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shy-magpie · 5 years ago

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RQG 93

Poor Alex, party split during heavy emotional scenes all around. Right, I don't want to call him Carter because SG1 Carter doesn't deserve to have her name sullied but my only association with Howard is Stark and he does. So I will be calling Cursed Drunk Guy Howard even if it risks sounding affectionate Howard completely misses Sasha's tone as she sarcastically says maybe the curse is responsible for *a bunch of things across decades that couldn't possibly be effected* Grizzop tries to kick some sense into him, good luck Ben is having fun Azu/Helen don't know what to do with his pity party "I think this gone a bit of a sex thing" Grizzop on him and Azu trying to knock sense into Howard, who keeps encouraging them Of course it would be the Tahan branch; 5 minutes to let Hamid deal with the fallout of the nuclear explosion that passes for his family and catch his breath is not to much to ask for. Not even the branch they are dragging Howard to Hamid's house in full paparazzi mode Alex does have a compulsion to make his characters hate-able, there is seriously an essay in there if it wasn't line crossing to analyze a real person directly "out and about" That's one way to describe it Azu. Poor Hamid has to catch them up, the paladin twins are caught up on justice. Sasha is caught up on the shared name. Sasha is the only one who is actually tracking rather than demanding explanation from Hamid and that's because she has a rank in cynicism. "Hamid's rich"-Sasha explaining why Jr won't be going to jail Hamid, paladins don't really get nuance as a concept. Just stick to "it was my Dad's idea and trying to expose him as lying to protect Jr would just mean both would be in worse trouble" and try to focus on the idea that Jr will be being punished just in a way that keeps the rest of the family from being smeared by his actions. Ben is having too much fun using Grizzop to torture Hamid Hamid is a prison abolitionist, I knew he was perfect. *deletes essay on how just locking someone away isn't actually doing anybody any good* *deletes another on how Dover isn’t necessarily representative of jails in this world* Azzop want to just turn him into the cops Hamid threatens to break up the band if they turn over his brother and drops his own crime on them without context Hell yeah Hamid, if they can't listen for a moment and at least explore the idea of justice separate from the law then screw 'em. Paladins go extra judicial all the time in the other direction they could at least spitball a few "what if he does all the worst jobs at an orphanage until he dies" or they discretely ask the family of the guard if they prefer him to be exiled without recourse to his name or use his power solely work in the city on the guard's favorite cause. Even if all the idea are shot down, exploring why they won't work would shore up the argument for arresting him. Perception check. Nickle says Jr was listening Howard was here the whole time and is blaming Hamid? No, Barret Howard is back to blaming Hamid or at least his family. Damn Alex and his breaks Hamid was in exile and you broke in! That better not be the break in that started this mess Sasha is so disenchanted with Hamid, I hope she doesn't write him off like Bertie Azu gets Howard to use his words. Nickle says inside guy was Jr Called it You broke in, how is it their fault you suffered consequences after you chose to break in Time for Jr to spill Sasha is back and cynical as hell No one is your friend Howie, we just need the info Can't you just spell him sober? Hamid is finally using his words Azzop just slow your roll Grizzop is this helping in any way? Of course my sweet dragonling picks up on the pain Sasha is in, even as his entire team is on a "you and your family are everything that's wrong in the world" tear Screw you Grizzop Yeah it is your fault Jr Grizzop you are on such thin ice, I really did come to like you as much as Zolf but if you really think Hamid is evil for wanting to talk to his team about what to do... Yeah it really is both of your faults Howard, Jr Be useful Grizzop Azu is willing to at least consider the idea of mitigating circumstances in the form of a curse Is them both trying to drink themselves to death part of the curse or is it just a fair assessment of the utter lack of coping skills in rich men? (Yeah, maybe I should cut Jr more slack it's an addiction but increasing the amount and trying to get Barret to Resurrect his victim is not exactly stepping up) Grizzop glad you are willing to consider a next step other than hanging the entire Tahan family but maybe going directly to one of the your borderline God Kings is skipping a few steps. People talk about this type of show making people expect their friends to play like pro comedians but I don't think enough is said about how regular GMs probably shouldn't aim to emulate Alex "The Web" Newall. His sub plots have sub plots, and he is the finest Xanatos speed chess player I have ever seen. Azu comes through to save the day Is there an audio version of gifs? Because I want to be able to drop "would it be morally wrong to gag him?" as a sensible comment on any number of tumblr arguments Love Ben, Grizzop still has a little making up to do before he is back in my good books Alex lampshades the failure of his comeback Told you they could sober them up Can you cast "talk linearly"? Fairhands has bedside manner, was beginning to think that didn't exist in this world Oh thank Aphrodite they shut up Thanks Grizzop Jr. is actually innocent? You can't end *starts muttering mantra*But we respect his craft, but we respect his craft, but we... That is so Ben, I love him but his first instinct is to justify his character's decision. Not whether it was in character or moved the plot along, but Grizzop was right based on the information he had. I have to be the only one who's take away isn't "they nearly condemned an innocent" but "that means that Sr isn't going away; his poor family, can't they get him on obstruction or something?" Oh and Hamid? My dearest dragonling? Give them the full story of how you got kicked out of school soon, using the words "unintended" and "Gideon switched the formula" a lot. Azzop get a bit fevered over law equals good; Sasha is going through a Barret related breakdown & seems to think the Tahans are a Mafia family. Which leads to a whole conversation on the inherently criminal nature of that level of wealth in a world where Other London is a) a thing and b) isn't alone.

