LINO – Libertarian In Name Only

ORLANDO, Florida – Barely twenty-four hours in and already the Libertarian party of two thousand and sixteen is starting to experience dissention in the ranks.

Over Memorial day weekend Libertarians came together from across the country and around the world to nominate their president and vice presidential candidates at their annual national party convention. And for many the top of the ticket for the fall and the general election season is troubling, deeply troubling.

Many Libertarians say that with the assention of former Massachusetts Governor William Weld to the vice presidency that it will just give the North American Union types and Wall Street Big Money Donors a paper tiger in a Gary Johnson administration, should he win the presidency in the fall.

Because from sun-drenched Florida and the grave of the late great Economist Harry Browne, the 1996 and 2000 Libertarian party nominee for President of the United States of America, you can hear the battle cry of LINO – Libertarian In Name Only!

No doubt the Johnson-Weld ticket will tell Libertarians and you fellow voter nothing could be further from the truth. No paper tigers here, no LINO’s allowed! And so it will go, no?

But lets look at it from this perspective for just a minute, shall we? My prediction is that the Johnson-Weld ticket will be Libertarian-lite in that they’ll run under the Libertarian party banner but will, instead, draw from the well of the Never Trump Never Hillary movements in a kind of “A Coalition of the Willing.” Or as Bill Clinton and Dick Morris did so infamously in the 1990’s, “Triangulation.”

Seeking out those disgruntled and disavowed  Democrats and Republicans who just can’t stand the idea, much less stomach it, of another Clinton or that for matter a Donald J. Trump in The White House.

Or, maybe not? Maybe just maybe it’s what they all really want, and it’s just going to be made to look like it’s not? Just so the media, talking-heads, politicos and party bosses can have something to talk about on the nightly news.

In either case I like Bill Weld and have enormous respect for Gary Johnson, ever since 2011 when he first ran for the presidency. Then as now Johnson stands for some of the same things that I do, but with Charles and David Koch, through Bill Weld, pulling on Johnson like he’s a puppet and they’re the masters even I can’t stomach that!

I hate Charles and David Koch with every fiber of my being for what they have done to this great country of ours and this beautiful world in which we all live. They are evil incarnate, in my opinion, and hell itself would be a far worse place with them in it.

I call LINO – Libertarian in Name Only! And for those disgruntled and disaffected Libertarians I offer this as your Battle Cry:

Hold fast, and as Jesse Ventura says, “Stay Vigilant…”

–Rhett.

“My name is Paul Wellstone and I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party!” – Paul Wellston, #RIP

The Honorable Paul D. Wellstone, PD-MN. (July 21, 1944 – October 25, 2002)

Years ago PD – Progressive Democrat Paul David Wellstone very famously quipped: My name is Paul Wellstone and I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party! And ever since the Democratic party has been trying to figure out what such a human qualifier like that even means?

But with the advent of Progressive firebrands like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren that human qualifier is being answered.

This weekend the Libertarian party or Libertarian National Committee held its national convention in Orlando, FL. C-Span covered the live event. I pretty much watched it all the way through, making a few exceptions for normally scheduled television and “honey-dos” for my lovely wife along the way. LOL.

I live in Kentucky and a few weeks prior to this event I sat down and made this video on Kentucky primary day for 2016. Take a look:

As most of you know I am throughly disgusted  with the 2016 Democratic primary process. In particular how it is that Hillary Clinton has come so far without real question or scrutiny? Essentially, being handed my Democratic party’s nomination for the presidency of the United States of America in two thousand and sixteen.

Over this Memorial day weekend I have been thinking a lot about Mr. Wellstone and his epic qualifier and in the video above I lamented that after this Democratic primary and in particular the general election cycle for 2016 I am through with the Democratic party. Resolving to go the way of Independent or Decline to Say in terms of my voter registration thereafter.

Seemingly I’m not alone in this as many in the Republican party have followed suit. Burning their voter registration cards in effigy, like the peace nicks of the 1960’s that burned their draft cards as opposed to being drafted for service in the Vietnam War or the Women of the Women’s Liberation Movement who burned their bras and kitchen aprons as well.

But after this weekend and the last Libertarian presidential debate on C-span for 2016, and the epic opening and closing statements of Dr. Marc Allan Feldman and Mr. Darryl W. Perry my faith in humanity and the Democratic party has been renewed! Because it was both these men that managed to stir the echoes and fan the flames of democratic progressivism anew for me personally. Watch.

Hearing these men’s words and the stir of echoes from the late great Paul Wellstone in 1990 when it was first running for the United States Senate from Minnesota has renewed and restored my faith in the Democratic part of the Democratic wing of the Democratic party. Renewed that there is hope. Promise. And people out there filled to overflowing with a heart for the People of America and the World.

We cannot now nor anytime in the future let up folks. Our foot must stay on the gas pedal of progress, BUT not the kind of progress we’re seeing today. Instead it should be the progress that people like Senator Wellstone and so many others have advocated for, some for years some for decades, from the very beginning.

That healthcare for all is a fundamental right and not a privilege. That people deserve and have earned the right to a livable wage and a standard of living with access to housing and public transportation that is commiserate with the times. The right to organize and unionize for representation at the table of free markets. That as Americans we have a right to expect that our government will keep its nose out of our bedrooms and off our bodies. The right to come and go as we please and do business or not do business; politically, socially or ecumenically with nation’s, Peoples and places of our choosing. And the right that when we retire medicare, Medicaid and social security will be their for us in the twilight of our ‘golden years’.

