at the head of the American people, this means they have agreed for us to not blow their head off, a wise move.
With vastly expanded rhetoric of the tea party available at the discretion of each day’s events, if accepted, we will see private individuals forced into accepting the imposition of a world of robber barons again, a power removed from the Constitution long ago.
If you believe that the end justifies the means, then you believe in the values of the tea party, not the Constitution.
28 Apr
Open Letter to Congress (or how to end fascism) #FYW
Open Letter to Congress (or how to end fascism)
The financial crisis in this country existed for the working poor long before it hit the people in the suburbs. When the same issues that effected the working poor started to effect the suburbs, then the GOP became concerned. Their concern centers around stopping attempts to help the working poor which are now disproportionately no longer working and have less than the nothing that they had while they were working. Somehow for the GOP, the upper middle class, who pay actually a smaller proportion of their income in taxes than the working poor, have more of a vote. Clearly Congress does think that we vote with our dollars because they seem to only listen when a lobbyist bellies up to the bar with a suitcase full of money. I say this with a bit a reservation because the having of things, mostly due the manufactured need of corporate interests, is the bigger problem and independent of any current party that appears to be in the majority or what agenda they espouse. So Congress is just reflecting the values of the people it purports to represent. I just happen to think this is more true of the GOP.
I would certainly say to the party of NO that the Democrats are indeed debating all the wrong issues first. The first issues that I would be fighting from now until elections are those that effect the Congress’s personal pocket book. I would be fighting for election reform that limited terms, allowed only public funding for campaigns along the lines of the UK and created laws ensuring that that they could never obtain personal gain from their unique position from other than their salary while running, during or after their limited term in Congress. I submit that a major real push in this area would change a lot of bluster that is being voiced on the other important issues on which a show of reform is being played out, but will never really happen no matter what appears to be passing in Congress.
Once this real economic debate of election reform was accomplished, then I would expect that Democrats would start acting like Democrats and the GOP would have some real issues to argue about. This would be because the next logical move for Democrats is to then propose laws to achieve real regulatory reform in all the alphabet soup agencies in Washington by barring the revolving door regulators from private industry nullifying every regulation enacted. This is only real way to have a safe, healthy, sustainable environment and true health care reform that will not bust the budget. However, as long as there is money to be made by making a big show of reform, but leaving the profitable loopholes, then that is all that will be done in Washington until they allow the country (but not the legislators or Wall Street) to go bankrupt. Short of this their is no good faith effort being shown by either party on any issue.
I suppose Republican and Democrats will just go on calling each other corporatists, read fascists, while they each pocket corporate money until some viable alternative parties reveal the real truth, show a viable alternative and come to power. The best options I see are a Progressive opposing a Libertarian party. They both express equal disdain for the ties of government to the corporation from opposite points of view. Most people would be willing consider these opposing views when they are informed by facts and expressed rationally, but slogans used by doubleplusgood duckspeakers of the current body politic just can no longer pass muster with an informed electorate.
26 Oct
To All Those Would-be Constitutional Scholars of Health Care Reform
An honest reading of the preamble of our constitution says all that needs to be said about our right to health care in this country.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
We the People of the United States? This is an expression that all the people as one voice declare what is to follow. In Order to form a more perfect Union? This expresses the intention to come together as a single community. Establish Justice? To equitably do what is right for all. Insure domestic Tranquility? To keep the peace amongst ourselves. Provide for the common defence? To defend ourselves against common enemies. To promote the general Welfare? To see to the needs of the citizenry that which they cannot do themselves. To secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity? To ensure that our freedoms are not taken away from us or our descendants. Do ordain and establish this constitution of the United States of America? What is ordained and established in these words is the intent of all that follows.
The intent is clear. The intent is that all the people unite as a community in a just, peaceful manner under a government that would protect them, their freedoms and promote their welfare. This is why we still have a country. On the one hand you could say that the federal government is only there to promote these ideas and it is up to the states to carry them out, but then if it can’t or won’t do so, then what is a federal government to do? On the other hand the federal government is to establish justice? Is it just to let the helpless die? It is to insure domestic tranquility? Is it insured if we allow inequities to fester to the point of domestic violence? It is to provide for the common defense? Not all our enemies carry a gun from without. Some live in gated communities and have a sense that they are more entitled than others. It is to promote the general welfare? This is a clear statement of providing those things that states and individuals cannot. Secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity? Is there anything that endangers your liberty and your posterity more than illness or threat of illness? Among the many things that it has been decided appropriate that the federal government needed to intervene to provide, the provision of health insurance (read care) will go down in history as the one that made the most sense. The one that had the most documented need. The one that was covered in every phrase of the preamble of our constitution.
It is only a twisted libertarianism that would suggest that we should let people die that cannot provide for themselves. It is only a self-absorbed selfishness that cannot see beyond their own strength to what others might take as weakness. It is only a perverse sense of entitlement that suggests the fruits of your labor should not be shared with the community even though it was the community that allowed you to reap those fruits. No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent. No one does it alone.
We don’t succeed by ourselves, but also we don’t fail by ourselves either. If the public option fails, then we all fail as a country. The fiscal conservative Representatives have failed this country. They have failed on moral and economic grounds. They are oath breakers, liars and have sold out their constituency. A little math will suffice to show you the degree of the lie. Between fourteen to twenty percent of this country works in government depending on how you count. Most have taxpayer provided insurance. To expand the public option would lower that cost to the taxpayer of this insurance adding to the bottom line every cash strapped state. If all government employees were added to public option ( or asked to pay extra cost for private insurance) that could save $600,000, 000. This could end stalled union contracts across the country by taking health insurance off the table. What might this do for other sectors of the economy? What might this do put people back to work? What could this do to end the recession? When are we going to see the conservatives for what they are, fascists?
Oh wait, maybe it is unconstitutional because the government can’t force you to pay for insurance. Their is nothing in the constitution that allows that to happen and the Supreme Court would never let it stand. OK, suspend all social security deductions and programs. Or maybe, pass the law and take it to court, if you are so sure.
The way I see it, this health care debate will become a moot point in the coming years. I see two-thirds of the States passing a form of universal health care of necessity. When that happens, it will be a short step to making it a federal constitutional amendment beyond the reach of the Supreme Court, even though the Court would never have overturned a universal health insurance law anyway. Sometimes you just have to say stick a sock in it.