Long Tweet: We need a new form of protest

Nope *smh* I'm not buying that the President believes the "people have spoken," nor do I believe that the President thinks Republicans are ready to "compromise."

Watching the corpwhore media ramble on about how "angry" the "American People" are and attributing this anger to the misled and race-based Tea party "Movement," all the while airing sound bites of elect house members emphatically stating their unwillingness to compromise with the sitting President, you would have to be as dumb as Sarah Palin to believe that Republicans are ready to compromise. "Compromise" to the Republican Party is; not regulating corporations, not taxing corporations, and getting rid of unions—long story short—profits first.

The People have spoken. We've been speaking since the Bush Administration's inception, (and in many instances, before) about a myriad of issues that do not serve the corporate structure. We want out of these wars, we want better education, we want our jobs back from India and China with competitive salaries and benefits, we want police brutality ended, drugs and guns removed from inner cities, we wanted healthcare for all and an abolishment of usury rates, we did not want bailouts, we want the rich to pay their fair share, and we definitely did not want a "favorable for corporations" ruling in the Citizen's United case. There is not enough bandwidth to voice our unheard grievances, yet, after a run-of-the mill election, I'm supposed to believe, that the President believes, that the voice he was hearing was that of the Tea Party??? Nope. *smh* I'm not buying it.

The People are quite aware that the voices that were loudest were funded by the corporate structure. We are quite aware that this corporate-backed voice's raised decibels were due to a mainstream media that is also funded by this corporate structure. We are also aware that this failed "fourth branch" gave credence to the craziest, most racist and ill-informed Americans in this country. So, what do we do? Protest--who would cover it? We've got to rethink our form of protest. Unless sensational, there is no way to garner the attention of mainstream media and, in turn, no way to reach those not tuned into the urgency of self representation. As an aside, I've been going to protests since I was 12/13 years old and I've seen legitimate protests co-opted by special interest groups that had nothing to do with the nature of protest I was willing to engage in. I've never been that scattered with my energies. Besides, there is something about having to procure a permit to protest social ills that produces a taste of bile in my mouth.

Listen, I don't have a definitive answer but I do have a concept and it is a concept based on a constant exhibition of our angst. For instances, I for one am willing to attach a blue flag to the antennae of my automobile that represents the small "d" democracy where, a "government by the people" is the ideal achieved through "the absence of hereditary or arbitrary class distinctions or privileges." I envision a sea of blue flags waving in the wind on all highways and byways of America. I would also be willing to carry a placard expressing my dissatisfaction with the status quo. Something like, "I'm being ignored by President Obama," or "The Republican Party Will Never Compromise." Throughout the remaining days of the Obama administration's tenure, the party of "No" will continue to stall the President's agenda giving us ample opportunity to revise our placard messages. I can actually see; city streets, trains, and buses filled with people going about their daily business carrying signs of silent protest.

Are we not worthy of achieving the freedoms America's "forefathers" envisioned for their own function? Each one of us is responsible for our circumstances and what we allow to be done to our condition is our own doing. A feeling of powerlessness is debilitating. The ruling structure relies on cognitive dissonance. Do we create our own realities or allow others to benefit from our stifled dreams? We can use the tools provided to either rise or remain stagnate. Protests no longer have to be date and time stamped. It can be done immediately, like right NOW. It can be personal.

Look, I've already attached my blue flag to my automobile's antennae. I wish I had all the answers.  What are you gonna do? I'll probably do that too.


Hmmm,
maybe, #ImBeingIgnoredByPresidentObama should be a trending topic?

Frederick Douglass Independence Day Speech at Rochester, 1841

(A former slave himself, Frederick Douglass became a leader in the 19th Century Abolitionist Movement)

Fellow citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here today? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? and am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits and express devout gratitude for the blessings resulting from your independence to us?

Would to God, both for your sakes and ours, that an affirmative answer could be truthfully returned to these questions! Then would my task be light, and my burden easy and delightful. For who is there so cold that a nation's sympathy could not warm him? Who so obdurate and dead to the claims of gratitude that would not thankfully acknowledge such priceless benefits? Who so stolid and selfish that would not give his voice to swell the hallelujahs of a nation's jubilee, when the chains of servitude had been torn from his limbs? I am not that man. In a case like that the dumb might eloquently speak and the "lame man leap as an hart."

But such is not the state of the case. I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence bequeathed by your fathers is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought light and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me by asking me to speak today? If so, there is a parallel to your conduct. And let me warn that it is dangerous to copy the example of nation whose crimes, towering up to heaven, were thrown down by the breath of the Almighty, burying that nation in irrevocable ruin! I can today take up the plaintive lament of a peeled and woe-smitten people.

"By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yea! We wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there, they that carried us away captive, required of us a song; and they who wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How can we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth."

