Intrigue And Petrol

We're nationally addicted to oil. Mr.Bush swings his policies like a tetherball with a changing global climate and now, at last it has come full circle to a declaration that America is addicted to oil. In a state of the state address, the President elect is for the first time speaking out as a proponent of alternative energy sources, not withstanding oil, ethanol, and possibly even clean coal and methane. Where from comes this sudden change?

George Bush is a successful oil executive and entepreneur with massive ties to the petroleum mining industry. It has marked his campaign from day one that he does nothing which does not otherwise benefit him and oil is currently at it's most expensive, thus filling his coffers at nearly 70$ a barrel. Post Katrina, the price of gas was nearly double what it has ever been in the history of our country and today it sits at $2.34 a gallon as a national average. Is it possible that globally he is at last seeing the inevitable collapse of this industry? That the continued use of oil and gasoline products will finally drain the economic engine of our society to such an extent that the number of cars on the road simply dries up the oil supply completely?

It's not worth it to make predictions on that account, but this is an unprecedented change of policy by a man whose history has been one of strictly conservative values, crossing no party boundaries on any level. With the current gigantic budget deficits edging comfortably up again $375 billion dollars, possibly even spooning up with a $400,000,000,000.00 type number by the end of 2006, how can it be expected that he would suddenly abandon his long held plans to mine Alaska's oil fields? Or is this not to be the case? Will we instead use the money derived from those fields to transition into other more viably long term fuel sources? This is for now a moot point. His proposition later tonight will give further information on the subject of how and why he intends this action.

Ginsberg Is Still Howling

The beatnik civilization died in the early seventies in all but it's secluded down home refuges as the aging angel heads and geriatric hipsters watched their contacts with the starry dynamo fade, replaced, altered and grown anew.

I stepped outside this morning, to see the light of the sun. It was shocking, after days with only sideways glances. Having heard the phrase before and only understood it for brief moments, I say my 'chest was suddenly filled' with bizarre, inexplicable elation. The starry dynamo seemed not so far today.

Gone out into the world, I stepped into my vehicle and turned to a gregorian chant. Te Diem Laudmus. I do not praise the god himself, nor the words, but there is glory in these voices. For once, the news remained silent. I heard no words of fear, of foreign beasts and present, ever close by demons. Mr.Bush missed my ears completely and till tonight I'd heard nothing of the declarations made, of laws and rights. By one second in the glowing face of Heaven itself that should blast away the mortal woman and only warms her with it's eyes all that was swept up and carried off to wherever tired ideas go to die, to sleep, to sleep perchance to dream and wait for the comming of dawn.

Cut Straight In

Legality is no longer a question of rightness or law, but of acronym, of title. This is seen in our latest update to the NSA Spying Scandle (the official media title, whose perfect design assaults the sensibilities with feelings of violation at the mere thought) and I cannot help but be reminded of Allen Ginsberg's mighty Howl. Where stand the duties of the American Public as it is stated in the Constitution of the United States, for the removal of a president who becomes a liability? The original pen holding men who signed that document were not idealists, but the process by which a king is removed is still a biased and only partially systematic set of laws.

Final determination must be left to the High Court of the Land. Another has joined the ranks of those in opposition to the confirmation of Judge Alito to the Supreme court, but it seems all but assured. A failing of the High Court system is that the duration of a judge's term is only determined by their lifespan. This has the disadvantage that a President, appointing the independant judicial body designed to keep checks and balances may thereby influence both his own legal status and the future of the country for many many years beyond his tenure.

If Congress too is in a conservative phase, this may tip the otherwise finely tuned balance of state powers and create a closed government. We already have a closed presidency. The ideas presented to the President are only those left to his staff and filtered through purely conservative outlets. Still, in a Democracy, the people are the only rulers, in the end and make no mistake, this is not a Republic.

Written For Dim Stars And Black and Blue Stripes

We're reminded daily, short of an isolationist lifestyle, of the interesting times in which we live. Few characters step forward to refute the terrors. It's said that our interest is swayed only by the violence produced by the failure of politics, rather than the peaceful activity of it's success.

The public wants answers for but one of a hundred activities that could be called criminal in all but the most liberal courts, yet our high Congress, whose appointment is to uphold our law structure now functions based almost entirely on partisan ideals. Feel 'helpless'? That's the reaction of thousands whose ideal survivorship is determined by that no change in their current environment should occur, even when the offense continues unabated inches from their glazed eyes, when they can no longer comprehend the mass of the injustice commited by those trusted to lead.

