Part I. Flood Murder: Victims Squatters –
Killers Government And Squatters Themselves
[Ist of a Series]
by Edwin A. Sumcad
Stories of death by drowning because of flood in the Philippines caused by serial storms are heartbreaking, to say the least. Actually, it was murder by flood through neglect, corruption and incompetent National Leadership.
Victims by drowning are squatters … but the murderers are the corrupt and incompetent government and its accomplices -- the squatters themselves.
There is no doubt that it is because of government neglect, corruption and incompetence that flood murder is occurring in the Philippines, and why flooding in the Island Republic has a vicious way of claiming its victims.
Authorities don’t mind poachers and trespassers of government woodlands; they have no way of understanding or too incompetent to comprehend the need to safeguard and preserve them as part of the patrimony of the nation.
Illegal logging of the green mountain forests of the country, and wanton destruction of Philippine vegetation by entrepreneurs that pay tong to corrupt politicians to mock the law and stash away their hidden profits, had caused the erosion of soil when it rains creating a flooding effect downhill … landslides of mud that turn the land and the swollen rivers below into a churning sea of rising murky waters.
Squatters murder squatters by drowning. Colonies of squatters are the number one violators of anti-littering laws; desperate, the squatters live an undisciplined and disorderly lifestyle, unmindful of hygiene and cleanliness that the neighborhood requires. They just throw their garbage in the street – their trash and refuse clogged the drainage and their shanties constructed by the side of canals and inland waterways, blocked the flow of water into the sea, thus causing flooding that kill people – mostly called “Informal Settlers” -- by drowning.
“The number of squatter families represents 21 percent of the estimated 2.6 million households in Metro Manila. One in every five squatting families lives in danger areas such as riverbanks, floodways, roads, aqueducts and under bridges …” These are the victims of their counterpart that clog up and jammed the drainage, and blocked the waterways turning towns into overnight inland seas, sometimes larger than Lake Erie – to use a metaphor -- when heavy rains come and people mysteriously disappear into the belly of dirty and angry swirling waters.
This shocker is culled from MMIAC’s report [Metro Manila Inter-Agency Committee on Informal Settlers].
“Informal Settlers” is the new deodorized name for squatters. “Squatters” is a mean-spirited term from Hell identifying invaders of private and government owned land and space making them their own permanent residence.
Opportunist politicians running the Government “tolerate” and to a certain extent even “encourage” illegal squatting because of the squatters’ votes they need during election time. Thus the Government and squatters cannot accuse each other of committing this flood murder because in this heartrending tragedy, both are in pare delicto. But there is no question that bad politics, corruption, incompetent Government and the mindless squatters themselves had sent Metro Manila’s flood victims to their watery grave.
As of this writing, a bigger hurricane code-named “Lupit” is sighted about a thousand kilometers approaching Aparri, Cagayan, Northern Luzon, Philippines, even as people are still dying across the country due to the deadly typhoons Ketsana and Parma [international names] that just took their toll of destruction and loss of human lives if not by drowning, by flood-caused injuries and diseases.
By the time this super-hurricane hits the country, our statistics of casualties and mega-size devastation shall have been updated, and plea for international donations and relief worldwide shall have intensified.
This countdown of the dead and the dying may be horrifying to contemplate when Halloween’s 31st of October is approaching … the day Evil is supposed to rule the world. Scary reports of thousands of Filipinos dead through drowning and still missing, and three hundred thousand people already displaced by the storm are choking the foreign and local Media that are currently outdoing each other in reporting one of the most ghastly news stories ever told.
On the humanitarian side, frantic calls for international relief indicated that in the squatter colonies of Metro Manila, the devastation, suffering and agony of the victims in certain stricken areas were beyond monetary estimation.
It may still surprise a lot of people to know – most likely they don’t know yet, until they get hold of a copy of PAR and read this column] that the root-cause of this regularly occurring annual Philippine catastrophe is not necessarily the deadly tempest of the angry god from above that brought whirlwind to wrought havoc to the burgeoning Metropolis and poured down torrential rain to cause rivers to overflow turning the flat land into a sea of mud and dirty waters. The real cause is a combination of the squatters’ delinquency and disorderly lifestyle, government apathy, corruption and incompetence that viciously sent victims to their watery grave.
When people are killed this way, the killing is actually murder by drowning. And the principal murderer is not the wind or the rain but the inutile National Leadership that the so-called unthinking and emotionally-driven “people power” of the street [EDSA] had installed through the use of force, threat and intimidation orchestrated by conspiring political opportunists that when in power do not only ambush the national coffer at will but also miserably lacks the required statecraft, know-how or the art of governing or managing the affairs of the state.
In governance, the National Leadership is like fish in dry land. Wanting of knowledge and lack of wisdom and having a low self-esteem, it is impossible for them to solve the problems of squatters and the eternally occurring flood that do not only kill people but also destroy the country … it is just plain, downright impossible!
Think about it this way and understand this depressing situation: The country had fallen into the Dark Side that Alfred Hitchcock’s FearNet in television and cinema specializes, catching stricken viewers spellbound who later on need to undergo a shock therapy. Typical of a shock plot that Hitchcock stories are noted for, administering the Government is nothing more than just a great opportunity to get filthy rich. Members of the presidential entourage that take control of Government through the exercise of mob power in EDSA, are self-re-enforcing partners in massive corruption. Their aim of governance is not to govern but to gobble up what’s up for grabs.
Just recently [earlier last year], China’s giant ZTE telecom corporation that won the bid for the Philippine online communication project was reportedly involved in a shady deal with the corrupt Manila Government. ZTE spokesman Howard Xue denied involvement in the $330 million contract which was overpriced by $130 million demanded by Jose Miguel “Mike” Arroyo, the president’s husband, and his accomplice ex-elections Commissioner Benjamin Abalos as “kickback”.
This “kickback” negotiation was so rotten the heady smell of it reached the nose of the Philippine Congress where investigation was subsequently conducted. When the dirty finger caught in the cookie jar was exposed, EDSA president Arroyo, visibly in panic, immediately scrapped off the deal.
This is just an example of the finger of corruption caught in the cookie jar. Other fingers that got away with it, had stolen millions if not billions of dollars at the expense of the Government run by “people power” opportunists, and woe to millions of the starving poor whose cookie jars are systematically emptied even before these are filled up by their hard earnings that go to the Government after paying their taxes.
The country loses $2.5 million to corruption every day! Think about it, even if you are about to cry with tears of blood in your eyes. The World Bank reported that this loot is one-fifth of the national budget or 3.8% of GDP. Imagine how large this is compared to the take of corruption in other corrupt countries the world over. This corruption-stricken country ranks first in the size of massive poverty that grossly committed larceny of public funds creates.
That’s how immensely colossal corruption is in the Philippines once dubbed by the nation’s national hero Dr. Jose Rizal as the Pearl of the Orient Seas because of its beauty, tranquility and rich natural endowments people of the Orient covet, and now people running the Government rob with impunity!
At the aftermath of the typhoons that ravaged the country, some P12 billion calamity funds have been currently made available – meaning public money up for grabs. Experienced crooks in the Government have to be clever enough in planning and designing ways and means on how to steal this money with the least of suspicions.
Created was this Special National Public-Private Sector Reconstruction Commission to oversee how this fund is disposed. It is staffed with prominent characters in Philippine society. It is chaired by businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan, and co-chaired by no less than Cardinal Ricardo Vidal, Archbishop of Cebu himself. He is supposed to be the vicar of God that teaches morality and exorcise the stricken country of the demons of corruption. Who would think that this Emissary of God would steal the people’s money?
That’s precisely the point why such trustworthy-looking Commission was cleverly created headed by the Holy Ambassador of God, if you happen to know what I mean.
Anyway, opportunist politicians who have such great opportunity to steal, need tons of money for next year’s presidential election. If they are going to take a heist, they have to be sure it is not a miss or a mess.
Elections of this kind are traditionally run by goons, guns and gold. Goons they already have. Guns they already have. Gold by the truckload they still need to have to buy the election as usual.
When election approaches, fingers get itchier to poke at the cookie jar. In 2004, some P728 million budgets for fertilizer easily disappeared a couple of months or so before the election. It reportedly went to President Arroyo’s political allies. She “won” the election.
Would the calamity fund also disappear and surface at the hands of the survivors and families of the flood victims that are selected “eligible” to receive for political reason? If not, then the elite calamity fund Commission gets the public’s ire. Unless the co-chairmen deemed to be above suspicion are involved in pocketing Judas’ pieces of silver before they hang themselves at a nearby tree, the crooks always get away with it.
They may be are too dumb to understand why people die by drowning when the typhoon comes or too incompetent to handle the squatter and flood problems of Metro Manila, but when comes to how government funds end up in their pocket, no … definitely they are not that retarded!
In fact they are smarter than the Sly Fox in the sad story of the unsuspecting Red Hen – prey of the wild that always ends up as chicken dinner to the wise and cunning characters of the woods, especially to predators in the precipitous if not treacherous jungle of Metro Manila. #
© Copyright Edwin A. Sumcad. PAR access November 9, 2009.
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Part II: Incompetence And Flood Of
Corruption When Typhoons Come
[2nd and final series]
by edwin a. sumcad
You read in Part I of this editorial report that in the Philippines flood is actually “murder”. The victims are squatters. Murderous criminals are corrupt politicians running the government, and their partners in crimes are the squatters themselves.
Wallowing in extreme poverty – the Philippine Smokey Mountain is in the Internet viewed worldwide – squatters lived a desperate and undisciplined way of life that breeds monstrous floods.
For example, millions of dwellers in the squatter colonies of Metro Manila and peripheral urban centers – temporary squatting settlers invading and permanently occupying government and private lands – litter the streets with garbage or throw their waste and refuse in nearby canals clogging the drainage and choking aqueducts and waterways, thus preventing the heavy deposit of rain to flow into the sea.
When torrential rains come, the flood that rises to the rooftop turns the town into swelling and swirling seas of murky waters that carry houses away and send victims to their watery grave.
There are no government flood prevention programs whatsoever. Only a river of tears for the dead and massive destruction of infrastructures accompanied by a cry for international relief are plentiful for the regular yearly visits of hurricanes and typhoons that spare no one.
The rape of the nation’s virgin forests by illegal loggers creates dangerous mudslides when the rain comes. Massive devastation and reports of high incidence of death are attributed to this menace of flowing dirt, deadwoods and mud that come down from the mountainside with the flood.
