Every day we read of grue­some killings, no one is spared, not the old and indi­gent, not even babies. For the most part Jamaicans have blamed every­one for crime includ­ing the tooth fairy. Yet they fail to hold the peo­ple they place in pow­er to make deci­sions on their behalf respon­si­ble. Don’t you dare chal­lenge the con­ven­tion­al wis­dom which defends the sta­tus-quo . They come at you from all angles accus­ing you of every­thing short of trea­son. Yet the crime sta­tis­tic con­tin­ues to climb and the cost con­tin­ues to pile up. If a team does poor­ly you don’t fire the team, you change the lead­er­ship, lat­er if nec­es­sary you make changes to the team. Yet Jamaicans con­tin­ue to do the same thing over and over,expecting dif­fer­ent results. The def­i­n­i­tion of insanity.

Of course they don’t need to hold their elect­ed offi­cials respon­si­ble for their incom­pe­tence, they cre­ate prox­ies to absorb the blame, so they blame the police. If you have cred­i­ble Government , you get cred­i­ble law-enforcement.The Governing par­ty has occu­pied pub­lic office for the lion’s share of the last two decades. As such it is lit­er­al­ly impos­si­ble for any per­son not brain-dead ‚to blame the polit­i­cal oppo­si­tion for the coun­try’s ills. When I crit­i­cize the Government I don’t do so because I am giv­ing endorse­ment to the oppo­si­tion. I do so because it is com­mon sense to hold account­able those who are empow­ered to act.

The Governing par­ty how­ev­er has been par­tic­u­lar­ly clever, in plant­i­ng oper­a­tives in crit­i­cal sec­tors of the soci­ety. They hold senior Civil ser­vice posi­tions made pos­si­ble by nepo­tism and hand­outs. This does not mean that all senior gov­ern­ment work­ers are polit­i­cal hacks. Their plants in oth­er sec­tors , includ­ing media and acad­e­mia has tak­en a seri­ous toll on our coun­try. Some of their shills have tak­en flight yet oth­ers have stayed and are still affect­ing the debate. Today’s Jamaica Observer Editorial page was titled :

Returning to those dark days of bru­tal mur­ders: The Editorial summed up the present sit­u­a­tion thus: We don’t believe that the Administration is clue­less about how to solve this prob­lem. What we sus­pect is that our leg­is­la­tors are afraid to imple­ment the tough mea­sures nec­es­sary to sig­nif­i­cant­ly cut the crime rate, because they might be unpop­u­lar with cer­tain sec­tions of the soci­ety. Read more: http://​www​.jamaicaob​serv​er​.com/​e​d​i​t​o​r​i​a​l​/​R​e​t​u​r​n​i​n​g​-​t​o​-​t​h​o​s​e​-​d​a​r​k​-​d​a​y​s​-​o​f​-​b​r​u​t​a​l​-​m​u​r​d​e​r​s​_​1​5​3​3​7​5​0​0​#​i​x​z​z​2​j​2​p​L​7​eTE.

You think?

The Editorial page is far more lib­er­al with its assump­tions than I could ever be . I am not so sure they know what to do. Granted that they do how­ev­er why would they change any­thing? They have fan­cy SUV’s , pala­tial man­sions, and all the perks of state pow­er, includ­ing free access to the cook­ie-jar. Most of all they have the inept police depart­ment to take the fall for them. Don’t be fooled the PNP did not hold state pow­er for ¹⁸¹⁄₂ years because they are nec­es­sar­i­ly stu­pid. Yes a dis­cor­dant oppo­si­tion had a part to play. What has tru­ly been behind their dom­i­nance how­ev­er is their abil­i­ty to fool the poor. According to the Editorial: The Caribbean Human Development Report 2012, pre­pared by the United Nations Development Programme, has told us that crime costs Jamaica more than $529 mil­lion a year in lost income. That’s over half a Billion American Dollars in direct loss revenue.The total cost in trea­sure to the coun­try is incal­cu­la­ble. Yet the lead­ers have refused to take the steps nec­es­sary to bring the coun­try into com­pli­ance with inter­na­tion­al norms. If the rather sharp indict­ment of the Editor’s com­ments are cor­rect, then the Administration has once again cho­sen to put pol­i­tics ahead of coun­try. This lends cre­dence to their adage that Jamaica is PNP coun­try. As a Jamaican I will con­tin­ue to say Jamaica does not belong to the PNP , nei­ther does it belong to the JLP, our coun­try belong to our peo­ple you and me. So to the hyper-par­ti­sans who feel oblig­at­ed to defend incom­pe­tence , remove your blind­ers because our coun­try is loos­ing out big time.

