America...led by a bunch of stinking idiots.  Oh my God...I said it!  If I were in politics I would be buck and gagged by the hypocrite judge, jury, and executer aka our government.  Holy jeepers, I did it again! I actually said aloud the very two views that most (honest) Americans feel.  They are also the very two views that people are too afraid to admit (out loud anyway).

The average citizen (the last line of defense) considers the rivalry between the Republicans and Democrats as bull poo and not worth caring about any more than one should care about promises that come from the top and out of violations of the Constitution.  Our destiny has never and should never be ruled by two parties of hypocrites and power lusters.  When this country was founded, it sought its destiny by staying in the center of a constitutional path.  The people as a whole, united, gave their hearts and all to maintain a government forever controlled by the people, the states, and their Constitution.

Today, to the disgust of a surprising number across the political lines, feel that both parties are different only by what is printed and promised rather than what is actually stood for and upheld.  If you ask A N Y American he or she would tell you that when ever has a president actually made at least one stand for his party's principals.  That such actions are as uncommon as a miracle saving an unborn baby from an abortion.  The two stumps are little more than what one candidate or another feels could be the fastest cart on the track to the coolest pad in America, 1600 PA Ave.

In case you are bewildered about where exactly is party allegiance, you have the right to know (actually you don't have a right to know). I belong to the VPOAP (VERY PISSED OFF AMERICAN PARTY).  If you never heard of it or belong to it now, I would be shocked.  The party boasts of more than three hundred million members!  Democrats and the Republicans running for office or maintaining a public image are failing, quicker by the day, to make voters believe the donkey or elephant poo.  Poo is what their promises are worth to the citizens of the United States of Confusion.  Our beloved national motto, In God We Trust. (Has it been removed from the currency yet? At least it remains imprinted upon my 2001 quarter and 2003 penny.) This beloved oath shared by the true popular vote offers peace and hope to more and more Americans that are beginning to feel a widening distance between they and their government.  Many more view the current bad system of things as a distant threat.

Ron Paul is surely the Sam Adams or Thomas Payne of our day.  However, it is terribly sad to note that Adams and Payne had a greater chance of success than Ron Paul being that England was not so much a force to be reckoned with compared to a corrupt and carefully fabricated behind the scenes election rules of today.

Supporters of the unique tyranny in our country might offer a pathetic appeal that Ron Paul had been on the primary ballots and lost his chance when the voters failed to respond favorably during the primary elections.  However, the low number of votes in Ron Paul's favor was not a fault of his own or his message but rather a massive media dominated blitz of censorship and manipulation.  For whatever reasons, reasons that would spark a revolution if they were made public, the media gushed every fraction of their power and investments to manipulate an election where Obama and McCain would absolutely be on the final ticket.  Perhaps their plan to carry McCain's nomination was supported because they knew he would be the most sure Republican to loose against Obama. (Who honestly believes that McCain could win?  Although not so much as Ron Paul, he is now suffering at least a porportionate taste of being snubbed by the media.  For Obama, in comparrison seems to already be making well documented international state trips!
Fox, CNN, ABC, NBC, MSNBC etc, etc, are nothing more or less or different than other billion dollar cooperations.  And just as most billion dollar cooperations lobby to help put candidates of mutal interest into office so too must the media cooperations as well.  Again, who of us (at least those of us with principal) could ever hope for an honest explanation of just how the media companies will profit from the election of one person over the other?

Ron Paul didn't have a chance from the second he did not make a deal.  When he declared to America that his loyalty and service belonged to the people and the states and to nothing else, the machine began its savage plot against him.

How can I be sure and confident of this level of corruption?  Most Americans do, yet, again, their voices have yet to sound and unite in order to cause a positive effect.
The interior campaigns to replace Ron Paul's message with silence and elude his presence by avoiding him had been very obvious and conspicuous during the length of the primary season.  Proof of the existence of this level of corruption exists when joining a stroke of common sense to a list of recent historical facts.  Of all the national televised Republican debates, every other candidate was able to speak more in one debate than the time allowed Ron Paul from all the debates combined!  Though Ron Paul had raised more funds to create prime time air space than Rudy Giuliani and Mike Huckabee combined, but a fraction of the networks agreed to air them.  And even those networks seldom ever included his campaign support.  Ron Paul did not receive the votes necessary because throughout the primary season, curtains of censorship motivated by private goals fell between a very worthy candidate and the voters of our country.

If the media born from the first amendment of the constitution had replaced the media of today in time for the election season, Americans would of learned, as is their right, all the truths that the news was created to produce.  Rather than learning on the news John Stewart thinks that McCain is old, or that Paris Hilton shaved her head (oops, never mind, that was Britney Spears' bald head on the front page cover of the Times) we would instead read that Ron Paul boasts the greatest number of supporters under the age of thirty than any other presidential candidate in history.

(Isn't it a conscience that the largest camp of Ron Paul supporters, the youth, are also the ONE group of American citizens that do not enjoy the same suffrage including the right to vote that every other citizen type has secured)?

Rather than not reporting or informing America detailed and signifigant cooverage regarding Ron Paul's values and commitments to national sovereignty, 2nd amendment rights, pro-life, troop withdraw from international squabbles, states rights, alternative energy and energy independence, the American dollar and economy, a constitutional media would give voters an equal and fair balance between his principals and those of the other candidates.  A constitutional media would not hinder our judgment or understanding of the different candidates by offering their own personal views.  The media should only exist primarily to satisfy our right to know.  It SHOULD NOT exist to decide what we should know and what we should not.  Nor should it exist to attempt to bombard and manipulate public conscience by publicly expressing opinions regarding their stories.

Ron Paul was a living example of this recent common spirit of negativity towards the present as well as the equally shared appeal for a positive change.  The well known symbols of his campaign such as the figures of Washington and Jefferson and the constitution offer a factual portrait of the congressman's principals.  The well worn and spoken term, Ron Paul Revolution does well to offer an understanding of the extent of change his election would bring.  And though all seems lost for him, American voters still have the power to elect him.  This country is YOURS and you, even in the spite of all this mess, have the true right as well as the opprotunity to make any decision to change any part of it and recreate its destiny.   On election day only one power lives. Ours.  Do not let the media or the system of things dictate or decide how you use that power, lest you surrender it to their will.  Research Ron Paul, help support his causes, and on election day write in his name.  Are we the people going to allow the media to alter our election day conscience just for the simple reason that they censured Ron Paul and say that it is useless to vote for him?

