Sioux Rose

Any war state regards genuine peace advocates, especially influential ones, as virtual enemy combatants. If your business is war/conflict/weapons, then those who rally souls towards peace initiatives prove the greatest of threats.

We have arrived at the cusp of ages, a phase where those beliefs that formed the foundation of "civilization" are breaking down. It's as if the ground has shifted so profoundly underneath these support beams, that the structure no longer has any viable basis for being held up. So armies are appointed to hold minds to the previous status quo by fabricating complex, contradictory illusions, while a dazzling and expensive display of armed warriors are put in place to make sure that those who see the folly and own the intellectual means to inspire citizens to build new edifices, are either shot, arrested, maligned, silenced, or exiled. This is not a new dance; however, the weapons have gotten bigger and more vicious.

There is a growing chasm between those religious beliefs that have built the pillars of current ideological edifices, and the new awareness crashing into them. Here in Puerto Rico I am meeting highly intellectual types who are radically questioning the dictates of their once cherished Catholicism. For all the abounding darkness of our times, so many persons are "lit" on the inside, that it is THEIR light in composite that is shining through the detritus as the walls of effete belief structures come crashing down.

By the statements of the immigration officer, it is obvious that immigration officials are attempting to intimidate and harass Ms. Maguire all because of her audacity in speaking out against Israeli aggression aimed at the Palestinian people. How is Obama's regime any different than that of Bush and Cheney? Was Obama not elected because he was considered to be an agent of hope and change? Apparently that hope is not extended to the Palestinians who surely recognize that they will continue to feel the yoke of oppression under Obama just as they did under the neoconservatives.

The motto of the Obama presidency would seem to be more of the status quo [more insurance companies in America's health care plans, more bombing of third world countries and support of oppressive regimes such as Israel, more support of the Patriot Act and torture, etc.]. Not exactly change that one can believe in.

There was a little noticed story last week about human trafficking in Kansas City. Turns out that the people running the ring, which was described as organized crime, were from Uzbekistan. Too bad Homeland Security and Immigration and all the intelligence agencies and all the pork pie we're paying for to "keep us safe" are too busy harassing those who speak their conscience to prevent organized crime from running an operation like this since 2001.

Obama is Rahm "Irgun" Emmanuels puppet.

I remember when the 'current' war began the US denied entry to Cat Stevens, onetime international music star, now converted to Islam. No doubt the government feared his possible voice and idealism - US freedoms? US idealism?

Ah, yes, and the Dixie Chicks -

After the Canadian citizen Maher Arar was sent abroad to be tortured, eventually cleared of any connection to terrorism, awarded monetary compensation and a governmental apology by the Candadian government - the US would not allow him to enter the country on a speaking tour - US freedoms? US idealism?

And, of course, the situation with McGuire - and you already know the answer - a continuing diminution of US freedoms and a mockery of US idealism.

All are the result of a government gone mad, paranoid that its inhumanity, lies, deceptions and actual motives and actions will be revealed by those with knowledge and experience. These are the actions of a criminal government - a government now controlling the US. The CIA has been held to no accountability for its vast number of crimes; those that initiated an illegal war based on a vast panoply of fabrications still live freely and in luxury; a government that still supports terrorist regimes while sheepishly and lyingly singing the song of democracy and freedom; a government that continues to build a military capable of controlling the world - now with robots (remember the world's reaction to the V-1 and V-2s of Hitler?); a government of ruling elites financed by the great corporate entities that feed the masses emotionalism, lies, and propaganda to keep them in a constant state of ignorance, paranoia and agitation. This is the state of America today - seen by many, if not most throughout the world. This is not the beginning of fascism - we are well beyond that . . . .
Sioux Rose, as always, has described one of the many reasons this society has lost whatever moral underpinnings it once marginally had. The US government is now a soul-less predator, undergirded by only its greed, its false sense of superiority, mostly generated by a intellectual prostitution of Christianity, and a willingness to kill any human being who dares oppose its aims.
The continued rise of the corporate state, its control of the government itself, the rising hatred of a minority of its citizens too ignorant to see beyond the Sunday footgames and NASCAR hero worship - these are the societal elements every dictatorship prays for - AND THEY ARE HERE, NOW.

