“Just Noticing”: Observations Of A Blogger
Posted by Michelle Moquin on November 20th, 2011
“Just noticing…”
…the thugs with badges are at it again…only this time they’re abusing their power, not with fire hoses or batons but with pepper spray. Yep…this video is shocking. Students are sitting on the ground, peacefully protesting during an Occupy Movement at U.C. Davis, and along comes a thug on a power trip, stands above the students, and begins to spray them!
What you are going to see is just sickening:
UC Davis Police Pepper-Spray Seated Students In Occupy Dispute
WASHINGTON — On Friday, a group of University of California, Davis students, part of the Occupy Wall Street movement on campus, became the latest victims of alleged police brutality to be captured on video. The videos show the students seated on the ground as a UC Davis police officer brandishes a red canister of pepper spray, showing it off for the crowd before dousing the seated students in a heavy, thick mist.
This incident recalls the earlier infamous pepper spraying by a New York Police Department official of several women who were seated and penned in. The UC Davis images are further proof that police continue to resort to brutal tactics when confronting Occupy activists. One woman was transported to a hospital to be treated for chemical burns.
“The UC Davis students were peacefully protesting on the quad,” wrote one student who took videos in an email to The Huffington Post. The filmmaker, a senior, asked that his name not be used for fear of retribution by campus authorities. “The cop gave them 3 minutes to disperse before he said they would come and disturb the protest. The main objective for them was removing the tents. … The students did have a right to be on campus, they were assembling peacefully and the campus was open at the time.”
In a longer version of the video, the students are shown seated across a stretch of walkway surrounded by more than a dozen UC Davis cops, dressed in riot gear and clutching batons. Many other students are standing along the sides of the scene, watching and protesting as the standoff unfolded. Some students shouted “Thugs on campus!” and “From Davis to Greece, fuck the police!” Those chants were tamped down quickly by others, who warned all to “Keep it peaceful” and “Keep it nonviolent.”
So the students started up a new chant that would prove prophetic: “You use weapons! We use our voice!”
At one point, one of the riot cops ambles over to the seated line and asks one of the students a question. The student replies, “We’re sitting here.”
The police officer then returns to his position with the other officers. He also turns his back on the seated students, as does at least one other officer. They show no fear that the students might turn violent or threatening. The first cop talks on his radio for a while.
After a few “mic checks” and few more chants, a cop goes back to the seated students. The student asks, “You’re gonna shoot me for sitting here? You’re shooting us for sitting here?”
Roughly a minute later, the officer can be seen shaking the pepper spray canister as the gathered students start shouting, “Don’t shoot your children!”
As the officer began spraying the group of students, onlookers screamed, “Don’t do it! Don’t you do it!”
A news account captured the officer on camera spraying the students. The account names the officer as UC Davis Police Lt. John Pike. He did not return a voice mail message nor an email left Friday night. His voice-mail box eventually filled up to capacity as his name and phone number were posted on Twitter.
The UC Davis Police Department did not return calls from The Huffington Post seeking comment.
The UC Davis chancellor, Linda P.B. Katehi, released a statement Friday. It states, “We deeply regret that many of the protestors today chose not to work with our campus staff and police to remove the encampment as requested. We are even more saddened by the events that subsequently transpired to facilitate their removal.”
Nathan Brown, an assistant English professor at the university, released an open letter to the chancellor, calling for her resignation. He wrote, “You are responsible for it because this is what happens when UC Chancellors order police onto our campuses to disperse peaceful protesters through the use of force: students get hurt.”
The student filmmaker, who says he is not part of Occupy Davis, told HuffPost, “I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t think such a thing would ever happen on campus over a tent being on campus. It’s embarrassing on the part of the police to take such actions.”
Another video shows officers body-slamming a student in what appears to be a confrontation earlier in the day. Ten students were arrested Friday on campus.
After the pepper spraying, the crowd of students began marching down the quad. The UC Davis cops? They’re pushed back down the walkway and finally leave. The students start an old cheer that rang true again, “Whose quad? Our quad!”
UC Davis Police Chief Annette Spicuzza defended her officers’ actions to KCRA. She argued that it just wasn’t safe for students to camp on the quad. “It’s not safe for multiple reasons,” Spicuzza said.
In a report by the CBS Sacramento station Friday night, Spicuzza said the officers’ own safety was also a concern. “If you look at the video, you are going to see that there were 200 people in that quad,” she said. “Hindsight is 20-20, and based on the situation we were sitting in, ultimately that was the decision that was made.” Spicuzza also said authorities were reviewing the videos.
UPDATE: Nov. 19, 11:55 a.m. — Claudia Morain, a UC Davis spokesperson, told The Huffington Post that there were 35 police officers on the scene, 50 occupiers and 200 bystanders.
She said that UC Davis officials had warned the occupiers that they could not set up a tent city. They were given notice that they had to clear out their tents by 3 p.m. on Friday. Some complied. Others did not.
“I can’t speak for the thought process for the officer,” Morain noted about the use of pepper spray. She said that the officers were essentially trapped (the videos suggest otherwise) and had to transport several of the arrested students. “The pepper spray was used because they needed to get out of there,” she said, emphasizing that the students were repeatedly warned before the spray was deployed.
Morain admitted that she had not thoroughly studied the videos of the incident.
But she said, “We are just not going to allow a tent city. Just period. In these budget times, we shouldn’t use resources that should be going to our core academic mission going to a tent city.”
Nine students and one nonstudent were arrested. “The police tried to use the least force that they could,” Morain explained.
WATCH a 15-minute video of events immediately surrounding the pepper-spraying:
Readers: This video shows that the students were just sitting and speaking. Non violent behavior. At 6:24, the police decided that they wanted them to move, so they decided to pepper spray them to get them to move. And this was the least violent that they could be?
