Double Birds

Andrew Jackson became famous for killing Indians and stealing their land .  His policies have not become outdated, but have rather expanded. Americans would often treat an individual criminal act committed by someone of an "inferior race" as an act of war.   The crimes of one Indian made all Indians guilty, even Indians who belonged to white-friendly tribes .  Punishing an entire race for the crimes of one individual is known as collective punishment . As President, Jackson ordered the  Five Civilized Tribes to "voluntarily" remove themselves from the United States .  The Five Civilized Tribes had become civilized by, among other things, owning slaves .  If high school American history has taught me anything, it's that it's okay to murder slave-owners. This bib keeps my shirt clean from the blood and tears of Indians. Like the heroic Lincoln, who murdered  600,000 of them in order to free the slaves.  After the Civil War, Union veterans who...

Obama says us bombing Libya isn't a war because : 1.  There are no "ground troops." and 2.  No "exchanges of fire with hostile forces." Using this logic, it's not a fight if you: 1. Are in the air. and 2. Do not get hurt. So if you're Super Man, you can punch anyone you want, and it's not a fight. Imma kick your a**, son. This is also not a fight: Next time you want to punch someone, jump first.  I think Obama just created the Superman Doctrine. Go ahead. (edited by Double Birds)

Thomas J"effers"on.  Even his name is an insult to tyrants. According to the Declaration of Independence, our own founding document, Iraqis  (and people in many other countries around the world) have every right to declare independence from the United States, and overthrow the puppet governments that we have installed.  Let's see if you put together the pieces in the same way: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed " "whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government," "when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Objec...

What an idiot, he thinks we live in a dictatorship.  Doesn't he know this is Amerka? Listen to him stutter , as he says: "The last nail is being driven into the coffin of the American Republic. Yet, Congress remains in total denial as our liberties are rapidly fading before our eyes." "Characteristic of this epic event is the casual acceptance by the people and political leaders of the unitary presidency, which is equivalent to granting dictatorial powers to the President. Our Presidents can now, on their own: 1. Order assassinations, including American citizens, 2. Operate secret military tribunals, 3. Engage in torture, 4. Enforce indefinite imprisonment without due process, 5. Order searches and seizures without proper warrants, gutting the 4th Amendment, 6. Ignore the 60 day rule for reporting to the Congress the nature of any military operations as required by the War Power Resolution, 7. Continue the Patriot Act abuses without oversight, 8. Wage war at will, 9....

Obama, and and a half-dozen presidents before him, have told Israel what to do.  Michelle Bachman said the U.S. would be cursed if we "reject" Israel. Ron Paul's common-sense looks weird in contrast with the madness that surrounds him.

Which party is the war party? Both. Jon Stewart began his Thursday show with some good-humored war-mongering against Pakistan .  In the very next segment Stewart and John Hodgman pretended to come up with a conspiracy theory to keep the "terror bubble" going , so that our war economy wouldn't suffer. It's surreal.  They make up comical ways to keep people scared, but our government really does this.  Politicians create bogeymen like " threat level orange " to keep us all terrified enough to keep paying our war taxes and to keep submitting repressive laws. Republicans swallowed mouthfuls of bullsh** from George W. about yellow cake and Al Qaeda in Iraq .  But Democrats swallow just as eagerly the unbelievable handfuls of crap from their mascot Obama. Bill Maher, for example, said (in a Rolling Stone interview) that he disagrees with Bush's wars of Afghanistan and Iraq, but he loves Obama's Libyan war . A reasonable man. (Edited by Double Birds) T...

The Aztecs tore the hearts out of human victims to appease the sun god . The victims were treated with the utmost respect before their deaths, like royalty. Their sacrifice was honored by the populace, who believed the priests and rulers who said that murdering their loved ones kept society free from destruction. The murder of innocents did not prop up the sun. Rather, it propped up the ruling regime, and kept the populace in a reverent gratitude for the courage of the leaders in sacrificing the people's children. We are told the same pack of lies. Our sons are sent to die in wars against a threat as real as the sun god. We are supposed to thank our leaders for sacrificing our children to protect us from imaginary destruction. In the pagan ritual of war, our leaders claim a mighty priesthood indeed. The ability to consecrate human sacrifice unto the most-high God, a sacrifice that preserves our liberty and safety. The fires of Moloch devour our children still. Ironically, w...

For those of you who like to play Halo , and other combat-simulation video games, have I found a job for you! Guys can hang out in their mom's basements (or a military base in Nevada ) and blow people up on the other side of the world. Behold! Un-manned predator drones ! No one gives the bird like a hellfire missile. (Edited by Double Birds) The drones are notorious for killing innocent people .  It's hard to tell who's a badguy from 6,000 miles away. The military has adopted a system of war developed from a Robin Williams movie . These drones don't just keep America safe abroad, they now fly over the homeland . Robot planes patrol the Mexican border , the Canadian border , and Florida . Can you tell which of the following videos is from a game, and which from real-life? Enlist now, for the opportunity to murder people from the safety of your living-room.

I just watched the Collateral Murder video , in which U.S. soldiers "engage" (murder) a dozen people for having guns and cameras.  Makes me happy we're protected by the 2nd amendment, so the government can't shoot us for owning guns (which is kind of hypocritical when you think about it). War.  It is an excuse to kill people without a trial.  It is much more convenient to kill people when you don't have to worry about laws and justice, and other annoyances. Why not turn to the law?  Why not use the courts?  All the wars of the last decade have been blamed on the actions of a few individuals (Qaddafi, Bin Laden, Hussein).  Why not just put those individuals on trial?  Why kill 100,000 civilians to get a man who killed 3,000 ? If we ignore the law abroad, we will inevitably ignore it at home.  Disregarding the law "to keep us safe" destroys the only bulwark against oppression. Owning a gun is not a crime.  Owning anything is not a crime. ...

