Fight til you cannot...
An editorial originally published in the Las Vegas Tribune; edited here to fit current situations: Even if we are in the Minority, we’ll fight on... until we cannot.
Photo contributed by Hossein Mokhtar
By D. Deuke
(Formerly - Senior Editor)
Las Vegas Tribune
I find myself in the minority as I defend the sword rattling of our (former) president and the principles of our country. As I have already written on previous occasions, I thought G."Dubya" was doing the right thing, and doing what should have been done years ago: getting rid of terrorists. Now after the fact, I learned that what he was doing was continuing to set up the "New World Order."
Documented reports, evidence and eye-witness accounts have shown that on the whole, the thugs are coming from various locations in the Middle East; trained and funded by, namely, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Hamas, the PLO, and other organizations and countries bent on destroying anything related to Israel; anything American, anything non-Muslim.
I find myself defending what America stands for (or used to stand for) against those who think there is no America any longer. They point out the disgusting behavior of elected representatives; they talk about businesses that ply their trade around the globe with no remorse for the damage they may have caused. And I have to agree, many, if not all of them are disgustingly corrupt.
There is ample evidence of a corporate mentality that has been interested only in the bottom line – profits, no matter what havoc they have wreaked on the public. I am inundated with information that those in power, in this country, are bailing from a runaway train carrying all the cash they can get their grubby, filthy fingers on. And I find it harder and harder to argue the point that someone has to "Stand against the Dragons..." because I’m told, "it’s not worth it any more – we can’t win."
I’m told that the public doesn’t care – about a free press, about politics, about police abuse, judicial corruption, an overstepping federal government, about the loss of freedoms once enjoyed by all Americans. I’m told, we’re paranoid – that things aren’t all that bad; that judges don’t disrespect the law, that police don’t abuse their authority; I’m told that no one actually is "railroaded" by prosecutors. Although I’m reminded that corruption reaches every level of government, and that even if we turned out in droves to vote, our vote may not count – because a machine may be programed to steal our votes.
I hear stories every day about the misdirection of federal and state funds; slated for organizations that are supposed to be helping people. Instead they are using the funds to "enrich" the lives of executive officers in those organizations. I am told to "back off," "leave it alone," or "quit –what’s the use? You’re just banging your head against a wall - or it's not your fight anymore..." And then I argue that we must keep screaming; we must keep hammering and pecking away at the layers of guilt and deception that abound – but what for? We ask.
I’m no quitter; in fact I’m loyal to a fault, even when some do not deserve the loyalty, but when is it enough? Right now, I can’t answer that question. I can’t answer it because I see people such as Jo Jackson from Las Vegas, who has been fighting a system that has stolen her rights as an American; abused the very principles for which she fights, which we all fight for, and though they have been beating her down in every way they can think of, she’s still fighting.
I can’t stop because of people like Bill Cole, who has had to withstand the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars in property, including the only things he had left and has cherished from his mother. I am fighting for his Constitutional rights – to exist, to pursue happiness, to live in peace free from gestapo-like technique used by certain police officers. (He was interrupted from eating a burrito, with a shotgun pointed in his face then thrown into jail as though he were some common criminal, charged with some statute that is at best ambiguous and at the worst ridiculous, and left to rot for hours, while he had the money in his pocket to pay to get himself out.) He, like many others had to learn to file motions and pleadings; he went to law school just to find a way to compete with, and if he ever gets justice, to show that his Constitutional Rights were violated.
I keep fighting for people like Anya Duke, abused by a medical system that refuses to admit a mistake was made in diagnosis, which has made her blind; against a judicial system that has become arrogant and ruthless, impatient and undignified, the very opposite of what they are supposed to stand for. I fight for Anya, because she was in the right and the eye surgeon was not. Then a review board was not; then a judge was not, and then a state supreme court was not. Why? Because they all were expected to go along with the program – the program of screwing anyone who dares challenge their arrogance.
I fight for the right of a free press to tell the story the way it is, not the way it may be "spun" to fit the politically correct mouth pieces of main stream media. I fight against people that don't give a damn about the rights that are being violated daily; constantly... Because if we don’t fight, and you won’t fight, who will?
I fight for Thomas Gaule whose own lawyers were accused of collusion with the public guardian's office; lying to cover their, as Frank Vipperman would say, "horrendously corrupt ass." I fight for Thomas’ mother, who was abused by nursing homes and neglected by the former Public Guardian in Clark County, Nevada, Jared Shafer, who never cared about her in the first place.
I write the words that hopefully will cause those that can do something, to do it – to Congressman; to the state legislature, to senators, to the President of the United States; please listen, but do they listen? I think not.
I fight, because it is the right thing to do. I fight because if I don’t, how will my family know what this country is supposed to stand for? I fight for the right to be heard as an American, as a citizen of the greatest country in the world, and I will continue to fight until I cannot fight any longer. And when and if I have been beaten down so badly by the powers that wish to shut people like me up, and I cannot fight any loner – then I will stop.