And in the case of the squatter problem, for political expediency, squatters, mostly jobless from nearby provinces are reportedly encouraged by politicians running the government rather than discouraged to come in droves to the city, in order to get their political support. Metro Manila is the center of power. Politicians that control the set of national government in Metro Manila control the whole country.
There are no government funds that the country badly needs, to address these dual major problems that occur year in and year out. And yet, worldwide news reports documented not just a petit larceny but a mind-boggling grand larceny that sucks the country dry … the nation loses $2.5 million to corruption everyday!
Observers of the Philippine scene are of this general belief – and this writer totally agrees -- that the national leadership is not that of such a standard or quality fit to govern or run the daily affairs of the state.
The fragmented Military whose loyalty is not to the country but to politicians likely to succeed in grabbing power is said to be plotting a coup d’etat and counter coup d’etat everyday. EDSA “people power” exercised by goons and mobs in the street could change the government any day. No political stability exists in the country.
Legitimate foreign investors are scared to commit a long-term investment in this ill-fated nation; they skip the Philippines and put their money in nearby ASEAN countries – Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, etc. – turning them into Southeast Asia’s prosperous NIC [newly industrialized countries]. The Philippines – where the first nuclear plant was established in that part of the world to jumpstart a turbocharger for economic development in the Far East – was left behind.
Instead, the IMF and IBRD had reported that the Philippines became one of the world’s poorest countries next to Bangladesh and similar impoverished sanctuaries of corruption.
It is not just corruption but also incompetence in governance that causes this great disappointment if not a haunting nightmare, to Filipinos disenfranchised by gnawing poverty.
There is a nagging question that swings in the pendulum of general apathy and neglect of the commonweal through faulty governance that drives millions of Filipino college graduates, young and old, to slave themselves as gravediggers, gardeners, drivers, bodyguards, “yaya”, housekeepers, servants or chambermaids to seek their employers and masters in foreign lands so that they can earn a decent livelihood and support a dying economy: What can one expect if the country is economically non-productive and barren because it is run by who-cares [?] kind of administrators, inexperienced and corrupt power-hungry opportunists?
The world sees popular actors and actresses whose Hollywood-styled careers in the cinema is deeply embroiled in politics [power-grabbers and headline-huggers], literally seductive bundles of pulchritude that charmed the crazed movie-going public into voting their screen, radio and television idols to elective public offices, including clowns and court-jesters from the entertainment world; include scions of incompetent and corrupt political dynasties that ruled the land for so long but knew nothing about the affairs of the state except in mastering their abominable expertise in the art of poking a finger in the cookie jar … out of this ridiculous if not tragic scenario, what in heavens name would the general public expect to come out of it to secure the future of the country?
There are talented and accomplished leaders from the entertainment industry that when elected to public office turned out to be great statesmen. The product of Hollywood, the United States’ President Ronald Reagan is just one of them. But unlike in the Philippines, Reagan does not have a spouse like Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s husband who advises her how to run the Philippine Government and in the process grease money passes under the table while what’s in the national treasury mysteriously disappears like how the audience sees it and sees it not in David Copperfield’s magic.
In the Philippines, the name of the First Gentleman of the Land is Jose Miguel “Mike” Arroyo -- a name that to millions of Filipinos connotes a stigma of massive corruption in government. The latest corruption he was reportedly involved in was that notorious $330 million kickback from the government award of online communication contract to ZTE telecom corporation of China.
Neither does the United States have the likes of a Joseph Estrada as president surrounded by a coterie of tong collectors advising him how to run the government and plunder the land if the reportedly corrupt Sandiganbayan itself is to be trusted in finding the former movie idol president guilty as charged.
Millions across the land believe that slugger Manny Paquiao will make a good president to replace Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo because boxing had made him an instant millionaire – meaning, Paquiao’s proof of success in pugilism is unfortunately mistaken as proof of being a great star in the predatory Philippine politics as well.
On November 14, 2009, Paquiao won his “seventh world boxing title in seven weight divisions, a feat no other boxer has achieved in the history of the sport”. Based on this extraordinary achievement in boxing, the “bakya” crowd that elects presidents expects Paquiao to be the next president of the Philippines! Elected Philippine leaders, particularly those in Congress, are political boxers anyway that do nothing except deliver punching speeches against each other. How about that for a rationale fait accompli in Philippine politics?
If Filipinos have to march again in EDSA [and I am sure any day they will march down this politicized avenue to change the government without the benefit of holding an election], there would be no doubt that “people power” in the streets -- dangerous to the stability of the region, according to former Premier Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore -- would make Manny the next president of the beleaguered republic.
If not taken seriously, this latest development is so comical to watch. It is all right for Paquiao to be an EDSA-installed president next to Arroyo so long as he is not surrounded by presidential advisers the likes of Miguel “Mike” Arroyo that in comparison would put the monstrosity of the present and previous presidents’ corruptions to shame.
There is nothing unpatriotic for Filipinos to speak out the disturbing truth of this Philippine political zarzuela that punishes the nation to penury because of massive corruption exemplified by the national leadership as a way of life. There is also nothing personal when Filipino whistleblowers need to come out of their turtle shell to talk about the painful realities within their territorial domain rather than just leave the task of blowing the whistle to outside journalists. As you can see, our butt is still exposed to ridicule when to cover up we stoop down or bend over to bury our head under the sand like what bashful and reclusive ostriches do.
This crazy thought that Filipinos should hide this national embarrassment from the eyes of the world by burying their heads under the sand because it is foolishly deemed an act of treason to talk about it is just as silly if not downright stupid as when Don Quixote jousts the windmill because the contraption is a delusional perception of a charging enemy of the state and society.
Flood of corruption, massive destruction and death by drowning when the typhoons come are symptomatic of a bigger and deeper problem the present generation of Filipinos is condemned to bear for life if not destined to be martyrs of the folly of the time much longer than a lifetime.
Suffice it to say, that so much distortion in politics that had become predatory, as well as skewed moral values ranging from corruption to wanton abuse, indifference, apathy towards the commonweal and incompetence in running the government plagued the country. It is reminiscent of Sodom and Gomorrah of which to save the gentiles or the innocent the Lord stands helpless on what to do other than decide to destroy and cleanse.
Young and new national leadership may come from military boot camps – that is if in a violent upheaval, like the proverbial Phoenix it is not destined to rise from the ashes. #
© Copyright Edwin A. Sumcad. Access PAR November 30, 2009.
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Memo On Philippine Typhoons:
What To Do And Not To Do
[Epilogue to stories of the storms in the Philippines
previously written in this column. Ed]
The EDSA brand of national leadership is a Rip Van Winkle of the 21st century still snoring in the slumber of uselessness and ineptitude in so far as facing the problem of hurricane and flood in the country is concerned.
It is sad to know that the past and present Philippine EDSA governments installed by street mobs are incapable of doing anything to divert or stop the storm from battering the country year in and year out even though this causes numerous death and massive destructions – a national tragedy of mind-boggling proportion millions of observers believed is worsened by total indifference, corruption, incompetence and criminal neglect.
After more than twenty years of languor, lack of concern or apathy since former President Ferdinand E. Marcos had put in the drawing board the first attempt to stop the storm in the Pacific Ocean before it hits the Philippines, the Rip Van Winkle EDSA-government has to wake up, pause for corruption, think and do something fast before a hurricane-caused inundation would eventually submerge the island republic in the bottom of the sea so to speak.
This unbelievable irresponsibility in governance is too extended a tedium to harp on time and time again … the needed attention of the political leadership and the necessary action to prevent typhoon and flood devastation and death by drowning have been too long overdue.
In a layman’s term, stopping the storm or altering the path of the hurricane is commonly called in one of the reference climate reports simply as a “hurricane-modification project”. It is not that kind of sci-fi space odyssey discovery or lightning and thunderbolt story seen in James Bond like movies that drop jaws from the shocked audience … it is just a method of how to conduct an atmospheric control of a brewing storm from where it has developed and progressed into a powerful hurricane -- a scientific strategy that has been tried and made successful by weather scientists, more particularly by those nascent climate specialists known as “riders of the storms” in the United States.
How does the storm develop into a deadly tempest is no longer a guarded secret in the files of modern scientific discoveries. Documented findings [1] are released worldwide. They are vital to understanding how storms are formed, especially important to countries situated in the path of deadly Pacific hurricanes, like the Philippines:
“As air warmed over the Atlantic [Pacific in the case of the Philippines] surges up to meet the cool atmosphere, its heat turns into kinetic energy, creating a violent twist of wind and rain. The bigger the temperature difference between the hot sea and the cold upper air, the more furious the storm can grow.”
It is with this important knowledge on how a storm develops that it can be “killed”, weakened or diverted away from it’s destructive path.
Weather scientists “attack big hurricanes from above or below, sapping the storms’ strength by either heating up their chilly tops or chilling their hot underbellies. [W]ell-timed interventions could diminish a hurricane by 40 percent – enough to turn a possible Category 5 storm into a mere Category 2 or 3, which would break windows and wreck trailer parks but leave most buildings intact.”
Microscopic bits of salt are seeded under the hurricane’s “lower reaches”. Water vapor would turn into droplets “too small to fall to Earth’s surface as rain.” When this evaporates, it cools down the hot air, dissipating its kinetic energy that creates a violent twist of wind and rain, thus weakening and diverting if not “killing” the storm right from its inception.
To divert the storm, the top of the hurricane is “painted black” by dispersing “tons of a special kind of soot as high as 50,000 feet …” and the storm would disperse outward messing up its course. Salt particles are also hovered up by the storm’s churn thus
affecting its path.
Silver iodide increases rainfall when seeded in the clouds. In extremely cold condition, airport fogs are seeded to turn them into particles of snow as they fall to the ground. To nudge the storm, seeded rain is “reinforced and magnified by the storm’s own internal dynamics” as it veers away or changes direction.
Ironically, in the United States, this caused several lawsuits. Politics raises hell if hurricanes are diverted to spare states on the path and others are thrown into the middle of it.
It has been reported that the weather may be good to somebody when it is bad to someone else. Fruit growers in Pennsylvania seeded the clouds “to suppress hail over their orchards”. In nearby states, farmers adversely affected went to court. The court ruled that “Stealing clouds could be legally analogous to diverting stream.”
Fidel Castro condemned the United States’ Project Stormfury “using hurricanes as a counterrevolutionary instrument of war.”
