Since the Mud Flinging Has Begun....

don't be surprised if you come out as dirty as you are.

It is unfortunate that we have lost to old age and illness most of our older reporters. They had the historical links which are now being buried under the slide of propogandist mud which is left unaddressed due to the non-stop chaos on a world-wide basis.

For a time, the world was relatively peaceful except for Vietnam and Israel/Palestine. Not so any more. The primary motivating factors in these current wars, internal and otherwise, are power and greed, the daily chaos caused unceasing. And the IRA wants atention again. Yes, I have to take a withdrawal from my Dad's I.R.A. so he can pay the sot of his care. Apparently the government doesn't feel that eating is a medical need. They refuse to assist in payment for what they term "custodial care", which includes making sure people eat and don't sit about all soiled of themselves. It bankrupts families who cannot find an alternative to the demand of paying someone up to $1,200.00 per week to sit on their butt, have all their bills and food paid and not do very much. If the total work time is 20 hours a week, that would be a surprise. Some of them think they merit that just for taking a blood pressure reading and giving twice a day oral medicine. Things are out of control in the US and the Government is in collusion with the perpetrators. They sanctify the actions and refuse to pay for or limit them. Care may be available, but it's not attainable. Yet those lies permeate the airwaves.  People here hate their own lives. They work when they are too sick or in too much pain to do a proper job. And that is the problem with american products. There are no fences around our political prisoners and slaves, but they are here just the same and they take their wrath out on other countries for not suffering the same. Rarely do but a few who are of means really care that anyone else in the world is suffering except to think things could be worse. They could also be a whole lot better.It is a sick nation. All the advertisements for sex toys, for newlyweds?, someone is telling everyone to go and f_ _ _ themselves. Maybe it'll make them less aggressive and confrontational. Maybe removing the chemicals from the diets will do that. Maybe giving medical care to the ailing will make them not want to lash out at everyone. As many reasons as there are problems. Killing a man who is the hero of his people will not make those problems go away.

As for the US claims that they didn't want the Taliban erecting any shrines to bin Laden, they don't need a body to do that; however, it was the Taliban who destroyed all the shrines and staues and historical and religious tributes to all the histroy of Afghanistan. Hardly likely to erect a shrine or anything of the like.

The USA really didn't care about terrorists until they themselves got hit. Sure, they postured and preened. But they were more interested in satisfying their greed. They didn't go into Afghanistan because of terrorists. They would have done so when the Taliban first began it's reign of destruction and terror and the people begged relief. They went in because of the poppies growing in the fields.

It's not just the insatiability of the street trade for poppy-derived rugs that motivates this. They could very easily have negotiated, quite legally, to have the farmers provide the pharmaceutical companies with what medical product was needed. But Merck, Sharp & Dome are a greedy lot. They don't want to share with anyone. They even attempted to coerce the Canadian Government to change it's laws to disallow anyone else to manufacture anything Merck brought for a "moratorium" of no competition for seven years, just like it is in the USA. Is it any wonder the people can't afford to buy their medicine and the government doesn't want to pay the price they themselves allow? The sky's the limit when it comes to pricing such things. So in the eyes of Merck and the like, no one else has any right to make the same thing they make. Among those things is morphine, cocaine, & otherwise medically legal but street-illegal drugs. Sure there was another way. But when politician's pockets are lined with drug money and the companies direct their employees who to elect, why stop and think of alternatives or consequences? Merck's objectives were met. No competition in the drug market.

Today NJN carried a report that cases of asthma has somewhere near doubled. Hey, guess what, it's not the cigarettes after all. This place was dubbed "cancer alley" because of the incidence of cancer rates along the corridor beginning at Rahway NJ and north past Kearny and Secaucus. That hasn't been cleaned up. It almost cost me my life. And add to that all the hormones and antibiotics we're forced to consume because they are in our milk, our cows, our chickens. Yet they denounce Germany for refusing to accept beef tainted by chemicals. German farmers hold a very high standard for the keeping of their animals. It's called pasture raised, and scrupulously clean. I couldn't believe what I saw  in the US- cattle knee deep in the mud and the rain...poor creatures. And it goes deeper. It's disgusting. In addition, most of the food has synthetic growth accellerators added to it. If it makes food grow faster and bigger, it probably makes something else do the same. And of late, even bagged potting soil supposedly sterile, grows funguses on it inside of two days after watering.

