Submitted By: Mike Spindell, Guest Blogger
As erudite and informed as I pretend to be, the fact is that there is much that is important that I either miss, or fail to see any significance in. The death of investigative reporter Michael Hastings showed me that because my first reaction to the news flash was “who is Michael Hastings?” Reading further into the story I discovered that he was the reporter who brought down General William McChrystal and that he was considered to be one of America’s premier investigative journalists. As I read that original story, the thought occurred to me that possibly Hastings’s death in an auto “accident” was not simply a case of reckless driving, but I initially dismissed that as merely the operation of my cynical mindset. Nevertheless, the thought nagged at the back of my consciousness and then I saw a story on http://whowhatwhy.com/ , my favorite investigative website, run by the renowned Russ Baker. The stories title: “The Michael Hastings Wreck-Video Evidence Offers a few Clues” http://whowhatwhy.com/2013/07/14/the-michael-hastings-wreck-video-evidence-offers-a-few-clues/
For my own benefit and perhaps yours, I’ve done a little research into who Michael Hastings was and what he did that deserves attention. I explore the possibility that his death was no accident. I admit that I have no proof beyond speculation. Hopefully I can give you enough information to make your own judgments. In a world where American Presidents openly arrogate to themselves the right to kill people deemed enemies of the United States, all things suddenly become possible. When the basic right of habeas corpus can be denied to American citizens, based upon unproven allegations of their being threats to this country, isn’t it possible for those with the power to detain and to eliminate individuals, to make decisions as to someone’s existence doing harm to this country? Finally, doesn’t this unconstitutional expansion of powers give individuals with government connections the leeway to take revenge on those who expose them? While I’m not privy to knowledge of the actions of those in power and can claim no inside information, I certainly can speculate based on the experience of my lifetime. This then is my speculation about the death and life of Michael Hastings in the context of current life in these United States.
At about 4:30am a man driving a Mercedes swerved off of the straight as an arrow North Highland Avenue, in Los Angeles and into a Palm Tree. It is known that the man was driving at a high rate of speed. That man was:
“Michael Mahon Hastings (January 28, 1980 – June 18, 2013) an American journalist, author, contributing editor to Rolling Stone, and reporter for BuzzFeed.[4] He was raised in New York, Canada, and Vermont, and attended New York University. Hastings rose to prominence with his coverage of the Iraq War for Newsweek in the 2000s. After his fiancee, Andrea Parhamovich, was killed when her car was ambushed in Iraq, Hastings wrote his first book, I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story (2008), a memoir about his relationship with Parhamovich and the violent insurgency that took her life.”
“He received the George Polk Award for “The Runaway General” (2010), a Rolling Stone profile of General Stanley McChrystal, commander of NATO‘s International Security Assistance Force in the Afghanistan war. The article documented the widespread contempt for civilian officials in the US government by the general and his staff and resulted in McChrystal’s resignation. Hastings followed up with The Operators (2012), a detailed book account of his month-long stay with McChrystal in Europe and Afghanistan.
Hastings became a vocal critic of the surveillance state during the investigation of reporters by the US Department of Justice in 2013, referring to the restrictions on the freedom of the press by the Obama administration as a “war” on journalism.[5] His last story, “Why Democrats Love To Spy On Americans”, was published by BuzzFeed on June 7.[6] Hastings died in a fiery high-speed automobile crash on June 18, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.[7]” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_%28journalist%29
It is of course possible that Michael Hastings death was an accident and that he was merely driving too fast on the wrong road. The WhoWhatWhy article linked above looks into the accident and I think fairly concludes that foul play was possible, but certainly not proven. We do know from Hastings’s friends that in the days before his death he felt he was being harassed our government:
“Earlier the previous day, Hastings indicated that he believed he was being investigated by the FBI. In an email to colleagues, which was copied to and released by Hastings’ friend, Army Staff Sergeant Joe Biggs,[45] Hastings said that he was “onto a big story”, that he needed to “go off the radar”, and that the FBI might interview them.[46][47] WikiLeaks announced that Hastings had also contacted one of its lawyers a few hours prior to the crash,[48] and the LA Times reported that he was preparing new reports on the CIA at the time of his demise.[49] The FBI released a statement denying that Hastings was being investigated.[44]
Hastings was eulogized by co-workers at Buzzfeed,[50] media figures such as Christopher Hayes[51] and Rachel Maddow[52] and others.[53]