THE PROBLEM

Serious crimes con­tin­ue to increase in Jamaican, over the National Heroes cel­e­bra­tion (7) per­sons were mur­dered. These mur­der fig­ures how­ev­er do not evoke alarm or fear in the minds of Jamaicans who have come to accept the killing of their neigh­bors as par for the course. Jamaicans use every ratio­nal­iza­tion to explain away these shock­ing mur­der fig­ures. Excuses range from, peo­ple gets killed every­where to, the per­son who got killed must have done some­thing to deserve his head get­ting sev­ered from his body. They make these excus­es even as they con­struct more grill for­ti­fi­ca­tions with the false belief ‚that they will be safe behind lay­ers of iron which only fur­ther imprison them .Of course this offers no real secu­ri­ty from the maraud­ing mur­der­ers who prey at will.

Portrait of the lat­est cop to be slaugh­tered in Jamaica by hoodlums.W/Spl/Cons Arianna Henry.

Since 2002 fifty (50) Officers have been mur­dered direct­ly in the line of duty , with far more killed which are not cat­e­go­rized as “in the line of duty”. The trou­ble with that char­ac­ter­i­za­tion is that, crim­i­nals are increas­ing­ly sophis­ti­cat­ed, they opt to attack a sin­gle offi­cer and not take on a num­ber of offi­cers. This strat­e­gy on their part is far more effec­tive in accom­plish­ing their anar­chis­tic desires in exact­ing revenge on police offi­cers. As repug­nant as that strat­e­gy is , it would be far less effec­tive if the coun­try was one which stood solid­ly behind it’s law enforce­ment offi­cers. Conversely what the peo­ple have sad­dled them­selves with for decades is a par­ty which offers them cot­ton can­dy, which is sweet to the taste but does noth­ing to sat­is­fy their hunger. The present Administration has a leader who is at best intel­lec­tu­al­ly chal­lenged and at worse a dunce. No amount of white-wash is going to cov­er up that glar­ing fact.

CONTRIBUTORS

The par­ty which forms the Administration has had a his­to­ry of prob­lems with the rule of law , dat­ing back to the 1970’s . At its core the People’s National Party (PNP) is a par­ty which pan­ders to the base instincts of the least edu­cat­ed , least priv­i­leged. This strat­e­gy allowed them to con­trol state pow­er for an unprece­dent­ed 18 years with a four (4) year break, then con­tin­ue to present day. Members of the Police depart­ment are a large part of that prob­lem, many mem­bers are no dif­fer­ent from their civil­ian coun­ter­parts who vote against their own eco­nom­ic self-inter­est. As such they share in the blame for what is hap­pen­ing to the force and indi­vid­ual police offi­cers. This analy­sis is not an endorse­ment of any polit­i­cal par­ty, it is more-so a sweep­ing indict­ment of a polit­i­cal cul­ture which has failed dis­mal­ly in address­ing the fun­da­men­tal basic needs of the peo­ple. As a con­se­quence, the coun­try has been reduced to a laugh­ing-stock. The best achieve­ments of our peo­ple inter­na­tion­al­ly, are now called into ques­tion and sub­ject to ridicule.

Jamaica has had a long flir­ta­tion with vio­lence, some of our nation­al heroes are remem­bered and so des­ig­nat­ed exact­ly because of their propen­si­ty for vio­lence or the dis­rup­tion of estab­lished order. Whether we see that as a fruit­ful path for a coun­try is a point for live­ly legit­i­mate debate. What is clear is that if you sow corn you will def­i­nite­ly not reap toma­toes. As such when we cel­e­brate killing and car­nage we will reap a har­vest of may­hem and destruc­tion. We are reap­ing that har­vest of may­hem and destruc­tion now. Our entire con­tem­po­rary cul­ture is designed around killing. The media not to be out­done has signed on to the crazi­ness, incor­po­rat­ing the crass, degen­er­a­tive, mur­der ver­nac­u­lar into seri­ous jour­nal­is­tic dis­course. Dance-hall music is sig­nif­i­cant­ly influ­en­tial that it informs soci­etal norms (vis a vis infor­ma fi dead).In short killing and the use of firearm is such a large part of Jamaican cul­ture that, to be good one has to be shat[sic] shat mean­ing good. Twisted yes, true yes.

Because of the pop­u­lar­i­ty of the gun and anti-con­for­mi­ty cul­ture, our peo­ple have deter­mined for decades that the way to fame and for­tune is by estab­lish­ing the moniker (rude bway)for them­selves. All of us have fed that mon­ster, when we cel­e­brate mur­der music, when we buy films depict­ing killing and car­nage, when we sign on to vio­lence as the only means to con­flict res­o­lu­tion, and yes when we wan­ton­ly extra-judi­cial­ly kill even the most vile cretins. Wherever car­cass­es exist, scav­engers are nev­er far off. It is no sur­prise then that oppor­tunists of all stripes would emerge in Jamaica , pur­port­ing to cham­pi­on the cause of the poor and dis­pos­sessed. Some emerge in the name of Human Rights, oth­ers pur­port to be able to “man­age peace” what­ev­er that means? The entire Governmental struc­ture is large­ly made up of immoral hus­tlers and thieves.

