Mike's Vacation: April 2009

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Erroneous Juxtaposition Impedes Democracy

I am interested in Soviet Era history as well as current events in Russia and Belarus. When I discuss any subject relating to the Soviets, or modern Russia I frequently hear disparaging remarks about Stalin, Putin, and Lukashenka.

I am a supporter of Putin, and Lukashenka, and a student of Stalin. I don't feel I know enough about Soviet issues and history to make final determinations about the character of Joseph Stalin.

It is very easy to attack a dead man. It is very easy to attack a man whose ideas are "out of fashion".

Mikes Vacation believes that Joseph Stalin led the Soviet Union to many successes, and he allowed for many sacrifices to achieve the same.

We must stop attacking heads of state without empirical and well thought evidence of their failure.

Attacks upon Joseph Stalin have traditionally been vehicles for sub-democratic policies here in America. When Stalin is referenced, his failures are juxtaposed against the speakers favored ideas. Frequently this is done to insight an emotional response on the part of the listener. When successful this can only allow a "new idea" or "inspirational thought" to not be scrutinized completely. This allows for "sub-standard" ideas to sometimes flourish. If done on a grand or national scale, this prevents the public from fully contemplating these ideas, and undermines the foundation of democracy: CAREFUL CONSIDERATION OF IDEAS.

Anyone who advocates an empirical examination of the debated facts at hand is assumed to be fond of Stalin's wrongdoings.

The Soviet Union did achieve some success during Stalin's tenure. Can we not learn something from these victories that is useful here in America?

When a politician or leader juxtaposes an idea he is supports with Soviet Era failures, the American public should have screaming Klaxon Horns going off in their minds alerting them to think carefully about what they are hearing.

I have included some media that attack and flatter Stalin. You will see both the glory and horror of Soviet bygone days.

You will also please note there are two attachments about the United States. They expose our glory, and our poverty. (only a fraction of glory and problems)

These media are not intended to present an exact chronological comparison of the two countries. It is not possible to compare the Soviet Union with the United States at virtually any specific time period and be able to make an "apples to apples " comparison. This is because our two countries were in different conditions at different times owing to war, industrial development, literacy, etc.

However, if comparisons are made allowing for these developmental differences you can see that in our limelight and glory America still had problems.

Is it not possible for the Soviet Union to have had some "limelight" to go along with her problems?

Glory to Stalin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9ScChTcCag

Joseph Stalin and Communist crimeshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBvEUiU5-ZI

Soviet People and Their Liveshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwPG-HstVEg&feature=related

Kolymahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J8mFAhHDC4&feature=related

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT'S "D-DAY PRAYER TO THE NATION" (JUNE 6,1944) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7YZtCViLt8

The Dirty '30s: poverty in a nutshellhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx_OM3AZoIc

THE DESTINY OF MAN

Friday, April 17, 2009

OBAMA'S GREATEST CHALLENGE

The greatest challenge to any modern president of the United States will be to hold the union together without resorting to murder, torture, or other draconian measures.

The United States is confronted with multiple problems ranging from a failing currency, lagging economy, and a gentility vacuum. These problems are a result of the American people being unwilling to intellectually confront complex issues and instead allowing special interest "fiefdoms" to come to power over Washington. These special interest "fiefdoms" have taken advantage of the intellectually lethargic American public and trained the public via clever media campaigns and subversive social engineering programs to be reactionary and impressionable. The vast majority of our population is conditioned to respond in an emotional rather than cerebral way to "artificial issues" placed before us by our politicians in Washington, at the inspiration of the special interest "fiefdoms".

The American public could snap its fingers and fix these problems, but as stated above, most of them are not sophisticated enough to understand what is wrong, much less make corrections.

Small democracies have an easier time managing their federal governments. When politicians serve millions it is harder for the little guy on the street to get his opinion noticed by them.

When citizens are faced with hundreds, or thousands of miles between them and their leaders it is also difficult for them to have their opinions heard.

Ultimately people must begin to ask themselves whether or not they would be better off not being attached to a broken democracy. Freedom loving, intelligent Americans must ultimately decide whether or not they want to be "held back" or "oppressed" by the venom and sloth of those who choose to make substandard choices.

Countries and empires collapse because the central governments fail the people they serve. Populations decide they no longer want to be "yoked" or "stifled" by the mistakes of a broken political machine.

Economically stable and prosperous countries do not collapse. If America begins to feel the pain of a fallen currency, combined with an anemic economy, we must begin to decide whom is to blame.

