Issues & Alibis: Find The Cost Of Freedom

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By Ernest Stewart

Global warming is real, and getting realer all the time. But a lot of things have to happen before humanity can act.

 

 

Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground
Mother Earth will swallow you, lay your body down
Find The Cost Of Freedom ~~~ Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

“Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.” ~~~ Albert Einstein

“Mission Accomplished” so we can surely start packing up and bringing our children back home, and cut the Pentagoons budget by at least half, as our part of our peace bonus. It’s cost $3 trillion dollars so far in Afghanistan, most of which went into the elites’ pockets both here and abroad. Consider that our tab for WWII was $288 billion. Sure, if you put it in 2011 dollars then the cost was $5 trillion dollars. Which means that the one dollar in 1945 is now worth about five cents today; ergo, our money is worthless!

Another similar tab can be laid on Iraq in which we had no reason to be there to begin with as they nothing to do with 9/11, but they did have all that lovely oil which made the oil companies about $1 trillion in profits as they paid nothing for the oil but charged us like they did, and then some!

Bill Of Rights! Nor should we forget the broken families, not only here but all around the world that these war crimes have caused and will continue to cause until we “pull out!” That’s not the cost of freedom–that’s the cost of fascism that we allowed to take over this country. Part of that cost will be the chickens that come home to roost for us, our children, their children and their children too! Those trillions are just a drop in the bucket of what this will eventually cost us. Rust, like tea baggers, never sleeps!

In Other News

And Finally

HS was 16 when she was raped by some students at a house party, attended by dozens of fellow students from Silsbee High School. One of her assailants, a student athlete named Rakheem Bolton, was arrested, with two other young men.

Bolton was not charged with rape after ratting out the other two and copped a plea to misdemeanor assault. He was still supposed to do a year in jail but it was reduced to two years probation because he was a star athlete! That charge allowed Bolton to return to school — and the basketball team. Texas law said he should have been sent to another school, but he wasn’t, as he was too important for their team. Now here’s the kicker: when the victim traveled to a basketball game in January 2009 to cheer on Silsbee’s team, she participated in cheers and when Bolton was attempting a free throw, she stood silently with her arms folded. And then she was punished by this week’s Vidkun Quisling Award winner Richard Bain, the school superintendent and one sick son-of-a-bitch. (I wrote Richard a letter but I can’t print it here as we have young folks that visit) He told HS to leave the gymnasium. Outside, he told her she was required to cheer for Bolton. When the girl said she was unwilling to cheer for a man who had sexually assaulted her, she was expelled from the cheerleading squad! I’m going to repeat that again for those of you on drugs!

“As a cheerleader, HS served as a mouthpiece through which [the school district] could disseminate speech – namely, support for its athletic teams,” the appeals court decision says. “This act constituted substantial interference with the work of the school because, as a cheerleader, HS was at the basketball game for the purpose of cheering, a position she undertook voluntarily.”

 

WTF?

Until the next time, Peace!
(c) 2011 Ernest Stewart a.k.a. Uncle Ernie is an unabashed radical, author, stand-up comic, DJ, actor, political pundit and for the last 10 years managing editor and publisher of Issues & Alibis magazine. Visit me on Face Book. Follow me on Twitter.

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