The Philippines Had Such A
Plan Of Riding The Storm
I was in the UN when a grandiose plan to stop the coming of the storms to the Philippines was part of former President Ferdinand Marcos’ 20-year development blueprint approved and supported by the IMF and the World Bank.
The Marcos long-term development program was hatched to make the Philippines the West’s economic star in the Far East that would compete with Japan. The first nuclear power plant in that part of the world was located in Bataan, Philippines. It was put in place to jumpstart the rapid development of this once internationally envied nation in the Far East. Southeast Asia is a region of great potential that recently became the theater of political rivalry and economic competition among the Western Superpowers including Japan and China.
Scientific studies outlined the procedure on how to at least divert the path of the storm in such a way that it would not directly hit the Philippines, and would therefore spare lives and avoid a tremendous loss of the nation’s resources that slows growth in the region. It needed a great amount of funding. To get an idea how prohibitive the cost is, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimated “$2.5 billion to buttress New Orleans against the next Katrina-level storm.”
The Philippines would probably need more if the budget would include kickbacks. International intervention was therefore sought for technical assistance and help of donor countries to make it as a “UN-assisted project of RP” [Republic of the Philippines] as how it appeared as an important item in the conference agenda of the UN Working Group that I have participated as Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific [UNESCAP].
In the UN, donor countries from all over the world discussed the technical assistance and funding of this Philippine weather project. Japan was one of the listed donors. Southeast Asian countries lying behind the Philippines facing the path of the storms coming from the heated Pacific oceanic stratosphere supported the plan so long as the weather engineering project would not let them catch the worse gust of wind or runaway squall.
Unfortunately, the Japanese delegation later on opted out of the project. Through the recommendation of Japanese scientists Tokyo reasoned out that Japan would be imperiled by the storm if its origin and development in the Pacific close to Japan is disturbed or altered.
Japan has always been not only a great patron but also a very generous donor of several UN and UNDP-sponsored development projects. But in a rather strange way to me, Japan, in my opinion, was well-respected by our peers in the UN circuit because of the dollar sign they visibly read in the forehead of Japanese delegates when we discussed global aid and technical assistance to countries that need them. Shortly thereafter, Japanese delegates did not only withdraw from the project but fought against it.
For the Philippines, it is a matter of survival to continue fighting for this project. Diplomacy is one of the powerful tools that can be used to gain a UN consensus to push it through. I know because I was there. But diplomats change chairs in the UN when they have to leave at the end of their tour of duty for new assignments elsewhere.
Diplomats are the same everywhere … which simply means that they have different and differing ways of dealing with diplomacy. Also much of it depends on the nature and purpose of their assignment by the home government. The administration changed when EDSA street “revolutionaries” took over the government.
Diplomacy is actually war fought in the international battlefield. As a diplomat, I cannot duplicate any of my peers in the UN, nor can I be duplicated after I retired shortly thereafter to a peaceful life.
For me, it is better to fight the storms somewhere in the middle of the ocean than to fight them at home when horrifying death tolls and massive devastations indicate that the country has no chance of winning the fight … a battle where losing to typhoons and flood is not only certain but eternal.
Today I feel sorry to say that the EDSA national leadership is not only bereft of any initiative to pursue this internationally known hurricane modification project but in fact despised it because it came from Marcos’ brain, the “dictator” they hated more than the Jews hated Hitler.
Politicians who run their EDSA kind of government in the Philippines, and to whom the riches of the nation are up for grabs, would rather hate Marcos’ legacy forever than abate the storm. To them an outburst of gale and thunderstorm or cyclone that levels to the ground anything standing and with the rising flood waters sends people to their watery grave is kinder than the thought of anything associated with Marcos.
In short, the country can go to hell if to hate the former dictator is easier to buy or cheaper a price to pay to entomb him in eternal damnation!
I hate to say this but I must write it down nevertheless: A pygmy mind sees the future through a tiny hole even much smaller than the head of a pin. That gives a clearer idea what pinheads mean.
It is indeed sad for me to articulate what I really wanted to say … that as a result of this infamy in national leadership, to appease the demons of typhoons and flood, the poor are sacrificed by drowning, in the altar of criminal neglect and apathy. #
© Copyright Edwin A. Sumcad. Access PAR December 21, 2009.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Thursday, April 2, 2009
End Of The World 'Economic Crush' – Conjurers’ Greatest Baloney!
by Ed Sumcad
NWS Columnist
Economic collapse, a science fiction I nominate for the next Academy Award!
It is probably only from this author in the study of monetary economics that you will read this exceptional contrary opinion ever written down in any website! No such opposing opinion is ever written either because of lack of knowledge or just due to fear of contradiction in the free market of ideas.
I listened to the whining desperation of “The Money Masters - How International Bankers Gained Control of America ” that predicted America ’s “economic crush”. The conjurers of doom are so powerfully controlling in their presentation and argument that it could force frightened ordinary Americans to flee to Timbuktu before the anticipated “crush” would turn this greatest nation on the planet into an economic graveyard!
The opening attack was against the Federal Reserve [Fed]. It made a bold statement that the nation’s national bank is NOT Federal; that it is a “private” bank! It claims that in this private bank, THERE IS NO RESERVE! It is a callous lie in both instances. The Fed is the Federal Government AND private banks operating as a government, not a private, entity! The contrary can only be told to and believed by the ignorant that because of revolt against excessive politics and too much politicking proliferate across the country.
The first thing I noticed in the google.com/video of this group of economic conjurers with a clandestine agenda was this glaring contradiction in their thesis of economic doom. You will see in the said video presentation that the revolutionary colonies would not have won the revolution had it not printed paper money to finance the revolutionary struggle for independence. It was called "colonial script" with hardly any equivalent reserve. They did what the Bank of England did, and like what the Federal Reserve had done -- exercise the power that the people had delegated through Congress to print paper money to spend for development and progress, the result of which made this nation the greatest on the planet! Borrowing is not like Medusa's head that turn everyone to stone! In this regard, only ignorant Federal Reserve hate junkies jump into an empty swimming pool of adverse conclusions heads down first.
Is there a downside to this exercise of power to print money to build the great railways and the incomparable U.S. highways that linked all states in the country, to construct our tallest skyscrapers and to create our multibillion-dollar institutional infrastructures, etc. for the good of the commonweal thus creating what this nation looks like today? Of course there is always a downside, part of the material and social capital costs -- every exercise of power has. But the Fed also administers relief as a result of unavoidable foul-ups. Besides, take note of the fact that corruption thrives in honesty, just as in corruption there can be also an exceptional honesty to corrupt and be corrupt.
Complaints of people at the edge of their wit are louder in the outback. When the economy is sick, the remedial pill the Fed prescribes is always bitter to swallow. But we must live in the real world, not in the world of the Wizard of Oz. Those who live there are those visionary attackers of modern economics who have not even gone to school to learn what the law of supply and demand mean.
One know-it-all libertarian critic from the Midwest hinterland who obviously had too much of Ron Paul under his skin, wrote his Congressman to amend the law of supply and demand! This faux pas howler is beyond redemption!
Here’s the lighthouse to look up to for guidance, to those who navigate the murky waters of ignorance before jumping into an empty swimming pool of misleading conclusion and misled belief head first: First thing to consider is, too much printing of money is too much if it is indeed too much and that is when it is beyond what is necessary. But who has the expertise to decide when is it too much, or what is the right amount that is needed?
Don’t say that it is the complaining taxi driver or the angry gravedigger who suddenly turned themselves into monetary experts. At the wink of an eye, their conjurers claim they are the righteous little ones the public should believe when they say that the sky is falling! Understandably that’s because they are the ones who get hurt first. Against this, the founders of this great nation and the wise men that came after them thought it was the Fed that has such expertise. Our illustrious forebears expressed their wisdom through the act of Congress when they created the Federal Reserve in 1913.
To the ignorant, the second important point to consider is that – and this is the most critical point to understand -- the Fed is made up of bankers AND the Federal Government. It is the people’s government acting through the President they elect, and Congress representing them that became the Fed itself by the act of the Legislature.
THE FED IS NOT A PROPERTY OF PRIVATE BANKERS as most economic hillbillies were tragically conjured to believe it is!!!
And here is the comic irony creating this tragic belief that the Fed is a private bank: In politics when a doctor of medicine who acts as a know-it-all economic pundit tells us that we are doomed if we do not revolt against the government for allowing private bankers [the Fed] to run our lives, only politically sick junkies would rush down the basement armory for handguns and assault weapons ready to shoot.
Notice a bunch of extreme revolutionary libertarians that the public mostly read in Freedomphoenix.com who are aggressive exponents of this winless campaign [they call it their own “Revolution”] against anything federal that stands between them and a society without any existing governmental authority to govern.
I am not inventing anything here. This is just citing some incredible facts about the revolt of pea-brain Winnie-the-Pooh in Hundred Acre Wood. Citing these facts as a sprinkle of literature not to spite but to spice this editorial report does not mean that I intend to demean a popular honey-crazed cartoon character or put down a website [FP.com] that I have no power to change for what it is, especially when the owner proudly claims that it is his own property and he can do whatever he wants to do with it! The fact that many enticed writer-contributors complain about this authoritarian claim of media ownership that ignores public interest and because it is selfishly motivated it trumps free expression of ideas is of no moment. These strong advocates of Austrian economics that want income tax [IRS] and the Fed abolish because of this notoriously stupid argument that our forebears created these Federal agencies to rob the American people blind, come from the beat of the drums in the street where the little knowledge of ignorant activists becomes dangerous!
The danger to guard against this threat to national security is that anger, when limited to freedom of expression is permissible, but not when rage calls to arms, incites the desperate to kill or bomb buildings and send bloodied limbless innocent bystanders to ICUs fighting for dear life. That kind of “Revolution” in the name of freedom of expression is to me a crime punishable by hanging which in comparison lethal injection is an act of mercy.
The third most important point to accept as an unimpeachable reality is that Federal Reserve policies are formulated by the American people themselves acting through Congress, and through the President they elected to office. Only the ignoramus who could no longer be helped from the quagmire of ignorance where they are wallowing now would say that it is the bankers only that decide to print money to satisfy their greed for wealth! It is “they” – the people [the Executive & Congress, acting through the Fed’s Board of Governors] not just the banker counterpart -- who decide to print money that is required to spend for national development.