To many these ideals seem ‘high-minded’, ‘professorial’ and downright nice, BUT they are ideals ‘devoid of reality’, for now. But that through the advent of time, hard work, dedication and small ball politics we’ll get there, eventually. Afterall this is not Scandinavia or the Republic of Myanmar, we are told. “Hello. I’m earth. Have we met?” And so it goes, right?

I am all for third political parties because they keep the Republican and Democratic parties honest and accountable. They hold the two-party system in this country to a full accounting of the American people. Moving forward in 2016 third political parties can and should expect more mainstream viewership.

Not all that long ago I was reading a posting from former Independent Governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura that said that there is the very real possibility that we could see the emergence of three or four [mainstream] political parties from this 2016 election cycle. Giving us, the Voters, all the more to choose from. And as a Progressive, never mind a Democrat, I’m all for that. More Voices. More Choices, and when I get elected to high office I will work to preserve, protect and defend voting and the free exercise thereof for any candidate or political party of your choice, regardless of names behind it or the money that it has in its coffers.

And speaking of, “money in politics” or the epic Citizens United Supreme Court case I have to, as a Progressive Democrat, draw a line in the sand. And push back against the idea that somehow people like Charles and David Koch, Foster Friess and Sheldon Adelson, just to name a few BIG MONEY donors, will get to dictate to Us, We the American Voters that is, how our political process or Our Future should be.

BIG MONEY politics is not a march towards progress at all, instead its a means to an end.

And if true BIG MONEY donors, like the ones I just mentioned, will, through these Never Trump and Never Hillary movements, co-opt folks, good folks at that, like former Governor of New Mexico and 2016 Libertarian presidential nominee Gary E. Johnson and former Commonwealth of Massachusetts Governor  and 2016 Libertarian vice presidential nominee William F. Weld or the Johnson-Weld Campaign for 2016, all for the sake of ballot access in all fifty states and an inside tract towards the interworkings of American democracy.

That is WHY I am renewed, restored and resolved to making the Democratic party Democratic again. Progressive again. Giving people a viable alternative(s) that will speak to and do far more than  just be this candidate or a part of that political movement because its popular or politically expedient.

Because it’s not about a person or a slogan, a campaign or a dream, instead its about us, all of us together. We are, after all, all in this thing called life together and we are only as good as the person next to us. No better and no worse.

My name is Rhett E. Column (aka David Davidson) and I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party! Care to join me in the march towards progressive ideals?

–Rhett.

It’s Troubling: A Manifesto to the ‘We Want It All’ Ruling Class

To those willing to read: This post will take a bit for you to get through, BUT I promise you, you will get through it and come away wanting a far better way of life than the one that you have now…

“[The] Trail of Tears,” A painting, c. 2015…

The Faux Fo Pas, Politically Speaking:

If true, calls for the Revolution Leader Bernie Sanders to ‘drop out of the race’ for the Democratic candidacy for President of the United States of America in 2016 have begun in earnest now that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has inched herself ever more closer to becoming the defacto nominee of her party in two thousand and sixteen.

We’re told that calls such as these are normal, par for the course, etc. That it’s just political party bosses ‘sewing their oats’ and that since Mr. Sanders has built this grassroots movement, from the ground up for more than thirty years, and that’s nice and all, but look it Hillary Clinton is going to be the nominee come hell or high water so you little revolutionaries, you millennials, who don’t vote anyways, at least not enough of you to matter on the regular,  you just need to set down, shut up and get in line behind Hillary Clinton okay, or else – we’ll talk about what that terminology “or else” means a little later on in the read.

You’ve had your moment in the sun, raised some seriously issues and concerns, but at the end of the day we need adults in the room to govern not little saggy pant wearing potheads with their fingers on the wheels of democracy. Such doesn’t play well with others, after all, in certain Cosmopolitan [European] circles.

“Angry,” Americans or Concerned Citizens?

And so it goes…

A Cautionary Tale about Revolution:

Revolution Leader Bernie Sanders is a nice old man, in his own way, were told. Is delivering a message of great social change(s) throughout America and the World, but this type of change(s) need to come slowly over space and time. That even Obama, when he first ran for the presidency of the United States in 2007,knew this, all to well. Or did he?

And us little people are reminded by those in authority over us, again and again, that these things are nice, make one feel really good deep down inside, but to just update your social media pages and forget all about it kids. Caution is the order of the day.

To ‘slow your roll’ or ‘pump your breaks’ their speed demon ‘Rome wasn’t built-in a day’ you know.

That these ideas are nice and all, but you can’t govern a nation and the free world in poetry, such takes prose or finesse Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have that finesse and would “make an excellent president, either one,” says the “political establishment,”watch:

And that the Revolution should go quietly into that long good night for your own (safety) good. That Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump are the ones to choose from, choose from these and these only and keep your mouth shut.

And so that goes…

All Throughout History Though… (Revolution/Change comes with a price. Are you willing to pay? I am!):

Since the dawn of recorded history there has been revolution or social change for the better, starting with the Revolutions of 1848 throughout Europe. Costing many lives, to be sure, but bringing about change for the better.

1. The idea that a ban of people, large or small, no matter the cost or the obstacles that stand in their way, are determined to bring about change. And, again, its change for the better.
2. The idea that everyone has the right to be free, especially those who have paid their debt to society – so-called.
3. The idea that everyone has the right to healthcare and should not be charged for it. (Because it’s universally the same. In other words the rich or wealthy elite get the same exact healthcare as the poorest amongst us.)
4. The idea that everyone has the right to a decent livable wage. (Bernie Sanders and others call [Fight] for $15 an hour and a Union to represent the worker…)
5. The idea that you will be treated freely, fairly and equally no matter ‘what you look like or who you love.‘
6. The idea that you will be treated fairly in an open court of law. (Regardless of race, color, creed, ethnic or national origins, etc.)
7. The idea that as a woman you have the same rights as a man, and should be regarded with the same respect.