The fact that no other candidate could claim the same number of bi-partisan supporters and voters hailing from both parties than Ron Paul, admits to the point I made earlier regarding the true Americans' disenchantment with the illusion that candidates fail to represent their party if elected.

Jefferson Davis, the only president to have served as president of the Confederate States of America during its four year lifetime between 1861 and 1865 wrote in his last executive speech to his people, "If you but will it, then you are free."

Only when the people decide to practice a power greater than the media and Washington DC combined will a patriot like Ron Paul have an opportunity to provide his service to the people by serving in the executive branch.

And only when, in a burst of frustration for relief, the American people mount the stars with their concerns, will freedom and independence be ours again!

In a world where the brave die...

It was my last line to my friend Rocky following one of our many billions of intense converations about one subject that everything has in common with-the truth. 

We live in a time and maybe we always have, where the brave and the right are killed and the low and the wrong carry on hopelessly with false hope.  I have seen as much in my life that whether a man makes a public stand for the principal of right, love, or truth or rather lives those things quietly on his own quite path, he will suffer the anxietys of denial and hypocrasy on this earth.  And many like he, with a spirit so alive, is killed by spirits that have never truly lived!

Indeed, I can bloat this post with the gallons and miles of examples and explinations of this mortal and morbid fact of life existing in this human land but it far be more effective if you pin this fact to something you have personally seen or experienced.   For we have all seen how good and true can be sacrificed and how truly the good die young. 

We hear about and know of thousands of soldiers in our army who die brave...sent to the places of their deaths by the evil of a few leaders.  Oh, how I ask our country, a country where WE are accountable because WE are supposed to be the deciders; how do we make and let evil leaders send so many of our innocent brave noble sons to die for another's conquest and flawed ambition? 
For those of you who support Bush, how in the world can you make sense when you also say you support the troops?  Supporting a leader who sends the youngest and bravest of our land to die in fields that only he and his circle profit from...
Oh but we live in a world where we allow evil to lead.  We live in a world where we allow to be led to evil. 

And in these past fifty or so odd years and post 9/11 we've allowed so many of our laws to become as evil and corrupt as what the laws in the Bible were made to save us from!  In a land, in a land as beautiful and right as ours, all laws whether they be few or many should have one thing in common-to protect the right against the wrong to protect justice against injustice and to protect freedom from tyranny.  
However, we live in a world where the brave die.   We live in a world where there are laws that protect the wrong rather than the right, injustice rather than justice, and tyranny rather than freedom.  I have seen love outlawed by the law.  I have seen basic freedoms that grin from every corner of the constitution being forbidden.  I have seen people doing the right thing become prisoners. 

We live in a world where the brave die.  We live in a country where our leaders are not servants.  We use the right to vote to elect people to control us. We live in a country where our fathers do not echo our forefathers.  We live in a world that is mixed up, where laws are created to control and hinder love and peace under a slogan of security and safety.  In my opinion, not surprisingly, these falsely advertised laws save nothing but the injust core of their true designs. 
Good people with good hearts are restrained and silenced.  I see many who are friends, many who love, many who would protect and defend get beaten away like demons.  And in the place they were chased from true demons arrive with the ease and acceptance that I can never understand. 

In this world where the brave die I still have hope and am gushing in it.  I laugh and smile and steal my little joys despite all the hell around and grown.  For there is a God, a very loving God. 
This is not the god of the 700 club telemercials and the god wearing the color contrasting tie at a waxed plywood pulpit surrounded by fake ferns.  I refer not to a god that many are mislead into believing that 10% tides, one church, church raffles, or seclusion from all the world but the church could bring you close to him.  This is not the god owned, refered to, kept, promised by, handed out by, or limited to clean plump men with their suits or strange quite women with long hair or children forced to limit their souls and world to the seclusion of youth groups in the basements of pastors' brothers' homes. 

NO, the God that gives me hope every day in all these ravages of sin, doubt, fear, and decline is THE GOD, the one God.  He is the God who allows the narrow plastic fern god to exist through mercy alone. 
The true God of our universe is found and expressed in all our land's brave, the living and dead alike.  He is not a God of pologamy or several candles or a rabbit or star topped tree.  He is not the god who you feel guilty about missing when you can't fit into your church or find inspiration in cheap TBN programing or contimpary 'Christian' concerts.  He is the God that leads us through and past every sin that He had carried to the cross with Him.  He is the God of all the brave saints who were jailed and killed by evil leaders, their evil causes, and their evil laws.  Nothing else but The God gives glory to the right, the true, and good and judges those who do wrong, lie, and do bad.  Though we only see the dark results and hypocritical endings of human justice on this earth, eternity's true justice will begin when we pass from this planet as we all shall.  What is now, what is allowed now, what happens now, and what is forgotten now, will not last forever.  He gave us the earth and he gave us each a short life upon it.  And how we use this gift and live our life upon it will determine our soul's destiny when this gift is taken by death. 

God gave us America and God gave us the brave.  It has always meant that the only laws that exist SHOULD be limited to those inspired by His word.  God gave us love and freedom.  God gave us the truth and it is that gift I share with you tonight. 

I understand there may be a lot in this post that you do not understand for it is all almost too much for myself to understand.  If I don't understand it all, it doesn't matter, for although there is so much darkness and sadness in these truths, through God I can bear it! 

The messages I try to share here are wild. I didn't have the power or talent to bring all the meanings to you as smooth and easy as I wished however honest and true they are!  I only do not delete the whole thing because I believe a few out there might capture some of it and give it life. 