UPDATE: Nov. 19, 12:49 p.m. — In a statement, Bernie Goldsmith of the nearby Occupy Davis, a separate group from Occupy UC Davis, said:
At Occupy Davis, relations with the democratically elected city council and local police forces have been genial and productive. The authorities have worked continuously to harmonize the occupation’s presence with the park and surrounding businesses and ensure that all aspects of the encampment remain non-violent. Those in charge of using force are aware that they are democratically elected officials that are directly accountable to the people.Occupy UC Davis, a mere three blocks away, is under the jurisdiction of an undemocratic, appointed regime of force over which its subjects have no meaningful democratic control. The authorities there attacked non-violent protesters with indifference, and, in some cases, a clear display of sadistic pleasure.
There could be no better illustration of the differences between a democratic, accountable public safety effort and a fascist, totalitarian, unaccountable police state. The students of UC Davis have no meaningful voice, and that is reflected at the very top of the administration down to the officer on the ground who can spice up his day with a confident sense of utter, unassailable impunity.
UPDATE: Nov. 19, 9:17 p.m. — UC Davis student Thomas Fowler, who made perhaps the best-known video capturing the pepper-spray incident at UC Davis, answered several questions in an email exchange with HuffPost.
When the pepper spraying started, he said, “I was just completely appalled, I was just speechless. … I couldn’t fathom what reason they believed they had to spray the students. …[T]hey could have easily just stepped over them and left peacefully.”
Moreover, he said, “No tents were confiscated yesterday. The protesters were able to break them down and get them off the Quad before the police officers could do anything about it. Which makes their actions that much more confusing, seeing that the reason they were called to the campus was to have the tents removed.”
Fowler said the mood on the campus “has shifted drastically. A lot of the students who were on the fence or weren’t following the movement closely are getting very involved now. There [are] a lot of students calling for the Chancellor’s resignation in response to what had occurred yesterday.”
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Readers: I am sick to my stomach watching the police brutality go unchecked. Students being pepper sprayed as they sit. These students were doing nothing but sitting and peacefully protesting. And these thugs with badges are simply abusing their powers and authority. This is appalling. I ask myself how did the police get this kind of power to feel so at ease brutalizing the civilian population?
Of course it came from whites giving it to the police so they could beat the shit out of OTWs. We gave them that power many years ago. Hellooo…OTWs had to go through this for years…to “keep them in their place”. And did anybody but OTWs complain about it back then? There is no difference between this happening at U.C. Davis, and when blacks were sprayed with fire hoses strong enough to break their backs.
So here we are. Now it has come back to haunt the group that most benefited from bestowing all that power onto the police. Now it is their children being clubbed and peppered sprayed or their parents being drug or body slammed into the curb. And now people are complaining – now it’s on the front page news.
I don’t like seeing the abusive footage of cops of the past, and I don’t like seeing it today. So…what are we going to do about it?
In my opinion, now we need to take back all those immunities to accountability we have given the police. We need seriously empowered watch dog agencies set up to check police conduct as they go about the people’s business of keeping order and preventing crimes.
It is the people’s business and they work for us. They do not or should not have autonomy to do as they damn well please. We need to empower those watch dog agencies with the power to bring charges for bad conduct and to seek disciplinary, and criminal action if it warrants it agains the violators. These oversight boards need to be all-civilian manned and have the power to hire private investigators to investigate civilian complaints and to see into the folders of any police officer they wish to see.
They need the power to not only recommend a cop be fired but to have the justice department follow through on criminal litigation recommended by their investigative panel. We have to take back our streets from rogue cops, or risk as Robert said, ”having our streets policed by thugs with badges’.
We need an “AA” – an “attitude adjustment” when it comes to police officers. That attitude should begin with: Police have to earn the respect we give them”. A cop is not the “cities finest” unless they operate as the “cities finest”. And in my opinion, I have not even begun to see the “cities finest” with the actions I have witnessed by cops.
As I’ve said before, a cop is not a HERO just because he wears a badge and risks being shot or killed by the bad guys. That quite frankly is the job description of an application to be a cop.
So he is NOT hero because he is doing something that he gets paid very well to do. Unlike our military if a cop doesn’t like the heat in the kitchen he can quit and take another job. His benefits and salary is the attraction that lure a cop to be a cop like any other occupation, we do what we have the skills to do to command the highest salary we can.
This is what the person feels he must do to command that salary. That does not make him/her a Hero, it makes him/her an employee of the city or state that hires him/her. That make them Public Servants. Why are they getting a pass to avoid the scrutiny that any other civil servant must endure? I say that day is over.
Thoughts? Comments? Blog me.
Emily: Six year old Douglas is correct in my opinion.
Lacy: That is quite the story. I’m sorry for your loss. I don’t know how you can contact the spirits but this is the place to ask, as you never know who might be reading.
Christine76: I believe that if it weren’t for the fact that we are a cattle planet that feeds aliens, and that the TWO are located somewhere here, thankfully, aliens would care less about us humans. They see how we disrespect our planet, the animals, and not to mention our fellow human beings – why should they care about us when it’s obvious we have little care and concern for each other? But hey, there’s nothing wrong with HOPEing.
Anna of Guam: I am always still surprised when I see grocery stores still handing out plastic bags. I think even paper bags should be banned. There are so many reusable bags being sold that last forever, everyone should have one. Stores should just sell these and ban the bags (plastic and paper) . One place that I shop at has a bin where people can donate used bags. So if someone forgets to bring their own bag (BYOB), they can grab one from the bin.
Cliff: We all need love honey…and if you aren’t getting it from here, then by all means…reach for the stars. :)
Love ending my write wth love…Now go out and give a little.