These ideas, while abstract to some, are in no ways new to others. Remember they’ve been around since 1848 Europe.

They are the things that human beings have been asking for since the Tower of Babel, in terms of communication and respect.

The idea that “No man is an island unto himself,”that we are “all in this together;” politically, socially and ecumenically. No one is better than the other. No idea is best overall. No one concept is better than the rest are. We are. Life is a  Collective Effort. When one of us hurts all of us hurts, and we should all be concerned about that. Watch.

And the idea that the elite and ruling class of this world cannot have it all. They do not own the world because the world belongs to us all, freely and equally.

Such an idea, such a notion scares the hell out of the establishment, here’s proof of that.

But this is just nuance, process or the tone and tenor of otherwise spirited debate on the campaign trail. Not unlike this I suppose from 2007?

But and again it could just be ,as they say, “all a part of the [political] process???” Or so they say.

And no one is to question these idioms of political process because a fear is instilled whenever questions arise through the rank and file of the people, by design to distract and deflect the people away from the truth. Not unlike that of the 9/11 attacks.

Watergate  or the Iran-Contra affair.

Left to Right: Photos from the September 11th 2001 attacks, former Americans President Richard M. Nixon and the Watergate hotel complex in Washington, D.C. USA and former Lt. Col. Oliver North testifying, openly, at the Iran-Contra hearings in the 1980’s (photos courtesy of Wikipedia pages on these controversies and or catastrophic events in American [political] history)….

Known as false flags. They are conspiratorial in nature like the ones that online personalities the likes of Alex Jones and his infamous InfoWars and Prison Planet websites and that of Dr. Michael Savage and his Savage Nation talk radio program espouse. Or even that of WorldNetDaily and its controversial editor and chief Joe Farah,  which [again] are designed to distract and deflect the free world from the truth of the matter – whatever that matter or matters may or may not be.

In any case these are matters of the state that are long overdue to be settled no matter what the establishment might say or lead the public at large to believe. Because the public at large largely doesn’t believe them. Doesn’t buy into the official story.

Mr. Andrew J. Breitbart (1969-2012) …

(Even the late great Andrew Breitbart and his infamous Breitbart News got their start in the land of conspiracy theory, false flag and conjecture before they went mainstream news organization on the masses not long after Mr. Breitbart’s demise.)

So We the People should just ignore the questions that we have free-flowing in our minds and skip right to the answers, right to the proverbial climatic ending because this is all very easily explained by those in the know IF we just give ourselves over to the answers, willingly of course.

And we must be willing. And when one is not willing then he is not a willing convert to the easily explained now is he/she?

This is all very easily explained.

And so it goes…

A Manifesto…A (friendly piece of advice) Warning:

We’re told by our media, political pundits and talking heads to not ever venture down the rabbit hole; politically, socially or ecumenically. To stay strictly away from the truth of the matter. Else will live to regret it “if you live long enough to do so,” as our Mama’s used to say to us whenever we misbehaved as children. Right?

Warning signs, roadblocks and distractions from the truth are put up all around us. Books. Movies. Television.

Leaving it up to us to decide as to whether or not we want to quote unquote “buy in to the notion” of this that or the other thing. Some do. Largely though, some don’t. And it’s really all up to the beholder of the information that is in front of them, clearly, as to whether or not they want to believe it or not, accept or reject it or not, but always with the WARNING always with the caveat: Do not venture down this rabbit hole of conspiracy because you will live to regret it [maybe].

But here’s the thing:

The Elite cannot have it all, because there’s plenty to go around – for all of us.

You read that right my fellow American, my fellow free Western Worlder. There is plenty to go around. Plenty of natural resources. Plenty of finances. Plenty of healthcare. Education. Transportation and the like to go around. Enough in fact to circle our globe multiple times over IF you are willing to give yourself over to the truth or the axiom of the Native American which reads:

“Take only what you need and leave the rest as you found it…”

It was both a warning and a friendly request to the early American settlers of the 16 and 1700’s that their were/are plenty of natural resources to go around just don’t abuse the privileges that Mother Earth has bestowed upon us all. But through the advent of social privilege and the social climate of the day most of the white European settlers forgot that warning, willingly, and proceeded to take and take and take some more.

#quotesbyfamouspeople

Greed and selfish behavior is the problem and it will always be the problem until the problem is gotten rid of by the Peoples of this World.

And the absolute best example of where I can find, where I can look to for a much-needed repeat of history is in that of the assassination and slaughter of the brutal Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his Italian Socialist Party henchmen. Drug through the streets of present-day Milan, Italy he was drawn and quartered by the People of Italy in April of 1945. A fitting end to an otherwise brutal, brutal man.

Italian Socialist Party Leader and brutal dictator Benito Mussolini (highlighted second from left) hanging from the rafters of a gas station in present-day Milan, Italy (photo courtesy of Wikipedia, 2016)…

Mussolini’s death is  a case study of what many, if not all, of our world leadership needs to endure. .

We have a duty to ourselves and our posterity to preserve what we can while it is still here. So as to replenish our natural supply. Otherwise people such as the Rothschild family, the Rockefeller family,  and many others will continue to take what is rightfully ours, the Peoples of this Earth’s.

