Liberal vs Progressive

There has been questions human beings have been asking for centuries...Hell millenniums. Some important: in which ways will global warming impact the planet and the human life within ones life time or not so important: When is the rapture. There are other questions that stump the minds of even the brightest and most brilliant scientists: Why do we drive in a parkway and park in a driveway? Still one such questions in the arena of the lefties is: Can you tell me the difference between a liberal and progressive? Well lets tackle that issue:

Liberals according to Wikipedia

Liberalism (from the Latin liberalis)^[1] is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights.^[2] Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally liberals support ideas such as constitutionalism, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights, capitalism, and freedom of religion.^{[3][4][5][6][7]} These ideas are widely accepted, even by political groups that do not openly profess a liberal ideological orientation.

Liberalism first became a powerful force in the Age of Enlightenment, rejecting several foundational assumptions that dominated most earlier theories of government, such as nobility, established religion, absolute monarchy, and the Divine Right of Kings. The early liberal thinker John Locke, who is often credited for the creation of liberalism as a distinct philosophical tradition, employed the concept of natural rights and the social contract to argue that the rule of law should replace absolutism in government, that rulers were subject to the consent of the governed, and that private individuals had a fundamental right to life, liberty, and property.

The revolutionaries in the American Revolution and the French Revolution used liberal philosophy to justify the armed overthrow of tyrannical rule. The nineteenth century saw liberal governments established in nations across Europe, Latin America, and North America. Liberal ideas spread even further in the twentieth century, when liberal democracies triumphed in two world wars and survived major ideological challenges from fascism and communism. Today, liberalism in its many forms remains as a political force to varying degrees of power and influence on all major continents.

A twenty-first century development is an emerging new liberalism that is centred on the concept of timeless freedom (ensuring the freedom of future generations through proactive action taken today).^[8] This is an idea that has been endorsed by the President of Liberal International Hans van Baalen.

Progressive according to Wikipedia

Progressivism is an umbrella term for a political ideology advocating or favoring social, political, and economic reform or changes through the state. Progressivism is often viewed by its advocates to be in opposition to conservative or reactionary ideologies.
The Progressive Movement began in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in cities with settlement workers and reformers who were interested in helping those facing harsh conditions at home and at work. The reformers spoke out about the need for laws regulating tenement housing and child labor. They also called for better working conditions for women.
The term progressivism emerged in reference to a more general response to the vast changes brought by industrialization: an alternative to the traditional conservative response to social and economic issues and, despite being associated with left-wing politics, to the various more radical streams of communism or anarchism.
Political parties, such as the Progressive Party, organized at the start of the 20th century, and progressivism was embraced in the administrations of American Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Lyndon Baines Johnson.^[1] Moreover, in the United States and Canada, the term "progressive" has occasionally been used by groups not particularly left-wing. The Progressive Democrats in the Republic of Ireland took the name "progressivism" despite being considered centre-right or classical liberal. The European Progressive Democrats was a mainly heterogeneous political group in the European Union. For most of the period from 1942–2003, the largest conservative party in Canada

So you choose.

Yet there has been an up-rise no an increase of prog/lib shows. A few are on T.V., many are on radio and even more are on the Internet. There is a class or standards in which people attain their daily information. Living in Los Angeles, there are a few shows I listen to and I think I got it down.

Stephanie Miller: Morning show host from the Stephanie Miller Show. Her audience attracts folks from 18-34 years old. Since the Howard Stern Show move to Sirius Satellite, Stephanie is filling that void with politics using humor and fart jokes. Stern also use fart sounds and strange humor, Miller is bringing in the kids who could not make the cross over. So Miller became popular and now, listeners can have a good laugh, while learning something about the politics in the U.S. Prior to Stern's movement, Miller had to work her butt of to attract people over to the "dark" side. Miller is attracting the 18-34 years old with her childish act, promoting fun and frivolity.

Ed Schultz, a conservative-turned-lefty, counters everything a traditional Democratic member counter. He's a hunter. Schultz attracts the blue dog or even the newly converted right to the left, but who loves their firearms. Schultz explain that the lefties can carry firearms or go hunting and fishing, as well as being a responsible steward to the environment. His no-nonsense radio show gives the new listeners pablum to even the oldest teabagger so they could segue to the left a lot easier.

