Lindsey Buckingham, the prolific singer/songwriter/producer from the famed Fleetwood Mac band, once wrote "Two kinds of people in this world, Winners...Losers, I lost my power in this world, cause I did not use it. So I go insane"
We, as a country, are riding a very fine line. We are at a tipping point of no return. It feels as if there is an expectation from our populace for Obama to make change, so much, that the people are forgetting that the possibility for Obama to even be in the position to make change came from the voice of the people themselves.
It has come back to us again. Only this time, if we do not succeed, we will find this country slip into a moral and ethical tailspin that it will be hard pressed to find a way out. We must take action as a people! Write your legislators!
I'm talking about the Attorney General position in Obama's cabinet. We must email or call our Senators and legislators and demand that there be a criminal trial to Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al, for their knowingly allowing torture in their little war on terror. Cheney's proud video moment shows a sincere lack of concern for law. Responses from interviews with Bush show their blatant attempts to mitigate the future prosecutions through legal statements from their own attorney's.
We must remember that attorney's do not make the law. John Yoo, Bush's legal council and who wrote memos in which he advocated the possible legality of torture and that enemy combatants could be denied protection under the Geneva Conventions, also stated that waterboarding is not a means of torture, does not a law make.
Waterboarding is torture under the rule of war. These men MUST be tried for war crimes just like Saddam Hussein, Pinochet, and numerous others from other countries.
The world needs to see that this country must abide by rules of the world as well. The world must see that this country has a true concern for truth and justice. The world must see that the country demands it and is changing to make the wrongs of the past righted before their eyes. We are the only ones that can demand the actions from Washington as they begin to interview and confirm the new AG into office.
Without this action, all our work to put "Change" into the highest office of the land will be for naught. The moral righteousness of the United States in its actions throughout the world will forever be circumspect due to our neglect to right these legal and moral wrongs from the exiting criminals of Washington.
We must show the world that our leaders must also abide by laws and rules. That the laws and rules apply to them as well. Without this action and retribution we will find ourselves living a professed lie to the world. We can expect the respect to disappear for good.
Any future actions from our country to save this or right that will be shameful as it will show the world that we only pick certain rights and certain battles. And if it doesn't work out, tough, we have more bombs than you do, so piss off!
This is not what our founding fathers worked so hard to create. They were trying diligently to move away from the dictatorial leadership of the kingdom. They were trying hard to show that the little guy has rights, and a voice in this world. This is the very reason that our first President, George Washington, stepped down from the office after his second term. He was feeling the power of dictatorial possibilities to the office and chose to keep the vision that was created and stepped down to make room for another President, rather than create another dictatorship. It could have gone down that other path. We are at that crossroads again, but the President must make the move and we as a people must speak loudly to make sure he has our support to make the rule of law apply. Without this Washington will forever be the haven for power hungry criminals to find solace.
This is the one act that will define Obama's history from this point forward. Without the trial of war crimes to Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Yoo and more, we will create a precedent that we will never return from. The statement that absolute power corrupts absolutely will forever tarnish this great country from this point forward.
Let's not go insane, as Lindsey says. Let us use our power and help Obama create the change that this country so desperately needs from its people!
We are on a roll right now, let is bring back and keep the power to the people!
This, the 238th entry in bloggoland! Thanks for reading and coming back. I always enjoy the comments, emails and the banter!!
(c)Copyright 2009 Doug Boggs
Showing posts with label George Bush. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Bush. Show all posts
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Sunday, January 4, 2009
The Dogs of War
Is Hamas the modern Dogs of War? Is Al Qaeda the modern Dogs of War? Is George W. Bush, et al, the modern Dogs of War? Perhaps they are mutts of the same pack.
Thomas Jefferson uses the term 'Dog of war' as a metaphorical embodiment of war itself in a letter to James Madison: "We have already given [...] one effectual check to the Dog of war, by transferring the power of letting him loose from the executive to the Legislative body [...]." (September 6, 1789). I guess he would have enjoyed the power that Bush took back to the Executive Branch...but that is another topic for another time...
The original Dogs of War, or Dainii nohduud in Mongolian, was a name given by Chingis Khan (Genghis Khan) to his four top generals in the early 1200s.
