Criminalizing photography in the wake of a recent arrest of a Philadelphia man for using his cell phone camera to snap a picture of the police arresting an individual.

The people who would rule our lives in the most minute ways are now trying to stop picture-taking in public places. They are the ones who should be stopped.

Citizen media tools are in the hands of just about everyone these days. If the authorities insist on the right to spy on our every move in public — witness the spread of video cameras operated by police agencies and private citizens alike — they should not be immune from reverse surveillance.

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I was going to use this next article as a link to the "With the use of lies and fear tactics they were able to totally take control of the masses... THEIR MINDS, THEIR LIVES and even THEIR SANITY! " This is what Hitler did in Germany and is what the Bush Neo-cons are trying to do to the people in our country and elsewhere.  It was so good, I had to post it, in its entirety, to today's blog. thinkingblue

This War Is Based On Denial
The Reality Beneath The Flag-waving
By Paul Craig Roberts
7-4-6

Americans who get their propaganda from Fox "News" or are told what to think by right-wing talk radio hosts are outraged at news reports that US troops planned and carried out the rape and murder of a young Iraqi woman. They are not outraged that the troops committed the deed; they are outraged that the media reported it. These "conservatives," who proudly wear their patriotism on their sleeves, dismiss the reports of the incident as a Big Lie floated by "the anti-American liberal media" in order to demoralize Americans and reduce public support for the war.

 

Playing to this audience, Col. Jeffrey Snow, a US brigade commander in Baghdad, told AFP News that news coverage could cause the US to lose the war. In other words, what we are doing in Iraq cannot stand the light of day, so reporters must not report or the word will get out.

 

Many Bush supporters believe that truth is not on our side and must be suppressed. Yet, they support a war that is too shameful to report.

 

I have made it clear in my columns that Bush supporters are not true conservatives. They are brownshirts with the same low intelligence and morals as Hitler's enthusiastic supporters. And they are just as resistant to facts.

 

It was not the "liberal media" but the investigating US military officials who told the Associated Press that the rape and murder of the young woman and her family appeared "totally premeditated," that the soldiers noticed the woman on their patrols and studied her and her family for a week before separating the woman from her family and raping her. After having their way with her, the soldiers murdered her and tried to burn her body with a flammable liquid in order to cover up their foul deed. The soldiers' coverup attempt also involved the murder of other members of the murdered rape victim's family, including a child.

 

The criminals were turned in by other US soldiers who knew of the monstrous crime. According to the Associated Press (USA Today, June 30, 2006), one of the soldiers has admitted his role in the rape and murder.

 

The soldiers cannot be said to be guilty until they are tried and found guilty. However, the US military usually attempts a cover-up of such incidents and only admits to the facts after the press gets hold of them. This time, however, the investigating officials themselves gave the story to the Associated Press.

 

Many Americans are so unsophisticated that they refuse to believe anything bad about their country. They regard acceptance of unpalatable truths as disloyalty. This failure of American character is why Bush has been able to get away with transgressions that scream out for his impeachment and trial as a war criminal.

 

The premeditated rape and murders are just the latest in the long line of horrific war crimes from Abu Ghraib to Haditha. Bush supporters are still in denial about each incident. It is amazing that Bush supporters think we have a John Wayne military when, according to news reports, recruitment problems have resulted in the military accepting felons, drug users, thugs, low IQ high school dropouts, and illegal Mexicans promised green cards for signing up. Apparently, the same people who make America's streets unsafe for Americans make Iraqi streets unsafe for Iraqis. In response to the declining caliber of new recruits, some of our best troops are refusing to reenlist. Several have written to me that "the Army has left them."

 

Whoever put out that propagandistic slogan, "support the troops," and the ribbon decals was a master propagandist. "Support the troops" means to deny the reality of the war and the behavior of the troops.

 

To this day the Bush regime and the neocon nazis have not told us the reason for their invasion of Iraq, the destruction of its towns and infrastructure, and the slaughter of its citizens. Every reason Bush has given has proved to be a lie.

 

There is no more reason for US troops to be shooting up Iraq than to be shooting up Canada, Scotland, Holland, Spain, Taiwan, Florida, Virginia or California. We are killing Iraqis for no other reason than that they resist our invasion and occupation of their country.

 

It is proof of the collapse of American morals and the fallen character of the American people that the American public and its elected representatives in Congress refuse to rein in the Bush regime and to hold it responsible for its monstrous crimes.