Peace out…
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November 20th, 2011 at 12:28 pm
A Caterer’s Tricks to a Well-Timed Thanksgiving Dinner
Thanksgiving dinner is an exercise in timing — many different dishes need to be ready at the same moment.
Is there a secret to getting it right — moist bird, fluffy mashed potatoes, crisp vegetables — with less stress?
That’s what we asked Pat Raitanen, a caterer who has cooked hundreds of Thanksgiving dinners over the years, including 45 quarts of gravy one year.
She says most people don’t realize that they can do much more in advance than they have been doing…
Turkey. Buy a fresh turkey the Sunday or Monday before Thanksgiving to avoid lines at the supermarket. A frozen turkey can be bought weeks in advance and defrosted in the refrigerator starting on Sunday.
On Tuesday or Wednesday, unwrap and rinse the bird. Pat dry with paper towels. Brush inside and outside with marinade.
I use two cups of olive oil, one-half cup of Grand Marnier and various spices and herbs, including sage, thyme, rosemary, marjoram and parsley. Refrigerate until time to cook on Thursday.
Once the turkey is fully cooked and the stuffing removed, it can rest for as long as 90 minutes before serving — freeing up oven space for other dishes.
Stuffing. Chop celery, onions, etc., on Sunday or Monday. Store in the refrigerator in sealed containers or plastic bags. If you dry bread for stuffing, set it out on Monday at the latest.
Vegetables. Most vegetables can be washed and cut up on Monday or Tuesday. (Carrots, however, should be cut no earlier than one day prior to cooking.) Store in the refrigerator in sealed containers or plastic bags.
Gravy. Make stock anytime between now and Thanksgiving week, or use packaged chicken stock. (I prefer the organic brands in the natural foods section of the grocery store.)
Start preparing the gravy on the Sunday or Monday before Thanksgiving.
Sauté one cup of chopped onions and one-half tablespoon of finely chopped garlic in one-quarter cup of olive oil or other fat.
Add one-quarter cup of flour to thicken, creating a roux. Cook this over medium-to-low heat until golden brown. Slowly add three quarts of stock, and reduce to desired consistency.
Refrigerate until the turkey is cooked. Before serving, add pan drippings and heat over the stove. Makes about one quart.
Mashed potatoes. Peel potatoes on Tuesday (don’t cut them up yet), and immerse in water to prevent them from turning brown.
(Sweet potatoes can be peeled and cut up — they do not need to be put in water.)
Store covered in the refrigerator. Cut up, cook and mash the potatoes on Wednesday. Refrigerate in a covered dish.Just before the meal, warm them up in a preheated oven (300°F to 325°F) for about one hour.
Mashed potatoes hold heat well. If you are short on space, get them ready before the other dishes, cover and let them sit.
Cranberry sauce. Cook fresh cranberries a week in advance. Store in the refrigerator. I like to add about two teaspoons of orange zest and one to two tablespoons of Grand Marnier to the recipe on a 12-ounce package of fresh cranberries.
Breads. Buy fresh bread on Wednesday (bakeries are too crowded on Thursday morning), and freeze it. Just before dinner, heat, uncovered, on a cookie sheet, in a 375°F oven for 15 minutes.
Corn bread can be baked on Wednesday. Store in an airtight container. Cut before heating in foil.
Pies. Make pastry dough on Sunday or Monday. Chill as a ball or rolled out in a pie pan. Fill the shells and bake on Wednesday.
Personal interviewed Pat Raitanen, owner and head chef of Truffles Catering Ltd., based in Port Chester, New York.
She has been in the food industry for almost 30 years.
November 20th, 2011 at 1:06 pm
Now that we are confessing.
I met Bill in 1962, I was 17 he was 29. I heard him talking to a small group of black boys. They were arguing and he told them that it wasn’t the way to play the game of basketball.
They challenged him and he played ball with them. My brother was 14, the other 9 were about that age. I stayed to watch because Bill was charismatic. He spoke softly but with a command that made the boys relax and accept him immediately.
I watched him come and work with them occasionally teaching them moves and working in stuff about life. Their place in society and their self worth and what it means to be a man.
I never had the nerve to approach him so I stood behind the fence and watched them play basketball. Eventually I watched as he tutored them in their studies and finally I decided to say hello when I went to pick up my little brother one day.
He smiled and I was in love. He said I wondered when you would work up the courage to say hello. I said with all the girls tripping, I just didn’t want to be one of the crowd.
He laughed and said you won’t be. Three weeks later I told him I was in love with him. He smiled and said I’m 29 you’re about 17. I said I am 17. He said tell me you love me again when you are 19 after you have met more boys of your own age.
I said I plan to go away to college. He said if you don’t plan it better you will be stuck here. I asked him for advice on what I should do? He said “what the white kids do. Enroll in a course that teaches you how to take your SATS. ”
I did and I got to go to the school of my choice. I came back on my 19th birthday. He was no longer coaching. He was working to organize demonstrations against segregation.
We met after a meeting in which he said that MLK was very important but not more important than the H. Rap Browns, and Stokely Carmichaels.
We made love that night. We made love many, many times over the years. I went to med school and expected to see him on my break.
He called and said. Kathleen this may be difficult to believe, I am not like you, I am immortal and it is time for me to move on.
I am 67 today. I saw him twice on my 66th. The first time he looked just as he did when I was 17.
I asked him if he knew bill, if he was his son. He smiled that smile, before he said anything I knew it was him. I couldn’t stop the tears. I told him how I had hated him all these years.
I told him I felt he had used me and abandoned me for another. He held me and said I have never left you. I was there for all 6 of your children’s births. I saw you through your mother’s passing and I saved your third from drawing when was 9.
