Two contrived histories combine to insulate America from the truth about Obama

[Ed Jewett]

Ed, your #9 & 10 posts seem to indicate you are on board with attempts to paint the POTUS as a Muslim & a non-citizen of the US. My comment about your biblio. is that if you are engaged in the smear campaign against Obama your biblio. didn't prevent your hopping on such a 1/2 baked bandwagon. You yourself said 2 days ago you don't engage in violent discussion. I don't know what your # 9 & 10 posts are if not violent discussion.

You have conflated my words; I think you need to go back and re-construct your line of bread crumb-y thinking and find the exact phrasing and quotation where I said I did not engage in "violent discussion". I turned away from physical violence as it was taught to me by the United States Army officers from within the Green Berets. I turned away from opting to stay in ROTC to become a second lieutenant in the United States Army (and whatever that might have entailed)(likely either being on point in the jungle, or getting fragged, or otherwise coming home in a box). I was lated classified 1-Y due to the presence of a post-trauma arthritic knee that also helped end a job as a firefighter, but I stayed in the ambulance business. Sue me for choosing life and a career in saving lives. There was noting in there about turning away from discussion nor in deciding not to use some violence in discussion as necessary to defend myself. There was nothing in the posts or the bibliography or its books that prevent me from calling attention to issues I think need attention. If you have any sense of what those books are about or what they convey (instead of talking out the lower end of your tube), they are about learning to pay attention.

I am (and that's all in the bibliography as well) a student of the art and discipline of aikido. A slow detour into open heart surgery to repair a faulty aortic valve prevented me from continuing the physical practice; the stroke I experienced during that surgery probably prevented me from returning to it. However, that did not stop me from reading and understanding the philosophy of the art/discipline. The culmination of it is "The Art of Peace" by Morihei Ueshiba, and along the way are books by and about Terry Dobson, Richard Strozzi Heckler, Wendy Palmer and others. Palmer's "The Intuitive Body" and "The Practice of Freedom", and Heckler's "Holding the Center: Sanctuary in a Time of Confusion (Writings on Place, Community and Body)" are, IMHO, especially good. They have lead to further purchases of books on somatics. Like it or not, we are sacks of flesh and bone, with a brain and a hormonal system that drive emotion. One can learn to control, understand and harness emotion, but one cannot eliminate its presence and role in our lives; thus, the passion for reason and intellect as sole arbiters of judgment is misplaced, and the drive for "reason", "enlightment", etc. must necessarily hop about on one leg.

Your comment about "the half-baked wagon" demonstrates your judgment, but not your openness to an examination of what evidence there may be. You are certainly entitled to be an Obama fan.

Wayne Madsen was challenged previously, and I wrote to him, inviting him to respond and to look in on the thread in question; a copy of the invitation (and his response) were copied to the DPF administrator. He is a public entity with a public web site; you are free to write him there.

With regard to Obama's history (especially in Indonesia), John Pilger has also done some investigative work. The use of anthropology and sociology as weapons of war is also noted in several places. The use of death squads has occurred in many locations around the world in the last ten decades. The ability of the CIA to form, formulate, hide and create identities and get them across national borders is legendary and proven.

Once again, I ask openly for all to see: What is your intent here in pursuing me? Were you deputized in the thought and belief police squads? Or have I touched a nerve somewhere and discovered something you don't want others to know? You seem to have stepped in where someone else left off. Is this going to be an online randori? Will there be further personal intimidation, attacks on reputation, etc.? Am I or others personally at risk here?