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	<title>Comments on: Richard Jewell, R.I.P.</title>
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		<title>By: Dirk W. Sabin</title>
		<link>http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/08/29/richard-jewell-rip/#comment-111067</link>
		<dc:creator>Dirk W. Sabin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 18:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Not for a moment would I be so bold as to question the sanity nor probity of Mr. Freeh but it seems to me that one of the bedrock definitions of schizoprenia is: listening to voices that do not exist and then compounding the error by responding to said voices, particularly in public. Sad to say, it's become a consuming national pastime.

Nothing like a little righteous delusional thinking to cough up what simply has to be in the top four or five most preposterous governments of all time. Sure, there might have been worse governments, more wretchedly murderous ones and a few even more inept but this government, heir to the most sordid affairs of the Nixon and Reagan years takes the cake. We've gone from the pinnacle of success in the aftermath of the Cold War and the economic bonanza of the Internet Age to the blunders of the so called War on Terror and the yet to fully play out idiocies of a broken housing and mortgage market. This here gubmint is the champeen junkyard dog of champyonship junkyard dogs. They have combined idealogical dysfunction and free-spending on a scale few could match even if one were an afficianado of the disaster craft. It's almost like if Mrs. O'Leary's Cow became a Braggart.

What remains most comical about this sad development is that we have utterly lost our ability to divert attention away from, or properly conceal the unconstitutional and clearly illegal activities we once conducted with near impunity. The legend of the Boy Who Cried Wolf has married Chicken Little and laid an egg called the Bush-Cheney Administration. Perhaps when the bird hatches, we shall see the second coming of the Dodo. After these boys are done we wont need security so much as a security blanket.

We are entering new territory here ladies and gents, our leadership has confused it's metaphors and thinks Manifest Destiny is Manifest Clusterboink.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not for a moment would I be so bold as to question the sanity nor probity of Mr. Freeh but it seems to me that one of the bedrock definitions of schizoprenia is: listening to voices that do not exist and then compounding the error by responding to said voices, particularly in public. Sad to say, it&#8217;s become a consuming national pastime.</p>
<p>Nothing like a little righteous delusional thinking to cough up what simply has to be in the top four or five most preposterous governments of all time. Sure, there might have been worse governments, more wretchedly murderous ones and a few even more inept but this government, heir to the most sordid affairs of the Nixon and Reagan years takes the cake. We&#8217;ve gone from the pinnacle of success in the aftermath of the Cold War and the economic bonanza of the Internet Age to the blunders of the so called War on Terror and the yet to fully play out idiocies of a broken housing and mortgage market. This here gubmint is the champeen junkyard dog of champyonship junkyard dogs. They have combined idealogical dysfunction and free-spending on a scale few could match even if one were an afficianado of the disaster craft. It&#8217;s almost like if Mrs. O&#8217;Leary&#8217;s Cow became a Braggart.</p>
<p>What remains most comical about this sad development is that we have utterly lost our ability to divert attention away from, or properly conceal the unconstitutional and clearly illegal activities we once conducted with near impunity. The legend of the Boy Who Cried Wolf has married Chicken Little and laid an egg called the Bush-Cheney Administration. Perhaps when the bird hatches, we shall see the second coming of the Dodo. After these boys are done we wont need security so much as a security blanket.</p>
<p>We are entering new territory here ladies and gents, our leadership has confused it&#8217;s metaphors and thinks Manifest Destiny is Manifest Clusterboink.</p>
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		<title>By: Althea Fackrell</title>
		<link>http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/08/29/richard-jewell-rip/#comment-111049</link>
		<dc:creator>Althea Fackrell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am commenting on Mr. Jewell.  I was in England as an ambassador for the US during the Centennial Olympic incident.  I never thought Mr. Jewell was guilty of anything except doing his job.  Most Britons that I spoke with felt the same way.  However, most US Americans were sure Mr. Jewell did it to bring a heroism upon himself.  Why?  Because he was one person doing a good thing?  No one questioned the silliness of firefighters and police officers during the 911 Attack as they entered unsafe areas looking for victims.  They knew better.  I take nothing away from their heroism but they were suppose to know better doing their job.  Since that time more firefighters have become aggressive in their missions to save victims and less aggressive in safety.  Why isn't the FBI investigating this need to be heroic?  I'm not suggesting anything...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am commenting on Mr. Jewell.  I was in England as an ambassador for the US during the Centennial Olympic incident.  I never thought Mr. Jewell was guilty of anything except doing his job.  Most Britons that I spoke with felt the same way.  However, most US Americans were sure Mr. Jewell did it to bring a heroism upon himself.  Why?  Because he was one person doing a good thing?  No one questioned the silliness of firefighters and police officers during the 911 Attack as they entered unsafe areas looking for victims.  They knew better.  I take nothing away from their heroism but they were suppose to know better doing their job.  Since that time more firefighters have become aggressive in their missions to save victims and less aggressive in safety.  Why isn&#8217;t the FBI investigating this need to be heroic?  I&#8217;m not suggesting anything&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Jim</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That was afterwards.

