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By Chalmers Johnson

For Americans who can bear to think about it, those tragic pictures from New York of women holding up photos of their husbands, sons and daughters and asking if anyone knows anything about them look familiar. They are similar to scenes we have seen from Buenos Aires and Santiago. There, too, starting in the 1970s, women held up photos of their loved ones, asking for information. Since it was far too dangerous then to say aloud what they thought had happened to them--that they had been tortured and murdered by US-backed military juntas--the women coined a new word for them, los desaparecidos--"the disappeareds." Our government has never been honest about its own role in the 1973 overthrow of the elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile or its backing, through "Operation Condor," of what the State Department has recently called "extrajudicial killings" in Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America. But we now have several thousand of our own disappeareds, and we are badly mistaken if we think that we in the United States are entirely blameless for what happened to them.


The suicidal assassins of September 11, 2001, did not "attack America," as our political leaders and the news media like to maintain; they attacked American foreign policy. Employing the strategy of the weak, they killed innocent bystanders who then became enemies only because they had already become victims. Terrorism by definition strikes at the innocent in order to draw attention to the sins of the invulnerable. The United States deploys such overwhelming military force globally that for its militarized opponents only an "asymmetric strategy," in the jargon of the Pentagon, has any chance of success. When it does succeed, as it did spectacularly on September 11, it renders our massive military machine worthless: The terrorists offer it no targets. On the day of the disaster, President George W. Bush told the American people that we were attacked because we are "a beacon for freedom" and because the attackers were "evil." In his address to Congress on September 20, he said, "This is civilization's fight." This attempt to define difficult-to-grasp events as only a conflict over abstract values--as a "clash of civilizations," in current post-cold war American jargon--is not only disingenuous but also a way of evading responsibility for the "blowback" that America's imperial projects have generated.

"Blowback" is a CIA term first used in March 1954 in a recently declassified report on the 1953 operation to overthrow the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran. It is a metaphor for the unintended consequences of the US government's international activities that have been kept secret from the American people. The CIA's fears that there might ultimately be some blowback from its egregious interference in the affairs of Iran were well founded. Installing the Shah in power brought twenty-five years of tyranny and repression to the Iranian people and elicited the Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution. The staff of the American embassy in Teheran was held hostage for more than a year. This misguided "covert operation" of the US government helped convince many capable people throughout the Islamic world that the United States was an implacable enemy.

The pattern has become all too familiar. Osama bin Laden, the leading suspect as mastermind behind the carnage of September 11, is no more (or less) "evil" than his fellow creations of our CIA: Manuel Noriega, former commander of the Panama Defense Forces until George Bush p?re in late 1989 invaded his country and kidnapped him, or Iraq's Saddam Hussein, whom we armed and backed so long as he was at war with Khomeini's Iran and whose people we have bombed and starved for a decade in an incompetent effort to get rid of him. These men were once listed as "assets" of our clandestine services organization.

Osama bin Laden joined our call for resistance to the Soviet Union's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan and accepted our military training and equipment along with countless other mujahedeen "freedom fighters." It was only after the Russians bombed Afghanistan back into the stone age and suffered a Vietnam-like defeat, and we turned our backs on the death and destruction we had helped cause, that he turned against us. The last straw as far as bin Laden was concerned was that, after the Gulf War, we based "infidel" American troops in Saudi Arabia to prop up its decadent, fiercely authoritarian regime. Ever since, bin Laden has been attempting to bring the things the CIA taught him home to the teachers. On September 11, he appears to have returned to his deadly project with a vengeance.

There are today, ten years after the demise of the Soviet Union, some 800 Defense Department installations located in other countries. The people of the United States make up perhaps 4 percent of the world's population but consume 40 percent of its resources. They exercise hegemony over the world directly through overwhelming military might and indirectly through secretive organizations like the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization. Though largely dominated by the US government, these are formally international organizations and therefore beyond Congressional oversight.

