Pentagon Calls US Citizen Demonstrators ‘Terrorists’

America just loves anti-government demonstrations—but only in countries we don’t control.  So if there are ethnic and religious riots in China, we support these.  If there are leftist anti-government riots in Mexico, we support the violent suppression of say, teachers.  The US is fixated on Iran’s robust demonstrations by angry voters.  While ignoring identical stories in say, Peru.  Not to mention, the Pentagon teaches staff that voters who are demonstrating against say, the Vietnam War, are ‘terrorists’.

This particular news story doesn’t surprise me.  When I came back from Europe in 1968, I was accustomed to the authorities allowing demonstrations and having the right to fight back against the police and military.  But in the US, even obviously peaceful demonstrations were in severe danger of being violently suppressed.

Pentagon Exam Calls Protests ‘Low-Level Terrorism,’ Angering Activists – Local News | News Articles | National News | US News – FOXNews.com

The written exam, given as part of Department of Defense employees’ routine training, includes a multiple-choice question that asks:

“Which of the following is an example of low-level terrorism?”

— Attacking the Pentagon

— IEDs

— Hate crimes against racial groups

— Protests

The correct answer, according to the exam, is “Protests.”

I’ll never forget how we brainstormed in Berkeley in 1969, deciding to get around police violence when they attack demonstrators by having a line of old ladies and mothers in the front ranks as we marched.  The police attacked them with terrible ferocity and even hit a baby with a baton!  We filmed this wretched violence and successfully sued the police department.

After that, they were slightly more cautious.  But the attitude of the police is, if you are demonstrating against the State, you are the target of even murder since good people support the state.  The Pentagon tests for people who understand that citizens are enemies.  This is why we applaud the Pakistani dictator attacking the people of Pakistan, displacing over a million just like we did to Iraq.

These are not ‘invaders’ but are ‘citizens’.  In the Deep South, a place that is particularly violent towards demonstrators, many people celebrate the Confederation and long for the power of citizens to break up the US but at the same time, believe that citizens don’t have the power to demonstrate against state policies.  A bizarre mind frame, to say the least.

Iran’s rulers demanded that Twitter stop operating in Iran.  But Twitter refused.  Not due to corporate bravery but due to one person in the State Department asking them to continue:

Twitter: US confirms it made request to keep Iran tweeting | World news | guardian.co.uk

But the state department yesterday confirmed a request was made to Twitter.

The New York Times last night identified the author of the request as Jared Cohen, a 27-year-old state department official. Twitter complied with the request, delaying its overhaul until last night.

PJ Crowley, the assistant secretary of state for public affairs, told the New York Times: “This was just a call to say: ‘It appears Twitter is playing an important role at a crucial time in Iran. Could you keep it going?'”

Note that the State Department’s sector that pertains to Iran has Jewish operatives.  This is just insane.  And troubling, obviously.  The US would dearly love to see Iran totally fall apart just like the State Department obviously wants China to fall apart.  In future years, foreign powers interested in keeping the US weak will do the same to us.  I see China encouraging the South to ‘Rise Again!’ just for example.

Panel of Clerics Offers Talks With Iranian Opposition – NYTimes.com

Days after it was urged to investigate last week’s disputed presidential election, Iran’s authoritative Guardian Council said on Thursday that it had invited the three candidates challenging the official results to a meeting to discuss their grievances, state media reported.

Bravo to the people of Iran for forcing their own government to reconsider things.  I wish we had this power, too.  Washington, DC is in desperate need for being cleaned out.  Britain is discovering this, too.  It turns out today that Tony Blair charged the voters for fixing his leaky roof two days before suddenly resigning!  The moral collapse of the Labour Party is nearly complete as the ‘Conservative-lite’ New Labourites go down in flames.

The US system has gotten utterly corrupt due to the cost of running for office and the huge open door for bribery which ‘campaign contributions’ opens up.  We can vote for ideological reasons but aside from maybe a dozen candidates, the true ideology of our political classes is purely mercenary: selling their services to the highest bidders.  I really wish we were as activist as the Iranians.  The US has delighted in reporting that the Iranian ruling elites have been killing demonstrators…which reminds me that there are very few memorials dedicated to the victims of US suppression of demonstrators:

Injuries Reproted as Georgian Police Crack Down on Protesters — News from Antiwar.com

A large number of injuries were reported today as Georgian police attempted to violently put an end to months of opposition protests in Tbilisi. The protests have persisted as opposition grows to President Mikheil Saakashvili, which they have blamed for the disastrous August war with Russia….

Their position was strengthened as unpublished documents came to light from the European Union’s probe of the conflict, which also placed the bulk of the blame on Saakashvili. One of the commission’s members put it thusly: “Georgia’s dream is shattered, but the country can only blame itself for that.”

The suppression of demonstrators was suppressed in the US.  Everyone gets to gawk at amazing videos of the brave and good people of Iran, doing what is very verboten in the US.  But the ideological reasons for broadcasting this sort of dangerous stuff  [showing Americans the concept of demonstrating against a government is very useful and good!]—the US media wants us to think that there is no democracy in Iran….except these videos show clearly, the IMPULSE for democracy is immensely strong there, unlike in the US or UK.