This case just breaks my heart, and I feel that I don't have the talent it would take to write about it. Bradley Manning is a young kid who joined the military. He discovered that the U.S. is committing war crimes around the world.  He tried to tell the American people, so they'd know what the government was doing in their name and with their money.  He's a real American hero . For that, he's been locked up in a Marines prison without a trial .  He's been tortured .   Human rights groups , congressmen , and his own famil y have been denied the right to see him. He pissed off the wrong guys. Terrorist The problem is that the information he leaked didn't just make Bush and Cheney look bad, it made Obama and Hillary look bad.  Obama may have killed Bin Laden, but he's killed and tortured a lot of innocent people in the process ( 122,000 Iraqi civilians killed ). Manning will get a military trial instead of a civilian trial.  This is bad news.  Obam...

Congress thinks they can tell you what to eat. Most notorious is the federal  war on raw milk , recently culminating in state troopers arresting an Amish guy for selling unpasteurized milk. Your customs are strange, English. A bill, passed by the Senate, is in the works that would be the equivalent of the PATRIOT Act for food . This may seem like a good idea, in light of recent microbial outbreaks.  But these regulations are often lobbied for by the very industries they supposedly regulate?   Why ?  Because bigger industries can, in effect, outlaw smaller competitors, and use the law to put them out of business. Keeping America safe. A small farmer, for example, could afford a cow, but not pasteurization equipment.  I might be willing to risk drinking raw milk to support my local community, but the government says I'm not smart enough to make that decision myself. Well, the little guy is fighting back. Sedgwick, a small town in Maine, has passed a l...

On  Democracy Now!  this morning,  The Nation 's Jeremy Scahill explains that Osama bin Laden's killing in Pakistan yesterday is not necessarily a cause for celebration : the United States used the man who launched the September 11 attacks on America as a reason to "declare war on the world," Scahill says. In response to September 11, "Iraq was invaded, a country that had nothing to do with Al Qaeda, nothing to do with bin Laden. The United States created an Al Qaeda presence in Iraq by invading it, made Iran a far more influential force in Iraq than it ever would have been. We have given a grand motivation to people around the world that want to do harm to Americans in our killing of civilians, our waging of war against countries that have no connection to Al Qaeda and by staying in these countries long after the mission was accomplished ... This is a somber day, when we should be remembering all of the victims: the three thousand who died in the United S...

Bin Laden's body was dumped into the ocean. Kind of a weird way to handle the situation, isn't it?  Why kill him?  Why not interrogate him?  Isn't he the big bad mastermind behind Al Qaeda? With Bin Laden dead, the government will inevitably find another boogeyman to scare us into continuing perpetual war. Already the hawks are drooling over Pakistan .  Even  Jon Stewart  chimed along blaming Pakistan for hiding terrorist #1.  Weaker accusations have been used to justify war, surely these will help assuage any sentiments against the secretive and undeclared war we already wage in Pakistan . Michael Rozeff  asks more interesting questions. Noam Chomsky chides American ignorance on Bin Laden.

From the Washington Post "Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi escaped a NATO missile strike in Tripoli on Saturday, but his youngest son and three grandchildren under the age of 12 were killed , a government spokesman said." In God we trust? If so, we must, with Jefferson, tremble for our country when we reflect that God is just.

Behold the mind-blowing Barack Hussein Walker Bush. George III ? Most of us have given Obama the benefit of the doubt.  The guy inherited two wars, and Guantanamo .  But he started another war, and Guantanamo remains open.  The hope of his campaign turned out to be nothing but hype. Hope Croaks If you want to end the endless wars of aggression, vote for the only anti-war candidate— Ron Paul . From Zazzle .

War is bad for freedom and the economy.  See what the vikings have to say over at FilmEcon . The only photo I could find of Craig Ferguson not  giving the bird.

Dr. Paul nailed it on the head when he said many people voted for Obama because they thought he would have a different foreign policy. The birds in this post are auditory . Chris Matthews is kind of annoying.  If your ears need help recovering from his screeches, listen to the silky smooth seduction of Anderson Cooper .

I voted for Obama thinking he wouldn't get us into another war . You thought wrong, sucker. Some think the Libyan war will be short and sweet, so it's not really a war.  Others say that congress didn't declare it (they haven't declared war since 1942) so it doesn't count. I say, if we're bombing, shooting, or killing people in another country, it better be war, otherwise it's just murder. Libya's version of cash for clunkers. This "little" war is very dirty.  We're poisoning Libya with birth-defect-causing depleted uranium .  And we've apparently sided with " 1,000 or so " rebels in a country of 6 million. But it's worth it, you say, to get rid of an awful tyrant. This awful tyrant was on the United States' payroll just before we started bombing (maybe that's why Harry Reed thought it was ok to take that money back).  Like Saddam , Mubarak , and others   he was a tyrant, but he was our tyrant. Here's...

The dove is a symbol of peace. Flight is a symbol of freedom. Giving the bird is a symbol of offensive conviction.  This is the Double Birds philosophy. We refuse to accept the circumstances in which we are raised.  Much of what we consider our personal opinion can be traced back to clever advertising. We reject the comfort of the status quo, the camaraderie of majority opinion, and find criticism, even offensive criticism, worth listening to. I want the truth, as much as it hurts, shocks, or offends.  If something I write does not ring true, tell me. I will change my opinion in light of new evidence, and I hope you will too. 13th century blogger, Thomas Aquinas. I believe in the Prince of Peace. I honor Him by protesting aggressive war. I have noticed that everyone, from the youngest child on, resists coercion, and wants to be free. History is full of people who were stoned, imprisoned, crucified, beaten, and burned at the stake for saying what they thought was...