Below are the 4 most recent journal entries recorded in The Citizen's Blurty:

Wednesday, May 26th, 2004
2:36 pm	watch out... conspiracy theory ahead... turn left at american dream drive ohhh man!!! today has been an epiphany day for me... since i woke up this morning... just a million things running through my head... two really important ones that i just have to put down somewhere before i forget them... the first one is a conspiracy theory... now please keep in mind it is just a theory... which means there is little fact and a hell of alot of speculation that just somehow all adds up... alot of holes and easy ways to shoot it down... but that's why it's a theory and not a proven fact or scientifically a "law..." but get this... ok, so, somehow, and i still don't know how yet, John Kerry is going to win the election this november(trust me i want bush outta washington... but he has a trick up his sleeve or something). Now you have to know something about John Kerry if you don't already know, he is married to the heiress of the Heinz Ketchup family fortune... yes he's up to his ass in tomoato paste and a billionaire... technically... he wants to do away with the embargoes against Cuba... he wants to open up trade with the small Communist country... that is great news... i would love to see Cubans finally getting what's due to them after 50 years of a horrible and traumatic embargo... but you must also know a little of Cuba's history... When the Cuban Revolution ended in 1959 it toppled an evil puppet government put in place by the U.S. to keep the interests of the United Fruit Company and others like it in control of the economy and all exports from Cuba... which were all basically going to the U.S.... after the Revolution the U.S. stopped taking shiploads of sugar and fruit from Cuba because one, it was a Communist country and two Fidel Castro and Che Guevara pushed out all the Fruit Companies and made them State run and operated and distributed land to all the poor peasants(agrarian reform)... they were no longer under the control of U.S. interests and thusly were not allowed in the country... thusly the embargo began. There have been several attempts on Fidel Castro's life... the U.S. helped capture and murder (assasinate) Che Guevara in Bolivia... the U.S. government trained the military force in Bolivia and some of the U.S. Army Intelligence School just happened to be there when it all went down... the Bay of Pigs Invasion was a huge failure because no one in the U.S. government beleived that Cuba would ever be able to withstand an offensive of Cuban Refugees trained by the U.S. Millitary School of the Americas... but now 50 years later Fidel and the Revolution are still around... Fidel is getting on in age... there is talk of his passing soon... I pray not before or after November... this is where the conspiracy comes in... somehow Fidel is going to "pass" after the embargoes have been lifted... there are going to be "free" elections in Cuba after 50 years(and you know that the U.S. government is going to have their hands in it) and the next person to take power will take it with the "blessing" of President John Kerry (coincedence... it started with JFK {notice the initials... John F. Kennedy, John F.[Forbes] Kerry} and end with JFK, both were Senators from Massachusetts... and both married into money...)and the person in control in Cuba will officially end the Revolution... all agrarian reform will cease... the fruit companies will move back in and exploit the work force of Cuba all over again... and all so John Kerry's family can make it a little cheaper to make their tomato paste... again just a theory... but the other part of this was my American Dream... in a dream i was having this morning i was thinking how the "american" dream hasn't changed... it's always been a white picket fence with a three bedroom house, 2.2 kids, a dog, and a loving mom and dad... but for those of us in the revolutionary left the american dream is a little different... it has nothing to do with family standing or material wealth... it has everything to do with opening peoples' minds... we don't care about how much money we as individuals have... we care that everyone has money... we don't care about the roof over our heads... we care that everybody has a roof... we don't care about the quantity of food on our table or in our refrigerator... we care that everyone has food... these things are important... it just doesn't make us better people by "providing" them because we have to... but "providing" them because we must... how are we supposed to look at oursleves and consider ourselves "good" people when people just down the corner are starving??? how can we consider ourselves "good" people when people die in the desert to have the so-called "american" dream??? how can we be "good" people when there are more people "living" on the street everyday??? this could just be a "utopia" that we on the revolutionary left just dream about... but i for one don't think it is... we have enough in this country to supply everyone with what they need... but we don't because it'll hurt profits and the big corporations... but what about the people we hurt everyday by not giving them the basic necessities to survive. Current Mood: amused (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 17th, 2003