The police depart­ment which is tasked with pro­tect­ing the rights and safe­ty of cit­i­zens allowed itself to be reduced to a cesspool of graft , bribes and cor­rup­tion, it remained obliv­i­ous to calls to trans­form itself even as it sunk deep­er into irrel­e­vance. Those who ran the depart­ment lacked the depth to rec­og­nize that if the depart­ment con­tin­ued on that path it would one day wake up and find it was relieved of it’s pow­er. That day is here. Even as I and oth­ers scream that the way to fix the crime prob­lem is to recruit, train equip,supervise and pay offi­cers, that train has already left the sta­tion. The Political direc­torate, nev­er a fan of poor peo­ple’s off­spring hav­ing such pow­ers ‚were more than will­ing to sub­vert that pow­er. Enter (INDECOM)Independent Commission of Investigations>The prob­lem for the police is that the notion of inde­pen­dence in that body is a mis­nomer. It is nei­ther inde­pen­dent nor a cred­i­ble Investigative body. It is a bunch of Elitist who hates police offi­cers, they are aligned to the Anti-police antag­o­nist group (JFJ) Jamaicans for Justice, anoth­er mis­nomer. Together these two bod­ies in con­junc­tion with the office of Public defend­er forms a tri­ad of aggres­sion against law enforce­ment in the coun­try which has ginned up such sen­ti­ment against the con­stab­u­lary that the chick­ens have nat­u­ral­ly come home to roost. The killing of police offi­cers is now an almost dai­ly occur­rence. The head of JFJ and the pub­lic defend­er stat­ed cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly that police accounts of fatal shoot­ings can­not be believed because not enough offi­cers are being shot. These are the peo­ple with whom the head of INDECOM hang out and grant press con­fer­ences. For my Readers who are not from Jamaica, it is impor­tant that you under­stand that the office of pub­lic defend­er is a gov­ern­ment office . It’s offi­cials are paid with tax dol­lars. These are the peo­ple who argue that not enough cops are being killed. Now they have their wish.

It would be inter­est­ing to hear peo­ple who sup­port the state of Israel views on what is hap­pen­ing in the so-called Holy land. African Jews are find­ing their way back to the land of Israel only to be denied the basic dig­ni­ty that Jews of lighter hues take for grant­ed. One can­not turn on the Television and not find reminders of the Jewish holo­caust before and dur­ing the sec­ond world war.

Ironically the very peo­ple who fled per­se­cu­tion and death are now vis­it­ing racial apartheid on Jews of African ances­try. http://​www​.youtube​.com/​w​a​t​c​h​?​v​=​d​P​x​v​4​A​f​f​3​I​A​&​f​e​a​t​u​r​e​=​s​h​are. I urge you watch this video and form your own opin­ion on what you have wit­nessed. Never mind that most of the peo­ple who live in Israel are peo­ple and their off­spring who were exiled from Europe dur­ing Hitler’s Jewish cleans­ing of Germany. This is shock­ing what is hap­pen­ing in this place called Israel .

The state of Israel was estab­lished in 1947 at the mouth of the Suez Canal by the United States and Britain and armed with nuclear weapons to pro­tect America’s and Britain’s oil and oth­er hege­mon­ic inter­est. This Apartheid is iron­ic con­sid­er­a­tion that in America and oth­er parts of the world, Jews and their sup­port­ers con­stant­ly blan­ket the air­waves beg­ging for mon­ey for the so-called Jewish State. They do so even as they keep the flames of vic­tim-hood burn­ing, as a means of lever­ag­ing more and more mate­r­i­al wealth and sym­pa­thy over the holocaust.

At this moment Israel is active­ly engaged in round­ing up Africans and plac­ing them in con­cen­tra­tion camps, label­ing them “Infiltrators”. From the Prime Minister on down the attack on African Jews is sys­tem­at­ic. Benjamin Netanyahu the Likud right-wing Prime Minister is a pro­po­nent of cleans­ing Israel of African Jews , argu­ing that if the lev­el of Africans in Israel exceeds 30% Israel will become a bi-nation­al state which means los­ing its Jewish char­ac­ter. Never mind that the world’s largest bi-nation­al state the United States con­tributes $3 bil­lion of our tax dol­lars to prop up that racist apartheid sys­tem. http://​ifamer​i​can​sknew​.org/​s​t​a​t​s​/​c​o​s​t​_​o​f​_​i​s​r​a​e​l​.​h​tml Currently over two thou­sand African Jews are being held in the Negev desert in what many say is the largest prison in the indus­tri­al­ized world. There is no data point­ing to African Jews threat­en­ing the state with the bogey-man “Terrorism”, in fact there is evi­dence African Jews are large­ly pro-Israel.

