“Slappy Pappy”,  Your Blogger,  Thanks all Concerned for Maintaining the Legal Integrity of First Amendment!

Kudos to ACLU,  Donald B. Verrilli Jr,  The United State Solicitor General and The Supreme Court!!

We have just come through some turbulent times with the unnecessary but vital confrontations of ideological differences in our esteemed,  or perhaps,  not so esteemed,  legislative  body.

 The result of this imbroglio is still uncertain.    But by nature and profession,   I live in the world of doubt,  fear,  and inexactitude.   That of course,  is not everyone’s cup of tea.    And I respect that!

 

FYI,   I am now known by my close friends and enemies as ‘Slappy Pappy’ for the incessant but hopefully constructive ‘bitch slaps’ that I have directed over thirty years against all types of perceived or real government injustices.   (I think its a compliment?)   After all my slappin' over the recent political antics,   I am exceedingly happy over a little noticed accomplishment that blossomed within the dark penumbra of the shutdown.

  In a NY Times article on Thursday,  October 17, 2013,  entitled U.S. Legal Shift May Open Door For Challenge to Secret Wiretaps by Charles Savage (posted yesterday),   a Department of Justice U.S Solicitor General,   Donald B. Verrilli Jr. is  “setting up a potential  Supreme Court TEST [my emphasis] if whether it is CONSTITUTIONAL [my emphasis] by notifying a criminal defendant---for the first time—that EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM DERIVED FROM THE EAVESDROPPING is LEGAL [my emphasis and addition].

In other words,  what we have here folks,  is the USG responding accordingly  to  a culmination of  events both contrived and organic including:

- the cataclysmic  “Snowden Affair”:  

- the illegal WARRANTLESS SURVEILLANCE,  initiated by Senator Diane Feinstein [D-Calf];  

- the pro-active,  ever vigilant ACLU protection of our individual rights; 

- and  finally,  the imperative of the Department of Justice to test the legal validity of the laws of the land in the Supreme Court.

As far as I am concerned,   this is the way  REAL DEMOCRACY works.    Btw folks,   despite the hysteria of our extreme ideologues on all sides of the political spectra--- DEMOCRACY IS WORKING !!!

Let me share some of my personal experience over thirty years  in order to illustrate what I mean when I say ‘American Democracy’ is well and alive-  even today.    I have not been shy, in any way,   to ‘bitch slap’ our American presidents;  legislators;  Sec States;  Sec Defs;  US military; the CIA;  DIA;  FBI;  NSA; DOJ;  Secret Service; FEMA;  or any other acronym in the federal,  state or local  government.   When I saw a ‘false flag’ or a ‘stand down’,   I happily used my blog and radio presence to share my views.    But,  under NO CIRCUMSTANCES, was I EVER WARNED,  CENSORED OR THREATENED by my ‘vitriolic verbal attacks’.

I had even been asked politely by several different organizations was it okay for them to monitor my statements both on the blog and on the radio,  and I happily agreed.

 These different groups,  many whom I did not know personally or professionally,   had as much right to hear what I had to say or write as I had the right to state or write my personal positions.   Over the past three decades since 9/11,    I have never received a threat nor a warning to cease or desist in any way.

Many of you,  my dear readers and listeners,  have been very much concerned about my personal safety.    And I can’t thank you all enough for your gracious  out pouring.   But  as I have often tried to explain to my audience both here and abroad,   my liberties are not a foregone conclusion or even a presumed entitlement on my part.    My fight for free speech and a transparent democracy is part of a long standing tradition on my part and on the part of all the great US Presidents whom I had served or better said allowed me the privilege to serve my country in an official capacity while at the same time disagreeing with them in my own personal way.

Let me be more specific:

I was interrogated both in the Soviet Union and in the Middle East by ‘authoritarian regimes’ :

Why do I work for the American government ? 

Why am I willing to sacrifice my life countless number of times? 

I responded this way:

I explained to my interrogators that only in America,  could I serve Presidents Nixon,  Ford,  Carter,  Reagan and Bush Sr during the day and protest against certain parts of their agenda at night in full sight of the FBI,  Secret Service,  CIA, and many of my dear colleagues.     I explained that in America  even in the Intelligence community we all had our own particular differences but collectively we could and did work together to insure that peace,  prosperity and our form of democracy could survive ‘suppression’,  ‘tyranny’ and ‘internal subversion’.

Clearly my interrogators were completely baffled!

I explained to the KGB/GRU that although we loved to make childish play parks like the Walt DisneyWorld,   those same people were able to create ICBMs that could be quite devastating.   In the Middle East-  I explained that in American Society,  Christians,  Jews,  Muslims,  Zoroastrians,  Suffis and all other religious groups worked together because we did not care about someone’s religion.    We only cared about their civil duties and their contribution to our American society. 

Simple concept yet extremely difficult to explain.

Numerous times in several different parts of the world where authoritarian rule prevailed,   I was asked ‘don’t you resent your muddling,  inefficient democracy’?   When our ‘authoritarian society’ was far more efficient?

