Today, let the one of to five per cent of the US population
who are the richest and overwhelmingly, and specifically
white men or their women or if gay their men should give
thanks for having the privilege, and clearly the disgraceful
arrogance of their power to take what wasn't theirs from
the Indians to whom it did belong, this land of the "free."
Yeah, "free," free to rape, torture, pillage, kill, enslave,
and yes to put a huge number of Indians in concentration
camps, euphemistically referred to as reservations, as this
would supply the white man, particularly the rich and super
rich white man with more slaves, as not enough were at
the time were available for the rich white man in Europe,
and especially Western Europe. Sure the sovereign in
England and others like he had brought many such as
the Irish into slavery after taking what wasn't theirs by "
brute force of the sword, but they had not yielded enough
slaves for their "majesties." Bringing over slaves from
Africa would help the rich white man, but he "needed"
even more slaves to carry out the "proper duties" of
serving their "majesties" in the way that their "majesties"
had great desire of becoming accustomed to. Thus the
Indians in this land of the "free" were just what the
sovereign in England and later his rebellious subjects,
the white ones, and especially the rich white men would
absolutely demand, and would do so more brutally than the monarch
in England ever had once the new United States with all its
"freedom" accompanied by black slavery for at least 80 years
of its existence came into being as an independent country.

The British sovereign, which had been the English sovereign,
as the monarch in England had only been for England, but in
1606 with the whole island of Britain having one sovereign for England,
Wales, and Scotland, a British sovereign was coming into being,
and in the Act of Union of 1707 officially became the one monarch,
and the entire island one country made up of those three countries.
This monarch would put relatively tight limits on white settlers in
the 13 colonies infringing on Indian land. Furthermore all those in
lands which became part of this sovereign's empire were then
British subjects with all rights of same. Whereas with the new
"republic' of the United States, Indians, the indigenous people
weren't citizens, blacks who were in slavery also weren't citizens,
women had no rights of citizens regardless of race or color. Add
to that white men without property had no minimal say in things
political with only New Hampshire not having property ownership
requirements for voting.

Olive Dickson, a Canadian hsitorian has shown that Indians
had at least minimal voting rights in Canada in 1857 in her book
entitled Canada's First Nations. This Metis, person of part Indian
and part European ancestry, also points out that during the 1870s
that one Indian who led an uprising against the Canadian government
would go on to be elected to parliament twice even though never
allowed to take his seat. Try picturing that coming close to happening
in this land of the "free," where these most minimal of voting rights
for Indians didn't come through until 1924 with a treaty. From Dickson's
book it's also clear that Canada never carried out such a grand crusade
and genocide against its Indians as did the "good old USA." The British
influence seems to have had a role in this, as the British authorities
including the monarch had never had such a backward attitude toward
the Indians.

Yes, "freedom" wasn't free, and it really wasn't at all for Indians.
These native people in this land that a monarch in England had
brought under his rule, would now be misruled much more brutally
by the "freedom loving" USA, where at least the rich, and especially
the rich white man knows he's free, "free" to rape, torture, kill, pillage,
and enslave others to suit his needs and greed and other weird
desires to dominate and make a pile of money off of, in this case the
land that wasn't even his in the first place. Damn Lee Greenwood,
"full enslavement and tyranny ahead for the rich white man."

It was a case of the wonderful, flowery, idealistic rhetoric of the founding
fathers giving way to the reality of "meet the new rich white man bosses/
same as the old rich white man bosses" with different dialects with last
shots fired in that war for "independence" and against George III's empire,
and this was definitely BTW, before the Who.

This is a day to remember that the rich white man and his flunkies
would kill or incarcerate Indians and even some others showing the
slightest willingness to resist the rich white man's rule, "the white
man's burden" or to use a complete sentence as a blood from
the ghetto would do, "The rich white man is the burden."

America on this day celebrates a day that really is a day of living a
lie of democracy even existing where the indigenous people of said
country have so completely been deprived of their most basic of
rights including ownership of their own land and by government genocide
against them, almost their own existence as a people. As William Cullen
Bryant once said "No lie can live forever, because truth crushed to earth
will rise again"-- not too bad for a European Caucasion, if I as someone of
that same European Caucasion persuasion can say so.