As the American-inspired process of "globalization" inexorably enlarges the gap between the rich and the poor, a popular movement against it has gained strength, advancing from its first demonstrations in Seattle in 1999 through protests in Washington, DC; Melbourne; Prague; Seoul; Nice; Barcelona; Quebec City; G?teborg; and on to its violent confrontations in Genoa earlier this year. Ironically, though American leaders are deaf to the desires of the protesters, the Defense Department has actually adopted the movement's main premise--that current global economic arrangements mean more wealth for the "West" and more misery for the "rest"--as a reason why the United States should place weapons in space. The US Space Command's pamphlet "Vision for 2020" argues that "the globalization of the world economy will also continue, with a widening between the 'haves' and the 'have-nots,'" and that we have a mission to "dominate the space dimension of military operations to protect US interests and investments" in an increasingly dangerous and implicitly anti-American world. Unfortunately, while the eyes of military planners were firmly focused on the "control and domination" of space and "denying other countries access to space," a very different kind of space was suddenly occupied.

On the day after the September 11 attack, Democratic Senator Zell Miller of Georgia declared, "I say, bomb the hell out of them. If there's collateral damage, so be it." "Collateral damage" is another of those hateful euphemisms invented by our military to prettify its killing of the defenseless. It is the term Pentagon spokesmen use to refer to the Serb and Iraqi civilians who were killed or maimed by bombs from high-flying American warplanes in our campaigns against Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein. It is the kind of word our new ambassador to the United Nations, John Negroponte, might have used in the 1980s to explain the slaughter of peasants, Indians and church workers by American-backed right-wing death squads in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua while he was ambassador to Honduras. These activities made the Reagan years the worst decade for Central America since the Spanish conquest.

Massive military retaliation with its inevitable "collateral damage" will, of course, create more desperate and embittered childless parents and parentless children, and so recruit more maddened people to the terrorists' cause. In fact, mindless bombing is surely one of the responses their grisly strategy hopes to elicit. Moreover, a major crisis in the Middle East will inescapably cause a rise in global oil prices, with, from the assassins' point of view, desirable destabilizing effects on all the economies of the advanced industrial nations.

What should we do? The following is a start on what, in a better world, we might modestly think about doing. But let me concede at the outset that none of this is going to happen. The people in Washington who run our government believe that they can now get all the things they wanted before the trade towers came down: more money for the military, ballistic missile defenses, more freedom for the intelligence services and removal of the last modest restrictions (no assassinations, less domestic snooping, fewer lists given to "friendly" foreign police of people we want executed) that the Vietnam era placed on our leaders. An inevitable consequence of big "blowback" events like this one is that, the causes having been largely kept from American eyes (if not Islamic or Latin American ones), people cannot make the necessary connections for an explanation. Popular support for Washington is thus, at least for a while, staggeringly high.

Nonetheless, what we should do is to make a serious analytical effort to determine what overseas military commitments make sense and where we should pull in our horns. Although we intend to continue supporting Israel, our new policy should be to urge the dismantling of West Bank Israeli settlements as fast as possible. In Saudi Arabia, we should withdraw our troops, since they do nothing for our oil security, which we can maintain by other means. Beyond the Middle East, in Okinawa, where we have thirty-eight US military bases in the midst of 1.3 million civilians, we should start by bringing home the Third Marine Division and demobilizing it. It is understrength, has no armor and is not up to the standards of the domestically based First and Second Marine Divisions. It has no deterrent value but is, without question, an unwanted burden we force the people of this unlucky island to bear.

A particular obscenity crying out for elimination is the US Army's School of the Americas, founded in Panama in 1946 and moved to Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1984 after Panamanian President Jorge Illueca called it "the biggest base for destabilization in Latin America" and evicted it. Its curriculum includes counterinsurgency, military intelligence, interrogation techniques, sniper fire, infantry and commando tactics, psychological warfare and jungle operations. Although a few members of Congress have long tried to shut it down, the Pentagon and the White House have always found ways to keep it in the budget. In May 2000 the Clinton Administration sought to provide new camouflage for the school by renaming it the "Defense Institute for Hemispheric Security Cooperation" and transferring authority over it from the Army Department to the Defense Department.

The school has trained more than 60,000 military and police officers from Latin American and Caribbean countries. Among SOA's most illustrious graduates are the dictators Manuel Noriega (now serving a forty-year sentence in an American jail for drug trafficking) and Omar Torrijos of Panama; Guillermo Rodrigues of Ecuador; Juan Velasco Alvarado of Peru; Leopoldo Galtieri, former head of Argentina's junta; and Hugo Banzer Suarez of Bolivia. More recently, Peru's Vladimiro Montesinos, SOA class of 1965, surfaced as a CIA asset and former President Alberto Fujimori's closest adviser.