Since the dawn of (hu)man we have seen the battle of survival in its purist form. As the world begets itself less space for us to interact through over population, over consumption, over depletion we find ourselves in a very delicate balance for survival.
Now, what we seem to be experiencing on the planet as a whole is not battles for survival, but battles of belief, for power, oil or other commodities.
In the battle for beliefs, the power of the men of these "radical" sects of Islamic faith is exemplified through their desire to destroy those who do not follow their dogmatic approach to Islam. (Much like the warring decisions Bush displayed in his Evangelical born again beliefs.) The power of these men is exemplified to the western world through their enslavement of their women to the point of their position to be less than that of a dog. (In Bush's case here, he just decided to take away many of the inalienable rights to freedom as described in the Constitution.)
When religion and politics combine we enter a realm of which the world will not and cannot control. That is why the founding father of the United States wished for the separation of the Church and the State. Other governments in the world are ruled by local factions of their religious beliefs. Can we come to a common ground with this if other countries do not hold the same governing rules as our constitution? Can we find a common ground if we allow our own country's President to be making decisions based solely through their religious doctrines and not following the separation statute of our Constitution?
Education, politics and religion play just as much a part in the process of survival of the specie, as to the human specie, at this point. There are enough people in the world now. In fact, too many for the planet itself. The power struggle does not necessarily come from the act of the human to survive, but for the (un)educated religious doctrines to survive.
Does education bring forth a homogenized style to any religion? Does dogma and religion stifle honest debate to an ever changing global society? Does the mix of politics and religion create a never ending global challenge to survival and peace?
What we are seeing and what the Middle East regions religion has experienced for thousands of years has morphed into something that the western world has difficulty or perhaps cannot understand. There are many who state that once the oil is depleted or the world has moved on to a different means of commodity for power (in its usery sense) we will not have the warring factions in the Middle East. These battles have been going on long before we have had a global need for oil.
It is very saddening to hear the words of the women of Palestine or Afghanistan and their slave type plight in life due to the religious doctrines that the men of their society espouse. It is disheartening to see the constant political battles ensue over religious ideals that have plagued this region for scores of centuries.
From what we hear reported, allegedly coming from the Hamas or Al Qaeda, is that they will never stop. The martyrs of their doctrine has left them the message to fight the western world as it is the poison to their beliefs. If this is their plight, it will not stop and I feel for the women of this society that are enslaved within a system that leads them to no way out. It is impossible to understand the levity of their pain.
Below are the lyrics from the song "Dogs of War" by Pink Floyd. I like this song, although it does not rate high with most Pink Floyd fans. It is found on the live album entitle "The Delicate Sound of Thunder". I find the words to the 1987 song written about war on the highest level, the political level to be of value again today. The dogs of war describe how politicians orchestrate wars that the public does not know about. Also, the major influence behind war is money. This song discusses the covert wars of the 80's where millions of American dollars went to Afghanistan to fight off the Soviet threat of communism. Now, we see where that has gotten us to...
Dogs of war and men of hate
With no cause, we don't discriminate
Discovery is to be disowned
Our currency is flesh and bone
Hell opened up and put on sale
Gather 'round and haggle
For hard cash, we will lie and deceive
Even our masters don't know the web we weave
One world, it's a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world ... One world
Invisible transfers, long distance calls,
Hollow laughter in marble halls
Steps have been taken, a silent uproar
Has unleashed the dogs of war
You can't stop what has begun
Signed, sealed, they deliver oblivion
We all have a dark side, to say the least
And dealing in death is the nature of the beast
One world, it's a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world ... One world
The dogs of war won't negotiate
The dogs of war don't capitulate,
They will take and you will give,
And you must die so that they may live
You can knock at any door,
But wherever you go, you know they've been there before
Well winners can lose and things can get strained
But whatever you change, you know the dogs remain.
One world, it's a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world ... One world
This, the 231th entry in bloggoland! Thanks for reading and coming back. I always enjoy the comments, emails and the banter!!
(c)Copyright 2009 Doug Boggs
Thomas Jefferson uses the term 'Dog of war' as a metaphorical embodiment of war itself in a letter to James Madison: "We have already given [...] one effectual check to the Dog of war, by transferring the power of letting him loose from the executive to the Legislative body [...]." (September 6, 1789). I guess he would have enjoyed the power that Bush took back to the Executive Branch...but that is another topic for another time...
