You all know that Russian roulette is kind of crazy. If you want to play, you put one bullet in the cylinder of a revolver, spin the cylinder, point the gun at your temple, and pull the trigger. With a six-shooter you get 5:1 odds for survival. Play a game of NRA Roulette and the odds run a whole lot worse than that.

To play NRA Roulette, you get to thinking that you need to buy a self-defense gun and keep it at home. They tell you there’s 1,000,000 to 2,500,000 “defensive gun use” situations a year in America. They are wealthy and educated and they have big friends, so you believe them. You know there are accidents and suicides and civilian homicides, but they tell you that having a home defense gun is important.

Thing is, can you listen to someone else ? Is there someone else to listen to ? Can you trust the Federal Bureau of Investigation ? Can you trust the F.B.I. to tabulate police reports and tell you a truth different from the N.R.A. ?

The National Rifle Association is a lobbying organization. Over the last 20 years they have helped the firearms industry sell $50-billion in these “home defense” weapons.

Problem is, F.B.I. tabulation shows that for 2010 there were only 232 justifiable homicides in the whole country where civilians were the shooters. Get down into the details and 80 of these happened at residences. The rest were at businesses. Same year, F.B.I. reports 19,000 gun suicides and 11,000 unjustified gun homicides.

Home guns kill 30,000 by suicide and homicide. Home guns kill 80 at home defense.

So if you can believe the F.B.I. then, odds of these home defense guns killing the wrong person run 375 to 1.

You can buy a home defense gun anywhere. But you have to hope it will never be used for anything. Time it gets used, that is NRA Roulette.

You know what a six-shooter looks like. Loaded for Russian roulette, the cylinder has five empty chambers and one chamber that holds a bullet.

The cylinder for a revolver to play a round of NRA Roulette looks quite a bit different.

N.R.A. ROULETTE

This cylinder has 101 bullets and 1 empty chamber. We leave off the suicides. It looks worse than strange if we put all 375 of the suicides and illegal killings on there.

If you can figure a way to manufacture a firearm that could use this cylinder, please let us know.

Russian roulette goes off at 5:1 in your favor. NRA Roulette yields 375:1 going against you on average, if the gun gets used.

This comparison can also be appraised using the insurance concept of a risk factor. A tool would be unacceptable if it carries a 1% risk factor of killing someone when it is used. Any tool but these so-called “home defense” guns. In use these guns have a 37,500% risk factor.

Yet N.R.A. is allowed to lie. They claim 1,000,000 to 2,500,000 annual “defensive gun uses.” They claim between 30,000 and 200,000 defensive shootings in their pamphlets and magazines. If they were not lairs, this would result in 10,000 to 60,000 justifiable homicides.

Not 232.

So why is N.R.A. allowed to lie ?

The real number for gun defenses is more like 10,000. The maximum goes around 25,000 where you count getting raccoons out of the garbage cans.

Your home is more likely to get hit by lightning. If you don’t sell drugs, forgetaboutit.

How do they get away with this paranoia ? And do it year after year.

Seems easy to call them out for what they are. Also seems easy enough to put the threat of home invasions back in perspective.

That could happen. N.R.A. membership could fall off. Same for gun sales. And the local television if-it-bleeds-it-leads crew might have to find out what else is happening.

Reality could make an appearance.

Pass it on.

How’s that for you? Sound crazy? A president is a commie agent?

The biggest-money successor for the Birch Society — the Club For Growth — is saying pretty much equally mad things about nine Republican congressmen:

– Larry Bucshon (IN-08)
– Rick Crawford (AR-01)
– Renee Ellmers (NC-02)
– Adam Kinzinger (IL-16)
– Frank Lucas (OK-03)
– Steve Palazzo (MS-04)
– Martha Roby (AL-02)
– Aaron Schock (IL-18)
– Mike Simpson (ID-02)

The president ??? That was Dwight Eisenhower. The Birch Society printed multiple editions of a book claiming he was working for the Russians.

