Updated - The Tea Party Exposed - Deliberate Deception and Manufactured Anger - Part 2

9. May 2010

The second part of my series on the 'Tea Party Expose' has been significantly updated. Read how a section on the tea party movement had betrayed the country and should be branded as 'traitors'. You can read it here.

Tea Party Expose, US Politics

Let's Not Cloak The Arizona Law In The Facade of 'Crime Prevention'

4. May 2010

I think it's about time we give a strong message to all politicians that we will tolerate nothing else other than the unadulterated truth. We all know that the Arizona law has nothing to do with crime prevention ... it is so obvious that illegals do not commit more crimes than the local population. But, it is a convenient facade to hide the obvious agenda, which is to 'terrorize' the immigrant population (both legal and illegal) so that they'll think twice before immigrating to America (or crawling under the fence). The local population is sick of the growing 'foregin' population and is furious about them taking their jobs.

Well, I don't expect that truth from the Arizona governor, but at the very least what I would have liked to hear from her and the legislators was something like the below.

"We have tried various options in the past to sten the flow of illegal immigrants in our state, and partly due to inadequate support from the federal government none of those initiatives have been successful. Since we cannot wait for the Federal government to fix this complex issue, we are forced to pass a tough law to combat this rampant problem. We realize that this may cause some concern to our legal immigrants, whom we welcome with open arms and who have bought enormous diversity and economic vibrancy to our state and country. However, please rest assured that we will not let this law be miused in any way and will very strictly deal with any abuses related to this law. We will not allow police officers to stop a person solely for the purpose of checking papers. We just want this law to be an additional tool in their arsenal, so that when a stop has been made for an unrelated offence, the officer has the legal authority to check the papers only if the situation demands such a request. We will be happy to discuss all the details of this new law with anybody who desires it, and will also set up a number where people call up relating to any perceived abuse of this law. We thank the residents of Arizona for their trust and cooperation."

Immigration, US Politics, Arizona Law

5186 for vs 2006 against - Let's change the equation in Arizona

2. May 2010

The dirty reality of politics is evident from this statment from the Arizona governor, Jan Brewer. "I received 5186 calls in favor of the law and 2006 calls against". Obviously, principles and justice do not play a role here. The role of the leader, whether it is a governor or a president, is not to fan the flames of fanaticism that has taken over the general population. It is to think on a higher plane and do the right thing, not just follow the mob. If joblessness and depair have made people so deseperate that they are 'desert'ing the last shreds of morality and justice, then it is the duty of the leader to try to reason with them, and not fan the flames of bigotry and injustice. It is very evident that Jan Brewer will go to any extent to keep her seat, and if signing the law is required to get herself re-elected she will do it in a flash, even if it means trashing every basic tenet of decency and justice. We do not want leaders who are looking only after themselves and we will make sure that she does not get re-elected. Obama became president because he had the guts, at at time when everyone was pandering to public fury after 9/11 and votedi n favor of the Iraq war, to strongly oppose the Iraq war and very presciently laid out the results of such an endeavour (all of which have come true). We want leaders who have what it takes to do what is right, and not just do what it takes to get re-elected.

Let's also make one more fact very clear to her. There are many people out there who are opposed to this law and haven't called her yet. So let's even out those numbers and flood her with some nay calls that the calls in favor of the law will seem like  a rounding error. Moreover, one convenient ommision from the governor is that she hasn't disclosed how many other modes of transmission she has received and hwat the count for that is. I have a feeling that neanderthals who support the law might be more amenable to using the phone (hey, there might no Internet connection in those caves) and people who have the capability to think on a higher plan might use more modern modes of communication, like email/blog posts. Even though the numbers should not matter in this decision, as the governor's job is to what's right and not just do what's popular, let's still give her a feel of the ferocity of the opposition. The number to contact the Arizona governor's office is given below, along with a link in case you prefer written communication. Feel free to vent.