More difficult than these fairly simple reforms would be to bring our rampant militarism under control. From George Washington's "farewell address" to Dwight Eisenhower's invention of the phrase "military-industrial complex," American leaders have warned about the dangers of a bloated, permanent, expensive military establishment that has lost its relationship to the country because service in it is no longer an obligation of citizenship. Our military operates the biggest arms sales operation on earth; it rapes girls, women and schoolchildren in Okinawa; it cuts ski-lift cables in Italy, killing twenty vacationers, and dismisses what its insubordinate pilots have done as a "training accident"; it allows its nuclear attack submarines to be used for joy rides for wealthy civilian supporters and then covers up the negligence that caused the sinking of a Japanese high school training ship; it propagandizes the nation with Hollywood films glorifying military service (Pearl Harbor); and it manipulates the political process to get more carrier task forces, antimissile missiles, nuclear weapons, stealth bombers and other expensive gadgets for which we have no conceivable use. Two of the most influential federal institutions are not in Washington but on the south side of the Potomac River--the Defense Department and the Central Intelligence Agency. Given their influence today, one must conclude that the government outlined in the Constitution of 1787 no longer bears much relationship to the government that actually rules from Washington. Until that is corrected, we should probably stop talking about "democracy" and "human rights."

Once we have done the analysis, brought home most of our "forward deployed" troops, refurbished our diplomatic capabilities, reassured the world that we are not unilateralists who walk away from treaty commitments and reintroduced into government the kinds of idealistic policies we once pioneered (e.g., the Marshall Plan), then we might assess what we can do against "terrorism." We could reduce our transportation and information vulnerabilities by building into our systems more of what engineers call redundancy: different ways of doing the same things--airlines and railroads, wireless and optical fiber communications, automatic computer backup programs, land routes around bridges. It is absurd that our railroads do not even begin to compare with those in Western Europe or Japan, and their inadequacies have made us overly dependent on aviation in travel between US cities. It may well be that some public utilities should be nationalized, just as safety aboard airliners should become a federal function. Flight decks need to be made genuinely inaccessible from the passenger compartments, as they are on El Al. In what might seem a radical change, we could even hire intelligence analysts at the CIA who can read the languages of the countries they are assigned to and have actually visited the places they write about (neither of these conditions is even slightly usual at the present time).

If we do these things, the crisis will recede. If we play into the hands of the terrorists, we will see more collateral damage among our own citizens. Ten years ago, the other so-called superpower, the former Soviet Union, disappeared almost overnight because of internal contradictions, imperial overstretch and an inability to reform. We have always been richer, so it might well take longer for similar contradictions to afflict our society. But it is nowhere written that the United States, in its guise as an empire dominating the world, must go on forever.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20011015/johnson
 

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Yeah the CIA that hides thing from the public.Everything in this article is no secret T.U.

You make it sound like I (or our country)have not heard of these events(Iraq war with Iran,Iran under the Carter administration,Terrorists fighting Russia in Afganistan). Come on here ,you would need to be under a rock not to.

Its like saying that Russia was our allie during WW2,but after that they where our cold war enemies(see the Berlin Airlift for more info.

Ive read this article,its good reading,but lacks a knockout punch like you so think.Foriegn Policies change,times change.Im not gonna go into why we helped Iraq during the war with Iran,or why we funded terrorist(more so rebels back then)
during the war against Russia,Or the disaster under the Carter administation.

The blowback theory is baseless.You comparing apples to oranges during different generations,different world leaders,and different policies.Things change if only we could see into the future.....
 

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Just trying to help your cause TU :)

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Yeah the CIA that hides thing from the public.Everything in this article is no secret T.U.

You make it sound like I (or our country)have not heard of these events(Iraq war with Iran,Iran under the Carter administration,Terrorists fighting Russia in Afganistan). Come on here ,you would need to be under a rock not to.

Its like saying that Russia was our allie during WW2,but after that they where our cold war enemies(see the Berlin Airlift for more info.