The ironic, catch 22 of blaming Washington DC is that we as Americans are actually behind the failure of our own system. We can't blame Washington for endless blunders when we elect the same men we find fault with.

What if Texans or Vermontonians want to change their lives for the better? What if the rest of the country decides to remain members of the personality cult of special interest "fiefdoms"?

It may ultimately be the correct decision for some states to go forth by themselves.

This was the cause of the Civil War. The name "civil war" is actually a misnomer. Our country's most devastating war wasn't a "civil war". It was an attempt at succession by the south. This was caused by the impending economic disaster. This same disaster was due to the lifting of tariffs on European textile products that would have destroyed the economy of the south.

The greatest challenge to Obama, or any future president will be to hold our union of states together without resorting to methods perpendicular to the reasons our forefathers embarked on the same union.

The Russians for years have been predicting our demise as a union of states. While it may be true that some of their nay saying may simply be geopoliticly inspired propaganda, they also have identified many serious problems that could become deadly malignancies to our union.

We now have the governor of Texas actually discussing issues about succession. An open discussion by such a prominent man will undoubtedly inspire the same discussion to happen in the general population. This is an important first step for the dissolution of our union.

MikesVacation believes that if our country is correctly run, and our democracy is maintained by a cerebral populace, we are stronger together than separate. Our entire population of 300 million people will be better off standing united.

MikesVacation also believes that Texas and Vermont would likely function better broken off as their own county's if conditions in the United States continue to progress in a negative fashion.

Obama must begin an emergency program to fix the state of broken democracy we now endure. He must begin to imagine conditions that would cause our union to dissolve, and implement their immediate fixture.

America is not on the verge of collapse, Texas is not going to succeed tomorrow, Vermont is not ready to stand alone. However the precursor elements of an American collapse not unlike that of the Soviet Union are in place. These same elements must be negated with education, industry and honest statesmanship.

If our early malignancies are not addressed immediately, Obama, or future another future president will have the choice of passively seeing our country dissolve bit by bit, or of using methods averse to our normal constitutional process to slow or stop the process.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,504384,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30252723/?gt1=43001
http://www.freestateproject.org/

Thursday, April 16, 2009

OBAMA'S FIRST FAILURE

Dear Reader/s,

A very sad day in American history has come to pass. After the long "dark age" of the Bush administration, our newest and greatest hope has failed us.

The war crimes that were committed by the CIA will not be prosecuted. This is decreed from our new president Obama.

War crimes must be punished, because their punishment serves as a warning to future perpetrators. War criminals of the future must know that they will not be able to escape their deeds.

No one man may give another permission to commit war crimes, or crimes against humanity. If the Justice Department gave the CIA permission to torture POW's or kidnap victims, this doesn't absolve CIA war criminals for their deeds. It is impossible for any orgainization to give permission to any individual or organization to commit war crimes.

Hitler's Gestapo had full authorization for the tortures it carried out, the SS running concentration camps had full authorization for its atrocities. This does not absolve them for their deeds.

The very nature of WAR CRIMES and CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY is that they cannot every be "authorized, legalized, or absolved".

As a constitutional scholar President Obama should be aware that the war crimes committed by the CIA are dangerous not simply because they were crimes committed against undesirables.

These same crimes were threats against the American People's freedom from similar tortures and intrusions. These crimes and their precursor elements were unnecessary attacks against the safety of Americans against the same.

When it becomes legal for the CIA to slap, cramp, sleep deprive, etc Muslim undesirables, it also becomes just a little bit easier for an over zealous policeman to "mugg" a suspect, or plant evidence on him.

When the President of our nation allows these offences to go without retribution, it will ultimately engender Muslims who were sitting on the fence to become sympathetic with those that have been mistreated and their radical causes.

If our President were to pursue level headed prosecution of those that have committed crimes, our nation would begin to regain much desperately need respect in both first and third world arenas.

There is also the problem of what will happen should the United States fall into the hands of another ethically vacuous and malevolent president such as George Bush. If previous offenses are allowed to be forgiven, what motivates future CIA agents from committing similar crimes?

Our nation has failed to demand from Obama a promise to bring CIA criminals to justice before he was elected. Our nation will likely fail to inspire him during his tenure to reverse this decision and correctly punish the correctly guilty.

Obama is for all intents and purposes a decent and intelligent man. As a nation we will now begin to pay the price for his first failure.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30249847

Mike's Vacation