Got Your Panties In A Twist?

For more than a month Americans have been debating, griping and yelling about the most recent voyage by the government into the private lives of its citizens....I am talking about the latest NSA "scandal".....you know that program where every aspect of an American citizen's life is scrutinized by those in the government....

But as an aged hippie, pinko I am well aware to this type of treatment by the government...ever hear of COINTELPRO?  Let wiki help with the jogging of the citizens collective memory.....

COINTELPRO (an acronym for Counter Intelligence Program) was a series of covert, and at times illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveying, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations.
The FBI has used covert operations against domestic political groups since its inception; however, covert operations under the official COINTELPRO label took place between 1956 and 1971. COINTELPRO tactics have been alleged to include discrediting targets through psychological warfare; smearing individuals and groups using forged documents and by planting false reports in the media; harassment; wrongful imprisonment; and illegal violence, including assassination. The FBI's stated motivation was "protecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order."

Does that sound at all familiar?

As a "subversive":, as I was labelled in the 70's every word I wrote was scrutinized and I was followed around almost daily....and you know when my civil rights were being stomped on not many mainstream Americans had the balls to stand up and demand accountability....but now all of a sudden, it is so damn important.....amusing ain't it?

We can piss and moan all we like....but these incidents were not the first time nor the last time crap like this will happen,,,,,as a matter of fact the hero of the Right, Abe Lincoln, was not above these tactics......

Newser) – In its day, it was about as high-tech as surveillance got: Abe Lincoln let war secretary Edwin Stanton reroute the nation's telegraph lines through his office in 1862 so he could keep tabs on, and control, the flow of information about the war from generals, journalists, and ordinary citizens, writes media studies professor David Mindich in the New York Times. At one point, a House panel grew so worried about the "telegraphic censorship" that it called for restraint. Eventually, however, the war ended, and so did the eavesdropping.

"Part of the reason this calculus was acceptable to me was that the trade-offs were not permanent," writes Mindich. Similar surveillance, ever more high-tech, happened in subsequent wars, but it always receded when the war ended. Which brings us to Edward Snowden and the war on terror. "If history is any guide, ending the seemingly endless state of war is the first step in returning our civil liberties," writes Mindich. Because given the state of snooping today, Stanton himself might be aghast at the potential for abuse. Click for the full column.

Yes I am a bit perturbed about this newest violation of American's civil rights....but am I shocked?  Nothing about the functioning of this government shocks me...Americans need to realize what lengths the government will go to in the name of national security. 

What Democrats Need

These days democrats are assaulted on all sides.....they are fin ding it harder and harder to keep up the good fight.....all the progress the country has made in the last 100 years is now under direct assault.....voters rights, freedom to choose, employment, workers rights, etc........and states where the GOP is in control all the progress made in those years is being rolled back to where there is no longer an American Dream or at least one of upward mobility.

The question now is can the Dems effectively fight the attacks on working families?

An excellent question.....the GOP has been cranking out bill after bill for the state legislatures to vote on.....how can they produce so many bills?  They state legislatures are not as quick nor as sharp as to have at their disposal the intellectual capabilities to author these bills......there is a bill mill....a group of Righties that sole purpose in life is to crank out the absurd bills that legislatures are considering today.....

And there is your answer....Democrats need to wake up and smell the fecal matter.....the only way to fight these attacks on a 100 years of progress is clog the system with work....in this case bill after bill......this may sound petty to some but it is working like a champ for the Righties.....and as long as it works.....I say fight fire with fire!

If you want this country to ever return to the magnificence it once had then it is time to learn to be an INSURRECTIONIST!  That is why I am here!

Revolutionary democracy

This is something I think the US needs desperately.  Some may call this Anarchy, or Socialism or whatever you want–it does not matter the title; what matters is that we need it now.

Revolutionary Democracy

What is it?  How does it work?  Before I answer these and other questions, I need to let the reader know that as an observer, I write like I think, I have no time to be grammatically correct, so if for some reason it offends the readers sensibilities, I would say……..Okay.

Please, because the word “revolutionary” is used it is not necessarily meaning some form of armed conflict.  If one cannot move past some arbitarily defined word, then move on, we do not need your input.

I am a revolutionary democrat.  That does not mean I am a member of the Democratic party, far from, it means that I see a need for drastic changes in our system of government.  While I might agree with some of the stances of the DP, I should by no means be confused for a lame half-witted politico.  A revolutionary democrat sees the following as necessities:

1–aim for fundamental change. such as a redistribution of power and social equality.

2–insist on the big picture, making connections between concrete issues and causes.

3–emphasize brotherhood which implies giving up on stands that only fragment such as the damn silly thought of partisanship.

4–the emergence of a mass movement rather than the acting “for” the people.

5–to work outside the box of electoral politics, for the party system is committed to the nation state not the needs of the people.

Revolutionary Democracy sees the multinational corporations, imperialism and a new form of colonialism as the harbingers of a world crisis.  It is time for the people to take control of their lives and their country.  The people must demand and get accountability from their representatives, something they have none of today.  Time for the people to step up to the plate and learn to play ball; to take the decision making out of the hands of millionaires and put into the hands of the people.  A time for participatory democracy, where all lead and all govern.

At the present time in this political epoch, with corruption, scandal and non-caring, the reps you now have are nothing but spokespeople for big business and the wealthy.  They only care about the people every 4 years or so, once they have the vote they move on to their real objective–self-interest.
As long as the people continue on their path of subjugation, they will never have a voice in their destiny, just turn it over to those who prefer to lead and will lead to the path of ruin.

Right now, the people have the ways to take back their country and their government, but they must want to change the world and must want to end the political slavery they are now participating in.

An insurrection in the name of democracy.

What Is An Insurrectionst Democrat?

Good question.  Liberals are not really liberals anymore just a shade darker than a conserv......and then there is a progressive......which are nothing but old time liberals that think all can be solved at the ballot box.....an insurrectionist democrat is a working class warrior.....a blue collar inbtellectual.....someone that strives to give the people the information they need to make change....not reform....that is a silly word that does no good for anyone but those standing in the corporate welfare line......

So we begin our trip into real political activism......and activism means nothing without the ammunition of information....if you truly want change then this is where you need to be......and together we will teach the clowns and asshats quiver in their size 10 wing tips......