We are our own best friend or our own worst enemy folks…Choice is yours, a decision has to be made before it is too late. I’ve made mine. Care to join me?

–Rhett.

“Southern Strategy” Much? – How both Republicans and Democrats shot themselves in the foot in terms of the Vote!

(Atop photo) Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies before the Select Committee on Foreign Intelligence for the United States Senate in 2013 over the Benghazi, Libya scandal… (Bottom photo) Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders (Independent turned Democrat) kicks off his 2016 presidential campaign outside of Burlington, VT. USA…

BROOKLYN, New York – Thursday night Democratic candidates for 2016, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, “got it on,” as they say, under all the hot lights and scrutiny of the day before a capacity crowd in Brooklyn, NY. USA. And to say that it was a heated debate between the two larger-than-life Democratic candidates would be an understatement.

It was doggy dog all night with both candidates experiencing scrutiny from the audience in attendance (in the make-shift style debate hall in a semi-abandoned warehouse in the New York City borough) to the journalists/hosts that moderate the debate for CNN & New York 1 to the candidates themselves as they traded barbs and jabs back and forth throughout the night.

And while some say that their was no clear winner or looser to emerge in Thursday night’s debate, the fallout from the debate or the narrative out of the ‘city so nice that they named it twice’ was that “Bernie Sanders denigrated the South and Hillary Clinton’s wins there in primaries and caucuses and when he was asked a specific question about the primary process and how it was really going in his opinion, he dodged the question”.

Lets be clear here for a minute: There is no question but that Hillary Clinton has done well in the South, all throughout this Democratic primary process for 2016 in fact, BUT lets look to the context and perhaps the method used for all those so-called “Solid South,” wins for Mrs. Clinton.

“[A Map of] The Southern United States as defined by the United States Census Bureau,” for the Wikipedia page titled: Southern strategy…

According to reports from the United States [Bureau of the Census] the “Southern United States of America or the Southern most United States of America is defined ,geographically, as states in the Union below what is known as the Mason-Dixon Line. These are states in the union that receive the most warm-air climate in a given year per the dictates of the seasons and or climates here in the Continental United States of America that receive the best warm-air climate for nine or more period months out of a given calendar year…And these are States that have a race or class of people who are or who  feel that they are divided; politically, socially and ecumenically through no-fault of their own, BUT that their ancestry who participated in the so-called “War between the States” or the Civil War is to blame for all their troubles or social ills within this race or class of people living within the Continental United States of America…”

These states (highlighted in deep red on the map just above) are the States in the Union that make up the Southern most part of the Continental United States of America [excluding Alaska and Hawaii – highlighted on the map by squares on the bottom left hand side just above].

These are the Southern states, since the 1800’s and on here in America, that experienced and lived through, albeit survived, the Civil War’s Reconstruction period having undergone a political period known as the “Southern strategy” or the political as well as emotional  appeal to Southern White Democrats to vote for Republicans in primaries, caucuses and general national election cycles (visa versa).

An editorial cartoon called “Mr. Solid South,” from Harper’s Weekly (1879) criticizing literacy tests in the South (photo taken from Wikipedia page titled: Southern strategy)…

Originally intended to benefit rich Southern white Democrats during the period of Reconstruction in the South after the Civil War it has instead proven a useful strategy, politically, for both parties since Richard Nixon’s presidential campaign perfected it in 1968.

Disaffected and disgruntled whites after the Civil War felt that they had no place to turn, no opportunities would ever be presented to them, no chance for advancement or a better life.

In view of the Civil War these Americans had betrayed their country, went against the Union of the United States of America, when they went to war against their fellow (Northern) Americans. And even though the South, as we know it today, lost that war they were still thrown a bone, politically, by the  “Party of [Abraham] Lincoln”.

Republicans strategized with Democrats in the Congress ‘that we’ll give you the South, politically, if you leave us alone in the North, Midwest and Western United States’.

Southern Democrats, in amazement, believed that they had been given a great gift. As a national as well as a Southern States and local political party got together and devised ways to punish not only the black man, but the poor white man as well, through poll taxes, Jim Crow Laws and literacy tests when it came to the people’s expressed desires to vote, hold and own land, etc…

“From 1890 to 1908, the white Democratic legislatures in every Southern state enacted new constitutions or amendments with provisions to disenfranchise most blacks and tens of thousands of poor whites. Provisions required payment of poll taxes, and complicated residency,literacy tests, and other requirements, which were subjectively applied against blacks. As blacks lost their vote, the Republican Party lost its ability to effectively compete in the South. There was a dramatic drop in voter turnout as these measures took effect, a decline in African-American participation that was enforced for decades in all southern states….[All over the North]Editorial cartoons [such as this one featured above] from the January 18, 1879, issue of Harper’s Weekly [were seen] criticizing the use of literacy tests. It shows “Mr. Solid South” writing on the wall, “Eddikashun qualifukashun. The Blak man orter be eddikated afore he kin vote with us Wites.” – Taken from the Southern strategy Wikipedia page

In an unwritten deal in 1877 Republicans removed all federal troops from the South in exchange for the White House in the form of Rutherford B. Hayes v. Samuel J. Tilden. As a result Southern Democrats had a political stranglehold on the South until the Civil rights era of 1954 to 1968. And they expected to maintain power for a long time, that was until men like Vernon Johns and Martin Luther King, Jr. came along and forever changed the dynamics of protests for civil and human rights.

