Law, Power, and Justice

Tuesday 15 August 2023

Things I’ve been thinking about and trying to figure out.

I’ve just come back from once again struggling against the American Medical System.  I don’t even want to get started on what’s wrong with it.  It is a testament to how propagandized people in this country are because most of them believe this is the best medical system in the world.  I’ll just leave this topic with the words of Chris Rock: My mother was sick when I was poor, and my mother was sick when I was rich.  If people knew the difference in treatment, they would be rioting in the streets.

Ukraine:

The counteroffensive is not going as well as expected.  There have been no dramatic sweeps of territory, or reclaiming of formerly taken territory.  The reason for this, or part of the reason, is the extent to which the Russians were allowed to dig in during the month’s long cease in the fighting. There are miles, literally miles of fortifications on the border lines – miles of mine feeds, trenches, heavy artillery.  And, the West seems determined to dribble and drabble out this equipment as if time didn’t matter.  It does.

I was listening to a podcast about Western training of Ukrainian military fighters.  The man talking owned a training business in Ukraine.  He said that when the West (and Nato) take soldiers out of the front and ship them off for training, this is the most very basic training.  The soldiers have so much experience they could teach the instructors.  The Western forces are not at all familiar with fighting a WWII style battle.  Their experiences in Afghanistan or Iraq are not similar.  As always, the Ukrainian man was quick to stress how much the Ukrainians appreciated the training and any funding that came their way, but the training needed to adapt to the situation.

Ben Norton is exorcized because Zelensky met with Andriy Biletsky, the founder of what some people call a neo-Nazi organization, the Azov regiment.  Many people I have heard talk about the situation say that Ukraine has a neo-Nazi problem like the United States has a neo-Nazi problem.  They are there, but they do not dominate the political terrain. 

Trump and Political Corruption

The entire story about what happened in Coffee County, Georgia is enough to make your mind spin.  Doubts about whether the voting was accurate which Trump has been feeding for months, led officials there to allow private companies and other individuals access to the Dominion machine innards.  I am not a computer person and I have no earthly idea what the true implications of this are.  But, I know it’s not good when individuals can come in and search around in a computer’s hard and soft ware and copy anything they please. 

There are people who argue that because of this breach (not the only one) all the voting machines in Georgia are compromised.  Gabrien Sterling, of course, has been assuring people that everything is alright.  Of course he has to unless he wants to admit that he and Brian Kemp spent an ungodly amount of money on the Dominion Voting Machine system. 

This is a difficult issue to talk about.  Because Republicans have taken over the intellectual terrain surrounding vote fraud, to even raise the issue gets you shouted down.  But, the system Kemp, et. al. installed in Georgia came with stickers that said not “I voted” as before, but “I secured my vote.”  I fear this is protesting too much.  Why all the emphasis on the “secured.”  It is part of a massive and very expensive campaign to convince Georgia voters that their votes would be counted.

But, the marked ballots the Kemp administration is so proud of – a piece of paper that records your votes in a way you can see your votes in front of you, is a phony.  When you walk over and put this ballot (with the printed information about how you voted) into the reader, it does not read the words you can see.  It reads a bar code that you have no ability to verify.  The poll workers cannot read the bar code.  And, if there is an audit, the machines simply re-read the bar code.  So, it is impenetrable while looking totally verifiable.  I don’t like it.  Not one little bit.

Georgia

Oh, just before I go, Georgia recently passed a law that the Governor and some commission he is supposed to establish can remove any prosecutor.  But, we were assured that this wouldn’t take effect until 2025.  Then, there was a modification to the law that makes it applicable within a few months.  THERE IS A REASON FOR THIS MODIFICATION.  Watch for it.

Well, nod to Keith, I’ve done almost all the damage I can do for one night.  Good night.  May a kitten find you.