Randi Rhodes is a lefty who supports the Democratic party, a diehard lefty, whose allegiance is powerful. She can pull out any facts and figures and  destroy the right like a tsunami wiping out a village. Randi is loving and caring, but piss her off and she'll pounce on you like a rabid Wolverine. She will go for the jugular and will not shut you down unless you are stupid. She's like the person who would stand up to the school bully, squeeze their nuts or boobs and twist. She makes mincemeat out of people who deserve it and will not give in.

Thom Hartmann. Now here is a scholar on U.S. history. A person so well-versed, that he could challenge any top-rated history professor at any of the Ivy League University and put them in their place. Hartmann has a mind like a steel trap, that he could bring up not only the obvious but the obscure. Example? East India Tea Company and the Boston Tea Party.  Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific letterhead and the mistake of calling corporations human being because Citizens United was based upon First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti which is based upon Santa Clara County case. These facts teaches the graduates of progressive/liberal radio the foundation of history and the implementation of our rights.

Then comes the graduate studies or should I say Ph.D. of progressive/liberal radio:

Mike Malloy. Mike Malloy is a firebrand on radio. His rants are powerful, he screams at the top of his lungs and yells across the airwaves facts as mentioned from above to a more grassroots group of listeners. The age here varies, from the mid 30s to retiree age. Many of the listeners here are disenfranchised and are disgusted by their own party. They have no allegiance to one party, and are willing to support anyone who echoes their knowledge and experience in a rational way. many of these folks are atheists. There are Agnostic and the ones who believe, know how to read the Bible and apply Matthew 25:40. There is no racism, sexism, classicism, and everyone in this group tend to huddle up and create this family.

Other hosts include but are not limited to: Bob Kincaid, Sam Seder, Nicole Sandler, Cary Harrison, Brad Friedman.

These talkers are willing or have placed their lives in the line of the 1% and are sharing their experience. These are the instructors or commanding officers who will go to the front of the line and stand next to you to fight the right.

Liberal or progressives, both ideas , though different, can be a vital asset to the commons.

The Demon Test Question

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1) Do you sometimes exhibit uncontrollable outbursts of anger or violence?
Never
In My Past
Currently

2) Have you experimented with two or more forms of the occult?
Never
In My Past
Currently

3) Have you been sexually violated (raped, incested, molested)?
Never
In My Past
Currently

4) Do you sometimes manifest behavior not consistent with your normal personality?
Never
In My Past
Currently

5) Do you abuse alcohol or drugs to escape painful past experiences in life?
Never
In My Past
Currently

6) Do you commit immoral or illegal acts, contrary to your customary values
Never
In My Past
Currently

7) Have you ever attempted or contemplated suicide?
Never
In My Past
Currently

8) Are you sometimes overwhelmed with feelings of severe depression and hopelessness?
Never
In My Past
Currently

9) Do you indulge in self-abusive behavior such as anorexia, bulimia, cutting or self-mutilation?
Never
In My Past
Currently

10) Have you experienced life-changing trauma from which you haven't recovered?
Never
In My Past
Currently

11) Do you know of ancestors who committed murder, suicide, or sexual perversion?
Never
In My Past
Currently

12) Do voices tell you to commit illegal acts, blaspheme God, or indulge in immoral acts?
Never
In My Past
Currently

13) Have you asked Satan to take your life in exchange for something?
Never
In My Past
Currently

14) Do you live a fear-based life resulting in paranoia or multiple phobias?
Never
In My Past
Currently

15) Have you experienced emotional or physical abuse from your biological parents?
Never
In My Past
Currently

16) Have you been emotionally or physically abandoned by either biological parent?
Never
In My Past
Currently

17) Have you felt repeated, disabling episodes of rejection or depression?
Never
In My Past
Currently

18) Have you failed repeatedly in significant relationships?
Never
In My Past
Currently

19) Have you failed to experience trust and lasting love from a significant other?
Never
In My Past
Currently

20) Do you consistently experience serious health or financial issues?
Never
In My Past
Currently

21) Are you significantly hindered in prayer, worship, Bible reading and church attendance?
Never
In My Past
Currently

Sounds more mental illness than possession. When you think possession, I think of Little Regan stabbing her vagina with a crucifix or projectile vomiting pea soup. But what do I know? I'm an atheist

Mayor Jean Quan

Oakland Mayor Jean Quan
October 25, 2011
7:30 am

Statement from Mayor Jean Quan about
today’s enforcement action

Many Oaklanders support the goals of the national Occupy Wall Street movement. We maintained daily communication with the protest0rs in Oakland.

However, over the last week it was apparent that neither the demonstrators nor the City could maintain safe or sanitary conditions, or control the ongoing vandalism. Frank Ogawa Plaza will continue to be open as a free speech area from 6 am to 10 pm.