 

America has become a land of evil. The rest of the world hates and despises us. And we are going to pay a terrible price for it. Bush's belief that our superpower status makes us immune to the opinion of others goes beyond hubris into insanity.

 

Dr. Roberts is Chairman of the Institute for Political Economy and Research Fellow at the Independent Institute. He is a former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, former contributing editor for National Review, and was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He is the co-author of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.

 

 

Comment

J B Campbell

7-4-6

 

Bush Versus Hitler

 

We seem to have been hit by a tsunami of evil, the culmination of a century of wicked planning and warmongering by the Council on Foreign Relations in Manhattan.  This is Woodrow Wilson's legacy, once he sent Trotsky from New York to meet Lenin in St. Petersburg, a week after he got Congress to declare war on Germany, who sent Lenin to meet Trotsky!  To take Russia out of the war to help Germany!  Three years later, when their League of Nations failed, they formed their CFR to do it better next time.  But they managed to place their Communist and Zionist agents in power in Russia and got Arthur Balfour's vague but useful statement in hand.  This statement was their license to invade and occupy the Middle East with Russian Jewish aliens, who would guarantee the highest possible oil prices into the future.  The Council on Foreign Relations is run on Standard Oil money, nowadays called Exxon. 

 

I would encourage you to reexamine the German experience of the 1930s and not fall into the trap of trying to liken Bush with Hitler, or his supporters with Hitler's supporters.  This is to ignore the dreadful experience of the German people at the hands of the Rockefeller/Rothschild criminals under the "Treaty" of Versailles.  Hitler was the logical and moral response to our naked and unprovoked aggression against Germany.  If Bin Laden were still alive and not working for the CIA, he would be the modern-day response to our naked and unprovoked aggression against the Arab countries and Iran.  It is not proper to judge anyone who is merely trying to protect himself and his people from our aggression, hatred and greed.  This has to include Saddam Hussein, who started life as a Bush stooge but wound up creating a great resistance movement against the Yankee/Zionist landgrabbers.

 

The German people were marked for extermination by the American and British Jews who controlled Roosevelt and Churchill.  Just examine the Morgenthau Plan, which was based on Theodore Kaufmann's Germany Must Perish!.  FDR recommended this genocidal handbook to his D-Day invaders.  In his diary, Patton wrote that Eisenhower gave Henry Morgenthau the Morgenthau Plan for Germany, which called for mass extermination, sterilization and removal of basic industries to Russia.  Ike followed through with the massive atrocities compiled by James Bacque in Other Losses and Crimes & Mercies.  Ike exterminated approximately 13 million Germans after the war, in accordance with his Morgenthau Plan.  And then there was Operation Keelhaul at the same time.  It was really the Eisenhower Plan and was based on Talmudic commands against "the best of the goyim."

 

As terrible as our conduct in Iraq is today, it does not approach our conduct in Europe in the 1940s under the worst war criminal in human history - Dwight David Eisenhower.  Is it any surprise that this monster was chosen to be president and is revered by the Jews to this day?  His West Point yearbook identifies him as "The Terrible Swedish Jew."

 

The truth about Hitler is gradually emerging, despite tight Jewish control of the media.  He knew that the Russian Communists were put in power by America and England and Germany.  He fought these murdering Jews when they invaded Germany after WWI and nearly took over.  He saw what they were doing to Russia and Ukraine (slaughtering millions) and knew that they had to be stopped at all costs.  He begged America and England to reverse their evil policy and help Germany wipe them out.  But we did not relent!  We joined forces with the Soviet Union against Germany and destroyed Europe and Japan in less time than we have spent in Iraq under the Little Moron.

 

In light of what actually happened to Germany, and in light of Hitler's fantastic rescue of that helpless, bankrupt nation in less than three years in the middle of the world depression, while the Federal Reserve Corporation (Warburg) was stealing our gold and keeping us unemployed, don't you think it's time to stop the baseless attacks against the only national leader who dared say "No" to the Terrorists?  The Neo-Cons are the descendants of the original Terrorists from Russia, who were on our payroll.  The Neo-Con Terrorists are still on our payroll.  Hitler fought them, you are beginning to fight them now.  If you don't reject the Jewish fairy tale of Hitler as the devil, you will always be confused as to your own mission for truth.  Anyone who resists the Terrorists is made into the devil, and you will be no exception. 

 

We must all study the German experience after Versailles and try to put ourselves in their shoes, just as we should put ourselves in Iraqi shoes today.  But stop judging our German victims - we have no right to judge or criticize anyone whom we have murdered and tortured and enslaved.

 

JBC