Fellow citizens, above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions! Whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are, today, rendered more intolerable by the jubilee shouts that reach them. If I do forget, if I do not faithfully remember those bleeding children of sorry this day, "may my right hand cleave to the roof of my mouth"! To forget them, to pass lightly over their wrongs, and to chime in with the popular theme would be treason most scandalous and shocking, and would make me a reproach before God and the world. My subject, then, fellow citizens, is American slavery. I shall see this day and its popular characteristics from the slave's point of view. Standing there identified with the American bondman, making his wrongs mine. I do not hesitate to declare with all my soul that the character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this Fourth of July! Whether we turn to the declarations of the past or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Standing with God and the crushed and bleeding slave on this occasion, I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged, in the name of liberty which is fettered, in the name of the Constitution and the Bible which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and to denounce, with all the emphasis I can command, everything that serves to perpetuate slavery-the great sin and shame of America! "I will not equivocate, I will not excuse"; I will use the severest language I can command; and yet not one word shall escape me that any man, whose judgment is not blinded by prejudice, shall not confess to be right and just....

For the present, it is enough to affirm the equal manhood of the Negro race. Is it not as astonishing that, while we are plowing, planting, and reaping, using all kinds of mechanical tools, erecting houses, constructing bridges, building ships, working in metals of brass, iron, copper, and secretaries, having among us lawyers doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators, and teachers; and that, while we are engaged in all manner of enterprises common to other men, digging gold in California, capturing the whale in the Pacific, feeding sheep and cattle on the hillside, living, moving, acting, thinking, planning, living in families as husbands, wives, and children, and above all, confessing and worshiping the Christian's God, and looking hopefully for life and immortality beyond the grave, we are called upon to prove that we are men!...

What, am I to argue that it is wrong to make men brutes, to rob them of their liberty, to work them without wages, to keep them ignorant of their relations to their fellow men, to beat them with sticks, to flay their flesh with the lash, to load their limbs with irons, to hunt them with dogs, to sell them at auction, to sunder their families, to knock out their teeth, to burn their flesh, to starve them into obedience and submission to their masters? Must I argue that a system thus marked with blood, and stained with pollution, is wrong? No! I will not. I have better employment for my time and strength than such arguments would imply....

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States at this very hour.

Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms- of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.

The Media has lost their minds

For real people, is this a story? If; we weren't in a depreesion and our economy wasn't in shambles, we weren't in TWO unjustified wars, people were not losing their jobs, homes, and freedoms, the republicans weren't formenting crazed gunmen, we stopped giving money to Israel, there was peace in the Middle East, the dollar was stable and gas prices were reasonable, all fundamentalists were dead, gay marriage would remain a non-issue, white people stopped wasting their time on being racist, healthcare was single payer, trade laws were favorable to the US, congress wasn't owned by corporations, the federal reserve was co-opted by the Treasury, babies weren't being molested and murdered, Bloomberg wasn't running for a third term, cops weren't overexerting their power and exercising their racial hatred, AND THE MEDIA WAS ON TOP OF THEIR GAME, THEN I would find this shit funny. Right now it's like; wtf???? So the President doesn't like bugs, well neither do I, AND????

BIG BAD GUILIANI "stands up" to a 69 Year Old Man

I needed this laugh.

Excerpts:

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani didn't blink today when a surly passer-by threatened to knock his lights out as Rudy strolled with wife Judi in the Hamptons, challenging the wacko to "do it!"

"I'm gonna punch your lights out," the suspect -- identified as John McCluskey, 69 -- repeatedly yelled at Giuliani, startling Judi, the witnesses said.

But when McCluskey, of Amagansett, started poking Giuliani in the chest, Brooklyn native Rudy turned feisty.

"Alright, do it then!" he yelled, according to witness Mark Borghi.

Witnesses said Judi could be heard on her cellphone ordering their driver to fetch them and call the police.

"I want him in jail," she said several times, according to witnesses.

Source

Look at Judi callin' for backup. It's rough in the Hamptons hunh?

FBI Seems to Have Made "Homegrown" Terrorists..again.

Quotes from the story:

"Brother whatever you need, I will get it for you," said the man who the four petty thieves knew as Maqsood, according to Kathleen Baynes, whose long-time boyfriend, James Cromitie is alleged to be the ringleader of the plot.

"He was very persistent and every time he came for James he took him away. They said they were going out to eat dinner," she said. "Whenever we needed anything Maqsood would help -- like financially --he gave us money to pay rent.

"He was just constantly around. It was like he was stalking him."

"They aren't radicals they were just financially motivated. They aren't terrorists. If Maqsood wasn't in the picture they would've never come up with this idea," she said. "This was not their idea. They make it sound like they sought him out and said we want to do this when he's the one who approached them. He enticed them with money.

"Maqsood wasn't even allowed inside the mosque, he waited in the parking lot for them and offered them $25,000 to join."

"Maqsood said 'Don't worry brother, I am going to help with your brother's hospital bills,'" she quoted him as saying. "This man did nothing but set these guys up."

"James told me that the Imam said to be careful because this man is trying to recruit people to go to Pakistan," she said. "James said he was not that crazy to do something like that."

