REMOVE IMMEDIATELY FROM THE HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE ... ~~PROSECUTING THE CRIMES OF HYPER-EMPIRE

Michele Bachmann

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From Jeffrey Spruill, ET AL ~ To John Boehner ET AL ~ Representative Michele Bachmann is the Tea Party's queen of crazy.  So what kind of a signal does it send that she's on the House Intelligence Committee where she has access to sensitive national security information? ... In 2006, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann became the first Republican woman to be elected to represent Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives .. self - proclaimed “Constitutional Conservative”  ..  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Financial Services Committee .. has been given keen insight into the current housing crisis and credit crunch ..

Prosecuting the Crimes of Hyper-empire

I recently happened to watch Paul Newman’s desperate plea to the jury in the movie Verdict. It is a piece of visionary poetry worth memorizing.

You know, so much of time is just lost.

We say, Please, God, tell us what is right; tell us what is true.

And there is no justice: the rich win, the poor are powerless.

We become tired of hearing people lie.
 
And after a time, we become dead… a little dead.

We think of ourselves as victims… and we become victims.

We become… we become weak.

We doubt ourselves, we doubt our beliefs.

We doubt our institutions. And we doubt the law.

But You ARE the law. Not some book… not the lawyers… not the, a marble statue… or the trappings of the courts.

See, those are just symbols of our desire to be just. They are… they are, in fact, a prayer: a fervent and a frightened prayer.

In my religion, they say, “Act as if ye had faith… and faith will be given to you.”

IF… if we are to have faith in justice, we need only to believe in ourselves. And ACT with justice. I believe there is justice in our hearts.

… the above is similar to how Martin Luther King Jr. ended his otherwise fiery sermon and history lesson, “Beyond Vietnam – a Time to Break Silence.”

http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/01/prosecuting-the-crimes-of-hyper-empire/  

Prosecuting the Crimes of Hyper-empire

by Kim Petersen / January 9th, 2013

... Jay Janson: I would never say I am opposed to American crimes, because until recently, I had assumed that everyone, unless a criminal, was opposed to homicidal crime, regardless of the nationality of the perpetrators. Same applies to saying I oppose something that has already become universally condemned, like imperialism. As a schoolboy, I was taught to hate and scorn Germans for their Nazi Reich, and the Japanese and Italians for their empires, which were invading neighboring nations and killing people. Kids didn’t hear about imperialism. Looking back, I find it an example of our purposeful dis-education, that British, French, Dutch, Belgian, Spanish, Portuguese and early American invading, enslaving and colonizing of non white peoples was not taught to be hated or scorned as despicable, but rather accepted as just a part of the history of European and American accomplishments of ‘manifest destiny’ that were of course not always entirely laudable ....

.. I have a great respect for people who devote much of their life, and especially their golden years, to social justice, planning for a better world for future generations rather than just soaking up sun on a Floridian beach in winter or dancing the evenings away on colossal cruise ships. Now in his eighties, Jay Janson is one of these people desiring an improvement in the human condition for everyone ....

.. In the last year of the Eisenhower administration and the first of the Kennedy’s, wife and I are having a wonderful time with our two little kids in sunny San Juan, Puerto Rico, working under one the greatest musicians of all time, Pablo Casals, enjoying the warm Latin culture, the sea and breezy air, when I happened to notice something contradictory in the news reports about how the US was bombing in Laos to ‘help” protect a government, which the French were no longer able to keep from being overthrown. I had happened to notice the beginning of our mercilessly dropping of more bombs on the tiny defenseless nation of Laos, than all the bombs dropped during the whole of World War Two. Once, interested, the whole disgusting US betraying of its WW II Vietnamese allies against the Vichy French/Japanese occupation of their country became shockingly apparent to me. The greater shock was that all my family and friends considered me duped by communist propaganda. I had assumed that if a simple, slow thinking guy like me could notice this obvious horror of horrors, others would be aware of it more quickly, once alerted to the lies. I was wrong. No one around me was interested to think it through — all except my mom, who had not finished grade school and never learned not to think ....

.. TO BE CONTINUED ...