And yes, for me it is very personal. Because Merck funded much of the anti-cigarette movement and it's advertising concurrent with the time when working on their job site had me going to the hospital to have my eyes cleaned out because they were oozing puss so badly I had to use warm wet washcloths just to opens them up. The skin was oozing and peeling on my face and arms, my hair was falling out in clumps and I still have scars. I can't use styling products and even most shampoos and soaps now cause a skin reaction since then. And of course, I was breathing the stuff in, which resulted in a sever lung infection, COPD/asthma and nearly dieing. And they insisted it was the cigarettes. Well, here's some news: 34 years later, being exposed to cigarettes on a daily basis, NONE OF THE ABOVE HAVE OCCURRED.  I say exposed to because I don't, and never really have, smoked the things. They're a prop, a toy; I light them up, draw some into my mouth and out it goes. Coffee and blueberries cause the stains on my teeth, as well as no access to dental care do to the government refusing to pay for it and the dentists being greedy and wanting to sell not what the patient needs but what they want so they can buy their million dollar houses. And the pain I am in on a daily basis cause me to clench my teeth so hard I broke almost all of them. In fact, the headaches of the past week caused another one to break last night. And I'm going to get the money from where to pay for this on an income of $932. per month, after they refused to pay for medicine which cost me $207.50 for a one month supply and will be needed on an ongoing basis because the pain, the stress, the aggravation, the noise pollution keep me from sleeping. But somehow or another I'm supposed to be in love with this Hell they have created here.

I don't care how many phony documents they want my signature on. They refused to accept the documents which contained the truth, destroying them on the spot, and opting instead for the falsified information. Do they really think Osama Bin Laden went in and applied for building permits in his own name in Pakistan? How naive. So now who can't be trusted? The man who sends in "Trojan Horses" which has other countries trying to identify just which computers they are in or the people who were promised aid in exchange for limiting their poppy sales? Soemthing that began as my idea in offering the Columbians higher prices for their coffee if they'd grow it instead of drugs instead. But coffee can't compete with the need of "Americans" to escape their existence. And that is the reason they are on drugs in the first place. From what I understand not having done so myself, one time is all it takes. The pain goes away, the poverty goes away, the stress goes away and they're willing to do almost anything to go to that mental place rather than the one they're in. And it makes their existence tolerable, though it changes absolutely nothing. Not that anything changes without them either, especially when you can't get anywhere because you are not "partaking"...so they keep you out of everything. And I keep them outside of my life. Which leaves me with very few connections or support for anything I need. Yet they managed to pay for their college and houses from the drug money. I didn't. Is that justice? Not quite hardly. But it is reality. So I pray I remember to play lottery and eventually check the numbers on them and hope the Powers that Be will be kind enough to let me win so I can get me and my adopted family out of this same hell I'm in.

                                                      ON THE LIGHTER SIDE, but glimpse into the mentality all the same....

At the time of the Kennedy shooting, I was called into the Principal's Office for saying that JFK was not my President. He wasn't. I wasn't an American. So I also was not allowed to be a part of the Girl Scouts anymore because, despite being British in origin, it was "The Girl Scouts of America"(where I did live). Despite having been a Patrol Leader, getting my badges in what mattered:First Aid, Water Safety & Rescue, Dabbling in Art-they never did give me th one for music because I was excluded before they were awarded. There were a few more that they owed me, but I didn't care. I could sing just fine without a Girl Scout Badge. The First Aid and Water Safety and Rescue were for preserving life and that was primary. I also had the neighborhood baby-sitting jobs sewed up because I had those and also the child care certification. I hated camping anyway, even though, with my brother's help and my US Dad's trying to bring me some happiness helping, I won a three week campership. Which was a major honor. They even held a dinner for me and my Dad in honor of it. But I hate camping. Even on platformed tents.

In High School. I was nearly expelled for authoring part of a new publication opposing the war in Vietnam. At the same time, that opposition gave me the second runner up position for the Miss VFW crown. And I'm still German.

I wish I had kept score on how many times a US citizen came to me complaining about the foreigners in the USA. I loved seeing the red faces and the sputtering when I informed those individual that I was one of the people they were complaining to me about. They began referring to me in more complimentary terms. "Awesome", "Scary" "A little intimidating".  My most favorite faux pas of all time however was when an unwanted suitor would not relent and I questioned him on the reason. He replied "God, that's what I love about you. You really have no clue. You're everything Americans look for . You're the American Dream."
I looked at him point blank and said "In that case, the American Dream is German." His stunned expression and the "Nuhhh..." as he was backing off left only one thing left to say:"Ja!".

