"Once in a while you can get shown the light...."

"...in the strangest of places if you look at it right", as good ole' Jerry used to say.  And when I start to think I have some general sense of perspective, I wind up in the strangest of places looking at it right. Or perhaps:

"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened." (Matt. 7:7-8)

I know, I know, "get to the point dumb ass".  

Found myself unable to sleep tonight, and stumbled across an interesting documentary-type cinematograph called "Waco: Rules of Engagement". Why Waco? Why now, 17 years later? Well, because Dick Morris, an old friend of Bill Clinton (now THAT'S got to be one of the world's most dangerous jobs!) was on the washed up hack Hannity show last week, talking about Slick Willie's involvement in the Waco mass murder. I'm too lazy to search YouTube (plus, allergic to Sean Hannity), so I'll just quote Mr. Morris' blog directly:

Former President Bill Clinton yesterday criticized conservatives who are “vilifying” government and its workers warning that such rhetoric could lead to a repetition of the horrific attack on the Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City in 1995 that marred his presidency.
Apart from the absurdity of likening elderly Medicare recipients pushing walkers to the likes of Timothy McVeigh and the right wing militias, Clinton’s comments totally ignore the real history of Oklahoma City.

It was not anti-government rhetoric that inspired McVeigh to do his dastardly deed. According to the killer himself, it was the action of the federal government during the Waco raid that incited him to violence. That the attack on the Federal Office Building took place on the anniversary of the Waco raid underscores the connection.
Bill Clinton was far from blameless in the Waco attack. While he sought to shift the responsibility to Attorney General Janet Reno, acting as if he were merely a by-stander, subsequent histories make it clear that he was smarting from criticism that the failure of the feds to act and their continued toleration of the siege showed him to be too weak to be a good president. He would often complain about the unfairness of this coverage to me as he recounted the events leading up to the Waco raid.

Shocking, isn't it folks? So Bill Clinton was asshole deep in the Waco massacre; so what? Actually, what Dick Morris is saying here isn't as important as what Bill Clinton is saying. Not 17 years ago, but right now. Last week. Tax day. Let's back up and see what message of import this demonic old globalist has for us:

Former President Bill Clinton yesterday criticized conservatives who are “vilifying” government and its workers warning that such rhetoric could lead to a repetition of the horrific attack on the Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City in 1995 that marred his presidency.

 Let me translate that for you: "Listen up Tea Baggers. We've laughed at you and called you racists and Nazi's for a year and half and you don't seem to be getting the point. If you don't sit down and shut the fuck up, there's gonna be more terrorist attacks. Yep. That's right. And they'll be all your fault! And guess who the enemy is THIS time? Brown people? Nah, after a couple of million dead, they're just no fun anymore. Innocent women and children? Been there, done that. So THIS time, we're coming for you."

If you've got a few spare cycles in between American Idol and the NFL draft, rent this movie. Watch it, and after you've picked your jaw up off the floor, watch it again (and no, Mr. Clinton, it's not a comedy).

It makes me sick to watch tanks roll on UNARMED WOMEN, CHILDREN, AND ELDERLY. Did you know that the ATF's original purpose at the Waco compound was to serve a "knock" search warrant? Meaning: THEY DON'T EVEN KICK YOUR DOOR IN! They knock on your door, serve the warrant, perform the search, and leave. The ATF showed up at the front door with 75 agents in riot gear, 3 HELICOPTERS!!!, and Bradley armored vehicles for fuck's sake! They then proceeded to RAID the compound, and almost IMMEDIATELY began firing on the residents inside. Yes, there were some guns inside the building. In fact, David Koresh and others had even bought AND sold guns at local gun shows as a way to make extra income. Guns??? Good God, they must have been al-CIAda! Arrest those Communist traitors! Or at least, the 3 or 4 who made it out alive.