He kissed me and said I have come to make love to you one more time before I allow you to leave this place upon your earth passing and move to another adventure in another galaxy.
Then he smiled and said “I will see you in an older bod in three days. Your husband will be called away on an emergency. We will have time to make love slowly the way we used to do.”
When he showed up he had gray hair in his temples a bit of a pouch, but he didn’t look 60, but he had made me more comfortable with the attempt to approach my age.
We made love so good! I had forgotten how good sex could be. I had to because nothing compares to the kind of orgasms he can bring to your mind, body and soul.
My husband is a true cox’s man. He can handle his business in bed. I have six children to prove it. But Bill is without peer.
After we made love and I tried to tell him how good he was, he acted as he always did as if he wasn’t aware of he power he held over me in bed.
That was the only time I had been unfaithful to my husband, actually I really don’t consider it as being unfaithful because I have and always belonged to Bill and I always will. God, alien, immortal or vampire, he is the only one I will ever truly love unconditionally and completely.
If what he says is true, I look forward to seeing what he has in store for me. Yes, I love my children, my husband and my family and friends, but Bill is, well Bill.
I love you Bill, and I always will.
Kathleen
November 20th, 2011 at 1:11 pm
Hafa adai
Obama made a brief refueling stop on Guam late Saturday night en route to Washington, D.C., as he returned from a weeklong trip to Honolulu, Australia and Bali, Indonesia.
The White House and Andersen Air Force Base had been mum on the refueling stop, and confirmation of the visit was only given by Guam Delegate Madeleine Bordallo’s office after Air Force One left the island.
Bordallo headed to D.C. aboard the president’s plane. In a release she stated she intended to convey the “Team Guam” approach to issues important to the island — if she had an opportunity to meet with the president.
“While this is not the visit that we had hoped for, I appreciate every opportunity the president has to be reminded of Guam’s importance to our great nation.
I believe that traveling onboard Air Force One was a gracious gesture by President Obama, and I am grateful for his invitation,” Bordallo said.
“I will discuss Guam war claims, the military buildup, the Guam-CNMI visa waiver program, and compact impact, among other issues, with the president.
I will use this opportunity to advance Guam’s interests and to give the president a sense of our hopes for our future.”
Bordallo and other local officials have repeatedly asked Obama to visit, and Guam residents have been hoping for a presidential visit after the then-presidential candidate appealed for Guam Democrats to support him over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Party presidential primary.
His campaign aired ads on Guam emphasizing his roots as an “island boy.”
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This is the meaning of having someone besides white men only in the position of President of the United States of America.
For the very first time I feel like we have a President of ALL the people, not just the whites. This man is someone any American can approach and voice his/her concerns about the state of our great republic.
Hafa Adai Mr. President
Peter
November 20th, 2011 at 5:28 pm
Franklin, I’m still here, I just haven’t been commenting as much lately. I usually don’t comment for a few days after I’ve spoken with Mischa off blog and we did yesterday.
Mischa, great conversation, and thanks for the call back, it was very much appreciated, I love when people take the time and energy to cb and want to make sure ‘we’re good’ and we definitely are : D
Hi Anonz, I love when you comment here, it’s certainly always enlightening and this time it kind of stirred the shit pot, which is just another fun aspect of the MM blog. Hope you’re happy and healthy.
Interesting stories on alien lovers and AH you never fail to provide an eclectic story, too.
Luv, Zen Lill
November 21st, 2011 at 4:36 am
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November 21st, 2011 at 4:41 am
Good to hear from you Zen Lill. Now where is Howie? There are plenty of questions that could use a little enlightenment from our one and only true expert on the subject all things alien. Like:
1. Did the comment by Doug about the need for more domestic troops inside our boarders have anything to do with threats from aliens?
2. I know Christine 76 got an answer from the alien Bill, but we could have used some input from Howie. What’s up Howie? Did you and Carr take off?
If you are still here, i’m sure I’m not the only one who was expecting you to have an opinion on whether aliens should be held responsible for the raping, etc of humans. I know the charge is ridiculous, but with our resident expert choosing to remain silent, well, that leaves some doubt.
Just saying, if you are around Howie, maybe a word or two to let us know that this is still the blog to go to for the 411 on all things alien.
Scott
The first was accepted but it didn’t print.
November 21st, 2011 at 5:49 am
Michelle:
What’s up with your blog. I post and it doesn’t post?
November 21st, 2011 at 5:53 am
Damn wouldn’t you know it. It posted. I wanted to ditto scott’s post. Howie, I check 2-3 times a day at work to see if there is a comment.
My parents were trekkies and I am a chip off the old block. This is my blog because of your input. So ???????????
The stuff Obama saw in Australia that made him commit to sending troops there would be nice for starters.
Lenny
November 21st, 2011 at 5:59 am
Hafa adai:
Hello Islanders. I know a scam when I see one. This bullshit by our legislators to make us think this bill is about anything but bulging the empty coffers of the people’s mismanaged revenue doesn’t fly.
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Palacios: New Law Strengthens Enforcement of Accessible Parking Regulations
Last Updated on Monday, 21 November 2011 18:31
Written by Kevin Kerrigan
Monday, 21 November 2011 16:12
Guam News – Guam News
Guam – Governor Eddie Calvo Senator Adolpho Palacios’ Bill # 294 into law. The measure establishes an
“Accessible Parking Fund.”
Fines collected from accessible parking violators will go into the fund and then be dispersed to DISID and the Guam Police Department and to support the Civilian Volunteer Force and CAPE volunteers.
READ Bill 294
A release quotes Senator Palacios as saying that he is “confident that this new law provides DISID with the resources it needs to educate residents about the effects of misusing or obstructing accessible parking spaces.