I may be another name on their roster but my heart and my head will never be a US Citizen. They lied to me.
And I don't believe a thing they say and they are too stupid to make decision governing me.
Simultaneously, I had some friends who I love to this day. They were outraged by what happened to me. They confronted my pseudo-parents in my behalf. They tried to get law enforcement to dosomething about it. Some even got locked in juvvie hall with me for trying to help me get to my Embassy, or Austria at the time, since Germany did not yet have their own. After the death of the abductress, I had all the paperwork to repatriate and leave the USA when my US Dad became deathly ill. I wasn't about to abandon him. He suffered as much if not more from the ways of the abductress, especially for assisting me in times of need and the strong bondof friendhip we had formed. He was ill continually until I personally took over his care and personnel supervision. He now is healthier than I am, but it took 19 months to achieve that to the point where I could even stay away for one day. One day he said to me "I'm hearing things that I  kidnapped you?" I said "Yes, you did. You just didn't know it." And he said "Is that what all her "secret this and that were all about?" "I guess so," I said to him. "Who the hell knows what goes on in the head of a nut case. But I forgive you. You've always been a fool when it comes to women." Then he said "And you still did all this for me?" "I wouldn't be me if I didn't. And you don't deserve to be abandoned." Neither do my cats. As for the rest, the things that matter are easy to pack.

My last word on the matter? "If I win the lottery, I'd have us all out of here so fast there wouldn't even be time to pack anything except the cats." That is where it remains, that is where it's at.

Prinzessin Hohenzoller
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How They Found Bin Laden

Real simple. Saturate the area with computers and cel fones to send wireless signals with i.d. & foto each time it was used. As soon as they saw his image, activate the LoJack device in the matching i.d. number and there he is.

What? Dell does a similar thing anytime they want to wring money from the customers. They send in data to make the computer malfunction and then they sock ya the fee for a new service contract. Anyway, it's not that hard. I was 19 years old when I reversed-e'd a pair of Sennheiser earphones into a microphone. Intelligence.

Prinzessin Hohenzoller

DOPPELGANGER????

Having been asked the question "How old was Osama Bin Laden?", I decided to watch the Biography channel which was airing something.

The items aired conflict with a much earlier article on the man, at least ten years earlier. That particular article, run by a highly respected US publication, stated that bin Laden was US Educated and a CIA trainee who did not complete his training. That in itself would make him a target.

Also, the current birth year given as 1957 also does not coincide with the previous information given. It seems he would be at least ten years older than is currently being reported. Of course the missing ten years would in a slip-slide manner fill a gap of his stuudies in the USA unless under great scrutiny. Those records, no doubt, no longer exist. And no one is about to come forward on it. Not the first time someone's biography and history has been fictionalized in the US.

I always say "If it has been translated into American English by Americans, I don't believe it to be accurate." I say so on the basis of having read certain things in their original language and the American translations. I know also how grossly my own birth, life, history, and beliefs have been falsified. The biggest mistake made being that I ascribe to the same politics as my deceased abductress. I never did and I never will. Not that I agreed with my own Mother when she threatened to "flatten" a certain village who had done nothing but loved and cared for me while searching for my parents. She was simply hysterical. I cannot imagine what would make Russia invade a country which clearly wanted to be communist, except perhaps to stop the flow of opium. But I full well do understand not wanting foreign occupation of one's native soil.

I've found nothing in the USA which should make the rest of the world want to be them, or be like them. In fact, many of it's people have said to me "Why don't we have that here?" In other words, they wish the USA were other than it is. I told them they had to vote for people who would give them these things. The answer was "None of them will."

Are these ego-centric pseudo-Hitlers EVER going to undertsand? Not so long as the rest of world continues to k.t.a. And by the way, the country is stone cold broke and deeply in debt. Don't think they're handing out food, money, medicine to foreign countries with no expectation of paybacks. Deutschebank was destroyed when those planes hit the WTC. And the USA is suing them? Germany should turn around and sue the USA for failure to protect, as they knew those planes were off-course but chose not to intercept. I warned for years before that any attack against the US would come from withing it's borders, not from the outside. But why should they listen to me when my abductress had herself entrenched in the Republican party, pretending to have been someone of importance in the European Government (which my true parents were)? Of course she was a major flag waver. I have first hand reasons for questioning every move they make. Especially when I hear them echo edicts of the abductress. Is the truth ever going to be a part of their policy? Not while it suits their ego and their image on the world stage.