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Legal System Basics: Crash Course Government and Politics #18

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Legal System Basics: Crash Course Government and Politics #18

Hi, i am Craig and that is Crash path Civics and today we’re gonna seem on the fundamentals of a system that impacts all our lives: the legislation. And no, we’re not going to be talking about the laws of thermo-dynamics. That’s Hank’s show. Though we will be able to be bringing the warmness, ha! The regulation affects you even supposing you on no account dedicated against the law considering the fact that there is a lot more to the legal process than simply crook justice, and although we’ll center of attention most often on courts, the regulation is in all places. When you don’t consider me, learn the consumer license on your subsequent new piece of program, or in the event you fly at any place learn the back of your plane ticket. Expectantly is not going to be extra exciting than what you are looking at now, but that is examples of the legislation. More often than not, courts have three common capabilities, handiest certainly one of which you typically discovered about to your historical past classification. The first thing that courts do is settle disputes.In pre-latest historical past (which is much less complicated to comprehend than submit-cutting-edge history), kings carried out this perform, but as states received larger and more powerful it grew to be a lot less complicated to have specialised officers come to a decision main problems like who owned the fox you caught on any one else’s land. Or what does the fox say, which used to be disputed loads back then. The 2d factor the courts do is most of the time the one you heard about in college, or on television, or possibly while studying for the standardized scan, and that’s interpret the legal guidelines.This becomes increasingly major whilst you absolutely attempt to learn laws, or whilst you realise that legislators are normally now not as they might be when writing laws in the first place. Take a seem on the low priced Care Act. There are a couple of noted careless mistakes in that. Finally courts create expectations for future movements. This is very predominant if you want to do business with any individual. If you already know that you’ll be able to be punished for cheating a abilities business customer, you are less likely to do it.Nonetheless you would, ‘rationale there are a number of jerks in the market who would. Are you one among them? Don’t be! At the same time if you know that men and women shall be punished for dishonest you you’re more more likely to do business. And it’s courts that create the expectation that trade might be performed rather. Deciphering the laws can help this too, given that the interpretations are public they usually set expectations that everyone can appreciate and understand what the law manner and the way it applies after which world peace. No extra law breaking ever. The first thing to don’t forget about courts within the U.S. Is that the majority legal action, if it happens in court at all, happens in state court docket. And if it happens at night, it happens in night court. Since that is in general a sequence about federal government, and no longer Indiana govt or sitcoms about courtroom in the big apple, i will focus most often on the federal court docket process which has 4 main traits. One, the federal courtroom method is cut loose the opposite branches of presidency. The executive might do the job, identical to kings used to however now we have separation of powers so we do not have to be at the mercy of kings. Have you ever noticeable game of Thrones? Two, the federal courts are hierarchical, with the Supreme court at the high and turtles all of the way down.Nope — not turtles — sorry I intended lessen courts. What this means is that after a decrease courtroom makes a resolution it can be appealed to a greater courtroom that may either confirm or overturn the minimize court’s decision. The 1/3 feature of federal courts is that they are ready to participate in judicial evaluation over legal guidelines passed by Congress and state legislatures, and over executive actions. And the fourth facet of federal court method is that you will have to be aware of that the federal judges are appointed for lifestyles, and their salaries can’t be diminished. This is to maintain their independence from politics. Sounds like a lovely candy deal. Remember after I advised you that the legislature makes the laws? Well, that was once genuine, but it’s also now not the entire story. Legislatures both state and country wide make legal guidelines and these written legal guidelines are referred to as statutes. In continental Europe those are mostly all of the laws they have got. Statutes. Statutes in all places! And statues. That location is full of artwork.They’d the Renaissance there, y’know? But within the U.S. And England, which is where we obtained the idea, now we have anything called long-established legislation, which contains the previous selections of courts that affect future authorized choices. The key to normal regulation is the concept that a prior court docket choice sets a precedent that constrains future courts. Essentially if one court docket makes a resolution, all other courts within the equal jurisdiction must follow that determination, whether they like it or not. The collection of those decisions via judges becomes the fashioned law.I do not ought to have a reason to punch the eagle. I should in most cases factor out what courts truly do and explain that there are two specific varieties of courts that may make civil legislation. What differentiates the 2 varieties of courts is their jurisdiction, which truly way the set of instances that they’re authorized to come to a decision. Trial courts are often known as courts of normal jurisdiction. These are the ones you see on television and so they sincerely do two matters. First, they hear evidence and examine what without a doubt occurred when there is a dispute. This is called deciding the details of the case. Now not the whole lot that happened