damage

I’m tired. I’m exhausted. I feel like I have been beaten up. In a nutshell, 2001 kicked my ass. I am also in denial that I am no longer in Maui. It’s different there. Perhaps I’m a nut job, but there is something about it, something sort of magical and spiritual. Something that brings out the positive, and the joy in people. Something that I haven’t experienced in a very long time. Must be that Aloha Spirit. Ahhhhh, the blessings of escape.

Of course it began in 2000, with the world-famous coup, which is proving to be much more than the theft of an election, but the theft of our government itself. It has become a progression of deeper and deeper psychological battering. I’ve learned many things in the past year; some things I wish I’d never become aware of.

I realize now that there is true evil in the world, and it’s not the poor mislead, brainwashed ignorant who can’t get laid in real life yet think they can in the after-life, and believe martyrdom is an honor. No, true evil dresses itself in piety, is running our country, taking away our rights, and committing war crimes by killing thousands of innocent lives, all for what? “Terrorism?” If it weren’t so tragic and ironic, that would be funny.

I’ve also learned that Congress is either asleep, lazy, or they’re just plain ignorant of their job description. We are not at war until Congress says we are, nor can we pull out of any treaties without Congress’ approval. Does Congress know this, or have they just decided that it’s too labor-intensive to get involved?

On top of this there has been the obscene abuse of Executive Orders. In 1999, Idaho Senator Mike Crapos wrote, “Alexander Hamilton noted that "the legislative authority is to enact laws . . . while the execution of laws . . . seem[s] to comprise all the functions of the [President]." When executive orders create law rather than simply carrying out the law, they encroach on Congress' legislative power and result in precisely the accumulation of power in one governmental branch that the Constitution seeks to avoid.” So what is the point of paying Congress to do their job when they clearly are not? If they don’t wake up soon, or we don’t fire them all and replace them with people who are ready take the reins and fight for the Constitution, then what’s to stop lil’Napolean from issuing an Executive Order to stop all elections, presidential or otherwise?

Another thing I’ve become painfully aware of is the fact we are now living in Propaganda Hell. Our press/media, once the envy of the world for being the voice of truth, when The Fairness Doctrine was law, and insured all sides of an issue would be heard, is now nothing more than a laughable, politically motivated, corporate finance-generating tool. What makes it even more obscene is that they have become complicit in the theft of our democracy. We should no longer be known as the United States of America, but the Corporate Controlled Republic of North America. Freedom of The Press is nothing more than an historical footnote. The saddest thing of all is that footnote is even in danger of becoming extinct, and when it does, many people will not be aware, nor care.

So, Happy New Year everyone! Welcome to our Brave New World, that has such people in’t!

We have only one acting branch of government, the only news and information is precisely what his dictatorship wants you to hear, if you disagree the Attorney General will declare you a ‘terra-ist”, and The US Constitution and Bill of Rights are nothing more than relics of a forgotten age. Our Supreme Court-selected leader is out making commercials (I wonder if they’re non-union), yet can’t utter a comprehensible sentence without a script, while the VP is in a cave for….. what was it? Security reasons? What???? Let me get this straight, our VP is under tighter security than the POTUS? Why?? Better yet, why isn’t everyone else asking that question?

We’ve suffered through the most horrific act of terrorism on our shores, while some made a cash killing on 9/11 with the put options on UAL and American Airlines, and no one is screaming about that, yet to even make a transaction of any kind the brokerage must have personal info like financial data and names. Are we to believe these transactions were made with cash? Really?????? Who delivered that cash?

Mr. Select is begging us on Marriott’s dime to get back on airplanes yet he fought tooth and nail to not have airport security federally manned, and now it looks as though these employees won’t even need to have a high school diploma. Oh yeah! I feel real safe!

So back to my new found crack addiction, better known as Diablo II – Lord of Destruction. It soothes the soul after spending ten hours on Southern Cal freeways and at the “day–gig”. I get to kill demons, get gold, and go shopping for bitchin’ armor and amulets. That is until someone gives me a bartending job on Maui, preferably on Ka’anapali Beach, but I‘m not picky. I think I’d be good at making blue drinks, putting little umbrellas in slices of pineapple, and saying “Mahalo”.

Aloha