Booman recently wrote a piece called Serious Countries Don’t Issue Blanket Mulligans regarding the…”reluctance” may be too weak a term…the absolute refusal on any part of the federal government to prosecute those who ordered, aided and abetted the vast U.S. torture machine that came into being after 9/11.
He wrote:
Evidently, nothing of that sort will be happening this time around. The president appears to take Sun Tzu’s counsel [Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.], and I’ve never been wholly convinced that this isn’t the wiser course, at least from a selfish perspective.
Way to straddle the fence, Booman.
“I’ve never been wholly convinced that this isn’t the wiser course, at least from a selfish perspective.”
The tortured syntax of a guilty conscience. You know better.
Is it simply too perilous to try to hold the Intelligence Community accountable?
You know, maybe it really is.
But, if that’s the case, it seems all the more imperative to hold Bush administration officials accountable. They were, after all, the ones who gave the orders.
You bet your ass “maybe it really is” too perilous. Why?
Read on.
If you dare.
Why is it too perilous? Because of the following, that’s why.
You say that members of the Bush administration were “the ones who gave the orders.”
I no longer believe that this is so. I do not mean to give the Bush people a pass…they are certainly the ones who sold those orders to the American people…but it is increasingly obvious to me that no U.S. administration since the post-JFK coup has really been “giving the orders” regarding either tactical or strategic approaches on any appreciably important level in the United States of Omertica. Not regarding foreign policy for sure, not regarding domestic economic policies as well and quite likely not about social policies either. We have become a closeted fascist system, and the media is the instrument that provides the cloak of invisibility to the real bosses. It is the .01% who give the orders, who pull the strings, and if by some miracle all of the shrouds were to be pulled off the real controllers it seems likely to me that they would turn out to be CIA-allied and/or CIA-controlled corporate insiders.
We rail about “big money,” about the Koch brothers, about Sheldon Adelson, about the big banks and other financial institutions, about The Federal Reserve, etc. I have said this here before and I am saying it again. The CIA and its related intelligence satrapies have been in a position to amass so much money and so much power since their inception that they are now in the position of essentially owning the country. Think on it. They have been the beneficiaries of essentially unlimited and untraceable money from the government since the ’50s; they are in a position to know whatever they need to know to gain insider trading positions and they are completely outside of the reach of the justice system.
Hmmmm…
Talk about your stock market gurus!!!
I got yer “stock market.”
Right here!!!
They actually don’t have to “change that sign.” Their position is so powerful and so secret that they can advertise it with no fear of discovery.
And there it is, Booman.
Hiding in plain sight.
The controllers have no fear of reprisal. As they so plentifully demonstrated w/Nixon and later w/Clinton, they can throw a president under any passing bus that they choose if they wish to do so. Obama’s no dummy…his momma didn’t raise no bus victims. Bet on it.
Serious Countries Don’t Issue Blanket Mulligans?
Oh yes they do!!!
The U.S. is as serious as death.
Bet on that as well.
Ask its millions of victims if you have any doubts about its seriousness.
Will all of this change?
Not likely. Not without some kind of societal breakdown, and no one of sane mind wants to see that. It is what it is. Learn to deal wid it, because it’s not going away anytime soon.
And…wake the fuck up!!!
Station WTFU signing off.
Our motto?
If no news is good news, we have the best news service ever.
Yup.
Deal wid it.
Obama has.
He’s just waiting for the elevator out, now.
Bet on it.
Later…
AG
It’s done deal, so far.
Bet on it.
The next preznit?
20 to 1 it’s the same as the old preznit.
Just another image.
Gotta keep those stories rolling out.
Remember…
Yup.
Watch.
But don’t believe.
Please.
Later…
S.
You see it: ‘I’ve never been wholly convinced that this isn’t the wiser course, at least from a selfish perspective.’ =
Then you see it for real:I am basically convinced that this is the wiser course, at least from a selfish perspective.
What does ‘at least…’ refer to? Astounding!
Well…to give Booman the benefit of the doubt, “at least from a selfish perspective” seems to me to refer to the same thing I said above:
He has a family; he has a life. As do we all. That precarious middle road that he believes Obama to be treading can be considered from one perspective…a selfish perspective, perhaps, but sanity and a certain self-preservatory instinct do have some kind of positive, symbiotic relationship in the real world…as an attempt to buy some time. Unfortunately it is beginning to look to me like the price of “bought time” is in a seriously inflationary spiral.
Up.
Eventually we won’t have any more time left to buy…or of course we will run out of the wherewithal to continue buying it… and then it’s going to be hell on wheels here in the good ol’ U.S. of A.
Just sayin’…I understand his feelings.
i just think that they are counterproductive.
When the price of anything goes sky high, my own approach is to simply stop buying it. I have bought out of the progressive “Hold on!!! It’s got to get better eventually if we just keep on keepin’ on!!!” thing.
Why?
Number one it’s too damned expensive and number two the quality of the goods bought is rapidly deteriorating.
So it goes.
Down like a motherfucker, eventually.
Bet on it.
As that old Cold War nuke lick goes:
Or…end the fucking war.
Our choice in 2016.
A narrow choice?
A bad odds choice?
Yes.
But it’s still ours.
Hillary or Jeb? (And that’s what they’re currently trying to sell us.)
Just more corporate control no matter who wins.
Like I said…so it goes.
Deal wid it as best as you can.
But deal wid it.
Later…
AG
2014: The Year Propaganda Came Of Age – The Automatic Earth
Agreed.
Except for this part:
No.
The JFK coverup was that year.
Or the promotion of the Vietnam War.
Or the Watergate kerfuffle.
Or the long-running Iran/Contra coverup.
Or Iraq War I.
Or the Clinton/Lewinsky boondoggle.
Or the 9/11-Iraq War II effort.
Or the (still continuing) coverup regarding who and/or what was really to blame for the financial collapse of the mid-2000s.
Or crowning Obama as “Our saviour.”
Etc., etc., etc.
As Robert Crumb so prophetically drew in the late 1960s:
Yup.
Only the faces and media change.
The basic line remains the same.
Yup.
Station WTFU signing off. Gotta go play music in the Times Square area while they drop the big one.
Let us pray that they don’t drop some other kind of big one at the same time.
Let us pray.
AG