According to Biggs, Hastings’ remains were cremated and returned to Vermont. Biggs stated that his family did not want Hastings to be cremated. Los Angeles medical examiner and police authorities indicated that it took two days to identify Hastings because he had been burned beyond recognition, and that the cause of death was undetermined, pending the results of an autopsy and toxicology tests.[54]” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist
We probably will never know what CIA stories Michael Hastings was working on before he died in that auto crash, or if indeed the FBI was investigating him, but given all that we have learned and are beginning to learn about the excessive use of government powers both by civilian and military intelligence, is it possible that Hastings was deemed a “threat” to our country and eliminated? Were I not a young adult in the 60’s I might have banished that type of idea with dismissive disdain. However, as I have written before, the assassinations of the 60’s and the murders at Kent State, have taught me to not be dismissive of the possibilities of conspiratorial actions by some with present or past connections to government. http://jonathanturley.org/2012/03/17/a-real-history-of-the-last-sixty-two-years/ and: http://jonathanturley.org/2012/10/27/murder-at-kent-state/
Hastings’ article that led to the McChrystal dismissal is a detailed and nuanced story of a tough, Spartan-like General: “McChrystal is reported to run 7 to 8 miles daily, eat one meal per day, and sleep four hours a night.” The General and his hand-picked staff had disdain for civilian leadership and basically he was given carte blanche by the President, who the General felt he had cowed in their meetings together. If you read it, as linked below, it seems a fair appraisal of the man and those men who he surrounded himself with.
“Even though he had voted for Obama, McChrystal and his new commander in chief failed from the outset to connect. The general first encountered Obama a week after he took office, when the president met with a dozen senior military officials in a room at the Pentagon known as the Tank. According to sources familiar with the meeting, McChrystal thought Obama looked “uncomfortable and intimidated” by the roomful of military brass. Their first one-on-one meeting took place in the Oval Office four months later, after McChrystal got the Afghanistan job, and it didn’t go much better. “It was a 10-minute photo op,” says an adviser to McChrystal. “Obama clearly didn’t know anything about him, who he was. Here’s the guy who’s going to run his fucking war, but he didn’t seem very engaged. The Boss [McChrystal] was pretty disappointed.” This was a statement from one of McChrystal’s aides.
“As McChrystal leaned on Obama to ramp up the war, he did it with the same fearlessness he used to track down terrorists in Iraq: Figure out how your enemy operates, be faster and more ruthless than everybody else, then take the fuckers out. After arriving in Afghanistan last June, the general conducted his own policy review, ordered up by Defense Secretary Robert Gates. The now-infamous report was leaked to the press, and its conclusion was dire: If we didn’t send another 40,000 troops – swelling the number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan by nearly half – we were in danger of “mission failure.” The White House was furious. McChrystal, they felt, was trying to bully Obama, opening him up to charges of being weak on national security unless he did what the general wanted. It was Obama versus the Pentagon, and the Pentagon was determined to kick the president’s ass.” This was Michael Hastings’s interpretation based on his access to General McChrystal and his team.
Below was Hastings assessment of the staff and culture that McChrystal surrounded himself with as taken from an evening in Paris:
“The general’s staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There’s a former head of British Special Forces, two Navy Seals, an Afghan Special Forces commando, a lawyer, two fighter pilots and at least two dozen combat veterans and counterinsurgency experts. They jokingly refer to themselves as Team America, taking the name from the South Park-esque sendup of military cluelessness, and they pride themselves on their can-do attitude and their disdain for authority. After arriving in Kabul last summer, Team America set about changing the culture of the International Security Assistance Force, as the NATO-led mission is known. (U.S. soldiers had taken to deriding ISAF as short for “I Suck at Fighting” or “In Sandals and Flip-Flops.”) McChrystal banned alcohol on base, kicked out Burger King and other symbols of American excess, expanded the morning briefing to include thousands of officers and refashioned the command center into a Situational Awareness Room, a free-flowing information hub modeled after Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s offices in New York. He also set a manic pace for his staff, becoming legendary for sleeping four hours a night, running seven miles each morning, and eating one meal a day. (In the month I spend around the general, I witness him eating only once.) It’s a kind of superhuman narrative that has built up around him, a staple in almost every media profile, as if the ability to go without sleep and food translates into the possibility of a man single-handedly winning the war.
