FIRST AMENDMENT ZONE / ASK JERKY!

Hey Jerky, While trying to get over a shitty breakup these past couple of days, I realized one thing about people. There's no way you can get them to see things, right things, LOGICAL things, if they don't wanna see it. Like how much you care, or how stupid Dubya is. When broken up with, I was rendered ungrateful and irresponsible, perhaps like a "damn liberal". When asked by others why he broke up with me, the answer given was as inconsistent as not accepting stem cell research because Korea has nukes. So I realized that I shouldn't blame myself if he thinks I'm irresponsible and whatnot (which I'm not), and if I haven't made a difference in many people's minds about the American situation. Cause if the person in front of you is self-centered, stubborn, or just plain fucking stupid, they're not gonna get it. As many times as you bang your head on the wall. I guess my ex would have made a great Republican. Vicky D [We are in the post-truth age. Better learn to deal with it. - Jerky] *** **** *** Jerky; If you can, watch the PBS program about Jack Abramoff. It will probably be on again, but there is a lot of really good information about how our government really runs. The program is Moyers on America: The case of lobbyist Jack Abramoff. And the discussion after the program is really worthwhile too. David Andrews [Here it is, online. Just click on Capital Crimes. - Jerky] *** **** *** Hey Jerky; Very interesting how this happened after a meeting with the church leaders last week by Bush. C Holt [The relevance of the timing issue escapes me. - Jerky] *** **** *** Hey Jerky; The Path to 9/11 was very troubling because it sent the message that the Constitution supposedly got in the way of preventing the attacks on 9/11. Specifically, this “docudrama” reportedly portrays Clinton administration officials reining in CIA operatives ready to strike Osama bin Laden because those officials are hog-tied by legal restraints. That is entirely fabricated by the author and its implication is that 9/11 was made possible by weak people following outmoded laws. The corollary is an endorsement of the Bush administration’s legislative and PR effort to scare the nation and Congress into rewriting and severely restricting our freedoms and legal standards. If weakening the Constitution is your idea of helping America, then this program will be right up your alley. D Andrews [And yet, it aired. Go figure. - Jerky] *** **** *** MOPJ, Damn it feels good to write to you once again. In todays news we read of the new Defense budget of $448 Billion dollars for the fiscal year 2007. In it, the Democrats made sure there was a provision against establishing permanent military bases in Iraq. I almost laughed out loud. I knew some information about the permanency of our military in Iraq, but I had just read this a couple of days ago and just went, "WTF?" YOP, Bob [Nothing is solid at this time. Legally, spiritually and literally, we're in a collective state of absolute flux. How it will shake out is anybody's guess. - Jerky] *** **** *** Jerky, Jerky, Jerky… The mother fucking KING OF THAILAND!!! Whats up with that? IrishDave [You mean him supporting the military coup against Thailand's sitting government? Not sure what's up with that, but I think John Michael Karr had something to do with it. - Jerky] *** **** *** Jerky, The law that Florida, and several other states, has passed allowing the decent gun owners to shoot criminals is one of the best laws ever passed in modern times. Whoever wrote that shitball editorial about it being bad is in dire need of a frontal lobotomy or they truly belong to the Nazi party. Explain to the asshole anti-gunners that some of the politicians are waking up to the needs of the real world. In FL if you get caught shooting a gun during a crime it is automatic 20 yrs in the slammer. That is a good law also. And while I am at why did you not publish my letter about giving President Bush a little credit. I did not say he was perfect, but you gotta admit there have been no more terrorist attacks in the United States since 9/11. Get real for a change. YOP Rembrandt [I didn't publish your previous letter because it was as stupid as this one, only longer. - Jerky] *** **** *** Dear Jerky, I watched Keith Olbermann deliver this comment on MSNBC night before last and was enraged to tears... Habeas Corpus has been stripped from the Bill of Rights my friends. I hope you are as outraged as I am and now it is time to spread this depressing news to your friends, family, and co-workers... Regards, Jimmy [Should we hold a funeral? - Jerky] *** **** *** Hey Jerky; I uploaded this clip to YouTube recently and I thought you might be interested: This clip has been in several montages about the collapse of the WTC, but this time it's from the terminally flawed Inside the Twin Towers 'docu-drama' that ran on the Discovery Channel for the 5th Anniversary of the event. The special attempts to shore up several of the false claims made by the 9-11 Commission regarding the WTC, namely that the towers were 'hollow steel shafts', which anyone who's done even the least amount of research can discover is false. The special intersplices real 9-11 footage with dramatizations of what is supposedly occurring inside the buildings. Somehow, this clip managed to get into the program with it's audio intact. Not only can you see the explosions racing down the side of the building, but you can hear them now, too. Possibly the best video suggesting WTC controlled demolition that I've ever seen. Jack Frost [I can't personally vouch for the authenticity of that clip, and I've seen other versions of it with a different soundtrack, so viewer beware... as always. - Jerky] *** **** *** Dear Jerky; The talking heads of conservative propaganda want you to believe that liberals want to compromise American sovereignty, but in fact it is the Bush administration that is opening up the Mexico/Canada highway corridor to facilitate unlimited access between the three countries as if they were just one country. At the end of March 2005, U.S. President George W. Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin committed their governments to a simple path of cooperation and joint action. The plan is so Simple. Erase the borders. The plan is contained in a "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America" agreement that was little noticed when President Bush and President Fox created it in March 2005. Here is a little bit more at this site. David [Can it be any worse than what we've got now? - Jerky]