Real Name: Hal von Luebbert Gender: male Member Since: June 25, 2008 Last Signed In: November 21, 2008 Profile Views: 241 Blog Views: 1434 Lots of laughs . . . I get a lot of laughs . . . Just came back to see what everyone is saying about the Swan Song. Obama, McCain, SITREP - Things for a Thoughtless Nation to Think About. SITREP - "What Happened?!" Following the Historical Trail to a Disaster. SITREP - continued 9/22/08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 November 08 
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"Rights" - and Responsibilities
Just now, I wrote this letter to the editor:
"Thanks to Gentry Powell for the information that a suit has been filed against Uranium Energy Corporation. "For more than a month now wife Rita and I have been wondering at the fact that dosimeter radiation detectors in our home, instruments that have recorded at high as one hundred twenty Roentgens, have lately each and every one registered no radiation. None! Mirabile dictu.
"Amazing to say, too, is the fact that only two months ago we went to the city manager’s office here in Port Lavaca to complain about the radioactive water coming from our taps - amazing like the fact that we have written a number of comments concerning our radioactive water to the Advocate. Now we learn of the lawsuit. Yes, indeed – what an amazing coincidence!
"Folks, if you don’t smell a rat by now, you may want to check the mirror to see if you have a nose.
"Oh, and in passing, ask yourselves why it is, in all the blather and bloviating concerning the proposed nuclear plant, we’re not being told where the tons of radioactive waste will go. (Did I say “proposed?” – in South Texas you’re supposed to believe something like this hasn’t cut and dried by the interested – “interested” as in avaricious - corporations and the responsible state agencies and judges those corporations own?)
"While you’re checking the mirror, shake your head a couple of times – that rattling noise should tell us everything we need to know about the fatal weakness of our democracy.
"Sincerely," etc.
Having just finished a five year study of the CIA program coded Operation MOCKINGBIRD and its effect on the public discourse, I can only conclude ruefully that President Adams was right (he, too, along with Benjamin Franklin and other of the founding fathers, believed the public too stupid to control government by looking out for their own interests). Democracy is an unworkable idea (something a Nobel Prize winning economist actually once proved, incidentally).
The behavior of corporate America, the state and federal environment protection agencies, the courts, and other persons interested for one reason or another in uranium mining and nuclear energy production in South Texas demonstrates in thunderous tones what happens each time corporate interests are at odds with those of the public. In the words of Edmund Burke, Eighteenth Century British statesman and philosopher, “The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.”
Unfortunately, and while the delusion is often self-inflicted, the suicidal tendency of democracy and republic is all but inevitably the purposeful work of government. At the end of World War Two, when it became apparent that the cornucopia that was wartime spending by government would be no more, the corporations a valedictory president called “the military industrial complex” first seized power, then prepared to hold it. In order that the people would give up their liberties, the coup plotters were advised by our new academia think-tanks that delusion would be both necessary and most efficient among possible methods.
Anyone watching closely the machinations surrounding in situ mining and nuclear plant operations by Uranium Energy Corporation and Exelon Corporation has for himself a primer on the subject of corporate propaganda, “limited hangout” (a CIA tactic the reader should research), and cynical legalistic maneuvering designed to create Burke’s “delusion.” Anyone studying the history of other similar operations having to do with both mining and nuclear energy will find the same, unmistakable patterns. Modus Operandi, it’s otherwise called.
For a primer in “Corporate America” tactics, one might also research what happened in the San Luis Valley of Colorado a couple of decades ago. It’s a textbook case: you can seen how the people lose their rights - under the benevolent protection of our government agencies and right in our vaunted courts of justice.
It’s all possible, however, because persons like the guy who wrote to me the other day to argue concerning one of my probing essays speak without knowledge other than what they’d heard or read – often not even that. In my files, I have literally hundreds of examples, persons who for instance argued vehemently concerning supposed controlled demolition of the World Trade Center without even rudimentary knowledge of explosives, much less controlled demolition.
People furiously pro or con the invasion and war in Iraq could not identify, much less discuss knowledgeably, even the most basic of concepts of military tactics. Not one of scores with whom I exchanged views could identify, let alone use it to calculate factors, the TNDM - Tactical Numerical Deterministic Model (the TNDM is the mathematical method by which a general determines necessary troop strength, weaponry requirements, combat effectiveness values, and more the like).
Persons choosing to argue economic police could not identify a single economic theory, nor any of the men who propounded them. Not one person in hundreds could tell me from what and how a dollar results (how the treasury decides to print new money and/or put money into circulation). They all knew, nevertheless, what federal monetary and economic policy should be.
Persons – especially women – arguing “women’s issues,” “sexism,” and the like betrayed utter ignorance concerning the sociological factors of their asseverations, and none could provide any justification other than supposed “women’s rights” for women in the combat military. Not one of these obviously militant and opinionated people could suggest a single asset that women would bring to a combat formation (several made statements to the effect that it didn’t make any difference if the U.S. military were weakened or made ineffective, all that was important was women should be permitted to do whatever they wanted).
And so on – every issue.
I have written a great deal of late concerning a word that is becoming archaic. The word is “responsibility” (ask a youthful person what his patriotic responsibilities are, if you want to see someone tongue-tied). Like so many of its fellow rights, the freedom of speech carries with it responsibility. Persons hearing what we say have certain rights, too, rights concerning the truth – or the supposed honesty and integrity - of what we say.
If you don’t know what you’re talking about, for the country’s sake, shut the hell up!
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