P.L. 31-152 will further strengthen GPD’s ability to ensure that these parking spaces remain available to individuals with disabilities accessing any public or private facility,”
READ Senator Palacios’ release in FULL below:
Law Raises Awareness and Strengthens Enforcement of Accessible Parking Regulations
This morning, Governor Eddie Calvo signed into law Bill No. 294-31 (LS), which was authored by Senator Adolpho B. Palacios, Sr.
This measure, enacted as P.L. 31-152, re-establishes the “Accessible Parking Fund” and provides that proceeds be shared between the Department of Integrated Services for Individuals with Disabilities (DISID) and the Guam Police Department (GPD).
P.L. 31-152 also designates a portion of the funds previously collected to DISID in an effort to assist the agency with awareness activities, media outreach and similar efforts aimed at encouraging public compliance with accessible parking laws.
According to Senator Palacios, the remaining balance will be available to pay for training, equipment and supplies for the Civilian Volunteer Police Reserve (CVPR) and Community Assisted Policing Effort (CAPE) programs as, “Volunteers continue to serve a vital role in enforcing Guam’s accessible parking laws.”
“I’m confident that this new law provides DISID with the resources it needs to educate residents about the effects of misusing or obstructing accessible parking spaces.
P.L. 31-152 will further strengthen GPD’s ability to ensure that these parking spaces remain available to individuals with disabilities accessing any public or private facility,” concluded Senator Palacios.
For additional information please contact Senator Palacios’ office at 472-5047/8 or send an e-mail to information@senatorpalacios.com.
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No matter how many time ones reads that shit above it still is all about justifying inventing a parking fine to legally steal money from the people on Guam.
Peter
November 21st, 2011 at 6:12 am
An Elma, Wash., man was killed by accidentally urinating on a downed power line after a one-car crash near Montesano.
Grays Harbor County sheriff’s Deputy Dave Pimentel said Monday that Roy Messenger, 50, was not seriously hurt after he collided with a power pole Friday night. Messenger called a relative to pull his car out of the ditch.
When family members arrived they found Messenger electrocuted. Pimentel said Messenger apparently urinated into a roadside ditch but didn’t see the live wire.
Pimentel said there will be an autopsy but burn marks indicated the way the electricity traveled through Messenger’s body.
November 21st, 2011 at 6:16 am
Sixty-five years after the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the bomb is still very much with us, and controversy continues to swirl over the decision to obliterate the two Japanese cities —
sparked this time by President Obama’s decision to send a U.S. envoy to Hiroshima, for the first time, for the official ceremony today.
Already some on the right are charging that this amounts to an “apology” for using the bomb against Japan.
Warren Kozak, in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, has attacked the Obama move, equating it with President Reagan going to Bitburg and laying a wreath at graves belonging to SS members. In contrast, the overwhelming majority of the 130,000 killed in Hiroshima were civilians, mainly women and children.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said U.S. Ambassador John Roos is merely honoring all of the dead of World War II and expressing the president’s endorsement of severe cutbacks in the global nuclear arsenals. No U.S. president has visited Hiroshima while in office.
Hiroshima, in any case, remains a vital lesson for us all, not only for the first use of a nuclear weapon there, but because of the “first use” nuclear policy the U.S. maintains today.
It’s a subject practically off-limits in the media and in American policy circles.
Even the current, fine antinuclear documentary Countdown to Zero, which outlines many serious nuclear dangers (from an accidental launch to a terror attack on America), fails to even mention the possibility that the U.S. might choose to use nuclear weapons again.
Resisting a no-first-use policy, in fact, has been a cornerstone of U.S. nuclear policy for decades.
Yet despite some positive signs from Obama, I fear that moving very far in the direction of no-first-use is still a long way off in America.
Perhaps the strongest reason is this: Most Americans, our media and our leaders (including every president), have endorsed our “first-use” of the bomb against Japan.
This remains true today, despite new evidence and analysis that has emerged for so many years. I’ve been probing this for almost thirty years — in articles, a film, in a book — with little shift in the polls or change in heart among our policymakers and elected officials.
There has also been little change abroad — where the use of the bomb in 1945 has been roundly condemned from the beginning.
Indeed, U.S. support, even pride, in our use of the weapon has given us little moral standing in arguing that other countries should not develop nuclear weapons and consider using them, possibly as a first, not a last, resort (that’s our policy, remember).
So it all goes back to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
While I respect the views of a range of historians on this matter, and the opinions of the men who fought in the Pacific, I happen to believe the bombs should not have been used against Japan — directly over massive cities — at that time.
The war would likely have ended very shortly without it (or a bloody American invasion planned for many months later), largely because of the Soviets finally declaring war on Japan — an event long-dreaded by Japanese leaders.
Yes, there was a day when conservatives like John Foster Dulles, columnist David Lawrence, Admiral William Leahy and General Dwight D. Eisenhower — “We shouldn’t have hit them with that awful thing,” Ike declared — clearly condemned the use of the bombs.
They knew that the argument of “saving tens of thousands of American lives” only counted if an invasion actually was necessary.
We had demanded “unconditional surrender,” dropped the bombs — then accepted the main Japanese demand, keeping their emperor as figurehead.
But the key point for today is this: How the “Hiroshima narrative” has been handed down to generations of Americans — and overwhelmingly endorsed by officials and the media, even if many historians disagree — matters greatly.
(And see my piece earlier this week here on Truman editing the first Hollywood movie on the bombing, and an earlier piece on suppression of footage shot in Hiroshima by U.S. military film crews.)
Over and over, top policymakers and commentators say, “We must never use nuclear weapons,” yet they endorse the two times the weapons have been used against cities in a first strike.
