“Freedom Collection”: Dubya Image Management Charade

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Former "decider" and criminal in chief Bush junior at recent Washington side show event. --Photo by Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

WASHINGTON — In the three years since the “decider” stopped inflicting his presidency upon the American people and the world due to the end of his second term, Bush junior has largely kept his inarticulate mouth shut in the political arena. He has spent his time mapping out his tax payer funded presidential library, playing Modern Warfare 3 on Xbox, hosting veterans wounded in his wars of aggression for Texas bicycle rides and very publicly pretending how glad he is to be out of the nation’s capital.

In fact, the 43rd president is “so glad” to be out of the nation’s capital that he snuck back in and is beginning to insert his voice again “into the national dialogue”. On Tuesday, he returned to the scene of the crime, making a rare return to Washington ostensibly to promote “freedom overseas”.

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"Freedom Overseas" does not include the freedom of "insurgents" to defend themselves against U.S. aggression and occupation in their homeland.

At a staged political/public relations circus side show event less than two blocks from the White House, the former “decider” gathered a number of former co-conspirators and human rights leaders to unveil his magnum opus “Freedom Collection” sponsored by his public policy institute, “an assemblage of interviews with dissidents who took on autocratic regimes”. As I ponder the absurdity of Bush’s involvement with this project, I can’t help but wonder if “Freedom fries” were served at the event… The real purpose of this clever public relations charade is to give his regime cover from scrutiny by distracting the public from real crimes and abuses of his administration with the sacrifices of other people in their legitimate fight for freedom. In other words, this is an elaborate DIM (Dubya Image Management) operation. The irony is the extent to which this project which celebrates the stories of individuals who fought the good fight against “autocratic regimes”, yet ignores the authoritarianism and autocratic tendencies of this government which were only worsened if not initiated by George W. Bush.

"collateral" damage

Implications of Bush's definition of "Freedom" overseas

My criticism is not in any way to diminish the project’s assemblage of interviewees or participating dissident’s stories or accomplishments, but rather the character and disingenuous motivations of the man behind it. However, I can’t help but be impressed by this Orwellian propaganda effort. Certainly Bush wants to influence public opinion to “protect his legacy” i.e., maintain the mythology of his administration as an assemblage of selfless, virtuous paladins fighting for freedom, while diverting attention from the catastrophic damage he and his minions inflicted upon the relative freedom of Americans. Just consider the mark that the “freedom fighter” Bush left on air travel; hardly an example of progress in the freedom movement but I digress. I believe that most of all George W. Bush would like to avoid any serious scrutiny or accountability for his actions, crimes against the constitution and humanity during his presidency; crimes that the United States executed people for following World War II.

Implications of Bush's definition of "Freedom" at home

“We believe that freedom yields peace and therefore we believe it’s in our nation’s interest to stand side by side with dissidents, political prisoners, courageous folks who demand their God-given right.” –George W. Bush

****Unspoken disclaimer: unless of course the “dissidents, political prisoners and couragious folks” are inconvenient to the political elite or demanding their “God given right” from the U.S. government.

A brief summary of George W. Bush’s contributions to “Freedom”:

1) “Free speech zones”
2) “Enhanced interrogation” a euphemism for torture, such as water boarding.
3) Invasion & occupation of Afghanistan a nation who never attacked the U.S., had nothing to do with the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, but who had the audacity to ask for “evidence” of Osama Bin Laden’s complicity in the attacks, (which did not exist) instead of just handing him over because the U.S. demanded it.
4) “Preemptive” invasion & occupation of Iraq, a nation that never lifted a finger against the U.S.
5) Nationalization of airport security & creation of the insidious TSA, which continues to inflict police state security on air travelers, treats everyone like criminals, while harassing, fondeling and exposing them to radiation.
6) Creation of the Hitlerian Department of Homeland Security as the umbrella bureaucracy under which to consolidate existing and newly created unconstitutional alphabet soup internal security/police state agencies.

For further reading on this Dubya “freedom collection” production:

http://www.chron.com/news/article/Bush-Institute-unveils-Freedom-Collection-3442684.php

Ayn Rand: Money Is The Barometer Of A Society’s Virtue

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Ayn Rand Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion…when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing…when you see your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you…when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice…you may know that your society is doomed.
–Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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End The Gov War On Certain Drugs:

The following is an interesting video from a great organization LEAP, “Law Enforcement Against Prohibition” discussing the destructive madness that is the government’s endless, corrupting, war on certain drugs not sanctioned by the government. I have great respect for this organization and its members who have seen first hand the corruption, the violence and lives of non-criminals ruined (by the police). Incredibly, these are enlighted cops who advocate the legalization of drugs.

Why legalize drugs?

LEAP Statement on Legalization: We believe that drug prohibition is the true cause of much of the social and personal damage that has historically been attributed to drug use. It is prohibition that makes these drugs so valuable – while giving criminals a monopoly over their supply. Driven by the huge profits from this monopoly, criminal gangs bribe and kill each other, law enforcers, and children. Their trade is unregulated and they are, therefore, beyond our control.

