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.

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.

‘We Split That’ – The politics of splitting hairs

As this post is being written the 2016 primary process has been decided in Wisconsin (The Badger State).

A “Vote Here,” sign hangs just outside a Wisconsin polling place, as the 2016 primary process is settled their today (photo courtesy of WKOW)…

And as the process kicks further into the middle of New England and the Central United States as well as the remainder of the Mid-West and West I can’t help, again, but to be reminded of the movie, “Fargo” and the epic lines between the two kidnappers in that movie. Particularly this one. Watch.

And how this entire primary process has been nothing more than the politics of ‘We Split that’. What does the politics of ‘We Split that’ mean?

“Arguing about an inconsequential or trivial aspect of a task or issue…”

All throughout this process we have been regaled with the rules and regulations concerning the two-party system here in the United States of America by pollsters and pundits alike.

 

 

 

And it all adds up to just one thing, splitting hairs. When Hillary Clinton looses (or wins) a caucus or even a primary process like she did not all that long ago in Michigan (The Trojan State) its ‘We Split that’- meaning the delegates, BUT because I’m Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State and Senator for New York and oh well hell former First Lady of the United States and before that First Lady of Arkansas, working mom, Grandma extraordinaire, etc. etc. I get more, am supposed to get way more, delegates than you Bernie Sanders; you goddamned pinko-commie-socialist-turned-temporary-in-name-only-Democrat. Now dry up, fuck off, bugger off and go away! Bastard.

And so it goes…

The Honorable John Kasich, Republican Governor of Ohio, 2016 Campaign for President photo…

 

And the same can be said on the Republican side of the ledger. Trump, Cruz or Kasich win one or more than the other it is soon-enough arguing ‘We split that’ in terms of their delegates.

Remember though what happened in 2012, during the Republican primary process, it was down to Republican Congressman and OBGYN Dr. Ron Paul, M.D. of Lake Jackson, TX. USA by way of Pittsburgh, PA. USA and Mitt Romney, former Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts? And the infamous ‘Republican National Convention screw-job’ in Florida? Remember that? Watch.

 

Anyway, it came down to just two people then in the 2012 Republican party primary process. Dr. Paul and good old Willard Mittens Romney, the former Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Romney was what the political establishment is today. He embodied it. Watch.

And we all remember how this happened in the State of Louisiana when a Ron Paul supporter and a delegate for the state’s Republican party had his hip broken and he was arrested by police for attempting to lodge a complaint at a local party meeting. Watch.

 

Splitting hairs is violent, no? History repeats itself, no?

Especially when the so-called political establishment doesn’t get its way.

Threat. Innuendo. Summation. Lies. Aspersions on one’s asparagus.  And splitting hairs politically, just so ‘the other guy’ can get his or her (as the case may very well be) way.

Split hairs much?

–Rhett.

A hoax or the truth of the matter???

TUCSON, Arizona – In a recent turn of events the Tucson mass shooter Jared Lee Loughner is allegedly bringing suit against former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords in US Federal Court for the ’emotional stress and discomfort’ he suffered in the wake of the mass shooting that the committed more than five years ago.

The lawsuit, as well as the formal letter, allegedly written by Loughner himself to US Court petitioning the court to bring the suit is reportedly a hoax. But lets look at the broader context here for a few moments.

In the suit Loughner maintains that he was a ‘handpicked’ agent and sufferance of the infamous Central Intelligence Agency program known as “MKUltra” or:

“… MK, meaning that the project was sponsored by the agency’s Technical Services Staff, followed by the word Ultra(which had previously been used to designate the most secret classification of World War II intelligence). Other related cryptonyms include Project MKNAOMI and Project MKDELTA. [..]” – MKUltra meanings (MKUltra Wiki[pedia] page)

The type of behavior that Mr. Loughner displayed on the day he committed such mass atrocity has been seen before. Recall the assassination of than US Senator and 1968 Democratic candidate for president Robert F. Kennedy, Sr., by Mr. Sirhan Sirhan a Syrian Christian Nationalist in April of 1968.