or that may be fundamental qualifies as a truth in a court docket case. Those are decided by means of the principles of evidence, which might be problematic and would really gradual down an episode of regulation and Order. After the trial court docket hears the info of a case it decides the final result by applying the primary legislation. What legislation they apply relies on statutes and in some cases what different courts have mentioned in equivalent situations.In different phrases the customary law. You could have noticed that i have been referring to courts, not judges or juries, considering not all trials have juries. Bench trials have best a decide who determines the tips and the law. Besides, who decides what in a courtroom case isn’t fairly that major. More than ninety% of cases certainly not go to court docket by the way, they only get settled by using attorneys out of court. But say you in reality go to court docket and also you lose. Naturally, you would be upset. In particular if you are a sore loser, like me. Shut up. You’ve got a alternative. You can stop and go back to your ordinary, loser lifestyles or that you can enchantment the trial court determination to a greater court docket. An appeals court docket that has, you guessed it, appellate jurisdiction. Did you clearly bet that? That’d be mighty. Appeals courts don’t hear information — who wants these — they just make a decision questions of legislation so you don’t ought to deliver witnesses or reward proof, simply arguments. Frequently, if you want to deliver a successful enchantment, you need to exhibit that there used to be some thing flawed with the procedure of your trial.Possibly the choose allowed the jury to listen to evidence they wouldn’t have heard, maybe one of the jurors was a cyborg. Here’s the best way that these courts connect to what I used to be saying before about usual and statutory regulation. Most usual regulation is made by appeals courts. And considering appeals courts have greater jurisdiction than trial courts, appeals choices are way more main than trial court docket choices. So now i will speak concerning the three types of law, and it is gonna get confusing.We must almost always go to the notion Bubble for some satisfactory, compelling, interesting animations. The two major types of law are truly the Bruce Banner of legislation. They’re the criminal regulation and civil legislation, but they may be able to generally morph into the extremely good Hulk of laws: public law. "Public regulation, smash abuse of presidency authority!" for those who watch tv or films, or read John Grisham novels, you are by and large acquainted with crook regulation. Crook laws are frequently statutes written by using legislatures, which means that there’s an exact legislation for you to spoil. In most states the criminal legal guidelines are referred to as the penal codes. In a crook dispute — and it is a dispute for the reason that the government says you broke the regulation and you will say you did not — the government is referred to as the prosecution and the person accused of committing the crime is called the defendant. Virtually all criminal cases occur on the state level and as a result it can be hard to grasp precisely what is or what will not be a crime in every state. Although homicide is against the law in every single place. There are additionally some federal crimes like tax evasion, mail fraud, and racketeering.If you are suing any individual or being sued, you’re within the realm of civil regulation. Civil cases arise from disputes between individuals, or between individuals and the government, when one social gathering, the plaintiff, claims that the other get together, the defendant, has brought on an harm that can be constant or remedied. If the plaintiff proves his or her case the defendant ought to pay damages. If you happen to lose a civil case you don’t go to prison or penitentiary in most situations, but you may also become dropping tons of money, and that sucks. I really like money.Circumstances about contracts, property, and personal injuries, also referred to as torts, are examples of civil regulation. So underneath special instances a civil or criminal case can come to be public law. This happens when either the defendant or plaintiff can show that the powers of government or the rights of citizens below the structure or federal law is concerned in the case. Additionally if the regulation gets uncovered to gamma rays. "regulation, smash!" For illustration, in a criminal case the place the defendant claims that the civil rights were violated by means of the police, the choice can grow to be public legislation. Thanks suggestion Bubble. So these are the fundamentals of the courtroom procedure within the U.S. And you will find that there’s a lot to keep straight. There are forms of courts, sincerely trial courts and appeals courts, on both the state and federal degree. And there are types of laws, truly statutory and customary laws. The fact that we’ve got both state and federal statutory law is an example of federalism in action. The U.S. Unlike most different nations has each statutory and fashioned legislation, however as a rule once we’re speaking about federal laws we’re within the realm of statutes, or probably the constitution.Whilst you be trained American government, many of the cases you examine are examples of appeals and of public regulation. How this all works in apply is even more problematic. And the adaptability of the American authorized material makes it possible for statutes to stretch to suit the developing and altering American society. Much like Bruce Banner’s extremely elastic pants. Thanks for gazing. I’ll see you subsequent time. I am getting angry! Oh no! Ahhhh! I am no longer carrying elastic pants! Oh no! Ahhhhh! Crash path: executive and Politics is produced in association with PBS Digital Studios. Aid for Crash course executive comes from Voqal. Voqal helps non profits that use technological know-how and media to advance social equity. Be trained more about their mission and initiatives at voqal.Org. Crash course is made with the aid of those wonderful Hulks. Thanks for observing. Rarrrr!