By midnight at Kitty O’Shea’s, much of Team America is completely shitfaced. Two officers do an Irish jig mixed with steps from a traditional Afghan wedding dance, while McChrystal’s top advisers lock arms and sing a slurred song of their own invention. “Afghanistan!” they bellow. “Afghanistan!” They call it their Afghanistan song.
McChrystal steps away from the circle, observing his team. “All these men,” he tells me. “I’d die for them. And they’d die for me.” http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-runaway-general-20100622
Those three quotations can give you a feeling for why Michael Hastings article in Rolling Stone was explosive enough to lead to the end of Stanley McChrystal’s military career. Hastings was an excellent writer and whether you agree with his conclusions or not the full Rolling Stone article will give you a flavor of his competence as a journalist and I suggest to reading it in its entirety.
I’ve written much on what I call the “Corporate/Military/Intelligence/Complex” (CMIC) as I see it. http://jonathanturley.org/2013/07/12/who-do-you-trust-us-or-your-lying-eyes/#more-66997 One of its’ features is that there is an interrelationship between those in the Military and Intelligence fields with those corporations who receive funding for providing supplies for them. I see this interrelationship as rather incestuous and harmful to our country, since the permeability between these entities can and often does leads to corruption of all parties. In General McChrystal’s case one can see that his Army Retirement has certainly not ended his career:
“In 2010, after leaving the Army, McChrystal joined Yale University as a Jackson Institute for Global Affairs senior fellow. He teaches a course entitled “Leadership,” a graduate-level seminar with some spots reserved for undergraduates. The course received 250 applications for 20 spots in 2011 and is being taught for a third time in 2013.[69][70][71]
In November 2010, JetBlue Airways announced that McChrystal would join its board of directors.[72] On February 16, 2011, Navistar International announced that McChrystal would join its board of directors.[73] He is also Chairman of the Board of Siemens Government Systems, and is on the strategic advisory board of Knowledge International, a licensed arms dealer whose parent company is EAI, a business “very close” to the United Arab Emirates government.[74]
McChrystal co-founded and is a partner at the McChrystal Group LLC, an Alexandria, Virginia-based consulting firm.[75][76]
In 2011, McChrystal advocated instituting a national service program in the United States. McChrystal stated, “‘Service member’ should not apply only to those in uniform, but to us all … America is falling short in endeavors that occur far away from any battlefield: education, science, politics, the environment, and cultivating leadership, among others. Without a sustained focus on these foundations of our society, America’s long-term security and prosperity are at risk.”[77][78]
McChrystal’s memoir, My Share of the Task, published by Portfolio of the Penguin Group, was released on January 7, 2013.[79] The autobiography had been scheduled to be released in November 2012, but was delayed due to security clearance approvals required from the Department of Defense. Portfolio publishers stated, “We have decided to delay the publication date of General McChrystal’s book, My Share of the Task, as the book continues to undergo a security review by the Department of Defense … General McChrystal has spent 22 months working closely with military officials to make sure he follows all the rules for writing about the armed forces, including special operations.”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_A._McChrystal This is a case of Old (General) Soldiers not only not dying but certainly not fading away. In fact one can detect a political future in the making.
Based on what I presented above let me present a hypothetical, which is only buttressed by my background as a psychotherapist, life experience and love of history. I have little doubt that the General and his cronies believe themselves to be good men and patriots all. They view the world from a perspective that arrogates to themselves knowledge not available to those who have never “walked in their shoes”. While capable of nuanced judgment, it is a judgment nevertheless informed by their world perspective and self-concept of being heroic individuals. Among his men the General is no doubt looked at as the Alpha. As he was quoted in saying: “McChrystal steps away from the circle, observing his team.”All these men,” he tells me. “I’d die for them. And they’d die for me.” I believe the General is stating the truth. So then hypothetically, how would he and/or his men view Hastings’s article that led to the General’s retirement? They believed that the General had the insight to bring the war to a successful conclusion. They believed that our President and his vice President didn’t have a clue as to how to successfully prosecute this war. They therefore then believed that those who opposed the General and his plans were acting against the best interests of the United States, possibly skirting treason. Finally though, Hastings’s was a person who they opened up to and allowed to sit in on their inner circle. They trusted him to produce an article that would highlight the greatness and successes of Stanly McChrystal, after all how could he not after spending so much time with them? Hastings’s article and McChrystal’s ouster probably infuriated them all and raised an angry reaction in men who were described by Hastings as:
“The general’s staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There’s a former head of British Special Forces, two Navy Seals, an Afghan Special Forces commando, a lawyer, two fighter pilots and at least two dozen combat veterans and counterinsurgency experts. They jokingly refer to themselves as Team America, taking the name from the South Park-esque sendup of military cluelessness, and they pride themselves on their can-do attitude and their disdain for authority.”