Are the chris­t­ian pas­tors aware of whats hap­pen­ing even as they preach to their flock about sup­port­ing Israel? Or is the Apartheid sys­tem in Israel par for the course , com­men­su­rate with slav­ery and Jim crow in America? If so, this leaves black pas­tors with a lot of explain­ing to do.http://​www​.youtube​.com/​w​a​t​c​h​?​v​=​e​t​X​A​m​-​O​y​lQQ Here is a lit­tle bit of per­spec­tive for those who talk about the so-called Israel and the peo­ple who now claim it as some kind of ances­tral home­land that they were forced from thou­sands of years ago.

I decid­ed to do some­thing last night which I nev­er did before. I want­ed to hear what peo­ple on the Political right hear from talk radio. So I turned to one of the AM fre­quen­cies. Those are the Stations which pol­lute the air­waves with the most vile bel­li­cose garbage. That’s what pass­es for infor­ma­tion to almost 50% of the Country’s pop­u­la­tion. These Stations are a source of infor­ma­tion and are home to the likes Of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ted Nugent, Glen Beck, Laura Ingram and a whole host of oth­er hate-mon­gers. I must tell you I am sur­prised that the Country is not plunged into yet anoth­er civ­il-war. The tone and tenor of the rhetoric is indis­tin­guish­able from Hitler’s 1937 – 1938 speech­es deliv­ered from the Reichstag. How peo­ple can hate that much is beyond my com­pre­hen­sion! In the absence of facts they con­coct their own truths. They devise a nar­ra­tive, spins and sells it to their lis­ten­ers who in turn assim­i­late and regur­gi­tate it as fact. The most ludi­crous con­spir­a­cy the­o­ries are pro­mul­gat­ed as irrefutable facts.

These big­ot­ed talk­ers don’t care that the lies they tell may be dis­proved imme­di­ate­ly. They know their lis­ten­ers are not inter­est­ed in find­ing out whether what they are told are true. The fab­ri­cat­ed lies are all they need, hatred of Obama is the accel­er­ant which fuels their fire. They talk inces­sant­ly about the Constitution yet many of them are unaware of what’s in the Constitution.

At a march a few days ago one igno­rant big­ot Larry Klayman had this to say about the twice elect­ed President of the United States, in front of the White House.

“I call upon all of you to wage a sec­ond American non­vi­o­lent rev­o­lu­tion, to use civ­il dis­obe­di­ence, and to demand that this pres­i­dent leave town, to get up, to put the Quran down, to get up off his knees, and to fig­u­ra­tive­ly come out with his hands up,” said Larry Klayman of Freedom Watch, a con­ser­v­a­tive polit­i­cal advo­ca­cy group.

Here’s the rub. Even if this moron was right about the President being a Muslim. Even if he was right that the President had a Quran. Even if he was right about the President of the United States being on his knees pray­ing to Allah. None of the afore­men­tioned would have being a dis-qual­i­fi­er for this or any oth­er President from hold­ing the office of President. The United States Constitution’s only cri­te­ria for the Presidency is that a per­son must have been born in the United States and have attained the age of thir­ty-five (35)years old, that’s it . What these Racial and Religious big­ots suc­ceed in doing is show­ing the world just how igno­rant they are. Ignorant about the very doc­u­ment at the cen­ter of their despot­ic unright­eous hate-filled cru­sade. Yet they have mil­lions of une­d­u­cat­ed hate-filled hearts cling­ing to their every word, hun­gry for more and more hate filled rhetoric.

Thursday morn­ing and it’s time for the cir­cu­lar fir­ing squad, time for can­ni­bal­ism, the chief tar­get of their ire Mitch McConnell the Minority leader of the Senate. I guess McConnell is a lib­er­al now. Helping to craft leg­isla­tive com­pro­mise to avert a colos­sal implo­sion of the World’s econ­o­my ren­ders him a Lefty. This is the lev­el of igno­rant kamikaze fanati­cism which now large­ly make up the Confederate/​Republican Party from the high­est lev­el to the grass-roots.

When the Confederate/​Republican Party decid­ed to block every pro­gram Obama endorsed or rec­om­mend­ed even if it was their idea, it was planned. When Mitch McConnell and his cronies in the Senate mount­ed a record num­ber of fil­i­buster block­ing Obama’s agen­da, it was planned. Standard & Poors S&P) down­grad­ed the U.S. fed­er­al gov­ern­ment from AAA (out­stand­ing) to AA+ (excel­lent) on August 5, 2011. S&P was direct in its crit­i­cism of the gov­er­nance and pol­i­cy-mak­ing process, which took the U.S. to the brink of default as part of the 2011 U.S. debt-ceil­ing cri­sis that same week: That action by Confederate Republicans was planned. Then Democratic Mass: Senator John Kerry referred to this as the “Tea Party down­grade,” blam­ing Republican intran­si­gence regard­ing rev­enues and dis­re­gard for the con­se­quences of a default. He seem to get it. The present impasse was planned , at the last moment the only hope the Country has of not default­ing is pinned on dis­cus­sions between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his counter-part Mitch McConnell, whose sole pur­pose was to make sure Barack Obama was a one term President.