To make any exceptions, even in the past and in a horrid situation, means exceptions can be made in the future. Indeed, we have already made two exceptions, with more than 200,000 civilians killed.
The line against using nuclear weapons has been drawn… in the sand.
To cite just one example: Before our attack on Iraqi forces in Kuwait in 1990, then-Pentagon chief Dick Cheney said on TV that we would consider using nuclear weapons against Iraq but would hold off “at this point” — then specifically cited President Truman’s use of the bomb as morally correct.
Some polls at the time showed strong support from the American public for using nukes if our military so advised. And who can forget Hillary Clinton’s claim, during her run for president, that we might have to “obliterate” Iran.
And, as I noted, the fact that the United States first developed, and then used — twice — the WMD to end all WMDs has severely compromised our arguments against others building the weapon ever since.
Hiroshima was our original sin, and we are still paying for it, even if most Americans do not recognize this.
That is why I always urge everyone to study the history surrounding the decision to use the bomb and how the full story was covered up for decades.
There is certainly, in the minds of the media and the American public, no taboo on using nuclear weapons, and it all started, but did not end, with Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
This is what nuclear abolitionists — or even those who (like Obama) simply want a partial easing of our first-use policy — are up against.
(Note: My “Hiroshima in America” co-author Robert Jay Lifton on Democracy Now today.)
Greg Mitchell writes the popular Media Fix blog at The Nation. He is co-author with Robert Jay Lifton of “Hiroshima in America.”
November 21st, 2011 at 6:18 am
Michelle the above comments about not being able to post encouraged me to try mine again.
I wanted to say that I agree with you 100%. My brother is a cop and he is a jerk. He and his buddy cops drink on the job and make jokes at the kitchen table about how they abuse certain classes of people.
Lois
November 21st, 2011 at 6:20 am
You people are lost because you are not Mormons. The Mormon Bible clears up the jew problem. Jesus was ashamed that he was a jew so he return to earth via Utah and this time he came as a white man.
Many minorities are joining the Mormon Church to become part of this great Miracle and to acknowledge the greatness of the white race.
Mitt Romney will be the next president of the USA.
John
November 21st, 2011 at 6:30 am
Michelle:
Honestly, I don’t understand your blog. The first time I try to post I can’t get my post to take. But I am not easily discouraged when I want to do something. So here is my third try.
Your article on cops hit a sore spot. I was stopped and felt up by a female cop with a male cop watching as she raised my skirt. I was horrified and when I reported it they accused me of resisting arrest.
Then they forced me to drop my charges and would drop theirs.
I hate cops now.
Sally
November 21st, 2011 at 6:31 am
Eyes on omega-3 fatty acids
Here’s a quick and easy way to dramatically lower your risk of the top age-related sight disorder… go fishin’!
We’ve known for years that fish oil plays a key role in eye health, but the latest studies show that omega-3 fatty acids can actually reduce your risk of age-related macular degeneration by around a third.
That’s the single biggest cause of blindness in folks over 55, afflicting around 30 million people around the world. Some estimates say those numbers will triple by 2025, which isn’t as far off as it sounds.
There are two kinds of AMD, but without getting technical on you we can call them “wet” and “dry.” That’s because one involves leaking blood vessels, while the other doesn’t.
Fortunately, fish oil can reduce your risk of both conditions. A study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that consuming extra omega-3 fatty acids can reduce your risk of wet AMD by 35 percent, and the dry one by 32 percent.
This supports an Australian study published last year, which found that omega-3 fatty acids can reduce the risk of AMD by around 38 percent – and that people who ate fish at least twice a week had the lowest risk.
This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. One of the main fatty acids in fish oil is docosahexaenoic acid, or DHA. One of the main fatty acids in our retina is… that very same DHA.
Our brains are also packed with the stuff, which is why it’s so important to make sure you get plenty of omega-3 fatty acids every day.
In addition to eye and brain health (as if that’s not enough), these essential oils can also help avoid some cancers, fight off diabetes and slash your risk of heart disease.
You don’t really have to catch your own fresh fish to enjoy the benefits of omega-3 fatty acids. You don’t even have to eat fish (but it helps). If you don’t like seafood or worry about mercury levels, then the catch of the day for you is an omega-3 supplement.
Some of them may leave a fishy aftertaste – or the so-called “fish burps” – so experiment until you find one you like. After all, there’s nothing fishy about great health!
November 21st, 2011 at 6:37 am
In my view it all stems from prosecutorial misconduct. Prosecutorial misconduct is what I want to talk about.
In 1976, the Supreme Court decided, in a case called Imblerv. Pachtman, that prosecutors have absoulute immunity from civil rights lawsuits for their work in the courtroom.
The court acknowledged that it’s ruling “does leave the genuinely wronged defendant without civil redress against a prosecutor whose malicious or dishonest action deprives him of liberty.”
but said the alternative was worse: having prosecutors who fear a lawsuit, or even bankruptcy, every time that lose a trial.
November 21st, 2011 at 6:41 am
I just wanted to share this scam I heard about.
Payday Loan Debt Collector Scam
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A new twist to a well-known scam surfaced recently in
the form of bogus debt collectors.
We’ve written in the past about how scam artists pose
as utility company reps, threatening to cut off
services if a supposedly past-due bill isn’t paid.
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The crook demands an instant payment by credit card,
panicking some victims to pay up even though they know
they’re not behind with their bills.
In the latest version, the scammer pretends to be a
debt collector working on behalf of a “payday loan”
company.
In Ohio, where the scam surfaced, state Attorney
General Richard Cordray said in a press briefing posted
on his website: “The ploy is dangerous because scammers
aim to catch consumers off-guard by calling out of the
blue and demanding repayment.