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batterymonster2021 · 5 years ago

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drlindamurraytenacity-blog · 7 years ago

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Dr Linda Murray

Direct Disobedience---Father was very strict with rules about our behaviour. There were two dominant classifications of bad behaviour. Direct and non-direct disobedience non-direct disobedience were stupid things that we did and had not been told specifically not to do. Direct disobedience, on the other hand, were behaviours that we had been specifically told not to do. Direct disobedience was the greatest of the crimes and punishment was of significant magnitude to fit the crime at hand. We were all usually careful with directly disobeying either of them but especially my father. If he had told us not to do something then he considered us warned. Lieing in any form was also deemed direct disobedience. I rarely faced my father’s wrath and anger but the boys faced it frequently. Kevin took the worst of it though. I followed the rules as well as I could the majority of the time. This is part of the reason that Desy hated me so much. He had no idea what was really going on I behaved because if I didn’t she would make my father pay. I was especially careful of not breaking the stepmonster’s unspoken rules. Discipline was swift if we ever got out of line. If were disciplined at school, and my father thought the school representative was correct, we would get twice the punishment at home since this was also considered to be direct disobedience. Like I have said this never happened to me but for the boys this could get ugly. More on this later, if he thought the school representative was in error. God help them.

Punch in My Stomach---When I was about nine to eleven years old I had a bit of a pot belly of baby fat. My father was not happy that I had this pot belly and decided that it was because my stomach muscles were weak. So made a habit of punching me in my stomach with this knuckles whenever he saw me not controlling my stomach muscles. I learned that I needed to keep my stomach muscles hard all the time I was with him. I hated it. But I did learn not to let my little pot belly show. Eventually, I out grew the baby fat. In grade six I grew six inches in the year and all of my baby fat was gone and he stopped hitting me in the stomach. In the mean time I had developed a strong set of gut muscles. In fact, when I was a bit older, I could actually have my father stand on my stomach muscles and I would move his entire weight up and down with flexing my stomach muscles. He was proud of me for being able to do this but I think that there must have been less painful and abusive method to teach me this lesson.

"Children can’t predict the consequences of their actions . . . How long do you have to pay for this? . . . You have to forgive that 9 year-old girl for not being able to carry a burden or a responsibility that she should never been assigned in the first place.” Dr Phil

Kevin and Lying----My baby brother Kevin just couldn't win. He was only one when my mother committed suicide. I did the best that I could being only five myself. I did dishes, bottles, and diapers and was still my brother’s keeper when I was eight. After all he was my ‘birthday present’ and ‘my responsibility’. I tried hard at least. Kevin took forever to walk and my father said that he was just lazy. The kid was just not a winner in everything. He started so far behind that I doubt he could ever pleased our father. When he started school it became evident very early that he was having difficulties. He struggled. He just couldn't do anything right as far as my father was concerned. Finally they realized he had a vision problem and required ‘coke bottle’ glasses. Great, now he had really ugly glasses with which to contend. Kids can be cruel but having my father use this to ridicule him must have been even more devastating. Kevin, like me, wet the bed into his teens. I had the same problem but I didn't get reamed out from my father. Kevin would hide his wet pajamas under his pillow. He was so ashamed and my parents tortured him about it. Kevin also lied about everything, including situations where there was no doubt he had done something wrong. He used to lie with such conviction. I used to be able to tell when he was lying but he did it so often that my father assumed everything he said was a lie. My father used to call him the 'lying four eyed piddler'. Whenever Kevin lied, or my parents thought he was lying, about anything he would be punished (spanked with a slipper or belt). My father would tell him he was going to get two hits for the ‘crime’ and one for each time he lied about it when questioned. I remember on one situation clearly. I was standing in the kitchen close to Kevin and my father was sitting at the kitchen table. Dad would keep track of the number of times he lied and he would get one extra stripe for each lie. He would even write them down on a piece of paper so Kevin could see what was coming. I’m not certain how long this would go on but I think it stopped when he reached a maximum of 20 stripes. Im not sure of this limit though. When the inquisition phase was over, and he had been found guilty of the crime, he would get sent to his room to wait until my father came in to administer the punishment. Then he would have to get on his knees and lean over the bottom bunk of the bed and my father would hit him on the bottom with a belt or slipper the exact number of times he was told he would be hit. My father would count out loud each time he hit his bottom. My father left the door open to the boys room when this was happening as a warning to the rest of us and to maximize the embarrassment for being punished. There was never any significant ‘physical damage’ done to my brothers on these occasions. Their bottoms probably hurt for a while. I think the majority of the damage was psychological. This whole process was carried out in a very calm systematic manner. It was not like my father went into a rage or anything. He never hit the boys anywhere but on their bottoms. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not condoning this punishment but corporal punishment was an accepted form of punishment at the time and I still think it can be used to terminate really bad behaviour if used judiciously. I would always wince and cry on the inside whenever heard Kevin being tormented and there was nothing I could do about it. I feel guilty, I didn't protect him better. But I was also just hanging on to sanity by a fine thread. I was close to losing control of my life let alone his. I can't imagine how life was like for him. At least I did well in school and was clearly my father’s favourite. I payed for this with the stepmonster though and when she disciplined me she would take it out on my father or slap me hard on the face. It was wrong but that is how it was. I could not understand why he continued to lie. He knew he would be hit only twice if he said he did the crime but he kept lying until he reached the maximum penalty. Why? He was not even bright enough to minimize his punishment! He must have known that he would be found guilty, all the time, or my father would not have accused him of the crime in the first place. My father would know the ‘truth’ of the situation before the inquisition. I think Kevin may have been displaying some early signs of some form of dissociation. It's no wonder he was a bit fucked up. I do not remember hearing I Love You or getting a real hug from either of them. More on this later.