By the way, it is not the “printing” of money that funded and won our historic multibillion-dollar wars that changed the world; we left the “colonial script” antiquity and embarked on the use of modern credit ingenuity, paid for our mind-boggling size of development expenditures to reach the outer space and put us on the right track of unimaginable progress where we are now compared to where we were hundred years ago … it is the expansion of modern and well developed credit system we have created and used at our own disposal that should have turned on the light for the ignorant in revolt still living in the dark ages! It is this advantage so unique in our system that we live in our modern daily lives in this millennium that now makes us lead the global economy.
Make no mistake about it. Had we have been too shy to spend beyond the combined worth of all the Gold and Silver that we have had in reserve in our bank vaults including those deposited in Fort Knox – as the ignorant argument mostly propounded by Federal “rebels” would like to blind the people with such incredible lie -- we would not have built our mega billion dollar railroads and national highways by now that tremendously expanded commerce by leaps and bounds, constructed our space program for landing in the Moon and beyond, as well as developed our defense weaponry second to none, making us the richest and the most powerful nation on the planet! This is a repeat worth restating again and again to penetrate the thick skull of ignorance and cynicism that are now dangerously leading us down the road to perdition.
We all have our gripes against the Federal Government. The bureaucracy that we are all encumbered upon is no secret to anyone, just to cite an example. Government officials that cut corners to feather their nest, is another ground for endless protests, and so are power-drunk agents of law who act like Idi Amin Dada of Uganda using the truncheon to suppress our individual liberties.
But the point I am trying to drive home here is not for penny-ante thinkers that attack the Federal Government to promote a political agenda against any rational economic deficit spending viewed not as a positive budgetary exercise but only as a negative misadventure in economics. You have to go to advance schools of economics to know that the shade of this controversial issue is gray – not absolutely pit black as the economic conjurers in the video are so obsessed about in spreading their prophesy of doom.
Let it sinks without an iota of doubt that the Fed performs a “governmental function”, not a “private” function which the angry libertarian gravediggers were coached to believe out of empathy because the conjurers thought they are the most economically disadvantaged lot in our society whose complaints heavens would hear and act to save them. The socially disadvantaged would easily pick up the hammer and sickle and rush down the street for a Bastille-like revolt. Such plot to mislead millions of less sophisticated members of our free society for whatever purpose it intends to achieve is not just a waste of time and energy but also dangerous! If as a nation we have to disintegrate by adopting President Obama’s destructive left-leaning ideology for a change in extremis, it should be for a reason and a way better than a folly like this.
The fourth question to ask [and there is a built-in answer to it] is: Since these monies printed wantonly are extravagant “borrowing”, to quantify how much is the resulting debt owed is definitely mind-boggling. Why? It is because the national debt owed is translated into a staggering amount of wealth that made this nation the greatest, the wealthiest and the mightiest on the planet!
If you are staggered by the enormous size of the wealth and power of this nation that built up throughout the years, so should you be by the debt it owes that made it what it is today! It is our system of progress we alone could congregate about as time passes by, marshal and muster it no other people of the world can. It is a dirty lie – a despicable dishonesty, to be polite about it -- for vain politicians to show the American people one side of the coin and blind them of the other side of the coin then for political and now ideological expediency. One-sided radical Liberals and Socialists led by Obama now in power caught up by revolutionary Libertarians are on this warpath of deception.
The fifth element to consider in this elementary analysis may surprise everyone: The cynical revolutionary would do a mathematical calculation to present a scenario of catastrophic fate that supposedly awaits this nation, i.e., the generations to come would be required to pay for that mind-blowing size of existing I.O.Us. That is not true and that will never happen, except in one’s unschooled imagination.
Let’s talk about reality out of the figment of a horrifying imagination in the bayou. Today you and I were the future generations of debt-fear-mongers about a century ago who opposed the building of America that required a massive spending and since there was not enough money on hand then it therefore needed a gargantuan amount of “borrowing” for future generations to pay.
Let’s hear again this broken record played throughout the ages: The giant projects of constructing highways and freeways that connected America from state to state resulting in an unprecedented national economic growth never imagined before were supposed to “burden” this present 2009 generation when viewed from the past. Did your life and mine become worse today because it was supposed to have been “burdened” by “debts” [the “borrowed” cost of development some years back], compared to life we now live today? Is it not true that when we look back a century ago our present modern transportation infrastructure today was just a wayward imagination to those who were campaigning against deficit spending?
On the contrary, did life not even become better now than it was then? We have “overspent” – borrowed then with sky was the limit] only with a government guarantee [just what the word of the Government is worth] – far beyond whatever Silver and Gold we held in the vault, and made it to where we are now. C’mon, let’s be realistic and admit it! This weird financial whining we hear today is but a spending rebellion with a cause, but not quite, as what it is pictured to be!
Sixth, here’s a reality check with a shocking neutralizing effect: Our gargantuan debts will just continue to increase and will just remain I.O.Us. as the years go by, for as long as the United States of America continues to grow. The opportunity to grow is limitless … in Genesis, it ends at Alpha X [the beginning of infinity]. Why? It is because those I.O.Us. are commonly viewed in the distant time at the wrong end of the telescope. The meaning of growing I.O.Us can only be viewed positively by those who understand what these are to the growing power of America. But these are also weapons political opportunists are using to intimidate people to vote them to office. Terror and their minions -- enemies within who are accomplices -- use I.O.Us as poison, some kind of economic nuclear devices they can explode as the launching of another 911 had become more difficult under former President George W. Bush's watch. The truth of the matter is that those I.O.Us are the material and social cost that approximate the total VALUE of a transformed United States of America – the approximate worth [assests] of this wealthiest, mightiest and the greatest nation ever seen on the planet at any given time!
Seventh, there will be no collapse of the national economy that toothless tigers pictured worse than that of the 1920s. That's fantasy in a science fiction story that I nominate to win next year's Academy Award! #
© Copyright Edwin A. Sumcad. Access NWS March 26, 2009.
The writer is an award-winning journalist. Go to NWS homepage, click on the columnist button to know more about the author or you may e-mail your comment at ed.superx722@yahoo.com.sg .
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Economic collapse, a science fiction I nominate for the next Academy Award!
It is probably only from this author in the study of monetary economics that you will read this exceptional contrary opinion ever written down in any website! No such opposing opinion is ever written either because of lack of knowledge or just due to fear of contradiction in the free market of ideas.
I listened to the whining desperation of “The Money Masters - How International Bankers Gained Control of America ” that predicted America ’s “economic crush”. The conjurers of doom are so powerfully controlling in their presentation and argument that it could force frightened ordinary Americans to flee to Timbuktu before the anticipated “crush” would turn this greatest nation on the planet into an economic graveyard!
The opening attack was against the Federal Reserve [Fed]. It made a bold statement that the nation’s national bank is NOT Federal; that it is a “private” bank! It claims that in this private bank, THERE IS NO RESERVE! It is a callous lie in both instances. The Fed is the Federal Government AND private banks operating as a government, not a private, entity! The contrary can only be told to and believed by the ignorant that because of revolt against excessive politics and too much politicking proliferate across the country.
The first thing I noticed in the google.com/video of this group of economic conjurers with a clandestine agenda was this glaring contradiction in their thesis of economic doom. You will see in the said video presentation that the revolutionary colonies would not have won the revolution had it not printed paper money to finance the revolutionary struggle for independence. It was called "colonial script" with hardly any equivalent reserve. They did what the Bank of England did, and like what the Federal Reserve had done -- exercise the power that the people had delegated through Congress to print paper money to spend for development and progress, the result of which made this nation the greatest on the planet! Borrowing is not like Medusa's head that turn everyone to stone! In this regard, only ignorant Federal Reserve hate junkies jump into an empty swimming pool of adverse conclusions heads down first.
Is there a downside to this exercise of power to print money to build the great railways and the incomparable U.S. highways that linked all states in the country, to construct our tallest skyscrapers and to create our multibillion-dollar institutional infrastructures, etc. for the good of the commonweal thus creating what this nation looks like today? Of course there is always a downside, part of the material and social capital costs -- every exercise of power has. But the Fed also administers relief as a result of unavoidable foul-ups. Besides, take note of the fact that corruption thrives in honesty, just as in corruption there can be also an exceptional honesty to corrupt and be corrupt.
Complaints of people at the edge of their wit are louder in the outback. When the economy is sick, the remedial pill the Fed prescribes is always bitter to swallow. But we must live in the real world, not in the world of the Wizard of Oz. Those who live there are those visionary attackers of modern economics who have not even gone to school to learn what the law of supply and demand mean.
One know-it-all libertarian critic from the Midwest hinterland who obviously had too much of Ron Paul under his skin, wrote his Congressman to amend the law of supply and demand! This faux pas howler is beyond redemption!
Here’s the lighthouse to look up to for guidance, to those who navigate the murky waters of ignorance before jumping into an empty swimming pool of misleading conclusion and misled belief head first: First thing to consider is, too much printing of money is too much if it is indeed too much and that is when it is beyond what is necessary. But who has the expertise to decide when is it too much, or what is the right amount that is needed?
Don’t say that it is the complaining taxi driver or the angry gravedigger who suddenly turned themselves into monetary experts. At the wink of an eye, their conjurers claim they are the righteous little ones the public should believe when they say that the sky is falling! Understandably that’s because they are the ones who get hurt first. Against this, the founders of this great nation and the wise men that came after them thought it was the Fed that has such expertise. Our illustrious forebears expressed their wisdom through the act of Congress when they created the Federal Reserve in 1913.
To the ignorant, the second important point to consider is that – and this is the most critical point to understand -- the Fed is made up of bankers AND the Federal Government. It is the people’s government acting through the President they elect, and Congress representing them that became the Fed itself by the act of the Legislature.
THE FED IS NOT A PROPERTY OF PRIVATE BANKERS as most economic hillbillies were tragically conjured to believe it is!!!
And here is the comic irony creating this tragic belief that the Fed is a private bank: In politics when a doctor of medicine who acts as a know-it-all economic pundit tells us that we are doomed if we do not revolt against the government for allowing private bankers [the Fed] to run our lives, only politically sick junkies would rush down the basement armory for handguns and assault weapons ready to shoot.
Notice a bunch of extreme revolutionary libertarians that the public mostly read in Freedomphoenix.com who are aggressive exponents of this winless campaign [they call it their own “Revolution”] against anything federal that stands between them and a society without any existing governmental authority to govern.
