Raising a Country Right

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Friday September 16, 2011 · 12:37 AM PDT

2011/09/16 · 00:37

This is an updated version of a diary I wrote back in 2003. It took very little updating, something i find rather sad. It's much like 2003 now but worse with more of the same. I hope this causes a few people to think, look for more information, perhaps even to revise their ideas of what constitutes "conspiracy theory" - a very handy and deadly label the government and its shills use to push people away from what they would rather we didn't pay any attention to. Time is running out, though. I get the feeling that the first time there is a major abridgment of Constitutional rights and there's no reaction, that will trigger the rollout of a military takeover under martial law - under color of false authority. The President is NOT a king; his appointees are not ministers, and NO ONE has absolute authority over Americans! No one has the powers this president claims, and if the Constitution is suspended, the basis of all authority and law is suspended with it and the ONLY law remaining is martial law - Rule by the Military - or whoever has the most firepower appropriate to the theater. Please read this and THINK. Please. Then prepare as well as you can.

Ian MacLeod

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Friday May 02, 2008 · 8:54 AM PDT

2008/05/02 · 08:54

Profiting by Criminalizing the Sick and Injured

There is a deadly, hidden epidemic happening in America. With millions of victims, it is still not recognized as what it is, though its victims are, over the course of the disease, destroyed by it in almost every way imaginable. It kills people of all ages, both genders, all skin colors, and does it agonizingly slowly, with the victim in agony the entire time. It can take decades of an unrelenting attack on the body that destroys organs and systems, leaving the victim unable to work, which of course takes away insurance, which causes the victims to lose most of everything else they have ever loved and worked for. Even ordinary human dignity is lost, as the victims are usually branded erroneously with the name "addict", so doctors almost never look for any other problems, sure that they already know the answer.

The disease is pain.

Ian MacLeod

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Saturday March 01, 2008 · 4:10 PM PST

2008/03/01 · 16:10

It is difficult to tell, and perhaps Bush himself is unsure, just how much the "end-times" evangelical pseudo-Christian Dominionist/Reconstructionist cult that makes up so much of the neocon’s politically active numbers (the rest are advisors, lobbyists, a sort of interface between the religious world and the political, and other insiders) influence their strategies. Their usefulness lies as much as their access to Christian congregations all over the country who will vote as their ministers recommend as in their willingness to lie – they and the RadRight owned media refer to it as "spin"... it’s simply another world for lying - as needed... A part of the strategy is for a "Godly, Christ-serving president to exercise the unitary power intended for that office originally by the Founding Fathers in what was once a Christian country, to make it so again". Of course, this totally disregards everything the Founders ever wrote from the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution on, but ignoring inconvenient facts is a RadRight specialty. Their goal is to take over the government of America, changing the laws to conform with their interpretation of "biblical law".

Ian MacLeod

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Friday February 29, 2008 · 4:05 AM PST

2008/02/29 · 04:05

The Basic Mechanisms That Drive the War On Drugs

Doctors are in a very difficult position right now regarding pain treatment. In Oregon not long ago, a doctor was reprimanded by the Medical Board, and was required to attend continuing education for "prescribing inadequate pain medication" for a terminal patient. He gave the man only aspirin for his cancer pain, and the man died in agony! I am sorry, but this is not ignorance, this is sadistic abuse; there is no other description. There is more and more agitation, however, for legal punishment of doctors who under-treat. On the other side of the coin, other doctors have been "stung" by DEA agents posing as pain patients. These doctors have prescribed narcotics in good faith, and received very stiff sentences. Compassionate physicians have lost their licenses, been arrested, and have been financially and professionally... destroyed by the DEA and by local medical boards that are chaired and advised by "old guard" doctors who still believe that that opiates are "evil" and hungry prosecutors who need a "good, high-profile bust" to boost their careers. In essence - no, in plain and incontrovertible fact, the "War on Drugs" has become a war on doctors and suffering patients.

Ian MacLeod

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Wednesday September 05, 2007 · 6:45 PM PDT

2007/09/05 · 18:45

America had never lost a war. Dad told me about the German mamas who brought home-made German dishes to the poor German boys in the PW camp near where they lived that Hitler had lied into being Nazis to remind them of home, and the Army guarding them allowed it – especially when they shared. That was good chow! But we were always good to our prisoners, even though they tortured, beat and starved ours. We were the good guys. The FBI always had and always would get their man – and the occasional woman. Cops were helpful, and they only hurt bad people, and only then when they had to. Even people who were protesting and saying nasty things about America didn’t really get in trouble, because that was what America meant: you could say what you want, hold any opinion, and you had that right! No other country on earth was so free.

Ian MacLeod

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Monday September 03, 2007 · 6:38 PM PDT

2007/09/03 · 18:38

You will see some posts – comments - by others that I use to point up what I want to say and why. They are not acknowledged even by screen-name because, in the too-likely event of predictions about martial law coming true, I would not take anyone down with me if I can avoid it, assuming they’re actually that petty. Everything seems to indicate they are, though. I do take it as a certainty that such blogs as this are being surveilled, and people are being traced, recorded and the information held for future reference during roundups of "subversives" who think they still have rights. I believe in what the Constitution of the United States of America says: that my rights are God-given, inherent to me by virtue of having been born human, and I retain those rights, which are truly inalienable, forever, whatever anyone else thinks or prefers or tries to take. I am free forever, whatever the state of my liberty.

Ian MacLeod

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Friday August 31, 2007 · 10:31 PM PDT

2007/08/31 · 22:31

OR - How Much Bullshit Can a People Be Made To Eat Before Terminal Deficiency Sets In?

