   Oh Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye! By Ernest Stewart Where are your legs that used to run, hurroo, hurroo "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." ~~~ Amendment Four ~ U.S. Constitution "On September 11th, 2010, from 6pm - 9pm, we will burn the Koran on the property of Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, FL in remembrance of the fallen victims of 9/11 and to stand against the evil of Islam. Islam is of the devil!" ~~~ Fran Ingram All the rainbows in the sky Setting suns before they fall, It's over. It's over. It's over. It's over!
What I'm wondering is what are those 50,000 non-combat troops that we left behind doing in Iraq? When I was in the army everyone was considered a combat troop. Of the millions who went to Vietnam, 90% never saw a minute's combat. However, they all could have put down their baker's tins, typewriters or Dewey decimal cards, picked up an M-14 and kicked ass and took names. Of course, today our troops don't bake, or run libraries or even type for that matter. We have civilian contractors to run the mess halls and such so who are these dudes? Are they wusses or what? Are they all doctors, lawyers and Indian chiefs? Sure there are 150,000 soldiers of fortune...er..."contractors" running around murdering people, mostly for kicks but handling security of sorts. They're the ones guarding the bases, the oil docks and the politicians, something apparently that the Marines are no longer capable of doing? Because if the Marines are capable then why aren't they doing it? Why is Blackwater...er...Xe doing those jobs at 10 times the cost? Actually, of course, there are still combat troops in Iraq and they're going nowhere! Knowing how America likes to use euphemisms to hide the truth from the Sheeple, they've just changed their name; as old Willie Shakespeare said in Romeo and Juliet, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Or "combat brigades by any other name would be as deadly!" For example, the much ballyhooed 4th Stryker brigade crossed into Kuwait, while the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team of the 25th Infantry Division are deployed in Iraq as members of an "Advise and Assist Brigade." We advise and assist, you consent or we kill you! Plus there are several National Guard combat units that aren't going anywhere soon! Hey they're not in "the Army!" As the US Army Times said, "Combat brigades in Iraq under different name." And like the National Guard the Air Force has a couple of combat brigades that aren't going anywhere either! Officially 4140 US troops were killed in Iraq, about 5% of the real total, 32,000 seriously wounded with about half of them with incapacitating head-wounds. Total wounded well over 100,000. Thousands more of our kids have returned then taken their lives and thousand more will continue to do so! Some kill their families and friends and complete strangers, too! Who knows what the final human toll will be? The Iraqi toll is staggering. 1,100,000 dead, another 100,000 missing (blown into tiny bits that couldn't be identified), 500,000 plus wounded and 4 million on the lam, forced to flee for their lives from our "ethnic" cleansing. About 100,000 of those were Iraqi women and girls who were trafficked into sexual slavery in Jordan and Syria! All so our oil companies could make the biggest profits in the history of the world. So that the military/industrial/media complex could make staggering profits as well and we could build permanent bases to control all that lovely gas and oil until it runs out. You don't really think we built those multi billion dollar bases out in the wilderness to turn them over to the Iraqis in a year or two, did you? We're going nowhere until the oil runs out. Ask the Germans, Japanese and the Italians how that works. They are our allies, they're all democracies and yet we have dozens of bases in their countries 65 years after WWII ended. In fact we still have us bases in England. Hell, ask the Cubans how Guantanamo is working out for them since we saved them from Spain in 1898. Imagine foreign bases all over America! If it keep going as it's going pretty soon you won't have to imagine! After Pineda-Moreno challenged the DEA's actions, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit ruled in January that it was all perfectly legal. More disturbingly, a larger group of judges on the circuit, who were subsequently asked to reconsider the ruling, decided this month to let it stand. This was, of course, illegal as the government violated Pineda-Moreno's privacy rights in two different ways. First, the invasion of his driveway was illegal. The courts have long held that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their homes and in the "curtilage," a legal term for the area around the home. The government's intrusion on property just a few feet away was clearly in this zone of privacy and hence illegal. The court went on to make a second terrible decision about privacy: that once a GPS device has been planted, the government is free to use it to track people without getting a warrant. More warrant-less searches, are you having a deja vu too? That background noise you maybe hearing is George Orwell saying, "I told you so!" The judges added insult to injury when they explained why Pineda-Moreno's driveway was not private. It was "open to strangers," they said,"such as delivery people and neighborhood children, who could wander across it uninvited." So much for all those trespassing laws. I guess those laws don't apply to the government, huh? Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, who dissented from this decision, pointed out whose homes are not open to strangers: the elites! "The court's ruling," he said, "means that people who protect their homes with electric gates, fences and security booths have a large protected zone of privacy around their homes. People who cannot afford such barriers don't" and are subject to the government's and the court's dirty tricks! And the wealthy whine about class wars! Alex, went on, saying, "1984 may have come a bit later than predicted, but it's here at last. Some day, soon, we may wake up and find we're living in Oceania!" One ray of hope is that the influential U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit recently ruled that "tracking for an extended period of time with GPS is an invasion of privacy that requires a warrant." Unfortunately, the issue is likely to end up in the Supreme Court and we all know how John "the enforcer" Roberts' court will rule, don't we? A euphemistic pastor, Dr. Terry Jones, (No it's not our author and former Python Terry Jones but after reading this you might think so!) at the "DOVE" World Outreach Center of Gainesville Florida wants to really piss off American Muslims by burning a Koran on 911. Is burning the Koran something that Jesus would do? Especially since the Muslims worship the same god as the Christians and Jews? Wasn't there something about "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself?" Not insult him and taunt him and really piss him off! I wonder what Yahweh would say about Dr. Terry and his mission? Now Dr. Terry and his band of merry pranksters are not burning books like the Nazis did, well actually they are, but that's not what Terry says:
Christians are called to live and speak the truth, and to tear down the strongholds of the kingdom of darkness. Islam is of the devil and the Koran is a lie. Millions of people all over the world, Moslem and non-Moslem, are held captive by these lies. The world needs a beacon of warning and of hope. Like the Christians in Acts 19, we are publicly burning a book that is demonic. We are not, like the Nazis, stealing books, destroying properties or harming any people. ~~~ Dr. Terry Jones In fact Terry has ten reasons why this is a good and a righteous thing. Even though the church can't get a burning permit from the City of Gainesville they're going ahead any way as they don't have to obey man's laws when they're following God's laws. By all means try explaining that to the prosecutor next time you're in court! Yeah, I know...
Hey Terry, So far, I haven't gotten a reply, imagine that! However, if you have some thoughts that you'd like to share with Terry, Fran and gang down at the "Dove" World Outreach Center of Gainesville Florida here's the info. Oh, and tell'em Uncle Ernie sent ya! Dr. Terry Jones Senior Pastor of I got my walking papers the other day! She wants me G.O.N.E. A.S.A.P.. Trouble is, I done spent all my money financing this magazine and I'm flat broke. I desperately need $1,000 to get me and my stuff back to Detroit and set up housekeeping, before it and I end up on the street walking the 700 miles back to Detroit, and with COPD I don't imagine I'll get very far. If you can help me please do so today. To say that I'm desperate is a vast understatement! HELP! Contact me at: uncle-ernie@journalist.com PS. Thanks to Bob from St. Petersburg, Fla and thanks to Ernie from Ontario I'm 25% of the way to getting out of here with my life and my stuff. If just another six of you would do the same this could have a happy ending! Time is fast running out!  04-15-1950 ~ 08-19-2010 Thanks for the Jams!
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