And the truth is, the USA has no money. And once they get a foot in your country, you'll never get them out of there. It is an insipid infiltration and dissolution of your heritage, your customs, your beliefs. How many years did Britain suffer under calls for abolishment of the Monarchy? From US journalists, no less. Put the pieces on the chess board of the world and dimensionalize them into history. That alone will reveal reality,
while US citizens go without food, medical care, medicine and housing and lack the education of the rest of the modern world. They are spending all their money trying to colonize the world while the government continues it's shadow play of duplicity and it's citizens go without.

As for Pakistan, since it is not a Military State, should they have done what Syria is doing to try and find bin Laden? All would have condemned them, no matter the objective. They have Sovereign Rights, and I'm sure they can do without the money the USA is using as bait. They only need to decide that the price of their independence from US rule cannot be bought at any price.

Prinzessin Hohenzoller

Clear Perspective

It's fairly obvious that we prefer romance and glamour to death and mayhem. But it did momentarily upstage the wedding of the British Royal Family.

Watching them watching the S.E.A.L.S, it was obvious Obama was worried that they had the wrong guy and it wouldn't happen, Secretary Clinton that they had the right guy and it would.

Silly questions about how didn't Pakistan know he was there. The U>S> didn't know I was here for nearly 50 years.

The compound was close enough to the military school to have locals think it was merely part of their training ground or their brig, from the looks of it. We often see houses and call them "Mafia Houses" but do we know who lives in them? Nope. Despite having 5 living units surrounding mine, except for the slamming of the doors downstairs, the rest of us barely know if any of us have come and gone, especially when the rest aren't in solitary existence. So it's a stupid propogandist speculation designed to discredit Pakistan after a clear violation of invading their borders, armed, into an unarmed area.

Fortunately, this time a whole country wasn't pulverized because of a vendetta against one man? Victory? I'm not so sure anyone sitting surrounded by tons of security really has the right to claim it as his. But that's the way of it. In other countries, where the Chief of the Military is also the Head Honcho of the country, they do don military uniforms to distinguish the difference between a military and civilian action. The US has never.

Osama Bin Laden was fading into history here anyway. I haven't heard anyone mention him or al Queada in ages-or however they want to spell it. I doubt they'll get much real info from anything seized at the house. Do I really want to see pictures of a shot-up body? No. Would I believe they're not phot-shopped? Not completely. They should have called in Internationals for confirmation before conveniently disposing of the body, if indeed they did and they aren't holding the live man in interrogation someplace. And what of the surviviors of the invasion?

I thought there were international agreements in place about menacing and killing the children of other world leaders. But maybe that's only in Europe, and of course, those rules don't apply when it comes to the USA. No rules apply, apparently. They'll do  what they please when they please no matter who they violate. What does that make them? Terrorsts 2nd Class. They use the fact that they're a country(United is questionable) to hide behind. The Taliban thinks they're a country too. They think they are Afghanistan. Everybody needs to stop making threats, stop making vendettas, stop making violence, stop repressing and oppressing everyone else. I'd much prefer to see housing and medical facilities than military built from tax dollars. I know a lot of people don't get it yet; they're still brainwashed from the McCarthy era and the Bushian "traitorists" rhetoric. I think letting the government get away with being tyrants is being a traitor to the Constitution of the United States of America. A lot of things politicians say are mere bait to see the public reaction. And they're not honest. They're afraid of their friends not liking what they say.

During the second invasion of Iraq, only two people on day one spoke against. And people visibly retreated from them. I was one of the two. Years later, Mr. Bush himself said it was a mistake. Only two out of 300 had the guts to say so from the first? Two women. Oh well.

Today when I closed my eyes, I saw a foot with it's ankle attached rolling away in some dust. Then I saw the face of a man, straight brown hair, mustache, thin long nose, with left eye blind. Next I saw an orange cat, not unusual, we own one, but then the jumped and was a small Bengal tiger rearing up, thoug it did not attack. Now once more I have a headache.