That spew on Eisenhower and other rants were the core messaging of the longest prior incarnation of the Club For Growth. Formerly it was able to operate funding projects connected with the John Birch Society. Now it plays fellow traveler with various “tea party” operations. Club For Growth also served as a second club house during the primaries for hammering Establishment Republicans.

I’m not making up the slur on President Eisenhower. Robert Welch campaigned across the country looking for people to believe him.

Welch was the guy who called the meeting that attracted Fred Koch and led to founding the Birch Society. Welch wrote dozens of articles and lectured and signed his book claiming that Ike was a secret commie. Same for Chief Justice Earl Warren, another Republican. Former Governor of California.

Everybody in politics knew Welch was a raving paranoid.

The nine congressmen, today, are presented as secret democrats, Obama supporters, socialists !!

First off, suggesting that Lucas or Shock are lefties should be grounds for a court ordered Mental Status Examination.

But here’s the alternate reality the Club for Growthers are seeing. This is beyond the usual fantasies that present with run of the mill paranoids — quoted directly from a letter to GOP Congressman Aaron Shock:

• When you voted against cutting all of the spending from President Obama’s failed “stimulus” bill, was that because you are a big spender at heart? (RCV #42, 2009)

• When you voted to increase the debt ceiling by $2.1 trillion, was that because you wanted to give President Obama more money to spend? (RCV #690, 2011)

• When you voted for a budget extension that funded ObamaCare, was that because you secretly like ObamaCare and want to implement it? (RCV #579, 2012)

• When you claim you voted for a tax cut in the “fiscal cliff” tax increase deal, do you think that the other 151 Republicans who voted the other way voted for a tax increase? (RCV #659, 2012)

• When you were one of only 41 Republicans to vote against cutting $1.2 million from the budget of the U.S. Botanic Gardens, located in Washington, D.C., did you mistakenly think it was located in Illinois’s 18th Congressional District? (RCV #371, 2012)

The first thing that comes up, Democrats salivate at getting chances to run in three of these House seats with no defending incumbent Republicans. If they’re going to be attacked like this, then anything can happen.

Consider the details of what Club For Growth identifies as unacceptable political positions. The stimulus bill had broad support, essentially everybody in politics who wanted to avoid a second Great Depression. Debt ceiling fights are self-harm with no practical purpose. Obamacare ends up saving money.

Then obviously the so-called “fiscal cliff” tax deal preserved the Bush tax cuts for those under $450,000-a-year; above that the tax cuts were set to expire anyway.

Who gives a hoot about the budget details for the U.S. Botanic Garden (not “Gardens”) located at 100 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20001 ???

Club For Growth can’t spell Botanic Garden properly.

Among other things, USBG maintains an 85,000-foot greenhouse and they host a zillion local kids every year. Those beautiful plants and flowers you see all over the nation’s capital come from this greenhouse by the tens of thousands. $2.4-million in their budget is hardly worth mentioning as a reason to attack a congressman from Illinois, except that they are 100% socialistic and a 100-year success.

Club For Growth is more of Fred Kock Spawn hereditary paranoia, inflicted on millions by way of false advertising.

Try this on for size.

– primarymycongressman.com

Clearly the operation is aimed to drive Establishment Republicans out of office.

So far it has worked, perversely. Establishment money has moved to attacking democrats instead of trying to retake seats from the 150 Birchers. Despite that the Establishment GOPers are down to 84 seats, they never seem to wake up.

Now the Birchers are being boiling E-GOPers nine at a time.

The Eisenhower middle-of-the-roaders and the Rockefeller moderates are driven to be democrats. While Karl Rove says that he is swapping back to backing E-GOPers for 2014 after backing Birchers 100% in 2012 along with his preferred E-GOPers and losing all but one of his races.

At what point do the E-GOPers call crazy on these people? Barry Goldwater did it all the time. He weeded out the loons every year in Arizona. And he had “White Horse Prophesy” Mormons to deal with. He had separatists who refused taxes and begged him to give them their own county.

Club For Growth is as crazy in 2013 as anything Goldwater had to run out the barn.

M.A.D.D. doesn’t win all of them. Florence Cioffi was killed by a DUI hit-and-run on the evening of January 24, 2008. It took long enough for her to die for the death certificate to read the 25th.