These two men do not work well togeth­er, from reports they don’t even seem to like each oth­er. Now the hope of a Nation rests with them com­ing to a deal which will be palat­able to both sides. There is just one tiny prob­lem. Whatever deal the two Senate lead­ers come up with (if they do) ‚still has to be vot­ed on and passed by the House of Representatives where the prob­lem start­ed. All of this action which Obama calls brinkman­ship could have been avoid­ed. Why would the Tea-Party con­trolled House of Representatives go through all it has in cre­at­ing the shut­down which fur­loughed hun­dreds of thou­sands of fed­er­al work­ers to capit­u­late now?

The Tea-Party and their Acolytes have already demon­strat­ed their inten­tions to force the nation to default, they are telling every­one who will lis­ten that default won’t be cat­a­stroph­ic, and may even be a good thing accord­ing to one Congressman. I am not opti­mistic that a deal will be reached by the sen­ate lead­ers, then allowed to be vot­ed on in the House. Over the last 5 years of Obama’s Presidency The Speaker of the house John Boehner has shown zero lead­er­ship in stand­ing up to the destruc­tive ele­ments with­in his cau­cus. Boehner has sub­se­quent­ly ren­dered him­self a paper tiger, who has cho­sen to sur­ren­der prin­ci­ples to remain speaker.

Obama has spent a lot of time talk­ing to peo­ple in cities and towns all across America, yet it remains unclear whether Obama has been able to con­vey the required mes­sage to the pop­u­lace. Speaking direct­ly and clear­ly is the best way to com­mu­ni­cate to peo­ple, ask Bill Clinton. Obama has yet to effec­tive­ly tell America that what is hap­pen­ing is because of his race and not his poli­cies. Even some among his base are speak­ing ill about him. When your ene­my con­fig­ures the nar­ra­tive it will not be kind to you.

This is day 10 of the Confederate/​Republican shut down of the Federal Government. This shut down is hav­ing dis­as­trous con­se­quences for the Country both in eco­nom­ic terms and on the lives of Americans employed by the Feds, there are also resid­ual con­se­quences yet to be report­ed on. CNN reports more than 9 mil­lion moth­ers and their babies are at risk as WIC grinds to a halt.http://​www​.cnn​.com/​2​0​1​3​/​0​9​/​3​0​/​p​o​l​i​t​i​c​s​/​g​o​v​e​r​n​m​e​n​t​-​s​h​u​t​d​o​w​n​-​u​p​-​t​o​-​s​p​e​e​d​/​i​n​d​e​x​.​h​tml.The Los Angeles Times details how a shut down affects the coun­try and the lives of ordi­nary Americans .http://​www​.latimes​.com/​n​a​t​i​o​n​/​p​o​l​i​t​i​c​s​/​p​o​l​i​t​i​c​s​n​o​w​/​l​a​-​p​n​-​g​o​v​e​r​n​m​e​n​t​-​s​h​u​t​d​o​w​n​-​q​-​a​n​d​-​a​-​2​0​1​3​0​9​3​0​,​0​,​5​5​6​4​5​3​1​.​s​t​ory. The risk to the coun­try and peo­ple are stark and dra­mat­ic. Families unable to bury mil­i­tary fam­i­ly mem­bers killed in com­bat. Babies and moth­ers unable to source basic nutri­tion­al sus­te­nance. Parks and Monuments shut­tered. Families put at risk of fore­clo­sure , unable to pay their mort­gage commitments.The list goes on and on. Despite the pain they are caus­ing to the coun­try the band of extor­tion­ist oper­at­ing in the House have decid­ed to hold fast to their demands. Which start­ed about de-fund­ing and repeal­ing the Affordable Care Act , to “we will not be dis­re­spect­ed , we have to get some­thing out of this, we don’t even know what that is”. That has since evolved into whin­ing about bud­get issues. They sim­ply refuse to budge from their non­sen­si­cal extor­tion­ist demands.

None of the pain mat­tered to Confederate/​Republicans, why would they care it’s just the lit­tle peo­ple who are hurt­ing. But an even big­ger prob­lem is loom­ing. The Federal debt lim­it needs to be raised, this is not more Federal spend­ing , it sim­ply allows the Government to pay the bills already autho­rized by the Congress. But most impor­tant­ly a default by the Government would mean that the faith investors both local and for­eign have in America as a place to invest would poten­tial­ly be a thing of the past. That would impact every­one , but it would cause seri­ous harm to the big fat cats many of whom are fund­ing the present chaos in the coun­try, obliv­i­ous and ill-informed of the unin­tend­ed con­se­quences of their actions.

Charles a David Koch. Billionaire fun­ders of the Tea-Party hoax.

