Imabachi's Comments (47)

“Free? Free? Freedom to do what? To live out your life as if you are the only human who matters and to hell with everything and everybody else?
All rich countries are not capitalist. You forgot China, for one. And all poor countries aren't either dictatorships or socialist. You've no doubt noticed that the U.S. always seems to support with money, arms, or whatever, countries with dictators, especially if that country has oil or another resource we want (i.e., tungsten, South Vietnam). Remember that hideous 10-year old war for "freedom," and "to keep all of Southeast Asia free from Communism." We killed about 5 million Vietnamese with bombs, bullets and horrific, DNA damaging chemicals, and untold thousands of Cambodians (pre-Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, who killed about 2 million Cambodians in his quest to make Cambodia the Rice Capitol of Asia).
Socialism? Britain has socialized medicine. I've not heard of the British government treating its citizens as would a dictator. Medicare is socialism but the Tea Baggers, who want to be FREE, don't want the government to touch it.
Capitalism? You're undoubtedly aware that capitalism is built on exploitation of natural resources combined with private ownership and to hell with rules on pollution of the air, poisoning of the waters poisoning of the soil Since the world's natural resources are rapidly being depleted, polluted and poisoned and for humans to continue to exist on Mother Earth then capitalism will and must be changed.”

“This Afghanistan debacle, just like Vietnam, has already expanded into Pakistan. Who's next? Iran? We'd love for the Iranians to "pull a stunt"--it won't matter if the "stunt" really happened (a la Tonkin Gulf) just so's we'd have an excuse to launch a massive attack . Our intent, I believe, is to dominate, control, by any means possible, Middle East oil. There should be no doubt in any American's mind as to U.S. intentions.
Thus the mind of Orwell Barack Obama and his government, in collusion with Congress, is revealed.”

“I'm also of this opinion. Only when catastrophe strikes will there be any movement toward what should be done, and even then...there's no telling how it will all fall out 'cause we have nothing to compare it to, historically speaking.
I've been raging at our leaders and politicians for years regarding this 'cause I'd much prefer that we follow the ol' Boy Scout motto: Be Prepared. Begin making preparations 30 years ago to make the "transition" as easy and smooth as possible. But our leaders have not made plans, that I'm aware of, for the "transition." That can only mean one thing. We're all on our own.”

“Teddy(Theodore) was an older cousin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. And I suppose that both Roosevelts could be considered traitors to their class, that is, if you're Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs today or a Rockefeller or Vanderbilt , or a Bush of yesteryear. Franklin was definitely called a "traitor to his class."”

“Allison Kilkenny, you of the delightfully wicked and acutely truth-telling pen. You have correctly and unerringly flung your acerbs and quite skewered them. Bravo”

“I see Hamlet's Mill has read history. So he knows how the present play will inevitably end.”

“Time we ended the concept of corporate personhood., wa-a-a-y past time.”

“Who? You didn't want Ralph Nader who for years told you who was/is robbing the country blind. Another "honester" is Dennis Kucinich but ya saw what happened to him in the last debates and primaries. Kucinich was contemptuously, blatantly, openly shunted aside while we got the views (for what they're worth) of the half-white/half-black man and the white woman.
If Obama really wanted to do what is right he'd issue an angry call for about two-five million people to descend on Washington immediately and demand single-payer, demand a truly clean energy bill, demand that all troops be brought home immediately from the Black Holes of Iraq and Afghanistan, demand that Guantanomo and Bagram and all other torture chambers be closer, dismantled and destroyed, demand that we stop pickin' fights with various countries around the world, and demand that we begin immediately mitigating Global Warming/Climate Change and planning for Oil Descent, else we are looking at monumental death, destruction and even extinction.”

“Amen to that, Edva. We've got Global Warming/Climate Change and Oil Descent bearing ever more swiftly down on us which will be catastrophic. Are our leaders and governments preparing us? The answer is no! All we do is deny, obstruct, obfuscate, dicker, bloviate, lie and whine about an economic system (exploitative, destructive, poisonous and ultimately unsustainable) that has brought us to the brink of extinction.”

“Baucus and his ilk, and their "bosses," are nothing more than ghouls.”

“If you look behind Beck's torrent of lies you'll see a black twisted cross within a white circle on a blood-red background. We've seen this before in Germany in the 1920s, 30s and 40s, and in Italy in the 20s, 30s and 40s and we've seen where it leads. And what did it take to stop these irrational psychopaths? Don't wait too long to deal decisively and firmly with such people. To hesitate will be to the nation's peril.”

