tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post9152243844027002113..comments2024-03-08T07:09:46.527-07:00Comments on Pro Libertate: Stormtroopin'William N. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14368220509514750246noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-3176887578981661992008-09-26T19:17:00.000-06:002008-09-26T19:17:00.000-06:00Lemuel,That is probably one of the best comments I...Lemuel,<BR/><BR/>That is probably one of the best comments I have ever read on a blog. Thanks for posting that for us.Kent McManigalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05005964583189815410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-67434534559146316952008-09-25T17:03:00.000-06:002008-09-25T17:03:00.000-06:00Man falls to death after police stun gun shockSept...Man falls to death after police stun gun shock<BR/><BR/>September 25, 2008<BR/> <BR/><BR/>NEW YORK (AP) — An officer appears to have violated police department guidelines when he used a Taser stun gun on a naked, distraught man teetering on a building ledge, officials said Thursday.<BR/>Advertisement<BR/><BR/>Inman Morales, 35, was pronounced dead at a hospital after his nearly 10-foot fall Wednesday. Police said he suffered serious head trauma when he hit the sidewalk.<BR/>Officers had radioed for an inflatable bag as the incident unfolded, but it had not yet arrived at the scene when Morales fell.<BR/><BR/>“None of the ... officers on the scene were positioned to break his fall, nor did they devise a plan in advance to do so,” said chief department spokesman Paul Browne.<BR/><BR/>The lieutenant who directed the use of the stun gun was stripped of his gun and badge, and the officer who shocked Morales was placed on desk duty as the investigation continues. Their names were not released.<BR/><BR/>Witnesses and neighbors said Morales had become distraught and threatened to kill himself earlier in the day. When police arrived in response to a 911 call, he fled naked out the window of his third-floor apartment, clambered down to a ledge and began jabbing at officers with an 8-foot-long fluorescent light.<BR/><BR/>An amateur video posted on the Web site of the New York Post shows one of the officers raising a stun gun at Morales, who freezes and topples over headfirst as the crowd screams.<BR/><BR/>The man’s death renewed focus on the use of stun guns by the NYPD. Thousands of city police sergeants began carrying Tasers on their belts this year after the department expanded use of the weapons. The pistol-shaped weapons fire barbs up to 35 feet and deliver 50,000-volt shocks to immobilize people.<BR/><BR/>Browne said guidelines specifically prohibit the use of stun guns when the subject may fall from an elevated surface.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-39348476504848171212008-09-16T16:10:00.000-06:002008-09-16T16:10:00.000-06:00Dear Will,It is eerie how closely this story paral...Dear Will,<BR/><BR/>It is eerie how closely this story parallels the rise of Nazism in Germany. Here we call them "The Police," there they called them "Das Sturmabteilung" - the Storm Troopers. Also known as the Brown Shirts - in the days when the Nazi Party did not have much money, before George Bush's grandfather financed it, they found surplus brown uniforms cheap, and the name "Brownshirts" passed into history. Their aggressive, brutal and intimidating behavior was IDENTICAL to the police attitudes and behavior today in America. Absolutely the same. <BR/><BR/>Hitler was by all accounts a very nice man - there are endless movie clips of him surrounded by children, all happily chatting with him, clips of him hugging kids and kissing his dogs, clapping his friends on the back, smiling, doing a little jig - he was in person a much, much nicer man than, for instance, George Bush.<BR/><BR/>But behind that charming and amiable front, the glamor, the music, the pomp and circumstance, hid an enormous evil. What could this terrible aberration have been? Simple, and on the face of it not even so evil at all. It was a total conviction that he and his friends knew better than others how others should live their own lives. In pursuit of a stable and prosperous society, all human rights were suspended. No dissent was permitted - it would result in imprisonment in a concentration camp if you were lucky, or execution if you were not. The ends, of social order, justified the means, of vile inhuman cruelty.<BR/><BR/>And, you know, at first there seemed to be nothing wrong with this. The country enjoyed an economic miracle, emerging from the Depression way ahead of Britain or America, to full employment, national pride, and an industrial infrastructure that astonished the rest of the world.<BR/><BR/>Motto: Deutschland Uber Alles!<BR/><BR/>In English: Why worry? Be happy!