As Ari Fleischer said, "Watch what you say!"
Hey Folks,
Regular Americans (hell, regular people) just don’t get it. The fucks who run things are ruthless scum.
Regular folks are raised up to think the leaders are just like us, only more so – kinder, gentler, more attentive to manners, custom, “morality,” and law. Well, forget that. The people on top are heartless self-serving, lying, vicious beasts.
If I had the time to write it and you to read it, I could go on at great length with historical documentation – but most people will either believe me or not without regard to documentation.
I’ll mention a few examples worth looking into if anyone is so inclined: Czar Nicholas II, the present leaders of China, all feudal nobility, innumerable religious leaders, Carnegie-Rockefeller-Robber Barons et.al., American slave owners (including our “Founding Fathers”), Cecil Rhodes, and – since they are legally imbued with the rights of actual living souls – large corporations.
All these – and the millions more that belong on this list (and what makes anyone think that in the last fifty or a hundred years leaders [even ours] have suddenly changed?) – will brook no shenanigans from underlings or competitors. They will stop you one way or another; lightly if possible, a little more strongly if necessary (as in the story below), or more forcefully. If necessary, they will kill you.
Don’t act shocked. You know they will. Leaders will kill anyone they want whenever they want. They always have and they always will. The fact that they didn’t have to kill Steve Howards (below) doesn’t change that.
And the fact that they won’t kill the rest of us as long as we are pliable, toe the line, and don’t complain too much doesn’t constitute a counter argument either.
- Uke Man
Criticizing Cheney to His Face Is Assault?
By Matthew RothschildOctober 4, 2006
(a ukethanks to Linda)
Steve Howards says he used to fantasize about what he’d say to President Bush orVice President Cheney if he ever got the chance.
That opportunity arrived on June 16, the same day he says he read about U.S.fatalities in Iraq reaching 2,500.“Initially, I walked past him. Then I said to myself, ‘I can’t in goodconscience let this opportunity pass by.’ So I approached him, I got about twofeet away, and I said in a very calm tone of voice, ‘Your policies in Iraq arereprehensible.’”
Howards says he was taking two of his kids to their Suzuki piano camp in BeaverCreek, Colorado. They were walking across the outdoor public mall area when allof a sudden he saw Cheney there.
“I didn’t even know he was in town,” Howards says. “He was walking through thearea shaking hands. Initially, I walked past him. Then I said to myself, ‘Ican’t in good conscience let this opportunity pass by.’ So I approached him, Igot about two feet away, and I said in a very calm tone of voice, ‘Your policiesin Iraq are reprehensible.’ And then I walked away.”
Howards says he knew the Administration has a “history of making problems” forpeople who protest its policies, so he wanted to leave off at that.
But the Secret Service did not take kindly to his comment.“About ten minuteslater, I came back through the mall with my eight-year-old son in tow,” Howardsrecalls, “and this Secret Service man came out of the shadows, and his exactwords were, ‘Did you assault the Vice President?’ ”
Here’s how Howards says he responded: “No, but I did tell Mr. Cheney the way Ifelt about the war in Iraq, and if Mr. Cheney wants to be shielded from publiccriticism, he should avoid public places. If exercising my constitutional rightsto free speech is against the law, then you should arrest me.”
Which is just what the agent, Virgil D. “Gus” Reichle Jr, proceeded to do.
“He grabbed me and cuffed my hands behind my back in the presence of myeight-year-old son and told me I was being charged with assault of the VicePresident,”Howards recalls.
He says he told the agent, “I can’t abandon my eight-year-old son in a public mall.”
According to Howards, Reichle responded: “We’ll call Social Services.” Beforethat could happen, however, “my son ran away and found my wife,” who was nearby,Howards says.
“First of all, I was scared,” Howard recalls. “They wouldn’t tell my wife wherethey were taking me. Second of all, I was incredulous this could be happening inthe United States of America. This is what I read about happening in TiananmenSquare. They hauled me away to Eagle County jail and kept me with my handscuffed behind my back for three hours.”
At the jail, the charge against him was reduced to harassment, he says, and hewas released on $500 bond. The Eagle County DA’s office eventually dropped thatcharge.
On October 3, Howards sued Reichle for depriving him of his First Amendmentright of free speech and his Fourth Amendment right to be protected from illegalseizure.
Howards and his attorney, David Lane, have not demanded a specific dollar amount.
“We will go to trial and let a Colorado jury decide what type of damages areappropriate,” says Howards. “This isn’t about anything I did. This about what Isaid. There is a frontal assault occurring on our constitutional right to freespeech. We brought this suit because of our belief that this Administration’sattempt to suppress free speech is a greater threat to the long-term integrityof this nation than ten Osama bin Ladens.”
Reichle did not return my call for comment. Nor did he respond to The New YorkTimes in its article on this incident.
Lon Garner, special agent in charge at the Secret Service’s Denver office, sayshe has “no reaction” to the lawsuit. “It’s in litigation,” he says. “We have nocomment.”
Before his encounter with Cheney, Howards says he had a clean record.
“I was never arrested before,” he says. “I don’t have so much as a speeding ticket.”