"Lately James hasn't been the same. He was just acting different," she said. "All he would do all day is smoke weed and play video games with his friends [co-conspirators Williams, Laguerre Payen and Onta Williams]."

On the day of the attack, she said the men gathered and that Maqsood "looked real nervous."

"He was standing by the car twitching," she said.

Then, as they were about to leave, Cromitie kissed her on the cheek and promised, "Soon we are going to be all right," she said. "I guess he meant financially he meant that we were going to be okay."

She said a friend told her James had said he was going to be getting $50,000.

Listen, the hardest thing to believe is that a group of Black men with prison records, would target Jews instead of 1 police plaza in a terrorist plot. This screamed 'shenanigans' from the jump.

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Washington Times Runs Obama Girls' Photo With Story About Murdered Chicago Kids

I have no words...yes it do. If the Establishment wishes to ruin any semblance of the security and stability of these United States of America, let them harm one hair on the heads of these children. Their attempts at creating a situation to further their agenda has reached a new low, and I think they are underestimating the fallout. Stick with the crushing of the economy, and of liberties before you mess with these children. As a matter of fact, we, as a people, need to do the knowledge on the 36 Black and Latino children that have already perished in the so-called "record numbers." Any outrage experienced at this veiled threat should be equally felt and addressed when it comes to the murder of Black babies.

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"The theme engine, through automation, grabbed a photo it thought was relevant, and attached it to the story" Solomon says, acknowledging that the photo had gone up without a person seeing it. "There was no editorial decision to run it. As soon as it was brought to our attention, we pulled it down." - mufucka please!

Pull the picture down, but not the story assholes! Where is the fuckin' story? What was the fuckin' point if we are not discussing and investigating the record number of murdered babies!?!

Again, even though the outrage at making Obama's babies the face of this headline was well placed, no one expounded upon the story. Hey media, you can't make targets of our president's children and you can't ignore the plight of our nation's children because they are "of color." This story was two-fold! For goodness sake, we are still hearing about Jon Benet!

Remembering Malcolm X on the Day of His Birth

MalcolmX.com

The Life of Malcolm X



The Ballot or the Bullet



Malcolm X: Prince of Islam



The Assassination of Malcolm X

And here we thought the war on Terror was about OIL!

When if fact it was a war on Islam.

On the morning of Thursday, April 10, 2003, Donald Rumsfeld’s Pentagon prepared a top-secret briefing for George W. Bush. This document, known as the Worldwide Intelligence Update, was a daily digest of critical military intelligence so classified that it circulated among only a handful of Pentagon leaders and the president; Rumsfeld himself often delivered it, by hand, to the White House. The briefing’s cover sheet generally featured triumphant, color images from the previous days’ war efforts: On this particular morning, it showed the statue of Saddam Hussein being pulled down in Firdos Square, a grateful Iraqi child kissing an American soldier, and jubilant crowds thronging the streets of newly liberated Baghdad. And above these images, and just below the headline secretary of defense, was a quote that may have raised some eyebrows. It came from the Bible, from the book of Psalms: “Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him…To deliver their soul from death.”

EEK! Ya think that's scary, look at the slideshow.

Aww, you gotta love him. . .

According to a report, while recently attending the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, an annual event where powerful politicians and media elite get a chance to cozy up to one another, Biden told his dinnermates about the existence of a secret bunker under the old U.S. Naval Observatory, which is now the home of the vice president.

"What the Vice President described in his comments was not -- as some press reports have suggested -- an underground facility, but rather, an upstairs workspace in the residence, which he understood was frequently used by Vice President Cheney and his aides," said Biden's spokesperson Elizabeth Alexander. "That workspace was converted into an upstairs guestroom when the Bidens moved into the residence. There was no disclosure of classified information."

* giggles * Biden's spokesperson must be exhausted.

Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009

4/2/2009--Introduced.

Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Attorney General to provide technical, forensic, prosecutorial, or other assistance in the criminal investigation or prosecution of any crime that:

(1) constitutes a crime of violence under federal law or a felony under state, local, or Indian tribal law; and

(2) is motivated by prejudice based on the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability of the victim, or is a violation of the state, local, or tribal hate crime laws.

Directs the Attorney General to give priority for assistance to crimes committed by offenders who have committed crimes in more than one state and to rural jurisdictions that have difficulty covering the extraordinary investigation or prosecution expenses. Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants to assist state, local, and Indian law enforcement agencies with such extraordinary expenses.

Directs the Office of Justice Programs to:

(1) work closely with funded jurisdictions to ensure that the concerns and needs of all affected parties are addressed; and

(2) award grants to state and local programs designed to combat hate crimes committed by juveniles.

Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit willfully causing bodily injury to any person because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability of such person.

Amends the Hate Crimes Statistics Act to expand data collection and reporting requirements under such Act to include:

(1) crimes manifesting prejudice based on gender and gender identity; and
(2) hate crimes committed by and against juveniles.

Declares that nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit the exercise of constitutionally-protected free speech.

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