Eisenhower -- lost to history
JFK -- low taxes, strong national defense. Would be a Republican today.
Nixon -- had the grace to step down. Did not authorize or know about Watergate break-in.
Ford -- RINO who tripped alot.
Carter -- Worst President until You Know Who.
Reagan -- Pride returns to America. Economic boom. Enemies given beat down. Made left look like fools.
Bush 41 -- almost won Iraq War, then didn't. Wimp taxocrats rolled over. "No new taxes." Crucified by pre-internet media/entertainment complex. Now heralded by liberals as he is harmless.
Bill Clinton -- convicted felon. Genuinely cares as shown by million-dollar speaking engagements and cheating on wife. Also, forced himself on women and if they didn't comply, had them fired. I thought liberals protected and cared about the "little guy". Filth only cared about his Little Guy.
Bush 43-- RINO aka "halfservative" who rubber-stamped all spending but still a cause célèbre of liberal apoplexy to this day
Obama -- You Know Who. Clueless, corupt community organizer fools the fools: funny movie premise, not funny in reality.

This is situation is absurd. There shouldn't be any plainclothes police officers pointing guns at people without first proving that they're police. If a police officer who pulls a gun on you has no uniform or badge to prove they're not just some civilian trying to attack/rob somebody, anything you do in self defense should be treated by the law as if they really were just some civilian trying to attack/rob you.

In this particular case there was a real police car behind the motorcycle, which makes the cop's actions OK since you wouldn't expect someone to impersonate a police officer right in front of a real police officer.

Surveillance is part of the balance of power between a government and its citizens. The harder it is for citizens to spy on the government, and the easier it is for the government to spy on citizens, the more likely tyranny will occur. Covert investigative journalism -- like what occurred with the Pentagon papers and Watergate -- is indispensable to democracy.

>> ^Stormsinger:
^ My whole life (well, since Watergate), I've been watching and hoping for an answer...some way, -any- way to push some meaningful reform into the cesspool of our political system. The only thing I've been able to come up with is waiting for the inevitable collapse/revolution, and then try to survive in order to pick up the pieces. IOW, try to outlive the bastards. Sadly, I don't really think that's going to be an effective answer.


The pieces would be picked up to rebuild the same structure, just with new leaders in place. Power, greed, and corruption are inevitable facets of the human character. The change needs to happen in humanity as a whole, on a base level, intrinsically.

^ My whole life (well, since Watergate), I've been watching and hoping for an answer...some way, -any- way to push some meaningful reform into the cesspool of our political system. The only thing I've been able to come up with is waiting for the inevitable collapse/revolution, and then try to survive in order to pick up the pieces. IOW, try to outlive the bastards. Sadly, I don't really think that's going to be an effective answer.

g gordon liddy:
republican tool and fall guy for watergate.
fuck him,nixon wiped his ass with liddy and now that man has his own radio show?

Isn't liddy the guy that broke into the watergate hotel for nixon?

Who decides when there will be general outrage? I mean, Clinton blowjob, outrage! Watergate, outrage! Nipplegate, outrage!
Criminal acts and lies by the president, only a murmur...

I may be wrong because Forrest Gump has confused my idea of Watergate a little but isn't this hmmmm a fukTON WORSE than Watergate?

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Nice post; it was a pleasure to read. Thanks.

In reply to this comment by Farhad2000:
Coming from you QM that's just hilarious, especially since you have said that my entire region should be nuked countless times. I mean the middle east doesn't really dictate shit in the world over the US. But it's cool you do have a valid point. Yes I was angry as well.

Regarding the litany of comments trying to understand why and how this person came to be this way, its simple, there is no real focus on the rights and civic responsibilities of the citizenry in the US. Before you all get railed up and say this was cut and pasted into a clip to make news BS, this point of view has been pushed around and expressed countless times, its like endemic now.

It's a given to be thought controlled into trusting your government, only through a seasoned analytical education looking at maybe just the last 50 years of political history can you readily understand how the US government in most cases works against it's citizenry rather then for it (bay of pigs, star wars, vietnam, watergate, countless shit form both sides of the aisle).

But we don't need analytical thought provoking education anymore, we need fact machines that are just enough to earn a GED and maybe work a computer to succeed. Half of your education now is based more around studying towards test taking rather then actual information or processing that information, since accumulation of facts is not the same as actually thinking through those.