Mr. Sirhan Sirhan, victim of the CIA’s MKUltra program with the killing of then New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Sr. in 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, CA. USA

“Despite Sirhan’s admission of guilt, recorded in a confession made while in police custody on June 9, a lengthy trial followed. The court judge did not accept his confession and denied his request to withdraw his not guilty plea so that he could plead guilty. Years later, Sirhan recanted his confession, claiming not to remember making it. [..]” – Sirhan Sirhan Wiki[pedia] page section titled “Prosecution”…

“Years later, Sirhan recanted his confession, claiming not to remember making it.” –Something that he continues to maintain to this day…

Often times this is typically displayed behavior of those under control via hypnosis as Mr. Sirhan was.

Known as “Subliminal Hypno-Programming” or simply “hypno-programming”. It is the:

“Breaking into people’s mind from a distance without them noticing it, to insert with surgical precision specific new thought-implants into their deeper unconscious, for them to alter dramatically their former usual behavior according to a particular plan or strategy.” – “SUBLIMINAL HYPNO-PROGRAMMING (SHP): A NEW SCIENCE AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY” By Dr. Philip Sauvage, a 1988 study and position paper on the subject

Since the Tucson massacre it to has been intimated that Jared Lee Loughner was such a victim of this type of mind-controlling behavior, both by Loughner himself and behavioral studies scientist psychologist who have studied this type of mass attack as well as many others throughout the United States and around the World..

“Loughner had been posting material online for some time via his MySpace account and on YouTube under the name “Classitup10”. He gave his views on terrorism, federal laws, and his belief that the government was brainwashing the citizenry with language.” —Tucson shooting Wiki[pedia] page section titled “Perpetrator”…

“Breaking into people’s mind from a distance without them noticing it-implants into their deeper unconscious …Years later, Sirhan recanted his confession, claiming not to remember making it. Loughner had been posting …  his belief that the government was brainwashing the citizenry with language.” — Taken proportionally from various quotations here for this blog posting

The fact that such things are being done to a totally unwitting, unwilling and unsuspecting public should be enough to make one leap for their nearest Congressional representative in Washington and call for another Church Committee in the modern-day to investigate these egregious violations against the people.

The Honorable Frank F. Church, Senior US Senator for the State of Idaho, Democrat and Chairman for the famed Church Committee investigating the spying on and killing of innocent people both at home and abroad by the US Government (1924-1984) – photo courtesy of Wikipedia, 2016

Worse yet a modern-day Otis G. Pike Committee to formally investigate why it is that organizations like the Central Intelligence Agency and the FBI continue programs that were ordered by the US Congress and former President Gerald R. Ford to be decommissioned in 1973?

2016 Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz calls for Muslim neighborhoods, schools and mosques to be ‘spied upon and patrolled regularly’in a kind of Marshal law on American soil – something that only a setting US President can declare in a ‘state of national emergency’ not unlike the state of emergency that we endured on 9/11 – but what he and others like him deliberately fail to recognize is that it is he and his ilk that needs to be spied upon, patrolled on, on a regular basis for their systemic failure to preserve, protect and defend the rights of all Americans to be secure in ‘our houses and effects’ as well as our ‘personages’.

But because men like Ted Cruz and Donald Trump lack the will, resolve, courage and intestinal fortitude to stand up to a tyrannical police-state government, like that of the one here in the United States of America, under Barack Obama, that deliberately affects, and adversely places the American people as well as free and equal citizens of this world in mortal danger everyday we will have more Jared Lee Loughner’s and Sirhan Sirhan’s to come.

Mass killings by altered state will continue across this country and around this world. Perfectly innocent men, women and children will meet a fate which they aren’t even suppose to endure from someone who may well be totally unaware of what they are doing when that fate is met.

Happy Easter 2016, stay safe out their fellow citizen…

–Rhett.

 

“No 1st Amendment Right to ‘Classified’ Documents..” By Rhett E. Column; #SayWhatNews, #AXJ, #FreePress

“We don’t think there is a First Amendment right to classified documents..” – U.S. Attorney Catherine Dorsey, Department of Justice

WASHINGTON, D.C.  – When I read that quote via The Intercept the other day I could hardly believe my eyes, much less my head as it was taking it all in.