<BR/><BR/>It was only after the machinery of total state control was in place that the criminal motives of the leaders began to emerge. The invasions of other countries, the looting of their banks, their museums, and their wealthy citizens, the murder of Jews and anyone seen as racially inferior, the eugenics (Aryan breeding programs) and the euthanasia of Mongoloids, all came out in the open, but nothing could then be done about it by anyone who objected. Anyone who tried, invariably died in the attempt.<BR/><BR/>The scale and cruelty of the Nazi criminal enterprise - for that is what it really was - is beyond our comprehension. It was vast. There is almost no one who knows the full extent of it.<BR/><BR/>The same is happening to us today in America. Little by little, we are being told more and more how to live the smallest details of our lives, under the pretext of "helping" us and keeping us "safe". Little by little our freedom to act, and even to think, according to our conscience is being eroded, and little by little, the criminality of this regime is being revealed.<BR/><BR/>All, of course, gift-wrapped in the Stars and Stripes.<BR/><BR/>(Wouldn't it be funny if, some day in a distant continent, groups of angry skinhead deviants wave the Stars and Stripes, as some deluded folks today in America wave the Swastika, not understanding the ugly reality behind the glamor?)<BR/><BR/>I am afraid we will eventually end up the same way as the Third Reich did, in the destruction of our society, probably in a nuclear war which was never intended to happen. Much as the Nazis believed their imposition of Nazism on the rest of the world would be welcomed, this country is confident its imposition of "democracy," which is just a system for the looting of the public treasury by the oligarchs, will be welcomed everywhere, at the point of a gun if necessary. Just like the Nazis.<BR/><BR/>And I fear that just like the Germans sorely regretted not stopping the Nazis while that was possible, we will end up bitterly regretting not stopping this cabal that is consolidating its powers over us, while we still had enough freedom left to do so.<BR/><BR/>Oh well. Darwin was right. The mentally fit nation will survive. The stupid nation will die. This applies, too, for our whole human species. If our brains and our technology end up evolving faster than our morality, it is a physical deformity, like a couple of extra and useless limbs, which will kill us.<BR/><BR/>Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.<BR/><BR/>Sincerely,<BR/>Lemuel Gulliver.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-68341480330138295752008-09-16T16:01:00.000-06:002008-09-16T16:01:00.000-06:00I'll believe that "most cops are good people" as s...I'll believe that "most cops are good people" as soon as they stop enforcing counterfeit "laws" and crush those LEOs (Liberty Eradication Operatives) who do.Kent McManigalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05005964583189815410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-70673817665850728242008-09-16T15:44:00.000-06:002008-09-16T15:44:00.000-06:00Failure to realize that in the current times, ther...Failure to realize that in the current times, there is no difference between common criminal and 'law enforcement officer' is what allows this obscene situation to not only exist, but to fester and grow, eventually culminating in what we were shown in Minnesota for the RNC.<BR/><BR/>The only way this will change is when the 'law enforcement officers' realize they have alienated themselves from the communities they are employed by and live in, and are considered by those communities to be the largest criminal enterprise in operation. And treated as such by those communities.<BR/><BR/>Most cops are good people, but are way too easily cowed into believing the propaganda they have been indoctrinated with since day one in the Police Science courses at the local tech schools. <BR/><BR/>And sadly, the truth is, there is so much corruption within the law enforcement community, that two sets of laws are now in functional deployment- theirs and ours. And we believe our position to be subservient to theirs. To our own detriment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-55268234214194937002008-09-16T15:10:00.000-06:002008-09-16T15:10:00.000-06:00Ted's Ok for beer drinking and hell raising, but i...Ted's Ok for beer drinking and hell raising, but if he's so gung ho about the Iraq War, then he should have gotten over to Vietnam when he had the chance.<BR/><BR/>Check out these lyrics from another rock band dynasty, Steppenwolf, who recorded this song, MONSTER, in the late 1960's.