I mean look at something like Discovery Channel, before you could actually watch that a learn something new about Quantum Physics or the Cuban revolution, now it's all a sitcom about busting some dumb fucking myth or Orange County bikers or some rebuild of some fucking car.

But it doesn't matter really though, for most people in the US the only place that exists for them is the US. That's why it's so easy to rally around bombing some poor third world nation from the bronze age back to the stone age, its so far and unimportant and our media paints such a nice picture of it.

This all connects back to belief and comfort, its comforting to let your blind belief in God or the FSM dictate your life, because then you aren't responsible for your actions, because then everything becomes preordained.

Think how comforting it is to know that God made 9/11 happen because America is a sinful nation... rather then a passive aggressor who has push into action countless covert and non covert military operations in Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan because it thought it was doing the right thing without actually thinking of possible blow back stemming from supporting religious nut case such as the Taliban.

What's easier to believe and swallow? God or Facts?

Yes there are many people in the US who are not like this person and are actually aware, and engage in educated discourse from both sides of the coin but really that doesn't count at all for me.

Because this person is demonstrating a total lack of BASIC FACTUAL knowledge about what has happened in this (once great) nation for the last 8 years. I mean seriously. WTF. That's just intolerable, its like decades later we will all do an about face and declare Bush some kind of great war hero, even though he terminated some of the most basic tenants of what make America a kick ass nation (no torture, haebus corpus, no spying on its own citizens and so on)

Coming from you QM that's just hilarious, especially since you have said that my entire region should be nuked countless times. I mean the middle east doesn't really dictate shit in the world over the US. But it's cool you do have a valid point. Yes I was angry as well.

Regarding the litany of comments trying to understand why and how this person came to be this way, its simple, there is no real focus on the rights and civic responsibilities of the citizenry in the US. Before you all get railed up and say this was cut and pasted into a clip to make news BS, this point of view has been pushed around and expressed countless times, its like endemic now.

It's a given to be thought controlled into trusting your government, only through a seasoned analytical education looking at maybe just the last 50 years of political history can you readily understand how the US government in most cases works against it's citizenry rather then for it (bay of pigs, star wars, vietnam, watergate, countless shit form both sides of the aisle).

But we don't need analytical thought provoking education anymore, we need fact machines that are just enough to earn a GED and maybe work a computer to succeed. Half of your education now is based more around studying towards test taking rather then actual information or processing that information, since accumulation of facts is not the same as actually thinking through those.

I mean look at something like Discovery Channel, before you could actually watch that a learn something new about Quantum Physics or the Cuban revolution, now it's all a sitcom about busting some dumb fucking myth or Orange County bikers or some rebuild of some fucking car.

But it doesn't matter really though, for most people in the US the only place that exists for them is the US. That's why it's so easy to rally around bombing some poor third world nation from the bronze age back to the stone age, its so far and unimportant and our media paints such a nice picture of it.

This all connects back to belief and comfort, its comforting to let your blind belief in God or the FSM dictate your life, because then you aren't responsible for your actions, because then everything becomes preordained.

Think how comforting it is to know that God made 9/11 happen because America is a sinful nation... rather then a passive aggressor who has push into action countless covert and non covert military operations in Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan because it thought it was doing the right thing without actually thinking of possible blow back stemming from supporting religious nut case such as the Taliban.

What's easier to believe and swallow? God or Facts?

Yes there are many people in the US who are not like this person and are actually aware, and engage in educated discourse from both sides of the coin but really that doesn't count at all for me.

Because this person is demonstrating a total lack of BASIC FACTUAL knowledge about what has happened in this (once great) nation for the last 8 years. I mean seriously. WTF. That's just intolerable, its like decades later we will all do an about face and declare Bush some kind of great war hero, even though he terminated some of the most basic tenants of what make America a kick ass nation (no torture, haebus corpus, no spying on its own citizens and so on)

Pre-9/11- did not do his homework, and take urgent pleas seriously. he could have done a bit more it may hve helped
On 9/11- did not act like a leader. Was confused, shell shocked in a classroom, instead of immediately addressing etc. Popped up at different locations with poorly written speeches.
Post 9/11- did not listen to advice of both consvervative and liberal legal advice as to how to handle dealing with Al Qaeda in an effective manner.
Was totally over run by the V.P. and Neo-conseravative ideologues that saw 9/11 as their ideal laboratory to test their ideas of Democracy through force- eventually invade Iraq in order to spread democracy

Post9/11- Squandered the compassion of a very sympathetic world, spat in their face and said we will do things OUR way. Probably his biggest mistake of all- a war on terror would require the collective ideas of all of our close allies. Therefore "go it alone" was just plain stupid and impulsive.

