the karma of tom cruise

I don't believe in the traditional form of Karma... of course, I have a weird view of something called social karma, which says that you can spread a certain type of behavior through other beings by acting a certain way; the basic, say hello to people and act pleasant and others will do the same.

In other words, a lot of the time, your social karma is what gets your ass kicked or kissed. This is too mystical to be taken too far. Just a sociological statement I felt that I had to make because the classic idea of Karma sickens me, blames people for shit that is not their fault.

Tom Cruise, who I surely do hope people will quit threatening, has been the target of my ire ever since I began to awaken to the problem of cults. . . but . . . it is his right to join a cult, and it is his right to go around and talk about it. It is our right to avoid his movies, and to speak truth to their lies. Anonymous has done a wonderful job of showing how to protest a social movement that the government cannot/or will not.

Now, Cruise is building a five million dollar bunker under one of his homes. What a waste of money. People really need to make clear that when they criticize someone, they are criticizing behavior, not condemning everything a person is. People have intrinsuc worth. Tom Cruise is not a child molester or a rapist or a murderer. These are the only people who the general debate grows around having killed. Everyone else deserves to live how they want. Even Tom Cruise.

I do hope that he will realize that all of the attention his cult is getting, actually means something. He is a victim of a cult, as well. L Ron Hubbard's corpse should be dug up and pissed on, but whoever is left of his dying delusion will just become more religious curios. Read about the early 1800's america's and all the different religious beliefs people were trying on and you will see that nothing has changed.

A true religion may arise from the ashes of the conservative christian movements and the crazy cults... That religion will not be started by a guy who took a lot of speed and thought he was satan. Read the Playboy interview with his son to find out the truth about this organization. He was there before and after the cult started, breaking away from his creepy father and his wealth source only his thirties (I think).

Tom, sorry they are on your ass... but you asked for this shit storm when you declared yourself a budding little god. You are the Golden Cow of fame and wealth, using your influence to fleece people of money with a mish-mash of mind control techniques. Inside your cocoon, you do not even realize that their are actual butterflies out here... You should seek your souls rest on better shores.

SANTA SLAUGHTER IN LA

Santa attacked a group of revelers today with maltov cocktails and submachine guns. Neighbors interviewed on the news all agreed, "Those were some very bad kids."

will Bush TRY TO pardon Cheney?

Will Bush Pardon Cheney? Will he? Should he? Why does Vice President Biden think that the war crimes of this administration must be investigated? And this is not politics, this is the law, as stated by the Geneva Convention (remember that document, don't hear too much about it these days... guess he's fallen on hard times, spends his days drunk on wine with a tattered sign he holds up down town saying 'Torture Must Be Stopped Now').


There is a myth, probably hollywood related, that anything can be tortured out of an enemy. Now the experts are coming over and saying that treating terrorists like people who have a mind that can be changed from their violent ways, much like a criminal who has been rehabilitated. This sounds fairly liberal coming from me, even though I am a liberal.

I do some mild consulting with the intelligence agencies. They watch my opinions and I occasionally see policy playing out that I originated. Sure am glad I studied Military Intelligence (which no, it is not an oxymoron most of the time). During the height of my powers with effecting the military, when my violent little site was read with the gallows humor that only soldiers and goths seem to have)... this is the only that scared them enough to reveal themselves to me with their heavy handed tactics.

I started out with a campaign for total war for total peace. Put a sign in my window a few years aago reading OBAMA FORGIVE OSSSAMA - SEND ALL THE WARRIORS HOME.

I am glad to see that Obama is going to make a major address in the Muslim world. We need to show the fanatics the spirit of the american people, our willingness to help when we can, and our great love of diversity (I speak more for the majority that the pockets of delusional realms of one or two haters), is real and acted upon. I learned a lot about people when I was driving cab -- the biggest one was that most people are great.