My response was simple but disturbing to those I was answering.    I told my interrogators –this time in Asia,  the following:

Our founding fathers had purposefully created an INEFFICIENT GOVERNMENT.    I added that our founding fathers deliberately DIFFUSED POWER among local,  state, and federal government agencies so that no one person,  not even the President,   could be that powerful in order to deny the American citizens of their rightful privileges and democratic freedoms.   I went on to explain that even the legislative branches were created to accomplish very little and what little it could do,  had to be done slowly.

All the interrogators in all the authoritarian countries in which I had been questioned were  completely bemused,   if not annoyed,  by my explanations.   To make matters somewhat simpler- and to add more salt to their frustrations,   I added that our founding fathers did not trust man’s nature.   They felt we were ‘self-serving’ and ‘corrupt’.    Therefore,  they decided it to pit one self-serving politician against another in order to thwart any design for accretion of power.     In effect,   GRIDLOCK was the best offense against Lord Acton’s Law:   “Power corrupts.   Absolute power corrupts ABSOLUTELY!!!”

  Continue! to comment on my blogs,  FB posts and others that you think are worth sharing.  You are NOT powerless!  On the contrary:  disseminate your opinions and protests-- because the Digital Information Age,   is the great equalizer for a democratic process.    Take advantage of the internet and continue to protest and agitate CONSTRUCTIVELY.     And don’t be afraid of INFRINGEMENT OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT. 

Rest assured that your private internet providers know much more about you than the NSA or the FEDS who don’t try to sell you merchandise—

They,  the USG,  just try to sell you a NARRATIVE –which can be FALSE or TRUE!!

How you accept that narrative completely depends upon you!
  Slappy Pappy  orders you  to continue to do your vigilant homework ---24/7!!
 

I will be posting later tonight,  here is some background.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/17/us/politics/us-legal-shift-may-open-door-for-challenge-to-secret-wiretaps.html?_r=0

Thank You Women Senators for Trying to Resolve the Testosterone Stalemate in Our Government!!
 As “The Grateful Dead” Sang:
“That’s Right Women Are Smarter!!”

It took a group of non-narcissistic individuals from Alaska,  the North East [yeah, New Hampshire] and other states to resolve the federal conundrum.

Unlike former Senator Hillary Clinton who rode on her husband’s coat-tails,   the following women senators are to be thanked by our body politic:

• Susan Collins [R-Maine].

• Lisa Murkowski [R-Alaska—defeated Tea Party with a write in ballot. Now that’s courage!!]

• Barbara A. Mikulski [D-Maryland]

• Patty Murray [D-Washington]

• Amy Klobuchar [D-Minnesota]

• Heidi Heitkamp [D-North Dakota] 

And the two senators from my favorite state of NEW HAMPSHIRE:

• Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]

• Kelly Ayotte [R-NH].

  The only woman senator not to have contributed in initiating any compromise discussion was Senator Deb Fischer [D-Nebraska].

My professional prejudice is quite apparent.   Woman are far more suited to collaborate and work together with each other because of the their socialization as mothers,  daughters,  care-takers and having ‘to do Everything for Everyone!” 

Sidebar: Please read my outdated non-fiction book:
My Life Is Great! Why Do I Feel So Awful?   It’s about having treated successful women—politicians,  mothers,  lawyers,  financiers and why they felt wanting in their own lives.

But back to my blog,  where I can laud the accomplishments of legislative women who have made the following relevant pronouncements in trying to resolve the testosterone-initiated conundrum [ “mudslinging babies” : Cruz, Cantor, Rand, Boehner]:

Ms Susan Collins:  "Although we span the ideological spectrum, WE ARE USED TO WORKING TOGETHER IN A COLLABORATIVE WAY!!!"

Back to the Grateful Dead:
"Little boys sit on the corner and cry

Big man come and he asked them why

They said,” We can’t do WHAT THE BIG BOYS DO’

The man sat down and he cried too"

Chorus:
"That’s right!
The WOMEN ARE SMARTER!"

Next female senatorial quote:

Sen. Kelly Ayotte:  "Its UNACCEPTABLE as LEADERS that have BEEN ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY.   WE OWE it to OUR CONSTITUENTS TO RESOLVE THIS NOW!!!” 

Could NOT have said it better myself!  Let these female leaders in the Senate be heard!  The government is for the people and these political power plays at America's expensive must end now!  Its destructive!  Lets recall some of these political puppets that can't do their job.

Homework for tonight's post,  women are smarter, we should listen to them more often
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/15/us/senate-women-lead-in-effort-to-find-accord.html?_r=0

How Many Military/Civilian Coups Have Been Initiated in the USA? 

  None….. or Several?
  What do you think?
 

For some time now,   many of my faithful readers have asked me why are we Americans living in a time of constant fear?
  My answer is that we Americans,  especially ELEVEN MILLION MILITARY VETERANS have not been aware how we,  citizen-soldiers,  were co-opted into wars that civilian leaders, --Presidents,  Legislators, and our military/industrial/banking cabal has fostered in the name of "Democracy" "National Security", etc.

