What security does the U.S. gain by killing thousand of civilians in Afghanistan? Our corrupt government is creating many desperates seeking vengeance by  suicide terror for the U.S. killing of their families. To pretend that we are spending billions and slaughtering thousands only to stop the Taliban from oppressing the Afghan people is outrageous bullshit. To claim we are spending billions for defense to protect the American people is ridiculous bullshit. The last invasion of the U.S. was a border crossing raid by Pancho Villa 100 years ago. Stop your pathetic bullshit! Stop military terrorist wars for satanic capitalist profits. Return to sanity and peace!

On May 21, 2009, Obama’s talk on national defense showed the Ship of State falling off course. Immediate correction is needed to avoid the looming iceberg and shipwreck in these dangerous waters and to reach safe harbor. TheLuminousCompass.com, An Instrument For Multi-Directional Awareness, offers accurate bearings focused on the Magnetic Pole of Reality.    … _ _ _ …    … _ _ _ …   … _ _ _ …

Excerpts from Barack Obama’s 5/21/09 speech
Obama: [M]y single most important responsibility as President is to keep the American people safe.

TheLuminousCompass.com: To keep the American people safe, it is obvious that you must stop all wars and bring our boys home as you promised. Using our troops to take control of the assets of weaker countries for oil companies is a crime. Once our boys are back home, we the People can take care of our own safety, as we are morally much better equipped than the Homeland Security circus with its silly color-coded alerts. Remember Katrina? Bring our soldiers home, save trillions by closing all foreign bases, and protect 30,000 American lives every year by listening to the majority that elected you and now wants single payer health insurance. Adjust course, stop the rhetoric, and really keep America safe.

Obama: We are less than eight years removed from the deadliest attack on American soil in our history.

TheLuminousCompass.com: Here we go again! Mr. President, please! Don’t imitate the neo-cons’ frames of fear. 9/11 (still unexplained) has been overused by corrupt politicians who resolved nothing in eight years, other than to spend billions for the profitable slaughter of more than one million civilians and several thousands Americans. This is where studying the past may explain the present and save the future. You call it “the deadliest attack on American soil in history” (it was if we forget the genocide of 500 Native tribes).

After over a year of pleading by widows of the victims, George Bush’s un-elected criminal administration appointed a rigged kangaroo 9/11 commission that spent less than half as much to “investigate” what really happened – while failing to address WHO financed and carried out such a massive plot – than was spent to expose Whitewater and Bill Clinton’s personal escapades. The Ship of State needs a course correction on this unfinished business if you, Mr. President, really do support CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN.

Start by convincing our treaty partners to summon their experts, detectives, and scientists to investigate the myriad crimes committed under the Bush regime, crimes that have nearly destroyed our Republic, worsened our so-called international reputation, and bankrupted the American people, while super-rich scoundrel-banksters are helped to steal what’s left in the US Treasury. In other words, order that justice be served. Only then will you show the world, with more than rhetoric, that America is at last returning to its senses. Unfortunately, if you get serious about restoring a real democracy with clean elections, thieving banksters and the war profiting plutocracy will do all they can to make your presidency shorter that JFK’s.

Obama: We know that al Qaeda is actively planning to attack us again.

TheLuminousCompass.com:  Here we go again! See what we mean? You’re off course, caught in the Republican paranoid counter current. The millions who lost families to American bombers, drones, white phosphorus, aggression, calumnies, and lies are dreaming of revenge.

A remedy can be found in Dennis Kucinich’ proposal for a Department of Peace and in answering his call: “Come home, America.”

Countries that have suffered centuries of abuse are breeding more and more people who hate the Anglo-American evil empire. We do not need a Sherlock Holmes to figure that many are planning to fight back.

However, Mr. President, do not replace “change we can believe in” with “terror we can believe in!” Time to wake up! As long we fail to punish ALL those who ordered and committed torture, we’re in deadly danger. Jews, Christians, and Muslim should remember that the first suicide terrorist was a biblical hero. First blinded and tortured, Samson then took his revenge and collapsed the temple of his tormenters by killing himself along with 3000 Philistines in the region we now call the Gaza Strip. Same number as 9/11. A coincidence?

Obama: We know that this threat will be with us for a long time, and that we must use all elements of our power to defeat it. 