The original Dogs of War, or Dainii nohduud in Mongolian, was a name given by Chingis Khan (Genghis Khan) to his four top generals in the early 1200s.
Since the dawn of (hu)man we have seen the battle of survival in its purist form. As the world begets itself less space for us to interact through over population, over consumption, over depletion we find ourselves in a very delicate balance for survival.
Now, what we seem to be experiencing on the planet as a whole is not battles for survival, but battles of belief, for power, oil or other commodities.
In the battle for beliefs, the power of the men of these "radical" sects of Islamic faith is exemplified through their desire to destroy those who do not follow their dogmatic approach to Islam. (Much like the warring decisions Bush displayed in his Evangelical born again beliefs.) The power of these men is exemplified to the western world through their enslavement of their women to the point of their position to be less than that of a dog. (In Bush's case here, he just decided to take away many of the inalienable rights to freedom as described in the Constitution.)
When religion and politics combine we enter a realm of which the world will not and cannot control. That is why the founding father of the United States wished for the separation of the Church and the State. Other governments in the world are ruled by local factions of their religious beliefs. Can we come to a common ground with this if other countries do not hold the same governing rules as our constitution? Can we find a common ground if we allow our own country's President to be making decisions based solely through their religious doctrines and not following the separation statute of our Constitution?
Education, politics and religion play just as much a part in the process of survival of the specie, as to the human specie, at this point. There are enough people in the world now. In fact, too many for the planet itself. The power struggle does not necessarily come from the act of the human to survive, but for the (un)educated religious doctrines to survive.
Does education bring forth a homogenized style to any religion? Does dogma and religion stifle honest debate to an ever changing global society? Does the mix of politics and religion create a never ending global challenge to survival and peace?
What we are seeing and what the Middle East regions religion has experienced for thousands of years has morphed into something that the western world has difficulty or perhaps cannot understand. There are many who state that once the oil is depleted or the world has moved on to a different means of commodity for power (in its usery sense) we will not have the warring factions in the Middle East. These battles have been going on long before we have had a global need for oil.
It is very saddening to hear the words of the women of Palestine or Afghanistan and their slave type plight in life due to the religious doctrines that the men of their society espouse. It is disheartening to see the constant political battles ensue over religious ideals that have plagued this region for scores of centuries.
From what we hear reported, allegedly coming from the Hamas or Al Qaeda, is that they will never stop. The martyrs of their doctrine has left them the message to fight the western world as it is the poison to their beliefs. If this is their plight, it will not stop and I feel for the women of this society that are enslaved within a system that leads them to no way out. It is impossible to understand the levity of their pain.
Below are the lyrics from the song "Dogs of War" by Pink Floyd. I like this song, although it does not rate high with most Pink Floyd fans. It is found on the live album entitle "The Delicate Sound of Thunder". I find the words to the 1987 song written about war on the highest level, the political level to be of value again today. The dogs of war describe how politicians orchestrate wars that the public does not know about. Also, the major influence behind war is money. This song discusses the covert wars of the 80's where millions of American dollars went to Afghanistan to fight off the Soviet threat of communism. Now, we see where that has gotten us to...
Dogs of war and men of hate
With no cause, we don't discriminate
Discovery is to be disowned
Our currency is flesh and bone
Hell opened up and put on sale
Gather 'round and haggle
For hard cash, we will lie and deceive
Even our masters don't know the web we weave
One world, it's a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world ... One world
Invisible transfers, long distance calls,
Hollow laughter in marble halls
Steps have been taken, a silent uproar
Has unleashed the dogs of war
You can't stop what has begun
Signed, sealed, they deliver oblivion
We all have a dark side, to say the least
And dealing in death is the nature of the beast
One world, it's a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world ... One world
The dogs of war won't negotiate
The dogs of war don't capitulate,
They will take and you will give,
And you must die so that they may live
You can knock at any door,
But wherever you go, you know they've been there before
Well winners can lose and things can get strained
But whatever you change, you know the dogs remain.
One world, it's a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world ... One world
This, the 231th entry in bloggoland! Thanks for reading and coming back. I always enjoy the comments, emails and the banter!!
(c)Copyright 2009 Doug Boggs
Sunday, December 28, 2008
The Truth is Better than Fiction, but Continue to Read Books!