Even with indictments for DUI, leaving the scene of the crime, and vehicular manslaughter, there was still a free pass for a Wall Street “Master of the Universe,” CEO George Anderson, got away with this drunk driving killing. Now the principals have resumed their careers with enhanced, expanding opportunities.

We have just passed the anniversary of this killing. She was trying to hail a cab after meeting with friends to set up a party for her 60th birthday. The criminal responsible was Enterprise Engineering, Inc.’s Chairman and CEO George Anderson. He admitted to DUI and to having left the scene of the crime, yet was able to arrange a “rich man’s sentence” of 16 days in Rikers and a $350 fine.

Here is “Nana”:

EEI is a Wall Street computer consulting firm. Deep connections with the like of Goldman, Sachs and Merrill. Anderson had just sold a beachfront home at the Hamptons for $6,000,000 so he was well set up for a legal battle. Problem was, the first prosecution team went to the Grand Jury immediately and got him charged with felonies: vehicular manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, felony DUI, and leaving the scene. The physical actions and the DUI underlying these charges were all admitted.

Evidence could not be suppressed. It had already been presented to the Grand Jury. Video surveillance showed that his Mercedes-Benz SUV was going 60 m.p.h. up Water Street. That is twice the speed limit.

Anderson refused breathalizer tests so detectives obtained a court order and had Anderson taken over for to hospital for a blood test. He was still pie-eyed. Obviously he had created the hazard.

ADA David Hammer went into court and dropped all of the felony charges despite the indictments. Hammer has reportedly been advanced within the Manhattan (New York County) District Attorney’s office. He now heads a team of prosecutors. He also teaches Trial Advocacy at Pace University Law School.

Back in 2008 and 2009 Hammer was assigned to replace the original prosecution team. He did what the top prosecutors wanted. Now in 2013 he’s got management track.

During the crash “Nana” was thrown in the air as Anderson gunned his SUV and took off. Here is a good summary:

– Reflection on Death by SUV

ADA David Hammer was the one who said that “(Cioffi) probably stepped out from between two parked cars,” feigning ignorance of the multiple surveillance videos. Eye witness accounts had her trying to hail a cab.

Hammer also concocted a novel concept for criminal law of “proportional blame” as the excuse for offering Anderson 16 days and the $350 fine instead of the minimum 1 year sentence for DUI killings in statute.

So… if you head a Wall Street company you can go to a Rangers hockey game, get drunk, drive recklessly at twice the going speed limit, plow down an ordinary office worker. The system will take care of you.

Maybe some money changes hands, but if so that is not what matters.

Dickens had it right more than a century ago. When a system goes over into corruption, expect corruption. Summer of 1780, winter of 2008, or today: expect corruption. Indeed, how is this DUI killing different from Dickens’s carriage scene from “A Tale of Two Cities:

The complaint had sometimes made itself audible, even in that deaf city and dumb age, that, in the narrow streets without footways, the fierce patrician custom of hard driving endangered and maimed the mere vulgar in a barbarous manner. But, few cared enough for that to think of it a second time, and, in this matter, as in all others, the common wretches were left to get out of their difficulties as they could.

With a wild rattle and clatter, and an inhuman abandonment of consideration not easy to be understood in these days, the carriage dashed through streets and swept round corners, with women screaming before it, and men clutching each other and clutching children out of its way. At last, swooping at a street corner by a fountain, one of its wheels came to a sickening little jolt, and there was a loud cry from a number of voices, and the horses reared and plunged.

But for the latter inconvenience, the carriage probably would not have stopped; carriages were often known to drive on, and leave their wounded behind, and why not? But the frightened valet had got down in a hurry, and there were twenty hands at the horses’ bridles.

“What has gone wrong?” said Monsieur [the Marquis St. Evremonde], calmly looking out.

A tall man in a nightcap had caught up a bundle from among the feet of the horses, and had laid it on the basement of the fountain, and was down in the mud and wet, howling over it like a wild animal.

“Pardon, Monsieur the Marquis!” said a ragged and submissive man, “it is a child.”