Source URL: http://progressive.org/mag_mc100406
Regular Americans (hell, regular people) just don’t get it. The fucks who run things are ruthless scum.
Regular folks are raised up to think the leaders are just like us, only more so – kinder, gentler, more attentive to manners, custom, “morality,” and law. Well, forget that. The people on top are heartless self-serving, lying, vicious beasts.
If I had the time to write it and you to read it, I could go on at great length with historical documentation – but most people will either believe me or not without regard to documentation.
I’ll mention a few examples worth looking into if anyone is so inclined: Czar Nicholas II, the present leaders of China, all feudal nobility, innumerable religious leaders, Carnegie-Rockefeller-Robber Barons et.al., American slave owners (including our “Founding Fathers”), Cecil Rhodes, and – since they are legally imbued with the rights of actual living souls – large corporations.
All these – and the millions more that belong on this list (and what makes anyone think that in the last fifty or a hundred years leaders [even ours] have suddenly changed?) – will brook no shenanigans from underlings or competitors. They will stop you one way or another; lightly if possible, a little more strongly if necessary (as in the story below), or more forcefully. If necessary, they will kill you.
Don’t act shocked. You know they will. Leaders will kill anyone they want whenever they want. They always have and they always will. The fact that they didn’t have to kill Steve Howards (below) doesn’t change that.
And the fact that they won’t kill the rest of us as long as we are pliable, toe the line, and don’t complain too much doesn’t constitute a counter argument either.
- Uke Man
Criticizing Cheney to His Face Is Assault?
By Matthew RothschildOctober 4, 2006
(a ukethanks to Linda)
Steve Howards says he used to fantasize about what he’d say to President Bush orVice President Cheney if he ever got the chance.
That opportunity arrived on June 16, the same day he says he read about U.S.fatalities in Iraq reaching 2,500.“Initially, I walked past him. Then I said to myself, ‘I can’t in goodconscience let this opportunity pass by.’ So I approached him, I got about twofeet away, and I said in a very calm tone of voice, ‘Your policies in Iraq arereprehensible.’”
Howards says he was taking two of his kids to their Suzuki piano camp in BeaverCreek, Colorado. They were walking across the outdoor public mall area when allof a sudden he saw Cheney there.
“I didn’t even know he was in town,” Howards says. “He was walking through thearea shaking hands. Initially, I walked past him. Then I said to myself, ‘Ican’t in good conscience let this opportunity pass by.’ So I approached him, Igot about two feet away, and I said in a very calm tone of voice, ‘Your policiesin Iraq are reprehensible.’ And then I walked away.”
Howards says he knew the Administration has a “history of making problems” forpeople who protest its policies, so he wanted to leave off at that.
But the Secret Service did not take kindly to his comment.“About ten minuteslater, I came back through the mall with my eight-year-old son in tow,” Howardsrecalls, “and this Secret Service man came out of the shadows, and his exactwords were, ‘Did you assault the Vice President?’ ”
Here’s how Howards says he responded: “No, but I did tell Mr. Cheney the way Ifelt about the war in Iraq, and if Mr. Cheney wants to be shielded from publiccriticism, he should avoid public places. If exercising my constitutional rightsto free speech is against the law, then you should arrest me.”
Which is just what the agent, Virgil D. “Gus” Reichle Jr, proceeded to do.
“He grabbed me and cuffed my hands behind my back in the presence of myeight-year-old son and told me I was being charged with assault of the VicePresident,”Howards recalls.
He says he told the agent, “I can’t abandon my eight-year-old son in a public mall.”
According to Howards, Reichle responded: “We’ll call Social Services.” Beforethat could happen, however, “my son ran away and found my wife,” who was nearby,Howards says.
“First of all, I was scared,” Howard recalls. “They wouldn’t tell my wife wherethey were taking me. Second of all, I was incredulous this could be happening inthe United States of America. This is what I read about happening in TiananmenSquare. They hauled me away to Eagle County jail and kept me with my handscuffed behind my back for three hours.”
At the jail, the charge against him was reduced to harassment, he says, and hewas released on $500 bond. The Eagle County DA’s office eventually dropped thatcharge.
On October 3, Howards sued Reichle for depriving him of his First Amendmentright of free speech and his Fourth Amendment right to be protected from illegalseizure.
Howards and his attorney, David Lane, have not demanded a specific dollar amount.
“We will go to trial and let a Colorado jury decide what type of damages areappropriate,” says Howards. “This isn’t about anything I did. This about what Isaid. There is a frontal assault occurring on our constitutional right to freespeech. We brought this suit because of our belief that this Administration’sattempt to suppress free speech is a greater threat to the long-term integrityof this nation than ten Osama bin Ladens.”
Reichle did not return my call for comment. Nor did he respond to The New YorkTimes in its article on this incident.
Lon Garner, special agent in charge at the Secret Service’s Denver office, sayshe has “no reaction” to the lawsuit. “It’s in litigation,” he says. “We have nocomment.”
Before his encounter with Cheney, Howards says he had a clean record.
“I was never arrested before,” he says. “I don’t have so much as a speeding ticket.”
Source URL: http://progressive.org/mag_mc100406
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