But as Martin Luther King Jr would put it so well, "Injustice anywhere
is a threat to justice everywhere," and what Dr King said especially
holds true in this case of injustice and oppression of Indians, the first
nations of this country whom European tribes such as mine robbed
them of, and now is the time to right this wrong and to give amnesty to
Leonard Peltier, as the political prisoner he is, who simply chose, as
did others of his people to defend themselves against an evil, oppressive
government helll bent on literally attacking these native people for just
standing up for themselves and demanding their right to self government.
It's time for a new deal for the truly forgotten man and woman, the native
Americans, with a Marshall Plan for them, and it's way the hell overdue.

The GOP Hierarchy Goes for Win in 2010 and 2012--
Obama to Get One Term

Losing elections really ticks off those in the GOP hierarchy, and
after all major parties in this country have always been about
winning elections and running the country. To move the ball
their way, two very crucial elements, this writer predicts, will
assert themselves rather strongly after this last election debacle
which handed the Democrats control of the presidency and increased
control over the congress. The big boys at the GOP, here referred to
are the Wall Street types and the Southwest oil and gas gang, who
really live to dominate this whole world and make the maximum
amount of money off same, but they can't do that when the Middle
East/Central Asia are so unstable as it is today, thus they will
be looking to get change they "can believe in" in official control of the
GOP to accomplish their "wonderful" goals. This will, include, for
the longterm recruiting another Dwight D Eisenhower to take on
Barak Obama in 2012, as Obama won't give these GOP bigwigs
the stability in this critical region they so desperately need to accomplish
their already stated objectives. Obama will pretty much continue what
W has started in that region, maybe switching troops more over to
Afghanistan after a long time, but the region will continue to be way
too unstable to suit these GOP bigwigs, who in large numbers in the
last election had their money going both ways to cover their bets. Money
talks, and BS walks.

But that really gets so expensive, and these "good old boys and girls"
will have their Terry Bradshaw moment of "Why you save money" by
only having to buy out one party instead of two. When that moment
comes, and it won't be long as these super rich types are really tight
with their money, then they will get busy doing what they know how to
do best, buy friends and influence politics and policy.

The AIPAC crowd will be upset, but these Wall Street and Southwest
oil and gas types have done without their help throughout much of their
history, and couldn't really give a damn less about such.

Harry Truman in 1948 was to win the presidency by four points, with his
party getting back control of the congress that party had lost in 1946, but
Truman was a real fighter and would stand his ground when he was convinced
he was right come hell or high water. Obama isn't that sort of fellow by a long
shot. Truman many could agree was wrong about the Cold War, he got the
country into the Korean War. That war carried great weight in 1952, and
along with phony garbage of about ''communists" taking over was enough to
take the GOP to victory both for the presidency and the congress that year.

Truman had in fact won his presidential victory despite the fact that his party
had controlled the White House for about 16 years by then and the congress
for 14 of those years. His party, likewise did well down the ticket taking back
the congress it lost in the previous 1946 midterm election. This was a significant
victory, given the fact that Truman trailed his GOP opponent in 1948 after both
major party conventions by 15 points in the polls. Obama hasn't exactly shown
himself as having this ability despite his vaunted charisma.

Furthermore, Obama will likely take his direction from those who have provided
the piles of money for his campaign and go against his base when the big money
types go a different direction. Money talks! This will mean he won't be about to
go ahead with any New Deal style pump priming, public works projects which
would rebuild the country's infrastructure, schools, health care, et al and provide
so many with needed and constructive employment. The base thus being abandoned
won't have much patience with their pied piper and will either opt for not voting or
maybe even vote for the GOP in the midterm. Come 2012 though, the GOP hierarchy
will have the Ike ready and be training their big guns on Obama and the Democrats
for failing to end two wars or doing so so belatedly as to be outrageous and not
getting the domestic economy back on its feet that the Republican bigwigs will
be ready to take back the presidency and the congress to again get back to to
getting a stabler world to make their piles of money off of. The upside for the country
is another Ike will be a move in the direction of peacenik oriented politics. Hey, the
folks on Wall Street and the Southwest oil and gas gang can go that direction if
the situation calls for it and it means more money they can make as a result and
they can come closer at least to dominating this world, if not actually doing it, which
probably isn't in the cards as things stand and the trend is now.

If this scenario seem so improbable, it's well to remember that back in the 1950s
I F Stone was calling for people to vote "Ike for peace." This writer finds it simply
fits with the desire of those with big money to get and stay in control, at least indirectly
through the party they back and to keep making a killing. It also fits with their willingness
to go along with a war now and then, but to see that too much war is bad for business,
as it makes this world too unstable.