“Why does he make that abominable noise? Is it his child?”

“Excuse me, Monsieur the Marquis — it is a pity — yes.”

The fountain was a little removed; for the street opened, where it was, into a space some ten or twelve yards square. As the tall man suddenly got up from the ground, and came running at the carriage, Monsieur the Marquis clapped his hand for an instant on his sword-hilt.

“Killed!” shrieked the man, in wild desperation, extending both arms at their length above his head, and staring at him. “Dead!”

The people closed round, and looked at Monsieur the Marquis. There was nothing revealed by the many eyes that looked at him but watchfulness and eagerness; there was no visible menacing or anger. Neither did the people say anything; after the first cry, they had been silent, and they remained so. The voice of the submissive man who had spoken, was flat and tame in its extreme submission. Monsieur the Marquis ran his eyes over them all, as if they had been mere rats come out of their holes.

He took out his purse.

“It is extraordinary to me,” said he, “that you people cannot take care of yourselves and your children. One or the other of you is for ever in the way. How do I know what injury you have done my horses. See! Give him that.”

He threw out a gold coin for the valet to pick up, and all the heads craned forward that all the eyes might look down at it as it fell. The tall man called out again with a most unearthly cry, “Dead!”

He was arrested by the quick arrival of another man, for whom the rest made way. On seeing him, the miserable creature fell upon his shoulder, sobbing and crying, and pointing to the fountain, where some women were stooping over the motionless bundle, and moving gently about it. They were as silent, however, as the men.

“I know all, I know all,” said the last comer. “Be a brave man, my Gaspard! It is better for the poor little plaything to die so, than to live.

Charles Dickens considered France in the 18th Century to be a society where Law had ceased to function as an instrument of social justice.

Sovereign power had been handed over to the Nobles. The concept of “crime” had been placed into private hands for redefinition to suit their convenience. The Church had its own court system, but their high-overhead business model made them part of the problem.

America in the 21st century has similar processes at work. Our paranoid billionaires and the Dominionist religious fanatics dearly love it when their five-member majority on the Supreme Court makes new laws to protect their interests.

Social justice is castigated. Routinely.

The basic English Common Law concepts have been suppressed. For example, the New York Stock Exchange has protections as a federal Self-Regulated Organization (“SRO”) that are used to enable “naked short” stock sales. They sell what they do not own — quite freely — and manipulate market prices.

The major brokers are allowed to drive down the prices of any issues they choose to attack. They do not have to own or even borrow shares of the stock they are “selling” in their electronic trading blocks. Then they are allowed to default on delivery, voiding out these sales.

Everywhere else on earth these “naked short” sales are felony frauds. The big brokers do this in New York at multiples of 10,000 shares at a time.

Eliminating manslaughter and fraud make the day go more easily and more profitably for the outlaws of Wall Street.

We all know the big lie.

The National Rifle Association is mobilizing its members against Obama's attempts at gun control.

NRA claims that civilians experience 1,000,000+ defensive uses of firearms every year. NRA pumps paranoia to the end of selling $50-billion in extra gun sales over the last 20 years.

This contrasts with the obvious fact from F.B.I. that civilians generated 232 justifiable homicides in all of 2010. Of those events, approximately 80 occurred at private homes.

The only direct effect of having more guns is having more crime. More crime, more convictions, more and longer sentences, more years served, more money for privatized prisons.

Gun sales are as good for for-profit prisons as they are for the gun manufacturers.

So now NRA puts out this Lie of the Day to their members:

ACTION ALERT!
Email this morning from Chris Cox-NRA

Last week I asked you to call your senators and tell them to vote against every element of President Barack Obama’s gun ban agenda.

Your calls are working! I’ve received numerous reports that NRA members are lighting up the phone lines and our senators are definitely hearing from us.

HOWEVER, now we need to take our phone campaign to the next level.
There are 20 U.S. senators, in particular, who hold the fate of your freedom in their hands.

These senators represent states where gun ownership is respected and our Second Amendment freedoms are revered.

But right now, they’re facing huge pressure from the gun ban lobby and Barack Obama to support Obama’s extreme gun control agenda!