But to all of you I will share my appeal.  I will plant and grow a hope in me that many of you will heed and follow these following words today.  
Please, allow people to love others regardless of any detail but it.  Encourage love and freedom to others and to yourself. 
Respect, love, and befriend your children; trust them and listen to them.  Judge their friends only as you would judge your own; actions and words rather than anything else. 
Protect them as you would protect yourself; with common sense, love, and understanding.   Teach your children to smile and to be kind and true.  Teach yourself to do the same.  Do not lie, do not judge, do not be a double standard, be the parent that all children deserve.
Teach yourself what you teach your children.  Live the lessons you teach your children, live as great as you inspire your children to live. 
Make people smile today and salute the brave.  Appeal evil and open your heart to everything.  Honor the brave and let them live. 

I was channel surfing and got glimpse aka slap at MSNBC (or was it CNN?)  Big difference, hardy har! Yes, this post begins with an oozing sarcasim.  A true story all the same. 

The anchor (who was it, Anderson, Katy, or Lou) said that today America has seen the highest gas prices in history.  $3.80 a gallon, national average.  (Its $3.79 a gallon here in Augusta, BOO HA!)  She rattled off this fact as if she was at Starbucks asking for non-fat cream and splenda for her venti non-decaff rather than telling America to dig deeper into our barren pockets as if the lent we find there would pay for a gallon of gas. 

Raising her eye brow a notch and curving her smirk about two degrees this (probably famous) anchor jungle vined to a story that made us all forget that gas costs $3.80 a gallon.  Why, Obama won Oregon. Yes indeed, OBAMA WON OREGON! 
$ 3.80 a gallon for gas, you just got served! 

(I do not include the Oregon family of TLC's Little People Big World in this ranting rage of sarcasam, for I am truly confident that they voted for the candidate who is for the little man, Ron Paul).
I continued my channel surfing odyesse just missing the famous anchor's headline, Who has a chance on American Idol this week?

No ooze of sarcasam or appeals of truth from this or any other post will stem or stop the growing insanity of the media or the destructive power from our government and its war upon our lives.  $ 3.80 a gallon- 'tis is a warning sign rooted in all that is wrong about with everything...

JUDGE: Perverted Justice Founder Solicited child molestation
-John Cook, Radar Investigates

The pudgy, pasty, and creepy founder of Perverted Justice, the online vigilante group that NBC News pays to lure in gap-toothed perverts for Dateline NBC's "To Catch a Predator," narrowly escaped a taste of his own medicine last week. On August 10, a judge in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, issued a previously unreported order finding that "there is probable cause to believe that Xavier Von Erck solicited ... child molestation, statutory rape, or attempted child molestation or attempted statutory rape."

The case stems from a rather novel legal theory pursued by Robert E. White, whose son Robert Gerald White was arrested for attempted child molestation and attempted statutory rape after a Dateline sting in Harris County, Georgia, last year. The elder White thinks that Von Erck, by posing as a 15-year-old girl during online chats with his son, actually solicited the younger White into showing up at the Dateline house for sex. And in Georgia, solicitation is a crime.

Robert E. White's attorney, Gary Gerrard, went to a Georgia state judge last month seeking a warrant for Von Erck's arrest for criminal solicitation, and the judge, by and large, agreed: He issued an order stating that "there is probable cause to believe that Xavier Von Erck communicated with Robert Gerald White with intent that Robert Gerald White would engage in conduct constituting a felony." In other words, Von Erck wanted the younger White to break the law and tried to get him to do so, behavior that is usually considered criminal in Georgia. But the judge declined to issue the warrant, finding that there was no way the younger White could have actually committed the crime that Von Erck was soliciting him to commit—there was, after all, no 15-year-old girl to molest.

But it might not be that simple. Gerrard and other sources familiar with Georgia criminal law say the judge plainly got it wrong.

Georgia law clearly states that "it is no defense to a prosecution for criminal solicitation that the person solicited could not be guilty of the crime solicited." So if Von Erck were prosecuted for solicitation, he wouldn't be able to argue that he knew all along that no actual 15-year-old girl was going to be molested.

"The law says the impossibility of committing the crime is not a defense," says Gerrard.

What's more, White was charged with attempted molestation, a crime that he actually committed by showing up at the Dateline house. And that crime, the judge's order says, was solicited by Von Erck.

"It seems clear here that Von Erck did intend for this man to commit a felony," said Robert D. Leonard II, a Georgia criminal defense attorney who maintains a blog on Georgia law. "The felony would be attempted child molestation."

Gerrard says he is considering his options and may appeal the order.

In a statement, NBC said, "We believe our newsgathering and activities in connection with "To Catch a Predator" fully complied with Georgia law."

E-mailed for a response, Von Erck replied, "Thanks for contacting us for comment.  You're just a rather scummy fellow who writes for a tabloid rag. Other than being told that you're a scummy hack who resembles a stalker more than a journalist, we don't have any comment for you on this issue or any other issue."

Woa!  Did you see this coming? Sadly, I did.  I have a theory that I have seen proven RIGHT many times in my life.  More often than not those who go to fanatical extremes for misguided moral crusades are doing so to cloak their own demons.  They do this to mislead the public and for those who feel guilty, do it to mislead themselves. 
Of the dozens of guys I've met in my life who expressed an all out hatred and malice towards homosexuality, two out of three of them had later asked me to have sex with them.  (I'm a guy). 
I have seen the same true with people who are just as holy about pedophiles.  One dude up my street likes to prank call local sex offenders.  I tested my theory and without surprise found his scruffy face on the state sex offender list. 
And who can forget ole Congressman Folly.  The leading crusader and champion against child abuse who resigned his seat in congress following aligations that he was soliciting sex online with a page-boy. 

So without surprise, I found this article about the founder of Perverted Justice.  What I have trouble with, however, is how the media has kept this charge against him so hush hush.  Then again, MSNBC didn't have a lot to say about the man who killed himself when Perverted Justice came knocking on his door. 
MSNBC does not want to admit to the fact that their Catch a Predator is getting people killed.  Luring men to ruin their whole lives is good for ratings, luring them to shoot themselves may upset those precious ratings. They just as much do not want people to know that the group who is responsible for their show's ratings and air time is led by a suspected pedophile himself!  Its pretty sad when the press censures issues and needed infromation from the public (Ron Paul).  Its a really sad day when the media censures from us their own nasty issues! 