Ive read this article,its good reading,but lacks a knockout punch like you so think.Foriegn Policies change,times change.Im not gonna go into why we helped Iraq during the war with Iran,or why we funded terrorist(more so rebels back then)
during the war against Russia,Or the disaster under the Carter administation.

The blowback theory is baseless.You comparing apples to oranges during different generations,different world leaders,and different policies.Things change if only we could see into the future.....

....because they hate us for our freedom. That was your statement. :142smilie
 

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....because they hate us for our freedom. That was your statement. :142smilie

I glad you think its funny.Just like when they crippled our nation on 9/11,bet you thought that was a joke to.

You should get your head out of those magazines that DTB is refuring to, and start realizing you lost your freedom on 9/11/01.I got news for ya,they hate you and me for our religion prefrence ,economic power(which is more due to 9/11,more so than the wall street collapse,thats right I said that!)

If you dont think that our Western ways,which by the way stand for freedom our hated by them ,then its time to come out from under that O pill!
 

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Trampled,here is an idea.Why dont we just covert to Jihad,and give in to them,that way there will be no more worries.

I got a better idea,lets as a western power,help them to live more comfortably,like some of these so called educated kinds think. That way were persieved as doing the right thing,then maybe,just maybe they will go away for good.

Which idea you llike better softy?
 

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I glad you think its funny.Just like when they crippled our nation on 9/11,bet you thought that was a joke to.

You should get your head out of those magazines that DTB is refuring to, and start realizing you lost your freedom on 9/11/01.I got news for ya,they hate you and me for our religion prefrence ,economic power(which is more due to 9/11,more so than the wall street collapse,thats right I said that!)

If you dont think that our Western ways,which by the way stand for freedom our hated by them ,then its time to come out from under that O pill!

I think you are a joke. You are just a fool for the propaganda machine.

We lost our freedom alright. Do you know who took it?

P.S. I dont really like Obama. I just like to mock fools like you.
 

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Trampled,here is an idea.Why dont we just covert to Jihad,and give in to them,that way there will be no more worries.

I got a better idea,lets as a western power,help them to live more comfortably,like some of these so called educated kinds think. That way were persieved as doing the right thing,then maybe,just maybe they will go away for good.

Which idea you llike better softy?

Why don't you start using spell check? You might at least appear to have some intelligence.

Is it comfortable to label me as an extremist? The fact of the matter is that i'm an educated white American. The biggest fear for someone like you.
 

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I glad you think its funny.Just like when they crippled our nation on 9/11,bet you thought that was a joke to.

You should get your head out of those magazines that DTB is refuring to, and start realizing you lost your freedom on 9/11/01.I got news for ya,they hate you and me for our religion prefrence ,economic power(which is more due to 9/11,more so than the wall street collapse,thats right I said that!)

If you dont think that our Western ways,which by the way stand for freedom our hated by them ,then its time to come out from under that O pill!

I still haven't heard a solution out of your mouth. Just how are we going to eliminate all the terrorists?

I bet you are against the health care reform too. Lets waste all our money on wars we can't win instead of rebuilding our infrastructure and taking care of sick Americans. How very Christian and American of you.
 

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I glad you think its funny.Just like when they crippled our nation on 9/11,bet you thought that was a joke to.

You should get your head out of those magazines that DTB is refuring to, and start realizing you lost your freedom on 9/11/01.I got news for ya,they hate you and me for our religion prefrence ,economic power(which is more due to 9/11,more so than the wall street collapse,thats right I said that!)

If you dont think that our Western ways,which by the way stand for freedom our hated by them ,then its time to come out from under that O pill!

Say there, rusty, just which freedoms have I lost? I can find any. Far as I can tell, I still have all the freedoms I had on 9-11.

Tell me, O brilliant rusty, which freedoms have I lost?

I'm neither an Arab, or Al Qaeda, in fact I'm a patriotic American, but if by "religious preference" you mean "right-wing, Jesus-freak, pass laws to force that crap on everyone", well, yes I hate that.

Speak, rusty, speak.
 

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I think you are a joke. You are just a fool for the propaganda machine.

We lost our freedom alright. Do you know who took it?

P.S. I dont really like Obama. I just like to mock fools like you.

you should be banned;) low life - a piece of dog shit:142smilie
 

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Say there, rusty, just which freedoms have I lost? I can find any. Far as I can tell, I still have all the freedoms I had on 9-11.