So please, call each of the senators below and tell them to vote NO on any gun ban…NO on any magazine ban…NO on criminalizing private firearm transfers…and NO on any gun registration scheme.

Sen. Max Baucus 202-224-2651
Sen. Mark Begich 202-224-3004
Sen. Susan Collins 202-224-2523
Sen. Joe Donnelly 202-224-4814
Sen. Kay Hagan 202-224-6342
Sen. Martin Heinrich 202-224-5521
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp 202-224-2043
Sen. Tim Johnson 202-224-5842
Sen. Tim Kaine 202-224-4024
Sen. Angus King 202-224-5344
Sen. Mary Landrieu 202-224-5824
Sen. Joe Manchin 202-224-3954
Sen. Claire McCaskill 202-224-6154
Sen. Mark Pryor 202-224-2353
Sen. Harry Reid 202-224-3542
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen 202-224-2841
Sen. Jon Tester 202-224-2644
Sen. Mark Udall 202-224-5941
Sen. Tom Udall 202-224-6621
Sen. Mark Warner 202-224-2023

Spread your calls out over several days if you need to.

And remember: It doesn’t matter if you do not live in these senators’ states – YOU NEED TO CALL THEM. After all, the votes they cast will affect you no matter where you live!

Thank you for your hard work and dedication to winning this battle. Now is not the time to let up! Call each of these 20 senators as soon as you can.

By working together, we can defeat the Obama gun ban agenda and save the Second Amendment!!!

Chris

Chris W. Cox
Executive Director
www.NRAILA.org

At what point do NRA members wake up ???

There’s nothing there. It’s close to nonsense. How could anyone read that and not realize that the NRA is doing tent-show religion on them?

“Put one hand on your Colt, the other hand on your Winchester, and pray to Jay-sus !!”

Yes, the country has paranoids. No shortage of them. But really, really dumb paranoids ??? How many can there be?

Propaganda intrusions place unique burdens on blog helpdesks. To begin with, our “hobbyist” political sites are not set up to deal with coordinated attacks. Defensive procedures are generally ineffective. Then secondly, where accounts are taken over for use by the China’s “8-cent-a-comment” propaganda employees it is not unusual for email burglary to be in the mix. Their attacks come in claiming high-status sourcing from Ph.D.s, medical doctors, or scientists as based on identity theft felonies. Reporting the substantive crimes is a big deal.

Unfortunately, helpdesk advice at The Great Orange Satan (as the site is called, affectionately) can be far off the mark with respect to notifying victims and the proper authorities:

“Why in the world would you be contacting (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) before contacting us? That is creepy behavior and really inappropriate.”

When did it become “inappropriate” to report a crime?

Oak Ridge NL is all about protecting their employees, which I know first hand from similar procedures at Lawrence Berkeley NL and other federal facilities. Helpdesk at our Great Orange Satan could not be further off from giving sound advice.

Identity theft was ongoing in this incident and a federal email address was being misused. Yet the helpdesk refused to comprehend that these acts can be felonies.

Over at this progressive blog we had seen a full-blown campaign arrive out-of-the-box from China to attack the book “Bend, Not Break” and its author Ping Fu. The book provides eye witness accounts of the terrors of being a child during the Cultural Revolution. Ping Fu, then 8 years old, was also suddenly responsible for a younger sister in a world with minimal safety or support and no parents.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched an international campaign to bad-mouth this book. Amazon was flooded with faked reviews. Hundreds of them. The CCP campaign involves posting articles and comments around the world that label Ping Fu as a “liar.” They defend all actions of the Red Guards, who today as a broad cohort have risen to prominence in the national political hierarchy.

This author is a woman, and because she was also raped by a Red Guards gang, the tone and language of these attacks have been particularly shrill.

The attacks are also nothing if not repetitive.

Several of the postings at “Great Orange Satan” provide unintentional humor, because clearly the people doing the keyboard-shill work are not allowed to read the book. They also operate from an “1984″-like alternate-history universe where the Cultural Revolution of 1966-1977 was a “revolutionist” picnic in the park instead of a mad rampage that murdered 3,000,000 people and condoned both gang rape and vast thefts of family property.

