Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Killer in Chief

Killer in Chief by Allan Nairn at counterpunch.org

I first heard of Allan Nairn sometime back around the early nineties. He was one of the leading journalist going into East Timor and documenting the Indonesian attrocities there. At one point, him and Amy Goodman were hiding in the bushes outside a village that was being massacred.

Don't hear from him so often these days, but he's got a nice short piece up on counterpunch.org.

As Americans today justly celebrate their sweet win over the country's own racism they should at the same time see that they are now installing the world's new killer in chief. Obama , on taking office, will inherit a state pre-programmed in ways that kill civilians, a vast, globe-spanning machine on autopilot, unconstrained by murder law.

As president, Obama will instantly become the world's number one arms dealer, number one trainer of secret police, number one detonator of bombs, and number one sponsor of forces, US and foreign, that by objective definition do terrorism.


If Obama doesn't stop this immediately upon taking office ...

he'll become responsible for mass murders, and the first victims will likely fall sometime between today's swearing-in and the last inaugural ball.


What else do I see in the news today. Obama's team is working on a 'draft' order that would keep Gitmo open for up to one more year.

When do we start trying to impeach Obama? As Mr. Nairn points out, he probably became a war criminal yesterday before the million dollar balls were over.

9 comments:

KDelphi said...

US (suspected) missile strikes in Pakistan...sigh

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090123/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7847423.stm

Sorry to just link, but I have food poisoning , I think (!!) peanut butter.

Lyle said...

ha! http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/01/obama-administr.html

Lyle said...

Hey Samson. Can you send me an e-mail so we can discuss citizensnews.org. Thanks, Lyle lyle@cicadas.org

Nannie said...

KD...
Hope your feeling better. If not GET TO THE DOCTOR and start some penicillin. This is a bacteria infection and needs meds...Lots of hot tea with plenty of sugar.
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Lyle said...

Jeff Chester writes on digital privacy issues and has an interesting blog: http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?p=728 Cookies were an industry lobbied addition to The Spy Act that a Floridian Politician got slipped in. Nice backhander with enormous implications.

Lyle said...

Don't we start impeachment proceedings immediately on the principle that the Obama administration deserves impeaching because they didn't impeach the previous administration for their war crimes?

KDelphi said...

The MSM sure "jumped away " from that Pakistan, Wuzeristan strike quickly, eh?

Lyle said...

Jay Rosen explains why they "jump away" http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/radio/2009/01/16/rosen/index.html

Samson said...

Most 'spyware' cleaners will remove persistent cookies. Don't know if they take all, or just ones they think are hostile. A little digging on your computer and they aren't real hard to delete manually either.

Lavasoft's Ad-Aware and Spybot Search and Destroy are both free anti-spyware programs. And Microsoft seems to have one called 'Window Defender' that's also a free tool.