Actual response to OFA repeated solicitations for more money to promote our so called progressive agenda through the Obama Prsidency

Fist bump with Big Brother

Initially I was a big fan of Barack Obama and as a former Democratic Party activist, a staunch Party supporter. I can no longer say the same. It is clear to me that each Party uses different rhetoric to get the same place.  We are still at war all over the globe, only it has become clandestine and privatized.  We continue to feed the ever present appetite of corruption both at home and abroad. Banks and other engines of Finance suck the value out of everything they touch, walk away with the loot and leave the taxpayers holding the bag. Which they must promptly refill or the consequences are too dire to contemplate, while millions of homeowners and individual investors loose everything.  Their remedy? "Suck it up people. Move in with your kids.". The "middle class" is shrinking rather than growing.  Everything is being privatized and paid for by the wage earner while corporations and the oligarchy who benefit most, pay virtually nothing.  The "dumbing down of America" is accelerating, starving the public school system while subsidizing a private education system that is designed to avoid equalization of educational opportunities for the masses.  While we are distracted by extremist blathering about God's will and the principles of "Manifest Destiny" in the modern age, the machinery of government publicly grinds to a halt while secretly, everything that "We the People" proclaimed in the Constitution, has been systematically undermined to the point that the Public is dismissed as alarmists and terrorist sympathizers, or traitors for questioning a total loss of any privacy in our communication with each other.  The Government has become so imbued with secrecy, that it doesn't even allow others within the Government who ought to know what's going on, to be informed.  Every "New Deal" program meant to insulate the worker and underprivileged, upon whom the prosperity of our economy is built, from the rapacious excesses of Capitalism and greed of those that would exploit them and then let them starve in the streets, are being unraveled in the name of austerity.  Can't increase the contributions of those who have benefited the most though. They need their wealth so that they can increase it through further exploitation.  Exactly what is it that our President and his party are doing about it?  Uh, promoting the same policies that got us here to begin with.  I could go on, but you get the drift.  Simply put: I don't support where we are going and, don't believe any of you are interested in changing the direction.  It's slight of hand politics.  Keep our attention focused on what level of a theocracy we ought to become while the oligarchy digs in and secures its primacy, no matter what. 

Rudolfo C. Aros, Patriot

PS. I actually thought twice about sending this, fearing that a real person might read it and put me on the rat cage over the face list. Oh well, better to live with my fears than not because of them.
Sent from my mind...

Thoughts for the day

War survivors, cancer survivors, old age survivors, all of us patiently waiting... I keep wondering what for? Lately, it all seemed pretty useless.  Why get up? All right, I gotta pee. But other than that? Don't even want to eat, or shower. Kept wondering why everywhere I went it smelled so bad. The Viet Nam era vet with all his ribbons and patches proudly displayed on his hat must have an answer. Forgot to ask him. The cancer survivor now discovering another part of his body is betraying him... What the fuck are we waiting for? Everyone in that waiting room had already lived their life, what were we waiting for? I mean in a big picture sort of way. Its all down hill from here. Told the receptionist "don't get old". She says allot of the patients say that. I refrased: no, do get old, just enjoy life when your young, make the most out of it.

For me I got very little to look forward to. Sure I got financial struggles, Days filled with nothing to do, no one to talk to except bill collectors. They are heartless. Whenever I start telling them about my plight, they go right back to the script. Mr. Aros, if you don't make a payment immediately... yada, yada. "But I've got no food in my refrigerator and..."; "then you won't mind if we turn off your electricity". Heartless. And they're young. I used to think if I woke up in the morning it was a good day. Now... Its just another day slogging through shit I don't feel much like slogging through. I realize it's just as easy to take on the challenge as it is to have none, but what if you just don't care? Either way. What am I waiting for? To get out of debt? Woo hoo, then what? I don't even have an interest in buying a lottery ticket. What if I won? I'm sitting here with a dog that's not even mine. She's anxious. I can tell. She wants to go do something. Me? I wanna go do nothing. There you have it. I'd really like to take her for a walk, but its 200 degrees out there and I couldn't walk from here to the corner on a good day. So I stay here writing this little ditty thinking..."at least it's something"... yeah, interference with my space out time. I feel bad about leaving the dog alone. I have no problem being alone. Just wondering what the fuck am I waiting for?