In the year 2005 and 2006, the American Executive Office, headed by general elect President George Walker Bush, authorized the use of technology available to the National Security Agency, whose function is to gather information illicitly once a warrant has been issued, without a warrant. Worse, he authorized the use of this technology on citizens of the state, again, without a warrants issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. This stands, at least to immediate appearances, in direct opposition to the 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Without judicial check and balance, the applications of this information gathering network extend the boundaries of

The administration admited the day after the exposition of the activity by the New York Times in December of 2006, that it had occured, defending it as a necessary and legal measure in the war against terrorist activity nationally and internationally. According to a quote from Mr.Bush, he approved such actions "because it enables us to move faster and quicker. We've got to be fast on our feet." This comes in spite of the fact that when a warrant is requested from the FISC, it can be issued within a matter of hours.

Why then were these particular pieces of information so necessarily secret that it took a secret edict from the President himself to allow for their aquisition in such fashion that even a secret court could not know of them? With the exposure of his program by the Times in December, 2006, the continuing investigation by the ACLU has seen greater expositions, including that the FBI and other agencies have been collecting data and colluding to establish a dragnet that may have included even such national lobby groups such as PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals).

The former Vice President Al Gore, opposed candidate in the 2000 election and former senator John Kerry opposed running candidate to Mr.Bush in 2004 have condemned these activities vehemently, only to have it shot back at them in the form of accusations of spying during the Clinton administration, though those were conducted with the benefit of warrants.

The knee-jerk reaction is to scream 'dictator'. Are these violations truly so unexpected? Most especially being that they have occured before, again and again. During WWII, internment camps held thousands of Japanese Americans who held legal citizenship in the United States. J. Edgar Hoover authorized that citizens suspected of communist attachments be detained and otherwise imprisoned without warrants. To be labeled a communist was a grave thing. President Nixon was impeached and forthwith resigned when evidence of his covereup of illegal wire tapping came to light.

I cannot tell you what is needed to prevent these activities. A new law may be altered, a new government will be insufficient, a new president...that remains to be seen. Would Dick Cheney uphold the law? He could not run as President. His ultra-conservative style of political involvement makes Mr.Bush pale by comparison. With the confirmation of Judge Alito to the supreme court however, replacing Sandra Day O'Connor, we now have a conservative high court, complete with judges who will not convict the president under any circumstances, even if stronger evidence is brought to light. So, feeling helpless now? Good. The biology of our nation is changing. Where do we stand?

Welcome...I'd like to lay down a few ground rules.

Firstly, of what I write here I want a grain of salt taken with each sentence. The American media is no longer reporting with reliability, if ever it can be said it truly did. We live in an age of unrivaled free flow of information. Any piece of knowledge can be aquired simply be reaching for it and yet to seek is becomming a dangerous activity. The name of God rises at the head of government after nearly two hundred years dormancy in our nation and with it, the seditionist, the civil disobediant, and most dangerous, the journalist rise to make certain the people's eyes are not closed again.

No one should die because of what I write. I will endeavor to gather information as best I can from as many sources as possible and corroborate them with one another to present a picture. I make no promises that this picture will be unbiased.

Passion is a grand thing but undirected, it leads to a woman on her knees, begging God to tell her why the soldiers killed her son. You've seen this image before. In 1970, on the campus of Kent State, soldiers of the National Guard opened fire on a group of young protestors, students demanding explanation for a meaningless war and veterans who'd served their term and seen the horror. Four children died. Jeffrey Miller's mother knelt over her son's corpse, cried out, raised her arms, and burned a picture into the mind of a nation. I will not be responsible for this occuring through actions taken by those who read my notes and observations.

Secondly, in posting I am not asking for debate, for input, or for review. I may be comedic, lyrical, vulgar, and even obscene at times. My opinions and ideas may occaisionally conflict with one another. This is not an invitation for some point to be made, some idea to be presented, or some argument to be added to this morass.

Lastly, to those who choose to read and disseminate this log among their friends or associates, I would only ask that you realize what you are giving to them and that instead of posting a portion, you give it to them as a whole. In pieces, what is said may mean nothing compared to the completed work.

I. The being, the singular, who takes into her/his own hands responsibility and declares individuality with all attendant dangers therewith. Will. The drive, the force of continuing decision by which we make our way. Press. The will applied to the I, the passion to the goal, the pressure to the idea. Make no mistake. I will press.