“Congressman Wilson's outburst was altogether calculated, although in the typically twisted, Fascist way, to appeal, surely, to the thousands of other "rascists", (there should be a better term than "rascist" because all humans are of the same "race"-- Homo sapiens or "man, intelligent."), in his 2nd District, which, by the way, includes Charleston, "the cradle of the Confederacy" and where the first shot of the Civil War was fired. I've also read this morning that Wilson's son has just kicked off his campaign for the Attorney-General's office of South Carolina and running on a "family values" platform. And to my mind the term "family values" is nothing more than code and speaks to those who're of the same mindset. So there you have it: father and son. Would it be fair to describe them as "prejudiced against those with darker skins?" Or, "prejucdiced against those whose ancestors were brutally taken from Africa and brought to America for nothing more than to be worked to death as slaves." Wilson is one of those Republicans who're always talking about "working' hard" and "pullin' yourself up by your bootstraps" and "being self-reliant" has, it appears, always made his living by taking taxpayer dollars, first as an officer in the military forces and now as a career politician. I've also read this morning that Wilson's Democratic opponent, one Rob Miller, has, since the outburst, taken in more than $700,000 into his campaign chest. Was Wilson's outcry one of desparation?”

“fauxmccoy has posed an excellent and essential question.”

“To amplify the French Revolution comparison: Wall Streeters are just now having their Marie Antoinette moment, can the Deluge be far behind?”

“The only way to affect any change for what really needs to be done is for masses of Americans to threateningly get in, and threateningly stay constantly, literally in the faces of the politicians and and corporations. Conditions are ripening but we're not quite there yet. In a few months.”

“Add to your list the pox riddled Congress. Why are all these people trying to piss the rest of we Americans off? Because they can, that's why. And they're gonna keep on 'til we stop 'em.”

“Stormboy's got right to the heart of it.”

“All should know that many of the environmental organizations have been captured, as it were, by the corporates; that is corporate dudes are now, and have been for some time, sitting on the boards of environmental organizations. So now, what can one really expect from the once fiercely independent environmental organizations? Consequently they're all about maintaining the status quo. Meanwhile Global Warming and Petrocollapse are bearing down on us with ever increasing speed.
Stupid, stupid, stu-u-u-u-u-pid. Or, to paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, "they're such thistles, it's wonder God let's 'em live."”

“Makes sense to me. We Greens have urged this for 30 years.”

“Now we're talkin'. Shoulda been done years ago.”

“If we cared all that much about the Muslim world being inflamed we'd never gone to war in the first place. They all know what we're doing in their countries--stealing their oil, or whatever resources they have that we want to feed this insatiable maw. We've done it for centuries. All industrialized countries have done it. And in the process we've poisoned the air, water and soil of our beautiful planet. It's simple, really.”

“It's a grand idea.”

“We've been using troops as guinea pigs for years. You'll recall the troops assembled in the desert in the 1950s for exercises after an atomic bomb was detonated, or the U.S. sailors in the Pacific in the hydrogen bomb tests. The only word for all of this is evil, pure and simple.”

“The Bush Cabal wanted the war, wanted it, talked about it amongst themselves for ten years and even made plans for it. What do you think the Project for a New American Century was all about? The original document entitled "Project for a New American Century" called for a "Pearl Harbor" type event to motivate the American people to support the war. The "Pearl Harbor" type event phrase has since been taken out of the document.
Furthermore, I maintain that everything the Cabal did prior to 9-11 points to the fact that they wanted 9-11 to happen, or something like it, and so, despite repeated warnings from various sources (as enumerated by Mr. Begala), didn't, or intentionally wouldn't "connect the dots" so as to thwart the 9-11 attackers.
Undoubtedly the Bush Cabal are War Criminals and if there is any justice anywhere in the world they ought to be indicted, prosecuted and imprisoned for...?”

“This program of torture was intentional, planned, (can anyone say, the Wannsee Conference?), and was ordered by George W. Bush and Cabinet.
They are guilty according to the Geneva Conventions, they are guilty under the UN General Assembly Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984, ratified by the US Senate, placing it on a legal par with a federal criminal statute), and they are guilty under the Joint Resolution Regarding Opposition of the United States to the Practice of Torture by Foreign Governments passed by Congress in 1984.
They have consciously, deliberately,"with malice aforethought" broken laws and must stand before a bar of justice for their crimes.
Does Obama have the strength to bring the "perps" to justice? That remains to be seen.”