A duly appointed United States Attorney ,arguing on behalf of the Federal Government in the forced feeding cases at Git-Mo Bay, Cuba, Catherine Dorsey, arguing before the D.C. Court of Appeals, said this before the panel, God and everyone else – and with a straight face no less – in regards to the Public’s right to know.

This to me is unacceptable.

It is unacceptable because number one this is the United States of America. Not some third-rate banana republic. Second. Because this is the United States of America were we have laws which constrain government from saying these kinds of things to US. Third. Representative or appointed governance needs to be reminded, apparently daily, that they are servants of the public’s trust. What does that mean?

In a nut shell: Those who vote, or who participate in the electoral process here, by their vote intrust elected representatives to go to Washington, D.C. and govern according to the laws of our land when it comes to transparency, openness, honesty and effective government. Failure is not an option because the law doesn’t allow for wiggle room, interpretation, etc. It’s open and shut in that regard.

So in other words whether I’m a citizen or a journalist and I come to you, as my elected or appointed representative seeking information in regards to a matter or matters of the public’s trust in operation said is duty bound to respond to the request, and nothing like what came out of Attorney Dorsey’s mouth at that Court of Appeals hearing should EVER be heard much less accepted by the People. Period. Full stop.

Yet and still because a certain collective of journalists are seeking vitally important information about the treatment, welfare, and condition of Git-Mo Bay detainees the Federal Government says you have no right or privilege to said information Mr. or Mrs. Journalist. Shut up and go away. Unacceptable! (And quite frankly, unbelievable.)

Whether you agree or disagree with the continued detainment and operation of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as a holding place for ‘the world’s worst’. You have to agree that the People, under the 1st Amendment, have a right to know what’s going on down there. How ‘the world’s worst’ – despite it all – is being handled and treated. Fairly or unfairly.

As you know Git-Mo detainees have been on a hunger strike since the middle of 2005 because of ill-treatment and lack of due process under international law and basic human rights. Despite being regarded as the ‘world’s worst’ they are still entitled to be treated fairly, equally and given their day in court – be a Military Tribunal or the International Criminal Court at the Hague in the Netherlands.

International Criminal Court at the Hague Logo (photo courtesy of Wikipedia, 2015) …

And unless and until they get their day in court, they should be able to go on a hunger strike for as long as they like. The Muslim faith, as does any other faith, calls for prayer and fasting. They are or would be, essentially, carrying out the dictates of their beliefs, and at the same time peacefully protesting, as they see fit. (Peacefully assembling, just as the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution calls for.)

Force feeding is both inhuman, and is widely regarded as cruel and unusual punishment because it is inflicting either pain or humiliation on someone who otherwise doesn’t want to be so treated. 

As Americans: Is this what we’re all about? Pain and humiliation?

Then, per our very own 1st Amendment we have every right to be called out and call ourselves, more importantly, out on the carpet for that pain and humiliation.

prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances. – First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

You say well, “These are killers. Animals. Inhumane. They give us no quarter. They humiliate and behead us. So why should we care if our guys and gals in uniform are forcing them to eat? If that’s all you can complain about, really, Rhett, your argument is pointless, weak even.” Ever heard of being the bigger person?

Independent American Journalist James Wright Foley about to be beheaded by a member of I.S.I.L., c. 2014 (picture courtesy of U.P.I., 2014) …

We all remember the beheading of Independent American Journalist James Foley. – Around 2014. How he was treated, handled, humiliated by I.S.I.S., I.S.I.L. Etc.

So if some solider, sailor, airman or marine wants to shove some oatmeal down some ‘murder in’ Muse lam’s throat so he can live long enough to die’ why should we care? If only.

Folks this is far bigger, far more at stake here than just some oatmeal being shoved down another human being’s throat who doesn’t want it.

This is about who we are as a nation, as a people, and whether or not we can be the bigger and better person. To lead by example. To discuss, openly, our foibles, follies, and faults. We are not perfect. And we never ever will be. But maybe, just maybe we can get a little closer to being better, and being better about our Wars. Politics. Governance. And more.

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

To admit, for once, that our government does wrong. Daily. And such a discussion, such a moment should come under this President, President Barack Obama, who should be willing to go the extra mile and have that open discussion, that honest debate.

“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.” – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis

Until then, “Good night and good luck” fellow Citizens of Earth…

–Rhett.