I am not inventing anything here. This is just citing some incredible facts about the revolt of pea-brain Winnie-the-Pooh in Hundred Acre Wood. Citing these facts as a sprinkle of literature not to spite but to spice this editorial report does not mean that I intend to demean a popular honey-crazed cartoon character or put down a website [FP.com] that I have no power to change for what it is, especially when the owner proudly claims that it is his own property and he can do whatever he wants to do with it! The fact that many enticed writer-contributors complain about this authoritarian claim of media ownership that ignores public interest and because it is selfishly motivated it trumps free expression of ideas is of no moment. These strong advocates of Austrian economics that want income tax [IRS] and the Fed abolish because of this notoriously stupid argument that our forebears created these Federal agencies to rob the American people blind, come from the beat of the drums in the street where the little knowledge of ignorant activists becomes dangerous!
The danger to guard against this threat to national security is that anger, when limited to freedom of expression is permissible, but not when rage calls to arms, incites the desperate to kill or bomb buildings and send bloodied limbless innocent bystanders to ICUs fighting for dear life. That kind of “Revolution” in the name of freedom of expression is to me a crime punishable by hanging which in comparison lethal injection is an act of mercy.
The third most important point to accept as an unimpeachable reality is that Federal Reserve policies are formulated by the American people themselves acting through Congress, and through the President they elected to office. Only the ignoramus who could no longer be helped from the quagmire of ignorance where they are wallowing now would say that it is the bankers only that decide to print money to satisfy their greed for wealth! It is “they” – the people [the Executive & Congress, acting through the Fed’s Board of Governors] not just the banker counterpart -- who decide to print money that is required to spend for national development.
By the way, it is not the “printing” of money that funded and won our historic multibillion-dollar wars that changed the world; we left the “colonial script” antiquity and embarked on the use of modern credit ingenuity, paid for our mind-boggling size of development expenditures to reach the outer space and put us on the right track of unimaginable progress where we are now compared to where we were hundred years ago … it is the expansion of modern and well developed credit system we have created and used at our own disposal that should have turned on the light for the ignorant in revolt still living in the dark ages! It is this advantage so unique in our system that we live in our modern daily lives in this millennium that now makes us lead the global economy.
Make no mistake about it. Had we have been too shy to spend beyond the combined worth of all the Gold and Silver that we have had in reserve in our bank vaults including those deposited in Fort Knox – as the ignorant argument mostly propounded by Federal “rebels” would like to blind the people with such incredible lie -- we would not have built our mega billion dollar railroads and national highways by now that tremendously expanded commerce by leaps and bounds, constructed our space program for landing in the Moon and beyond, as well as developed our defense weaponry second to none, making us the richest and the most powerful nation on the planet! This is a repeat worth restating again and again to penetrate the thick skull of ignorance and cynicism that are now dangerously leading us down the road to perdition.
We all have our gripes against the Federal Government. The bureaucracy that we are all encumbered upon is no secret to anyone, just to cite an example. Government officials that cut corners to feather their nest, is another ground for endless protests, and so are power-drunk agents of law who act like Idi Amin Dada of Uganda using the truncheon to suppress our individual liberties.
But the point I am trying to drive home here is not for penny-ante thinkers that attack the Federal Government to promote a political agenda against any rational economic deficit spending viewed not as a positive budgetary exercise but only as a negative misadventure in economics. You have to go to advance schools of economics to know that the shade of this controversial issue is gray – not absolutely pit black as the economic conjurers in the video are so obsessed about in spreading their prophesy of doom.
Let it sinks without an iota of doubt that the Fed performs a “governmental function”, not a “private” function which the angry libertarian gravediggers were coached to believe out of empathy because the conjurers thought they are the most economically disadvantaged lot in our society whose complaints heavens would hear and act to save them. The socially disadvantaged would easily pick up the hammer and sickle and rush down the street for a Bastille-like revolt. Such plot to mislead millions of less sophisticated members of our free society for whatever purpose it intends to achieve is not just a waste of time and energy but also dangerous! If as a nation we have to disintegrate by adopting President Obama’s destructive left-leaning ideology for a change in extremis, it should be for a reason and a way better than a folly like this.
The fourth question to ask [and there is a built-in answer to it] is: Since these monies printed wantonly are extravagant “borrowing”, to quantify how much is the resulting debt owed is definitely mind-boggling. Why? It is because the national debt owed is translated into a staggering amount of wealth that made this nation the greatest, the wealthiest and the mightiest on the planet!
If you are staggered by the enormous size of the wealth and power of this nation that built up throughout the years, so should you be by the debt it owes that made it what it is today! It is our system of progress we alone could congregate about as time passes by, marshal and muster it no other people of the world can. It is a dirty lie – a despicable dishonesty, to be polite about it -- for vain politicians to show the American people one side of the coin and blind them of the other side of the coin then for political and now ideological expediency. One-sided radical Liberals and Socialists led by Obama now in power caught up by revolutionary Libertarians are on this warpath of deception.
The fifth element to consider in this elementary analysis may surprise everyone: The cynical revolutionary would do a mathematical calculation to present a scenario of catastrophic fate that supposedly awaits this nation, i.e., the generations to come would be required to pay for that mind-blowing size of existing I.O.Us. That is not true and that will never happen, except in one’s unschooled imagination.
Let’s talk about reality out of the figment of a horrifying imagination in the bayou. Today you and I were the future generations of debt-fear-mongers about a century ago who opposed the building of America that required a massive spending and since there was not enough money on hand then it therefore needed a gargantuan amount of “borrowing” for future generations to pay.
Let’s hear again this broken record played throughout the ages: The giant projects of constructing highways and freeways that connected America from state to state resulting in an unprecedented national economic growth never imagined before were supposed to “burden” this present 2009 generation when viewed from the past. Did your life and mine become worse today because it was supposed to have been “burdened” by “debts” [the “borrowed” cost of development some years back], compared to life we now live today? Is it not true that when we look back a century ago our present modern transportation infrastructure today was just a wayward imagination to those who were campaigning against deficit spending?
On the contrary, did life not even become better now than it was then? We have “overspent” – borrowed then with sky was the limit] only with a government guarantee [just what the word of the Government is worth] – far beyond whatever Silver and Gold we held in the vault, and made it to where we are now. C’mon, let’s be realistic and admit it! This weird financial whining we hear today is but a spending rebellion with a cause, but not quite, as what it is pictured to be!
Sixth, here’s a reality check with a shocking neutralizing effect: Our gargantuan debts will just continue to increase and will just remain I.O.Us. as the years go by, for as long as the United States of America continues to grow. The opportunity to grow is limitless … in Genesis, it ends at Alpha X [the beginning of infinity]. Why? It is because those I.O.Us. are commonly viewed in the distant time at the wrong end of the telescope. The meaning of growing I.O.Us can only be viewed positively by those who understand what these are to the growing power of America. But these are also weapons political opportunists are using to intimidate people to vote them to office. Terror and their minions -- enemies within who are accomplices -- use I.O.Us as poison, some kind of economic nuclear devices they can explode as the launching of another 911 had become more difficult under former President George W. Bush's watch. The truth of the matter is that those I.O.Us are the material and social cost that approximate the total VALUE of a transformed United States of America – the approximate worth [assests] of this wealthiest, mightiest and the greatest nation ever seen on the planet at any given time!
Seventh, there will be no collapse of the national economy that toothless tigers pictured worse than that of the 1920s. That's fantasy in a science fiction story that I nominate to win next year's Academy Award! #
© Copyright Edwin A. Sumcad. Access NWS March 26, 2009.
The writer is an award-winning journalist. Go to NWS homepage, click on the columnist button to know more about the author or you may e-mail your comment at ed.superx722@yahoo.com.sg .
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Immigration Bullyrag
Statue Of Liberty: This is a nation of immigrants.
by Edwin A. Sumcad
February 15, 2009
I owe it to Felimar Blanco, a website master in his own right, for sending over this anti-immigration video for my comment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7WJeqxuOfQ
You may find my view on this matter quite different if not rare. What is seen in the video is misleading. Control of fertility rate, re, replacement growth was applied on the pre-immigration population [the green graph] but not on the additional population through immigration [the red graph placed on top of the green graph] which shows a camouflaged bias.
Statistical manipulation of this kind cannot escape the notice of one who was once a statistician in the RP bureau of census many years ago. Statistics never lies, unless you put something into it to make it lie.
The presentation was based on the wrong premise that America’s immigration policy aims at helping the underdeveloped world lessen their population explosion problem! Pebbles in the glass jar have no relevance at all as to why this country attracts different peoples from all parts of the world.
The presenter forgot what the meaning of the Statue of Liberty is – we are welcoming people of the world that seek freedom -- it is not about helping countries where they come from get rid of or lessen their overcrowding population!
This is a huge fundamental error in the understanding of the objectives and goals of the U.S. Immigration policy. It is a subtle distortion of statistical results out of a skillful manipulation of data indicating that immigration is being politicized.
The Republicans can never win on this immigration issue since they have reached the end of the rope. The nation is in total agreement that we have to guard our borders against illegal intrusions of aliens, and hardly is there any opposition to the need to establish a system to legalize undocumented immigrants. But it is a long and slow process. The Republicans were running out of patience in 2006. As a result, they lost control of Congress. Out of frustration, their ultimate solution was to criminalize some ten million undocumented immigrants in the country, and as criminals hunt them down like animals, arrest each one of them and gather them in a huge camp and deport them one by one – that is if they don’t shoot them dead in rage like ordinary criminals for resisting arrest.
The hunted will challenge authorities for their own survival and for the survival of their families and love ones … when authorities look down on them as criminals, deprive them of social legislations, i.e., without medical services for their children and families who will spread diseases in the community; without benefit of education that would turn them and their offspring into social outcast, and eventually in control of the streets as hoodlums and criminals; starve them, etc.
The problem Rednecks have is that they cannot see any farther away to where their extended nose ends. The cost to carry out this de-immigration of America will make what we spend now for them look like a penny-ante in a high poker game. And this is not a game for sonar bats to play.
Why would that be even more costly? For one we have to build detention camps all over the country to house some ten million of them, and with attitudinal murder in mind, spend huge sum of taxpayers’ money like crazy hunting them down like animals, for policing and feeding them until they get deported, and the like.
We cannot cut corners on deportation due process … they have rights under the Constitution and that means years before a single deportation out of the ten million immigrants gets through the legal process – we de-Americanize America in the eyes of the world if we deprive them of their right. And to do it right means we have to amend our Constitution on judicial due process.