We are divided black from white from red from yellow from brown – all shades of all colors from all others; women from men; Christians of all denominations from all others, from Muslims from Jews from Hindus from Wiccans from you-name-its; conservatives from neocons who call themselves conservatives and aren’t, from democrats from liberals from, again, you-name-its ... In other words, every part of America that CAN be split off from the mainstream simply by identifying it HAS been split off and put under threat, or made to believe it’s under threat. So here we all are arguing about it while the treasury is emptied, and our greatest treasures, our "INALIENABLE rights", which have turned out not to be so inalienable after all, our ability to work together to make something much greater than the sum of its parts, our generosity in taking care of each other when a need can be identified – every possible human connection we have, that we have always prided ourselves on, is being degraded, belittled, unfunded, labeled "worthless" or "unchristian", or "un-American", and is being quietly destroyed.

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34 votes Show Results

Can we as Americans set aside our differences long enough to deal with the real enemy: the Bush/Cheney administration and their apointees, then the "Old Money" families?

34 votes Vote Now!

Can we as Americans set aside our differences long enough to deal with the real enemy: the Bush/Cheney administration and their apointees, then the "Old Money" families?

Yes.

9 votes

No.

13 votes

There is no mechanism remaining to us with which to fight the takeover.

12 votes

The Question of Choice Shouldn’t Be!

Ian MacLeod

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Saturday August 04, 2007 · 5:37 AM PDT

2007/08/04 · 05:37

Warning: Long-assed diatribe: Folks, there are a few things I’d like to say about abortion and women’s right to choose. What got me thinking about this more than usual was an article with comments I read recently in an excellent blog called Feministing (found on the Web at: http://feministing.com/ ) concerning an idiotic Ohio bill (I found that it’s archived, so it’s a less-than-recent article). The right of Choice, with the help of President Bush and his fellow keep-‘em-barefoot-and-pregnant – and-chained-to-the-bed fanatics, has become a hot-button issue again. At least people are finally noticing that all of these seemingly isolated attempts to put unreasonable limits on abortions and even contraception are not isolated at all, and have nothing to do with religion.

...There is a special word in the English language for rights that no one uses or actively protects: the word is "GONE", and we are all falling down on a citizen’s responsibility of oversight! So be advised that I add my opinions about a lot of the connecting attitudes and circumstances in this piece, and not just abortion. I hope you’ll bear with me, run-on sentences and all. Honestly, I really do talk that way!

Ian MacLeod

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Wednesday July 18, 2007 · 7:01 AM PDT

2007/07/18 · 07:01

I have known all my life that, rather than face an uncomfortable or painful truth, people will lie to themselves – and to others. Sometimes they want the fantasy to be true so very badly that they become extremely angry at anyone trying to tell them the truth. They can even become violent. Depending on how badly they want the fantasy, people may even kill, and they have killed to keep their ears stopped, their imaginations quelled, the voices of the painful truth silent.

WHAT WAS INTENDED - THE IDEALS

WHAT NOW IS

WHAT WILL BE

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Sunday July 15, 2007 · 10:16 PM PDT

2007/07/15 · 22:16

The Bush regime is now so confident of it’s stolen power, it has shown the entire world that any of it’s operatives caught in the act of breaking the law will be protected by the president himself – who likely ordered them to break the law – and pardoned. The administration has protected itself by passing laws by stealth, threats, blackmail and whatever else it takes, and signing Executive Orders that make pretty much whatever they do legal, or that make them immune from prosecution. Congress? Who isn’t bought and paid for has been effectively neutered in other ways; the Congress can safely be ignored – and is.

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38 votes Show Results

Do you believe there is any viable recourse for Americans to recover their rights and their power short of armed revolution?

38 votes Vote Now!

Do you believe there is any viable recourse for Americans to recover their rights and their power short of armed revolution?

Yes

15 votes

12 votes

If there is, I have no idea what it might be.

11 votes

We the People - A Petition, a Notice, and a Demand

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Tuesday June 19, 2007 · 1:11 AM PDT

2007/06/19 · 01:11

We the People of the United States of America therefore call upon all officers of the government remaining who are men and women of good conscience to refuse to obey the orders of this illegitimate president who, with the aid of family, friends and others, stole the Office of the President of the United States of America and instituted unconstitutional laws to protect him and those with him from suffering the consequences of his actions. We call upon the military, the civilian police, the Secret Service, the CIA, the NSA and all other agencies designed and instituted to protect the People and the Rule of Law, to arrest and hold George Walker Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Paul Wolfowitz and all other self-identified neocons, along with all Bush appointees. We call upon the appropriate agencies to freeze all assets of all corporations and their subsidiaries who have shown themselves to be war profiteers, trading the blood of our best, brightest and bravest as well as that of innocents of every description in Iraq and other countries who were innocent of any wrongdoing against us.

Ian MacLeod

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Friday June 15, 2007 · 10:51 AM PDT

2007/06/15 · 10:51

"We must all die. But that I can save a person from days of torture is what I feel is my great and every-new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself." Dr. Albert Schweitzer, 1953

So far I’ve written about numbers, medications, other treatment and so on. I’ve mentioned other things, but haven’t gone into detail. I’ve been told that none of this information really hits home until it gets personal, so in this article I’m going to tell you a little about my own journey in pain. It isn’t one of the worst I’ve heard of by far, but it should still give those of you who have healthy bodies a good idea of what faces you and those you love around the corner of one injury or botched operation.

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Raising a Country Right

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Watching as Our Last Freedoms Fade

People In Pain Dying Without Treatment, Doctors Dying In Jail – Why?

Who Will Answer?

The U.S. Police State is Getting Down to the Wire

Unite or die, America!

The Question of Choice Shouldn’t Be!

America the Divided

The Downward Path of Empire

We the People - A Petition, a Notice, and a Demand

The American Inquisition: Chronic Pain