TheAntiGov is with them all the way up until the last sentence… We advocate for freedom, never government “control”. We are on board with the legalization, just not the lets legalize “so we can tax and regulate it” argument which is the typical legalization argument. This argument legitimizes the supremacy of the state, which we reject. Nevertheless, this difference in no way diminishes the compelling message from LEAP, which everyone should hear for themselves.

For some great commentary on this madness, check out The Monica Perez Show: http://themonicaperezshow.com/2012/05/07/end-the-drug-war-on-about-this-weeks-show-2/

Please also make a point to check out LEAP’s website here: http://www.leap.cc/

Obama’s Afghan Political Stunt

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"Progress" in Afghanistan.... Taliban detonate truck bomb in response to Obama.

President Obama made a surprise election year campaign stop in Afghanistan this week, sneaking in for a photo op and to talk to the troops. The purpose of the trip was ostensibly to hold a signing ceremony for a so-called “Strategic Partnership Agreement”, but primarily for Obama to earn points for the upcoming presidential election by blowing sunshine up the asses of deployed U.S. forces and congratulating himself following the 1 year anniversary of the alleged successful murder of boogie man Osama Bin Laden. (I say “alleged”, because of the U.S. government’s history of lies, distortions and fantastical tales such as the official narrative for the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the JFK assassination, the MLK assassination, the Oklahoma City Bombing & the crown jewel, the September 11, 2001 attacks.)

The Afghanistan trip was a well planned and coordinated political stunt, during which Obama pledged incredibly, that he “will not keep Americans in harm’s way a single day longer than is absolutely required for our national security.” The irony of this statement which sounds good taken at face value, is that in reality a large number of U.S. troops have already been in harms way in Afghanistan for a decade (thousands of days), executing an occupation and ambiguous mission that has nothing whatsoever to do with “national security”. Obama spoke of being close to victory over Al Qaeda, yet the exorbitantly expensive (debt financed) decade long occupation of Afghanistan has been such a successful government program that 10 years in to it, the President still needs to be spirited in and out of the country under the cover of darkness, under the protection of Secret Service augmented by the U.S. military occupying forces air/ground team for security reasons, i.e. his very survival depends on it.

Collateral Damage

Obama: "Here, in Afghanistan, Americans answered the call to defend their fellow citizens and uphold human dignity." So much for the human dignity of Afghani women & children killed by U.S. drone attacks.

The “liberated” Afghans were less enthused about the Presidential visit and managed to detonate a truck bomb killing 7 people, wounding many more in response.

In his speech, the President invoked the typical propaganda, distortions and nonsense about “sacrifice” and “defending freedom”. As usual, Obama was eloquently full of shit. “The sacrifices all of you have made, the sacrifices your families make every single day are what make America free and what make America secure.” That’s funny, last time I checked, America was less free.

Somehow, this American child's "freedom" is being defended in Afghanistan, but not at this U.S. airport.


While the troops in Afghanistan are hard at work “defending freedom”, somehow there is less freedom at home in the U.S.A. than there was when American troops first invaded the country. For example all air passengers traveling in the U.S.A. get to be treated like criminals, degraded, fondled and exposed to radiation by the Federal Government, including pat down searches of small children, wheelchair bound paraplegics and elderly passengers with walkers and colostomy bags. This “freedom” is being expanded to buses, trains, highways and elsewhere. If American troops were really defending the freedom of the American people, they would lay siege to Washington D.C., invade the city and execute mass arrests of politicians and bureaucrats for their long train of abuses; high crimes and misdemeanors perpetrated against the American people. This would be justified pursuant to the troop’s oath “to defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign an domestic…” Only then would U.S. troops be “defending freedom”.

In other news, the Obama campaign team has planned another political stunt for next week; President Obama will be skydiving with the Flying Elvises over Las Vegas.

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Bloomberg Presidential Endorsement For Sale

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Bloomerg's Coveted Presidential Endorsement For Sale To The Highest Bidder. Photo by Mary Altaffer AP


The corrupt political establishment’s anointed presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama’s pursuit of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s endorsement is heating up with both candidates vigorously courting the oligarch. Both of the monopoly parties are aggressively making offerings to Bloomberg, whose support is up for auction to the highest bidder. A spokesman for the mayor indicated that his office has been consulting with Christies, who may be called in to handle the auction of stolen loot that will be offered up by Romney and Obama to secure the coveted endorsement of career crony capitalist and mayor of New York City. Romney and Obama camps both have been busy schmoozing the Mayor. In fact, Romney had breakfast with Bloomberg this morning. On the democrat side, the Mayor joined Joe Biden for golf Friday and Leon Panetta for golf Saturday. It is rumored that Bill Clinton will be taking Mayor Bloomberg to Hooters later this week to try and secure the endorsement for Obama. Beyond the Mayor’s political agenda such as advancing draconian gun control/victim disarmament, it is unclear what Bloomberg is asking for in exchange for his endorsement. The candidates have made clear that all quid pro quo options are on the table to buy Mayor Bloomberg’s support, but what do you give a man who has everything?
Read more: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/romney-quietly-meets-with-bloomberg/?hp”>

Documentary Review: a/k/a Tommy Chong

By Monica Perez:

a/k/a Tommy Chong, written, produced, and directed by Josh Gilbert, is a documentary film that chronicles the Drug Enforcement Administration raid on comedian Tommy Chong’s house and his subsequent jail sentence for trafficking in illegal drug paraphernalia. He was sentenced to 9 months in federal prison. Here’s the trailer….