Already, we’ve taken several steps to achieve that goal. For the first time since 2002, we’re providing the necessary resources and strategic direction to take the fight to the extremists who attacked us on 9/11 in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

TheLuminousCompass.com: The Bush Doctrine of never ending war and of taking the fight to the terrorists while invoking 9/11 over and over are a myopic looking-back as well as a repetition of the same catastrophic errors.

Obama: [T]he Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights-these are not simply words written into aging parchment. They are the foundation of liberty and justice in this country, and a light that shines for all who seek freedom, fairness, equality, and dignity around the world… I’ve studied the Constitution as a student, I’ve taught it as a teacher, I’ve been bound by it as a lawyer and a legislator.  I took an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution as Commander-in-Chief, and as a citizen, I know that we must never, ever, turn our back on its enduring principles for expedience sake.

TheLuminousCompass.com: The people desperately want to trust you. These are not words an honest man can speak lightly, especially as a President. Your predecessor blabbered many such empty words and never respected the Constitution. Of course, he was not legitimately elected; he was appointed to reside in the White House by a lunatic court majority. You, Mr. President, on the other hand, have been given a mandate by a large majority of the people for CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN. Therefore, you must act with courage and honesty and use your eloquence to educate the millions who placed their hopes in you to save the People, not just the banksters. By doing so you can become a truly great President.

Obama: From Europe to the Pacific, we’ve been the nation that has shut down torture chambers and replaced tyranny with the rule of law. That is who we are.

TheLuminousCompass.com: Mr. President, take time to review history. Start with the book Hugo Chavez gave you, Open Veins of Latin America. Examine the shameful genocide and continued oppression of Amer-indian Natives. Learn about the 1973 murder of President Salvador Allende in Chile. Take a good look at your first employer, Henry Kissinger, that international criminal who took part in Chile’s fascist criminal tragedy. Regard what our government did in Timor, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama. Read Howard Zinn’s, A People’s History of the United States. Consider the 2002 CIA coup against democratically elected President of Hugo Chavez and the flood of corporate media lies about what happened there. Learn about the shocking U.S. interference in Bolivia’s democracy. Consider the half century of economic sanctions against the people of Cuba, only because Cuba rejected savage capitalism. Take notice that corporations, like the hypocrites they are, avoid comments when their Chinese communist partners sell us cheap labor and massacre Tibetan people in their own homeland. The list is too long. But you are an educated man. Surely you get the point.

Here is a clear image of what we as a nation have become in the eyes of the world:

The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis…It’s a scintillating stratagem. ~ Harold Pinter

Mr. President, your credibility can only be sustained by your teaching truth to our young people who worked so hard to elect you. That’s why you need to learn from the most maligned President in the world: the courageous Hugo Chavez, who stood firm for free education and free health care for all his people. He removed the power of thieves and is working to return his country’s commonwealth to the common good. Instead of giving away the people’s treasury to worthless banksters and corporate cronies, he nationalized crooked banks and warned the others to straighten out.

Obama: After 9/11, we knew that we had entered a new era-that enemies who did not abide by any law of war would present new challenges to our application of the law.

TheLuminousCompass.com: There you go again, adopting Bush’s BS. To begin with, 9/11 was a major crime still to be seriously investigated. No new era was started and “the war on terror” is a false verbal frame repeated to fool simple people. 9/11 was either an act of well-financed, super-organized revenge or the most sophisticated false flag operation ever produced to provide big enough public terror to justify immediate massive military action (conveniently pre-planned) for global expansion of “the evil empire” and to fatten the bottomline of the oil-military-financial complex. In this sense, one might say that Bush’s “mission impossible” did succeed. So, Mr. President, you are duty-bound to take a serious look at recent history to realistically understand the present and be prepared for the future.

Obama: [F]aced with an uncertain threat, our government made a series of hasty decisions. I believe that many of these decisions were motivated by a sincere desire to protect the American people.

TheLuminousCompass.com: Apologizing for Bush’s crimes is a serious deviation from your course. You are too intelligent not to know it. George Bush gave numerous brays about protecting the American People, but Katrina alone tells the real story. The list of wrongs and crimes is too long and you are not uninformed. The People are not dumb. They may go into denial for a while, but unless you correct course, they will soon see that they have been deceived again. Think carefully about that, Mr. President.

Obama: Now let me be clear: We are indeed at war with al Qaeda and its affiliates. We do need to update our institutions to deal with this threat. But we must do so with an abiding confidence in the rule of law and due process; in checks and balances and accountability.