Rev. Dr. Vernon L. Johns, M.E. & PhD (pictured on the left) and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. M.E. & PhD. (pictured on the right)…”The father and the son of the modern-day civil rights movement here in the United States of America…”

The undertakings of Johns and King (countless others) lead to the dismantling of decades of authoritarian rule, politically, through the subjugation of poor whites and blacks throughout the South. “Finally!” Many decried. “Someone that we can rely on to see us through to full freedom, justice and equality…[Voices for the voiceless.]”

“[Count] How many Jelly Beans are in [this] jar,” an Illustration for this posting…

It would take nearly fifty years after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., but all men are and should be created equally, right?

Wrong!

Fast-forward to today, and some would argue that the Southern strategy is in full effect as many believe that this is what Hillary Clinton used to propel herself to a “comfortable lead” against her opponent Bernie Sanders via the African-American vote in the South.

We may not make the ‘Negro’ of today ‘stand on one foot and count to 100 backward’ or ‘spell soap backward’ or ‘read the star-spangled banner on a piece of paper upside down’, BUT that through things like “voter id laws,” “real id laws,” (Willie Horton political campaign ads) etc. (An as yet alleged kinder and gentler tone and tenor has emerged to the once usual hue and cry of old, “Nigger, nigger, nigger [the Klan is getting bigger]!” – Lee Atwater)

That the past is just prolonged that it is a matter now of semantics, of political correctness and so-called “political establishment” that rules are days now. And we should just excuse this dementedly sad history all away now because a black man has been elected president in this country.

And soon enough a woman will get the honor and privilege to be called the same, right? So. Case. Closed. Right?

Wrong!

Meet the “Southern Strategists,” from Reconstruction on. (Left to Right) Former Presidents of the United States of America Rutherford B. Hayes, Richard M. Nixon, Republican strategist, pollster, pundit and adviser to several Republican presidents Patrick J. Buchanan, Republican party ‘Hatchet Man’ Lee Atwater, ‘Dixiecrat’ and Segregationist Alabama Governor George C. Wallace, Jr. Former First Lady of Arkansas and the United States of America as well as former New York State Senator and Secretary of State (Democrat for President of the United States of America in 2008 & 2016) Hillary D. Rodham Clinton… (photos courtesy of Wikipedia, 2016 – photo editing done by Rhett E. Column, Say What News?!, 2016)…

Meet the unholy of political holiest that we have to thank for the Southern political strategy here in the United States of America.  These are the ones that we have to thank for things like Jim Crow laws, [racial] Segregation, poll taxes and  Literacy in the form of voter id laws that does noting but  test the will and resolve of blacks and poor Peoples throughout the South for centuries in terms of the vote.

Through legislation and taxation and with the help of organizations like the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC this faux fo pas trinity, since Reconstruction on, has managed to corner the market and pigeonhole the American democratic process in both the South and the whole of America.

The Electorial College Map for the 1920 presidential campaign between Democrat James M. Cox and Republican Warren G. Harding (photo courtesy of Wikipedia page titled: Southern strategy)…

Republicans and Democrats from 1920 on have bought, sold and traded the American people, the American voter, for both political gain and power, but also for wealth and interests through the Southern strategy. Deploying and developing means, method, motive and opportunity to keep the American people under a type of authoritarian rule. In a kind of modern-day poll taxing-jellybean counting-read the U.S. Constitution backwards style body politic.

Confusing and putting the American people, the American voter, in a state of panic and disarray.  And no two were better at deploying the Southern strategy (deploying chaos and disarray) than Richard Milhouse Nixon and George Cornelius Wallace, Jr..

(Left)’Dixiecrat’ and Segregationist Governor of Alabama George C. Wallace, Jr. and  (Right) former President of the United States of America Richard M. Nixon..(photos courtesy of Wikipedia, 2016 – photo editing by Rhett E. Column, Say What News?!, 2016)…

Like the Ancient Mongolians (Chinese) teaching the Ancient Romans how to Crucify, Wallace and Nixon perfected the crucifixion of the American people via the Southern strategy. Preying on the fears of the common white man towards the common black man. And in their wake of evil we are hung on the cross daily by things like mass incarceration, youth unemployment, police brutality, human and civil rights violations, deportation, debtors prisons, prolonged and enhanced interrogation techniques, spying, lying, drone warfare and perpetual or endless wars (by proxy) in far away places that we don’t even know nor have we ever heard of.

For what? Money. Power. Greed. The fevered dreams of an elite and ruling class of people fulfilled.

2016 Democratic candidates for President of the United States of America (Left) Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders (Right) former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (photos courtesy of the Bernie Sanders Campaign and the Hillary Clinton Campaigns – photo editing by Rhett E. Column, Say What News?!, 2016)…

The other night Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton met in Brooklyn for a twelfth time out of fourteen, reportedly, scheduled debates between the two Democratic candidates that are left.

Argument has been made, since, that Bernie Sanders is somehow excusing away the fact that Hillary Clinton won the Southern United States or the Deep South by an “overwhelming majority of the black American voter (something that Bernie Sanders himself would never ever be able to do because Bernie Sanders doesn’t know how to connect “properly” with black people and Hillary Clinton does, BECAUSE she is married to the “first black president this country has ever had” – and so it goes in implication),” and that IF she gets the nomination of her political party she will win the South by an “overwhelming majority” in a general election.

Depicting, somehow, a repeat performance of her husband, Bill Clinton’s, 1992 presidential campaign and his own Southern strategy in the form of the “Man from Hope [Arkansas]” and “I still believe in a place called Hope” Campaign theme(s) coming out of the 1992 Democratic National Convention.