That may have been why Freeh did not explicitly claim that all FBI agents were doing God's work.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That was afterwards.</p>
<p>That may have been why Freeh did not explicitly claim that all FBI agents were doing God&#8217;s work.</p>
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		<title>By: Don Bangert</title>
		<link>http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/08/29/richard-jewell-rip/#comment-111047</link>
		<dc:creator>Don Bangert</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;"Ethics is the golden thread which runs throughout our training. It often is the difference between correctly applying the awesome power of law enforcement and conduct that undermines the rule of law."&lt;/i&gt;

Was that before or after &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge" rel="nofollow"&gt;Ruby Ridge&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_Siege" rel="nofollow"&gt;Waco Massacre&lt;/a&gt;?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>&#8220;Ethics is the golden thread which runs throughout our training. It often is the difference between correctly applying the awesome power of law enforcement and conduct that undermines the rule of law.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Was that before or after <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge" rel="nofollow">Ruby Ridge</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_Siege" rel="nofollow">Waco Massacre</a>?</p>
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		<title>By: Tory</title>
		<link>http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/08/29/richard-jewell-rip/#comment-111043</link>
		<dc:creator>Tory</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The wolves disguised as sheep:

For the longest time J Edgar Hoover played the leader of America's KGB in real time. Citizens were powerless to stop it. The Right Wing created a communist threat and the FBI's Most Wanted to hypnotize the masses into subservience and silence.

Most law enforcement employees (including their family, relatives and friends), including Hoover and Freeh, lack  character and integrity; their lifelong missions are career advancement for the sake of profits. Image management becomes their best law-enforcement skill to help them rise above the ranks. Only in America are cowards labeled heroes; character and integrity translates into lying and cheating. Following rules translates into hustling Americans out of their civil rights. Busting a perpetrator (innocent or guilty) translates into future profits, promotions and power. 

The worst rise to the top; I'm telling you, the more angelic their cover (their image) the greater their capacity to commit crime. Hoover had knowledge of the plot to murder JFK and probalbly was a co-conspirator. There is no doubt of his helping to conceal the coverup and all the other conspirators.

And the cause of all Terror, and most crime (in part because government disarms citizens) is government.

If you're a hero wannabe it could get you more attention than you ever imagined. And just like the 60,000 dead Americans from the VietNam conflict, the thousands of innocent Americans jailed thru out our history for speaking against our corrupt system are forgotten too. 

The greatest threat to our freedom and security comes from our own government. 
Our government gets more people harmed or killed than any other threat. Government is our worst enemy - worse than any mugger, rapist, murderer, drug dealer, vicious animal or terrorist.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The wolves disguised as sheep:</p>
<p>For the longest time J Edgar Hoover played the leader of America&#8217;s KGB in real time. Citizens were powerless to stop it. The Right Wing created a communist threat and the FBI&#8217;s Most Wanted to hypnotize the masses into subservience and silence.</p>
<p>Most law enforcement employees (including their family, relatives and friends), including Hoover and Freeh, lack  character and integrity; their lifelong missions are career advancement for the sake of profits. Image management becomes their best law-enforcement skill to help them rise above the ranks. Only in America are cowards labeled heroes; character and integrity translates into lying and cheating. Following rules translates into hustling Americans out of their civil rights. Busting a perpetrator (innocent or guilty) translates into future profits, promotions and power. </p>
<p>The worst rise to the top; I&#8217;m telling you, the more angelic their cover (their image) the greater their capacity to commit crime. Hoover had knowledge of the plot to murder JFK and probalbly was a co-conspirator. There is no doubt of his helping to conceal the coverup and all the other conspirators.</p>
<p>And the cause of all Terror, and most crime (in part because government disarms citizens) is government.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re a hero wannabe it could get you more attention than you ever imagined. And just like the 60,000 dead Americans from the VietNam conflict, the thousands of innocent Americans jailed thru out our history for speaking against our corrupt system are forgotten too. </p>
<p>The greatest threat to our freedom and security comes from our own government.<br />
Our government gets more people harmed or killed than any other threat. Government is our worst enemy - worse than any mugger, rapist, murderer, drug dealer, vicious animal or terrorist.</p>
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