Telephone (602) 542-4331
Toll Free 1-(800) 253-0883
Fax (602) 542-1381

http://azgovernor.gov/Contact.asp

Immigration, US Politics, Arizona Law

Is an Economic Boycott of Arizona Justified? About as much as a boycott of Iran

27. April 2010

Should the common man pay the price for the decisions of the government? In many cases, as in the Iraq war and in the calls for the embargo against Iran, many Americans do believe that such an approach is justified. How else do we give a message to the government, and how else do we make them realize their mistakes? How else will we compel them to reverse their decision? Well, my initial knee-jerk reaction was to join the calls for boycott (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/us/27arizona.html?bl), especially after the more infuriating comments by the governor justifying her actions (and all the elected reps shameless using the same masquerade when they voted) as something that is required to handle the increasing crime in her state. They can try as much as they want to call this 'immigrant purging' by any other name, but luckily this time (unlike in the Iraq war) the American people are not going to fall for that joke of a reason and are not going to get brainwashed.  The sad part is that there are many Arizona residents who support this law, and we will make every effort to ram some sense and empathy into them too.

However, after some due thought, I decided that I will stick to my principle, where I will not knowingly make any innocent person suffer and pay the price of the ignorance and activisim of their racist brethren. The truth is that there are many residents in Arizona who oppose the law too, and our collective actions against the state will hurt then for no fault of theirs. That was one (small) piece of my arguments agains the Iraq war (which involved deception and sliminess on a much larger scale), and also against the secretive incarceration of 'suspects' in the years following 9/11. The same way an American drone would not target a civilian area knowingly, we will not target an area knowing that we will 'hit' innocent people as well. However, those neanderthals who passed the law need to be taught a unforgettable lesson, and I would appreciate if you have any suggestion in that regard (please leave a comment or drop in a note to admin@hitbackharder.com). I would also make our voices heard loud and clear and make sure each one of us sends a messsge to the governor and the elected reps, by using the links below (or calling).

http://az.gov and http://azgovernor.gov/

Also, lest we become like the tea party ourselves, let's try to come up with some good alternatives to combat illegal immigration, without letting the hard-working legal immigrant suffer.

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Arizona: Police State of the Union

23. April 2010

OK, I had to hold off on my tea party series of articles as this took more immediate precedence. I do not have to give my opinion of the outrageous law passed in Arizona, but all I can say is we will not take it quietly. Obviously many immigrants cannot vote yet (they are not citizens yet as the process takes a while) so passing this law may not hurt the governor politically, but we will scream loud enough that her head hurts. Let me say it one more time, as the many 'ape brains' in this country do not seem to get it (or do not care what happens to 'foreigners'). You cannot create an atmosphere of harrasment and intimidation for the legal immigrant just to catch a few illegals. This country cannot reach a stage where you have to carry your passport when you go out to throw the trash or else you might be chucked into jail. No siree, that is not done. This country invited all the legal immigrants and is partaking in all the economic they provide (hey, they gotta buy a lot of new stuff when they get here), and then hound and harass them to satisy one of your narrow objectives. It is obvious that the people who passed this law cannot empathize with the impact of this law on immigrants, and the amount of mental strain it puts on them, as they haven't lived as an immigrant anywhere themselves. But we will hammer empathy into every citizen of this country, if that is what it takes. It's also besides the point that this law applies to everybody, so citizens have a good chance at being pulled over too, and it will be good fun to see people who passed this law being pulled over and asked for birth certificates/passports. I doubt that will happen though as I have feeling that the people who passed this law do not look like an immigrant. Check out this story though, to get a feel of things to come - > http://digg.com/d31PQVn.

However, the focus of this blog is not just to voice opinions but also provide means for action. I urge every person who agrees that this law is toxic to contact the Arizona Governor and give her a piece of your mind ... heck, give her more than a piece if possible for she certainly needs some grey matter up there ...

http://www.azgovernor.gov/contact.asp

If people have the contact detials for the offices of the reps who 'ayed' this vote, please post it here so that we can clear out their earwax.

Immigration, US Politics, Arizona Law

The Tea Party Exposed - Deliberate Deception and Manufactured Anger - Part 2

22. April 2010

Read Part 1 of this series here.