The mainstream media in the USA is now, and has been,
since calling Barak Obama the winner in the presidential
race, spinning the 2008 election as a coat tail effect/top
down affair to weaken the vast loose net US progressive which
has propelled the Democrats in the congress and Obama
to victory, seeking to force Obama and his party to the
right in a not so unpredictable turn of events, but which may
have a huge impact on politics and public policy for some
time, as those running the US mainstream media are
afraid of this movement which carried out a guerrilla action
knocking down the most powerful political machine since
Tammany Hall, and this has been a machine so powerful
as to make Tammany Hall seem like nothing by comparison.
Tammany Hall was only a local machine, this neo con dominated
GOP one is national big league gang of criminals.

In this case, as in many others the "liberal" mainstream media
which doesn't really exist, is quick to get into its spin mode,
calling the election an Obama coat tail effect/top down affair,
the better to undermine a genuine, grass roots progressive
movement gaining so much steam that it knocks down the rulers of
the body politic in a bottom up rejection of neo con insane,
failed, and morally bankrupt policies which Norman Solomon,
a great progressive had called for. His wish has been the
American people's command at least to the degree they could
perceive some way to do this. Pouring the equivalent of Castor
Oil into body politic to cure it of the highly fatal neo constipation.

FAIR, a progressive media watch dog group has documented
time and again, specifically in the cases of the 1992 presidential
race and the 2006 midterm election, very notoriously pressed for
the Democrats to move to the right after both those victories, spinning
both those Democratic victories as being the result of the power of
the "center," which these same media elite put over on the right,
then push the Democrats to keep on moving to the right, which is
has become an article of virtual mainstream media theological
truth is where elections just have to be won. The facts actually
show time and again the winners have to take care of the base
constituencies.

FAIR has tried to counter this constant spin with its radio program
CounterSpin. But the mainstream media is the giant with deep
pockets putting out its tons of hot air, fiction, and propaganda for
the super rich and status quo which it is so much a part of.

Enter the internet with freer access to a new technology to enable
progressives to counter fiction and propaganda with facts, and
the mainstream media becomes more than a bit concerned.

Here again the US mainstream media is spinning again on how
this election result was all about Obama's cautiousness, "centerism,"
and other "lovely virtues" of the same media elites, but this time
especially stressing the "coat tail effect/top down affair" which
this election definitely wasn't, and even the same mainstream
media coverage election night contradicts it. These media types
called for or projected substantial or big net gains for the Democrats
in the US House of Representatives at the latest starting at about
7 PM central time, with the presidential race still too close to call
for another roughly two or more hours, thus the lack of coat tail
effect unless a reverse one going from down the ticket upwards
and being a bottom up affair.

As a rule a coat tail effect comes into play when the top of the
ticket takes rest of the ticket nationally in a national election
to victory. 1964 with Lyndon B Johnson, and the same media
establishment media elites calling him the winner practically as
the coverage election night began and saying it would be huge.
It was 22 points. The same media elites wouldn't project the
number of US House seat gains for the Democrats with real
precision until later in the night. This is coat tail effect. 1980
also comes to mind on the opposite end of the spectrum with
these media elites calling the presidential race for the Gipper
not the late into the night, and then projecting a more exact
figure on his party gains in US House races later in the night.
The Gipper won with about 10 points. Obama, like Franklin
D Roosevelt in his fourth race in 1944 won by seven points
and with 53% of the total popular vote.

The internet has helped to bring together disparate elements
of this loose net progressive movement, bringing down the
rulers of US political system and even challenging the rulers
of the US mainstream media itself, and thus being something
which is really "scary" for these US media elites. The corruption
of power has manifests itself in this attempt to snatch defeat from
jaws of victory by framing the 2008 election as nothing more
than a coat tail effect/top down affair and anointing Obama,
as the king of the progressive movement, though Obama hasn't
sought it, to provide the US media elites with the opportunity to
be enablers for the those political ruling elites the American
people have just soundly repudiated from coast to coast.

With the neo con side carrying on their "holy war" agaisnt
those on the liberal and progressive end of the spectrum.
It's time US progressives think along the following lines.
As Winston Churchill said in the dark days of the Second
World War after a key victory for his side, "We have victory,
victory at last. . ." "No this is not the end nor even the beginning
of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. "

Martin Luther King Jr once said, "The arc of the moral universe is
long, but it bends towards justice." But Dr King couldn't foresee
or maybe he could that the arc of the US mainstream media is
short like its memory, but it bends towards hot air, which it's
filled like a hot air balloon with, but it blows hardest at election
time and right after to huff and puff and blow progressives'
houses of victory down and force politics to the right.

