Bullshit Observations

Sometimes it just seems there’s so much bullshit in the news that trying to comment on any of it seems futile. But why should I be sane when I can join the millions of bloggers who have an opinion about everything. And we all know what opinions are like. No? Like assholes we all have them.
First off, I wonder when the mainstream media will actually start talking about the racial coding the Clintons are getting away with toward Barack Obama. Don’t get me wrong about defending Obama. I’m not enamored with him since he seems to want to overlook being a black man in hopes all us white racists will also do the same. Barack, you’re black, brother! Live with it and celebrate it! And call out the overtly racist comments of Billiary.
Code, what code? Does anybody get it other than the independent press and every black and brown brother and sister who hears it? The recent flap over Obama saying Americans were bitter and disaffected and therefore seek solace in their religion and guns is an example of what starts the coding. Hilliary and Bill immediately start calling Barack an elitist out of touch with the people. In other words, he’s uppity…right Hilliary?
What’s so outrageously stupid about their statements and those of John “Wayne” McCain is that all of you people are out of touch!! C’mon Bill is a Rhodes Scholar, Hill is a Yale grad after a tour of Wellesley and John “Wane” is a Naval Academy grad. How long has it been since any of these people drove themselves around town or gone grocery shopping on a weekly basis? How long has it been since any of them have mowed a yard or fixed a leaky faucet? How long since any have lived in a roach infested place with bad plumbing and inefficient heating system? How many of them will live on a fixed income in their later years. No, a cushy pension from Congress and as an ex-President doesn’t count.
Obama is the most likely to have experienced any of the real life situations the average American faces on a daily basis in the past twenty five years. He’s more likely to have contact with folks who have experienced them in the last ten years.
But Barack has shown his true “roots” in his recent handling of the remarks by his former mentor and pastor, Jeremiah Wright. Wright was figuratively thrown under the bus by Obama when white AmeriKKKa objected to his remarks about the terrorism of our wars and the continued racism here in the homeland.
Obama disavowed himself from the Reverend Wright after the remarks became public in convenient YouTube formats which take them out of context. Of course Clinton wasn’t to blame. The code here is she doesn’t mind that the remarks became public and created the racial firestorm that led Obama to giving a speech on the racial divide in this country. The remarks just can’t be traced back to her or Bill in their origin.
The problem with throwing someone under the proverbial bus is sometimes that bus fails to stop long enough to make sure the victim is dead. Reverend Wright gloriously tipped the bus over and came back to haunt the Judas, Obama.
So, today (April 29, 2008) Obama is back out on the road trying to get the bus to back up and run over the reverend one more time with his disavowals of the content of the remarks made by Wright. Testicle implants seem to be needed by the Senator from Illinois at this time.
All these folks are elitists and we’d be fools to think otherwise. I’m with the rock singer, Prince, who says in his song, Writing a Letter….”I’m tired of y’all”.
Another example of the bullshit is the recent joke of the Israeli Ambassador to the U.N., Dan Gillerman, calling Jimmy Carter a “bigot” because he met with a leader of Hamas in an attempt to broker compromise and some semblance of peace between Palestinians and Israelis. Can this fool be real?
He represents a country that has systematically attempted to rid the area around Israel of the indigenous peoples of many centuries. The land grab of Palestine from Palestinians was well conceived by Ben-Gurion and others well ahead of the overthrow of the British in 1948. Ben-Gurion is quoted extensively about ridding the area of the Arabs. Moshe Dayan is quoted as carrying out a terroristic program of collective punishment any time an Israeli was killed by an Arab.
The purge of Palestinians has continued to this day with walls being erected to create a ghetto much like the ones so vividly described by survivors of the holocaust in Warsaw and other Nazi held areas of Europe during World War II. There’s no hiding the contempt and disregard for Palestinians by the Israeli government’s Zionists. They’ve continued a policy of dehumanization and violence against all dark skinned Semites since before 1948. And to equate Zionism with Judaism is the doublespeak of liars and imperialistic power mongers. The Zionists could care less about Judaism except when it helps further their movement.
There are several references to David Ben-Gurion stating the holocaust was a defining moment to create the Jewish state of Israel. He felt it was probably good it happened so Zionism could be brought to fruition in the Middle East.
So, Dan Gillerman has the audacity to tell the world what a bigot an ex-President is when that person tries non-violent negotiation with a radical branch of Palestinian. The notion Hamas and the radicals can’t or won’t be part of any settlement is absurd.
The refusal of the Zionists to include them is a definite sign of the need for the Zionist movement to have the scapegoat to continue conflict in the area. Why continue conflict? It keeps Zionism in power with a huge military budget and the Israeli population in fear of the dark skinned Semites who lived for centuries on the land Israelis now control. It keeps the U.S. military funding coming in and continues the duped American public’s collective guilt about the Holocaust. It keeps the dupes thinking Zionism is Judaism and to question the actions of the government of Israel is anti-Semitism.