In the article I posted here I thought it was funny, and I laughed, that this Von Erck dude defends himself by saying that no actual crime happened because he really wasn't a fifteen year old.  Ummmmm....that is exackly what is so wrong about the whole Perverted Justice idea! 
Most Americans like myself are all for neat little tactics to catch predators.  Yet, most Americans like myself are now starting to catch on that to Catch a Predator is seriously wrong.  How can you charge a man with child molestation or even soliciting when he was actually soliciting a middle aged fat man? 
Also, people are starting to learn the true extent of how low Perverted Justice will go to fish in mentally ill, haven't-been-laid-in a long time chat room low lifes.  Those people with Perverted Justice for several hours instant message as many men out of the blue as possible.  Then, for days on end these entrapers will speak to the entrapped as sexual and suggesting as possible, all but begging (and moaning) for the person to visit. 
The argument can be made that these guys shouldn't travel to meet an underage girl. True that. 
Yet, some of these guys, under normal circumstances would not go that far.  I am positive some of them resist the requests and suggestions and pleas until their imagination gets ahold of them or they are just not strong enough to say no to the entrapper following  repeated and insistant pressure. 
The whole Dateline thing and Perverted Justice just seems gross and dirty. 
Personally I think that Von Erck is not the only one at Perverted Justice who gets off acting like underage girls and getting sexually graphic about it.  There is just something really wrong about men who sit at their computers and role play as a 15 year old nymph sex addict with hundreds of males across the country! 
But Chris Hansen gets payed. 

Is Perverted Justice a non-profit group set out to save all the children of the world? No.  The founder himself, Von Erck racks up hundreds of hours role playing more sexually graphic than any actual underage girl would be (except in his imagination).  And for his fun, Von Erck recieves 120,000 a year. 

Perverted Justice indeed.

The following will not be what you expect. Most who call themselves Christians would judge and say humilating things about Miley Cyrus without asking (or listening) to what God thinks about it. A moraless pre-Britney.

So what would Jesus do in light of this "Hannah Montana Scandle?" Not to hint that Miley is either easy, a theif, or a tax collecter. But you get the point. He is merciful. He is compassionate. He taught and lived on compassion and mercy. He said in every way possible, over and over again, that His followers MUST be kind, loving, gentle, forgiving, and merciful. In fact He wanted us to include this in our prayer. "Forgive those who sinned against you (or anyone)." Yet He also drove it home by saying, Hey, now. While you are doing all well and good with forgiving people, how about asking for YOUR forgiviness as well?

The explosive response of judgment pours onto the Cyrus family not only from all parts of a secular society you would expect but also from the most holy of holy chruches were a God like Jesus is pretty much their thing. How can you worship something, pray to something, love something, yet totally ignore all that He did in his life or how He died? I imagine there are over a billion people in the world who worship and love Jesus Christ as our God and Creator as I do. However, I wouldn't be far off to imagine that a fraction of them are true Christians. A true Christian being one who not only studies the word but lives by it (the best he or she can because the only perfect Christian is a non-Christian).

Yes, I know I should eat my own words. Am I judging all those in the media and in our country who have judged Miss Cyrus? Dang, well, yeah. Forgive me, really. I know that it isn't my place to defend Miss Cyrus, for God has her well looked after. And so does her Dad. But it causes me sorrow to see how fallen our society is. And nothing hurts worse than seeing churches that I have prayed at, judging others. Lord forgive them, they know not what they do. But the sorriest thing about it is the fact that these Christians actually believe they are acting as good soldiers of Christ by speaking against Miley and her family! It is not their mistakes that I express these feelings about but rather their unchecked hypocrisy.

Every single day I make so many mistakes in my life. Sometimes I hurt my family, my friends, and God Himself. Yes, I know that the only way I will will miss out on a chance in Heaven someday is if I do not totally surrender ALL my sins to Him. I have to admit where I was wrong even if I believed I was doing the right thing.

Hypocrisy...lets chew on that for a second.

America lives in this dream world that those who you would judge first are those people, those sick os. Inappopriate desires and thoughts are more common than any of us want to imagine. Though thankfully the high majority of them will not act on their thoughts or fantacies. Yet, still, there are many out there who are as black as the kettle. Although I couldn't stomach to give a full hearted study on these following facts here is what I did gather. Type on search engine, Lo ita and you will get 42,050,000 different sites. Type in Forgive and you get THREE MILLION less entries. Something tells me that all those sites don't have to do with cliff notes!

Since this Scandle there are more than two million sites featuring the "photos in question." Those who slander them can't take their eyes off em. And You tube? (nuff said!)

A couple of years ago Congressman Folly, the crusaider to end all child endangerment and exploitation had to resign from his post in congress for being as dakr as the kettle. It is interesting to note that the awareness and enforsement of child protection laws that he stood behind were proved wonderfully effective the day he got caught.

Do I have a solution about what to do about all the who are weird like that? Sadly, no. If I wasn't such a sap for freedom of speech and forgiviness then maybe. But I do have a message for the hypocrites-peace, relax, forgive, forget, have mercy, love, be gentle, DO WHAT JESUS SAID, ah' ight!

Miley Cyrus' pics were no more lez or racy than any of the hundreds of thousands of the same you might find on photo bucket or youtube. GOD FORBID her and her friend might have a serious silly side. (God forbid any of us might). Should they of been playing hop scotch in those photos? How about dressing up as Hannah Montana singing Hannah Montana songs? Yeah....

God bless you all. I know that I am a true cynic about our country these days. Yes, sometimes I am tempted to scream out, "Where is the life, where is the liberty, where is the love"? If I did, I would just be another weird guy in this weird world.

Hypocrisy is only one of the countless challenges WE face, you and me, not to mention the country. When this so called scandle passes and the comments of this post remain at zero, my mind will travel as it always has. Tomorrow I'll wake up and ask, "when will liberals stop advocating the 'right' to kill babies. When will conservatives stop guilting teen mothers into considering an abortion"? Tomorrow I'll ask the same question I did today, "What would Jesus do"? 'Tis time for us ALL to ask, "What should we do"?