I'd like to see our heros brave on the home front, protecting us where we need it most, romances in full bloom and glamour achievable to everyone. I'd like to see war and crime fictionalized on fotoreels where we defeat the "bad guys" by proxy of nobody really died, nobody really got killed, nobody really got raped, nobody's house was invaded. But that's not the way it is. Thre popularity of cop shows indicates a need to know the truth and to see the true bad guy pay. Out in the real world, the bad guy, the enemy, is always the one who does you harm. Whether he's part of your country or not. Being a victim doesn't hurt any less just because they're on the other side of the financial fence.

 Not being familiar with Islamic traditions, I don't know their funeral rites or their prescribed time of mourning. Nor do I know those of Lybia. But my condolences do go to those who feel these losses. It doesn't hurt any less just because you've been labeled as something bad by the USA. To further give you perspective, the day John Kennedy was killed, I was in the girl's room at Junior High School. Someone burst in hysterical in tears and blurted out "The President's been killed!" My response, not being so closed minded or American, was "Which one?" The girl's reply was "There is only one President!"   I had to ask "The one President of which country? You know there are more countries in the world." She was stunned, then got mad, told me how ignorant I was, and finally said "President Kennedy." My response was "Oh." Which was more than I got when I had gone in and said Dag Hammarskjold died in a plane crash. The response was "So what?" and "Who's that?" So, the fact that they know other countries exist is a step forward. But all their school maps show a gigantic USA and a teeny, tiny world. Their perspective hasn't changed.

Thoughts on the Reported Death of Osama Bin Laden

There are many good reasons for making the body of Osama Bin Laden "unavailable".  He should have had the right to be buried by someone of his religion without a public spectacle and the chaos it might cause.  Also, there are some lunatics around. I think of the movie "The Murder of Jesse James...". In addition, being shot in the head.....but he left this world with his dignity intact and the decision to do as was done was a mercy which I am pleased the USA bestowed.

Combining what little knowledge I have of the man from news reports, I can think of only one reason that he was captured and refusing surrender, killed. The same reason he would remain in an actual building for months. That is, he was deathly ill and expected to die soon anyway.  Most likely, cancer of some type. It has been earlier implied that his tallness was due to a rare disease. There are some things we will never know for certain. And I take nothing the USA says on faith. They posture for the world but betray and make to suffer their own people. Not until this year would they even help the people who ran to aid the 9/11 victims. But they pretend they care. When one cares and loves, one does everything to make sure of the loved and cared for's well-being. The USA doesn't really care about it's own people, not really. Not when it comes to their survival at the hands of it's capitalistic megalopoly. But the rest of the world doesn't know that because of all the posturing and soliloquys which sells on the airwaves. And therein is part of why other countries "hate" Americans. They don't know the truth of everyday people. Only the things that half of Americans themselves hate. The Twin Towers belonged to all the world. Germany lost our bank on the site.

There is no doubt in my mind, given the strategic record of Osama Bin Laden, that these months while he was preparing for death, all transfers of power have taken place; all retaliations already planned. It is my hope that they will come to a clarity of mind with regard to exactly what and specifically who they are fighting against and to make it very clear to the rest of the world because I truly see no rationale or reason to these acts of prior times. Given the track record of what the CIA does do (see Once Upon a Time in Mexico, read "The Green Berets") I don't doubt that they are behind much of the internal wars in some parts of the world. The difference between those and what happens on US soil is not that there are no violent, financial and free speech suppressions in the USA, it is that most US citizens don't pick up guns when they happen. They do things called "Class Actions" and have lawyers go argue in court. No one outside the lawyers gains much, except perhaps anyone who glories in bankrupting some oppressing entity. Or they can sign petitions, write letters, make phone calls or complain to each other. They suffer. They die. More slowly than by gunfire. Some are beaten to death by spouses, parents, strangers. They are robbed not just by robbers but by corporations and mostly energy suppliers, as well as their own government. They are robbed of their houses, their shelter, their food, their medical provisions. And they do die. And no, that's not the way it's supposed to be.

