Be Careful What You Wish For: Democracy and Hamas

It has been a key focus of our republic since its inception over 2 centuries ago to foster democracy around the world. Though a noble and revolutionary idea at heart, this pursuit has its dangers. Case in point, the Islamic world. Muslims are like Southern Baptists on steroids, with an uncompromising fanatacism that is ruthless. Not all muslims of course, there is a small percentage of 'secular' muslims that know a greater disdain than those of us who are secular here in the US.

Never the less, the Palestinian territories just had their first truly democratic election in history. Big surprise to the international media, but no surprise to those of us who have been there and seen the situation first hand, Hamas won by a landslide (76/132 seats) and will now govern.

Hamas is a wolf in sheeps clothing, cloaking the repeated mass murder of Israelis by building hospitals for Palestinians. They accept zero dissent in their ranks and will likely make a hard push to instate Sharia (Islamic Law) in the West Bank and Gaza. They are a terrorist organization who has been legitimately elected. Congratulations, democracy at work in the Islamic world.

If little bush has his way, Egypt will be next, as Mubaraks rule is resented by the masses there, his party is seen as widely corrupt, and the islamists have the hearts and minds of a majority of the populace. Further, look at the debacle of an election in Iraq, where the strictest form of Islam, the Shia, have a solid majority and may push for an Iranian style theocracy in time. Thrusting the gift of democracy on a people not ready for it is a disaster, and will ultimately lead to exponentially greater turmoil in the long run.

Let us not forget what makes democracy work, a large and well educated middle class (obviously among other things). Without this dynamic social component, it either turns into a tyrrany of the majority or a corrupt falacy of democracy (which is the direction our own democracy is heading).

Canada going the wrong direction

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4643882.stm
It appears that Canadians are just as suceptible to the old dirty tricks of politics as those of us in the USA are. After masterfully hiding information about some undoubtedly shady kickbacks by some minor members of the Canadian liberal party, the conseratives wouldn't let the issue rest, and stoked the flames of anger as hard as they could. Cause and effect, the voters get disgruntled, feel like this needs to go away, voilah, a change in leadership.

Its the same old snafu that the shameful ultra-conservatives south of the border have been pulling for generations down here, from McCarthyism to Reagan to Schwarzenegger. Welcome to the modern age. Innocence begone my northern friends.

Your country is now ruled by decree from the White House, who no doubt offered extensive logistical support and intel towards this end. Prepare to send your boys to Iraq, and as a consequence have somefuckingthing blow up in your country by some dumbass jihadists. Next step will be acts of government to restrict civil liberties, and a further entrenching of your military forces overseas, under the watchful eyes of your southern masters.

Dark days indeed. This election has disappointed me almost as much as John F. Kerrys smearing by the right here. Watch out.

Pat Robertson at it again

This guy is just way too easy to dislike, and further exposes what neoconservatives are really thinking in a clear, undeniable way. In his most recent lunatic rant, Pat Robertson cursed a Pennsylvania town of Gods Wrath, stating that by voting out the radical school board that was trying to ram "intelligent design" down the schools throat, they were in fact "rejecting god" and could expect a natural disaster to strike the town. I think this is along parallel lines to some ultra conservative and religious right thought and statements about New Orleans getting what it deserved for its "sinful ways", like sodom and gomorrah. What a pile of vomit they spew from their mouths. How can anyone be stupid enough to take this garbage seriously?

Office Tyrrany

Today, the news brought out further proof that the office (orifice) is a place of tyrrany throughout the world, not only in corporate America. This shithead named Tony Price ordered his employees to go through DNA tests to find out who was chewing gum in the workplace. Word of this ridiculous decision of course found its way to the press, and in response, this business dictator decreed there would be a round of lie detector tests to uncover who leaked it. Proof positive that shit rises to the top. Read about it on the BBC or better yet, contact their corporate customer service at cs-uk@wstore.com and express your outrage directly.

American style "democracy" in Iraq

The puppet Bush has always stated his desire for American style democracy to take root in Iraq, a medieval Islamic playground at the focal point of corporate oil policy. In fashion remeniscent of the voting irregularities of the 2000 election in Florida, and the 2004 results from Ohio, once again more votes were returned in key districts in Iraq than registered voters. The constitution was a resounding YES vote, even in areas where Sunni voters overwhelmingly rejected it in every non propogandized poll. Strange, isn't it? I guess not, considering the conservative shadow government that is orchestrating this entire war.
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the Hypocrisy of Conservatives

Just another example of how conservatives everywhere are complete fucking liars and hypocrites is being demonstrated by Britains Tory party leadership struggle. While they fanatically attack drug use and exploit youthful experimentations in vicious slanderings of liberal and centrist opponents, they carefully cover up the discretions of their own leaders. One of the new potential Tory leaders, David Cameron is under media scrutiny to either confirm or deny past cocaine use, and while Kate Moss was fed to the wolves for her actions, the conservatives in Britain now try to quietly sweep his own sniffing under the rug. See the BBC. Very remeniscent of how Americas conservative Republican party so skillfully covered up the past cocaine snorting activities of George W Bush, the king liar of them all. Hold the conservatives accountable, and better yet, don't be fooled next time they try to smear someone elses character with these same attacks. Remember the the hypocrisy of conservatives everywhere.