Playing politics is not a justification to destroy the very country the 'tea'-rexes  have been promising in their speeches to 'take back'. Starting with the Stimulus 'Bailout' Package issue, on which in fact the tea party was founded on, the leaders and establishment involvement in the tea party proved to be duplicitous crooks who knew very well that Obama and his team are doing the right thing and there is absolutely no other option than to save the banks, as the alternative would be economical anarchy and intense financial pain for every citizen of this country. But, the dirty politicians that they are, they knew they could not be caught dead agreeing with Obama on anything, and that they had to twist and malign his actions to continue with their campaigns of ‘tax and spend’, ‘democrats are bringing socialism’ and ‘big government is taking over our lives’  to continue stoking anger in their base and people with ‘malleable minds’ who were skeptical about Obama from the beginning. These are the SAME people who supported the stimulus package when the Bush administration pushed it and now are maligning Obama for ‘government take over’ when he is doing the same. That is inexcusable, bordering on criminal, deception, as their actions (knowingly opposing an important action that can protect our financial viability as a country) can bring financial destruction and erosion of our standards of living and world status. These actions are bordering on betrayal and I would classify these leaders as 'traitors', due to the impact that their action would have had on our country (if the stimulus act hadn’t passed). I repeat that politics is not a justification for such despicable actions of monumentally destructive proportions. However, I’m not blaming everybody in the tea-party for these vile acts, but only a certain ‘fringe’ who is intentionally misleading the hordes of tea party supporters. I will call these people the ‘traitors’ from now on, and without a doubt, the dubious distinction of being the ‘top traitor’ goes t onone other then Sarah Palin. To be fair, there were a few founders of this movement who were genuinely enraged at the ‘perceived’ actions of Obama, and started the tea party movement to vent out their frustrations at what they thought was a free pass for the banks and their executives. These people were horribly deluded and though the impact of their actions might be the same as the slimy elements in the party, they never intentionally betrayed the country for the purpose of politics (hey, in my books ignorance is a valid defense, though there is no excuse not to get it cured). Due to their out-dated, ignorant and narrow minded mindset I will call these group of people (which form the majority of the tea-party movement) the ‘tea’-rexes. Their partially demented behaviour and tendency to spout imaginary conspiracy theories is described well in this article in the Newsweek (“After I spent the weekend at the Tea Party National Convention in Nashville, Tenn., it has become clear to me that the movement is dominated by people whose vision of the government is conspiratorial and dangerously detached from reality. It's more John Birch than John Adams.”). Though not culpable of betraying our country directly, they might be equally responsible for the destruction of our country the way we know it, so it is critical that we push back against this movement with gigantic force that will make their ‘armageddon’ look like a ‘tea and biscuits’ party and ‘sledgehammer’ some sense into them. This is not something the rest of the country can ignore and we have to act forcefully to win this intellectual ‘civil war’ and keep America’s flag flying high.


Don’t get me wrong, they had every right to start a movement, as I believe every person who has something to say should try all means possible to make their voices heard and what better than approach than gathering like minded brethren and speaking as one voice. But, the intent, unfortunately, does not redeem the fact the intense stupidity and cluelessness of the majority who soaked up the crap of the ‘traitors’ and got swept in the wave of fury, as they just fell hook line and sinker for the horse-gooey that was being doled out by the ‘traitors’ and the republican establishment (a big portion of which is equally culpable and deserves to be counted in the group of ‘traitors’).

For your kind information, you ‘tea-sipping’ majors in moronic sciences, the stimulus package was originally conceived by Bush, Paulson and his team because they too obviously realized (the hard way actually by letting Lehman fail) that the economic volcano had to be contained before the ash spills over the entire nation and creates economic tremors in every citizen's home. There was no other option for the Obama administration to continue the Bush solution, but the 'foxy' weasels of the tea party decided that the economic stakes and citizens' welfare does not matter and all that matters is how to reclaim their seat in the next election and how they can manipulate people's thinking and convince them that Obama is a socialist and screwing the nation. The two-faced duplicty of the ‘traitors’ of this tea party movement is so despicable that you would think that even America's worst enemy's would think twice about indulging in such lowly behaviour to destroy our country, but these are America's supposed saviours who are doing their best to wreck the already fragile finances of individuals by spoonfeeding bs-shake to the general and put on this façade of patriotism by crying ‘USA, USA’ at every rally. ‘Tea’-rex posters like 'bail me out too' were pretty common during those days, but seriously those people should have their voting right revoked on the basis of sheer ignorance. Let me give a suggestion to these ‘tea’-rexes about the standard they should hold their leaders (and youself) too …just saying 'you lie' is not acceptable.. if you think the stimulus was the wrong step, then come up with a credible alternative or else stop spewing skunk dung from your hot air hole. Like the Iraq war, sooner or later you will come to your senses, and will grudgingly acknowledge the truth, which is that THERE WAS NO OTHER ALTERNATIVE THAN TO SAVE THE BANKS FROM COLLAPSING, AND THE STIMULUS PACKAGE WAS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY AND WAS PASSED TO SAVE YOU (THE COMMON MAN) AND OUR ECONOMY FROM DEVASTATION. You ungrateful wretches should be thanking your stars that you had people like the Bush/Paulson and Obama/Geithner teams, which put principles over politics and did what was right and required. Oh btw, I'm sure many of you morons must be wondering ... "oh, so did Bush actually start this stimulus/bailout thingy?" ... yes, Sherlock, get the freaking facts right before you start working yourself into a lather and do a ‘dinosaur dance’ with the rest of the ‘tea’-rexes. If you can take it, you will also realize the obvious truth soon, that the tea party leadership (the ‘traitors’ camp) is fully aware that they are misleading and brainwashing you and are intentionally following this vile path of dirty deception because their only goal is to get in power ... the welfare of the country be damned. If you can still retain a shred of your senses, give them the boot and walk out of the party and support the person who is trying his best to do what's right for the country.  



