A View From The Street©

CROOKS LIARS & TORTURERS

     Americans have been lead into a milestone of horror and misery by crooks, liars and leakers.  We have been lied into a national disaster!  More than 2000 Americans have died in Iraq. (November 2005)  Over 50,000 more maimed, with blown off legs, severed arms, debilitating head injuries...and blindness.  Thousands of America's brightest and best.  Many too young to drink, too young to smoke pot. Certainly too young to die.  This administration does not know the truth, only damage control and the proper spin on the lies it tells.

     It is always young men that die on old mens wars.   And this time we were lead into war by two men that took every opportunity to avoid military service.  Not once but repeatedly.  You see... young men are gullible and idealistic.  They still believe what they are told.  Told to kill the enemies of the oil barons in the NAME OF FREEDOM.  Whose fucking freedom are they dying for anyway? The freedom to rake in record oil profits?   The freedom to line Haliburton's no-bid pockets?

     When Katrina hit gas was so high that poor Americans couldn't afford to buy gas to get out of the way.  If I'm the head of FEMA common sense dictiates that gas to get out of town should be free.  FEMA will pick up the bill, but for heavens sake, fill up and get out to safety.  Are Americans now expected to freeze to death this winter because they can't afford heating oil and natural gas?  In the name of humanity...it should be free too.  The hell with "record profits," while people are cold.

     What has happened to your America?  It has become rotten at the top and it stinks to high heaven.  For the first time an elected vice president of the United States proposed  that congress legally authorize the torture of foreigners by Americans.  We find that our CIA is running secret prisons in foreign countries so we can say we are not torturing people in America.  People just disappear into the bowels of CIA black sites.  Amnesty International says that over 50 prisoners in American custody were MURDERED!  They died of homicidial
violence.  We have seen the pictures.  Bind...Torture...Kill...BTK. This is not the America I risked my life for in the US Navy.

     WE HAVE BECOME B T K!

     Rotton at the top?  In addition to the Pres and the VP, Tom DeLay the house majority leader has been charged in Austin Texas with money laundering and criminal conspiracy.  The house leader?? is an indicted criminal .  If convicted he could be in prison for life.

     Senate   majority leader Dr. Bill Frist is under investigation for stock fraud.  His company, Hospital Corporation of America was convicted of millions in medicare fraud.  Thief, thief, dirty thief.  Dr Frist took shelter cats telling the shelter he was adopting them and then killed them in research experiments while in medical school.  He later refered to this act as "heinous and dishonest."  THE PERFECT RESUME FOR HIGH GOVERNMENT OFFICE.

     President Bush is quoted as saying:  "This country does not believe in torture.  We do believe in protecting ourselves.  We don't believe in torture."  Well...I guess his right hand man Cheney does.  So who's in charge of what?

     WE are ruled by a dictator.  The German people stood by and let it happen to them...the Italian prople stood by and let it happen to them...the Russian people stood by and let it happen to them,...Cuban's stood by and let it happen to them...even tiny Panama let it happen to them...AND WE ARE STANDING BY AND LETTING IT HAPPEN TO US TOO!

     Our flags should all be at half staff because of this national tragedy...and our heads should be hung in shame for letting it happen to us too!!   

THE OIL WAR IN OREGON

     Oregon, the free thinking leaders that we are should declare war on the ever rising cost of gas and oil.  When gas costs $20.00 a gallon at the pump...then what? And just how far away do you think that 20 dollar price is?  2006, 2007?  Can you afford gas now?  How much longer will you be able to afford it?

The oil crisis is upon us and Oregon could be/should be a leader in doing something about it.  I would like to see Oregon farmers surround the capitol building in Salem with their farm tractors...being pulled by a team of horses...because it will be horses doing the plowing when diesel  fuel becomes prohibitively high.

     And why our farmers?? Because they are the ones that can grow the hempseed that will produce the oil they need for their tractors and we ALL need for our cars.  Did you know, well I'll tell you that 1/3rd of the weight of a hempseed is OIL.  1/3rd...that is a prodigious amount.  If you squeezed a hundred pounds of hempseed, you would get 33 pounds of hempseed oil.  Hempseed oil weighs about 2 pounds a litre.  Converted to quarts it works out to about 12 gallons of oil to 100 pounds of seeds. 

     Prodigious indeed!

     And...a hundred pounds of seeds isn't all that much.  Hell, I've smoked that many seeds accidently.  Remember the old days when marijuana had a lot of seeds in it?   They would pop and burn holes in your shirt?  Well...some of us remember anyway!

     Since the hurricane blew away about 60 oil rigs in the  Gulf of Mexico and smacked a few  refinerys down, George Bush has suggested that unused military bases would be good places to put more oil refineries!

     WE DON'T NEED MORE OIL REFINERIES!!

     We need to divorce ourselves once and for all from the oil shieks and return to the hemp plant of our forefathers.  A better idea is to plant oil bearing hemp plants on the vacant military bases and put them to good and productive, non polluting uses.

     Let's compare:  Crude oil has to be pumped out of the ground, usually somebody elses's ground.  Hempseed oil just has to be planted, harvested and replanted.  Crude oil has to be refined, a polluting process.  Hempseed oil does not!  Refineries  produce gasoline.  When gasoline is burned it also pollutes.  Burned hempseed oil does not pollute.   This is a no brainer.

     Could God be angry, about the way his hemp plants have both been demonized and ignored?   Could that be the reason he blew away 60 oil rigs and smacked down refineries?  Is he giving us a chance to start over with an oil we can produce at home and not kiss anyones ass to get it?

     PROBABILY!

     George Washington said, to plant hempseeds liberally, or words to that effect.  Barry Mc Caffery, a former drug czar said, "We will not let American farmers plant hemp seed!" How did we get to two polar opposites?  Blame it on the new money changers.  The oil barons here and in the Middle East. The only time it is recorded that Jesus lost his temper is when he kicked the corrupt money changers out of the temple.  I think perhaps God is doing the same thing now.  He is saying "stop polluting the planet. Use the good oil I gave you!

     Stand up Oregon!  We were the first with a bottle refund bill.  We made all Oregon beaches public.  We could be the first to tell the Federal government to stick it's oil barrel.....back in the ground.

     We'll grow out own THANKS!!