How much that would cost? Billions of dollars, amidst the funding of many battles in Congress for political leverage, and the cost of opportunity losses in passing critical legislations needed as a result of unwanted diversion that decapitate the time, energy and resources of the nation. The cost of this disabling collateral damage to the nation is beyond monetary estimation.
We have to create and maintain an Army against some ten million of them. It is a retarded speculation for anyone to assume that they will not go underground and declare their war against the government as a matter of survival.
Add to this dollar cost, deaths and/or casualties as a result of civil strife. How much would this underground civil war cost us? Billions over billions of dollars not to speak of destructions an underground rebellion is expected to create. In 1861–1865, the nation almost went bankrupt at the end of the Civil War with more six hundred thousand Americans dead. In dollar, the losses this nation sustained cannot be accounted for.
Al Qaeda will be looked down as a tamed group of Katzenjammer Kids in comparison that cause certain mischiefs. The cost of the destructions they create would just be a joke in size. Remember that these immigrants illegal or not, are now living here for some time, raised their families here, and there is no doubt at all that they love this country too, like all Americans do – they think it is their fatherland too, like you and I do, after living here over the years like any other immigrant, and if their wives and dependents they love, the children and families they care so much about are kicked in the ass in a manner that brings forth the painful memories of the Holocaust, it will be so stupid for anyone to think that they will not fight.
These realities of de-immigration does not justify burying our heads under the sand intentionally to give bent to our anger that an alien across the border is subverting our immigration laws. Several options are open to us in dealing with this problem without becoming a monster that we need not be or ought to be.
We cannot think like how Skinheads think, and act like what Supremacists do, putting this country to shame. They killed Joseph Ileto, a postal immigrant worker who supported his family in the hard struggle to one day realize their American Dream, to serve notice to the world that immigrants should stop coming to this country and “steal” their own jobs.
http://www.afroarticles.com/article-dashboard/Article/Immigrant-Hatred-Kills--The-Real-Problem----Ileto-Murdered-For-Taking--American--Jobs/189
No one condones any violation of our border laws or any transgression of our sovereignty. Anyone that walks the earth doing this kind of intrusion has to pay a high price. Yet that should not deter this nation from becoming humane in the treatment of immigrants, documented or not, nor should it be interpreted to mean that we are encouraging foreigners to enter into our territorial domain in willful violation of our immigration laws.
http://www.afroarticles.com/article-dashboard/myarticles/Edwin-A--Sumcad/212/Immigration/363
Speaking of social expenditures vis-Ã -vis illegal immigrants, right now, the cost of their being here, and the social ameliorations they received from the government, are almost equal [in some studies they take less than what they contribute to the economy] the benefits derived from the “underground economy” created as a result of their presence in the country. This will stop the moment they are hunted down as criminals. If this underground contribution to the economy is ten billion dollars to the State of California, then California will lose this bonanza and we have to put up this amount to maintain the economy at least in the same level at a certain time.
The video presenter was talking about the cost of immigration – nobody in the captive audience dared to ask him what would be the cost if we stop immigration and we all turn ourselves into mean-spirited Republicans who are going after them hammer and tong.
The presenter looks like he is a white descendant born to immigrants from Europe some hundreds years ago. He should have presented his video when his forebears were starting to “crowd” this country as immigrants many years ago. Then we would not have this “immigration problem” we have today as the presenter sees it.
The argument against the cost we carry on our shoulder for immigrants that came here legally or illegally is the most stupid selfish argument I have ever heard for the first time in a long time. This donor country spends billions of dollars “for charity” when it responds to deserving countries across the oceans year in and year out that are badly in need of “international aid” or “humanitarian aid”.
These local tightwads embarrass me when I hear them say with unconcealed pride that this benevolent nation is the richest and the mightiest on the planet! I want to slap the ignorance out of their system by telling them that misers did not make this country the wealthiest on the planet.
To deprive a baby born to immigrant undocumented or not of medical services in a downtown hospital and let the toddler die because we could no longer allegedly afford the cost, and yet proudly throw away billions and billions of our tax money for countries abroad in the name of charity, is not only inhuman but also a misguided thinking … a detestable hypocrisy.
I just said that the Republicans’ twisted mean-spiritedness cannot sway reasonable Americans on this critical immigration issue in their favor. Millions of immigrants in the country see the Liberals as their knights in shining armor. Die-hard Republicans are anti-government, whereas dye-in-the-wool Liberals and Democrats are for government, the exponents of welfare in this country for so long.
If I have to criticize the influx of immigrants in California, it is because it could lead to the demise of the two-party system. New comers to California take their oath of allegiance when naturalized as U.S. citizens. Eight out of ten register as Democrats. Exercising their right to vote will vote Liberals to office, and those who cannot vote will support the Democrats. It is from them where their welfare comes from.
I live in California to know this like I know the back of my palm. The number of my kind – conservative Americans loyal to established American values and traditions -- is a vanishing breed. Only scandals and abuses in extremis will make a Liberal candidate lose an election in California.
And to see California as the face of the nation, this is undeniably alarming. Soon there will only be a Liberal or Democratic Party. Liberals and Democrats will contest the election amongst themselves. The fundamental law on political party system is overwhelmed, and we go back to the fundamentals of reconstructing the Constitution and/or amending pertinent election laws to recreate a new political system in America.
In doing all these, we will have more cost to bear than just spending for our social capital infrastructures for this nation’s immigrants. But intolerant minds in agony are too limited to include this cost while they kick the bucket in their emotional nationwide protest.
But in so far as this anti-immigration video is concerned, it is just an old bullyrag. It exhibits a terrible amnesia of what America – the country of immigrants -- is all about. #
© Copyright Edwin A. Sumcad. Access February 15, 2009. Posted in The Light To Share at http://www.edwinsumcad.blogspot.com/
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
Part III. Economic Recovery By Hanging
by Edwin Sumcad
Date: 02/10/09
Subject: Depression
Image Caption: Hang “war criminals”
for economic stimulus.
If we hang all “war criminals”, economic recovery will be easy and swift. But it is not the way you think it is.
First we must establish by what criteria are we to judge who those “war criminals” to hang are. Second we must determine what legal maxim are we to use to “investigate” the subject before hanging if found guilty.
The Obama administration is going after President George W. Bush for alleged “war crimes” committed whether or not it is real or even if imagined, but better if it is real. He stands accused as a “war criminal” after allegedly committing “crimes against humanity”.
Since thousands of soldiers who obeyed the orders of their Commander-In-Chief are the ones who committed those “war crimes” for Bush, they fall under the category of “war criminals” if we use the mandate of law Obama’s legal hatchet men rely on.
Our former still living presidents have been accused of “war crimes” and “genocide”, and they too may be “investigated” as “war criminals” no different from Bush if such is the case.
The legal maxim adhered to in this investigation campaign is that anyone who violates the law must be prosecuted and if found guilty must be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
This applies to “war crimes”. Since war crimes are high crimes, the punishment “to the fullest extent of the law”, is hanging by the neck until dead [Ref Saddam Hussein, War Crime II].
All of these are discussed in details in War Crime I [read also War Crime II at FP. com’s homepage banner stories]. Let’s identify all of these merely as Ref for brevity. http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Feature-Article.htm?InfoNo=045432 http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Feature-Article.htm?InfoNo=045435
In the above-stated Ref you read, the number of “war criminals” to hang if found guilty is huge. They include members of Congress and the military as “Bush’s accomplices” [Ref]. Since death by hanging is massive, the rope manufacturing industry and the funeral homes and funeral services industries are greatly benefited.
Recorded highest number of U.S. troops in Iraq during the Surge was162,000. The shipment value of hanging ropes needed would rise by about .02% -- $8.1 million by rounding the figure.
Funeral homes and funeral services have an annual total receipt of $10.0 billion. This will increase to $11.62 billion.
But the economics of dying nationwide is estimated worth the staggering amount of $641.62 billion per annum after adding those to die by hanging. A total of 264,633 jobs were created.
All the above job and dollar figures of the industries cited were collated from the results of the national 2002 economic census.
Assume that Obama needs Congress to approve a $850.0 billion bailout package for economic recovery. The combined total amounts of money created in rope manufacturing, funeral homes and funeral services industries alone if we hang “war criminals” that the Obama-Pelosi Dobermans in Congress had so far identified, 75.5% of the financial infusion needed is already fully subscribed.
One of the fastest means for economic recovery is by hanging. The campaign to investigate Bush for “war crimes” is not just what anyone thinks it is! #
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Part III. Hanging For Economic Recovery
by Edwin Sumcad
02/10/09
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Feature-Article.htm?InfoNo=045453
II. War Criminals To Hang: The Choking Cerries
by Edwin Sumcad
Date: 02/10/09
Subject: Death by hanging.
Image caption: The rope around the
neck of many war criminals to hang.
It cannot be denied that the hunt for “war criminals” is vastly rich of preys to go after. It is not an “anemic” hunting game with only Bush in the rifle sight to shoot at and bring home to adorn the wall as a prize trophy.
Hundreds of thousands of intelligence and homeland security officers and soldiers obeyed their Commander-In-Chief’s orders to commit “war crimes”. To me there was no doubt that those guys in uniform were patriots; they put their lives on the line, enough to make cynics realize that they are ready to die for the fatherland, but to Obama-Pelosi Bush hunters and based on the legal philosophy they publicly announced in print and on television shows – those “willing participants” actually committing Bush’s “crime against humanity” must be prosecuted and if found guilty must be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
Many Americans have their tongues hanging out in total disbelief as to why in this time of financial scarcity and economic hardship one of the Obama administration’s priorities in uncontrollable spending spree is for the creation of armed militia in black and detention camps across the country. These are to be used in times of “emergency”.
Think of members of the U.S. Armed Forces, homeland security officers, agents of FBI, CIA and covert search-and-destroy commandos with no names, that one way or another, are going to be hunted down as Bush’s conspirators in committing these abominable “crimes against humanity”. Indeed, we have a horrifying “national emergency” if they are to confront Obama’s fully armed peacekeepers eyeball-to-eyeball. Those who blink first are going to be casualties of this civil war that looms darkly in the horizon.
But I bet that our still living presidents may not cause trouble to this administration’s covert law enforcers. These living presidents had also led wars and accused of “war crimes” and “genocide”, but I think being old now they would just go voluntarily and peacefully straight to any nearby detention camp lead by Obama himself who will also be “investigated” as active participants and conspirators for the alleged commission of “war crimes”, and when tried and found guilty hanged by the neck until dead.