To be continued in the next part

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The Tea Party Movement Exposed - Deliberate Deception and Manifactured Anger - Part I

20. April 2010

After watching these specimens for a long time now, here’s my take on the tea 'party animals'. The tea party movement does have a good portion of members who've been deluded and brainwashed, (brainwashing these people doesn't take much effort actually), and will swallow any horse-gooey that's handed over to them by the right-wing rogues. Hey, it didn't take them much to convince a good portion of the country that Saddam Hussein had a role in 9/11 (I can almost hear Rummy, Cheney and Rove backslapping and chuckling about how easy it was to pull wool over the public's eyes). So, we have people who were already against Obama (due to a suspicion of the unknown mainly) to begin with, hanging on to every word spoken by the Stalin Palin, the ‘What the heck’ Beck, the Vanity Hannity and the Cussy Coulter. These people don’t have much of a brain anyhow and inspite of not understanding the underlying subjects, be it the stimulus or healthcare, take every word spoken by the above dirt-worms as gospel and keep stoking the fire smoldering inside them since the election. There are a good section amongst these people who voted for Obama, mainly due to the anger against Bush for misleading them to the war (read above note, trigger happy tea sippers, on how you let them mislead you so easily and are letting these guys pull the same number on you again) and pretty soon had buyer’s remorse, as their channels were still tuned to foxy news and the republican dirt-farting machine continued from where it had left off for the election campaign and kept on maligning and distorting every move Obama made. The more they kept listening to muck-raking maniacs, the more they started believing those deceiving devils, and the more they started hating Obama. OK, so we know how these people got sucked into the tea party, pretty much the same way these guys got sucked into approving the Iraq war and did not realize the enormity of their stupidity until their own sons and daughters started dying, but what’s so shocking about the tea party is the other side.

The people who are the ‘idols’ and ‘inspiration of the tea party, and people related to them, are the treacherous traitors who are deliberately misleading the public and reaching new depths of depravity in deliberately distorting any information on Obama’s proposals and openly indulging in deception, with political gain being the sole justification. These are people who were involved in growing the tea party to it’s current position, by rabble-rousing the crowds with stunningly deliberate lies and fear-mongering. These are the real rats of the tea party movement and the ones who pose the most major threat to the future of our country. These are the people who need to be called out and smoked out to have their dirty agenda exposed in front of the entire nation. These are the people who keep going ‘wink wink nudge nudge’ amongst themselves, as they know that Obama is doing a great job and probably trying harder and doing more good than any other president in history, but they gotta tear him down in their speeches and demonize him. Obviously, you belong to the opposition and you don’t need the genius of Karl Rove to understand that these people would rather be caught with a text message from a mistress rather than with an admission that Obama is doing the right thing. You have to bury him and his party with criticism and put such a dirty spin on his proposals that it would seem that Obama himself should be declared an ‘enemy combatant’. Some die-hard defenders and unscrupulous politicians will say “why not? Everybody’s got to do what it takes to survive in politics”. Sorry, Mr. Rove Redux, that is not acceptable, and here’s why …

To be continued in the next part.