The old adage that "the truth is better than fiction"...I must agree.
It seems our world is filled with truths and story's that are so outrageous, it makes creative writers pause and think that their own stories, no matter how morose or sensational one can be, it cannot even begin to compare to what truths lie out there. My continued mantra as of late has been, "You can't make this shit up...!"
I am one of the first to say that the imagination is one of the best attributes to possess. I live a lot of my life in that state...(sometimes perhaps to the detriment of my reality, but I digress)
Over the past eight years we have had the awe and wonderment of having Bush Jr. running the most powerful country on this planet. His own idiocy, or perhaps disguised brilliance, has astounded me from day one. (For those that voted for him, perhaps now is their time to take pause...but that is not the point...) With his capacity to spend the entire presidency lying, deceiving, murdering, and smiling the entire time I find him to possess a simply astounding capacity to be that of a living Satan. Recently, through the renowned TARP program, we have seen his cunning ability to pilfer away over $500 Billion tax dollars of the citizen precious future earnings while the world economy collapses, the people lose their jobs and homes, and without as much as a blink or regard or need to explain where the funds are going to? How amazing is that? I suggest looking for his offshore accounts...
The truth comes from a burning 'Bush'...
This past year we have seen the Austrian man, Josef Fritzl, who had his own child imprisoned in his own basement underneath the rest of his own family without their knowledge for nearly 25 years. During which he fathered 7 children from his own imprisoned daughter. One of which had died while a few days old. He then burned it in the oven to get rid of it...
Now, as of late, we have a 40 year ponzi scheme to the tune of $50 Billion conspired by Bernie Madoff. (By the by, his name is pronounced Made Off - as in Madoff made off with a lot of coin) It seems, despite the time line of 40 years of deception that this ponzi scheme took before the house of cards fell, he is going to claim as his defense, get this, insanity!
You can't make this shit up!!
Let's see, Madoff has been noted as one of the most respected investors on Wall Street for 40 odd years. His returns have been consistent and scrutinized by the SEC a few times over the duration and found to be sound, or at least they found no evidence of wrong doing. That is insane if anything. Maybe they were looking at the other set of books... He has been able to acquire billions of dollars of investment money from some of the richest people in the world...but, he is insane?! His statements to his clients recorded investments that never took place. Most of his clients are very rich, respectable investors. He also recently told his son, and a few people at the firm, that upon the breakdown of the investment scheme that it was just that, a scheme. There was no investment fund and it was broke. A house of cards that was going to collapse. But, then he's insane. But, it's the truth. And he had very intelligent investors fork over billions. Are they also so insane as to not recognize this man's own insanity for 40 years?
Now, he is on house arrest. (First of all, I find it funny how a black man in Amerika, who might steal a few bucks from the corner store, would have to do time in county prior to his trial while a rich, white man who conspires for forty years and embezzles billions from his clients gets house arrest.) It seems there is concern that he is not saying much. Probably due to his lawyers advising him to do so, in order to create the illusion of a mental breakdown. Or it could be the anti-depressants he is taking so as not to end up like his billionaire investment fund manager friend, Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet, who committed suicide due to the loss of his clients money through this mayhem.
I must say, that there is nothing out of bounds, as based on our current reality, that one could come up with to write a fictional story. Although, if someone were to write these stories, prior to them being in the news, it would probably be labeled as sensationalistic, or outrageous, by the critics and the press.
The irony to the date of 9-11 to incredibly correspond with an emergency call, the irony of our first African-American decent President's name of Obama while we are in the midst of a global war on terror involving a man named Osama. (You notice the difference in the two names in B-S) The name of Madoff who conspired the greatest global Ponzi scheme ever to sound like Made Off... The gods are laughing their asses off while we endure this insane irony we call life on earth...
Life...truth is better than fiction.
Despite the truth, I still tell everyone to continue to read books!!
This, the 226th entry in bloggoland! Thanks for reading and coming back. I always enjoy the comments, emails and the banter!!
(c)Copyright 2008 Doug Boggs
It seems our world is filled with truths and story's that are so outrageous, it makes creative writers pause and think that their own stories, no matter how morose or sensational one can be, it cannot even begin to compare to what truths lie out there. My continued mantra as of late has been, "You can't make this shit up...!"