4:01 pm	My girlfriend has just lost another friend to uneeded, incessant, and stupid violence in less than one year. Two people dead for no reason at all except that they didn't like the way the other looked. When will the stupidity stop? Current Mood: aggravated (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 27th, 2003
1:16 am	A long time ago I used to admire, love and respect this country and government of ours. But as I grew older I realized the many inconsistencies that are fed to us all almost daily now. How we are one country of great people rich in our wealth. As I drove around tonight, yes I am still able to drive around in our economy(don't know for how much longer), I looked at the ghettos and deprivation of those who live there. The homeless sleeping in the dark corners so as not to be bothered by the police. Where is this wealth that we are supposed to be proud of and reach and strive for??? It's in the hands of the top 5%. The wealthiest men in the world. Are we supposed to strive for their money??? NO, that would be stealing. We are supposed to find our own, but where??? We are told to love the freedoms we have. But when they are stripped away one by one by the government we are supposed to believe and trust in, what freedom is there left to love??? As a sign from this last weekends protest said, " Don't wave your flag and waive your rights." I sit here writing this after watching "Animal Farm." I saw this movie and read the book in ninth grade and it was the first to open my eyes, if only slightly. If Orson Wells could only see the United States and the way it's being run now he would see all the connections from his story to modern America. Even though Orson Wells was writing about the evils of Communism he would see how much our "Democracy" is almost a laughable excuse for a better planned Communism. From the corporate/government run media conglomerate spreading lies to keep us complacent and apathetic to the corporate run Executive Branch in the pockets of big business. All decisions are made to see how to get and make money the fastest. And with $75 billion going to defense spending where is the education for ours and tomorrows children??? It's in Iraq being dropped on innocent heads. It's being fired from million dollar ships, delivered with million dollar missiles and million dollar jets and planes. And this whole war rises from someone we sold weapons and chemical weapons to in the 70's and 80's because he was our kind of guy. He killed Kurds and Shiites because he thought our government would approve of it. And it did for a while, until he started to cut off oil supplies in the late 80's early 90's. Hence the first Gulf War. He then went back to being our kind of guy, some of the time. Now in the new century we need a new bad guy, a new evil to fight. That fateful morning of Sept. 11th proved to be ours and his demise. First we went after Al Queda in the country of Afghanistan after someone we had supplied with money and weapons in the 80's to fight Communism and Mother Russia. Then when it turned out we might never find Usama Bin Laden we needed someone else to defend ourselves against. Someone who was a pushover for the most part. Someone who we claimed to have the means to deliver chemical weapons to our shores. Iraq and Suddam Hussein. Now here is my question for you patriotic idiots who read this, HOW WAS HE SUPPOSED TO GET THEM OVER TO US??? He destroyed any missiles with some kind of range so he can't blow up our "ally" Israel. He has no connection to Al Queda in any way. AND for all we can tell from corporate run media and the UN inspectors he doesn't have any chemical weapons!!! Have we or the inspectors found any??? NO!!! A RESOUNDING FUCKING NO!!! He might have some of our uniforms, which I must admit is a nasty little trick, but an ingenious one none the less. When you are outnumbered almost 20 to 1 why not infiltrate enemy lines and cause some destruction... we would and probably will do it. I pray tonight for our troops to bring them home safe and now, not later. And for the innocent dieing every day in Iraq due to sanctions and the bombs. When will the Red Cross and others get in with relief supplies??? When the bombing and the attack is over, which is already to late. Much to late... Current Mood: contemplative Current Music: A.F.I- Girl's Not Grey, Thrice, Jusitn Sane, Pipedown (Comment on this)
Monday, March 24th, 2003