All and all of the large so called humanitarian agencies such as the Nobel Committee, Nobel laureates, Red Cross, Amnesty international, Oxfam, Human Right Watch, Doctors Without Borders(http://africannewsanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/02/frances-kouchner-mixed-business.html), 3rd world missionaries and NGOs, etc are all recruits and apostles of empire with slightly different window dressings. Most of these so called Universalist entities are funded by large capitalist corporations and endorsed by stake holders in the status quo. Invariably some individuals in these organizations start of with fair motives but soon become hopelessly entangled in "the project". For starters check out Frances Stonor Saunders' "The cultural Cold War "-the CIA and the World of Arts and Letters.

Often times through techniques of "limited hangout" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout), whereby a deployed tactic plays just the opposite strategic role.

And genuine peace advocates, who are also leaders, do not live long. There is too much profit in war. The bankers who run the world have counted on this as their #1 revenue center. Therefore, the current, nearly universal mindset, or desensitization from a normal aversion to suffering, which has embraced modern warfare as normal, is doomed to degrade all life in the same manner. Humankind, as spectators to the cruelty dished out by other humans. Makes me wonder why we developed a brain, at all. We really have nothing over the monkeys, except our ability to destroy.
Macquire should be given an official apology for her inconvenience, reimbursed for all expenses incurred during her delay, and awarded damages to be paid by the person who put her on that list. The U.S. is a rogue nation and should be treated that way. The U.S. no longer respects anything. Not the rule of law, not international treaties, not human rights, not even life itself. The behavior of U.S. politicians and representatives is deplorable, disgusting and undoubtedly doomed. While not a conspiracy theorist, I still find it very hard not to intellectually ponder the many and growing number of claims of zionist idealogues occupying U.S. government positions. The list is long, as well as scary. I don't see any problem philosophically in getting rid of each and every one of them from any positions of persuasion for the rest of their lives. Sorry, I just feel that it is time for a true change. We are willing to go to war and kill innocent civilians preemptively. This would be mild in comparison. People like Doug Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, Eliot Abrams, Richard Pearle, Michael Chertoff.... must go. Anywhere, but most importantly away from any position of power. They have failed us and are leading us to the likes of hell. I believe that Obama is bought and sold by the Israel lobby. I've looked long and hard and can't see it another way. Time to cut the ties to Israel and find some real friends.

Different day, same policy results. Our government has been commandeered.

FTA: "Maguire said that the harassment by U.S. Immigration began in 2009, after the change in U.S. Presidential administrations."

Change I can believe in.

To this article and these comments might be added the question: What "respect" has the Obama administration shown to anyone critical of its foreign policy? It wasn't exactly respect when Cynthia McKinney (whom it might be considered would have been shown some respect for having been the Green Party's nominee in the 08 election) was denied the least interest of the State Department in one its "citizens" when she (along with Maguire and about 20 other peace activists) were kidnapped and jailed in Israel when they undertook a humanitarian mission to Gaza. Ireland at least made diplomatic protests in Maguire's favor, but nothing like this was forthcoming from the U.S.of A.

I should have gotten over the personal shame I feel for this this and many other much worse events, done by my nation, but I never have. At least, before November-December, 2000, there was a feeling that at least incremental progress was still possible. No longer.

I never asked to be born here. God fuck Amerika.

Does anyone remember when Obama said he would get control of the national security beauracracy? I don't.

Why don’t we hear the very loud protests from co-laureates Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Nelson Mandela, the 14th Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachov, and Desmond Tutu?
Among these the following have never had troubles entering the United States or being received with great hoopla by a US President: Nelson Mandela, the 14th Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachov, and Desmond Tutu. Why?
You get a grade of A-plus for two correct answers.

Nothing has changed the pigs are still running the show--they are just a different color pig.

What a pity that society affords Ms. Wright no better accolade with which to establish Malread McGuire's credentials than the Nobel Laureate shared with the likes of Gore and Kissinger.

More on Vanunu and The "Big Get" Don Hewitt and "60 Minutes" Didn't Get

The creator and producer of "60 Minutes" Don Hewitt, died at 86 on August 20, 2009.

In 2001, he wrote: "The formula is simple and it's reduced to four words every kid in the world knows: Tell me a story. It's that easy."

"Back in the days when television was in black and white, Don Hewitt was creating and producing the world's first taste of 'news at the dinner hour'…Big event television news? Hewitt birthed it. The anchor on location for the big story? Hewitt birthed that too.

"And then there was the 'big get.' Hewitt pioneered that too. Or at least the concept.