There were identical mass demonstrations against the dictator of Egypt, for example, that were suppressed with violence and this made zero news in the US.  And the Georgian suppression is the same: we get to know about democracy attempts in China or Iran but not in our ‘allies’.  The months of huge demonstrations against the US puppet regime in Pakistan were also ignored by our media, for the most part.  I got most of my news from European or Asian media, last year.

Peru: Massive protests against García government over Amazon massacre

A wave of mass demonstrations and marches swept across the whole of Peru Thursday in popular repudiation of the government’s massacre of Amazon Indians last week.

Indigenous people from the Amazon region, miners, Andean peasants, urban workers, including major contingents of teachers, construction workers and other sectors, were joined by university and high school students in what constituted the largest action yet against discredited three-year-old government of APRA party President Alan García.

The protests were met with police violence in various cities, including the capital of Lima.

The mass murder and the mass marches in Peru didn’t make so much as a peep in the US media.  Imagine if they connected the ones in Iran with the ones in Peru!  DANGEROUS!  No, the focus has to be on only countries the government and our media want to dominate or in the case of Peru, we want no one to notice that South and Central America seethe with public angst.  Just like the news that Cuba has rejoined the organization of Southern hemisphere states was ignored by the US media.

6/15: Why there are huge walls built around a subdivision in Kennesaw | Radio & TV Talk

CBS is about to shoot a reality show tentatively called “Block Party” in Kennesaw that literally turns suburbia… into a prison.

Earlier this month, the network built 2,000 feet of stark 20-foot tall walls around eight homes in a Kennesaw subdivision, walls that resemble the outside of a maximum-security penitentiary — minus the barbed wire. There are even off-duty Kennesaw police stationed on the road to keep traffic moving.

Starting June 15, eight families in those homes will be trapped in their own homes for about three weeks, blocked by said wall. If they leave, they relinquish the chance to win an unspecified large cash prize. And given that this is CBS, expect the prize to be well into the six figures (but less than one million dollars.)

During those three weeks, the families can only interact with each other while taking part in reward and elimination challenges, along the lines of sister CBS shows “Big Brother” or “Survivor.”

Welcome to Prison Planet.  First, the wall looks like the one in Palestine.  Only it is very thin.  Secondly, the US families are going insane.  Reality TV is all about putting people into various mental or physical prisons and then torturing them.  This disgusting habit should not be rewarded but seems awfully popular.  It is rotting our brains and it shows us to be very sadistic and prone to cruelty to children.  But then, we seem awfully indifferent to the suffering of children in foreign lands.

Personal Health – An Emotional Hair Trigger, Often Misread – NYTimes.com

Georges Han, a recovered patient now studying at the University of Minnesota for a Ph.D. in psychology, describes borderline personality disorder as “a serious psychiatric disorder involving a pervasive sense of emptiness, impulsivity, difficulty with emotions, transient stress-induced psychosis and frequent suicidal thoughts or attempts.”

Moods can change quickly and unpredictably, behaviors can be impulsive (including abuse of alcohol or drugs, reckless driving, overspending or disordered eating), and relationships with others are often unstable. Many patients injure themselves and threaten or attempt suicide to relieve their emotional pain.

People with the disorder are said to have a thin emotional skin and often behave like 2-year-olds, throwing tantrums when some innocent word, gesture, facial expression or action by others sets off an emotional storm they cannot control. The attacks can be brutal, pushing away those they care most about. Then, when the storm subsides, they typically revert to being “sweet and wonderful,” as one family member put it.

This psychiatric diagnosis suits the entire US political system.  People tend to act like 2-year olds.  The ‘debates’ we have for our elections are infantile in the extreme.  The media focuses on flag lapel pins, what people wear, personality quirks, silly odds and ends, if they say something that can be howled about, whatever stupid thing it is, the stupider the better.

There was virtually zero discussion about true political matters in the last 4 major elections.  Indeed, the very last time we had any sensible discussion was when Ross Perot ran and he could literally buy TV time so he could pop onto the screen, charts and graphs showing what was really going wrong and he suggested solutions.  This forced the other two clowns, Bush and Clinton, to also talk about reality.  How refreshing.

Which is why it has never been permitted, since!  Our media encourages impulsiveness because they don’t want deep analysis of anything at all lest it stray into verboten areas which seems to be much of what is really going on in the world.  We can’t ‘grow up’ unless we figure out how true ‘dialogue’ operates.  I must caution everyone about this: on difficult issues, there is often no ‘dialogue’ due to ideological thinking patterns which automatically screens out conflicting data.  I am a data fiend and love finding new stuff to ponder.

We need a psychological basis of interactions which allow us to analyze each other on multiple levels.  And we do not have the luxury of being able to fly off the handle every time someone touches an irritation spot.  Our entire nation has been dreadfully spoiled by our top status as ruler of the planet.  The gods punish people who have too much ‘hubris’ and our own ‘hubris’ is immense.  We must listen to other people in distant lands.  And the Iranians are sending us a very powerful message: the need to stand up and maybe, even die, in the name of democracy.  The struggle for power with the State keeps the State honest.

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