“Memory is a complicated thing. A relative to truth but not its twin.” . . .Barbera Krigsoffer (sp)

Wednesday Nights------When we were kids dad had this ritual thing on Wednesday nights. We all had to have a shower/bath twice a week at a minimum. We had to bath on Sundays and Wednesdays. After our baths he would cut our fingernails and clean our ears. This continued until I was about 12 as far as I can remember. I would hate this I was a nail biter and I would not have nails to cut off. I would get into trouble each time. He would give me shit every time and tell me that it was a dirty habit. It was something I just couldn't stop doing. It was almost compulsive in nature. I would maintain this behaviour for a long time without understanding why I did this. Later, when I was taking a behaviour modification course I realized why this behaviour was maintained. It is possible that this was the only thing in my life that I could control at the time. Desmond had the opposite problem. My father was always ragging on him to cut his nails and come to the dinner table with clean hands. Finally my father came home with a petri dish. He scraped under Desmond's nails and put the scrapings into the dish and put the dish away in a cupboard. About a week later he pulled the petri dish out of the cupboard and showed us all of the things that grew in the dish. It was gross, but it didn't seem to impact Desy at all.

The Bike and the Principal----I completed my elementary education in St. Avila School. The school was close to home and the principal was great. So were most of the teachers. I had begged to bring my brothers bicycle to school one day and my father had given me permission. When I was in fifth grade I was coming home at lunch I ran into three boys who were pushing me around and messing with Desy's bike. The worst of the two was Jeff. He bullied everyone he could. The other two boys Willis and Chris I had never had any trouble with before. It almost seemed out of character for them. They managed to tear off the licence on the bike and bent a spoke on one of the wheels. I was in tears as soon as I got away. Not so much that they had picked on me but because Desmond's bike had been damaged while in my care and this would probably mean that I would never get to use it ever again. When I got home my father was very angry about the damage and the boys picking on me. He got all of the information and told me it was up to me if I wanted to report the behaviour to the principal. He explained that it could get worse or it could stop the bullying. I said that I was angry now and wanted to talk to the principal. So after lunch we walked to the school and had a conversation about the incident. Then I went to my class. Shortly after classes started for the afternoon the intercom summoned Willis, Chris, Jeff, and I to the principals office. The principal pulled Willis and Chris in first and I could hear them getting strapped 3 or 4 times. Once the Principal was finished with them he then called Jeff and I into his office. He then proceeded to strap Jeff on the hands until he cried in front of me. I don't remember Chris and Willis getting into more trouble all the way through to high school. Jeff on the other hand turned out to be a hell of a bully. But he never bullied me again. I met once again when he was in his late 20s and he had not forgotten the event.