If the American people weren’t so damn ignorant and intellectually lazy they might realize Israelis are not the only groups of Semites existing on this planet. The knowledge of American people about the history of the Palestinian and Israeli conflict seems to be only what is put out by the Israeli political action committee, AIPAC. That message is “megaphoned” by every mainstream media group existing in the U.S. and abroad.
The occupation of the lands of Palestinians is akin to the occupation of the lands of the indigenous peoples of the Americas by the Europeans in the 1400’s. Violence and terror were used to displace those people from the lands occupied by a hundred generations of their people. Despite the revisionist attempts of Gellerman and Zionists across the world, the displacement and eventual ghettoizing of the Palestinian people in refugee camps and occupied territories is as racist as the Native Americans being placed on reservations. It is as racist as the enslavement of Africans by white Europeans in North America.
The characterization of bigotry by Gellerman toward Carter is nothing but the continued obfuscation of Zionists to throw the world off the trail of their continued bigotry aimed at Semites of color such as Palestinians. The constant use of the Holocaust to justify the oppression of the Israeli government has worn thin and cannot excuse Israeli government use of the same tactics used by Hitler against Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals and other “deviants” defined by the Third Reich.
Meanwhile back in the U.S. New York City cops have been absolved of shooting a bride groom in Harlem who exited a strip club with a friend following a bachelor party. The use of fifty plus rounds by the cops to contain the groom was seen as a justifiable use of force. The fact the groom was black isn’t a big surprise in the annals of American police shootings. The fact the groom was unarmed isn’t a surprise. The “whitewash” by the court exonerating the undercover cops isn’t a surprise either.
I can’t help but wonder why Bill and Hilliary Clinton, beloved citizens of the black community of Harlem, haven’t spoken out about this shooting. It would seem the Rev. Butts of the Abyssinian church of Harlem would also be front and center. He’s the recipient of Queen Pork Hilliary’s 1.5 million dollars in private grants. He recently repaid that bacon with his endorsement of the white female candidate over the black male candidate.
I also wonder where Obama is when it comes to the violence of police toward people of color. Surely living in the Chicago area he’s heard many stories from constituents about police brutality. Is this dirty little secret of serving and protecting by means of racial profiling and constant rousts of the non-white communities something we should continue to allow in this nation? Is the criminalization of young blacks and Latinos for petty offenses or inequitable sentencing something that should be allowed to continue? Where are the questions of candidates about such things in the “race” for the presidency?
But the whole incident is huge code by the AmeriKKKan society concerning the police brutality toward the black and non-white communities in this nation. Had the victims in Harlem been two whites walking out of a strip club in Manhattan shot by black cops, there is no doubt in my mind those cops would have done time and the public outcry would have been continuously loud. Code is words but it is also deeds, reactions and lack of reactions. The code of police shootings by white cops of black and non-white victims is loud and clear when there is such lack of response by the white community.
Of course the racist will point to affirmative action and black anger as the same thing as what they are accused of in their racism. There’s no doubt a white man is looked upon with suspicion when he enters a black community or encounters a group of blacks. Why the hell shouldn’t he be suspected is the question that needs to be asked.
Affirmative action is the favorite racist target today, also. I was recently asked to sign a petition to do away with racism in government when I exited my local grocery store. My first impulse was “sounds good to me”. But, I asked what the petition really meant to accomplish. It turned out the petition was an attempt to do away with “quotas” (code for affirmative action). My angry response to the petition stooge took him by surprise. It seemed almost every white person that stopped to listen to them signed the petition.
Middle class and working class whites need to get it together. They somehow think they’re victims of quotas and illegals in the loss of jobs and livable income. They need to get the shit out of their brains so they can see they’re the victims of greedy multi-national corporations taking jobs to third world countries for the cheap labor costs. They need to wise up to the fact they are victims of the military industrial complex that continues incessant wars costing billions of dollars. I fail to understand why these sheep don’t get the connections between the costs of war and the price of tuition, groceries, gas and all other so-called “essentials” of their lives.
Fear makes sheep group together and sacrifice one another to the wolf. The wolves of war have asked the sheep to give more, more, more. They give their sons and daughters in exchange for a fake security. They give their rights to the wolves hoping they can live a fake life of freedom. They give their souls for the materialistic garbage of a shallow and empty life. None of this will ever give the sheep security or safety or happiness. They live a fairy tale world of Disney, Survival, NASCAR, NFL, NBA, NHL and expend more energy and passion there than for starving children in Darfur or Iraq. They live a lie while the majority of the world lives the true game of survival.
I can’t say for sure but maybe this fairy tale world is what Reverend Wright is talking about when he says “God damn America”. For surely God will damn this immoral life we’ve sold as the benchmark of living.
It’s really all bullshit. A person can go crazy thinking about such things. Wonder what’s on HBO.

William Terry Leichner, RN
Combat veteran – Vietnam (67-69)
VVAW member - Denver