Mao Zedong urged his followers to “rape the landowner’s wife.” They did.

When authenticity of these blog postings was questioned, claims arrived in emails and messages. These stated that the prime attacker is an employee at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. A Senior Researcher with an American Ph.D. in physics. This individual was named in the many text messages in an effort to assert American origin for the attacks.

This named individual had been in China as a child during the Cultural Revolution, though he was somewhat younger and much luckier and did not suffer the personal or family assaults inflicted on Ping Fu and her relatives.

Further, an email address at Oak Ridge NL was provided with assurance that this Senior Researcher could be contacted there.

A Great Orange Satan account from 2006 had suddenly been used to publish 9 articles in two weeks, all attacking Ping Fu and defending Red Guards. In general the language, diction, writing style, and politics differed from what the individual who opened the account had done over the period 2006 into the most of 2012.

Immediately on receiving the email and message claims, I contacted Oak Ridge NL and spoke with their Security operation. Control of that email account was the lead issue.

Federal authorities were also apprised of the likelihood of an intrusion and of identity theft. The named individual, the person with the Ph.D. in physics, had to be warned and going through the Oak Ridge NL system is the way to do that — the email in question is located at ornl.gov.

Reporting cyber crimes, particularly international crimes, also starts HERE.

That page has a number of links. Pick what you think fits the situation and at worst you will be rerouted. The tip line works 100% to meet your legal responsibility.

Blog helpdesk personnel need to know that resource.

Blog helpdesk personnel, as you would expect, have not trained to deal with criminal acts other than threats and verbal bigotry as hate crimes. Procedures did not exist for dealing with identity theft.

You might as well be trying to get a bogus item on a credit report corrected.

Identity theft and the Chinese “8-centers” will require expansion to helpdesk procedures.

I do not want to imply that bogus blog postings are as serious a matter as the Chinese military invading our power grid controls, banks, businesses such as Coca-Cola, and the like. Blogs are for information, at best. Hobbyists blowing off steam is not going to cause another Great Northeast Power Black-Out.

No one is going to die over CCP’s 8-cents-a-posting blog rats slandering Ping Fu.

Still, what you do have over there is a bureaucracy with an annual budget to spend screwing with Western web sites. That money is going to be spent.

We also see coordinated Chinese interference with the global warming issue. It’s not clear who is worse: the American billionaires with their secret funding fronts or CCP ???

At this 8-cents-a-posting pay rate they are not exactly buying so many Colin Powells to do their fakery. Their English fails as much as it succeeds. The 8-centers often rely on fake ID’s to lay claim to credibility.

Faked ID’s follow on lies follow on authoritarian Party Line politics. It’s a mess. Attacking Ping Fu has turned into an enormous mess including bringing Amazon around to erasing their most obvious faked reviews.

Next time, next issue, who knows?

Summary: China has adopted a “1984″ approach to truth, similar to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney when they faked their “WMD” propaganda to invade Iraq. The Chinese, today, are quite happy running Ministry of Truth operations. Attacking blogs is an established part of their strategy. Facts do not matter. What their leaders want is the only thing that matters.

Vice President Dick Cheney

In Zero-Dark-Thirty, as in real life, the torture-hounds at CIA never come to their senses. The Vice President, Dick Cheney, had come out to CIA headquarters repeatedly to make sure that his suggestions were carried out. And so it happened.

It is only in 2010, after President Obama has shut down the torture system, that the Hunt For bin Laden project got fresh members and finally made substantial progress at tracking down the principal courier known as “Abu Ahmed” and then Usama bin Laden.

The hunt for UBL had been crippled by Vice President Richard Cheney’s interference from the start. Zero-Dark-Thirty does not depict Cheney’s actions. Still, we know that he made certain that the team focused to using torture to pry operational intel out of captured Al Qaeda jihadists. With ZDT carrying official sanction from CIA top management there can be no doubt that the team had made little progress and then ran into a brick wall at the end of 2009.