<BR/><BR/><B>Once the religious, the hunted and weary<BR/>Chasing the promise of freedom and hope<BR/>Came to this country to build a new vision<BR/>Far from the reaches of kingdom and pope<BR/>Like good Christians, some would burn the witches<BR/>Later some got slaves to gather riches<BR/><BR/>But still from near and far to seek America<BR/>They came by thousands to court the wild<BR/>And she just patiently smiled and bore a child<BR/>To be their spirit and guiding light<BR/><BR/>And once the ties with the crown had been broken<BR/>Westward in saddle and wagon it went<BR/>And 'til the railroad linked ocean to ocean<BR/>Many the lives which had come to an end<BR/>While we bullied, stole and bought our a homeland<BR/>We began the slaughter of the red man<BR/><BR/>But still from near and far to seek America<BR/>They came by thousands to court the wild<BR/>And she just patiently smiled and bore a child<BR/>To be their spirit and guiding light<BR/><BR/>The blue and grey they stomped it<BR/>They kicked it just like a dog<BR/>And when the war over<BR/>They stuffed it just like a hog<BR/><BR/>And though the past has it's share of injustice<BR/>Kind was the spirit in many a way<BR/>But it's protectors and friends have been sleeping<BR/>Now it's a monster and will not obey</B><BR/><BR/>http://www.lyricsdomain.com/19/steppenwolf/monster.html<BR/><BR/>Welcome to Amerika in the 21st Century. Since we freed the blacks and killed off most of the Red Man, the only ones left to fuck with is us.<BR/><BR/>Watch how we devour one another.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-88700235908511081592008-09-15T08:50:00.000-06:002008-09-15T08:50:00.000-06:00Rick,Check this page for embedded links.Rick,<BR/><BR/>Check <A HREF="http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/html/article.php/3478171" REL="nofollow">this page</A> for embedded links.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-27620563438636899242008-09-15T08:29:00.000-06:002008-09-15T08:29:00.000-06:00Saw some scary articles about Skeletor Chertoff ha...Saw some scary articles about Skeletor Chertoff having the right to waive any laws he sees fit to for the building of the bandaid on a severed artery wall along the border. Some farmers and ranchers will be stuck in a no man's land outside the wall. But they are just little people, useless eaters so they don't matter. All hail the new corporate feudalism obey!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-37524695412918019722008-09-14T18:11:00.000-06:002008-09-14T18:11:00.000-06:00hey,off topic here, but how do you embed the links...hey,<BR/><BR/><BR/>off topic here, but how do you embed the links?<BR/><BR/>rickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-76227954230423213032008-09-14T16:00:00.000-06:002008-09-14T16:00:00.000-06:00And, re Mexico: 1. Drug War Terror2. Mexican Milit...And, re Mexico: <BR/><BR/>1. <A HREF="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4636533.ece" REL="nofollow">Drug <BR/>War Terror</A><BR/><BR/>2. <A HREF="http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/kristin-bricker/2008/08/mexican-generals-propose-a-militarized-national-police-force" REL="nofollow">Mexican Military Proposal</A> <BR/><BR/>3. <A HREF="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/09/408720.html" REL="nofollow">Radio TOTOP Oaxaca/Zapatista Solidarity</A><BR/><BR/>Please consider acting in solidarity on the 11th to defend the innocent. Regular global demos for the protection of humanity in the face of this onslaught of militarisation and imperial abuses of power. <BR/><BR/>And in solidarity with the EZLN<BR/><BR/>Delivered to the UK Government on September 11th:<BR/><BR/>Officers of the security state and others who support or profit<BR/>financially from the security economy, be on notice:<BR/><BR/>The UK, US & EU governments are intent on turning society into an<BR/>authoritarian police state-in-the-making. Not only is this morally<BR/>wrong and an abuse of power, it also directly prevents the very<BR/>openess and democratic processes necessary to build a good society. As<BR/>non-violent activists we feel this keenly, for we who campaign for a<BR/>just world now find ourselves forced to defend our essential political<BR/>freedom.<BR/><BR/>The restrictions on assembly, freedom to protest, rising surveillance<BR/>and encouragement of a 'snoop' culture, the removal of hard won rights<BR/>like habeus corpus and many other rights; these are totally<BR/>unacceptable in a democratic society. And those who support these<BR/>laws, whether as legislators, enforcers or apologists for the status<BR/>quo are collectively guilty of abuse of power and should be<BR/>prosecuted. Are you aware that our ancestors died for these<BR/>principles? We will not allow you to give them away!<BR/><BR/>We therefore hold you and all other relevant government bodies<BR/>responsible, including the Home Office, the Cabinet, police force and<BR/>local councils who crave ever-greater means of surveillance and<BR/>control over the populace. And we hold guilty those companies that<BR/>directly benefit from the selling of surveillance equipment or who are<BR/>inappropriately shielded from our democratic protest at their cruel<BR/>and dangerous activities. And we denounce the state that colludes with<BR/>these corporations.