I am one of the first to say that the imagination is one of the best attributes to possess. I live a lot of my life in that state...(sometimes perhaps to the detriment of my reality, but I digress)
Over the past eight years we have had the awe and wonderment of having Bush Jr. running the most powerful country on this planet. His own idiocy, or perhaps disguised brilliance, has astounded me from day one. (For those that voted for him, perhaps now is their time to take pause...but that is not the point...) With his capacity to spend the entire presidency lying, deceiving, murdering, and smiling the entire time I find him to possess a simply astounding capacity to be that of a living Satan. Recently, through the renowned TARP program, we have seen his cunning ability to pilfer away over $500 Billion tax dollars of the citizen precious future earnings while the world economy collapses, the people lose their jobs and homes, and without as much as a blink or regard or need to explain where the funds are going to? How amazing is that? I suggest looking for his offshore accounts...
The truth comes from a burning 'Bush'...
This past year we have seen the Austrian man, Josef Fritzl, who had his own child imprisoned in his own basement underneath the rest of his own family without their knowledge for nearly 25 years. During which he fathered 7 children from his own imprisoned daughter. One of which had died while a few days old. He then burned it in the oven to get rid of it...
Now, as of late, we have a 40 year ponzi scheme to the tune of $50 Billion conspired by Bernie Madoff. (By the by, his name is pronounced Made Off - as in Madoff made off with a lot of coin) It seems, despite the time line of 40 years of deception that this ponzi scheme took before the house of cards fell, he is going to claim as his defense, get this, insanity!
You can't make this shit up!!
Let's see, Madoff has been noted as one of the most respected investors on Wall Street for 40 odd years. His returns have been consistent and scrutinized by the SEC a few times over the duration and found to be sound, or at least they found no evidence of wrong doing. That is insane if anything. Maybe they were looking at the other set of books... He has been able to acquire billions of dollars of investment money from some of the richest people in the world...but, he is insane?! His statements to his clients recorded investments that never took place. Most of his clients are very rich, respectable investors. He also recently told his son, and a few people at the firm, that upon the breakdown of the investment scheme that it was just that, a scheme. There was no investment fund and it was broke. A house of cards that was going to collapse. But, then he's insane. But, it's the truth. And he had very intelligent investors fork over billions. Are they also so insane as to not recognize this man's own insanity for 40 years?
Now, he is on house arrest. (First of all, I find it funny how a black man in Amerika, who might steal a few bucks from the corner store, would have to do time in county prior to his trial while a rich, white man who conspires for forty years and embezzles billions from his clients gets house arrest.) It seems there is concern that he is not saying much. Probably due to his lawyers advising him to do so, in order to create the illusion of a mental breakdown. Or it could be the anti-depressants he is taking so as not to end up like his billionaire investment fund manager friend, Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet, who committed suicide due to the loss of his clients money through this mayhem.
I must say, that there is nothing out of bounds, as based on our current reality, that one could come up with to write a fictional story. Although, if someone were to write these stories, prior to them being in the news, it would probably be labeled as sensationalistic, or outrageous, by the critics and the press.
The irony to the date of 9-11 to incredibly correspond with an emergency call, the irony of our first African-American decent President's name of Obama while we are in the midst of a global war on terror involving a man named Osama. (You notice the difference in the two names in B-S) The name of Madoff who conspired the greatest global Ponzi scheme ever to sound like Made Off... The gods are laughing their asses off while we endure this insane irony we call life on earth...
Life...truth is better than fiction.
Despite the truth, I still tell everyone to continue to read books!!
This, the 226th entry in bloggoland! Thanks for reading and coming back. I always enjoy the comments, emails and the banter!!
(c)Copyright 2008 Doug Boggs
Monday, December 15, 2008
Robin Williams gives us all a political attitude adjustment!
If anyone can make an attitude adjustment for us all over this political climate, is Robin Williams.
This is a must see!
This, the 220th entry in bloggoland! Thanks for reading and coming back. I always enjoy the comments, emails and the banter!!
(c)Copyright 2008 Doug Boggs
This is a must see!
This, the 220th entry in bloggoland! Thanks for reading and coming back. I always enjoy the comments, emails and the banter!!
(c)Copyright 2008 Doug Boggs
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