I knew when I started writing about wanting peace, that the process was more complex than just everyone packing up and going home. I wanted that more than anything, but I do not want our war to destroy Iraq. I did not want this war. Would have voted against it personally. Yet, bringing down Hussein is not such a bad thing, and giving a country in the middle east a shot at Democracy is a great thing. I really thought that George the first, should have used the first Gulf War to get rid of this nut. We created Saddam, in a lot of ways... in other ways, he was the creation of his paranoid psychosis and egomania. We ended up having to shoot down a dog that went rabid. This is a horrible thought that people seem to not want to face == our politicians and spies and corporations ways of dealing with the Middle East would NEVER HAVE BEEN ACCEPTIBLE to the the majority of the people in this country, so of course they made it TOP SECRET. Top Secret is almost a code in the Bush administration for, WE ARE DOING THE CRIMINAL THING NOW, SO TURN OFF THE PRESS OF DELUDE THEM.

We make the best of what we have. Bush lied us into that war, and then fought this war like a personal vendetta against anyone who threatened his authority in his 'time of war.'

Homeland Security became the Big Brother we always feared; yes, we got the comforting arm on our shoulder, but we also got the watchful eye and the lawless lawman. Our use of torture can be understood in the context of stopping terrorists attacks. There are few sane folk who would choose the death of thousands over the mild torture of one individual. The problem is, we made these men guilty before a trial. This made us waste a lot of time, and destroy a lot of undeserving lives. When I read that a lot of these prisoners who were sold to the americans as terrorists, had actually just been rounded up and sold into what amounted to a horrifying form of slavery. In the middle east itself, they use the word Al Quida mostly as a slur for people who are sounding fanatical -- these are the people who everyone knows in their hearts are their brothers and sisters and mothers and uncles and grandparents, people caught in the cross-fire of international politics when they would just as soon be having tea.

I found when I started my peace campaign that the war became more complex the longer I looked at it; I was already haunted by the soldiers and their families, who were, like my mother once was, watching the news every night wondering if one of her three brothers had died that week.

At one point, we were fighting the war over in Iraq and I heard that snipers were hiding in civilian houses, and then bolting. I decided that the war needed to become ruthless to bring the peace I had learned would only come with an American and Sane Iraqi's generated win. Snipers were using civilian houses to shoot at Allied troops, then running out the back door and often the residentsknew exactly who these snipers were, though they denied this to Allied troops, believing that a death sentence awaited the collaborators. I was blood thirsty during this time, knew that I was now getting people killed, and the only way to deal with this was to take the side that winning was the only way to stop the war. . . well, if I learned anything in my studies of urban guerrilla warfare it is this -- war is a law unto itself. Late one night, as I spoke to the bugs in my apartment, I told them that they should be killing the families who harbor the snipers and send me a necklace of ears. On the news the next week, I heard the battle had taken a dramatic turn -- soldiers were acting on my suggestion (they are some of my biggest fans). . . they were killing the famailies who harbored the snipers. And I heard also... an ear was reportedly cut off a child in one house. My necklace, so to say. At the time, I smiled like a wolf and saluted their balls.

The Iraqi's started turning in all the snipers. And they talked about how they had a renewed respect for American Troops for showing the resolve to use the same bloody tactics the insurgents were subjecting them to. This was a matter of machismo, as sickening as this thought is. Yet, liberals have long made the mistake of merely turning up their nose at the human impulses that inspire action, when our enemies have fearlessly used anything to manipulate people to take their side in arguments. I say, exploit any weakness, use any weapon handy.

The next week I hear that the battle has taken a dramatic turn. Soldiers had taken my advice, and were killing the entire families found in the sniper dens. Civilians began turning in the snipers right and left, fearing the new found conviction of the Americans to winning the fight. There was talk that they respected us more after seeing we could fight with the same brutality they were bring to the war.

They started winning after that. Took back neighborhoods. Like I wrote once, WE KILL AND KILL AND KILL, UNTIL ALL NEIGHBORHOODS ARE SAFE FOR ALL CHILDREN. This is a sad reality in this world. I want this to be no longer needed anywhere. Look at the Israeli response to Hamas -- I am appalled at the way this war is using civilians; the terrorists who chose to hide themselves among innocents were acting out of severe desperation; their tactic worked for awhile, until they continued to lob bombs into civilian populations. Enough innocents have died over there on both sides. Any leaders who do not understand that Peace is the best negotiating position for getting the kind of international support they need, should be turned out of politics; simply getting the support of the arab community is not enough; the friends of Israel are too powerful; they need to get the kind of moral ground that is only available to the Ghandi's.



