Why Libya? Why not Iran?

Why Libya? Why Gaddafi?

Assad in Syria is much worse than, say, Mubarak in Egypt, but Obama vows not to interfere in that vassal of Iran, despite the slaughter of its people. And Obama supports the Muslim Brotherhood, which is steadily taking control in Egypt. To what end? Why hasn’t Obama taken such action against the jihad pirates in Somalia? Why not a “secret war” in Ethiopia to aid their fight against jihad? Or aid for the fight against jihad in Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia?

Because we can’t be everywhere, nor should we be. So we pick our fights based on where we can do the most good and remove the biggest evil.

Iran should have been the target. The mullahcracy should have been removed. The only revolution that was a genuine fight for life, liberty, and freedom was in Iran in the summer of 2009, and Obama ignored it. He sat back and watched the heroic Neda Sultan assassinated in broad daylight on the streets of Tehran, and thousands of others slaughtered. He backed the mullahcracy. He will always be remembered for that, especially after the coming catastrophe.

Why Libya?

It should have been Iran—if we had picked one country to set the example of muscular diplomacy while removing the gravest threat to the free world. It should have been Iran. Period.

Bombing Libya makes no sense. Recipe: disaster.

Pam Geller

Economic Liberty

“Economic liberty is embodied in the practice of
free-enterprise capitalism, which functions best if largely unconstrained by
government taxation and regulation.”

This is a lofty statement. If all the components described
the American reality, our nation would be in fine shape. Unfortunately, none of
this describes the conditions on the ground so to speak.

Corporate America
controls 99% of the government and of the media. The idea is to strip the
ordinary citizens of their Constitutional and human rights so they have no way
to redress grievances. Through Federal control of the school curriculum, they
have dummied down the population to be unaware of the rights they once had and
of the duties involved in maintaining liberty.

Law enforcement and judicial officials do not serve and
protect the people. Rather, they work to suppress free expression by
dissidents, whistle blowers and other rowdies who seek liberty and justice for
all.

Deregulation has set loose a collection of robber barons,
organized thieves and seditionists to degrade the populace and to loot the
public treasury.

Very few enterprises are competitive and none of them allow
the free movement of labor, capital and the factors of production.

Dressing up negative campaign ads with quotes from the
founding fathers won’t benefit anyone.

Racism and Bigotry Trump Liberty

During 300 years of slavery black people were well aware of how white folks felt about them. The relatives of the 1,000,000 Muslims slain in Iraq and the 4,000,000 made homeless know the hatred of whites first hand.

Everyone is aware of the mountain of abuse that has been heaped upon the Obama family.

The last three generations of white Americans too many have chosen racism and bigotry over liberty. They are the last ones entitled to complain about the USA collapse.

by jbpaz

Liberty is Not Dead in Bulgaria

By Yavor Mihaylov, Global Voices

On Jan. 30, the Bulgarian government promulgated Decree 40, which, among other things, allows the security services to gather from each internet user the data about who they have written to, who is on their contact lists, what instant communication agents they are equipped with, when they used them and the precise manner of using them. Institutions attributed the act to the requirements of Directive 2006/24/EC, but the majority of internet users in Bulgaria interpreted it as an encroachment on their civil liberties.

The civil initiative Electronic Frontier published on the internet a petition (BUL) against the decree, signed by over 1150 people already, and a number of Bulgarian bloggers put banners to support the campaign on their blogs.

On Feb. 7, Electronic Frontier organized a protest in front of the State Agency for Information Technologies and Communications (SAITC) in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.

“Those who trade freedom for security, lose both.”
Photo by www.nabludatel.info

According to blogger Bogomil Shopov, the protest's chief organizer, the event, even though not massive, sparked a lot of reactions from the press, TV and radio stations, and more than 4,000 websites.