I was watching John Stewart on Comedy Central's Daily Show the other night (honestly there was nothing on)!  Liberal and biased as he maybe, certainly just the flip face of Bill O Reily, I do agree with him on some points.  One being that our current administration sucks. 

I would like to share with y'all a very valid and interesting point he made recently.  As we all know the administration and the Attorney General are on the defensive concerning tactics of torture used at our military prison in Cuba (I'm too tired to spell the name of the base).  One of the more recently proven and talked about methods used there is water logging.  Now people, I really have no idea what the hell water logging is.  Every time I want to look it up I find myself forgetting and will google something else. However, anyone who does know what this is all agree that this is a form of torture! 

John Stewart recalled that following World Wart 2, Japanese prison administrators were tried for, convicted of, and executed for war crimes against American POWs.  One of the most damning parts of evidence against them was that they had used the Water Logging form of torture against our captured heroes. 

Well, here in good ole 2008 our administration is saying that water logging against the terror suspects in Cuba is justified to get information to avert a catastrophic attack.  
This is hypocrisy. 

The Japanese used the very same defense against AMERICAN prosecutors, yet it made no matter.  Darn tootin, I agree with them!  Nobody should get away with that kind of torture no matter what reasons right?  That is what the AMERICAN prosecutors said in the post WWII trials. 

John Stewart asked, "Why is it justified for us to commit this torture on our enemies when it wasn't okay for the Japs to use it on theirs?" Again, our administration answers that its justified to avoid, yada yadayada, you get the point. 

The great point that Stewart raised was that didn't the Japs use the SAME argument?  You may reply that we have a good enough reason to use this method. The Japs didn't. 
Yet, near the end of WWII, two atomic bombs were dropped on two Japan cities.  Could that be considered a ascatastrophe?  Is that the same sort of attack that we are hoping to avoid using water logging as a tool to interrogate terror suspects?

BOTTOM LINE:
The Japs used the method of torture known as water logging.  Their defense was that they wanted the kind of information as to find out in advance any planned assault against their country.

Our administration is allowing the same method of torture known as water logging.  Their defense is that they want the kind of information as to find out in advance any type of planned assault against our country.

Those Japanese who knew about or allowed these forms of torture were convicted of these as war crimes regardless of their defense.

My question is, Why does our administration feel that their same methods of torture are justified when just over sixty years ago representatives of our of country tried and convicted our enemies for allowing the very same torture for the very same reasons?

Another good point is that water logging and other forms of torture against their POWs evidently did not aid the Japanese in avoiding their catastrophic events. 
I fear and can honestly bet that there are a number of people out there who would wish the same terrible events upon our soil.  Those terrorists may or may not be in custody today.  Regardless, water logging is not only as just as cruel as it was during WWII but it is just as ineffective as it was then. 
I pray that whoever wins this election in November will end the torture any held in US custody.  I pray, I pray also, that whoever wins in November will also be more smart and more effective in our war against terror!
VOTE RON PAUL 2008!!
www.ronpaul2008.com

Yep, that's right!  While Hillary, Obama, McCain, and the Mayor were fighting over who could pour the most honey over Florida to attract the most flies, er, votes,  Ron Paul was found where you usually might find him-with the people.   And when I say people I don't mean Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, or Oprah....I'm talking about the REAL people.  
Why did Ron Paul visit the state of Maine two days ago? Though Florida carries dozens more electoral votes than itty bitty po dunk Mainel he decided to visit here anyhow.  Why? No other reason except that he knew this was a good place to find and meet some American people. 
I had the greatest honor and pleasure to see him speak in the Maine State House's hall of flags, right under the big green faded bronze dome.   The crowd itself was a melting pot of young and old of every race and sex.  The sort of crowd that you might see when a message is good enough to bring different backgrounds together.  And boy did we cheer! 

Paul was spending his second day in Maine. On the 27th he did a speaking at the University of Maine and then visited his campaign headquarters in this state in Portland.   On Monday, he visited our humble and small Capital.
 
I don't now where in America you live tonight.  But I can't imagine there is another community in all the land that was more needing of his message than here in Augusta, Maine.   Thanks to a government gone crazy with taxing and spending, taxing and spending with hardly two pennies coming back to strengthen our city, Augusta is a picture perfect image of an American city worn tired.  Many of our heroes serving in Iraq, serving in a war that serves no purpose but a lost cause.  Many have perished, returning only to rest in the soil of their home.
Maine prays for peace. Maine prays for less goverment and more employment. Maine prays the same hopes and dreams of our forefathers and patriots.

Ron Paul brought his message and hope for America to shine on Maine.    I could almost feel the liberals and even the war-profiting republicans tremble in their offices. 

Before us, Ron Paul slammed the Patriot Act.  He promised to bring all our troops home to their families.  He promised to deflate the head and belly of a national government.  He promised that he is the only candidate that promises to bring back peace and prosperity to the American people. His plan- by making the government accountable to the US constitution. 
He shared his plan to help our country onto a course of positive change.  It was not the gushy formless stuff that the other candidates produce.  His promises were real, his commitment to achieve these goals are just his virtue. 
I got to shake his hand and tell him thank you.  I knew that without at least a half a million in my left hand that I would never be able to shake Hillary's or Obama's or Romney's right hand. 
I want to again thank Mr. Paul for visiting our small and desperate state.  He did not have to.  Not one report by the national media covered his trip here.  But to Mainers including myself...we will never forget his visit. 
God bless, Ron Paul, for he will never forget us. 

Hate has many heads yet wears no disguises.  It can be seen through past any so called good intention or white hood. Christians say that the devil's biggest trick was to prove there isn't a hell. Hate bears tricks of its own.
It tricks us into believing that it is an epidemic limited only to those characters from the film, Mississippi Burning. 
Most Americans feel comforted and assured that they are spotless of hate's curse and destruction.  Americans have been misled to believing that if they get rid of their Southern accents, or protest public displays of the Confederate flag, or help fabricate social myths about Southern heritage then they are null of hate and washed in peace and love. 
I write to the SPL this morning to protest any form of hate and ignorance with the understanding that the SPL shares this principal.
I was born and raised in Northeast Texas but now live in Maine. Unfortunately but not surprisingly my home state is less remembered for its history of being its own nation for nine years or that the first African American to graduate from West Point Military Academy was born in Texas. Instead it is more remembered for Jasper.

