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August 4th, 2010

I Am Not Owned By My Country

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I believe, firmly to the depths of my very soul that a person should have the right to fight on whatever side of a conflict they want. If I was an American who wanted to go over to Afghanistan and fight with them against the Yankees I should be able to do that.

The right to choose what I believe to be right or wrong and act on it is, or at least should be, a basic human right regardless of where I may have been born. I am not owned by a country.

To think that a person could be charged with treason is incredible and shocking to me. My heart and my soul is mine, as is my body, and I have the right to stand up for what I believe, not what my government wants me to believe.

July 31st, 2010

Good the F*CK for him! Preach It Brotha!

FINALLY someone who is willing to stand up and say what’s right when it comes to the heroes who dug through rubble with their bare hands, who breathed in god only knows how many toxic fumes without a mask to try and save those trapped in the Two Towers on September 11. Someone who will stand up for those same heroes who are literally dying for what they did.

July 29th, 2010

World Trade Center Attacks: Why Think All New Yorkers Saw the Planes Hit?

I’ll be the first to tell you that I am a super picky person. I am going to look at everything you say, the way to say it and if I get the tiniest whiff of BS I am going to call you on it. BUT I find it thoroughly amazing that people would be surprised that many New Yorkers didn’t actually see the first plane hit the World Trade Center.

Most of these people, like Jennifer Oberstein here, were just going about their daily lives, why would they be looking towards the twin towers? That is just stupid, and as far as the noise, she is some distance away I think, but a lot of noise going on in NY and you tune a lot of it out when you live there. So this kind of commentating I feel is a little on the dumb side.

Wait, never mind (I am still in the process of writing this as I watch the video) now she says she did look up as she was exiting the subway and saw the explosion but not the plane. That doesn’t detract from my earlier statement though, people do tune things out and most New Yorkers, even visitors to the city do not spend their entire life staring at the towers waiting for something to happen.

Media In An American Crisis: Studies Of September 11, 2001 Media In An American Crisis: Studies Of September 11, 2001

September 11, 2001, represents not only the most tragic event of modern times on American soil but also the event that garnered the most intense and pervasive media coverage of our time…


May 5th, 2010

“Silent war” in Afghanistan

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Anyone else notice that the thunder from the “silent war” in Afghanistan is building to a steady rumble with the promise of a shrieking shit storm?

March 21st, 2010

What is Real Love? Really Truly?

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What is real love?

When people die those left behind seem to always put the person on a pedestal. They see the dead dude(ette) as this perfect, kind, blah blah blah person and it drives me nuts.

My dad died a few years ago and I am perfectly willing to admit he could be a dick, yeah, he was a good guy, love him to bits but come on, he was far from perfect. If I was to say that to some people they would think I was a monster. It’s as though it’s blasphemy to say anything remotely negative about a dead person in this society. Why?

By knowing him good and bad I can say I honestly loved him. I loved the person he truly was, not some puffed up idea of what others think he was. In my opinion they aren’t loving him at all, they are only loving someone they made up, not the true him.

But that’s just me.

February 27th, 2010

Clearly No Plane Hit The Pentagon…Right?

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Read Family Members Of Doomed 911 Flights ‘Strangely Silent’ About Irregularities & Inconsistencies Of Official Government Story
(Longest title ever but whatev)

No Body No Crime

Bull shit! I call bull shit on anyone who is going to try and tell me that a plane actually crashed into the pentagon. No way. There are too many discrepeancies to count. Literally.

Let’s take the big ball of obvious and run with it, shall we?

Why is there no plane wreckage in the pictures? No seats, no engines, no wings, no bodies. Where did the bodies go? Oh, they burned up you say? Uh, NO. Not possible.

I mean, sure some of them would have been burned but there is no way they would have been incinerated. I don’t buy this theory when it comes to the Twin Towers either but at least some stupid people might be convinced with the whole squish factor. Clearly 111 floors or so is going to take a toll on the human body.

BUT the Pentagon “crash” is nothing but a regular old plane crash. I don’t know if you know this, but planes crash all the time and there are always bodies recovered. Even in the middle of the goddamn ocean you will usually find bodies.

It’s not like the Pentagon is a massive structure that came down, it has only 5 floors above ground. Planes, both big and small have crashed into mountains, cliff faces, been blown up over the ocean and still bodies were recovered, plenty of them too.

I did read some references to “bodies burned beyong recognition” and the fact that “the chances of identifying them would be almost unimaginable.” WTF? Have they never heard of DNA? You don’t need a body to be recognizable to the eye to identify it, even back then in 2001. How stupid do they think we are?