And if this is to become the main preoccupation of the day under the Obama administration, the rope and lariat industry will perhaps be the only businesses that will experience “an economic boom” in the midst of today’s 1920s gloom and doom.
For, indeed, there will be pervasive multiple hangings in all parts of the country. The demand for a hangman’s noose made of abaca rope and synthetic threads or materials will create a nationwide Keynesian aggregate demand that would arrest the economic downturn and trigger the much needed recovery.
Is this a pundit’s joke? Not at all if there are those who believe that the rope economic incentive is a much better alternative to this on-going trillion-dollar robbery where the people’s tax money goes to the pockets of criminals who committed egregious “economic crimes”. Their necks actually more than deserved the hangman’s rope.
But here comes the “kill joy”. In the House hearing committee, CIA director nominee Leon Panetta assured Congress that no intelligence officer would be prosecuted for “war crimes”. Only the heads of those who “ordered the war crime” are in the chopping block. They are only after Bush, the top dog of “war crimes”.
And that was the first remarkable message of Obama’s CIA director-to-be to terrorists in behalf of his administration. Under this new liberal-socialist regime, the Panetta doctrine of political hot pursuit aptly called “Panattasm” means the Obama administration is only after Osama bin Laden, the head of terrorism, not those cutthroat assassins under his leadership command who did the criminal act of mass murder and wanton destruction, just as they are only after Bush, not those who committed the crime under his order as Commander-In-Chief.
This latest development in the political front forced me once again to climb the belfry to ring the bell of alarm: Every American must prepare for “dirty bombs” that could blow up Los Angeles or New York to kingdom come. For, under the Obama regime, “Panettasm” sees to it that terrorists are legally free to do their worst. If arrested, they would not even be prosecuted.
Panetta had already announced this assurance in Congress to all and sundry. He spilled the beans of what lurks behind the campaign to get Bush. In effect this legal excuse behind the “hang-Bush” campaign applies to the “get-Osama-bin-Laden” campaign… they are only after Osama bin Laden who orders the carnage those Islamic assassins and terror hirelings commit. It may sound sickening, but that’s the mentality of the power that governs.
How about this sing-along legality that those caught violating the law must be prosecuted a.k.a. persecuted to the fullest extent of the law? Well, they spit out the exception when they swallow hook and sinker what they said about the dictate of the law as a reason to tenaciously pursue the investigation of those who commit “war crimes.”
The other day, I had this one of the most terrifying scares of my life. I watched a 3-year old baby swallow a mouthful of cherries with all the seeds that almost choked the little toddler to death.
What came back to me in split seconds was that vivid picture of Saddam Hussein … turning blue and breathless while hanging and struggling at the end of the rope like a hooked fish in dry land.
Luckily, after less than a minute or so of contorted bodily struggle which seemed to have lasted longer than eternity, the baby discharged the choking seeds out of his mouth. I couldn’t forget this incredible smile of relief as if he was saying to everybody that what he had coughed out was the exception to what he had scooped into his mouth that could not and should not be swallowed for the sake of survival.
Dying of asphyxiation by choking is, like hanging by the neck at the end of the rope, not only painful but also in the eyes of God, a disgraceful way of ending life. Judas hanged himself in a nearby tree. The stigma of betrayal and treachery is never looked at with favor even in the afterlife.
Obama’s legal centurions who do not leave any single stone unturned in their quest for a presidential investigation to hang President Bush swallowed hook and sinker the mandate of the law that anyone – anybody regardless who that might be -- violating the law must be prosecuted to the fullest. But they are spitting out the legal exception: At least CIA agents that actually committed “war crimes” for Bush, will not be prosecuted.
The Obama cult in power has introduced a new legalese I just described – “Panettasm”. This emerging mentality in legalism may be difficult for the layman to understand but it is there ready to be used to political advantage. To the eyes of rabid followers now known as “Obamaniacs”, the new pro-people liberal-socialist government must always appear politically correct. That would induce smiles in the faces of those who voted for Obama in the last presidential election that are getting trite, corny and sour as the days roll by.
This roaring segment of the American public waving a sea of flaglets for change in front of TV cameras loves Panetta as the cry baby who choked up with cherries.
As CIA Director [only to become the CIA Director at this writing], Panetta will survive any character assassination attempt within Obama’s treacherous mutual admiration club the moment the political sailing turns from calm to rough while his boss – Obama himself – hangs with the rest of the presidents who were all in pari delicto in committing “war crimes”.
For the final ingredient to this menu of absurdities I just broiled to feed those joining this presidential hanging expedition, I would like to add a spice of immortality borrowed from John Wayne’s cliché -- war is tough, but it is a lot tougher to those who are deliberately stupid. #
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II. War Criminals To Hang: The Choking Cherries
by Edwin Sumcad
02/10/09
with inside title II. War Criminals To Hang: Panetta Assures Underlings Committing War Crimes Cannot Be Prosecuted, at http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Feature-Article.htm?InfoNo=045435
Part I. War Criminals To Hang: Those Hunting Them Fry On Their Own Lard
by Edwin Sumcad
Date: 02/10/09
Subject: Criminal Justice System
Image: The end of the rope.
They have committed “war crimes” according to Obama’s legal hatchet men. The main target was former president George W. Bush. But based on the legal criterion they are using to identify what a war criminal is, the hunt goes beyond Bush.
The legal benchmark of pursuit has been publicly announced: Those accused of “war crime” or “genocide” must be investigated and if found guilty must be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
Based on that publicized legalese, “war criminals” to be investigated are identifiable. This may shock the public. There are 373 of them in Congress, plus six still living presidents of the United States which includes Bush and Obama himself.
The number explodes beyond one’s wildest imagination if those who committed “war crimes” by following the orders of their Commanders-In-Chief are included.
Under this classification of “war criminals” based on the new administration’s legal jargon [legal guideline], are those who actually committed the crime: Officers of our intelligence community, homeland security personnel and thousands of members of our U.S. Armed Forces that committed “war crimes” by order of their Commander-In-Chief.
This legal pursuit of “war criminals” to hang will fry Obama and his underlings in their own lard.
I repeat without fear of contradiction, that President Obama and Speaker Pelosi’s barking Dobermans in Congress that smelled blood and now want President Bush hanged as a “war criminal” may fry in the simmering oil they themselves boiled.
Let’s help them jump into their frying pan the most helpful way we can.
I would like to restate this action baseline for clarity: Their legal ding-a-ling is that those accused of committing “war crimes” must be persecuted – I mean prosecuted and if found guilty must be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
Since “war crimes” are high crimes punishable by death, the ultimate punishment is usually hanging by the neck until dead.
The “monster” in human clothing that recently had a terminal date with the hooded hangman fashionably dressed in black in celebration of death, was the infamous dictator of Iraq Saddam Hussein.
This war criminal head of state reached the end of the rope, and died immediately without a chance of growing his dreaded mustachio like Hitler’s, the Holocaust war criminal who took the law into his hand and ended it all.
Nose-leading blood-thirsty Dobermans in a Bush-hunting Safari in this manner, it is imperative that we must first call their attention to the fact that without this war on terror and the war in Iraq, there would be neither “war crimes” to speak of nor “crime against humanity” to level off against Bush in the first place.
Bush is currently hunted for allegedly committing “genocide” in Iraq. War crime hunters premised this rather obsessive belief that Bush is a “war criminal” on and because of what he did in Iraq [to America’s enemies that joined forces against U.S. in the Iraq war], and what he did to captured terrorists and those caught on the act, to protect Americans from Islamic terrorism – save us from enemies of the state who were surreptitiously conducting their clandestine operations right here in the homeland.
The alleged criminal acts -- real or imagined -- were speckled and wide-ranging, but the intensity of the charges narrows down to “waterboarding” or “torture”, which Obama’s hatchet men in black toga claim is a serious “crime against humanity”.
But this is what they forgot, or if not, are trying to ignore. Facts are facts nonetheless, and they need facts to carry in their luggage in this expedition to hunt down “war criminals” to hang.
There were 373 “war criminals” in Congress who were “Bush’s accomplices” if such is the case. We are presenting this proof to them in their own language. On October 10 and October 11, 2002, Congressmen and Senators voted for the “Resolution of Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq …” -- the power they gave to Bush to commit those alleged “war crimes” in Iraq.
296 co-conspirators in the House of Representatives and 77 co-conspirators in the Senate voted for what those who voted now call “misadventure” in Iraq, seeing to it that Bush commits the “war crimes” they have authorized him to commit.
We call upon those Senators and Congressmen as witnesses to fry in their own lard. We take as evidence their statements on record that the war powers they gave to Bush are “unconstitutional, felonious and treasonous”.
Most if not all of these “war criminals” are now in Obama’s Cabinet. Obama himself is an accomplice. He voted at least 11 times since 2003 to fund “Bush’s war” … the “war of mass murder, maiming and torture” as the put it without batting an eyelash.
As Bush’s war crime accomplices, they also voted several times for those several amendments of the Patriot Act that created the Military Tribunal to try terrorists, and on top of that conspiracy to commit “war crimes” they authorized by law the use of military Information Interrogation Technique [torture] to extract information from the captured enemy of the state to save millions of American lives that the discovered plots had targeted to wipe out.
It has been said that only a fool can fool a fool more than anyone else.
As it is illustrated in this editorial piece, the imagery is pithy and forceful, its headiness sharp and pungent: The fool who cut off the fellow’s head that lay asleep, and hid it, and then waited to see what this guy would say when he awaked and missed the head-piece, was right in the first thought, that a man would be surprised to find such an alteration in things since he fell asleep; but the head chopper was a little mistaken to imagine the man could awake at all after the head was cut off. [Tatler] #
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Part I. Hunt War Criminals And Fry On Your Own Lard
Date: 02/10/09
by Edwin Sumcad
Subject: Criminal Justice System
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Feature-Article.htm?InfoNo=045432
Hanging By Public Acclamation: Are We To Hang All Our Presidents?
C'mon,Baby, Hang
by Edwin Sumcad
Date: 02/08/09
I raise this question if we must hang our presidents after run-of-the-mill government stalkers in Congress pressured President Barack Hussein Obama to investigate Bush and VP Dick Cheney of the alleged “war crimes” they have committed while in office, and if found guilty, to be hanged by the neck.
My real concern is not on the political aspect of what appears to be a vengeful “witch hunt”. Politicians can fry on their own lard for all I care. But hundreds of thousands of our intelligence agents and homeland security officers nationwide not to include the entire U.S. Armed Forces, obeyed President Bush’s order as their Commander-In-Chief, and kept us alive to this day while the war on terror intensified. They willfully participated in this alleged “crime against humanity” to defeat terror and keep us alive.