<BR/><BR/>We call upon you, good people within these organisations to end your<BR/>blind acceptance of these laws and the various wrong-headed doctrines<BR/>that support their enactment, including the war on terror. All<BR/>doctrines that encourage the notion we need a civil liberties<BR/>crackdown are false doctrines!<BR/><BR/>We demand that you<BR/>1 .Scrap ID cards & the proposed database state<BR/>2 Bring about strict punishment for abuse of power (like arresting<BR/>peaceful protesters under anti-terror law)<BR/>3) End council powers to snoop on its residents<BR/>4) Repeal SOCPA s132, 128, 145<BR/>5) Abort the Counter Terror Bill<BR/><BR/>And this is just the beginning! Stop the persecution of dissidents,<BR/>for these are the lifeblood of any democratic society. Recognise that<BR/>dissident actions, whether against state or other co-called<BR/>anti-social behaviour; these are usually born of necessity. They are<BR/>symptomatic: of perpetuated injustices, of the failure of economic and<BR/>political power structures to include everyone, of the need for a wide<BR/>debate, deliberation and inclusive legislative process about the<BR/>direction of society. Without justice, no peace! Protests and<BR/>anti-social behaviour reflect our collective failure to create a good<BR/>and authentically democratic society. Do you not see that we<BR/>dissidents are good , because we want a society in which all can have<BR/>their freedom to self-determination in solidarity with one another,<BR/>and not just a few? And the irony that we cannot possibly achieve this<BR/>by being demonized? Without a whole-scale reappraisal of how our<BR/>society operates, justice cannot be secured. But this is now<BR/>impossible under our vote and closed media/celebrity culture system<BR/>because those with power will not let the necessary, and serious ideas<BR/>into the mainstream. We are peaceful, but we can see why the terrorist<BR/>blows up a plane to get on the agenda, even if we disagree with means<BR/>and ends.<BR/><BR/>We demand the government adopts a new approach to dissidents. If not,<BR/>levels of terror, protest and general civil unrest will only grow.<BR/>Reinstate civil liberties and human rights for all, but at the same<BR/>time you must enlarge them. Open up the public sphere for peaceful<BR/>activists! We need a full debate in the mainstream media, so that the<BR/>views of non-violent, non-sectarian dissidents (those many radicals<BR/>now excluded from the coverage their causes deserve) can be heard, and<BR/>their ideas openly debated. For only then will demoracy have the<BR/>chance of fulfillment and the challenge of our times addressed. We<BR/>need open and ongoing, daily debate about how to use our freedom well,<BR/>about the way we organise society; about how our culture can bloom.<BR/>Facilitation of THESE things are what we need from public servants –<BR/>not Robocop! For it is through these means, and not through<BR/>authoritarian measures that peace will be possible. We will not let<BR/>the logic of the surveillance state continue!!<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/09/408556.html?c=on#c203706" REL="nofollow">Picnic Warfare Part II Declared</A>Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05457543061246979818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-53447886349901071412008-09-14T15:45:00.000-06:002008-09-14T15:45:00.000-06:00It was about surveillance and Tyranny on Display a...It was about surveillance and <A HREF="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080908_tyranny_on_display_at_the_republican_convention" REL="nofollow">Tyranny on Display at the Republican Convention</A>Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05457543061246979818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-77404224435518065632008-09-14T14:29:00.000-06:002008-09-14T14:29:00.000-06:00Freedom not Fear International Day of Action Octob...Freedom not Fear International Day of Action <A HREF="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/09/408718.html" REL="nofollow">October 11th</A>Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05457543061246979818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-81450511654881576532008-09-14T14:07:00.000-06:002008-09-14T14:07:00.000-06:00The U.S. government "officials" have no more autho...The U.S. government "officials" have no more authority than you or I. People can only have authority from nature/nature's God, or consenting individuals. The individuals in government have no more authority from God than you or I, and I do not give them a drop of consent. <BR/><BR/>There is a difference between force/violence/power, and "authority." Men everywhere would do well to become familiar with it. <BR/><BR/> -Sans AuthoritasAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-2285029539240420982008-09-14T13:49:00.000-06:002008-09-14T13:49:00.000-06:00So no neocon types were arrested? Not that they ha...So no neocon types were arrested? Not that they have anything to protest, but what about any of the neocon press? Here's what Michelle Malkin wrote about the protesters: <A HREF="http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/01/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-rnc-protesters" REL="nofollow"> <B>Losers.