Until then, GOD help us all....
See ya on the flip side.....
(Formerly - Senior Editor)
Las Vegas Tribune
I find myself in the minority as I defend the sword rattling of our (former) president and the principles of our country. As I have already written on previous occasions, I thought G."Dubya" was doing the right thing, and doing what should have been done years ago: getting rid of terrorists. Now after the fact, I learned that what he was doing was continuing to set up the "New World Order."
Documented reports, evidence and eye-witness accounts have shown that on the whole, the thugs are coming from various locations in the Middle East; trained and funded by, namely, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Hamas, the PLO, and other organizations and countries bent on destroying anything related to Israel; anything American, anything non-Muslim.
I find myself defending what America stands for (or used to stand for) against those who think there is no America any longer. They point out the disgusting behavior of elected representatives; they talk about businesses that ply their trade around the globe with no remorse for the damage they may have caused. And I have to agree, many, if not all of them are disgustingly corrupt.
There is ample evidence of a corporate mentality that has been interested only in the bottom line – profits, no matter what havoc they have wreaked on the public. I am inundated with information that those in power, in this country, are bailing from a runaway train carrying all the cash they can get their grubby, filthy fingers on. And I find it harder and harder to argue the point that someone has to "Stand against the Dragons..." because I’m told, "it’s not worth it any more – we can’t win."
I’m told that the public doesn’t care – about a free press, about politics, about police abuse, judicial corruption, an overstepping federal government, about the loss of freedoms once enjoyed by all Americans. I’m told, we’re paranoid – that things aren’t all that bad; that judges don’t disrespect the law, that police don’t abuse their authority; I’m told that no one actually is "railroaded" by prosecutors. Although I’m reminded that corruption reaches every level of government, and that even if we turned out in droves to vote, our vote may not count – because a machine may be programed to steal our votes.
I hear stories every day about the misdirection of federal and state funds; slated for organizations that are supposed to be helping people. Instead they are using the funds to "enrich" the lives of executive officers in those organizations. I am told to "back off," "leave it alone," or "quit –what’s the use? You’re just banging your head against a wall - or it's not your fight anymore..." And then I argue that we must keep screaming; we must keep hammering and pecking away at the layers of guilt and deception that abound – but what for? We ask.
I’m no quitter; in fact I’m loyal to a fault, even when some do not deserve the loyalty, but when is it enough? Right now, I can’t answer that question. I can’t answer it because I see people such as Jo Jackson from Las Vegas, who has been fighting a system that has stolen her rights as an American; abused the very principles for which she fights, which we all fight for, and though they have been beating her down in every way they can think of, she’s still fighting.
I can’t stop because of people like Bill Cole, who has had to withstand the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars in property, including the only things he had left and has cherished from his mother. I am fighting for his Constitutional rights – to exist, to pursue happiness, to live in peace free from gestapo-like technique used by certain police officers. (He was interrupted from eating a burrito, with a shotgun pointed in his face then thrown into jail as though he were some common criminal, charged with some statute that is at best ambiguous and at the worst ridiculous, and left to rot for hours, while he had the money in his pocket to pay to get himself out.) He, like many others had to learn to file motions and pleadings; he went to law school just to find a way to compete with, and if he ever gets justice, to show that his Constitutional Rights were violated.
I keep fighting for people like Anya Duke, abused by a medical system that refuses to admit a mistake was made in diagnosis, which has made her blind; against a judicial system that has become arrogant and ruthless, impatient and undignified, the very opposite of what they are supposed to stand for. I fight for Anya, because she was in the right and the eye surgeon was not. Then a review board was not; then a judge was not, and then a state supreme court was not. Why? Because they all were expected to go along with the program – the program of screwing anyone who dares challenge their arrogance.
I fight for the right of a free press to tell the story the way it is, not the way it may be "spun" to fit the politically correct mouth pieces of main stream media. I fight against people that don't give a damn about the rights that are being violated daily; constantly... Because if we don’t fight, and you won’t fight, who will?
I fight for Thomas Gaule whose own lawyers were accused of collusion with the public guardian's office; lying to cover their, as Frank Vipperman would say, "horrendously corrupt ass." I fight for Thomas’ mother, who was abused by nursing homes and neglected by the former Public Guardian in Clark County, Nevada, Jared Shafer, who never cared about her in the first place.
I write the words that hopefully will cause those that can do something, to do it – to Congressman; to the state legislature, to senators, to the President of the United States; please listen, but do they listen? I think not.
I fight, because it is the right thing to do. I fight because if I don’t, how will my family know what this country is supposed to stand for? I fight for the right to be heard as an American, as a citizen of the greatest country in the world, and I will continue to fight until I cannot fight any longer. And when and if I have been beaten down so badly by the powers that wish to shut people like me up, and I cannot fight any loner – then I will stop.
Until then, GOD help us all....
See ya on the flip side.....
D. Deuke
posted by Deuke at 9:22 AM
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