Witness the present financial imbroglio created by ‘chicken hawks’  like the  Tea Party sycophants- Ted Cruz,  Rand Paul,  John Boehner  who did not serve,   neither did Senator Reid, ‘boxer  in a Nevada whorehouse’, and his toady Nancy 'Baltimore Mafiosa' Pelosi.

There are far more serious American coups that happened recently.

  The 9/11 American attack on it’s own people orchestrated by Cheney-Bush-Rumsfeld and Marvin,  Jeb Bush and the neocons was a clear example of tyranny overtaking  the natural progression of American civil society.    But ‘retribution’ will be in store for them. 

  However,   the American Coup phenomena extends to the assassination of JFK,  the invocation of LBJ and his miscreant behavior by invoking the False Lie of The Tolkin Gulf Resolution.

Of course as most of you know,  the Gulf Of Tolkin led to the deaths of millions of Vietnamese,  the death of fifty-five thousand brave American soldiers and the destruction of hundreds of thousands of innocent Vietnam era veterans’ and their families.    However,  my point is not to dwell unnecessarily on the past that we know all too well,
  My initial purpose of this blog to extol the virtues of a great military Marine Corps General Smedley Darlington Butler.

  Who is he?
Until recently I did not know about him until I saw the moving documentary called "Loose Change 9/11".

 Sidebar: See the real atrocities of 9/11 and the Bush family's involvement from Marvin Bush,   Bush Jr and  JEB.    Don’t forget the “Dirty Clintons” and “CIA Obama”. 

Now back to our military hero,   who surprisingly refused to lead a military  coup against FDR in 1934.    This military coup was specifically inspired by Prescott Bush [grandfather of Bush Jr] ,  the Duponts;  Firestone;  GE;  Brown Harriman Brothers;  Warburg  Banking --- and the rest of the slothful plutocrats of so-called American industry.

Why did a decorated Marine General Butler refuse to mobilize over 500,000 out-of-work WWI Veterans against FDR,  even though General Butler was a staunch Republican?
  Because this honorable military hero who had been awarded the Congressional Medal Of Honor—not ONCE BUT TWICE—believed that ‘preserving a free country and democracy was both his profession and his ‘hobby’.    He did not want to precipitate our country into a Civil War as Lincoln had done for the railroad interests.

  Instead,   he wrote a book that should be read by all American war veterans and Americans who want change in our  present dysfunctional,   fearful society.

  The book is called: War Is A Racket. ,    As one reader advised,  order five copies,   keep one,  give the rest to others to teach them the truth.

What I want to quote and especially  address this passage from Gen Butler’s book-- to my eleven million fellow military veterans of all the recent wars—Korea, Vietnam, Panama, Grenada, Iraq,  Afghanistan,  Yemen,  Somalia,  Sudan and Central/Latin America, et. Al:
 

"I,  Major General Butler,  helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for AMERICAN OIL INTERESTS IN 1914."

"I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in."

  "I helped in the raping of HALF A DOZEN South AMERICAN REPUBLICS FOR THE BENEFIT OF WALL STREET."

  "I helped PURIFY NICARAGUA for the INTERNATIONAL BANKING HOUSE OF BROWN/HARRIMAN BROTHERS in 1909-12."

"I brought LIGHT TO THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC FOR THE AMERICAN SUGAR INTERESTS in 1916."

"I HELPED MAKE HONDURAS 'RIGHT' for the AMERICAN FRUIT COMPANY in 1903.

  "In China in 1927,  I helped see to it that STANDARD OIL went its way UNMOLESTED [for the ROCKAFELLER FAMILY].

"Looking back on it [wars],   I felt I might have given AL CAPONE A FEW HINTS.

  "The best AL CAPONE could do was to OPERATE HIS CORRUPT RACKETS in THREE CITY DISTRICTS.  We Marines operated on three continents!"

There is not much that I can add to what this great military hero who was eventually denigrated and humiliated by cowardly political operatives like the ones we have now on both sides of the aisle.    I now must restate what I have said for three decades while serving my country for free.   It is time that our present military establishment redirect their collective efforts to establishing their respective priorities regarding national security.   Stop these cowardly PRESIDENTS and LEGISLATORS WHO REFUSED TO SERVE dictate what our course of actions should be.

As for we who have served—It is time to let our ‘so-called civilian leaders’ understand how DISGUSTED and FRUSTRATED we are with our  CIVILIAN COUPS that took away our RIGHTS,  FREEDOMS,  AND OUR ability to  MAKE A DECENT LIVING without being taxed and regulated to death.
 

Lose the fear mentality!!  Educate yourself!  and your children (yes,  schools do suck BUT we have the Information Age Tools to help us understand history).    Let's work together and refuse to give in to these Puppet Politicians who are controlled by the greedy wealthy elite who want to tax US if we don't buy their corrupted medical insurance….really,  think of what our fore fathers did when they were taxed unfairly and without representation.  

Here is something for you "deadheads"  out there
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2Bc71SAGuI

http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/coup.html