Big Brother

Hope and Change, Change we can Believe in. Just lies.  The machinery of government goes on regardless of what the people expect. The lever pullers just paint with different colors, use different rhetoric, but the end result is the same. They aren't even in charge. The levers are already well established and new ones are not permitted.  In order to stay on top of it all the system needs access to all the information it can gather. No information is useless and the more you have the better it is.  My God, millions of dollars are made in nanoseconds because access to information on market trends gives traders an edge. Knowing, who we are talking to and what we are talking about and how often is just like market analysis. Our overlords can use that information to make predictions on who is most likely to be problematic and take preemptive action.  I'm sure algorithms are already being used to predict public trends and who are likely targets should it become necessary.  Privacy is antithetical to control. Big Brother is here in ways Orwell couldn't possibly have imagined.

Pussy Riot

Allllright, Pussy Riot members not in jail, are combing the halls of Congress, collaring Members to get something done about human rights violations in Russia.  While Congress holds secret hearings, secret meetings with secret agencies and administration officials for secret briefings on all some of the stuff this Administration is doing in contravention of  not only our own Constitution, but human rights conventions recognized world wide.  We are not only violating our own citizen's Constitutional rights to privacy, but using Robots to kill anyone the President sees as ripe for assassination anywhere in the world, even if there might be a little innocent collateral damage, or black ops assassinations that might be a little cleaner, even if totally illegal. Hey, if you want security, you gotta bend a little on morality. Meanwhile we continue to hold prisoners without charge probably in a lot more places then we will ever know about, force feed them when they take the only action they have left to protest their treatment and imprisonment. While we deprive them of every other element of human dignity.  We are our own worst nightmare and I'm sure Congress will do everything it can to bring Russia into the 21st Century in respecting the rights of it's dissidents.  In the meantime, let's implement a program where we arm every household in America with miniature closed circuit cameras, keeping a watchful eye on what's going on with your neighbors. Spy satellites that see through roofs can't possibly give us enough information to root out all those terrorists, wherever they may be hiding.  Besides, it's a good law enforcement tool too.  Much easier to root out that garage based pot farm next door.  Next time your neighbor goes grocery shopping, just install these little buggers all over his house... The government will hook them up to the grid and we are all set...Big Brother is watching.

I wonder if there is any interest in the Russian Knesset or whatever it's called for looking into human rights violations in America...

I think I first became self aware when I got out of my little makeshift bed in what I think was the laundry room off the kitchen at my grandparent's house.  It was the middle of the night and as I walked towards the doorway I ran into an invisible wall.  On the other side of the wall was everything I was familiar with and a loving sanctuary.  But I kept bumping up against a barrier that wasn't there.  I was four or five I think.  I refused to be deterred and pounded on it with my fists and leaned into it with my shoulder, until something on the other side became aroused.  It still sends chills down my back to recall the dark hulking, hairy gorilla that I had awoken.  He rushed at me and I quickly scrambled back into my bed pulling the covers over my head...terrified, not daring to approach that barrier again...  Or was it that day long before I went to stay with my beloved grandparent's, when my mother and father were arguing over "that woman", whatever that meant?  I watched as she got in his face, screaming at him and he pushed her away, knocking her down.  Not being someone who gives up easily, she got right back up and went after him again, only this time I had joined her side and pulled at his pant legs, trying to get between them to make it stop.  He shoved me aside  and pushed her down onto the couch again.  I grabbed another handful of trouser and tried as I might to pull him away as they screamed at each other.  I was useless, but he soon did retreat and left us...forever.  Self awareness came early I think.