“Even if the consumer has not borrowed money, the
natural instinct for some will be to respond to this
ambush by paying a debt that they do not owe. In this
situation it is absolutely imperative that consumers
ask for a letter stating the debt owed and then verify
the source.”
In this incident, the scammer apparently claimed to be
working for a company called “US Cash.”
Cordray noted that under the Fair Debt Collection
Practices Act, debt collectors must provide written
details of the alleged debt, so the first line of
defense if you receive such a call is to ask for that.
If the caller refuses, it’s either a scam or they’re
breaking the law.
The Federal Trade Commission provides guidance of the
Act as a downloadable document.
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November 21st, 2011 at 6:45 am
Why are they “Heros” because they tell us they are. I agree it is my race who gave them the power to help us subjugate the OTW and keep them in their place.
But it seems the worms have turned on us. Now what do we do? I guess we have to ask the OTWs to help us put the genie back into the bottle.
We certainly can’t do it on our own because we have ingrained into the white race the sanctity of the “boys in blue.”
That kind of crock of shit goes over well with our tiny dick men.
Erica
November 21st, 2011 at 6:50 am
Michelle, when I began reading your opening monologue I grinned from ear to ear because I saw the old take-no-prisoners Michelle was back.
And when you are in that mode you hit it out of the park. “Thugs with badges” is mantra that should move right minded people to say it is time to control these rouges.
Thank you for returning.
Paulina
November 21st, 2011 at 6:51 am
Here’s my Scam alert:
In this week’s Snippets issue we feature two
phone-related tricks — the Skype scam and the Yellow
Pages con.
Both are the latest examples of Internet fraud: Skype
for dangerous malware, advance fee scams and phishing,
and Yellow Pages for phony invoices.
As we explain, Internet security software, common sense
and vigilance will stop them dead in their tracks.
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Skype Scam Delivers Spam and Malware
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Say it loud and it sounds like the start of a
tongue-twister, but “Skype scam” is far more
mischievous and troublesome than that.
Skype is a software program that enables you to use the
Internet to make free or cheap phone and video calls,
with tens of millions of users throughout the world.
Owned by eBay, it’s the biggest of a number of outfits
providing a similar service using what’s known as
“VoIP” (Voice Over Internet Protocol).
But being the biggest also makes it the most vulnerable
to a VoIP scam and several have emerged as the
program’s popularity has grown.
We won’t get technical, so if you want to know more
about Skype, visit their website. And if you’re already
a user, you need to be on the alert for a Skype scam.
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The most common Skype scam is the use of Skype for
spaham (intentionally misspelled), including the
Nigerian advance payment scam and lottery scams.
See these earlier issues for more on Nigerian and
lottery scams.
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Since Skype is one of those programs that, if
installed, can launch by default when you start up your
computer, it sits there ready and waiting whether
you’re using it or not.
If, also by default, your Skype is set to show you are
online, any other Skype user can send you a message.
Hence the spaham.
To avoid this, you might want to change your status to
“invisible” (though this means genuine users won’t be
able to “see” you either) or even stop Skype from
launching when your computer starts.
Both of these can be done via Skype’s Options setting,
but if you need more guidance use the program’s Help or
visit the Skype website.
A more insidious Skype scam arrives on your computer
via malware — viruses, Trojans and other nasty
programs you unintentionally download and install on
your computer by clicking on infected email attachments
or visiting malicious websites.
To learn more about malware, check out this earlier
Scambusters issue.
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In the case of this Skype scam, the malware records
your phone conversations. You might wonder who would be
remotely interested in your private discussions, but
you’d be surprised what information you might give away
in a conversation.
Another malware-related Skype scam involves opening an
email attachment claiming to be a “Skype toolbar for
Outlook.”
This is a new Skype scam, first seen in March and
expected to increase in incidence in the coming months.
It installs spyware on your PC.
Skype is also used for phishing. In this case, a spaham
message pretends to be a malware warning from “Skype
Security Center.” But if you click on the link in the
message — guess what — malware is exactly what you
get.
To avoid these Skype scams, simply make sure you have
up to date Internet security software installed. Then
apply our usual rule about not opening attachments or
clicking on links in messages from people you don’t
know.
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Yellow Pages Scam Switches to Online Directories
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Let’s switch the focus now to another phone-related
scam — the use of the “Yellow Pages” name to con
victims.
In an earlier issue, we explained how scammers use the
Yellow Pages name and the “walking fingers” logo by
sidestepping trademark rules.
They send out renewal notices to small businesses by
clipping out their existing directory listing and
sending an official looking invoice.
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This scam is still going great guns. Having swept the
US, it’s now tearing through Canada.
But a newer version has, like pretty much every other
scam, moved online, using the non-copyrighted tag of
“Online Yellow Pages” (which is also used by legitimate
directory companies in their marketing).
Again, the caller (or, in a few recent cases, a fax
message) says they want to update the victim’s online
listing, or they may make a phony offer to add your
existing (legit) listing to an Internet directory.
The point here is that these tricksters may actually
publish your details (on paper or online) but in
directories that are next to useless — neither
promoted nor distributed effectively.
This enables the scam artists to actually stay inside
the law.
If you’re running a small business, whether you have or
have not advertised in Yellow Pages type directories,
be very wary about unsolicited telesales calls or
official looking invoices and order forms.
Don’t place a listing order without thoroughly checking
out the solicitor. And check the sender details and the
fine print on any documents you receive.
Let’s face it, telephones (the “old-fashioned” sort,
cell phones and the Internet variety) have been a
mainstay in our lives for decades and we’d be lost
without them.
But make sure you don’t lose out in a different way –
by falling for a Skype scam or a Yellow Pages scam.