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inaneinthenextplane · 7 years ago

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American Amnesia: A Case For Why Trump’s Administrative Evils Do Not Make bush Good

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/357109-poll-dems-have-favorable-view-of-george-w-bush

It's come to my attention lately that my fears have been verified, that a bunch of nice celebrity guest appearances and speeches condemning the obvious evils of white supremacy has worn away at American contempt towards one of their most vicious and prolific abusers. The news cycle has noticeably begun to handle this assassin of American moral character with kid gloves and in the ire & fire of public outrage against out current manchild-in-chief, his image has been successfully re-rehabilitated.

This is not okay.

Lets just go over some things this man has done:

The authorization of military force that has been used for years well into the Obama and now Trump administration to 'fight the war on terror' was tasked originally with hunting down Osama Bin Laden and deconstructing Al Quaeda, both of which were adequately accomplished. This same declaration fresh after 9/11 has been used to justify the executive branch occupying the countries of Afghanistan, Niger, Iraq, Libya (during the ousting of Ghaddafi), and many other countries. Normally wars have to be authorized via a congressional declaration of war, but the lawful lawlessness of every executive branch in the use of military force since Could Not have happened without this man.

This man also capitalized on 9/11 to push through the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act, an act which has effectively suspended habeus corpus & our fourth amendment rights, allowing the government clearance to access our personal information via a rubber stamp covering large swaths of many millions of Americans or if just suspected to be an enemy of the state.

The deployment of the Cuban naval station Guantanamo Bay as an extra-judicial prison designed to hold (largely foreign) captured enemies of the state in cruel conditions, & often subject to periods of torture during interrogation, began in 2002 not long after this man was elected. Part of Obama's path to the whitehouse was the broken promise of closing this HellHole, which stands in opposition to anything we ever say about human rights on an international stage.

This man was the progenitor of the drone program which left mechanized aerial warfare to what are fundamentally death machines in the sky. A military tactic we've used for taking out targets of interest, & that has resulted in the murder of many thousands of people unrelated to threats to our national security, for simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time & they are used to murder doctors, rescuers, and mourners after the job is sloppily done

https://www.salon.com/…/u_s_drones_targeting_rescuers_and_…/

I normally hate a lot about Salon.com, but Glen Greenwalds article & the information presented in it can be corroborated by many sources.

The double-tap drone strike designed to hurt civilians is a war crime, it threatens our safety on the world stage, and it is us allowing our government cannibalize any sense of honor we hold claim to.

Footage of helicopters killing 10 men in a street of Baghdad (including two journalists for Reuters) were leaked by the private Bradley Manning to Wikileaks and published under the title 'collateral murder'. A van stopped to assist the wounded and was fired upon, two children were wounded and their father was murdered. Nothing happened to the people who committed this act.

Private Manning was imprisoned under conditions of solitary confinement, subject to torture & humiliation, and was essentially until the ass end of the Obama administration thrown away for life for bringing to light this and other leaks to inform the American people of a war crime committed by their government.

During the election that 'won' him the presidency, the state of Florida (then governed by Jeb Bush) purged 50,000 black votes in an election that was critically close in terms of delegates. The supreme court would decide the outcome of the lawsuit that would follow, filed by Al Gore, two court judges both having been appointed by this mans father George H.W. Bush. Not to mention, this man attempted to appoint his own personal lawyer as a SC justice.

This man infected the educational system of the United States with curriculum centered around unscientific ideas such as intelligent design in direct opposition to evolutionary biology, abstinence only sex education which resulted in continued upward teen birthrates, and with the institution of No Child Left Behind the emphasis on education was placed upon student performance on standardized testing. This resulted in failing students dropping from public school, low scoring schools being punished in terms of funding, and the general destruction of well rounded educations designed in part to teach critical thinking skills.