This story infuriates me because not only is it way beyond the legitimate function of government–especially our federal government–to jail someone for selling glass configured in a certain way, but that this was clearly a case of entrapment.

Through Operation Pipe Dreams, the DEA tricked Tommy Chong’s son, Paris, into shipping them bongs in Pennsylvania: Paris had a strict policy never to ship bongs to Pennsylvania, which enforced a little used statute prohibiting the use of “the mails or any other facility of interstate commerce to transport drug paraphernalia.” Paris repeatedly refused to ship bongs to the undercover agents asking for merchandise to be shipped to Pennsylvania. Failing to place a phone order, the agents went into Chong’s shop in California and ordered a huge amount of special order handmade glass bongs and said they would come pick them up. The Chong shop made all of these bongs only to be told by the agents that they could not pick them up, that Chong needed to ship them to Pennsylvania. Chong repeatedly refused but ultimately capitulated in order to make room in his warehouse. The DEA immediately swarmed the bong shop and Tommy Chong’s home (although Tommy had nothing to do with the transaction).

In order to keep his wife and son from being prosecuted, Tommy Chong agreed to 9 months in jail, over $120,000 in fines and forfeitures and a year of probation. Operation Pipe Dreams cost the American taxpayer $12 million, used the efforts of 2,000 federal agents and resulted in 55 arrests and only one jail sentence, that of Tommy Chong. The DEA admitted that Tommy Chong was a target because of his movies glamorizing the sale and distribution of illegal drugs and for trivializing “law enforcement efforts to combat drug trafficking and use.”

Read more: http://themonicaperezshow.com/notable-videos/aka-tommy-chong-2/

Monica Perez is a married mother of three who grew up the youngest of nine children in a blue-collar Roman Catholic family. She is a graduate of Harvard and Stanford Law School. Monica is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a member of the bar of the State of New York. As an anarcho-capitalist (i.e., extreme libertarian), Monica is a proponent of Austrian economics and an uncompromising defender of personal liberty. She hosts the Monica Perez Show every Saturday 9PM-11PM ET on 750AM News/Talk WSB, 95.5FM in Atlanta and online.

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Empire Embarrassed

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The White House announced Wednesday that the conduct of the Secret Service and military members punished in the ongoing Columbian prostitute scandal was “inappropriate” and “unacceptable” for people representing the United States abroad. However, invading and occupying countries who never … Continue reading

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Prosecutorial Deception & Fraud = American “Justice”

The following disturbing story provides a little insight into why these United States have the largest prison population in the world. In addition to the government’s unconstitutional war on certain drugs they don’t want allegedly free people to have because they are a competitive threat to some currently legal product, the U.S. government is all too willing and eager apparently to lock up Americans up in cages at great expense to the tax payer, by any means necessary in criminal cases. It turns out that “Justice” Department officials have known for years that flawed forensic work has facilitated convictions of innocent people. However, many prosecutors who are more interested in punishing someone to advance their careers than in justice, failed to notify defendants or their attorneys in many cases which they knew were troubled. In other words, on numerous occasions that resulted in convictions, lengthy prison time, ruined lives and even executions, prosecutors knowingly withheld information that could have had a different result for their convicted victims.

Gulag USA, prison overcrowding in the People's Republic of California

Gulag USA: Too many government prosecutors would rather get a conviction by any means necessary to advance their inquisition careers than serve justice.


Government officials started reviewing the cases in the 1990s, but only after they were publicly embarrassed by reports that sloppy investigation work at the FBI lab was producing unreliable forensic evidence in court trials. Instead of releasing those findings, they only provided them to prosecutors in the affected cases, many of whom did NOTHING. So basically a task force of bureaucrats took nine years to investigate FBI crime lab misconduct from the 1990s and in the end hid their findings from the very public that is forced at gunpoint to both use and fund their “services”. During this nine year review, which a reasonable person would expect to have been a deep dive investigation, amazingly the “Justice” Department reviewed only a limited number of cases and focused on the work of but a single scientist at the FBI lab despite warnings that problems were far more widespread and could affect potentially thousands of cases in federal, state and local courts.

As a result, hundreds of defendants nationwide languish in prison or on parole for crimes they perhaps did not commit because they were misidentified by FBI forensic evidence. Worse, some are dead. This is what passes for “justice” in the alleged land of the free and home of the brave.

More from the Washington Post::http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/convicted-defendants-left-uninformed-of-forensic-flaws-found-by-justice-dept/2012/04/16/gIQAWTcgMT_print.html