And so therefore Bernie Sanders shouldn’t somehow ‘excuse away the once Solid South‘ for Democrats. Its happened before, and it can happen again. In this kind of R. Lee Ermey “Mississippi Burning,” Mayor remarks “our nigra were happy until you FBI men came down here” tail that wags the dog we gonna whip y’all in ta shape come hell or high water moment. ‘The South will rise again!’ And so it goes…

Southern strategy , Solid south maps of the Southern most United States of America and former President William J. ‘Bill’ Clinton ‘tail wagging the dog’ finger pointing moment…

And Mrs. Clinton may well ‘Get Lucky in Kentucky’ and win the whole damn thing via the South, more power to her! But you must never ever forget that a Democrat running for the highest and best office in the land has not won in the Southern most United States of America since Bill Clinton, and that was without an overwhelming majority of the voting population there in a general election. – Not even the so-called ‘twice elected black man’ that’s in the White House now won the South with an overwhelming majority of the vote down there.

“Southern Strategy” Much?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

–Rhett.

 

“Pinkie Swear Politics – How Foreign & Domestic Policy IS Done, These Days..” By Rhett E. Column; #SayWhatNews, #AXJ, #FreePress

WASHINGTON, District of Columbia – I’ve had a Eureka Moment folks! A downright moment of clarity.

These days Mr. Obama is running the free world on a pinkie swear. Foreign and domestic endeavor, suave de vi is a wink, a nod, and a pinkie swear between friends.

Case in point: The Bowe Bergdahl Affair, and the swapping of the so-called ‘Taliban Five’. The release and return of Sgt, 1st Class Bergdahl a good thing. A really good thing. In favor of it. But look who he was returned for.

    And on the way out the main gate at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba the Commandant of the Jail asked, “Now. You pinkie swear that you won’t do anything bad on release? Right?”

And the Five all responded, “Pinkie swear, we won’t…” (Months later there raping, pillaging, and plundering their way across the Middle East.)

I’m satirizing a bit, but this is what it amounted to, especially in this affair.

And possibly my favorite U.S. State Department Spokesperson is left to devices such as these in explanation or Chris Matthews favorite word, “causality”.

Classic!

But this is in causality or cause and effect of the pinkie swear, and this IS how foreign and domestic affairs are done these days via the Obama Administration.

Yesterday, as the world now knows, we learned that on 12 January 2015 (btw, even I got fooled with this one, because yesterday President Obama came out in the Brady Press Room like that drone strike in Pakistan that killed four Americans happened in the wee hours of the morning, but it happened at the beginning of this year. This year! And we are just now learning about it BECAUSE The Dr. Warren Weinstein Family has been raising all kinda hell. It would seem that the Obama Administration, until yesterday, hadn’t been forthcoming with all the facts surrounding his untimely demise.) four Americans were killed via drone strike – two Al Qaeda, and two captives.

But the pinkie swear here was a hellfire missile from a drone. Damn the rescue. Damn the due process. Damn the rules of engagement. Bomb um and dram um! And they said Obama wanted to be known as, “No drama Obama.”

You say well, he apologized. Took ‘full responsibility’. Move on. So. Because he took responsibility. Took onerous. Came out, months after the fact – and it would seem only after the Family of Warren Weinstein had complained, publicly, about the whole lack of transparency and forthcomingness, Translation: Causality – yesterday and said, more or less, “mistakes were made, we pinkie swore and everything, but the Devil, I mean the C.I.A., made me do it… George W. Bush made me do it. The worse economic crisis since the Great Depression made me do it. So. … Medea Benjamin and Code Pink can complain, now, but it’s not my fault, entirely, exactly…”

Again I’m satirizing, but I hope you can see where I’m going with all of this. It is the pinkie swear of politics, and Mr. Obama is writing the how-to guide. …

— Rhett.

“Will Barry go to Dover (A.F.B.)? #StopBombingUs Barack Obama!” By Rhett E. Column; #SayWhatNews, #AXJ, #FreePress

DOVER, Delaware –  He took responsibility, they say, so what more do you want?

That was the opening salvo and the mantra, good and well maintained throughout today, by the main and alternative news media streams as President Obama took to the podium inside the James Brady Press Room, earlier today, to openly admit that a drone strike killed two aid workers and two other Americans, held prisoner, by Al Qaeda in Pakistan.

As we all know President Obama and the so-called National Security State have maintained and enhanced the drone program that was started under then President George W. Bush after 9/11. A drone program that everyone from the United Nations Security Counsel to Human Rights Watch says is ILLEGAL by the standards and practices known as the Geneva Conventions of 1948.

I have droned on – pun intended – of my disdain and the illegality of such a program and how that President Obama and the George W. Bush Administration MUST be held accountable for their actions.

Mr. Obama can do all the open air in the sunlight of disinfectant I’ve taken onerous of my actions meet and greets that he wants from the James Brady Press Room to Dover, A.F.B. BUT all that matters not a whit or a whim IF this enhanced (In Terror Negotiation) drone program IS NOT STOPPED!

Mr. Abu Zubaydah, indefinite detention (‘prolonged detention’) candidate from 2003 to 2008 …

Barack Obama IS doing the exact same thing that he said he wouldn’t do in 2008 when he was running for President about all things the War on Terror…

“[We are] not going to beat our chests and we [are] not going to treat war as a glorious endeavor to be celebrated.”

Then as now, it was an excellent quotation because it helped him, along with the mantra of, “Yes We Can…”, to get him [first] elected as President of the United States of America in 2008.