Myself being a person who feels that people who abuse animals should have the right to be shot on the spot, I am disgusted by reports I have read about the way people mistreat one another in "the Bin Laden countries". It has never been clear if the Taliban et als were trying to abate or inflame the abuses persons have heaped on one another, especially against women. Not that it doesn't happen in the USA. It does. They also feel they have the right to mercilessly beat and abuse their children, the animals, or their spouses. I feel they too have a right to be shot on the spot. Sound a little Stalinistic? It comes from observing and suffering from them firsthand. The problem with person to person abuses is discerning which one is the puppet, which one is the echo, which one is the source. Unless you can weed them out, innocent people will be killed. Especially if one has become and expert liar and actress. Even the courts fail there.

I recall when the Taliban first emerged. The USA refused to help the people of Afghanistan in fighting them. I guess there was no oil to be had. Maybe part of the strategy to get the US into Afghanistan was to attack the US. Why mount attacks against the people of other nations who have done nothing against anyone, whose government did nothing against anyone? While they may have felt the USA's military brain was housed in the top of the World Trade Center, they certainly cannot make that claim about a Spanish passenger train. What, don't like the bullfighting? I abhor it. It is against my religion. So is murder, so is torment, so are all the things which God prohibits because they bring harm and damage his creatures. And I hate war. So why do people provoke to it? Someone attempting to impose their will on another human being or stealing what is not rightfully theirs is a primary cause of wars. In an instance such as Hitler, there is no other choice. When a nation invades another, what else could the result be? If you practice guerilla warfare on the world, what do you thing their response will be?If there is unrest inside a country, hard questions must be asked, especially if the country has been stable and unified for generations, as to why there was this subversiveness. Avenues for free exchange of ideas must be open. People must not be starved, oppressed, humiliated and beaten down. History has shown that there will come a time when people will throw off the chains of their oppressors, foreign or domestic.
But certainly now, Osama Bin Laden will not give us the answer unless he also spent these last few months making videotapes which are either undisclosed or undiscovered. For certain, there has been too much death in the hunt for one man who projected an image that said he saw himself as a kind of Templar Knight, a Holy Man who was a warrior.
Terrorism in any form is an act of oppression. It accomplishes no positive social change, it yields nothing productive. It only causes an expenditure of resources which should otherwise be used to better the lives of everything and all. And it targets the puppet, not the master; it chases the echo and leaves the source. Quite an exercise in futility from my perspective.

More ESP

In the past 36 hours, I have had the distinct feeling that some head of state would be assassinated by a bullet directly into his forehead. I have had a massive headache since yesterday, which does not relent, not from morphine, not from anti-inflammatories, not from Benadryl.

Perhaps it was Osama Bin Laden. Perhaps not. Only certain the slain would not be female.

Aside from the proclamations of Al-Quaeda being "terrorists", we know litlle about them, or the structure of their organization. i feel it is based on the hydra, and cutting off it's primary head will only unleash the other to do as they will. While someone guided them, he no doubt vetoed some actions. Those actions may be carried out without strategy, with no thought to consequence. They will go to the death.

I had two strange visions also. Onw was a bird made of fire swooping down, the rider a man with a black hat. It was about to attack some prey below.

The second visison were two dragons of fire as pillars on either side of the "frame" of the dream.

Both artistically beautiful, I'd love to recreate them in my painting, but not knowing the origin or target of the bird of fire nor anything appearing with the two dragons, who were there as a warnign but not menacing anything, I have nothing to which to relate the two things.

On the day of the beatification of Pope John Paul, which should have been a day of peace, it is clear that some will never lay their weapons down until they pass from this Earth, or until this Earth  passes away from them.

In reality, Osama Bin Laden was a major source of intelligence or the USA because he had a habit of announcing his plans and principles. Which did give warning. More than can be said for the stray NATO planes no doubt commanded by USA and not the countries wherein they were stationed. I consider those tobe acts of terrorism by the USA using duck-blind puppets claiming the right under NATo alliance. Just one problem: NaATO was formed for the common defence of the North Atlantic Countries, none of whom were under attack by Lybia unless they invaded Lybian air space. In which case, Lybia had every right to shoot them down.

Why is the USA the only country in the world who hs a right to do these things, and demand other countries remain their puppets even when they have not been attacked?

It is very clear that Lybia is the only Eastern Africa nation who had the military power to defend the smaller countries down below from further plunder they have already suffered at the hands of US oil companies and the carpet baggers who come along with them.