Am I being unfair in speculating that perhaps the death of this Journalist, three years after this article, may well have been payback? Who knows, not I, but my senses tell me that there are at least two scenario’s whereby Michael Hastings death may be no accident. One could be the government itself, or certain parts of it related to the CMIC and another could be those able to take revenge on someone who in their opinion “brought a good man down to the detriment of our country”. I doubt that the public will ever know the truth if the death was not accidental and really that is not my point in writing this. What I’m trying to bring out is that beyond the unconstitutional behavior of our government in the name of “National Security”, which escalated after 9/11, a situation which in itself is terrible, is the heightened speculation and concomitant loss of faith in our government which follows in its wake. We are supposed to be a nation that exists under the rule of law and guided by our Constitution. How can we maintain faith in these institutions if we suspect that those in government or in the Corporate/Military/Intelligence Complex are able to act outside the law with impunity? What do you think?
Submitted By: Mike Spindell, Guest Blogger
Other links about Hastings death and the suspicions about it:
http://www.infowars.com/friend-michael-hastings-marked-for-death/
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/hastings-panicked-email-fbi-death-article-1.1380539
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-09/elusive-details-michael-hastings-death
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/21/email-sent-by-michael-hastings-hours-before-his…
http://www.globalresearch.ca/death-of-rolling-stone-muckracker-the-michael-hastings-wreck-…
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/18/19027717-journalist-michael-hastings-dies-at-33..
http://www.sandiego6.com/story/details-of-reporter-hastings-death-remain-elusive-20130708
Americans love conspiracies (a secret plot by exceptionally powerful and cunning conspirators to achieve a malevolent end) and have since the days leading up to the Revolution when all the leadership was convinced that King George and Parliament were conspiring to “enslave” the freemen within the colonies for no other reason than financial gain.
Many books have been written on the matter but I’ll give you one Pulitzer Prize winner for perusal: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn.
We were founded by a bunch of conspiracy theorists … it’s a cultural thing.
** Otteray Scribe
One of the things that aggravates me, and diminishes the investigation, is that every time some public figure dies suddenly, it is a murder conspiracy. A perfect example of that are the claims regarding the Paul Wellstone and Michael Connell plane crashes, which are well documented pilot error. Or Vince Foster’s suicide. Like the boy who cried wolf, endless conspiracy claims gives both the public and the media a bad case of burnout. **
I’m not attempting to aggravate you. I’m sorry a good number of people have an unresolved phobia of the word Conspiracy.
I’m sure you’re well aware of Normalcy bias, Stockholm syndrome & cognitive dissonance.
Cases of where the horse barn is on fire, the horses are scared. The owners let them out of the burning barn, but in such fear, the only safety the horse know is inside the barn, so they run back in and are killed.
Many people want to believe everything is fine & ignore the building burning down around them.
The Paul Wellstone case is about an impossible case to make that it was anything other then an accident.
But then one puts it into the historical context of the times politically & then known fact Dick Cheney absolutely evil & had the means & weapons at his disposal to take Wellstone out, well it’d be just foolish to completely close the file on Wellstone.
Michael Hastings, ‘Rolling Stone’ Contributor, Dead at 33
The bold journalist died in a car accident in Los Angeles
By TIM DICKINSON
JUNE 18, 2013
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/michael-hastings-rolling-stone-contributor-dead-at-33-20130618
Excerpt:
For Hastings, there was no romance to America’s misbegotten wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He had felt the horror of war first-hand: While covering the Iraq war for Newsweek in early 2007, his then-fianceé, an aide worker, was killed in a Baghdad car bombing. Hastings memorialized that relationship in his first book, I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story.
A contributing editor to Rolling Stone, Hastings leaves behind a remarkable legacy of reporting, including an exposé of America’s drone war, an exclusive interview with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at his hideout in the English countryside, an investigation into the Army’s illicit use of “psychological operations” to influence sitting Senators and a profile of Taliban captive Bowe Bergdahl, “America’s Last Prisoner of War.”
