Op/Ed-Our Safety And Our Ideals

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ABOUTH THIS VIDEO: Barack Obama wrote the headline to chapter one in his own administration's history when, with George Bush sitting just feet away and the whole world watching, he seemed to wipe away a whole doctrine with:"We reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals."

As he the new president was signing executive orders that shut down the detention facilities at GITMO, U.S. military drones fired missiles that killed at least 15 people inside Pakistan, leaving people around the world asking if the controversial military policy begun by George W Bush had changed after all.

Dennis Trainor, Jr has worked as a writer/ media consultant for Dennis Kucinich's 2008 presidential campaign. In addition to contributing video commentator to The Uptake (http://www.theuptake.org ), he is host at Operation Itch ( http://www.operationitch.com )

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[TiradeFaction]

Great video Davis, as usual.

[mjdishere]

I love the new videos Dennis. Your make cynicism seem poetic

[StratusBlue]

It is getting to the point where it is the last chance for optimism about Obama. One can hope. One may hope. But the dead in Pakistan's blood are on Obama's hands.

[poop121]

wow, this is the least cynical dennis has ever seemed. he still seems cynical but there's maybe a tinge of optimism in there too

[mopsius]

An Israeli colonel involved in Operation Cast Lead returned to Israel in haste on Friday, fearing arrest on charges of war crimes during a visit to the UK.

Col. (res.) Geva Rapp had arrived in London three days before for appearances in which he was to explain Israel's position and refute media representations of the hostilities..

Calling for police to arrest him, the protesters blocked public pathways, while one scaled the building's wall...Jerusalem Post 2 Feb 09

[mopsius]

You ever try owning yourself?

Infinite recursion--then you get down on your knees and become Born Again.

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

Ron Paul sells himself for $35 million, selling out the antiwar movement into the bargain.

[mopsius]

"You self-owned", says Ron Paul.

Thanks, Massuh--so you mean one can sell oneself as LABOR,

HAHHAHAHAHA.

[mopsius]

Whose broken window is a cry of art

(success, that winks aware

as elegance, as a treasonable faith)

is raw: is sonic: is old-eyed première.

Our beautiful flaw and terrible ornament.

Our barbarous and metal little man.

I shall create! If not a note, a hole.

If not an overture, a desecration....

Gwendolyn Brooks.

(be prepared, little metal men)

[mopsius]

Why wouldn't the Ayn Rand Capitalist buy any state that could be bought and have you morons pay for your own slavery?

Ethics, morality?

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

What Protestantism added to GREED was material accumulation in abstracto, infinitely, as a sign of salvation and as unlimited in thrust as the spires of a Gothic Cathedral reaching for the sky.

Paul is a jiveass Born Again in Libertarian duds.

John Locke--HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

[mopsius]

It is predatory Capitalism--the only kind.

Nader and Paul are both an integral part of the show.