And if you don't see it, it is time to look at it as it really is. Europe had no beef with Lybia. Europe was denounced by the USA for trading with Lybia, for oil ecspecially. Those same countries now have been manipulated into being a part of this war puppet regime which is far more clear now than under any other President. They had other smoke screens. Any part of the world where they were involved which came under scrutiny would simply result in a fire storm in another part of the world, withdrawing attention from the "objective".

How many people have these things killed since 2001? And how many more?

It was said, In fighting those that are evil, care must be taken not to become them. The USA has become them.

Regine Pegi

And Again the Ignorant Speak on TV

This time, the prattle is about mental illness and gun control.

I'm a former Gerontological Social Worker and Civil Service Certified Youth Advisor. I'm bound by certain laws, the primary being right to privacy laws. My docotrs are bound by them and so is my Congressman. I'm no kind of gossip monger...which sadly, most people with "opinions" are.

I don't disagree that there needs to be gun control. I seriously disagree that it should be bounded by what is loosely termed "mental illness". I believe in the State of New Jersey it requires several physicians and a judge to make a determintion that someone is "mentallt ill" or "mentaly defective." Maybe a few of you yappers ought to watch a few more episodes of "Law and Order" or the like.

I found my mentor while I was doing my Social Work residency in a Mental Health "Sanctuary". Strange as it may sound, I was there in a professional capacity and this person who for years claimed to be my mother phoned them and fortunately for me, was directed to speak to him. I was called to his office. It was no shock when he said to me "I have never heard a parent speak this way about their child. This woman is not your mother and she hates you. She wants me to  lock you up and said she'd pay for it. I told her if she had money to waste, I deserved to be sent on a cruise. She got mad."

She could have gone to jail for kidnapping me is what is underneath that whole thing. It is a not uncommon habit of people who are rejected, spurned, disagreed with, abusive and criminal who love to declare their opponents mentally unstable. Some suffer, some run for help, just as if they were bleeding, bitten to death by a non-relenting bug or infected by a continually resurfacing virus. Most people in availing themselves of "Mental Health Help" are victims who need a sane person to relate to because those in their lives are self-serving, do not care about the vicitm and cause ongoing damage. Yet they themselves will never ascribe to getting help; they and only they are sane and there is nothing wrong with them, their word is absolute and cannot be disputed according to them. And they put on their little acts. Some people suffer their whole lives dependent on the like, other break away with help from their peers or someone sane and stable who has no personal stake in the lives of the individual.

That being said, how is it that people don't realize the vast numbers of men especially who desperately need help because they are abusive, may become violent or self-destructive (count the number of persons who think all they need is a good stiff drink or "just a taste"(meaning street drugs)? Besides for their egos, one of the reasons is that even if they have never touched a gun in their lives, their right to bear arms is threatened because they want to make sure they keep their heads on straight?

Releasing lists of persons seeking Mental Health help will only harm the innocent, as ususal. Devising a test at the point of purchase won't help because too many people working for the Government do not use an impartial objective in making determinations. Their objective would be keeping guns off the street and their own ego having the power to do so. Again innocent people would be hurt. The answer doesn't lie in targeting one group of people about whom one knows nothing. Better they seek mental health help without being punished, denounced or denied certain rights before they get to the point when they want to pick up a gun.

That would require Society as a whole to start respecting each other. In this country where casual slander and personal derision is considered a Constitutional Right, it's obviously asking too much. You don't want to look at yourselves or the problems society at large causes or the failures to notice the children or know anything about them and much less care about your neighbors, that someone may be having a problem and need help. People who are in Law Enforcement and in Government are among those to whom attention should be paid. Everyone has a saturation point. When I'm at mine, I pick up a pen. And when I do so, I usually have an answer in mind as well as a logical progression of events leading to a conclusion.

I wish I could say the same for the rest of everyone who wants to make war when the truth is, the other country hasn't done a thing to you. It's the old "boss yells at you, you yell at your wife, the wife yells at the kid, the kid kicks the dog" syndrome. What did the dog do? Nothing. He was there, that's all.

And from my point of view, a good portion of persons holding political office aren't mentally fit to do so. Because it's all about ego. Want to stop gun violence? They'll find another way to wreak their vengeance. It might be a good idea to find out where the organized gangs are getting their super weapons. I doubt that any of the drive-by shootists are getting mental health help. I do believe that this country runs on threats of deprivation, retaliation and violence, both in your homes and your government. Change that. Because I think most of you are nuts.

Regine Pegi