We want to thank the police, fire, public works and other employees who worked over the last week to peacefully close the encampment. We also thank the majority of the protestors who peacefully complied with city officials.

I commend Chief Jordan for a generally peaceful resolution to a situation that deteriorated and concerned our community. His leadership was critical in the successful execution of this operation. City Administrator Deanna Santana developed the plan and secured mutual aid from other departments and the State of California. She will direct departmental teams, including safety, public works, communications, to restore conditions at the Plaza so that it is available for public use.

The City welcomes all Oaklanders to continue to use the Plaza during daylight hours for peaceful protest.

9/11

Who would have known? Not me. Well, maybe so many years later, but not at the time. Amazing how so many things pop up after the fact, but could it have been prevented? Did they wanted it to be prevented? Who knows. But it sure seems to be so especially after the interview by Norman Mineta



Why did former Secretary of Transportation say what he said? Mineta is a man of integrity and Bill Clinton picked Mineta as the secretary of Commerce. And within that six months, Japan thought that Mineta would be Japan friendly. Boy, were they wrong. Mineta said what he said because he did not want to lie. He was responsible and his testimony should have put the Bush Crime Family in prison.

Fast forwarding 10 years, things still have not changed and we're still in war and now our economy sucks. Maybe it's time that we end these memorial. I mean there is no memorial for OKC bombing or the attack on the USS Liberty. Why? We were healed. Cannot the 9/11 be the same? Or was it truly an inside job so that we could remain in war?

Nagasaki August 9

This is a conversation between a right-winger supporting the destruction created by a Democratic President with me in Facebook. Seems like the right suffers from cognitive dissonance.

Tim Murphy Truman's rage? I hope that you are not asserting that the US should not have dropped the bomb.
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Tim Fromlosangeles Uh yes Tim.
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Tim Murphy Uh, why Tim?
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Tim Fromlosangeles So Tim, is it justifiable to kill American citizens? Do the ends justify the means? If so that is so unAmerican
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Tim Fromlosangeles Tim you're a conservative, right? If so you of all people should be on my side
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Tim Fromlosangeles And I am a liberal
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Tim Fromlosangeles So do the ends justify the means?
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Tim Murphy The American POW deaths were unintentional. If the US had to fight their way to Japan, there would have been tens of thousands of US casualties....what would have been your decision if you were Truman?
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Unintentional? http://soldiersangelsmedic​al.blogspot.com/2009/07/th​ree-us-pows-added-to-roste​r-of.html

Tell that to the families of these Americans who were killed. So you're justifying the murders of 12 U.S. citizens, when, surprise surpri...se, the Republicans Party in the U.S. were against Truman's barbarism. Especially when it was learned that Americans died.

Tell that to the family members of these dead soldiers that. The soldiers HAD no choice in the matter. They were drafted and they were murdered. And yes, I had to agree with the Republicans in Congress who abhorred Truman's decision and called him a war criminal.

Do you stand by the patriotic Republicans who spoke up against the bombing or will you stand with the murderous Democratic party? Are you a patriot and wanted these soldiers free or are you unamerican and and felt that the decision by a Democratic president WAS justifiable AND killing American POWs is the cost of war?See More

Soldier's Angels - Medical Support: Three U.S. POWs added to roster of Hiroshima deaths

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//The American POW deaths were unintentional. If the US had to fight their way to Japan, there would have been tens of thousands of US casualties....what would have been your decision if you were Truman?//