– Al Qaeda communicated using aliases, not family names. These aliases prevented direct identifications. The team failed at finding “the Disappeared.”

Same time, they were targeted personally for counterattacks from Al Qaeda. Seven were killed by a suicide-bomber at Camp Chapman on December 30th, 2009.

Without ZDT we would face substantial barriers to understand what happened:

– How would we get a CIA-approved/vetted/cross-checked history that depicts the CIA torture ?
– What were the impacts of torture on the other components of the hunt for UBL ??? Why would CIA document any part of it?

The both of these questions are solved in spades by Zero-Dark-Thirty.

Let us be clear: the acting in ZDT conveys the full extent to which the Hunt For UBL crew believed in torture.

Despite their attitudes, facts are stubborn things.

Katherine Bigelow’s direction and, particularly, Mark Boal’s screenplay depict how getting the team away from torture in 2009 led directly to recovering the identity of UBL’s prime courier in 2010.

I say “recover,” not “discover.”

Moroccan anti-terrorism papers with the family identity of UBL’s courier “Abu Ahmed” had been left in a banker’s box unread since 2002/2003.

Consider this off-camera to ZDT (like Cheney): CIA’s torture-hounds got so lost with their sadistic duties that no one carried out Standard Procedures for data entry and computer support. They never asked for help. Nothing was put on computer.

Can’t ask for much when you’ve got blood stains on your apron.

If Obama hadn’t shut down torture in 2009, CIA might never have reopened that Moroccan gold mine. Odds on, UBL would still be directing Al Qaeda to attack American targets. Seal Team 6 would not have returned on May 2, 2011, with a ton of hard drives, papers, notes, and rolodex from UBL’s office.

ZDT not only depicts history. ZDT is history.

Dick Cheney’s principal advisers were the other members of the NeoCon group recruited by Condi Rice, called “The Vulcans” after an iron statue in her home town Birmingham, Alabama. We call them NeoCons. They insisted on following procedures developed in the IP conflict on the I side.

Torture became the focus of the CIA’s Al Qaeda and Hunt For UBL program. People were recruited and assigned the top jobs based on their usefulness for extracting and applying information from torture.

The team was selected with a binary filter: support torture and you’re in; refuse to accept it with enthusiasm and you’re out.

The script from ZDT gives us a clear look at CIA’s torture-boys. ZDT shows each nugget of information that they extracted. They go years doing this and they get nowhere. Really nowhere either for getting UBL or for knocking out Al Qaeda. Killing an Al Qaeda “# 3″ is useless where CIA’s torture antics recruit another 10,000 kids for them.

They tear flesh from bone from 2002 right through 2009. They repeat their methods, push their obsession with torture, adopt stubbornness. Also, based on ZDT as the CIA retelling of events, they maintain a flat/unwilling ignorance of modern spy tools.

They obstruct by inflicting their own project boundaries on the CIA system — necessitated by torture. They hide away critical information resources. They make it all but impossible to apply research tools. This is the legacy of torture:

TAKE OFF YOUR HELMETS !

The main “anti-capitalist” Blockupy organizers and Polizei management made arrangements to support nonviolent direct action.

Politics is less important to Germans than the core values of civil conduct. They are raised to understand the thinking of people such as Dieter Bonhoeffer, along with many others. They know what Gandhi had to say. NDA is a big deal.

These bareheaded police walked at the front of the Blockupy march — supporting NDA but not supporting or opposing the positions that the protestors advanced. This is correct behavior.

Same time, this Polizei action shames NYPD, Oakland, Chicago, and Boston. These people in Frankfurt are civilized. They are on the same level with the Washington, D.C. and New York U.S. Park Police operations.

The one best organized hope for improvement across America is the Police Executive Research Forum in Washington, D.C. These guys do professional work to support police chiefs and they are fully aware of what U.S. Park Service is doing to make Free Speech the top priority.

Here is New York PD. Apparently it is useful for NYPD to recruit and retain men who hate women. What you are seeing here qualifies as torture. The girl screamed as though she had been stabbed. Of course, no criminal action against the policeman.

In America we of Occupy are up against barbarians.