Showing posts with label war on terror. Show all posts
Showing posts with label war on terror. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Scoop: Pardon talks for a convicted terrorist could become an electoral issue in the USA

The buzz is finally out! Dr. sipmac already was talking about this in twitter but was dismissed. Now word is spreading throughout the United States. If the foreign agenda for Obama's second term is more flexibility, people is already in the know that two convicted terrorists could be realeased as aiding and abetting for the nascent but already uncertain peace process.

The guerrilla has already asked Simon Trinidad as a negotiator, insisting in his release.

The blogosphere is smelling something funny here...


Well, Obama could do it. Even in his last day of his term (in case he gets defeated by Romney), he could pardon Simón Trinidad and Nayibe Rojas and they could walk scott free. Tradition is that US presidents gives extremely controversial pardons in their last day of their terms.

This could gain traction...
Will Obama allow to become this an issue while remaining only twelve days for Election Day in the USA?

Stay tuned.
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

World Can't Wait and the most consistent protest of Election 2012

The radicals of World Can’t Wait had what [Pajamas Media] consider[s] the best sign of the day [an October 9th fundraising event that President Barack Obama attended in liberal bastion, friendly San Francisco -- or so he thought], a 12-Step program for Obama voters:
    1. Admit you are in a self-destructive relationship with the Democratic Party.

    2. Remove conflicting bumper stickers from your collection. “Shut Down Guantanamo” and “Obama 2012” are mutually exclusive.

    3. Understand that kill lists and more unjust war is the wrong kind of change to believe in.

    4. Stop lying to yourself. The President is not sucking up to the most powerful interests in the world because he loves you.

    5. Cut off all contact with Obama, Holder, Clinton and Pelosi. No more phone calls or writing letters. They are aware of what they are doing and they just don’t care what you think.

    6. Realize Obama is standing up and fighting. Unfortunately, he’s fighting Afghans, Pakistanis, Yeminis, Somalis…in your name.

    7. No more excuses. The Republicans are not making Democrats increase domestic spying or deport record numbers of Latinos.

    8. Get over your romantic feelings for Democrats and their supposed commitment to poor people. This election cycle, poverty is not on the agenda.

    9. Make a list of all war crimes committed under Bush. Cross out “Bush” and write in Obama. Add support for indefinite detention without charge, expanded drone wars, and invasions of two more countries. It’s healthy to gag at it.

    10. Come to grips with this: The only thing scarier than the Republican Party (a party full of climate-change deniers, fundamentalist woman-haters and gay-bashers, election stealers and racists) is a party who continually moves to the right to accommodate them and gets Americans to go along in that direction.

    11. Forgive yourself for being taken in by promises that were not delivered, and for ignoring troubling signs, because you wanted to believe in change. But remember, insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting different results.

    12. As a result of these steps, you can now carry the message to those who still suffer from an addiction to the Democratic Party. Nothing is as liberating as resisting an evil when you know it’s wrong.

Throw 'em all!!!
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Hank Williams Jr.: You're no Dixie Chick, just shut up and sing!

In 2003, one of the Dixie Chicks regretted publicly and outside the U.S. that her president George W. Bush the 43rd came from the same state as they did. Turmoil followed, because it was a “treacherous” thing to do. Right wing commentators attacked the country music artists because the USA was in a war against terror and they were aiding and abetting terrorists with their very words. Treacherous or not, in simpler but more elegant times, artists didn’t engage in polemic statements outside their homelands.

Granted this, the Chicks were exercising her free speech after all. Eventually, and allegedly after Laura Bush let her husband proceed, the president himself told the people to refrain from abusing the girls. A documentary about the bravery of the Dixie Chicks was filmed afterwards, as a testament to the first ammendment martyrs.

It has to be a really great feat to be a son of a country music legend and make a name for you anyway. Hank Williams Jr. did it anyway. Yesterday he compared president Obama to Hitler in “Fox and Friends”, just because Hank supports Israel and doesn’t find the president’s behavior very supportive at all.

Turmoil followed, because it was a “racist” thing to do, and his appearances were pulled out from “Monday Night Football” on ESPN with a public statement of the network. Although Williams Jr. is said to be supporting Herman Cain in the Republican primaries, he caved in and backtracked his prior statement, obviously feeling the heat.

Apparently nobody has realized the parallel between the Chicks and Williams Jr. Nobody came to support his free speech exercise and absolutely nobody is talking about a clearing documentary of his heroic feat.


The word is not “racism” but “hypocrisy.” The double standard never felt so disgusting.
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