During that time, I was also trying to run a peace campaign here in the states that set as its major premise getting rid of the neo cons, where the last thing I wanted was violence. . . that I saw the semi-trucks my soldiers drove around the country trying to get messages on the news, read with sorrow of the wrestler and his family who killed themselves to make sure I knew how they were drugging me. Isolated, surrounded by the army that keeps this revolutionary at bay, the loose affiliation of cops and agencies that monitor a man who has proven able to start riots all over the world, if he is not careful.

With this and a lot more in mind that is too sensitive for me to write about yet, I can understand the urge to pardon Cheney and Bush. They committed what are surely crimes against the Geneva Convention. I recommend some myself, though for my reputations sake, let me add that I was given a combination of pills that made me close to mad by a doctor taking orders from the enemy makers.

They are to blame for my excesses. Came at me as an enemy, instead of a reasonable human being who wanted to be heard. there were fearing someone with a better idea, which is insane -- think how far science would have progressed with such stumbling block. . . or how far a student could get in university if they were afraid of learning better ways to view the world than they had yet encountered.

Later, I read an account of the war, and some of the after-effects of the bloody campaign I started, soldiers who were now there trying to make peace with the Iraqi's and turn the country over to them. One Sargent was interviewed who said that with stop gap, most of his men had gone mildly insane. They mutter to themselves, Get wasted every night. The entire squad had insane quirks. This is highly disturbing. These soldiers are not going to leave this war behind on the plane home. There are few mental spaces they can find sanctuary from the death all around them, and the reapers who loom over them on the quietest, most calm seeming dusty streets. SOMEONE IS TO BLAME!!! This is at least how we wish the world worked, as long as the person who is to blame is not us. I do not want stop gap. So what should the army do if they do not have enough soldiers? Say, oops, we don't have enough soldiers to fight, so we are going home? I have no idea how to curb this problem, but I think a Draft is about the only way to remedy the problem. I would hate to see this happen, because it will only encourage them... but if the choice is soldiers driven mad by being kept too long in a battle scenario, then ... ah, the complexities are smothering.

The surge worked in its way. We should not have had to have it. The Iraqi army should have been re-organized and the shites and sunnis encouraged to be professionals together, to get over their prejudices by the spirit de corp. 20/20 hindsite. What if they turned their weapons on their ancient enemies? The result might have been much the same as what we ended up with, an entire country fallen into gun fire, neighborhoods cut into mazes of security zones. Classes of people living abroad, others in make shift camps that are just better than the threat of death they face to return to their lands. Many of their houses are now occupied by armed combatants who need to be battled out... regular men just move one, wait for the law to come back into effect and give them some redress....

Now we have Afganistan. What are we to do with the Taliban. Are they an army recruiting to attack us, or a phenomena of the hatred recent american policies have stirred up in the middle east. Could we find peace with these people? Could we give up the oil in the middle east, and let them live as they will live. Such good will would allow enough westerners to operated in their lands to learn that we too are people of honor, who wish only the best for the earth.

I hope that the camps where we hold the captured Taliban in Afganistan are transparent. That the combatants are looked at as people who have been brainwashed, as well as conscripted against their will. Brainwashing is seldom talked about in the situation of war, though we all know that this is done. Brainwashing is a science, and a personality, of a certain proclivity can be convinced to become a suicide bomber, obviously (not to mention all the other tom foolery people talk themselves into, from religions to choking themselves to passing out during sex...). People tend to look at the phenemona as unproven, until they experiment with it a little bit, or like myself, experience it. I went through drink treatment a few times, and learned that the 30 day model is based on the fact that it takes 30 days to adequatly brain wash someone into a new set of virtues).

Is there anyone actually out seeking Ossama Bin Laden and asking him if he has an agenda that will allow for a peace? Are we morally able to swallow our pride and say that this one man's life is not worth fighting a war over. If he comes peacefully into the new world, let him be exhiled by some and worshiped by others, as long as he does not inspire violence.

I do not care for the tactics of urban guerrilla warefare, though I can see how certain situation would sway my belief. ANd I am talking extreme circumstances, like an invasion or personal protection of self or others. I think a better way to go about changing government is to insist that it is fair. For all people. Give folks a vote in what is done to them, in what they wish to pay for. Let them see the arguements of both sides, not just the rich and powerful and glib and celebrity.