This man carpet bagged someone whose primary experience was in the Rodeo Show business to be the head of FEMA who would then oversee a failure to appropriately respond to the disaster of hurricane Katrina. Chaos would ensue in New Orleans & it was a dramatic blow to American confidence in disaster repose.

This man withdrew from the Kyoto protocol on greenhouse gasses & undermined American regulation on the environment by defunding enforcement agencies, & disbanding a pledge to tax carbon emissions. This has set the United States back basically a generation in terms of the environment on top of what we now have with Trump.

This man had the audacity to cut funding for veterans he was sending out to war, gutting services to them by billions of dollars.

In fact, this man so skyrocketed the use of mercenaries that at the height of the Iraq war there were more private military contractors in Iraq than actual army soldiers. These mercenary companies like Blackwater would be implicated in various war crimes, where civilians would be, again, slaughtered by men who would face no fucking punishment or trial.

This man used false evidence through then defense secretary Colin Powell to justify an illegal war in the face of UN opposition, implicating Iraq in the events of 9/11 and as having amassed weapons of mass destruction with intent to kill Americans on the US mainland. Also using the testimony of an acrimonious political prisoner of Saddam Hussein code-named 'Curveball' to implicate the regime in Iraq further in falsified WMD claims.

This man had twice as many CIA (not FBI) agents fighting the failed war on drugs than he did tasked with even investigating terrorism.

This man was the first president to initiate 'free speech zones', not content to just monitor our speech but to tell us how we were allowed to protest and where.

This man assaulted abortion rights for women, defunding family planning institutions designed to help those who needed abortions. An actual ban was instituted on stem cell research, which set medical research back for years (they even made a South Park episode about it). He opposed gay marriage and continued DACA, maintaining the homophobic-ally motivated national ban on same sex marriage.

the bright side of his being president was the fact that he decided to leave when he had to.

This man was a national embarrassment, his capacity for constant gaffes even created the popularization of the 'bushism', these brought us humiliation whenever we made the mistake of turning on the news-you could look them up but I'll link here a compilation that demonstrates his capacity to fuck up worse than even Trump https://youtu.be/Be6tunbRcs8

This man is now LIKED BY THE MAJORITY OF DEMOCRATS & I know what this is, this is that Democrats are typically younger and don't remember what went on. And hey, nobody has to agree with me that as far as impact on social/economic/legal/foreign issues his administration is worse than currently is Donald Trumps by miles, & definitely the Obama administration.

But he's not 'good'. If there is a hell, this man is as good as there already. The evil shit that he was up to, I mean, you just aren't informed to me if you have a positive opinion of him at this point. I question your political judgement in all things if you like the shit was doing, or think at all that some bullshit speeches taking swipes at the man that tossed his brother around like a RagDoll compensates for the institutionalized suffering of human lives & the environment committed by him. I don't even think you can have sincerely held liberal or even libertarian principles if you like him, he appeals to a very authoritarian and ultra-conservative side of politics and exercised those tendencies in the ugliest of ways. He is a war criminal who should remain shunned by all media circles, & you should be distrustful of Anyone who gives him a platform in the media.

I don't even capitalize his name when I type it, this man is and will always be george w. bush to me. This borderline illiterate moron with his entire family dynasty has ruined much of what actually made our country great.

I don't normally like to make posts this long and drawn out in details, but I just found out about this & its verified my fears about the re-calcification of positive sentiment towards bush in the mainstream media, & this is just intensely demoralizing for me on a visceral level. I am frustrated with the political amnesia of my countrymen, and also their underlying lack of political principle. I don't want to harp too much on this but let this post be a testament to the fact that I have no tolerance for this man & neither should any of you Even if you have political beliefs aligned with him on some of the social issues or on things like taxes, (which I didn't even mention the bush tax cuts) but there's probably like a thousand ways this guy could have fucked up in a single year I could talk about.

Bottom line: things are ugly right now.

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