10:17 pm	MY FIRST ENTRY... SCREW THE WAR!!! Friday, March 7th, 2003, it was just another typical Friday down in the dusty borderlands of Arizona. Illegal immigrants being deported, Sheriff’s posse (yes we still have a sheriff’s posse here) getting ready to “move” the prostitutes from their normal hang outs, and the Rich gathering on the east side of Phoenix (where I call home) to destroy modern civilization with the drop of a $1,000 bill. I was just recently released from my job (better known as being let go, fired, excused, dropped from the crew, etc.) and watching a little of the corporate run local T.V. news when they ran a very quick but interesting story. A local A.M. radio station (I can’t mention the call letters or station frequency more than likely due to legal constraints, I’ll say this much the call letters end with an I and its hailed locally as hate radio) was running a promotion at a local capitalist hot spot, better known as Nixon’s bar (how apropos) at the Camelback Esplanade. Now according to the brief blip on the news spectrum they were holding a pro war rally and support our troops effort. Now if it was just the support our troops rally I would have paid no mind, my brother is (unfortunately) in the Air Force and I support his decision and him, being he is my brother, and personally I do not wish to see any of them dead. But when they said it was a Pro- war rally that’s when it piqued my interest. I walked into my room where my girlfriend had been sleeping and shouted, “Hey BABY!!! Wake up!!! We gotta go.” She woke up and mumbled “Huh? What’s going on?? What are you talking about???” I then explained what I saw on the news and that we had to go and stand up for what’s right, not to sure if anyone else was gonna be there to support us. Being a loose knit group of people (Y.P.S.L and the Arizona Socialists) I had no numbers for anyone to call and my friends sometimes aren’t very reliable. A lot of my friends said maybe, they all are still kind of afraid of ramifications at home and police records and things, what they are told to worry about by the powers that be. We spent an hour over at one friend’s house trying to get him to go and even made up a couple of signs when I realized he had made up his mind. He came in and informed us that he still had to eat dinner, which his mother was still preparing, and then he had to take his parents car to his brother who was working and in order to do that he had to wait for his girlfriend to call him and come over. So it was just my girlfriend and I heading down to raise a ruckus. After the 30-minute drive and then 20 minutes just to find a parking spot at Capitalist and Young Republican Central on a Friday night, we finally arrived with our signs. We jaywalked across Camelback Road to meet a couple of fellow supporters, not socialists, but two like minded souls who agree that this “war” is wrong and that these people gathered there this night are hateful and spiteful people. We chatted for a couple of minutes not knowing what to expect and where the action was. At that moment an older gentleman walked over and told us what was going on and where all the action was. Me and my girlfriend walked around the Capitalist monstrosity and monolith to cash gain and saw the group of adults and children standing there American flags waving, holding pictures of loved ones in the forces, and signing “God Bless America.” My girlfriend and me picked a couple of good spots in the back, which turned out to be the exit for most of them, and held our signs in plain view. Her sign read, “Rich getting richer. Poor getting poorer. War is not the cure.” My sign read, “War for oil, NOT IN MY NAME!!!” Bright lights shone down on the 150 or so people there and a Radio host kept booming over loud speakers about this and that veteran who was here and how he gave a leg or an arm to protect our rights that we love so much. He also kept referring to the Iraqi and Afghani people as “evil people we have to get rid of.” So he and his ilk can get their money from the desert floor in Iraq and Saudi Arabia without problems. It turns out they were also gathering money for the troops to put together a care package from them to be sent out to Arizona boys on the “front.” The weird thing is, is that at the end of the night when the money was all counted it came out to $666. No joke, my girlfriend and I felt it was a sign about how evil the “war” is. All throughout the night standing there we noticed how the group began to taper off and started leaving. The drunks from inside the bar started to come out and harass us a little bit. One had picked up a bumper sticker on the way out which said, “I support our troops.” And kept coming around waving it around about three inches in front of our face, beer still in hand and staggering. Later on, after a couple more beers and liquid brain, he walked in front of us and yelled, “GET A CLUE!!! YOU’RE IGNORANT!!! GET A F’ING EDUCATION!!!” Two lovely ladies walked out and passed us and said “AMERICA, LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT!!!” to