In the ensuing firefight, the ATF agents RAN OUT OF FUCKING AMMO! The Davidians ALLOWED THEM TO RETREAT, REGROUP, AND RELOAD while they waited patiently for FBI negotiators to try and work it all out. But after a couple of days of tense standoff, what happened? Wait for it, here's the good part:

The ATF then pumped CS gas, a highly flammable nerve agent (a.k.a. "tear gas"), into a building full of men, women, and children for 48 STRAIGHT HOURS. Read this if you want to know more. And of course we all know the big finale.

And the real knee slapper from the video? The clips from CSPAN of our "esteemed" Congressfolk interviewing witnesses, ATF agents, and others. You've got Chuckie Schumer, Conyers, and several others from the current crop of criminals. And my favorite, at the very end, is a BLATANT LIE delivered in a practiced deadpan by none other than Joe Biden saying how those people "set the building on fire themselves and committed suicide". Well, if Joe Biden said it, then by God it's good enough for me!

Look, anybody reading this (all 3 of you), I didn't come up with this shit, and I'm certainly not the first person to point it out. The NEXT Reichstag (wouldn't be a rant without mentioning the Reichstag fire!) is going to make 9/11 look like OKC, which made OKC look like Waco, which made Waco look like Ruby Ridge, but I digress.

Take a minute and watch this video and look at the photos of the 8 year old girl's dead body, muscles atrophied and skin BURNED FROM HER FACE and tell me they won't kill 3,000 in NYC. They'll kill a million in the Middle East for no other reason (that I can see) other than clearing out the OLD bombs so we can buy some NEW ones. They'll murder babies in the womb and call it "freedom of choice", they'll take away all of our rights and call it the "Patriot Act", and yes, they will AND DID murder all those people in Waco 17 years ago. Murder, death, destruction, MORE, MORE, MORE!

Welcome to The Endangered Republic

So, here it is - my first attempt at a blog. I've flirted with blogging on a couple of different occasions, but I guess I really didn't have much to say before (whether I do now is certainly a topic that's open for debate as well!). Let me say in advance, thank you to all of you who take the time to read what I have to say, and, more importantly, use the information here as a stepping stone on your own path.

But first, a quote from the nation's  26th president, Theodore Roosevelt:

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

"Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

I guess what finally motivated me to "step into the arena", if you will, was waking up to the realities of the world we live in and finding myself unable to sit idle any longer. This blog is called "The Endangered Republic", because I firmly believe that the republic I live in, a.k.a. The United States of America, truly IS in danger; in danger of being replaced by a tyrannical police state, owned and operated by finance oligarchs (thank you, Webster Griffin Tarpley).

• Where "we the people" are reduced to little more than debt slaves serving the interests of a parasitic class of global bankers and the super-wealthy elite.
• Where our children are indoctrinated from birth to conform and submit without question.
• Where massively deadly and expensive wars are waged in the name of freedom, but only benefit the few. 
• Where our God-given rights are replaced by state-granted privileges that can be revoked at any time and for any reason.
• Where human life has been devalued to such a degree that a majority of people believe that, rather than mankind being an awesome, intricately complex, indescribably achingly beautiful DIVINE CREATION, human beings are simply hairless monkeys with opposable thumbs and a large brain pan.
• Where pharmaceutical companies, physicians, psychiatrists, and so many others all get their turn (like a group of 8 year olds with an ant farm) to practice government-sponsored eugenics on us in the name of saving the environment (which is so backwards as to be laughable, were it not for the fact that here in the good ole' US of A tens of thousands were forcibly sterilized. And why does it seem that when unspeakable evil is afoot, there's always a Rockefeller lurking around? Hmmmm....).   

And on, and on, and on, ad infinitum.

And so, in closing this first post, I once again thank you, dear reader, for bearing with my expansive prose, bluntly-rendered descriptions, and unwavering cynicism towards the hallowed institutions that so many hold sacred. I challenge you to examine these items for yourselves and engage in debate with myself and others on these and the many topics to follow. If you enjoy what you're reading, pass it along. When I make mistakes in fact or representation, drop me a line and excoriate me in the way that only an anonymous internet user can do.

Let's use information and the truth to liberate our republic and ourselves!