November 21st, 2011 at 7:12 am
Michelle: This may be a round about way to make a point, but I need to vent.
I am a white man 38 years old. 20 years ago I married a black woman who looked white. I knew she was black but my family didn’t because they would have disinherited me and any children that we had.
Jay, my wife agreed not to tell my family she was not white. She didn’t agree to lie only not to say she wasn’t white if no one asked.
I received my trust fund on my 25 birthday so we decided to start a family.
We have three two: Daughter 12, two boys 14 and 16. The boys look white in every way. our daughter has black features.
At first everyone accused Jay of being unfaithful to me. We told them that she was black, we told our kids the day before we told my family.
Our 16 year old was fine with it. Our 14 threatened to run away. Our daughter already knew she was part black.
My wife’s family on her father’s side is white, Jay’s mother died in child birth and her father died in the military. She doesn’t know any of her mother’s side.
All she knew is that her mother was a black woman from Jackson MS.
Now the story my two brothers are in law enforcement. One is a high ranking cop, the other is an assistant DA. For years they have been coming over and telling stories of how they send niggers to prison for whatever and make sure they “do some serious time.”
You can imagine the scenes that are happening. But I will say you are so right. I want you to know that I haven’t changed I sent this article in I think in Jan of this year.
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Splatter Day on saturdays on TMC – that is the white world for you. To them it is more dangerous to constantly expose the populace to things sexual than it is to things that show the killing, torturing, and maiming the human being.
So let’s have a Splatter Day every Saturday and pontificate as to why white boys are the chief serial killers and inane assholes who love guns and violence. How many more innocent people will have to die before the rest of us say no to these creatures?I
Civil right’s activists, Abortion doctors, immigrants, Politicians, OTWS, anyone they dislike is fair game for some gun wielding crazy white boy.
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Our boys have always been very protective of their sister. She looked white until she stopped processing her hair.
One day she told her mother she didn’t want to do it anymore. She said the President is Black. I am proud to be black. I was very proud of her.
Hank
November 21st, 2011 at 7:18 am
I agree with Scott. I read the blog for the UFO stories. This is not always easy my english could use some work I like Howie too. Last year this was posted.
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What is happening on August 6 and 7 is something we have never seen in our lifetimes and will probably not see happen again. Planets will square off in four packs, each in a different corner of the sky.
On one corner you have Jupiter and Uranus in Aries, opposed to Saturn, Venus, and Mars clear across the sky in Libra in the opposite corner.
On the third corner we have powerful Pluto in Capricorn directly opposed to the moon, transiting in Cancer and filling the fourth corner.
Each planet will be in very early degrees of a cardinal sign (Aries, Libra, Cancer, or Capricorn), so when they move into position on August 6 and 7, they will calibrate into a perfect square pattern with a giant X in the middle. This is a cardinal cross.
Usually we need four squares and two oppositions to create any kind of cross pattern, but this time we will have ten squares (planets at 90 degrees) and seven oppositions (planets at 180 degrees). This is amazing.
The only planets NOT involved, as part of this cross pattern will be the Sun, Mercury, and Neptune.
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So Howie has anything changed?
Qi
November 21st, 2011 at 7:20 am
“Cleveland’s Finest” every time I see that on a police car around here I want to puke.
Thugs with badges never better said.
November 21st, 2011 at 7:27 am
Here’s how people come to become elevated in status…they’re either touted in the media as ‘protectors’ i.e. cops as heroes (thugs), or they create hero status via a sport (tiny or large dicks all love their american football) i.e. Paterno/Sandusky as coaching heroes (pedophile/predators) and that group I’ll lump as ‘men of god’, religions of all kinds have men posing as self appointed gods and hiding behind it very effectively so they can abuse children/women, ‘untouchable bc they’re MOG’s’ (pedophiles/oppressors), you can’t ever elevate what a person does for a living over how he acts towards others and I know everyone here reads between the lines and knows that but what about those who think it’s ok for men in uniforms (cops, coaches, clergy) to be exempt and therefore not accountable for their actions (ever)? It’s unnerving really…
-ZL
PS Hi Scott, yes it would be cool if Howie would run some commentary about the alien factor here the last few days…
November 21st, 2011 at 7:48 am
Watching those white students whine about being peppered sprayed gave me a smile. I remember back in the sixties when white cops would wade into a group of us sitting if front of a restaurant or store that would not serve blacks wielding clubs beating the hell out of kids as young as 15. They cracked our skulls and blinded me in one eye.
Did we get any support from the white community anywhere in this great country? No! So for me what goes around comes around.
Cynthia
November 21st, 2011 at 7:57 am
Michelle, I read the article. Here the situation was described as an “uncontrollable police state.”
As a black woman who experienced police violence in the 60′s, the only difference I see is the level of brutality being practiced on the whites and the ones used on us.
And of course, then the police state was under the control of the white establishment and they were expected to beat the hell out of us.
Now there children get to feel a little of what their parents unleashed upon us.
Barbara
November 21st, 2011 at 7:59 am
Zen Lill, I was about to comment, but you said it better and I completely agree.
Jamie
November 21st, 2011 at 8:16 am
Michelle:
As usual you have the pulse of the nation. I was a victim of police violence in the 60′s and the 70′s. That video of the police pepper spraying those students and their response brought tears to my eyes.
No one deserves that kind of treatment when peacefully protesting. It is our right as Americans to be able to peacefully protest.
Thank you for all you do.
Ruth
November 21st, 2011 at 8:47 am
When will it be my turn? How long am I going to have to wait? You are torturing me lover, and all the lovers waiting behind you for their turn……
November 21st, 2011 at 9:02 am
I never knew I could search like that it’s interesting and something might look into it.
November 23rd, 2011 at 2:58 am
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