He ended up with the following allies: Britain (but not the people), Vanuatu, Georgia, Romania, Poland.... hmmm
Completely bungled capturing the highest value Al Qaeda cadres, took recources away, and shifted focus on Iraq
Went to Iraq, despite overwelming intelligence pointing out that this would be a very very risky move.
Went anyway, and had no preparations for post-war, or marshall law, or counterinsurgency. Surge FINALLY was adopted, but after country was ruined by civil war. He was advised over and over to go with 3-400,000 troops.
Again, he could not assert himself and Rumsfeld walked all over him.

Fieth, Woo, Cheney and other sinister characters appealed to Bush's cruel (134 deathpen cases in Texas) side in order to extract information. Instead of listening to those with years of interrogation experience he prefered to "take the gloves off" too prove a point instead of winning a war of ideologies. Because of Torture, Extraordinary Rendition, and the imprisonment of 1000s of innocent villagers subjected to the worst aspects of American culture- heavy metal, sleazy sex, humiliation- America lost its moral compass in the eyes of other countries. This is the America that organized and held together the Nuremburg Trials. Nazis, accused of far worse crimes than blowing up planes - such as the death of 30,million plus civilians, cutting out peices of brains of twins to see what would happen, forcing sex changes to see what would happen, gassing Jews as a Final Solution etc. One of the greatest defeats, and battles won during WWII was the right of the accused war criminals to face their accusers. Somehow we find that a motley group of somewhat half assed Arab terrorists merit far greater measures???WTF?

So, with no clout, no economic or energy visions, no moral authority, no authority whatsoever -here is what the next president will have to fix:

Dealing with a now Powerful Russia. Powerful Iran. American ridiculed by such people as (and this is embarrassing) President Chavez.... Basically, no one had any respect for him. Putin took him for a ride ("I saw his soul") KGB agents dont have souls...

People may not have liked Truman, or Lincoln, or Nixon for that matter, but they all had at least some degree of respect- even Nixon. Despite Watergate, many admire Nixon despite his being a bit crazy. Bush has none. No Respect, not a good prospect for historical significance.

Here are the links to the conspiracies listed in the video. These may not be the best links, but it is not my job to do your research for you. You need to find out all the available information yourself. This is just to get you some idea of the stories related to this video

Smallpox Blankets
http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/amherst/lord_jeff.html

Chicago Black Sox
http://www.chicagohs.org/history/blacksox.html

General Motors Street Car
http://www.lovearth.net/gmdeliberatelydestroyed.htm

Overthrow FDR
http://american_almanac.tripod.com/smedley.htm

Reichstag fire
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/burns.htm

Manhattan Project
http://www.atomicmuseum.com/Tour/manhattanproject.cfm

Quiz Show scandal
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/quizshow/

Operation Northwoods
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/northwoods.html

Gulf of Tonkin
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2261

Watergate
http://www.watergate.info/

Iran Contra
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reagan/peopleevents/pande08.html

Enron & Aurthur Anderson
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/enron.html

Kennedy Assassination
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/stories/s68076.htm
There are probably more articles on this subject then any other mentioned. You can also see the movie JFK among many other films made on the subject.


Tuskegee Syphilis scandal
http://www.usrf.org/uro-video/Tuskegee_2004/Article_Header.jpg
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0DE5D91039F931A25756C0A961958260
http://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm

We should never stop asking questions regarding events that appear in any way suspicious. If they have nothing to hide, then there should be no problem answering questions and giving the proper respect to either clear the names of the accused or indict them for crimes committed. Either way, people should never feel as if they should not ask the people in power the tough questions that need honest answers.

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If you watch closely, you can spot the Watergate 7 wiretapping the constituency.