Reverend Jackson is always saying something about how criminals get three squares in jail while school children get one meal. I am more sympathetic to prisoners than Rr. Jackson perhaps (who knows); I do not blame all of them of their crimes. Society placed a lot of them there simply for being poor abd black and searched for weed more often than white guys. Others never had a chance. How people get out of bed and go to work for forty years is a mystery to me, let alone had I come from a family of abusive drunks, or severe poverty combined with prejudice and expectations even more diminished than my own.

I think prison is souls killing. The law is not taught in Jail. The reverse is truth. I believe that they should be given housing where they can try to function from with supervision, therapy, and classes on ethics. Like Skinner's pigeons, they can be taught. No one wants to be in jail. Give them an alternative that is not fraught with fear of going back to jail (which is why a lot of people run and endanger everyone in the path of their suv as they run that red light).

We underfund these therapy oriented group homes because a lot of them simply do not work. I have seen one where the kids basically controlled the house. Gang bangers who were living in group homes in what might as well have been a ghetto peopled just with teenage boys and kids just out of college who had no idea who to deal with the intimidating nature of their charges.

THey talk of a WPA. This could put the kids to work, let thme see something built with their own hands, learn skills that will take them out into the american dream with a change of buying their forty acres and a few mules (maybe a pny or two).

I can see the infrastructure of american being rebuilt not by the usual mobsters and pay to play sorts who get that shit in Chicago and all over the world (look into Cleveland if you want to see how much better off we are here than there); but by people who the government hires purely for skills, and sets free to turn our national parks and roadways and trains into the future we dreamed of and now must create. We can green this world tremendously through this effort. COnsider it our war against the Greenhouse if done right.

Obama will have to be very careful how he hands out contracts. He must hire from the top down in my opinion, appointing someone and then letting them hire the out of work to fill positions. Benefits like college educations for their children, lengthy vacations, etc... Not to mention the work for all the poverty idled artists. Let us bloom this world.

Bush pardoning Cheney, or anyone for that matter who is not ridiculously entitled, will send the wrong signal to the world. For one, this will admit our guilt in a matter which most of the world is disgusted over. Two, the History that needs to be learned from in this manner will have no airing. In Military Intelligence you learn just how much intelligence drops into a file not to be opened for a hundred years, that is needed, right now, to correct a problem. Merely protecting the reputation, or freedom, or a few men who were once symbols of the mightiest nation in the world, is a futile effort. The truth is already known, just not quite believed by the mainstream.

Like I always write, take off the monsters masks, or send them off into the future to kill again.

I feel for anyone who has to make life and death decisions. I laid in bed mourning for a month after I realized my campaign had been used to take human lives, when I told them no human life was worth one fucking bus. I never claimed to be in control of everyone, and still don't know if they were right or not in their military assessment... all I know is the horrible awakening to the powers of the word, and how easily a poet can take a heart and a head and spin them into a hurricane.


The Time of transition has come. Obama. I hope he makes overtures in his first speach to sit down with any taliban leaders will speak to him. I pray he learns of their concerns, and sets his best people to deciphering the cultural manners where we mesh as one species. I also pray he addresses Pot as soon as possible, meeting with advocates, and putting togehter a bipartisan committee to study the societal costs of incarcerating people for this mild drug. The money saved and earned from taxes could make our schools the best in the world. Learning how to and how not to use drugs could make all the difference in a child's life.

The darker drugs would require government intervention to provide the addicts with means to live normal lives, such as methadone has done for many, though the German policy of supplying herion seems to elevate the life standard of the addicts and the communities better (and no, there has been no rise in addicts). Amsterdam is of coures the world model. Of late them have set aside certain neighborhoods for prostitution and pot clubs. This saves the cops time, and provides smokers with safe havens, where they do not have to get stoned on the way to the club.

Lastly, Obama is going to be a war president. I would love to be an isolationist, hold up in the last gorgeous spot on the world and just let the world go to hell. If he is to establish that America has the same power to influence the world as China, Islam, and Russia, we have two options: work with these superpowers to stop wars, no matter who is supporting which movement (often we cannot move on a set of insurgents if they are tied to some bigger power that has an aggression pact). There are other countries who barely have a government, and no one is going to give a shit if we go in and try to help the people establish and working society.