As you may learn through the course of this letter, I am a passionate student of American history.
I was a member of the North Texas brigade of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and am now a member of an SCV camp in Gettysburg, PA. This membership is upon the relation and honor of my great great grandfather, James K Polk Tims who served in Company D of the 37th Mississippi known as the Enterprise Tigers. He and his two brothers fought through the Atlanta and Tennessee campaigns of 1864. The three were captured and sent to Camp Douglas in Chicago in cattle cars. James and his brother, John survived only by some miracle. Jackson Tims, my great great uncle did not.

The purpose of my letter this morning is to express duel disgust and sadness of two-forms of hate. They may seem very separate and on opposing lines, but hate is the great equalizer.
First of all, as a Christian who believes that we should, "Love thy neighbor as oursellves," and as an American who believes Thomas Jefferson's words, "All men are created equal,"  I denounce the hate and its fuel of ignorance that has guided countless acts of terrorism against African Americans by several groups, namely the Kue Klux Klan. Though they are not the vast empire they once were, their principals of evil continue to fester in one corner or another in every state.
I am outraged that groups like the KKK have long misused the endeared battleflag that the Confederate soldier proudly rallied behind through the campaigns of the War Between the States.
Not surprisingly the majority of the people that slander the Confederate battleflag by misusing it as a standard of racism and those who condem it actually know little (if anything) about the flag's true beginning. 
The Confederate battleflag was born in the autumn of 1861.  It's creator was General PGT Beauregard, the Confederate hero of Fort Sumter and Manassas. The first Confederate battleflags bore only twelve stars.  It was not until two months after the flag's creation that Kentucky, on November 20th, became the thirtheenth state to secede and be adopted into the Confederacy.  Only then was the thirtheenth star added. 
The lack of understanding, intellegence, and truth are the ultimate causes of hate and prejudice.  Too often, both the bigots who fly the flag and the bigots who condem it believe that the Confederate battleflag was the flag of the Southern Confederacy.  However, the battleflag was neither an offical or unoffical Confederate symbol.  Null of any depth of historical knowledge, the true national flag of the Confederacy that had switched designs three times during the Confederacy's existence would not be recognized by the misinformed.
General Beauregard created the Confederate battleflag to be used only by the Confederate Army and Navy. 

All that requires to know for a fact that the men and women who served under the Confederate battleflag for four years did not fight for slavery or for racial supremacy is for people to take some time and read the memoirs and accounts of those that did follow that flag.  Many of their accounts and autobiographies still exist.  They know better than anyone their own cause.  Why people wish to research a people's cause by not reading what those people had written on it beats me.

The Confederate battleflag stood at the center of every Southern unit from Texas to Virginia.  The young and old men in these units who were not only white but also African American, Native American, and immigrants wrote in thousands of letters and great memoirs that their cause was to form a new goverment fashioned by the ideas and principals that the U.S. had been formed in 1776.  Thousands of others who did not put much regard in politics fought only to keep the large lumbering Union armies from destroying their homes and their families.  For some it was a war to defend the right of secession and self-goverment, for others it was a fight to defend one's home.  For all, either was cause enough to follow the Confederate battleflag.  For none of them was the preservation of slavery included in their sacrifice.  When you review all the woe and sacrifice that the soldiers and civilians went through during that war, you will begin to understand that a cause such as slavery would and could not substain them.  Especily when slavery only concerned 6% of the population.  Especily considering that the average Southerner distrusted any rich property owners including slave owners.  To fight for their rights would have been unheard of, laughable. 
I challenge all to read the accounts and memoirs of those who first flew that flag.  It is so clear that the Confederate flag was virtually stolen and its true meaning manipulated.

Those segregationists then and those today do not fly the flag to, "preserve the legacy of the Confederacy and to keep its spirit alive." No, you do not hear rhetoric like that. The voices of the men and women who flew the Confederate flag in battle and on the home front during the War between the States contrast clearly from the voices of those who carry the flag as a vanguard of racism.
The hearts of those who fought under the Confederate battleflag and the hearts of those of us who preserve their heritage are not connected was those black hearts that misuse the battleflag for their passions motivated by ignorance.

The other form of hate and ignorance I protest is that inflicted upon by the broad front of special interest groups, lobbyists, politicians, the entertainment industry, the department of education, and a majority of historical biographers classed as revisionists. They perpetuate myths and stereotypes. Worst of all, these who claim to be sworn enemies of racism, are actually putty in the hands of racists. Rather than opposing and protesting racist movements' use of the Confederate flag, they agree,"There is no reason to question why the Klan flies the Confederate flag. After all, they are intelligent enough to know what their own flag stands for, right"? 
Ignorance is what keeps most Americans from equally defending the Confederate flag as they would any other symbol of sacrifice  in American history.
The ignorance of the majority of Americans concerning the Confederate flag's true meaning is actually a direct effect from all the groups I mentioned above.
The problem is, Americans are readily easy to believe and take as fact anything that a majority in power or high position tells them.