</B></A><BR/><BR/>I'm wondering about the black bloc. (Google <A HREF="http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&q=black+bloc&btnG=Search" REL="nofollow"> articles</A>, Google <A HREF="http://images.google.com/images?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&q=black+bloc&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=1" REL="nofollow"> images</A>.) The police managed to suppress completely peaceful protesters in order to "pre-empt violence," yet, except for token arrests, it is only the violent ones who managed to elude them. Some of their <A HREF="http://www.dawnone.com/bbloc.htm" REL="nofollow">tactics</A> -- "The black bloc will continue to break police lines, occupy buildings, takeover areas, <B>unarrest</B> people, etc. with the goal of moving from protest to actual resistance" -- could NEVER be done by legitimate protesters.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03276241501396117972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-69637809764736190962008-09-14T08:58:00.000-06:002008-09-14T08:58:00.000-06:00US authorities ARE the criminal syndicate!US authorities ARE the criminal syndicate!Kent McManigalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05005964583189815410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-67585443329613525932008-09-14T07:10:00.000-06:002008-09-14T07:10:00.000-06:00Helpful report from 'bearded spock'; thanks.A coup...Helpful report from 'bearded spock'; thanks.<BR/><BR/>A couple of years ago, I was in El Paso and decided to walk across the border at the I-110 crossing. A sign on the US side warns of jail for those bringing guns into Mexico. At the Mexican end of the bridge over the fenced-in river was an Immigration office. No one challenged me, and there was no turnstile, so I just strolled on past ... entering Mexico with no documentation or inspection whatsoever.<BR/><BR/>There's a big park on the Juarez side. Aside from a few cut-rate dental offices nearby, not much of interest to tourists. It appeared to be a poor part of Juarez, though I wouldn't know.<BR/><BR/>Crossing back northbound couldn't have been more different. The fenced-in pedestrian walkway feeds straight in to a US Customs office, much like a TSA airport checkpoint. I presented my US passport. The Aztec-faced officer scanned it, and then scowled silently at the data on his monitor screen for awhile. Did I fit some suspicious profile? Who knows ...<BR/><BR/>Then the interrogation started. Are you carrying any drugs in your shirt? No. Are you carrying drugs in your belt? No. Are you carrying drugs in your boots? No. The officer realized, from my confident, almost smirking answers, that I had nothing to hide, so a body search would be a waste of time. He admitted me, reluctantly, to the United States.<BR/><BR/>As Mr. Spock details so well, drug prohibition enfranchises criminal gangs and fuels their internecine violence, as it corrupts the authorities. But on a more trivial level, it's deplorable that what should be a friendly border has a hostile feel on the yanqui side. Every entrant to the US is treated as a criminal suspect, who might be involved in either drug smuggling or terrorism.<BR/><BR/>Legalize drugs; defund the mafia; demilitarize the border. Obviously this would happen, if US authorities weren't on the criminal syndicate's payroll too, in a big way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-20146345374142112482008-09-13T21:02:00.000-06:002008-09-13T21:02:00.000-06:00Mr. Spock -- Could you contact me directly at WNGr...Mr. Spock -- Could you contact me directly at WNGrigg [at] msn [dot] com?<BR/><BR/>Thanks!William N. Grigghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14368220509514750246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-26632411580562594502008-09-13T20:33:00.000-06:002008-09-13T20:33:00.000-06:00The Republicrats are also creating a police state ...The Republicrats are also creating a police state in Mexico.<BR/><BR/>I live in a war zone. Not a metaphorical war zone, an actual one. Armed soldiers patrol my street daily in full combat gear with loaded weapons. The squads have fully automatic rifles and a fifty caliber machine gun mounted on one of their Hummers. There have been over 900 war-related deaths in this city alone this year, but I do not live in the Middle East. I live two miles from the U.S. Border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The war is the war on drugs.