Deedy Drunk?

Nobody knows if Christopher Deedy was legally drunk at 2:30 AM when he shot dead Kollin Elderts in a crowded Waikiki McDonalds.

Surely both men had been drinking.

Deedy admits shooting Elderts. But because Deedy was an off-duty U.S. Federal employee, he was treated specially.

Reportedly (link), Deedy refused to take a blood-alcohol test.

Instead, while in custody Deedy might have demanded to be alcohol tested in order to clear suspicion of drunkenness. He did not... perhaps he dared not.

Inexperience, deadly force & alcohol are a terrible combination. Don't take your gun to town.

No More Yankee War

 
US President Barack Obama is required by international law to prosecute war crimes. He has instead collaborated and excused the criminals.

Remember the Iraq War: Secretary of State Colin Powell's assurances & certain knowledge (link) of Iraqi chemical weapons -- with other "weapons of mass destruction" -- supposedly justified a war, bypassing permission by the United Nations Security Council. Later we learned no such weapons existed. It was all based on bullshit, supposedly one refugee in Germany nicknamed "Curveball" ... Powell, Bush, Blair & others responsible still simply snigger.

Now another outrage & pack of lies is being constructed around Syria. We can't afford more war.  We're still paying for past dumb wars.

Do President Obama & John Kerry & assorted others hope to test US guns & bombs? Are they individually held to ransom and forced toward militarist misadventures?

They'll accomplish loss of the White House next election & the promise of more rabid Republicans to the Supreme Court.

No More Yankee War !

No More Yankee War !

Democracy Gassed

The U.S. government and its minions don't hesitate using corrosive chemical agents on peaceful protestors. Here's video of shameful violence at the University of California at Davis (18 November 2011; video here)

UC Davis ultimately apologized and paid compensation to those gassed.

One dumb Fox News commentator, Megyn Kell, belittled the attack, claiming pepper spray "is essentially a food product."

Viva !  Democracy USA

Chemical Extermination

Is the Syrian government guilty of using chemical agents to exterminate people?

We don't know.

John Kerry doesn't know. Pres. Obama doesn't know. Eager military supply companies now demanding the U.S. intervene in Syria surely do not know.

We do know the USA itself used chemical poisons to kill hundreds of convicts over the past 50 years. So-called "lethal injection" can be horrendous (link). Since Obama became US President (from 20 Jan 2009 until 5 Aug 2013), 200 people have been chemically exterminated in the USA without benefit of a participating physician.

We've also used napalm, depleted uranium & phosphorous bombs over the past decades on foreign peoples, both rural & urban, killing unknown hundreds - more likely thousands - of non-combatants.

Nobody has been prosecuted for such overseas crimes.

It's hard to believe America mourns Syria's most recent dead. Judging from past misdeeds, it's as likely we're partly responsible. In any event, more illegal killing is not the path we should follow.  No More ... Yankee War.

No more Yankee war.

Sweden as a Poodle

Sweden obeys the USA like a pet dog.



After the Snowden revelations, Sweden's PM Fredrik Reinfeldt & Foreign Minister Carl Bildt know their government keeps few secrets from America's secret police. But they could complain about the range of people with access to Sweden's strategic & defense intel.

US government outsourcing opens Sweden's industrial infrastructure to worldwide prying eyes. Perhaps anyone can buy a peek.

And it's the same for other nations whose secrets are tapped. We only know Chelsea Manning can't watch us.

Will Freddie complain next week when master visits? He's such a polite little poodle! ...one of Barry's favorite dozen.

Shitler

Herr Adolf Hitler is misunderstood.

Sure he was an evil little fucker. But one man didn't create the murderous system of National Socialism. Even all his demonic lieutenants with their militaristic uniforms could not make war at home & abroad without the willing assistance of a wider population, (pardon to use German), das Volk.

Volksgemeinschaft is alive & well in militarist nations. It's often joined by feelings of victimization, Dolchstoßlegende ...

Surely many recognize they're being played as fools. We need to look deeper for the puppet masters. Hitler was front man for military industrialists. Look past Hitler to find Hermann Göring, Alfried Krupp, and other smarmy militarists.

These weasels looked for the scapegoat & hid behind patriotism. A familiar story today...

March On Military Debt

The clamor against militarism is not loud enough.

Many people believe money should be better spent on other services, but do little or nothing. Of course, the worst victims of militarism can no longer speak.

One problem is U.S. militarism has not paid its debts. Not only is there huge deficit spending to fuel the military, but human costs are under-reported and discounted.

Many troops return home seriously damaged, only to be ignored. Those are the lucky - the clearly injured are considered unsightly & distasteful: wounded cripples are blemishes on any cool community. A daily shave for each good-for-nothing bum? One in four homeless in America is a veteran.

Military debts are killing us all.

March On Military Debt.
Perhaps we can trigger change when a few million people walk and wheel themselves to the leafy neighborhoods of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and other militarist con artists.

Bradley Manning

Read Bradley Manning's statement (link) on facing 35-years in military prison.

Bradley Manning could not have worked within the system for change. The system is inherently corrupt. Militarism feeds itself first. The US military undermines democracy at home & abroad.

Manning's leaks exposed assorted terrible crimes. The government summarized its prosecution claiming Bradley Manning was a self-aggrandizing traitor, though he tried to keep his actions confidential. Security might still be searching for an unknown whistleblower if not for disingenuous ex-con Adrian Lamo.

The 2001 anthrax attacks (link) killed five people, and may have been the work of a highly decorated U.S. Defense Department employee, but subsequent investigations were bungled & inconclusive, with inexcusable destruction of key evidence (the Ames anthrax archive). Meanwhile, blame was directed at Iraq, and fueled arguments for the US invasion (link) (link). Since then, many billions of dollars were spent on biowarfare-related operations. A Wall Street Journal article of 15 Oct 2001 (non-subscribers can read it here) discussed a state-sponsored anthrax threat. The WSJ article claimed "The leading supplier suspect has to be Iraq."  This whole affair is now powerfully ignored.  Why?  The leading supplier suspect is the USA (specifically, USAMRIID, the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, MD). Perhaps a rogue operative, perhaps not; we may never know. But the implications are profound. And as FBI budgets balloon, we're treated to admissions in the recent Bulger trial of systemic corruption in Boston's FBI office. In summary: this is an alarmingly broken system, where unprosecuted responsibility for unexamined grave problems goes far beyond Brad Manning.

Let's be crystal clear: Manning was a very junior, rather unstable person. Only a broken ill-conceived system would place this guy in a sensitive analytic position, with access to highly classified & secret data. Manning did not sell information. We can assume, however, that America's enemies & competitors would like to study confidential materials; we must assume they now access our data.

There is no doubt that Manning provided a huge service by  drawing attention to lax security. Efforts to punish Manning should instead be directed toward reform & revision of data collection & data handling procedures. 

... &  Let's Work for World Peace.

Boiled Frog

America's public servants have developed (link) "an aggressive, militarized SWAT mentality, with officers being armed, trained, and psyched to treat common citizens as enemies."

Will things get better? What can be done?