ΤHEN OCT .9^th. Koch Industries to sen­a­tors: We haven’t lob­bied to ‘defund ObamaCare

Koch Industries dis­missed accu­sa­tions it has endorsed the Republican tac­tic of link­ing lan­guage to de fund Obama Care to gov­ern­ment spend­ing bills. “Koch has not tak­en a posi­tion on the leg­isla­tive tac­tic of tying the con­tin­u­ing res­o­lu­tion to de-fund­ing Obama Care nor have we lob­bied on leg­isla­tive pro­vi­sions de fund­ing Obama Care,” Philip Ellender, Koch’s gov­ern­ment and pub­lic affairs pres­i­dent, wrote in a let­ter to Senate law­mak­ers Wednesday. Koch Industries is a con­glom­er­ate of com­pa­nies includ­ing Dixie Cups, Lycra and Brawny paper tow­els — all owned by the bil­lion­aire Koch broth­ers. Charles and David Koch, a recent New York Times report says, have been fun­nel­ing mon­ey into the GOP’s effort to destroy President Obama’s health­care law. They have been major back­ers of the Tea Party move­ment, which has led the push to de fund Obama Care in Congress.http://​the​hill​.com/​b​l​o​g​s​/​b​l​o​g​-​b​r​i​e​f​i​n​g​-​r​o​o​m​/​n​e​w​s​/​3​2​7​4​4​9​-​k​o​c​h​-​i​n​d​u​s​t​r​i​e​s​-​t​o​-​s​e​n​a​t​o​r​s​-​w​e​-​h​a​v​e​n​t​-​l​o​b​b​i​e​d​-​t​o​-​d​e​f​u​n​d​-​o​b​a​m​a​c​are.

OCTOBER 10^th. Republicans to give President assur­ance of a clean Continuation Resolution Bill to fund the Government, albeit for anoth­er 6 Weeks.…. Wow.

If you ever won­dered whether you mat­tered? That ques­tion is now answered. Charles and David Koch Billionaire fun­ders of the Tea-Party and oth­er right-wing groups now real­ize the con­se­quences of their actions will hit them where it hurts , in their pock­et-books. They dis­tance them­selves, the pup­pets in House runs to the pres­i­dent tail between their legs. The Speaker of the house says they will offer to extend the debt ceil­ing if the President will agree to cuts, that would poten­tial­ly leave the Government still shut­tered. Joy-Anne Reid of the Grio​.com char­ac­ter­ized it this way . “So they have decid­ed not to release the hostage, only not to shoot the hostage, at least until Thanksgiving”. The big mon­ey pup­peteers pulled back when they real­ized they are about to feel finan­cial pain, the lit­tle ide­o­log­i­cal Puppets in the Congress runs to strike a deal.

NO. 

So they go to the White House to meet the pres­i­dent still hold­ing hostage the American peo­ple. The President said “No” 

There is a group of peo­ple in this coun­try who are opposed to President Obama, not because of pol­i­cy but because of race. They fun­da­men­tal­ly believe in the pale­ness of their skin and what it ought to mean, in terms of enti­tle­ments and gov­er­nance of this coun­try. That is at the heart of the fight being waged, not just in Washington but in States all across America. It has noth­ing to do with Obama-care, it has every­thing to do with Obama. After Obama won re-elec­tion a group of Confederate/​Republicans got togeth­er to fig­ure out a way to de-fund the Affordable Care Act, the sig­na­ture domes­tic accom­plish­ment of Obama . The idea is a stu­pid and sui­ci­dal irra­tional one ‚but no one ever accused Confederate/​Republicans of being smart. Devious, cal­cu­la­tive, dis­hon­or­able, igno­ran­ly racist, just not smart.

Even if Confederate/​Republicans could some­how man­age to get a repeal/de-fund bill through the Senate, they are for­get­ting that Obama is still the pres­i­dent . He would sim­ply veto the damn thing. So what is the end game for these loonies? There is none . Their goal is sim­ply to cause chaos , wreck the econ­o­my and hope to be returned to pow­er, reward­ed for the car­nage they caused. Obama sad­dled with the blame.

This oppo­si­tion to Obama has gone through stages: Candidate Obama dealt with.

♦1) Jeremiah Wright.

♦2) Forced to make speech on Race in America>

♦3) Birther debate.♦

After Obama was elected.

♦4) Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell dec­la­ra­tion that his sole mis­sion is to make Obama a one term President.

♦5) Birther debate.

♦6) Skip Gates débâcle.

♦7) Joe Wilson you lie.

♦8) Obstruct as much as possible.

♦9) Prevent Obama’s Re-election.

♦10) Challenge Obama-care in the Supreme Court.

♦11) De-fund Obama-care.

♦12) Cause total chaos.