And are you saying that... Americans could not defeat an island country who was already defeated? What happened to the American exceptionalism the right always presses? Are you saying now that OUR troops are cowards???See More
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Tim Fromlosangeles Come on Mr Murphy. If a liberal like me can align himself with the Republicans, should not you?
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Tim Murphy The US had over 400,000 deaths from the war at this point. What would you have done? You never answered that. I don't care what party Truman came from...he made the right call. Again, without histrionics, what would you have done? Simple question.
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Tim Fromlosangeles So you're saying that, at the tail-end of the war, the republicans were wrong, the Democrats were right and killing 12 American POWs were justifiable, when the troops could have gone in and rescued them? Is that what you're saying?
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Tim Fromlosangeles There is my answer
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Tim Fromlosangeles Now answer my question Tim
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Tim Murphy Dude, there were 2.3 million troops defending the homeland under a fiercely fanatical general leadership. How do you think that was going to work out in the long haul? They could not have been rescued, the whole country was right and Truman made the call by ending the war by taking out these heathens vs. the choice of thousands more casualties. That's my answer.
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Tim Fromlosangeles you didn't answer my question. So you support a Democratic President of Killing American POWs, much to the chagrin of the Republican Party? Yes or No
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Tim Murphy I did answer your question. Leave politics aside. Truman made the right call.
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Tim Fromlosangeles Answer the question. Prove to me that conservatives don't suffer from the mental disorder cognitive dissonance.
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Tim Murphy I'm checking out..........you are a long trip to nowhere. Have a good day.
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Tim Fromlosangeles Oh come on Tim
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Tim Fromlosangeles You started this and you're cowering away???
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Tim Fromlosangeles Be a man and answer my question
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Tim Fromlosangeles You start a conversation that questions my integrity, but you cower when you are challenged
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Tim Fromlosangeles I guess conservatism is a mental illness
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Tim Fromlosangeles So you support a Democratic President of Killing American POWs, much to the chagrin of the Republican Party? Yes or No
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Tim Fromlosangeles I say NO! And I am a liberal
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Tim Murphy Bro, I've got a business to run and money to be made. I'm one of those guys that the left loves to hate because I'm successful. Got no time for you.
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Tim Fromlosangeles if truman were alive today, I would announce that I AM A DEMOCRAT AND AND WANT TRUMAN IMPRISONED.
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Tim Fromlosangeles Tim then answer the question
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Tim Fromlosangeles You asked me and I answered
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Tim Fromlosangeles Stop being a coward and asnwer
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Tim Fromlosangeles So you support a Democratic President of Killing American POWs, much to the chagrin of the Republican Party? Yes or No
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Tim Fromlosangeles Answer: So you support a Democratic President of Killing American POWs, much to the chagrin of the Republican Party? Yes or No
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Tim Fromlosangeles Coward and mentally ill
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Tim Fromlosangeles Come on grow a pair. You challenged my integrity. Be a man and answer my question: So you support a Democratic President of Killing American POWs, much to the chagrin of the Republican Party? Yes or No
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Tim Fromlosangeles Well, The Republican is gone. They suffer from Cognitive Dissonance and now condone a party's action that goes against their own party's values.
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The right seems to justify death and murder, even though their own party abhors it themselves.

TV News Lie back up.

Our Troops do NOT Protect Our Freedom and We Should Stop Thanking Them for Doing So
Sunday, 07 August 2011 16:11 Jesse Richard
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Let's make one thing crystal clear, no member of the US military contributes in any way whatsoever to protecting the freedoms of the American people. As a matter of fact, they are more likely to turn their weapons on you than they are to defend your Constitutional rights.

The only people on this planet Earth who can affect your freedom are members of Congress, local legislators and the members of enforcement institutions who will blindly follow the rulers who sign their paychecks. And, while your beloved troops are murdering people around the globe, yes, I said murdering, your Congress and local legislators are eliminating your freedoms, en masse, without any intervention by our so-called protectors in the armed forces.
There is no honor in volunteering to go anywhere in the world and kill anybody you are told to, without question, without historical background and without verifying the stated reasons for doing so. In this modern age of information we now know that time and time again our military have been deployed into battle, to kill and be killed, for reasons that in no way shape or form resemble the reasons for which they, or we were told at the time. This is no secret, although many Americans refuse to take off the flag that is wrapped around their eyes and see American history as it really happened. They blindly believe what was told to them by the people who have a vested interest in maintaining myths and misconceptions.

The US military, not once but twice, committed the single largest mass murders in history by dropping nuclear weapons on civilian populations, including of course, on women and children. Say what you want about how it helped end the war....the bottom line is the US could have exploded these devices over uninhabited territory with the same effect of scaring the heck out of the Japanese. But they followed orders that were lies and murdered almost 300,000 people, without question. As a human being I find it hard to honor such “patriotism.”

From the Gulf of Tonkin to the first and second invasions of Iraq, history now teaches us that lies have led our troops to military intervention more often than not. As a matter of fact, it is hard to find an American military intervention in modern history in which the cover story ends up matching the actual events. A little research will show you this. It will also show you how the same people are usually behind funding both sides of military conflict and those doing the funding and instigating have almost always been, how should I say this, the 'good guys.' Yep, westerners on the popular side of conflict are the ones funding the 'bad guys' before they ever are labeled the bad guys.