TheLuminousCompass.com: Again, you adopt Republican frames of fear, this time with Nixonian flair. Let us see how faithfully you follow the rule of law. Start by applying our laws to the past, present, and future and bypass feel-good rhetoric. As long as Justice remains Justice, we do not need to update our institutions. Instead, let us restore our Bill of Rights, restore habeas corpus, restore due process, all precious rights the preceding criminal administration trashed. Your administration needs to be busy restoring, not updating.

Obama: I knew when I ordered Guantanamo closed that it would be difficult and complex.

TheLuminousCompass.com: Exactly what is so difficult and complex about closing Guantanamo and housing its 250 prisoners in our penitentiary-bloated country, now holding 3 million of its citizens behind bars? Hard to find space when America has built more prisons than colleges in the last 20 years? What is so difficult about that when it was as easy as snapping his fingers for Bush to round up five hundred kidnapped derelicts and a few genuine enemy combatants and have them shipped like animals from one side or the world to the other? Americans know when they are hearing...oh baloney!

Obama: We’re confronting some of the most complicated questions that a democracy can face. But I have no interest in spending all of our time re-litigating the policies of the last eight years.

TheLuminousCompass.com: Spending all our time? Whose time? What time? Re-litigating? What? The treason, fraud, and myriad crimes that have devastated our people have never been litigated. We have courts and law enforcement to handle criminals. You, Mr. President, need take no time other than to order that justice be done. You can attend to your work undisturbed by the wheels of justice grinding on.

If we are a country under law, as you affirm, then we are duty bound to investigate and prosecute all crimes. We cannot gloss over the colossal economic fraud that has plunged America and the world into an economic and human catastrophe! Changing the dialogue to avoid action will only serve to make it obvious that America is at the end of the line as a free nation and cannot be trusted.

Obama: [A]s President, I too am bound by the law. The United States is a nation of laws and so we must abide by these (lawful) rulings…I am not the only person in this city who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution-so did each and every member of Congress…I ran for President promising transparency, and I meant what I said.

TheLuminousCompass.com: We The People continue to hope that you mean these all-important affirmations.

Obama: [T]o a call for a fuller accounting, perhaps through an independent commission.  I’ve opposed the creation of such a commission because I believe that our existing democratic institutions are strong enough to deliver accountability.

TheLuminousCompass.com: Have they delivered full accountability in the last eight years? Did they call to account the Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, and the rest of the neo-con mob?

Obama: The Department of Justice and our courts can work through and punish any violations of our laws or miscarriages of justice.

TheLuminousCompass.com: So, let’s get started. The crimes America must deal with are so many and so serious that a major investigating commission, numerous grand juries, and ultimately a full Nuremberg-type special court are absolutely essential. The attempted destruction and plunder of our country deserves as much attention as did prosecuting Nazi crimes against humanity.

Correct course, Mr. President. There is a big iceberg dead ahead!

Change we can believe in?
Yes, we can!
Look forward!
Not behind?

Forget war crimes!
Look forward!
There will be new crimes aplenty?
Yes, we can!
A truckload of women and children’s …
Assorted body parts! They are the empire’s
Mother’s Day gift to Afghanistan.

WWI mothers started Mother’s Day
To tell the world:
“Let no son be forced to kill another mother’s son, ever again!”
Yes, we can!
Look forward!
Not backwards?
Can’t you see?
Change we can believe in?
New war criminals forgiving old criminals?
More prisons and slave camps for the poor!
Forgive killers who sent sons to die?
Die for what? For oil, you fools!

Don’t look backward.
Look forward!
There is fresh blood on the streets.
Can’t you see change we can believe in?
Forget Wounded Knee.
Forget Mi Lai.
Forget old blood on forgotten streets.
Look forward!
Yes, we can!

Immunized criminals are ready again
to offer torture and murder expertise
We are a country under law?
We have kangaroo tribunals spitting on obsolete treaties.
God Bless America!
Land of compassion.
One lunatic, deaf, and blind nation under what God?
The old, jealous lord of hosts?
Change we can believe in?
Yes, we can!
Give us a break!
All lunatics can.
Not a single White House press core baboon
raised a grunt of protest
at the Mother’s Day’s dinner
Obama hosted with empty jokes.
Change we can believe in?