Instead of studying what hundreds of Confederate veterans and civilians wrote on why they created and followed their battleflag,  most people allow their prejudice to become fact. The media, politicians, and humans' rights groups settle for the story written by the Klan instead rather than the truth.
Can we not research, discover, and take the truth and declare independence of thought from the ignorance fed to us in grade school, on the news, and by Hollywood?
As much as I am against the Kue Klux Klan and all that they have done, have believed, and also their treatment of my ancestor's flag, I am also disgusted by the very public and political acts of hate against my ancestors and their flag. Both the NAACP and the Kue Klux Klan share a common ignorance and misrepresentation of history. Both distort and dishonor a period of my family's history that I am proud of.
Currently other western countries mock our own because of how little of our own history our students know.  This embarrassment is evident concerning a lack of knowledge of any period in our history but is most true regarding our lack of knowledge of the truth of what the Southern States fought to accomplish in 1861.  This is a slap in the face to those of us who are accepting and knowledgeable about our ancestors' role in the War between the States.  And for those of us who are just as proud of our Confederate veteran ancestors as we are of those who had served just as honorably in World War II.
There are thousands of members of the NAACP today. Between 1861 and 1865 there were near 90,000 documented free African Americans that had fought for the Southern States alongside white veterans. Because many of the records of Confederate enlistment were destroyed or lost, there may be thousands of other African Americans who served that were not documented. Although the U.S. Army did not allow African Americans to serve in its army until 1863, the Confederate army had enlisted African Americans since the first shot was fired. In fact, the first Union officer killed in battle was brought down by the bullet of an African American sharpshooter of the 1st North Carolina.
Although in the Northern army, African Americans were forced to serve in segregated units, a policy that didn't end until after W.W.II, there are hundreds of surviving accounts that testify that Confederate African American veterans served in the same ranks as the whites.
One testimony was from the Chief Inspector of the United States Sanitary Commission, Dr. Lewis Steiner. He wrote this account after viewing Confederate soldiers marching through his Northern community during the 1862 Maryland campaign. "Over 3,000 Negroes must be included in this number [Confederate troops]. The Negroes had arms, rifles, muskets, sabers, bowie-knives, dirks, etc.....and were manifestly an integral portion of the Southern Confederate Army."
In September 1861, over a year and a half before African Americans were allowed to enlist in the Northern Armies, Frederick Douglas himself wrote in the fourth issue of his publication, Douglas' Monthly that, "there are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate Army - as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops."
By slamming Confederate symbols, many members of advocate groups such as the NAACP are also slamming their own ancestors.

I shared the above quotes from history with you so that this letter would not be rebuked as one written by a so called, "neo-Confederate," or ,"revisionist," or even the term, "lost cause myth maker." I am neither a revisionist or a neo anything. I am a proud American citizen with family serving in Iraq. My respect and compassion for the Confederate flag is equal to that of my feelings towards the other symbols in American history including the Declaration of Independence pinned by Thomas Jefferson and the, "I have a Dream," speech by Martin Luther King JR.

The true myth makers and revisionists are those who choose to ignore and rewrite facts like those I mentioned above. They do this for many reasons including aims to solidify and perpetuate political gain, public recognition, or any other cause self interest in nature. These actions are never worth their goals. Those who rewrite the history of the origins of the Confederate battleflag or do not stand up to racist groups that use the flag, and do not link arms with groups that advocate heritage not hate, create nothing but division. They create division, ignorance, prejudice, and in one of its many forms, hate.

I expect and hope that leading human rights' organizations such as the NAACP will promote a tolerance towards those in our nation who choose to express their pride in a piece of history that is unique to their family or state. I expect and hope that these groups to not be limited in fighting only one form of hate but also against any other form it may become. For any form of hate is as destructive as the next.
Lastly, I hope and expect that the people will unite rather than divide. Unite with those who are active in preserving history to both educate the public on the true origins of the Confederate flag.  Let us also stand together to protest the flag's misuse by evil racist cells. 

If Hillary, Romney, McCain, or Obama were given a truth potion and then asked what their true platforms are, the'd all agree-
"I can't imagine a higher dream or goal than becoming president of the US.  I would be the luckiest person in the whole world!  I will lead many, I will be remembered by many, I will truly set my mark on this world.  I will be in such an important position of power. I will be invisible. It is my destiny." 
These candidates are all about me, me, me.  They are running for their destiny, not America's.  Do you think that any of them living at the White Mansion on 1600 Penn Ave will labor every day for the millions of Americans with no claim to fame and hold no more influence than one vote?  For these people, the presidency is a prize, an opportunity for greatness. 

I honestly pity the naive fool who believes that any of these republicans or democrats want to pursue any agenda that would not reflect upon their greatness. 

Just recently, all the candidates except for Ron Paul have stated to the press that they do not feel that the Confederate flag has any place on the grounds of the South Carolina Statehouse.  They said this because they are counting on, hoping for, relying on South Carolina voters to be ignorant of their own history.  Instead of telling South Carolina the truth of their heritage, that the flag did not stand for slavery and that the flag was a symbol of independence and a revolution that many South Carolinians fought and died for, the candidates milk politically correct ignorance and stereotypes as a platform.  
Those candidates use the historically incorrect racial myth surrounding the flag to create another issue of race and to divide the votes by race to secure their place on the side with the greatest influence.   Such is the manipulation of the media over the candidates and the candidates over the media and both the media and the candidates over us.

Both the republican and democrat candidates are fighting over power and prestige. 
If Ron Paul is not nominated by any party I will of course boycott the election.  Though Paul is as human as the others, he is the only one with a plan, the only one with the balls of reform, the only one politically incorrect enough to champion the interests of the people rather than the focusing on how awesome being president will look on his resume. 
We have owed the nominations and elections of corrupted promise breakers to the billions of dollars they used to manipulate their messages and also to the billion dollar media cooperations that skillfully picked which candidates to cover. 
I beg of America to not allow the self interests of the media and what favors are shared at the top to decide our vote this year.  I pray that America will not allow the self interests of candidates with millions in their pockets and stars in their eyes fool us for one-second. 

We need to shut those people up and let our voice be the only voice heard.  Who else but me is sick of hearing the candidates in their unending sinking performances disguised as promises. 

The American people needs pump their fists and make the administration and the government slave tirelessly for our interests for once. 
The only way Ron Paul won't win the nomination is if the people let their votes be decided by certain, select, and elite candidates that are chosen gracefully by the media for our viewing pleasure regardless whether they are as qualified as the snubbed candidates or not. 

All I ask of my fellow Americans this time around is to vote for the candidate that offers the most change to the table and not to be fooled by the Hollywood performances of others. 