"Almost all of what is being said and written today is in the kinds of generalities minus specifics that Don as a preeminent producer would have hated. Where are the facts he would have asked? Where are the guts of it he would have demanded." [1]

In 2006, I mailed Mr. Hewitt a DVD copy of my "30 Minutes with Vanunu" taped just weeks after his FREEDOM OF SPEECH Trial began:

See it here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8079102468952529881&q

I never received a reply from Mr. Hewitt.

I also will never stop telling the story of the first FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial in the 'democracy' of Israel until Mordechai Vanunu is free to leave the Jewish state.

On March 26, 2006, the Whistler Blower of Israel's WMD Program, Vanunu told me:

“Many journalists come here to the American Colony, from CNN and NY Times. They all want to cover my story, but their EDITORS say no...CNN wants to interview me; but they say they can't do it because they don't want problems with the Israeli censor. BBC is doing the same thing.

"Sixty Minutes from the United States from the beginning they wanted to do a program, but because of the censor situation they decide not to do it. Also big media from Germany, France, Italy, Japan. None of them wants problems with the Israelis."

On January 25, 2006, Vanunu was convicted by the Jerusalem Magistrates Court of 15 violations of a military order that prohibited him from talking to non-Israelis and because he supposedly attempted to leave Israel by taking a cab to go from Jerusalem to Bethlehem to attend Christmas Eve mass at the Church of the Nativity in 2004.

The original indictment included 22 different violations; Vanunu was charged with 19 and acquitted of four. He was acquitted of speaking to foreign nationals on the internet and via video and voice chats.

On July 2, 2007, Israel sentenced Vanunu to six more months in jail for speaking to foreigners-who happened to be media-in 2004.

On September 23, 2008, the Jerusalem District Court reduced Vanunu’s sentence to three months, "In light of (Vanunu’s) ailing health and the absence of claims that his actions put the country’s security in jeopardy."

On June 14, 2009 Mordechai Vanunu told me, “The Central Commander of the General Army testified in court that it is OK if I speak in public as long as I do not talk about nuclear weapons.”

On July 6, 2009, Supreme Court President Dorit Beinish continued to deny Vanunu the right to leave the Jewish State, claiming his "case is still generating great interest, like any other security-related case. The media's attention he gets is proof of that."

THE REST:

http://www.wearewideawake.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1370&Itemid=223

As a civilized human being I avoid the USA at all costs. It's advise all human beings should bear in mind.

Hollow-State authoritarian regimes are barbaric, not civilized, in nature. The brutality committed in the shadows, and the misanthropy showcased by war crimes and atrocities committed openly, are reflected in an overall coarsening and superciliousness of government authorities.

Courteous and respectful treatment of foreign visitors cannot survive in an organizational culture of paranoid xenophobia and aggressive exceptionalism.

In a way, it's the tragic flip side of the Mexican bandits who identify themselves as "Federales" in the classic Bogart film, "Treasure of the Sierra Madre". The bandit leader, when asked to show their badges, sneers, "We don't need no steenkin' badges!"

Ms. Maguire is only the latest of a host of deplorable discourtesy and abuse visited upon respectable foreign persons coming to the US for professional or academic reasons. In a phrase, they don't care about her steenkin' Nobel Prize.

But it isn't just the thuggish state security goons and apparatchiks who carry the bully's swagger into traditionally tolerant precincts.

Consider Columbia president Lee Bollinger's supercilious and acerbic remarks to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, an invited guest.

Bollinger's act was shabby, reprehensible, and shameless. The US officials are shameless too. They seem immune to being embarrassed into mending their bumptious ways.

· Yr Obd't Servant

"Could US Officials Please Treat a Nobel Peace Laureate with Respect?"

Of course not. It's 2009 in America.

Candle bearers are not welcome in this chasm of gathering darkness.

Good old USA! Sure she can get respect but only if she denies the truth and kisses up to Israel. All because we are a free nation, free to look the other way while suffering goes on and on. I am disapointed with Obama who apparently lost his humanity and honesty when he got crowned.

US immigration detaining Noble Prize holders is like chimps throwing feces at humans....

"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts." - John Keats

I take no pride in being an American in these times. It is embarrassing to travel abroad and be confronted with the question, "Where do you come from?"

It is necessary for ALL relatively senior American politicians to support any and all Israeli actions that the Zionists desire. American politicians from Truman, who organized the manipulation of the UN vote that create the so called 'legal' Israel to BO today, will be marginalized and/or defeated if they speak out about Israeli injustice.

This will continue as long as Americans succumb to the manipulation by their mainstream media and government.

It would be nice to think that the web could foster a new era of truth and justice but the selfish forces have many cards up their sleeves.

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