If a plane carrying people crashed into the Pentagon there had to have been bodies found. There just had to.

February 18th, 2010

Pancake Theory of WTC Collapse: Not So On Board With It Anymore

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Pancake Theory, Really?

I’m not saying I don’t think the Twin Towers could have collapsed on September 11, 2001, like I said, I’m no engineer BUT freefall? I don’t see it. I have to admit, I was a bit on board with the pancake theory, until I started watching the videos and learning more about it.

If one of the floors collapsed, it would fall to the next, sure, but there would be at the very least a few moments during which the lower floors suppored the extra weight, especially at the beginning. For everything to collapse and fall at one time, core and all? That’s not very realistic I don’t think.

Opinions? I am open to them.

February 11th, 2010

Silence Speaks A Thousand Worlds When It Comes to the Planes on 9/11

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Silence speaks a thousand words as they say and never has that been more true than when it comes to Flights 93, 77, 175 and 11. Those planes went down on a historical day back in 2001 and for some reason we aren’t hearing any squawking from their families. There is like, one woman with enough doubt to speak out, but just one? Really? Why is that?

Why is it that when thousands of families who lost loved ones in the WTC buildings are screaming at the top of their lungs for answers, all of the families from the victims in the planes are silent?

Were not their families taken in the same, violent and brutal way? Are they not curious as to why the government didn’t manage to learn about the attacks before they were carried out? Are they not a little upset at the thought that somewhere along the line mistakes were made? Mistakes that cost their fathers, husbands, daughters, parents and friends their lives?

Apparently not because I have been searching for information like this, info that would show me that these victims had families who cared, who hurt and who had real emotions like anger. I can’t imagine what it was like for anyone on that day but I do know that if it was someone I loved that was lost there would be a hell of a lot of explaining to do. I would not easily accept whatever platitudes and excuses were thrown at me, no way. I would want real, solid, logical answers and I think it gets clearer by the day that there were none like that given in terms of 9/11.

Personally this silence, this lack of rage is one of the things that convinces me that perhaps there was no Flight 77, no Flight 93. I mean, the physical evidence isn’t there and never was, now you throw the fact that the families are all creepily quiet? Where there is silence there is something to hide.

Ask any psychologist and they will tell you that this is not the normal reaction of those facing this kind of loss. You can argue that everyone is different and I accept that, but out of the 246 people who were reported to have died on the planes, only ONE of them thinks the investigation wasn’t good enough? You don’t have to be a math genius to see that is pretty unlikely. But I digress.

Psychologists say that in a terrorist event such as September 11 most people are going to be stripped of all allegiance to, well, pretty much everything. State, country, President, you name it. The only thing that is going to exist for these people is the burning need to know why. Why did this happen, why didn’t anyone see it coming, why didn’t the Air Force do something, why did President Bush keep reading about ducks while people were dying and fighting to live?

Think about how many hundreds of loved ones were left behind, look me in the face and tell me that it makes sense that they all believed everything the government told them, even after all the discrepancies started to come to light. Please. No one trusts the government that much.

February 9th, 2010

Srebrenica: My response to his response of my response

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If you’ve been following along then you already know I have gotten into a bit of a squabble with an iReporter on CNN. I didn’t like some of the points he made in his article and he took offence to me pointing this out. This is now the second comment I am making on his article. I should mention that he has throw some weird little snippy comments in between his last comment and this one of mine. I think he may be working himself up into a lather which of course makes me positively giddy.

His last response was this and here is what I have to say about it:

The question of bodies is one that we can argue until the cows come home and never get an answer to. Until all of the remains found are tested for DNA there is now way to tell whether many of the bodies are Bosniak or Serb. Even then, unless they are matched to family members either side can claim them.

The Dutchbat survived on their rations. They were well enough stocked and were able to get some supplies through the pipeline, though I have read many reports that even that was difficult at times.

As far as Oric and the raids on villages, it’s like thinking which came first, the chicken or the egg. Did Oric attack the villages in response to having the food and aid cut off or did the food and aid get cut off because he raided the villages. I am inclined to think it was the former rather than the latter, it simply makes more sense that way.

The hypocritical comment was made in response to the comment: “But basic honesty and respect for users of the Atlas require that it be duly noted…” I read that to be a comment made by you not the Atlas itself. I’m sorry if I misunderstood that.