On Feb. 23, a meeting of bloggers, online journalists, free-thinking people with an opinion of their own, and enthusiasts united by the idea of blogging, was held in Sofia. The discussions were focused on the Decree 40. Officials had been invited but none of them showed up. Many bloggers published reports from the event. Nelly Ognyanova, a renowned blogger and professor of media law wrote on her blog (BUL):

There will be no press release from BlogCamp, but the discussion on the Decree 40 of SAITC and the Ministry of the Interior was rather a discussion on the gradual loss of freedom. This issue is important and deserves to be delved in separately: the loss of freedom in small steps.

About this act in particular: there already exist sufficient means of surveillance and wiretapping, and the ministry of the interior already has the technical capabilities to trace messages. Decree 40 contains limitations to a constitutional right – and each and every time any limitations of the rights become an issue, the legislator has to make a judgment whether the balance between limitations and guarantees has been observed.

The constitution stipulates that such judgments are made in the parliament. In this case, the judgment has been made by the heads of two government institutions. This is a sufficient reason to challenge Decree 40. […]

On March 10, a group of bloggers, members of Electronic Frontier and Open Project Foundation, filed a complaint with the National Ombudsman, Mr. Guinyo Ganev - a complaint concerning their misgivings that the Decree runs counter to a number of civil rights enshrined in the Constitution and other principal acts, with an appeal for an examination. Nine days later, the ombudsman attended a discussion of the issue, which drew about 70 more people (plus the media).

Bogomil Shopov briefly reports (BUL) on the event in his blog:

Yesterday, there was a useful discussion on the encroachment on civil rights in Decree 40 and other regulations. The discussion was aimed not only at discussing the particular act of SAITC and the Ministry of Interior, but also at a debate on where the thin border between freedom and security passes.

Bogomil Shopov, a representative of Electronic Frontier, spoke about civil rights, the trust in the state and the institutions, the fears of the users and the widespread understanding that “in order to have freedom, indeed we have to have security, but this is neither the way, nor the principle” to achieve this. The official response wasn't too satisfactory:

An SAITC official offered an outline of the viewpoint of the Agency that has been the implementer but not the author of the decree. The familiar excuses followed – the obligations with the EU, the Directives…

Mr. Guenov, an advisor to interior minister Rumen Petkov, filled up his time with general talk. According to Shopov, he said that they (the interior ministry) “are still being instructed on these issues?!?”

On the positive side, Electronic Frontier has been offered to start working on a draft law regulating the issue, and the ombudsman is still at the outset of his examinations, writes Shopov.

He concludes:

For me, the task of raising awareness of the issue has already been solved. Now it’s the turn of other tasks.

Who Remembers Liberty?

Destroying Liberty for 60 Years, How Long Before it Returns?

Good luck to all of you, but I think Mr Haigh suggests a good hold on our expectations. It took three generations to lose our Republic and to tie with Tonga at #53 for freedom of the press.

We lead the world in incarceration and in information control. Our military expenditures top the rest of the world combined. We've so dummied down three generations of kids few of them can figure out why we are universally feared.

What stops Mr Bush from staging a false flags incident, declaring Martial Law and suspending the elections? The outcome finds expression in NSPD 51.

Migrating to the USA for Freedom

Making Sacrifices for Personal Freedom

Comment By Khalid, Ravings of Sandmonkey

 Khalid Says:
February 14th, 2008 at 4:52 am

Cowboy #11 We leave our countries and out root ourselves and immigrate to America seeking freedom not for someone to tell us that if you open our mouth and excercise our freedom and rights of speech we should pack and go.

No my American buddy,you will not take our freedom away because we have sacrificed a lot by leaving our beloved countries seeking freedom. If I wanted more money I will be in Saudi Arabia not America but, I will be making three times more what I make here in the United States. I chose America because it is the land of the free.

No one is packing and leaving anywhere,we will remain here and enjoy our freedom to say what we want to say and express our opinions.We the good citizens of the United States of America, the hard working people who pay their taxes and contribute to this country deserve our freedom of speech and our constitutional rights, we earned it and paid the price for it.

If you can’t live by the laws of this country and respect our rights then you are the one who has a problem and need to settle with yourself and survive.

http://www.sandmonkey.org/2008/02/12/you-know-you-saw-this-coming/