#Blog: “The ‘ACCIDENTAL’ Statesman..” By Rhett E. Column, #CIAtorturereport, #AXJ, #SWN

Former President of the United States of America, Harry S. Truman…

“..which the White House accidentally emailed to an Associated Press reporter…” — The White House Report on Torture, “Bush-era tactics…”… has been leaked?!?!

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. — I just finished reading an article from MSN News Services, via Reuters and the AP on the so-called Bush-era torture programs/enhanced interrogation techniques during the early days of the War on Terror and I must say I am experiencing and have been experiencing a myriad of emotions, a veritable roller coaster ride of feelings on this pending report for the last two weeks.

I cannot, for the life of me, figure out what, respectfully, Mr. Obama & Co. are hiding? Why the need to delay, and deny the American people, their right to know? Additionally why the need to provide cover for the Intelligence Community? Finally why, in this article I read, was a pending report from out of the White House, “accidentally emailed” to an Associated Press reporter?

These are but some of the many questions some of the many points of emotion I have been wrestling with, and again, for the last two weeks.

And so it goes…

I learned something this week and I also want to correct, publicly now, a record of standing I have long-held against a former President of these United States, Dwight Eisenhower. I contended that it was former President Eisenhower who started the C.I.A., it was not. It was in fact Harry Truman who started the C.I.A., BUT and his later years he, like so many of us do, had a change of heart on all things Central Intelligence Agency. Here, is where the change of heart began.

And so it goes…

I said all that to say this. The White House, more importantly this President, Barack H. Obama, II., and the honorable, had better come clean. He has but two whole handfuls of months left in his presidency to serve. He has a real opportunity. A real chance to level the playing field to correct the record as it were for the good of all mankind. To become something far more than what I have titled him under this #blogpost as, an ‘ACCIDENTAL’ Statesman.

President Barack H. Obama, II, 2012 Democratic National Convention…

“I’ve studied the Constitution as a student, I’ve taught it as a teacher, I’ve been bound by it as a lawyer and a legislator. I took an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution as Commander-in-Chief, and as a citizen, I know that we must never, ever, turn our back on its enduring principles for expedience sake.” — President Obama, 2009 Speech on National Security

 

THIS PRESIDENT, needs to hear from the American people TODAY on this vitally important issue.  He needs to be reminded of the words, the oath he took on behalf of the American people! To stand up for the Rule of Law and to adhere, strictly and always, to its concepts, precepts and edicts. Without fail or exception. Because and forthwith ,”the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one in this case.” Bottom line.

Because, and I will close with this. Comments such as these from online news articles, though good and very informative, WILL NOT suffice,

“The report does not draw the legal conclusion that the CIA’s actions constituted torture, though it makes clear that in some cases they amounted to torture by a common definition, two people who have read the report said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the still-classified document publicly by name.

The Senate report, the State Department proposes to say, “leaves no doubt that the methods used to extract information from some terrorist suspects caused profound pain, suffering and humiliation. It also leaves no doubt that the harm caused by the use of these techniques outweighed any potential benefit.”

Those methods included slapping, humiliation, exposure to cold, sleep deprivation and the near-drowning technique known as waterboarding.

The White House document is significant because it also reveals some of the State Department’s concerns about how the CIA’s tactics will be portrayed around the world.”

 

COMMENTS like these, for me at least, add up to duck and cover, run and hide, that age-old game of cat and mouse, that has been played throughout history both time and memorial by our fathers, grandfathers and forebears. The Cold War is over folks!

Yet Barack Obama, it appears wants to do nothing more than allow the Intelligence Community to play with the lives, fortunes and sacred honors of We The American People. It would appear to me, in the very least, that ,his attitude and actions of late, the Constitutional Law Professor has an obligatory disdain for the Rule of Law. It says, by his actions, that the Intelligence Community could give a fat rat’s rectum less about the Rule of Law OR that they only care about the Rule of Law when it is more than conveniently necessary for them to do so.

Such an attitude, such an approach toward governance and toward the everyday people who elected him to high office amounts to what Hollywood calls, “creative license”. And creative license will not cut it Mr. President! Respectfully.

Peace.

–Rhett.