And these days I know that the late great Mario Cuomo’s quote of quotes has never ringed truer, especially when describing, with open accuracy, this President – the ever reluctant money-hungry statesman, but even this has its limits folks!

“You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.” – [New York Gov.] Mario Cuomo [,Democrat]

During 2012, and this was my all-time favorite Barack Obama moment in our politics, and its a quotation that I have harped on and hounded him on and will until my dying day – because whoever told him to openly express this was as stupid as they were dumb. Watch!

Remember?

The quote of quotes, what he pretty much ran that 2012 re-election campaign on, it was his swan song and the cherry on the sundae , “This will be my last campaign…” tag line.

At this point I’m like thank God! Especially when it comes to this enhanced (In Terror Negotiation) technique drone program. The brain child of one John O. Brennan as Director of the C.I.A.

CIA/Military Drone, 2014…

I hate John O. Brennan. I most certainly hate James N. Clapper – Director of National Intelligence. Evil incarnate. Brennan has killed more human beings by drone than small pox. And Clapper is supposed to be a convicted liar – because lying to Congress IS a federal offense folks!

Despite Barack Obama’s campaigning in poetry, but governing in prose there is costs folks! Name. Reputation. Standing. And less we forget a little thing called the Rule of Law, but don’t tell that to former C.I.A. Director George Tenet. Watch!

These men, and women, think themselves nothing more than patriots, civil servants just doing their jobs, “keeping America safe for [their version of events] democracy…”

Or maybe it’s just my soft bigotry of low expectation that my government and in fact my leaders would just be open, honest and transparent about everything – at all times? Adhere to the Rule of Law, always?

“[And Jesus said,] No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money...” – Matthew 6:24, The Holy Bible, New Living Translation

What Barack Obama is doing in Pakistan, in the Middle East period with C.I.A. secret wars, and enhanced drone techniques is eerily similar to Iran-Contra, and we all know how the Democrats, Democratic Party and more felt about former President Reagan and the Iran-Contra scandal, right?

Democrats, worth their salt peter, then as now, openly questioned government. Openly questioned, “Shadow Government” replete then, as now, with its own military hardware, finances & more to serve its Master: Money.

They wanted to hang Ronald Reagan. Then as now.

His explanation of the facts, as they were – in his opinion (his version of events), mattered not.

I wonder will they, will Government, as a whole, and not a sum, do the same with Barack Obama? Because what he is doing, just as Reagan did in the 80’s with Iran-Contra, and the secret wars in the Middle East (then as now) is not only illegal it’s treasonous – an offense punishable by death or life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Reagan, by all rights and privileges, afforded by the Rule of Law, should have hung for Iran-Contra. Oliver North should be in a 6×9 jail cell at Fort Leavenworth, but they got away with it. Then as now, and Barack Obama does the same because the love of money IS the root of all evil folks!

Obama wants no true legacy. He wants a bank book, and a jet set to wherever. At moment one he will run faster than Edward Snowden did to Hong Kong with the keys to the kingdom. And Government will be its ho hum drum yawning eye rolling self.

But before he runs I wonder IF he will go to Dover, A.F.B. to review and receive the body of Warren Weinstein and the three other Americans killed in that drone strike? And in so doing take full and complete responsibility, truly and thus becoming a U.S. President and not a reluctantly money-hungry statesman?

#StopBombingUs Barack Obama!

— Rhett.

“The Robber Barron In The Room: WHY Judge David J. Barron should not be nominated to a higher court bench…” By Rhett E. Column, #SWN

 On the morrow Judge David J. Barron, the Honorable, (^–pictured here) will most likely be nominated to the United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit, by the full body of the United States Senate. In my humble opinion though, he should not. WHY, you may ask? Good question. HERE’S WHY….

Were it not for this picture above I am doubly sure Judge Barron would have little to no problem with confirmation to such a high post as the Court of Appeals System for the United States of America. Were it not.

I could stop right their and close out this blog post with little reservation. Such a picture speaks more than a thousands words. BUT, I won’t.

In addition to Judge Barron’s love for DRONES and their use in the nature of administering justice to enemies of the state, both foreign and domestic, Judge Barron is found of the suspension of rights. Rights in the form of…

Additionally, Judge Barron is found of the suspension of…

Specifically, he desires and is fond of ‘doing away with’ these rights and expectations of Americans, especially Americans on foreign soil(s). Judge Barron says that its A-Okay, all fixed, and all done by him and his colleagues of the U.S. Court System IF the Government of the United States of America, in function and on behalf of the Citizenry it best represents, decides to kills you and me, especially in a ‘time of War’ OR ‘when operating on a War footing’.

Long and short being the suspension of habeas corpus and non compos mentis MOREOVER ‘the Rule of Law’ when it comes to just putting more than one in the head and two in the chest of the huddled masses while breathing free matters not, especially in War.

With all due and proper respect to Judge Barron, the words, “YEAH” and “RIGHT” come to mind in this respect and regard.

In fact what such laments, lambasts, and poetic waxing’s of the grey matter of one David J. Barron, the Honorable, do, do is open the flood gates to unspeakable horrors and atrocities against the human race, writ large. Were it not for this FACT I am doubly sure, again, Judge Barron would be and should be confirmed by the full Senate. But and in a supposed time of War its anything but. BECAUSE we have something called the Rule of Law, the Courts, Trial By Jury, Evidence, Search, Seizure, Warrants, Etc.