Bottom up/Reverse Coat tail Effect, and Vote
for "Socialism" Gives Obama Victory


Due to GOP loony right attacks on Barak Obama's
"socialism," the socialist agenda with a bottom up/
reverse coat tail effect gave Obama a victory in the
USA on this November election day. Democrats made
a large gain of new seats in the US House of Representatives
and surely garnering a much larger margin than Obama,
with the party gains where these Democrats were seen as
"heeding the siren song of socialism" as Dwight
D Eisenhower once got attacked by Barry Goldwater
as doing early in his administration. This is a win
for sanity at least, and nuclear war with Moscow at
least for now, even with Moscow's first strike policy
on nuclear weapons which none of the US mainstream
media would talk about, is less likely. With McCain, nuclear
war was a virtual certainty, given his complete unstable
character, which Obama's campaign never talked
about unfortunately.

The American people clearly were voting for that
idea from the island of Britain that "Those who create
the wealth should share in the fruits of their labor." That's
something that British labor, a party which backed democratic
socialism used to say it stood for very directly. This country's
people have now come around to seeing, after all these years
of the multi national businesses here waging a class war on
everybody else, it's time to stand up to this gang and put a
stop to this, putting the wealth back in the hands of the working
people, whether they call themselves middle class or working
class, as they created this wealth. Even Adam Smith in his
classic book The Wealth of Nations, said the rich didn't create
the wealth, and thus without maybe spelling it out, was saying
that others, thus working people however they refer to themselves
had created the wealth. This is all the more telling as Smith's
work was a defense of classic British capitalism.

This is thus a great moment, at least in terms of the raising
of consciousness of the American people on this matter. The
people here are saying they want the wealth back that Wall
Street and their gang ripped off from them and to have those running
this country's political system to do so in the interests and for the
benefit of them instead of the Wall Street and other pimps of
the prostitutes of American politics. They're saying it's time for
the prostitutes in political office to get themselves to legal whore
houses in Nevada and be done with it.

As usual the US mainstream, loony right/far right
echo chamber media with al its political prostituting
for Wall Street and their ilk got it wrong talking
about how it was a coat tail effect for Obama with
his careful strategy, even though he clearly was
running behind the party in the overall contests for
the US House of Representatives, with people voting
in new Democrats the voters perceived would oppose
the continuation of the rip neo con give away to Wall
Street and especially the pay off of the $700 billion
ranson note to the Wall Street bank robbers led by Hank
Paulson and their "we'll shut the country's economy down
unless. . ." This election has been a rejection of 28 years
of misrule of this country on behalf of Wall Street and
other assorted hard core criminals. The people have said
they want to bring an end to neo constipation of the
USA and they have done what they could to provide
the equivalent of Castor Oil to do the job! Let the
people's will be done!

The US mainstream media tried to put the spin on
the election being a top down affair taking place
with Obama providing coat tails, which is absolutely
false. A coat tail effect is only there when the top of the
ticket is running a ahead of its US House candidates
by more than a bit, and this wasn't the case at all. Even
mainstream media were saying the Democrats would
make decent gains in the House before ever calling
the presidential race for Obama, thus contradicting their
BS about a top down/coat tail effect which they were making
up out of whole cloth.

A less than hard hitting campaign except at the end has
likely cost Obama some political strength, but he can
remedy that by mobilizing bottom up support for a
"socialist" agenda that Johnny "Maverick" hit so hard
at the end of his campaign in absolute political desperation.

Push progressive legislation through with a "damn
the torpedoes, full speed ahead" thrust. Put the jack
asses on the run from the start. Probably Obama won't
do this, but Obama will also likely be a one term president
with the economic and other problems awaiting him if he
doesn't.

But a progressive social movement is afoot, and
needs to keep the pressure on for progressive action.
This movement must keep the pressure on on domestic
and foreign policy. Move to the left, Obama, or ruin the
country and plan on one term in the White House. Remember
that talk of "It's not about me. It's about you."

Today this progressive writer in the USA congratulates Barak Obama on his election victory and urges him to be the progressive president that the people have voted for in their desire to return rule in this country to the people.