Voice of Europe

Bringing a muslim nation with a horrific human rights record, desperate poverty, strong fundamentalist undercurrents, a racist and sexist culture, and undemocratic ways into the EU is tantamount to political suicide. Should Turkeys accession talks "go well" starting on Monday, the world can kiss European unification goodbye, and watch it splinter into a 3rd rate power in the next 2 centuries. How can the EU ministers be so utterly spineless as to even entertain the notion of Turkey joining, a government that to this day still refuses to recognize its own genocide of the Armenians? A government that invaded Cyprus then transplanted so many right wing fanatics to the island that its division has become a tangled mess, then demanded so many concessions in the bogus "peace plan" that the Greek south of the island could not in good conscience vote for it? A government that kills its enemies and tortures dissenters? And most disturbingly, a nation that is strongly muslim. The EU and Turkey are so radically different that this notion of them possibly being able to join in a decades time should not even be entertained. Let them stay in Anatolia, their ancestors stole that fair and square hundreds of years ago.

Iraq: Tyrrany of the Majority erupts

The last possible justification that didn't turn out to be a complete and blatant lie for Bush's invasion of Iraq was the attempt to bring freedom and democracy. Now, I have been to the middle east, and it is not a free place. Usually a result of strict Islamic doctrine and teachings, minorities, women, and foreigners are rarely respected, often subject to beatings, taunting, intimidation, rape, and pure murder. So if someone can add a bit of freedom and justice to this land, more power to them.

However, as we have seen since the fall of the Baathist regime in Iraq, the situation has deteriorated so badly that the minorities and women that actually had a degree of protection, possibly one of the best protections in the Arab world, are now subject to the whims of armed gangs and Islamists. Women now are forced to wear the head scarf (hijab) or the full face covering Burqa, have litte freedom of movement, cannot retain jobs (thus losing their livelihoods), and have been subject to rampant sexual assaults.

Christians and other minorities are now subjected to forced conversions to Islam, kidnappings, murder, etc. As a result, an ethnic cleansing is in progress. The security situation is so bad, that instead of greater freedom and democracy, the opposite has happened, with few liberties formerly taken for granted no longer possible, and the democracy so highly spoken of ushering in a strict Shiite power base. Tyrrany of the majority is a pretty scary thing when Sharia (Islamic Law) is supported by most of the electorate.

How could the Republican Guard (and its conservative war-hawks) be so utterly incompetent as to not realize that this was going to happen? Or perhaps, this is yet another lie in their bullshit list of reasons to invade that they knew was false. If so, then this war and all the deaths have been to secure oil all along, or should I say oil profits for Bush's biggest campaign contributors.

Borrow and Spend: the Conservatives Motto

This White House is making such a catastrophy in so many ways, it is hard to keep up with the insanity and intensity of it all. In his latest stroke of sheer idiocy, little Bush announced that any Hurricane Katrina costs will have to be taken out of curent spending. Read my lips, no...new...taxes! Just another way of proving to daddy of how "good" a son he is. [deactivate sarcasm mode].

The result? Well, every program has already been slashed to the bone, and no further cuts are really possible without provoking mass social protest. The conservative assholes will not even consider a rational spending cut, say by withdrawing from the $4 billion a day Iraqi tarpit, or other military cuts (funny, I thought the Cold War was over, wheres our peace dividend?).

So this, just like so many other things will just be added onto our burgeoning national debt. Hey, why pay for it ourselves when our children (who do not vote by the way) can pay for it? Lets play bankrupt the future of our nation, shall we?

The national debt today was a surprising and horrific $7,964,643,188,228.55, and rising over 1.66 billion dollars a day. Check the website, and update it. Its a bit alarming, but it increases at least $200,000 a second. Anyone remember when another notorious conservative, Ronald (McDonald) Reagan pushed the debt over a trillion bucks, then tripled it by the time he was done? ah, fond memories.

As with any debt, we get the luxury of being allowed to pay interest on this current debt, in the meager sum of around $350 BILLION each and every miserable year. One of the largest blocs of spending in the government, well, beside the military. Imagine a household that paid all its bills only by using credit cards. What type of short termed, no sense of reality thinking is this? Bush and his conservatives motto: Borrow and Spend to bankrupt the future of America.

Bush Refusing Internation Help

Once again, Bush is demonstrating his incompetence. Not only has the entire hurricane Katrina disaster relief effort been seriously bungled by his appointees, but his conservative administration has so far refused the help of numerous countries around the world. This story is better covered in one of the following articles:
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