By Ernest Stewart
Enemy of the People Rep. Paul Ryan (R), WI.
“To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead.” ~~~ Thomas Paine
“That is not justice!” ~~~ Anthony D. Romero ~ ACLU executive director
“In the nicest way I have to say, Paul Ryan doesn’t know what he is talking about.” ~~~ Harry Reid.
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All Together Now ~~~ The Beatles
To be honest politically these daze one can not be either a Rethuglican or a Demoncrat as there is really no difference between the two; they both work for our corpo-rat masters and couldn’t give a rat’s ass about we the people. The trouble is their followers haven’t a clue that this is so. The Matrix is so warm, fuzzy, and comforting–and to think outside of it is very scary and delusional, indeed. Waking up to “Everything You Know Is Wrong,” can be a bit disquieting!
It’s been obvious to me for years that the Rethuglican camp followers were this way, brainwashed and totally ignorant of reality, but in the last few years I found it to be exactly the same for Demoncratic camp followers, too. Although they had no problem seeing the treason, sedition, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, not to mention crimes against the Constitution, done by the Bush Junta, one would’ve thought they could see the exact same crimes, whether committed by Slick Willie or Obamahood, too; but, apparently, they can’t.
It’s as simple as they see things as good or evil with no shades of grey. They were against Bush who was evil; ergo, they are good and their candidate is good, too, by association. After all, he said he was for all the things that I believe in. Yes, it’s really that simple. Symbolism! It’s also true that Symbolism is for the symbol-minded, please excuse the pun, but it’s true.
We come by it honestly as we’ve been fooled by our government since our first revolution. A revolution that brought democracy to this land; except, of course, that it didn’t, nor was it ever meant to. It was our corporations rebelling against the British corporations; King George and democracy never entered into it! A school system that has never taught what children need to know, i.e., how to think, but instead a fantasy history complete with morals that enslave instead of liberate! You don’t need to know the truth about the world; all you need to know is how to be a good little robot and fill your cog in the wheel of industry! This has been reinforced by the family, the schools, the churches and mass media. So I’m not surprised by our incredible blindness of the big picture; what I am surprised by is how many people have unhooked themselves from the Matrix, and have the guts to speak out about it!
When I started the magazine my hope was to unhook as many folks from the Matrix as I could and show them the facts, but that never really worked as the truth is scary, and being plugged in can be so nice, and reality is such a bitch! Therefore, over the years, I stopped trying to save the Sheeple, but sought out others, who, like myself, knew the score and had the courage to say so. These are the people I reach out to for a chance to teach them, and, more importantly, a chance to learn from them. I learned a long time ago if you just shut the f*ck up and listen, you just might learn something! While it’s true that you can’t put two leftists in the same room for ten minutes without an argument breaking out, that’s just a sign of a healthy mind. Asking, questioning, arguing and picking nits is a good thing! Those who never question authority, go along with the party, and never even think, end up wearing brown shirts and Jack Boots! So it may be best to try and stay out of their way. As I’m fond of saying, “You can expound the wisdom of the universe to a fence post, but it just ain’t gonna sink in, even if the fence post has ears!”
In Other News
I see where Obamahood and Eric Holder are doing an about face on the fate of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. You remember Khalid? He was the so-called mastermind behind 9/11 which surprised me because I, like most folks, thought 9/11 was masterminded by PNAC and carried out by the Crime Family Bush!™ You’ll recall that back in 2009, Barry and Eric made much ado about giving Khalid and four others a fair trial in New York, to show the world they’d get justice in a court of law! So much for that bright idea!
Khalid will now face a kangaroo court down in Gitmo, where the verdict has already been arrived at! Finally, after at least 183 torture sessions (that we know about), he finally confessed to whatever it was they wanted him to say. They still didn’t have the evidence to prosecute him legally so it’s off to Gitmo for Khalid and American Justice behind closed doors, just like when they were torturing him. Why didn’t they just shoot this poor smuck in the head and be done with it to begin with? It would have saved us a few billion, our “boy’s next door” wouldn’t be having nightmares for torturing him, and the end result would be the same, and we wouldn’t have to pretend that this was all aboveboard when it was below board, a water board that is!
If you have good evidence, then you can take it to trial in New York, but if they had any evidence, why torture him at all–much less 183 times! If you tortured me, I’d tell you I sank the Lusitania and confess that I killed Cock Robin, too, and so would you, folks; have no doubt of that! There must be scapegoats to cover our government’s tracks in this. C’est la guerre, Khalid!
Of course, as bad as this is, it pales by comparison to Obamahood’s new power to keep people in prison forever without any evidence, not even a sham trial. The next step on this slippery slope is that Barry will be able to kill anybody, for any reason, on his say-so alone! No, wait a minute, he’s already had that power for over a year! We are so screwed, America!
And Finally
Seems there always something new from those irascible knuckleheads in Wisconsin, maybe there is something in their drinking water that causes human beings to regress to a regressive state of being? A good example of this might be in Paul Ryan’s bright idea to balance the budget, “The Roadmap For America’s Future.” This is the same turkey that the Rethuglicans have been pushing for years with no luck. It’s just chock full of facts and figures, not a single one of which is verifiable or true, imagine that!
If you’re thinking that Paul has plans to tax the uber-wealthy and the mega-corporations that make billions in profits, but don’t pay a penny in tax, then think again! Paul has no intention of taxing the ones who caused this Depression, that not only deserve to be taxed, but who could afford to pay an honest tax without the slightest bit of worry! Guess who Paul wants to stick the tab for bailing out the banks and giving trillions of dollars to our elite, not to mention picking up the tab for six costly wars on? If you guessed the elderly, the sick and the working poor, you may stay after class and clean the erasers! Just like old Yogi, “I’m having a deja vu, all over again!” Are you, too?
Paul’s bright idea is to do away with Medicare and Medicaid and replace them by programs that force seniors, the poor and sick to buy coverage from the insurance goons or die, preferably the latter, since these oldsters have quit working and feeding the corpo-rat gravy train, and are therefore worthless. They can spend all that money they saved for their retirement on medical bills, so much for those taxes they paid to fund Medicare and Medicaid for all those decades! Don’t have any savings, then remember the Rethuglican Health Care plans that say, “…in that case, die as quickly and quietly as possible!” Are you homeless, then don’t fret, they’ve got that covered, too! Did you think all those new Happy Camps™ being built were for Mexicans and Liberals? Paul, no doubt, has a modest proposal and a final solution to the seniors’ question!
Paul and his fellow Tea Baggers also have plans for that socialist Social Security; they’re called “Retirement Camps.™” They’re just like the summer camps of your childhood, except that the bread is made out of sawdust, and you don’t ever get to go back home! How long can you make popsicle stick-picture frames, America?
Oh, brave new world, indeed!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ERNEST STEWART (“Uncle Ernie”) is an unabashed radical, author, stand-up comic, DJ, actor, political pundit and for the last 10 years managing editor and publisher of Issues & Alibis magazine. Visit him on Face Book.