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Will Bush Pardon Cheney on Christmas Eve?

On Christmas Eve 1992, defeated President George H.W. Bush pardoned Caspar Weinberger, Elliott Abrams, Duane Clarridge, Alan Fiers, Clair George, and Robert McFarlane for their Iran-Contra crimes. Not one served a single day in jail; Weinberger was about to go on trial and would have tied Bush himself to the scandal.

Will George W. Bush follow his father's precedent and pardon Dick Cheney and his other criminal co-conspirators this Wednesday on Christmas Eve?

Last week, Cheney was all over TV setting the stage for pardons. He admitted he personally approved torture, but insisted it destroyed Al Qaeda and saved American lives.

According to a powerful article by David Rose in Vanity Fair, the Bush-Cheney torture regime accomplished exactly the opposite. The torture photos from Abu Ghraib helped Al Qaeda's recruitment soar. U.S. officers in Iraq say torture-inspired attacks on U.S. soldiers were the #1 and #2 cause of soldiers' deaths. CIA analysts say the "intelligence" produced by torture was worthless.

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war... what is it good for? Well....

Afganistan is not Vietnam. I was and am against the vietnam war. I honor the soldiers who served their country despite their doubts, but I despise Nixon and that vile demon Kissinger (mr. power is an aphrodisiac), who went to war with a nation that 1) had never lost a war 2) wanted to be a democracy, and we ignored their overtures, forcing them to go to the Soviet's for support. A total fuck up. General Ridgway told them it would take ten bloody years to take the country, and the Government threw him out of the army. Afghanistan, however, is not Vietnam. They are terrorists bands who come from all across the middle east to fight some mythic america that they have in their head.

If we turn our heads away from this threat, they will sooner or later grow efficient enough to attack americans on our soil.. oh, oops, I guess they already did that on September 11th.

I am not a war monger, but I do believe that every human being has a an ethical desire to help the poor and downtrodden. This is a difficult urge within us, and some people do their best to turn it off... but sociobiological imperatives are there. One is altruism. Read EO Wilson's On Human Nature to open your eyes on such matters.

No one likes war. So anti-war protesters feel like they are morally right. If we could stop war today, we would. However, this requires our enemies to do so as well. From what I can see, that is not happening. As the world becomes more mobile, and the techniques for urban guerrilla warfare increasingly sophisticated, the US has no logical choice -- we either fight them in Afghanistan, or wait until they come to our soil and fight them here.

These are shit heads who think that anyone who is not Muslim is worthy of being killed... and of course Muslims who disagree with them are in the same boat. As much as I respect the Muslim religion, which is a much as any religion (except possibly buddhism, which has helped me more than any religion, and their pacifistic themes may one day sweep the world into nirvana, for all I know, and so personally I like them best... which is odd for a guy who has had all these visions and shit... as I describe in my blog waking up Jesus. None of my visions said that any one religion was right. I saw God, and I saw myself spewing lightening and fire. But, when someone else declares themselves dedicated to destroy the American lifestyle, I want them destroyed.

Saudi Arabia is having success taking hard core terrorists and using therapy to straighten out their heads. This is great, and a better alternative than killing someone... so we should offer them all free therapy and a cushy bed in an institution for a couple years. In fact, sending in therapists to talk to terrorists about their motivations, and trying to help them to see that killing people is not going to get them snything more than a bullet made int he usa, they probably will come around.

wherever there is an enemy to freedom, we should be fighting, or at least backing someone local in their fight.

Were I a billionaire, I would hire a private army to take down Mugabe today, and I would be all over Afghanistan killing the shit out of the terrorists. I would be kind as hell to the prisoners we caught, even though I know if they caught us, they would drag our corpse around the internet.

I drove cab in rough cities, in tough neighborhoods, and i know that some people are too fucking crazy to deal with in any way except violence. I hate that this is true.
However, it is true,

I want us out of Iran, when the people there will be safe from radicals... the same with Afghanistan. I hurt inside whenever I see how many have died in these conflicts... but I would go if I could. This is not a good war... there are none. But we have to fight fire with fire, and if they are trying to burn us down....

sorry I have to feel this way. I wish I could be a peace nik. Maybe in the next war I will be. Not this one.