<BR/><BR/>Juarez is on the other side of the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. It has half the area of El Paso, but twice the population. Even though El Paso is the fourth poorest city in the U.S., Juarez workers (including the police) make about twenty five percent of what their counterparts north of the border make. The enormous profits from the drugs going north and the guns coming south are simply too much of a temptation for many of the law-enforcement officers and other otherwise honest people to resist.<BR/><BR/>The most recent surge in violence started about a year ago when Mexican President Felipe Calderon signed a deal with President Bush called the Merida Initiative (or Plan Mexico) to step up enforcement in the border area. Bush committed to provide 1.4 billion dollars in military aid to Mexico and Calderon started stepping up the pressure on the cartels and the corrupt local cops. There were early successes, but then all hell started to break loose.<BR/><BR/>The problem was that as the local group known as La Linea started to loose it's grip, another cartel from Sinaloa started moving in to fill the void. President Calderon's troops unintentionally were aiding one side in a war between two criminal organizations. Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, the local boss, hired a group of ex-military mercenaries--known as the Zetas--to help him maintain control. The Zetas brutally gunned down many police officers who were formerly on Carrillo's payroll for suspected disloyalty and defection to the Sinaloa cartel headed by Joaqun Guzman Loera, known as "el Chapo" (Shorty). The fact that many of them did not defect--but were rather just prevented from aiding Carrillo by the Army and the other Federales--made no difference. Most of the cops that weren't killed resigned or were fired for failing lie-detector and other "trustworthiness" tests. With almost no cops left, the streets started running red with blood.<BR/><BR/>Living in a war zone is not fun. The cost of living is low in terms of money but high in terms of risk. I am stuck here until I can get a visa for my wife, a Mexican national. The house across the street from us was raided by the cops a year ago, but no drugs were found. The owners fled, but the looters took everything, including the front door. It was a really nice house with trees and a pool. Now the place is abandoned and decaying. Gang signs are spray painted all over it.<BR/><BR/>The Mexican Army that was brought in has so far been relatively free from corruption although they have made no noticeable impact on the amount of violence or the quantity of drugs running through the area. There have been growing reports of human rights violations from soldiers, who are simply a poor substitute for civilian police. A scandal broke out when it was revealed that the U.S. military was teaching them torture techniques to obtain information. The random warrantless searches and checkpoints make me nervous. We are not allowed to photograph or film them. I don't think they are winning this war because they only operate during daylight hours (as far as I've seen) and they often look scared. How long they can resist being corrupted themselves on a $500/month salary is the question I wonder about.<BR/><BR/>Obviously, all this could be avoided if drugs were legalized in the U.S. and guns were legalized in Mexico. Sure, addictions may increase but that would be less of a problem if the drugs were more affordable. At least addicts wouldn't have to prostitute themselves, steal or rob to get high. The U.S. would have at least 1.4 billion more dollars to help addicts if we didn't have to give the aid to Mexico. Honest Mexicans could defend themselves rather than relying on the now almost non-existent police force.<BR/><BR/>The capper is that many of the Zetas, the ex-military mercenaries responsible for a lot of the murders, were trained by the United States Drug Enforcement Agency before they switched sides to make more money. Your tax dollars at work, folks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-68183854626382582122008-09-13T05:52:00.000-06:002008-09-13T05:52:00.000-06:00Will,thanks for the reply. i think the term fasci...Will,<BR/><BR/>thanks for the reply. i think the term fascist (if we are to ensure the purity of the word) does not apply here. however, the terms you employed seem to do him more justice. <BR/><BR/>this classic by jeffrey gaines comes to mind in describing the man and his ilk.