Prescott Bush, the father and grandfather of George H.W. and George W. respectively, made his fortune by funding the Nazis and Hitler's rise to power. This is the same clan who went after Saddam Hussein in Iraq after they put him in power and armed him in the first place. But why pay attention to details if it interferes with our troop worship and flag waving?

Time and time again we see that the people who make decisions to send troops to war are the very people who profit financially from such wars. Today's troops can see this. It is part of the public record, yet they still do not question their missions. They join the military with a promise never to question orders. Taking history into account, I see no pride in this kind of service.

Recent history provides a very clear lesson for our troops and those who cheer their missions. You have never seen a more clear and egregious example of questionable motivations for military intervention than during the Bush/Cheney administration. A virtual 'who's who' of defense contractors comprised not only the Defense Policy Board, but the office of Vice President. Not to mention that a significant portion of these men signed a document noting that that a 'new Peal Harbor' would be useful in getting public support for their agenda (to increase military spending and activity), and then - just such an attack - the first Pearl Harbor in 60 years took place on 9/11...what a nice coincidence.

Gee, what are the odds of the only 'Pearl Harbor' in 60 years taking place while the men responsible for preventing one (and in positions to create/allow one) were the same men who wrote about benefiting from one. But according to most Americans, it is crazy to suspect them of anything...simply because they are Americans. If Dick Cheney had been a Muslim he would have been hanged 9 years ago.

Unfortunately, the majority of Americans have neither the intellectual curiosity to actually learn about historical events nor the intelligence to actually think about claims made by their leaders or pop-journalism-gate keeping-icons.

For example: Americans have swallowed whole the concept of our troops “protecting our freedom” without ever once asking “how, how does killing foreigners in Iraq or Afghanistan protect our freedom?” Maybe if they asked that question just once and really waited for an answer, a real answer that actually really made sense to them, they would realize there is no answer - because troops killing foreigners have no impact on the freedoms of the American people, and they never will.

Here is another question Americans have not asked, “How can an Iraqi, Pakistani, Afghan or Islamic fundamentalist in other nations take away our freedom?” The answer to this question is of course...by becoming a member of the US Congress.

It is sad that I will be lambasted for speaking the truth about this sensitive subject, but someone has to. The saddest truth however, is that the members of the US military serve today with no honor. They are dangerous and a threat to all free people, here and abroad. In plain terms - they volunteer to kill at the behest of people who have lied to them for generations about why they are being sent to kill. Generations of lies be dammed, they still follow orders, and kill, without question. I repeat - as a human being I see no honor in this.

While it is true that the existence of our military acts to deter nations from invading our shores, credit really should go more to our nuclear arsenal and military technology than to National Guardsman who find themselves shooting at Iraqis in their own homeland. I don't think that it is a deterrent to have private American “security firms” torture, for fun, the “enemies” who are in their own country, in their own neighborhoods, near their own families, and who dare to fight the American military personnel who obliterated their homes, killed their brothers, sisters, children, mothers and fathers, and occupy their soil. The nerve of them!

In the meantime, your freedoms and protections are being systematically eliminated while government protected rights for corporations are expanding beyond your wildest dreams. If this nation had a legitimate mainstream news media you would know this and you would probably take to the streets and revolt because you would realize what some of us already know, your rights, health and wealth have been under assault while you are distracted by bogey men in foreign nations who are supposedly going to take your freedom away!!!

So how free are you and who exactly are the terrorists. Here is how free you are in your own home in your own country. These are just a few examples - off the top of my head. - there are more...but to start...

1. You are not allowed to drink raw milk, no matter how healthy it is, because under certain rare conditions may cause health issues), but you do have the right to smoke chemically addicting cigarettes that when used as directed WILL KILL YOU!
2. You don't have the right to stop your food supply from being contaminated and genetically manipulated, leaving you with no alternative.
3. You don't have the right to collect rain water or grow your own vegetables to feed your family.
4. You have no right to stop corporations from poisoning your air and water.
5. You have no right to treat your ailments naturally because your government has declared that the only way to become healthy is by medications and treatments that will produce big profits for corporations. Healthy food can not benefit your health and if it does the FDA will classify it as a drug.
6. You have no right to raise your child without injecting toxins and dangerous chemicals directly into their blood streams.
7. During the Bush/Cheney administration you had no right to free speech. Special zones called “free speech” zones were created and kept far from Bush and Cheney where those who wanted to speak as free Americans could gather.
8. You are not free to exchange goods and services on your own terms. You must use Federal Reserve Notes, which is NOT U.S. CURRENCY. It is a system of money created and maintained, unconstitutionally, by a cadre of private banks.
9. You are not free to feed homeless people and if you are homeless you are not free to be fed by your fellow citizens.
10. We are not free to know about or have any say about secret activities in which our rulers partake. For example what terrible weapons they create, what biological or chemical programs that may accidentally or purposely destroy us all, how they set up and instigate wars and conflict as well as events that justify actions for which they want to take but have no legitimate justifications.