Tell me, O brilliant rusty, which freedoms have I lost?

I'm neither an Arab, or Al Qaeda, in fact I'm a patriotic American, but if by "religious preference" you mean "right-wing, Jesus-freak, pass laws to force that crap on everyone", well, yes I hate that.

Speak, rusty, speak.

you must be a jew:kiss:
 

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Say there, rusty, just which freedoms have I lost? I can find any. Far as I can tell, I still have all the freedoms I had on 9-11.

Tell me, O brilliant rusty, which freedoms have I lost?

I'm neither an Arab, or Al Qaeda, in fact I'm a patriotic American, but if by "religious preference" you mean "right-wing, Jesus-freak, pass laws to force that crap on everyone", well, yes I hate that.

Speak, rusty, speak.

I do have to say that we lost quite a bit of freedoms from 9/11. The government scared people to death.

I do agree with you on one point. Rusty is an idiot.
 

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First off I dont use spell check cause if you dont understand the American language,then you must be a muslim,2nd you can call me a Idiot,stupid,American cause its odvious that your Unamerican.

But when people start racial insults then thats crossing the line.I now your type the good ol Libertarian/If I had to guess lean democrat.
Always the parinoid type thinking government is out to get them.

Theres always alternative places to live ,if you dont like the USA than leave.If you dont like the government,theres harldy much you can do.
You can voice your opinion,sure.
Maybe even do something radical,but that would not be wise,MR. RADICAL.

My best advice is to let GOD handle it,thats the best course of action IMO.

Oh yeah,your rants against me are actually funny:142smilie .I dont post since this morning and you and your sidekick harass me with these pathetic posts:142smilie .Keep up the good work,I must be gettn on your nerves!!!:kiss:
 

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Say there, rusty, just which freedoms have I lost? I can find any. Far as I can tell, I still have all the freedoms I had on 9-11.

Tell me, O brilliant rusty, which freedoms have I lost?

I'm neither an Arab, or Al Qaeda, in fact I'm a patriotic American, but if by "religious preference" you mean "right-wing, Jesus-freak, pass laws to force that crap on everyone", well, yes I hate that.

Speak, rusty, speak.

I am a Christian,(I am a believer).Other than that reason theres at least 5 things off the top of my head I could name,but your probably would not understand.

Like my Bank,My kids school,my cruise ship I went on this past year,not to mention any social activity that takes place could put you at risk.

Its been 8years since 9/11 and we have crippled there threat alot,which is good.

Unfortunately things will never be the same,and along with it our freedom.You should turn to GOD.

This is all temp. our time on earth.Were all going to our permanant home.Some sooner than others.

God Bless.
 

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First off I dont use spell check cause if you dont understand the American language,then you must be a muslim,2nd you can call me a Idiot,stupid,American cause its odvious that your Unamerican.

But when people start racial insults then thats crossing the line.I now your type the good ol Libertarian/If I had to guess lean democrat.
Always the parinoid type thinking government is out to get them.

Theres always alternative places to live ,if you dont like the USA than leave.If you dont like the government,theres harldy much you can do.
You can voice your opinion,sure.
Maybe even do something radical,but that would not be wise,MR. RADICAL.

My best advice is to let GOD handle it,thats the best course of action IMO.

Oh yeah,your rants against me are actually funny:142smilie .I dont post since this morning and you and your sidekick harass me with these pathetic posts:142smilie .Keep up the good work,I must be gettn on your nerves!!!:kiss:

Are you drunk?

I stand corrected on the spell check issue. I see you had been using your wife or one of your kids that God blessed you with as your spell check device. I see they must be out of town tonight.
 

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Just for choir boy Rusty!

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Just for choir boy Rusty!

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I am a usher some weeks at my congragation.
I leave the lead hymning to others,but I do sing along.You wanna bash religion thats fine with me,but thats between you and him,not me.
 

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Are you drunk?

I stand corrected on the spell check issue. I see you had been using your wife or one of your kids that God blessed you with as your spell check device. I see they must be out of town tonight.

Actually last night I went to Bible Study,then watched the Pats on tape delay.Im lost on this post you must be brilliant ,thats B-R-I-L-L-I-A-N-T,whoevers keeping score at home.

Brilliant Post ;)
 
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