I mean HOW MANY TIMES have we heard these same lines, promises, and bull in the past?  If voting for candidates that are most popular with the media and their party has never brought reform, promises kept, or changes in the past, why should we go that way again?? 
America is suffering one crises after another on every major issue, so are we prepared to vote the easiest and most predictable way as we've always done, that never brought any results?  Or can we instead bring a man like Ron Paul to center stage by our power alone, without that of money or the media.  Can we actually put a man in office who will actually bring real change to a country so long without it? 
LIBERTY AMERICA, USE IT.  FORGET THE POLLS, FORGET THOSE CANDIDATES TRYING TO FOOL YOU TO ASSURE THEIR OWN POWER. FORGET EVERYTHING BUT YOUR LIBERTY! Research Ron Paul, find out how you can help, spread the word.  DEMAND THAT YOU AND NO ONE ELSE WILL BE HEARD!

i got a comment on my second Ron Paul blog post from a fell named Karmel Fudge.  Rather than reminding me of something Hershey like, your user name reminds me of homo sexuality. Don't ask. 
Also I am still trying to figure out what hominem attacks means.  It sounds like a Bushism, another shock and awe!  (You should have included an aka, friend).

I do agree with your last point.  Ron Paul is nothing like the other Republicans. THANK GOD. 
It just beats me why in the hell most of the Republicans in this race are not making sure that they seem as un-Bush like as a spelling bee.   Can they not hear the millions of Americans screaming for, demanding, appealing for CHANGE???  What exackly does McCain and the other goons imagine what we mean by change?  If they figure out that we want change from every single thing that Bush has done to this country (and other countries) in these past eight years, then they may have a chance (if they heed it). 
Mr. Fudge,  if you had more intellegence in your brain you would have also included the Demorats in your like-Bush charge.  Yes, I said it. 
The only difference between Obama/Clinton and Bush is that the former two are pro killing baby American citizens while Bush is for killing Iriaqi citizens.  Pro-Choice and Shock and Awe have something in common-death.  Except on that issue, I have seen or heard nothing radicaly different between those dems and our president.  In fact, search and search as I may, neither Democrat candidate has any plan at all about pulling out of Iraq.  WTF do they want to do during their four years in office?  Obama and HIllary seem more concerned with how they look in front of the camara and crowds, which catch phraises are funnier/emotional/meaningful, and what black celeberty to hoot for them next. 
America is in a crises.  All our freedoms are in jeporardy, our whole southern border is bending under the force of a shameless invasion, a thousand dead troops every year, taxes are rising, the American dollar is loosing,  the middle class citizen is history...and the best Clinton can do is conger up some tears in a bakery?? The best Obama can do is make sure we forget that his middle name is Hussein?  COME ON!!!  Is this Oprah's America? Is this McCain's America? 
Who honestly believes that any of these show stars can bring strength and reform to this country?  Don't be so blinded by their coverage that you cannot give our country the gift of an honest and worthy vote. 
The media, Clinton, Obama, McCain, Romney, and the Mayor can do their billion dollar tangos every night at 6pm, but I will bring the message to the roots, to the people, best little me can. 

I am sick of people defending Obama or McCain or Hillary....none of those people give a damn about you or me.  The most important thing in their lives is their faces, their white teeth, their proud smiles, their starry eyes.   They play to the people as if we were dolls.   If we were the democracy that we were born to be over two hundred forty years ago, the might of the people would make the candidate and our goverment quever and submit to our EVERY need.  The first black president, the first woman president, the mayor of 9/11 WILL ANY OF THESE TITLES BRING OUR TROOPS HOME, RESTORE THE MIDDLE CLASS, PROTECT THE SECOND ADMN,  BRING HEALTH CARE TO ALL THE ELDERLY OR BULK UP OUR FREEDOM AND PRIVACY RIGHTS?
Ron Paul's message is clear.  He has a plan.  He is radical.  He not only says change but he has every solution to bring it.   His mission is FOR America.   We need to give him a chance.  For if we dally this next election off to the biggest celebrity candidate with the softest skin and the most convinsing SCRIPT, then we will be no better off than we were in 2000.
We will be no better off than we were before 1776.
INDEPENDENCE, declare it...make it!  Ron Paul for president.

Friends bear with me cause I reckon I have the flu!  Well, its nothing to cry over in a bakery over, I'll live!

First off, thank you to those who left comments on my first blog post yesterday.  Ron Paul is defently the only one with enough spine to throw some tea overboard.  Ron Paul is the only one with a prayer to re-declare our independence from the tyranny, lies, and injustice brought not by King George 232 years ago but by President George these past eight years.   Yes, he is snubbed from the majority of prime time debates and the media gives us only the most limited glimpses into his agenda.   However, isn't it time that American citizens take leadership of their own and stop letting the media choose which candidates will win the election based on their choises to air the most?
Seriously, are Americans that lazy?  If we the people decide this year to declare our independence from the influence of a biased media then I am confident that we will carry a candidate of our own that shall declare independence from eight years of hell. 
The media's agenda for covering only certain candidates more than others clearly does not reflect the angedas of the voters.  So why then do we allow popular media to help us decide on issues that we the people rather than the media giants live with day to day?
I am afraid the answer to this is clear-the easiest way to decide who the vote for is to turn on CNN or FOX.   And I know this is true.  If our Forefathers ever imagined that in the future our decisions would be based on which candidate had the highest poll ratings or got the most attention from a mult-million dollar media cooperation they would have admitted that their revolution was in vain!
Now someone will surely raise this question, "How can we vote any other way but for the candidates that we know the most thanks to media coverage"?   Well, if somebody like Hitler was as popular with the media as Clinton or Obama, would you still vote for him?  (Don't answer that.)
Come on people, I am a lazy guy myself.  It didn't take a lot of work to really get to know Ron Paul and his mission.   In fact, I believe that if every American, Republican or Democrat took the time to visit www.ronpaul2008.com that Mr. Paul would win the election in a landslide. 

Lets make this election different.  Lets debunk and cast our vote away from the multi-million dollar media and the multi-milion dollar beautiful candidates that they all but elected.  They report and we decide, ha! We will decide based on our conscience rather than what they report for once. 
Take back your vote, America.  Take back your right, America.  Take back America, America!