Who else is compromised inside the Republican circles? Is their reluctance to take action against Trump fueled by more than partisan fervor? It would be adolescent to believe that Russian hacking and compromising would be limited to Trump. It’s not beyond the pale to imagine that this Russian push to compromise US officials is limited to just the Republican party either. Did I miss this conversation on ‘traditional media’?
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Benton Mackenzie, 48, was convicted in Iowa district court jury of marijuana manufacturing and conspiracy, along with his wife, Loretta, 43, the Quad-City Times’ Brian Wellner first reported. Their son Cody, 22, was found guilty of misdemeanor possession of marijuana and paraphernalia. Benton Mackenzie, who had been barred by Judge Henry Latham from a defense that explains he grew cannabis to relieve his aggressive and rare cancer of the blood vessels, faces a minimum of three years in prison when he is sentenced later. His family said they intend to appeal the verdicts. Mackenzie said prison may kill him as his health worsens.
Benton Mackenzie is dead.
He should forever be remembered for the way he chose to live, pushing against Iowa’s ancient marijuana laws and a local prosecutor’s unyielding pursuit of a conviction, certainly not justice. Mackenzie chose to use his final days to force Iowans – and all Americans – to stare down hypocrisy and discover how Iowa and Scott County squandered taxpayer money to assure he left this world convicted and impoverished. (qctimes)
Iowa prosecutors hounded and convicted a suffering cancer patient right to the end of his life for the diabolical ‘crime’ of trying to treat his painful tumors with home grown marijuana.
About those tumors:
What kind of barbarians have the people in Iowa become since I left there in 1976?
Why would any rational person go out of their way to commit an act of inhumanity this great against a sick and dying man? When I visited Iowa late last year, I noted that there were so many meth heads roaming the streets it looked like a casting call for Breaking Bad and yet the police and prosecutors are wasting time and tax dollars chasing after terminally ill pot smokers. Not all the pigs in Iowa are in hog containment facilities. Some of them are running roughshod through the halls of their government offices.
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In the following clip, Spencer Tracy plays the judge in the war crimes trials against the Germans at Nuremberg. If you watch the whole movie you’ll see the Germans and their lawyers make the very same arguments for their war crimes as the Bush administration (and Fox News talking head…whocouldanode?) do for theirs. It’s ironic reverse deja vu that will have a profound effect on you if you imagine our current set of torture fanatics in place of the German war criminals. Watch Spencer Tracy sum it up nicely in his reading of the verdict in this clip:
Who do you think should play Spencer Tracy’s role when the future film rights to the Bush-Cheney war crimes trial are granted?
I’m voting for Phil Donahue.
Did I miss anybody you’d prefer to see?
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Now that The New York Times has finally come out for a full on war crimes trial, naming Cheney et.al (but not Bush?) it’s only a matter of time before justice is served. Looks like “enhanced interrogation” is about to get a new definition. The old one. It’s a curious omission not to have included The Decider into the mix though. Very curious indeed. I can just see Cheney trying to cop a plea by giving up Bush as the “mastermind” behind the whole ordeal! Maybe it’s just my fantasy.
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I don’t have any idea on who it was who hacked Sony. In this vein I believe I am in line with nearly every other person on the planet. To date we’ve gotten all the ‘proof’ that the North Koreans were involved with this that we did on Saddam Hussein’s ‘WMDs’. About the only thing missing is Donald Rumsfeld going on television to tell us the exact location of the hacked server in question…”It’s located just North, South, East and West of…..”.
From where I sit I have a very clear memory of Sony Playstation network getting hacked so bad a few years ago it took the entire gaming system offline for weeks. You’d think a company that had such an event would not be storing company passwords in a file named “passwords”. FFS. I’ve read reports that mention Sony being hacked over FIFTY TIMES in the last few years. Google the issue if you have any questions as to the frequency or number of the hacks perpetrated against Sony. As a final aside, when did it become the business of the US government to protect the intellectual property of Sony against their own stupidity? Hmmm?
The early stories on this hack seemed to indicate that it was a disgruntled Sony hater (former employee?) responsible for this hack. That seemed to make sense at the time, but the more I see the North Korean angle getting boosted by the (uncritical) press, the more it has me thinking that it is much more likely that the CIA is at the root of this Sony hack. After all, they are under extreme scrutiny for their perpetration of war crimes. They have shown the ability and propensity for hacking all manner of things, most notable the Senate computers being used by the committee investigating their criminality. How convenient for the CIA to have a major NORTH KOREAN hack come floating to the fore!! Attention is thereby shifted away from their illegal and immoral (unconstitutional) activities! Look for the head of the CIA to be in Congress next week looking for increased funding to combat this new ‘menace’! I am so not buying into this North Korea bullshit. Are you?
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