America is not yet a totalitarian dictatorship, but it is clearly on the way to becoming one. And our beloved troops are doing nothing at all to stop this. What is worse is that some day they may actually be the ones to stop you from doing anything about it. They are already practicing to do so.

So if you want to thank people for protecting your freedom...thank journalists...real ones, not establishment hacks, who try to inform you about what is taking place while you are distracted by nonsense. Thank civil liberty lawyers and staff who don't use their education to make it rich charging criminally high fees for their services. Thank whistle blowers. Thank people who risk a backlash of threats and worse to finally speak the truth to people who simply don't want to know there is a truth beyond the myths that have comforted them throughout their lives. And while you do this I'll thank you for at least listening to these uncomfortable words. Reality is not pretty, but if we all open our eyes to reality maybe we can stop those who make it so ugly.

I don't know about you, but I want to be proud of my country for real reasons, not mythical ones.

Think about it. Jesse Richard – Founder, TvNewsLIES.org

NOTE: The military's mandate is not to protect our freedom it is to protect us from enemies, foreign and domestic. Enemies that pose a military threat and have intentions to act against us. They are not there to protect our freedom.

UPDATE: 08-AUG-2011 - 1:40 PM ET - Interestingly enough this site is being attacked right now...and the first attack came from jacksonville.nmci.navy.mil.

AND 10 minutes ago a barrage of Chinook military helicopters flew over my home in waves. I grabbed my camera but I missed them. I was on the phone when it happened and the other person could hear them. Not very comforting. What the hell were they doing here? Just in case I vanish...

UPDATE: 08-AUG-2011 - 6:57 PM ET - Our site is being attacked big time. Attacks started coming from jacksonville.nmci.navy.mil and have come from there several times throught the day (we apply temporary blocks when this happens). They are perfoming something called SYNFLOODs but they are not alone. Attacks are coming from all over now, some familiar sources and some not so familiar. Wellsfargo.com, baesystems.com and fidelity.com are a few sources that I recognize. This does not mean that these organizations are attacking us but their IP addresses and/or networks are being used in this attack. If you try to reach us and can not try again later. We have backed up the entire site in the event it is taken down.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

One has to wonder what more than 100,000 Japanese, Japanese American and OTJ (Other Than Japanese) and OTJA (Other than Japanese American) hibakusha are experiencing today in Japan? This Saturday, thousands if not hundreds of thousands will attend the Hiroshima peace ceremony. All of Japan will have a moment of peace where everyone in Japan will stop what they're doing. My mom is going to be there...Cindy Sheehan. She is going to speak about the horrors of nuclear war. But this year will be special. This year on 3/11/2011, Japan was again nuked. Not this time by We the People but by what Eisenhower warned us about...the military industrial complex. In case you didn't know and readers of this blog already know that General Electric was responsible for this disaster. And Japan was once again nuked. I wonder what more than 100,000 Japanese, Japanese American and OTJ (Other Than Japanese) and OTJA (Other than Japanese American) hibakusha are are experiencing today in Japan?

Anger? Depression? Confusion? Sure isn't happiness. This week, especially on 2011, this memorial will be reinforced by the disaster in Fukushima and I have a feeling that the end of all nukes as we know it will be pressed. Writing this blog this week is really tough It's tough because One set of family were victims of a nuclear bomb while in another other part of Japan, the family with my surname is experiencing the same thing. neither are justifiable but I found it ironic that our family's disaster in Japan is complete. Now both are victims of American nuclear power.

Sick!

If there is a way to express my anger, I would. I would release my anger and relieve the tension I have inside of me. I would then release the demons of greed and evil that makes men lusting for nukes. I don't know what to do anymore, but tolerate it...and get an upset stomach...LOL. I'll never know what it's like to be a hibakusha nor will I know what it's like to see my culture possibly thrown out because a nuclear power plant exploded and contaminated my home country. But I now this, I may be the last of my family lineage if our family and their lands are contaminated. It's not that I want to know, but it's the reality I'll face from here on out. Knowing that I don't have kids to continue our family lineage in the U.S.

Sigh