Obama’s ax-wielders in black toga and Nancy Pelosi’s political Dobermans in Congress – by the way, one of the most ferocious of them all that smelled blood was Cong. John Conyers, Jr. of the House Judiciary Committee -- stand on the rock of this legal maxim they touted that those who violated the law must be persecuted ... I mean prosecuted and punished to the fullest extent of the law.
Does this mean then that those thousands of intelligence and homeland security officers and all the soldiers that participated in this alleged “war crimes”, must also be “investigated” and if found guilty must be hanged by the neck until dead?
The legal premise advocated in going after Bush -- the 43rd President of the United States -- is that he is accused of committing “crime against humanity”.
And this is where I am worried to death: We have fought so many wars. Winning them shaped our destiny. U.S. presidents – the Commanders-In-Chief, if you may – who led those wars have been accused of committing “war crimes” and “genocides” both by external enemies we have vanquished and by the enemy within who thinks that the Federal Government is actually Al Qaeda, and President Bush was actually Osama bin Laden in disguise behind the “Conspiracy Theory” who engineered the 9/11 infamy!
Does this also mean then that U.S. presidents who are still alive today, together with former presidents Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Bush, Sr. and George W. Bush, must also be “investigated”, and if found guilty, must be hanged by the neck until dead?
If not, why not? Those who violate the law must be prosecuted and punished to the “fullest extent of the law”, isn’t it?.
Tell me if for the first time in history, we will see for the first time, the hanging of presidents under Obama’s socialist regime of change … a change, indeed [and please help us understand] I know not what and where, it is leading us to.
The best venue to tackle these disturbing questions, is Freedomsphoenix.com. This is one of the freest online publications in the Internet today! It is here where we get entertained and get educated at the same time even if bucket kickers resort to name-calling so long as we hear the cracking sound of the grinding ax, like the hanging by the neck, for entertainment purposes. #
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Comment by: Lolo Send Email
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Upon review, the Author pointed out a typo error. The first line of the last paragraph you just read, should read: "The best venue to tackle these disturbing questions, is Freedomsphoenix.com." Comment by: Oyate Send Email
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Has anyone actually made a case for hanging by public acclamation? Especially here? I mean, that sounds a little "democratic" for this crowd.
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Oh, boy, you are right for this crowd … you are saying it smartly! Hope not too deep for this crowd.
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War Criminals: 373 Plus U.S. Presidents Still Alive Bush And Obama Himself Are To Hang
Written by Ed Sumcad
by Ed Sumcad
NWS - Columnist
Obama will fry on his own lard if he orders this ill-advised Bush investigation of alleged "war crimes".
President Obama and Speaker Pelosi’s barking Dobermans in Congress that smelled blood and now want President Bush hanged as a “war criminal” may fry in their own lard.
Let’s help them jump into their frying pan the most helpful way we can: Their legal ding-a-ling is that those accused of committing “war crimes” must be persecuted – I mean prosecuted and if found guilty must be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
Since “war crimes” are high crimes punishable by death, the ultimate punishment is usually hanging by the neck until dead.
The “monster” in human clothing that recently had a terminal date with the hooded hangman fashionably dressed in black in celebration of death, was the infamous dictator of Iraq Saddam Hussein.
This war criminal head of state reached the end of the rope, and died immediately without a chance of growing his dreaded mustachio like Hitler’s, the Holocaust war criminal who took the law into his hand and ended it all.
Nose-leading blood-thirsty Dobermans in a Bush-hunting Safari in this manner, we must first call their attention to the fact that without this war on terror and the war in Iraq , there would be no “war crimes” against Bush to speak of in the first place.
Bush is currently hunted for allegedly committing “genocide” in Iraq . War crime hunters premised this rather obsessive belief that Bush is a “war criminal” on and because of what he did in Iraq [to America’s enemies in the Iraq war], and what he did to captured terrorists and those caught on the act, to protect Americans from Islamic terrorists who were surreptitiously conducting their clandestine operations right here in this land of the free.
The alleged criminal act narrows down to “waterboarding” or “torture”, which Obama’s hatchet men in black toga claim is a serious “crime against humanity”.
But this is what they forgot, or if not, are trying to ignore. Facts are facts nonetheless, and they need facts to carry in their luggage in this expedition to hunt down “war criminals” to hang.
There were 373 “war criminals” in Congress who were “Bush’s accomplices”. We are presenting this proof to them in their own language. On October 10 and October 11, 2002, Congressmen and Senators voted for the “Resolution of Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq…” -- the power they gave to Bush to commit those alleged “war crimes” in Iraq .
296 co-conspirators in the House of Representatives and 77 co-conspirators in the Senate voted for what those who voted now call “misadventure” in Iraq , seeing to it that Bush commits the “war crimes” they have authorized him to commit.
We call upon those Senators and Congressmen as witnesses to fry in their own lard. We take as evidence their statements on record that the war powers they gave to Bush are “unconstitutional, felonious and treasonous”.
Most if not all of these “war criminals” are now in Obama’s Cabinet. Obama himself is an accomplice. He voted at least 11 times since 2003 to fund “Bush’s war” … the “war of mass murder, maiming and torture.”
As Bush’s war crime accomplices, they also voted several times for several amendments of the Patriot Act that created the Military Tribunal to try terrorists, and on top of that conspiracy to commit “war crimes” they authorized by law the use of military Information Interrogation Technique [torture] to extract information from the captured enemy of the state to save millions of American lives that the discovered plots had targeted to wipe out.
The hunt for “war criminals” is vastly rich of preys to go after. It is not an “anemic” hunting game with only Bush in the rifle sight to shoot and bring home to adorn the wall as a prize trophy.
Hundreds of thousands of intelligence and homeland security officers and soldiers obeyed their Commander-In-Chief’s orders to commit “war crimes”. To me there was no doubt that they were patriots but to Obama-Pelosi Bush hunters – those were “willing participants” who actually committed Bush’s “crime against humanity”.
Many Americans have their tongues hanging out in bewilderment as to why in this time of financial scarcity and economic hardship one of the Obama administration’s priorities in uncontrollable spending spree is for the creation of armed militia in black and detention camps across the country. These are to be used in times of “emergency”.
Think of members of the U.S. Armed Forces, homeland security officers, agents of FBI, CIA and covert search-and-destroy commandos with no names, that one way or another, are going to be hunted down as Bush’s conspirators in committing these abominable “crimes against humanity”. Indeed, we have a horrifying “national emergency” if they are to confront Obama’s fully armed peacekeepers eyeball-to-eyeball. Those who blink first are going to be casualties of this civil war.
But I bet that our still living presidents may not cause trouble to Obama’s covert law enforcers. They too had led wars and accused of “war crimes” and “genocide”, but I think being old now they would just go voluntarily straight to any nearby detention camp lead by Obama himself who will also be “investigated” as active participants and conspirators for the alleged commission of “war crimes”, and when tried and found guilty hanged by the neck until dead.
And if this is to become the main preoccupation of the day under the Obama administration, the rope and lariat industry will perhaps be the only businesses that will experience “an economic boom” in the midst of today’s 1920s gloom and doom.
For, indeed, there will be pervasive multiple hangings in all parts of the country. The demand for a hangman’s noose made of abaca rope and synthetic threads or materials will create a nationwide Keynesian aggregate demand that would arrest the economic downturn and trigger the much needed recovery.
Is this a pundit’s joke? Not at all if there are those who believe that the rope economic incentive is a much better alternative to this on-going trillion-dollar robbery where the people’s tax money goes to the pockets of criminals who committed egregious “economic crimes”. Their necks actually more than deserved the hangman’s rope.
But here comes the “kill joy”. In the House hearing committee, CIA director nominee Leon Panetta assured Congress that no intelligence officer would be prosecuted for “war crimes”. Only the heads of those who “ordered the war crime” are in the chopping block. They are only after Bush, the top dog of “war crimes”.
And that was the first remarkable message of Obama’s CIA director-to-be to terrorists. The Obama administration is only after Osama bin Laden, the head of terrorism, not his cutthroat assassins who did the criminal act of mass murder and wanton destruction, just as they are only after Bush, not those under him who committed the crime under his order.
It is my reason for climbing the belfry to ring the bell of alarm that every American must prepare for “dirty bombs” that could blow up Los Angeles or New York to kingdom come. Under the Obama regime, terrorists are legally free to do their worst. If arrested, they would not even be prosecuted. Panetta announced this assurance in Congress to all and sundry. They are only after Osama bin Laden who ordered the carnage.
How about this sing-along legality that those caught violating the law must be prosecuted a.k.a. persecuted to the fullest extent of the law? Well, they spit out the exception when they swallow hook and sinker what they said about the dictate of the law as a reason to tenaciously pursue the investigation of those who commit “war crimes.”
The other day, I had this terrifying scare of my life. I watched a 3-year old baby swallow a mouthful of cherries with all the seeds that almost choked the little toddler to death.
What came back to me in split seconds was that vivid picture of Saddam Hussein … turning blue and breathless while hanging and struggling at the end of the rope.
Luckily, after less than a minute or so of contorted bodily struggle which seemed to have lasted longer than eternity, the baby discharged the choking seeds from the mouth. I couldn’t forget this incredible smile of relief as if he was saying to everybody that, what he had coughed out was the exception to what he had scooped into his mouth that could not and should not be swallowed for the sake of survival.
Dying of asphyxiation by choking is, like hanging by neck at the end of the rope, not only painful but also in the eyes of God, a disgraceful way of ending one’s life. Judas hanged himself in a nearby tree. The stigma of betrayal and treachery is never looked at with favor in the afterlife.
Obama’s legal centurions who do not leave any single stone unturned in their quest for a presidential investigation to hang President Bush swallowed hook and sinker the mandate of the law that anyone who violates the law must be prosecuted to the fullest. But they are spitting out the exception. At least CIA agents that actually committed “war crimes” for Bush, will not be prosecuted.
The public loves Panetta as the cry baby who choked up with cherries. But he will survive while his boss – Obama – hangs with the rest of the presidents who were all in pari delicto in committing “war crimes”.
As a final ingredient to this menu of absurdities I just broiled to feed those joining this presidential hanging expedition, I would like to add a spice of immortality borrowed from John Wayne’s cliché -- war is tough, but it is a lot tougher to those who are deliberately stupid. #
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