US Politics, Tea Party Expose

This Blog is back ... (again)

8. April 2010

The long hiatus (the second one actually) is over and even though the comeback was long overdue, for the 'tea'ception parties were getting a free pass for way too long, I've finally managed to push myself tocreate some time for contributions to this blog and have also got some more people (with brains) involved. The 2010 election will be the war of the 'un'civilizations in terms of the amount of the weapons of mass deception that will be used by the 'tea'ception parties, and what they need is a hammer-strength response of unfathomable proportions that will make their tea party meetings seem like a Jerry Springer show. More to follow in my next article ...

US Politics

Why Corzine is the better choice

19. October 2009

The right wing machine that is trying every dirty trick in the book to malign Obama and get the democrats out of power has made Jersey it's next battleground. Every radio host is unilaterally raving against Corzine and how he brought ruin to the state. They talk of corruption in Jersey politics and how voting for a democrat again will be a vote for continuation of dirty politics in Jersey. The words 'dirty politics' sounds funny coming out of republican mouths, who have fallen to new depths in their blatantly duplicitous campaigns (and gimmicks like tea parties) against Obama, screaming and jumping on a bed of falsehoods. The truth is that Corzine is not like every other corrupt politician and has tried many times to take the unions and political class head-on, even shutting down state government and casino functions till they agreed to his demands. He has many commendable accomplishments to his record like his historic investements in NJ schools and his determined efforts to fight the deficit, which is mainly the result of the economic downturn. The republicans, like at the centre, have tried to paint him responsible for all the job losses and deficits, but the truth is that the republicans know that there is no other path other then what Corzine is following. They cannot dig out of the deficits through tax cuts though Christie is falsely proclaiming that he'll cut taxes when he comes to power. If you ask him how, he will give a run-around that will make Palin proud.

The advantages of choosing Corzine are many, and one of them is that he has nothing to lose in a second term as he will not be fighting for re-election again, so that gives him a better chance at pushing harder to fulfill his cost-cutting agenda. He is not corrupt and is not interested in the money, as he has lots of it, so his sole focus is on development. Christie does not offer anything specific that would make us choose him, and the risks are too high as both he and his deputy are connected to law enforcement, both have right-wing views about immigrants, and would probably make NJ a police state. Anybody who pushes for police officers to be immigration enforcers, who doesn't understand the terrifying plight it creates for immigrants (legal!!), subjecting legal residents of the state to live in an atmosphere of 'guilty until proven innocent' and make them live in constant fear of being asked to prove their status....even to the point that they might think of carrying passports if they go out to throw the trash, is not an American and does not deserve any office. Real Americans know that their country is about freedom, liberty and hope and creating an atmosphere of terror (especially for our newest arrivals) is not exactly what the founding fathers had in mind. Of course, they will always fall back on the Cheney/Rove trump card of 'protection against terrorism' for all the steps that they would like to take and gullible people still fall for it even after the bitter lesson of the Iraq war (talk about knuckleheads). Finally, they do not have the expertise or the qualification to be govern the state and fix the state economy. The only thing that I may excuse them for is their social views, as I'm not a big fan of abortion either. But, most important is if the person is good human being and anybody who is insensitive enough to snatch basic freedom from people's lives and makes them live in terror, cannot be a good human being.

The 2008 Election is Not Over Yet.. Get Ready for Battleground 2.0

19. August 2009

If the Obama supporters (who seem to be dwindling) think their job is done after getting him elected, then think again. The right-wing deseperadoes will stop at nothing to kick him out of office and get somebody else in. They are fuming and foaming at the mouth at the thought of this guy in office cause he is proving most of their beliefs to be wrong and is turning their whole philosophy on it's head. Moreove,r the right-wing has very few relatively decent guys like McCain and is full of scheming deceiving schmoozters who will stoop as low as it takes (tough to go below Coulter) to get him out of the white house (and will defend their dirty actions in their own minds by saying it's for the greater good).

For those who elected Obama, do not give up on the person and refresh your beliefs on which you voted for him. He is trying more than we expected he would to address all the difficult problems we face, whether it's the economy, healthcare, foregin policy and he is working his butt off tryi ng to make things better for us. It is very clear that his intentions are right and that his effort is genuine. He has made many right calls, much more than any other president I can remember, and like any human being might have made a couple of wrong ones. Moreove, he's really trying to get things done soon because he realizes the urgency of action. It is now again on us to fight for him and our betterment and push back the muck-machine of the right-wing and hit back harder at them. Watch out for more on this topic soon..

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