I can’t say I am a big believer in The Hague and neither am I a fan of NATO, I’d eagerly throw the UN to the wolves as well for that matter. There were many dimensions to all that happened in the early-mid 90’s in Bosnia. I think that the US played every side against the middle and as usual managed to come out smelling like a rose. I don’t think that convicting Naser Oric would have brought a lawsuit to any military actions because there is no one to police these actions.

The fact that the Dutchbat left Srebrenica at all is disgraceful. Absolutely shameful. I like the way you put it “gave up protecting butchers from Srebrenica, and let Bosnian Serbs do their revenge” what a proud day for the UN. Just let people slaughter the guilty and the innocent alike. No taking names, just round them up, bind them and throw them into a warehouse so that the Serbs can lob grenades and keep shooting until no one is left moving and the floor is thick and running with blood, the walls pockmarked and burnt. I’ve seen the pictures and I know you have too. I’ve seen the videos of the men tied and waiting at the white house. I think it’s safe to say the Serbs didn’t have much going in the way of mercy either.

There is no way you can say no women or children were killed when Srebrenica fell. They may not have been main targets but some of the boys I’ve seen in the videos are young. And there is nothing crueler than angry, revenge filled mobs and rape is always a byproduct of circumstances like these.

One more quick point I think is important to note. There were thousands of refugees in Srebrenica. What reason do you give for them being there? For them leaving their homes behind? They accumulated there because the Serbs left them no option. The conditions were terrible but they knew there was a good chance they would be killed if they left.

You and the Serbs say they didn’t kill children, the elderly and women, the Muslims say that’s not true. The Muslims say they didn’t kill children, the elderly and women, the Serbs say that’s not true. He said she said.

No death is acceptable. Not one. But acceptable and understandable are two very different things.

February 9th, 2010

Guys Reply to My Logical Opinion on His Opinion

Mass Grave Bosnian Muslim Victims

So a couple of hours ago I posted my response to this article written by a CNN iReporter. Needless to say he was not impressed with the fact I didn’t agree with everything he said. Here is what he had to say to me, read the hostility between the lines lol:

Thanks for your comment, and here is my response:

Number one: Under “myth” this text refers to equalizing Srebrenica with Auschwitz with >8000 Muslims ’shot in front of firing squad’. Serbs did stormed the town with Holland’s approval since Naser Oric’s troops from Srebrenica killed 3,800 Serb civilians in surrounding villages in period 1992-1995. Since Srebrenica has been protected by Holland forces as “Safe Zone”, they have refused to treat it as such in 1995 after constant Muslim attacks on surrounding Serbian villages.

Number two: I didn’t mention anything. This article does, along with entire research team that stands behind it, and shows one example where same first & last name & town of birth repeats. For your information, these places are all in Srebrenica region, and fact that they didn’t give date of birth doesn’t make it less obvious that it is manipulated information.

“Let’s face it, they did a lot more killing.” You can face it as much as you want, you need to prove that with bodies, not some alleged numbers.

In Srebrenica, till the date there is “only” 1,900 bodies of Bosnian Muslims, found by Hague investigators, while there is >3,000 bodies of Bosnian Serbs all over Srebrenica and surrounding villages.

“Don’t forget that it was the Serbs that choked off both their food and medical aid as well.”

If this is to be true, though I haven’t found proof of it that Serbs starved Srebrenica (how did then Holland soldiers survived?), in return: don’t forget Naser Oric’s numerous attacks FROM Srebrenica TO surrounding Serb villages. Storming ENTIRE villages. Who would under these circumstances allow food or anything else into Srebrenica?

“I think it is a little hypocritical of you to on one hand say Naser Oric led attacks that killed many Serbs in towns like Kravica, though he was never convicted of any war crimes whatsoever…”

Again, it is not ME, it is ENTIRE RESEARCH TEAM that stands behind this article. So you can try to tag this as something personal, but it is not.

Fact that he hasn’t been convicted, just means that Hague Tribunal is not functioning properly. More over, Srebrenica was excuse for NATO overall attack on Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia, and Hague is NATO. Policeman, judge and jury. Do you really believe in such system yourself? Having him (Naser Oric) convicted for his crimes around Srebrenica, would bring major lawsuit against all NATO countries that were involved in military actions based on Srebrenica case.

“There is plenty of blame to go around but you have to ask yourself, if you were a starving, freezing refugee with a suffering family, what would you do to keep them alive?”

3,800 killed Serbs in 1992-1995 period is not acceptable.

When Holland troops gave up protecting butchers from Srebrenica, and let Bosnian Serbs do their revenge, at least Bosnian Serbs haven’t killed women, elderly and children.

Naser Oric’s troops didn’t have mercy to anyone.