which one replied “LEAVE IT!!!” I got a chuckle out of that one. A Young Republican even got up the courage to come over to me and confront me on how the Iraqi government doesn’t even make that much money off the oil it puts out. It was, I believe he said, equal to about the state budget of Arkansas… or something along those lines. There was a married couple there with matching shirts on. They said on the front, “Fight Terrorism…” on the back it said “… Nuke Hollywood!” Then there was the gentleman who came over and confronted us about the atrocities Saddam Hussein had inflicted on the Kurds, or as he put it, “his own people.” We said that we knew, but I brought up the fact about the sanctions we have forced on them for over a decade and he walked away and shouted, “IGNORANT!” But who is more ignorant here??? We gave Saddam the weapons to destroy the Kurds, and Iran for that matter, but I guess to them when you are narrow minded and partially blind it just really doesn’t matter, you want to liberate someone, just not yourself. The looks that we received throughout the night made up for the belligerence of others. Some acknowledged us and walked on a little not sure of what they saw, others deflected there eyes, a mother with her 10 year old son and 6 year old daughter walked up to us to hand us the Constitution of the United States and my girlfriend and I said, “No thank you, we have one at home all ready.” To which she replied to her children, “See what happens?” I was confused by that response. After it was all over we started to walk away and three obviously intoxicated gentlemen confronted us. One of them spoke and said, “Why don’t you get outta here you dirty Pinko Commies?!?” I replied, “No sir, not a Commie, but I am a Socialist.” Another said, “God bless you.” And my girlfriend said, “ God bless you also sir.” The gentleman then said, “Socialists don’t believe in God.” I was stopped in my tracks…. Since when did it say or read that all Socialists do not believe in God? Since when did political affiliation stop you from believing in God? It just made me realize how brainwashed and absent minded the population of America is, to still believe rhetoric and lies from over 50 years ago. We walked away from the drunks as they walked into another bar and we went back around to the front. The gentlemen from before were still their, one of them holding his sign towards traffic and talking to someone from Libertarian party who promised some people to show but none did, except him. As we are standing there talking to them a car rolls up and the gentleman inside started yelling at us. I still don’t know what exactly he yelled but a couple of the guys went over to the car window and started talking to him. They got him to calm down and started to drive away and we waved goodbye. That set him off all over again and he rolled down the window and yelled, “IT WAS PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO KILLED THOUSANDS OF OUR TROOPS IN VIETNAM!!!” That also didn’t make sense to me. I thought it was us who stopped the war; it might have taken longer than it should have but that wasn’t the protesters (a.k.a hippies) fault. The government dragged their feet to prolong it as long as they could to try to win. They killed all the troops not those of us who oppose war and tried to stop it. That was the end of the night. It was our first protest. I had no clue what to expect. I was pleasantly shocked and amused by the different reactions. It seems that even though we really weren’t prepared or had the strength to really deflect all of their negative energy it really pissed them off that we were there. We said nothing just rebutted them when they talked to us and they were all drunk and belligerent. My girlfriend keeps remembering how much anger and hate that was involved with this event. She has been confused by the fact that no matter how hard you try to talk to them they won’t listen and just keep yelling at you thinking it’ll change your mind. She can’t believe how much anger was pent up in all those individuals and that they would express it by wishing death on other people half way across the globe. It’s hard to believe that all these people feel that if you don’t believe or think what they think, they mark you as a traitor and a spy and wish you out of the country or thrown in jail. All in all it was a promising experience and we can’t wait to do more to stop this travesty against world peace. We can’t wait to be part of a big event and stop President Bush and his cronies and put in place a good economy and a real form of government that will benefit all people of all race and creed and end class war. No more war mongering for oil or monetary gain or to place a puppet government to spread so called democracy in “mineral” enriched countries. NO WAR FOR OIL!!! Current Mood: contemplative Current Music: A.F.I- Girls Not Grey(Sing the Sorrows ) (Comment on this)