Billionaire Funders of chaos in America Charles and David Koch:

Behind this brand of Politics are two broth­ers Charles and David Koch who are fund­ing a cam­paign against Obama, they are bank-rolling efforts to derail Obama’s objec­tives to the tune of tens if not Hundreds of mil­lions of dol­lars. This did not hap­pen in a vac­u­um . This was made pos­si­ble by Supreme Court Decision Citizens United. This deci­sion opened the flood gates of spe­cial inter­est mon­ey into the polit­i­cal process under the guise of free speech. Charles and David Koch are not the only ones who are bank-rolling efforts to negate your vote, they are the face of it. These guys do not believe in Government they have stark lib­er­tar­i­an beliefs which basi­cal­ly say those who can­not make it on their own will be weed­ed out nat­u­ral­ly. Never mind that it’ s easy for them to feel that way, they were born with dia­mond spoons in their mouths, thanks to a bil­lion­aire father.

Tea Party Express Chairperson Amy Kremer.

On the face of it the Tea-Party seem like a grass-roots orga­ni­za­tion con­cerned about Government spend­ing, It’s National chair­per­son is a woman who looks like a reg­u­lar soc­cer mom. Don’t believe the lie, this group of frauds were absolute­ly silent when George Bush was wag­ing two wars on a cred­it card and giv­ing tax-breaks to mil­lion­aires and bil­lion­aires. behind this cha­rade are spe­cif­ic groups which are well orga­nized and fund­ed, these includes Conservative Club for growth. Freedom Works. Tea Party Express. The Heritage Foundation.Conservative Victory Project and oth­ers. Those won­der­ing where are the sane Republicans in light of recent devel­op­ments must remem­ber that notion is an oxy­moron. Mitt Romney the last Republican Presidential Candidate the man who stat­ed he was an inde­pen­dent dur­ing the Reagan years , ran as a “severely”[sic] Conservative Republican. That is the lev­el of luna­cy which is now the clown-show called the Republican Party, which I pre­fer to call the Confederate party.

Ted Cruz:

What rea­son­able Republican? They got rid of Dick Lugar in Indiana, Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania, oth­er ide­o­log­i­cal zealots were pushed into races they had no chance of win­ning , this cost them dear­ly in Delaware, North Dakota and Montana. So they allowed Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, two Tea-Party Senators to walk them into this tun­nel about de-fund­ing Obama care. The tun­nel did not have an open­ing. Cruz in his sig­na­ture self-aggran­diz­ing zealotry, did not both­er to ensure there was a way out, he sim­ply marched them in like the pied piper of Hamelin. This sto­ry is often ref­er­enced in con­nec­tion with charis­mat­ic lead­er­ship, i.e. to com­pare some­one to the Pied Piper is to indi­cate that they lead unwit­ting fol­low­ers to their doom.

Now caught in a Tunnel from which they can­not return, Confederate/​Republicans have closed the Government, demand­ing that Obama come to the table, so they can debate de-fund­ing his health care law, or delay it for a year until they win the Senate so they can repeal it. Basically a no win embar­rass­ment for Obama. He blinked before, why would they not get their way this time? Obama always gives them what they want! Thus far Obama has stood firm, they did not see this com­ing, he always caves, they have no plan B. The con­ver­sa­tion has now being shift­ed to talks about bud­get deficits and just sit­ting down to have a dis­cus­sion about hav­ing a dis­cus­sion.. The shame­less neo­phyte Senator from Texas, Ted Cruz locked the Government down, then have the nerve to tell mil­i­tary Veterans the President did it. This guy is a shame­less dem­a­gogue . At issue how­ev­er is what Confederate/​Republicans think about the aver­age American, they believe they are too stu­pid to under­stand the issues. This guy has shades of Joe McCarthy, this coun­try would be wise to pay spe­cial atten­tion to him, he can cause a lot of harm before he is through, just like McCarthy did.

President Barack Obama is the Jackie Robinson of the American Presidency . Obama under­stands as Robinson did, what his place in his­to­ry will be. He knows his trail-blaz­ing sprint to the top was not going to be with­out hur­dles. He under­stands well, that those who erect bar­ri­ers in his way will be mere foot-notes when the pages of his­to­ry are writ­ten. Like oth­er American patri­ots before him , he under­stands the igno­rance of intel­lec­tu­al cave-dwellers will only make his sto­ry that much more interesting.

Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia in 1919 to a fam­i­ly of share­crop­pers. His moth­er, Mallie Robinson, sin­gle-hand­ed­ly raised Jackie and her four oth­er chil­dren. They were the only black fam­i­ly on their block, and the prej­u­dice they encoun­tered only strength­ened their bond. From this hum­ble begin­ning would grow the first base­ball play­er to break Major League Baseball’s col­or bar­ri­er that seg­re­gat­ed the sport for more than 50 years. Jackie Robinson’s life and lega­cy will be remem­bered as one of the most impor­tant in American his­to­ry. In 1997, the world cel­e­brat­ed the 50^th Anniversary of Jackie’s break­ing Major League Baseball’s col­or bar­ri­er. In doing so, we hon­ored the man who stood defi­ant­ly against those who would work against racial equal­i­ty and acknowl­edged the pro­found influ­ence of one man’s life on the American cul­ture. On the date of Robinson’s his­toric debut, all Major League teams across the nation cel­e­brat­ed this mile­stone. Also that year, The United States Post Office hon­ored Robinson by mak­ing him the sub­ject of a com­mem­o­ra­tive postage stamp. On Tuesday, April 15 President Bill Clinton paid trib­ute to Jackie at Shea Stadium in New York in a spe­cial cer­e­mo­ny.http://​www​.jack​ier​obin​son​.com/​a​b​o​u​t​/​b​i​o​.​h​tml.

During his major league car­rear Robinson endured the sear­ing heat or racial igno­rance in ball-parks all over America as well as from many with whom he shared a lock­er-room. Robinson was ridiculed, jeered and even spat upon. Today Robinson’s con­tri­bu­tion to his coun­try is incal­cu­la­ble. Many who today invoke Robinson’s name should hang their heads in shame. They use Robinson’s name as they do Doctor King’s to fur­ther their own agen­das. It is the con­tin­ued shame of America to eat it’s great­est lead­ers and cel­e­brate it’s worst dem­a­gogues. Lincoln, Kennedy, Kennedy, King, Malcolm X, Evers , the list of dis­tin­guished Americans sac­ri­ficed is long and var­ied . In the same breath Jefferson Davis, Bull O’Connor, George Wallace and Strom Thurmond Joe Arpio are heroes.

Obama is part­ly to be blamed for the pick­le the coun­try is in, just not in the way some would like to explain it. The pre­vi­ous occa­sion on which the con­fed­er­ate Republicans took the Nation hostage he nego­ti­at­ed with them. This embold­ened them to again adopt this dan­ger­ous, regres­sive, tac­tic as bar­gain­ing lever­age. Here’s the rub, why would the pres­i­dent nego­ti­ate with the Confederate/​Republicans on his sig­na­ture domes­tic achieve­ment ? What prece­dent would he be set­ting for future pres­i­dents by cav­ing to extor­tion? This hostage tak­ing is by one fac­tion, of one house, of one branch of Government. Their job is to fund the Government. How dare they take the entire coun­ty hostage?

Why would Democrats nego­ti­ate with the Confederate/​Republicans after they have closed the Government down to extract what they want from the pres­i­dent? John Boehner the confederate/​Republican Speaker of the house, act­ing like a thug, demands the President nego­ti­ate an end to the impasse he cre­at­ed. Really ? His and his cronies actions are tan­ta­mount to a hostage tak­er who calls the police demand­ing that the cops nego­ti­ate with them so they may extract a ransom.

If ever there was a case of pow­er going to the head of politi­cians this is it. This is the most egre­gious case of abuse of pow­er I have ever seen in my life­time. It is craven, arro­gant, it bor­ders on sedi­tious. In law, sedi­tion is overt con­duct, such as speech and orga­ni­za­tion, that is deemed by the legal author­i­ty to tend toward insur­rec­tion against the estab­lished order.‎The sad thing is, the Confederate/​Republicans don’t even know what they want out of this dan­ger­ous , regres­sive gam­bit. Quote :” We will not be dis­re­spect­ed We have to get some­thing out of this. And I don’t know what that even is.”

Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R‑Ind.)

Don’t for­get that this is a man­u­fac­tured cri­sis which is hurt­ing the nation’s econ­o­my and affect­ing the lives of hun­dreds of thou­sands , if not mil­lions of Americans. The anar­chis­tic confederate/​Republicans sim­ply don’t care. This has been their tac­tic for decades, when they don’t have their way, they sim­ply shut the gov­ern­ment down. Remember this car­toon dur­ing the Clinton Administration? These mis­fits should be run out-of-town but they won’t be, these are the elect­ed lead­ers who rep­re­sent spe­cif­ic ger­ry­man­dered con­gres­sion­al dis­tricts in red states. The only cri­te­ria to get­ting elect­ed it seem, is absolute rabid stu­pid­i­ty. Elected Representatives mir­ror the vot­ers who elect them. We have seen and heard some of the things some of these vot­ers say and do, it is no won­der dur­ing the boon years of the Clinton Administration most of the peo­ple liv­ing in cer­tain geo­graph­i­cal areas would ask what boon? They sim­ply refuse to open their minds to new pos­si­bil­i­ties . Racism is one of the cor­ro­sive ten­ta­cle still stran­gling them. These are the same peo­ple who wrap them­selves in the Flag and try to con­vince you they are patri­ots. They are not, they have sold their votes to spe­cial inter­est, coun­try be damned. They are the ones who have the nerve to ques­tion the nation­al­i­ty of oth­ers , they are frauds.