<BR/><BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SVfzZHQymw<BR/><BR/>RickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-64388684869935800312008-09-12T23:01:00.000-06:002008-09-12T23:01:00.000-06:00His politics aside, I'll give the Nuge a bit of a ...His politics aside, I'll give the Nuge a bit of a pass. In addition to his love of firearms he is also an avid bowhunter (which, having adopted the latter in favor of the former I can appreciate) who learned from Fred Bear. Could be he just got caught up in the hype of celebrity. <BR/><BR/>Ok, that's as much of a pass as I'll give . . .<BR/><BR/>Sic Semper TyrannisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-72238857592661561082008-09-12T18:03:00.000-06:002008-09-12T18:03:00.000-06:00Support for the police-state policies and programs...Support for the police-state policies and programs (such as The War on Drugs, The "PATRIOT" Act, and the War on Terror) which are rampant throughout the federal government, and often (but mistakenly) linked to only the Republican side of the cow-pie, makes Ted Nugent a fascist.Kent McManigalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05005964583189815410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-1019338325110079242008-09-12T17:50:00.000-06:002008-09-12T17:50:00.000-06:00rick, The Nuge has become an unvarnished apologist...rick, The Nuge has become an unvarnished apologist for the Warfare State.<BR/><BR/><BR/>As alluded to by sandals and granola, Nugent also uses every concert to execrate the Democrats (who deserve that treatment, of course),and to preach little homilies about the supposed virtues of voting for the Republicans (who are even worse than the Dems). <BR/><BR/><BR/>Nugent is also the prototype Chickenhawk.<BR/><BR/>His dad was an Army Drill Sergeant who encouraged his son to live as an individualist. So Nugent became a rock star and, to avoid the Vietnam draft, feigned insanity by defecating in his pants during physicals. <BR/><BR/>No problem so far, since dodging the draft is entirely appropriate. The problem is that Nugent (like Rush "anal cyst" Limbaugh, Dick "Other Priorities" Cheney, and Newt "Cancer Ward Divorce" Gingrich) mocks the supposed cowardice and lack of patriotism allegedly displayed by those who oppose wars he's too old to fight. <BR/><BR/>All of this is really sad. Nugent's professional act grew stale for me by about 1980, but he's a very talented writer and radio host. His book "God, Guns, and Rock-and-Roll" was a delight to read, and anyone who suspects the aid of a ghostwriter need only listen to one of Nugent's performances as a host or guest to realize that he's unusually literate, and very well-spoken when he care to be.William N. Grigghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14368220509514750246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-2400853019281284092008-09-12T17:47:00.000-06:002008-09-12T17:47:00.000-06:00rick, The Nuge has become an unvarnished apologist...rick, The Nuge has become an unvarnished apologist for the Warfare State.<BR/><BR/><BR/>As alluded to by sandals and granola, Nugent also uses every concert to execrate the Democrats (who deserve that treatment, of course),and to preach little homilies about the supposed virtues of voting for the Republicans (who are even worse than the Dems). <BR/><BR/><BR/>Nugent is also the prototype Chickenhawk.<BR/><BR/>His dad was an Army Drill Sergeant who encouraged his son to live as an individualist. So Nugent became a rock star and, to avoid the Vietnam draft, feigned insanity by defecating in his pants during physicals. <BR/><BR/>No problem so far, since dodging the draft is entirely appropriate. The problem is that Nugent (like Rush "anal cyst" Limbaugh, Dick "Other Priorities" Cheney, and Newt "Cancer Ward Divorce" Gingrich) mocks the supposed cowardice and lack of patriotism allegedly displayed by those who oppose wars he's too old to fight. <BR/><BR/>All of this is really sad. Nugent's professional act grew stale for me by about 1980, but he's a <I>very</I> talented writer and radio host. His book "God, Guns, and Rock-and-Roll" was a delight to read, and anyone who suspects the aid of a ghostwriter need only listen to one of Nugent's performances as a host or guest to realize that he's unusually literate, and very well-spoken when he care to be.Grigg Familyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00610001951486523311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-38753513080794788692008-09-12T17:06:00.000-06:002008-09-12T17:06:00.000-06:00repuglican=fascistted nugent=republicanrepuglican=fascist<BR/>ted nugent=republicanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-62686347147819998752008-09-12T12:39:00.000-06:002008-09-12T12:39:00.000-06:00LEOs (Liberty Eradication Operatives) are the "sta...LEOs (Liberty Eradication Operatives) are the "standing army" we were warned about. <BR/><BR/>If you choose to vote, <A HREF="http://kentmcmanigal.blogspot.com/2008/09/upcoming-election-dilemma-solved.html" REL="nofollow">vote in self defense</A> this time.Kent McManigalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05005964583189815410noreply@blogger.com