“Great reporters exude a certain kind of electricity,” says Rolling Stone managing editor Will Dana, “the sense that there are stories burning inside them, and that there’s no higher calling or greater way to live life than to be always relentlessly trying to find and tell those stories. I’m sad that I’ll never get to publish all the great stories that he was going to write, and sad that he won’t be stopping by my office for any more short visits which would stretch for two or three completely engrossing hours. He will be missed.”
Hard-charging, unabashedly opinionated, Hastings was original and at times abrasive. He had little patience for flacks and spinmeisters and will be remembered for his enthusiastic breaches of the conventions of access journalism. In a memorable exchange with Hillary Clinton aide Philippe Reines in the aftermath of the Benghazi attacks, Hastings’ aggressive line of questioning angered Reines. “Why do you bother to ask questions you’ve already decided you know the answers to?” Reines asked. “Why don’t you give answers that aren’t bullshit for a change?” Hastings replied.
I have no doubt Obama would authorize a reporter being assassinated. I am not saying that is the case here but it would not surprise me either.
Els DL,
This was the story that Hastings was working on at the time of his death:
Michael Hastings researching Jill Kelley case before death
June 20, 2013
By Brian Bennett
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jun/20/news/la-pn-michael-hastings-jill-kelly-case-20130620
Excerpt:
WASHINGTON – During the weeks before he was killed in a car crash in Los Angeles, reporter Michael Hastings was researching a story about a privacy lawsuit brought by Florida socialite Jill Kelley against the Department of Defense and the FBI.
Hastings, 33, was scheduled to meet with a representative of Kelley next week in Los Angeles to discuss the case, according to a person close to Kelley. Hastings wrote for Rolling Stone and the website BuzzFeed.
Kelley alleges that military officials and the FBI leaked her name to the media to discredit her after she reported receiving a stream of emails that were traced to Paula Broadwell, a biographer of former CIA director David H. Petraeus, according to a lawsuit filed in Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., on June 3.
Petraeus resigned from the CIA after publicly admitting that he and Broadwell had carried on an extramarital affair.
Els DL & Dredd,
I know what has been written about the possibility of him have a file stash somewhere, but we will not know for sure until it is released. If that ever happens. Given the increasing surveillance powers of governments (not just ours), I would not trust anything not in a physical device. Certainly not the cloud, unless it were publicly downloadable and in at least 128 bit encryption, as Julian Assange did. And I might add, downloadable in a form that could not be blocked in time, as WikiLeaks did with the “Insurance File.” No telling how many millions of copies of that were downloaded via BitTorrent. Interesting thing about BitTorrent. My computer kept acting funky and I could not figure out what was wrong with it. When Darren Smith was here visiting a few weeks ago, he took a shot at troubleshooting it. He discovered BitTorrent had installed a bug that ‘phoned home’ information from my computer. Darren deleted it for me. I had only used BitTorrent one time. That was when I downloaded the WL Insurance file.
Like Sgt. Esterhaus’ famous line on the old cop series, Hill Street Blues, “Be careful out there.”
Almost forgot. Before somebody says anything about police investigations, that incident with the truck took place in a very small town in Arkansas in the 1980s. The police department had only two or three officers. When an officer was called to a scene like that, if there is no obvious sign of violence, they just write a report and leave. If they were extra thorough, they would check with the undertaker later to find out if any bullet holes or knife wounds were discovered on the body.
Otteray Scribe 1, July 21, 2013 at 11:28 am
You said:
You might want to consider MBRACE from the link to the MBRACE website I commented on up-thread, and Richard Clarke’s related comment:
(DU).
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You said:
Elaine’s video contains a statement by a reporter quoting the Wiki;eaks lawyer I beleive it was, saying that Hastings had supplied them with documentation of what he was working on.