Such is, after all, what separates us from ourselves, the plants and the animals of this world. On such a firm foundation rests the laws and the prophets thereof. And in the words of John Adams, “we are to be a nation of laws, not men…”

YET Judge Barron insists that its okay to rob precious human life for the sake of war.

Such matters not, its merely a causality of the war. Move on and all will be well, eventually. Eventually? Ever heard of the U.S.A. Patriot Act Judge?

Ever heard of the Caste System?   

Such is not fair Judge and it never ever will be. YET you are asking, in fact demanding that We The People bow down and ascribe, willingly, to such. WHY? Answer: Because we are a nation still at War.

QUESTIONS: Who are we at war with? Whatever happened to good ole fashion police work?

I ask such questions based on case history, IN FACT family history, BECAUSE about this time last year a cousin of mine retired from the Dallas, TX. Metro Police Department as Chief of Detectives for Homicide. He retired after nearly 40yrs. of dedicated, impeccable, loyal, brave and true service to both the community at large and to the police force. And in all that time he never once had to discharge his weapon, on or off duty. He was and remains a cops cop. Before that he was a soldiers solider in the United States Army. A Veteran of the War in Vietnam ,a military adviser and then an attaché for the Department of Defense. He retired from the military after 25yrs. of dedicated and loyal service in Defense of We The People of the United States of America….

He worked hard, played by the rules and was rewarded openly because he never once violated nor did he have to violate NOR WAS HE EVER ASKED TO VIOLATE any American’s Civil Rights. He did his job and then some the old fashioned way. He did not want or need aides and dependents because some unelected, unaccountable judge somewhere okayed it. He asked the hard questions. Got the tough answers and at the end of the day went home to be with his wife and family unscathed. Moreover under his watch and care the Rule of Law went unmolested and unrequited under his ever watchful eye.

And yet we have folks like Judge Barron who no longer put stock and trade in such. They no longer have faith in the People or the System that they claim to best represent. WHY? Jilted? Molested? Requited? Undermined? If so then you have no business on the bench any longer Judge and you should step aside for someone else, and fast, before its to late. BECAUSE such an appointment puts you a hair’s breath from the Supreme Court of the United States of America…

  And frankly Judge Barron that scares the hell out of me! And it should anyone else for that matter.

BUT and what scares me even more than that is the FACT that a setting President of the United States of America and an Appointed United States Attorneys General as well as a U.S. Solicitor General would rig the vote process in the Senate on behalf of this judge in exchange for memos related to the United States Drone Policy: http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2014/05/20/obama-reveal-justification-for-drone-strikes-citizens/OZjjvBf4nstg9Otiva81NP/story.html

Talk about a cooking of the books! Obama & Co. have said to a Senator in Washington IF you approve the nomination of Judge Barron to this high court THEN we will release the so called ‘Drone Memos’: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/07/1297529/-Senators-on-Barron-Drone-Strike-Memos-Where-Do-They-Stand

Such, in my opinion, amounts to President Obama playing Monopoly with the United States Senate. ‘I’ll trade you all my Railroads for your Boardwalk & Park Place.’

 Respectfully Mr. President that’s for crap! You can’t do that my friend, sorry, to bad, so sad, see ya wouldn’t wanna be ya! What’s to say Judge Barron wouldn’t or couldn’t be appointed to the F.I.S.A. Court? A whole lot of Judges on the Court of Appeals go on to F.I.S.A. Proven FACT. So, if, God forbid, the U.S., should find itself in the midst of another war long after Mr. Obama has left office and the need for drones should arise a Judge Barron could well sign off on the use. Especially if its use or should be used against an American citizen(s), whether on foreign or domestic soil. Are we as a country, as a civilized nation going to excuse or allow such an undertaking without reprisal?

To that end I have and will continue to #petition my and your government for a redress of grievance. Be it snail mail, facsimile, email, electronic message or petition to VOTE NO ON BARRON. This man has no place in or near a United States Court System with the kind of mentality or disposition that he has, PERIOD, FULL STOP….

I’m thankful for men like my United States Senator Dr. Rand Paul, M.D….

 who has stood in the gap when nearly no one else would in the Senate against the Barron Nomination: http://washingtonexaminer.com/rand-paul-drone-judge-betrayed-bill-of-rights-promotes-vigilantism/article/2548706  BECAUSE of exactly what I’m talking about in this #blog post.

And I pray that he continues to do so and not waver, faultier,  flounder or fail in this regard. In my humble opinion the United States Senate and Capitol Hill period could use more men and more women the likes of Rand Paul, especially in this respect and regard, BUT, and again, that’s just my humble and unsolicited opinion.

SO, what can and should We The People do?

For one thing you can continue to beseech your elected representatives in the United States Senate, especially tomorrow, by contacting them directly, HERE: (202)-224-3121 (This number is the main number for the U.S. Capitol Switchboard.)

Call them directly, your U.S. Senator, and tell them, politely and respectfully, to OPPOSE the Barron Nomination when it comes to the Floor for a Vote tomorrow.

Additionally, you can Tweet them: http://www.twitter.com/SenateFloor

USE the hash tag:  #NOonBarron

OR: You can message them online, and how you do that is to Google, Yahoo or AOL your state’s respective representatives in Washington, especially, in the United States Senate. Get on their official website, message them, again being polite and respectful, and tell them to VOTE NO ON BARRON. If you like you can Copy & Paste the URL to this blog post and tell them WHY they should oppose Judge Barron’s nomination and they will respond accordingly to your message.

Any way and every way that we can we need to OPPOSE this nomination. Judge David J. Barron is BAD NEWS. Thank you and be well…

–Rhett