Ottery Scribe, yes, a seasoned and daring reporter like Hastings must have had enough experience to store the documentation he was working on somewhere and in more than one way and more than one place. I can’t help but think that the story he was working on and was about to report on was the Edward Snowden story. Same time period and most definitely about a subject (surveillance) close to Hasting’s interest. Time will tell if there was something else if he followed the death man switch.
raff & Elaine,
It will not be the first time something like this has happened. Many years ago, my wife’s first cousin suddenly became a widow. Her husband was following his usual routine, stopping his company truck at a small local restaurant to get his coffee and a biscuit. He got there early and was parked in front of the little eatery waiting for them to open for the day. When the owner unlocked his front door, he saw our cousin-in-law sitting in his truck, slumped over the steering wheel. He did not know who to call, so called the number on the side of the truck. The trucking company owner showed up in a matter of minutes, called the funeral home and had the body embalmed before even notifying his wife her husband was dead. Obviously, no autopsy was done or blood samples taken.
What had happened was clear to me. It was cold, the windows were rolled up, and he sat there with the engine running, waiting for the place to open. I am convinced he died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Embalming destroyed evidence of CO poisoning. The truck had a new exhaust system installed in a matter of hours. The old exhaust was taken to the scrap yard and crushed before anyone could examine it. Her chances of a lawsuit disappeared, along with what she would have gotten under his double indemnity insurance policy. The local coroner wrote, “Probable heart attack,” on the death certificate. Not the first time, and certainly won’t be the last.
Elaine,
thanks for the video clip. I just can’t imagine why they would cremate the body so quickly after the “accident”, unless…..
I have been reading up on Michael Hastings, as well as the car he was driving. There is a lot that does not pass the smell test, and one of the biggest issues is the rapid cremation of the body without the permission of the family. He was also driving a Mercedes and hit a tree. The fire that ensued is highly unusual, and I bet they could not replicate that on a crash test if they tried from now until the Second Coming. A Mercedes is not a Ford Pinto.
One of the things that aggravates me, and diminishes the investigation, is that every time some public figure dies suddenly, it is a murder conspiracy. A perfect example of that are the claims regarding the Paul Wellstone and Michael Connell plane crashes, which are well documented pilot error. Or Vince Foster’s suicide. Like the boy who cried wolf, endless conspiracy claims gives both the public and the media a bad case of burnout.
But back to Michael Hastings. I am hoping to learn he had some kind of dead man switch, as both Snowden and Assange are said to have. A file on some computer disc or thumb drive somewhere that has all his notes and messages, in safe hands who will release it soon. Not going to hold my breath, but one can always hope.
or both combined
He was assassinated by the US Government or the Military Industrial Complex.
The Hastings Mercedes had MBRACE:
(MBRACE). Oh, and one other thing, it is unhackable just like drones are unhackable:
(Ye Olde Drone Hackers Ride Again).
Google “Boston Brakes” and “Richard Clarke” and “car hacking”
lesson… oops
OKY if your trying to lessen me in Morrison, I believe I am older than you.
PS. if he lived, he may have been doing NSA commercials by now, or coca cola. …. It’s the capitalistic thing to do.
My life time is now closer to “Closing Time”
I was up,… Then I was down. I was up, then I was down.
Getting older I found the middle.
Now I do my best. To middle up. I raise my middle.
Because balance is in the middle
Middle rises, by lessening hate
“Bitterness and spite, only its owner truly bite:
RAISE YOUR MIDDLE MY FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS.
davidbluefish,
I saw the beginning of the end of this crap the other day
A few more tough years & it’s over for our lifetime.
The Doors – Love Street
Sort of OT, and 2am.
Mike, there is more than enough evidence to convict Bush etal, (and Obama?). …Also / To convict the bankers for fraud./ To have known what the NSA has been doing since the 50s.
The American people are snoring, getting sheared, and pooping in their own water supply, (maybe literally) AHHHH sweet Democracy.
How sweet the sound for a poor wretch like me.
Kill in my name, steal in my name, destroy resources in my name.
Just lie to me, and say “It will be allright… in the morning”
I’l be your whore, male or female. Cause I just want to believe in something.
ALLELUIA.
Leonard is great, Dylan is great. ( only in human terms).
Humans are human. We just want to believe. Some of us ain’t to picky.
All of us rise to the level of the comfort our stupidity. Ignorance is bliss, especially if you work at it.
An Australian said to me, “You know Dave, I think and think, and think, then I give up, and let other people think for me.”
…….. That sums up my opinion of 90% of all humans. It’s also my opinion of me, 50% of the time. But I work on it. I think you do, and I think most of the commenters here do. …..
…. PS. I do not think Socialism and Fascism are the same thing. ….. But that’s just me, …. and most of the contributors here. :o)