it had been months since i'd last listened to the richard dolan 9/11 talk on youtube which i posted a link to in my earlier post today, so i only recalled generally it's contents. i was just watching it again and strongly reminded why i was so moved to highly recommend it. dolan comes across as extremely articulate and knowledgeable regarding many events surrounding 9/11.
about 40 minutes into this video, while discussing various details regarding the police state law known as 'the patriot act' that was rushed through congress in the wake of 9/11 and the almost simultaneous high profile anthrax letter attacks directed at certain high ranking u.s. government officials (also discussed by dolan in this video)... dolan makes a very interesting claim regarding the current democratic party front runner for president, joe biden (trump likes to call him 'sleepy joe' which i find odd, since 'sloppy joe' would be catchier considering the popularity of sloppy joe sandwiches... i digress). he reports that biden authored a crime bill in 1995, 7 years before the patriot act, which contained many provisions which were very similar if not identical to those found in the patriot act. hmmm..., very interesting. from such tidbits of information one can get a much clearer picture of such a man. he's clearly a creature of the establishment, in favor of vastly increased government power over individuals, vastly increased government surveillance and vastly decreased individual 'rights' (i like to put that word in quotations because i agree with george carlin that 'rights' are nothing more than abstract concepts or government guarantees that can be summarily revoked anytime in case of 'national emergency', as occurred in the case of the infamous internment of japanese americans during ww2). iow, biden's an asshole, a typical elite democratic party politician, in bed with the powers that be: corruption, big business, crony capitalism, dogmatic puritanical religion...
of course, this is obvious from other well known biden facts. he's long been a committed drug war hawk, for example.
u know, i actually don't know or rather can't recall many other specific details regarding sloppy joe's public record at this time. i may have forgotten many specifics but the core lesson learned regarding this pillar of the establishment hasn't been forgotten (more digression called for here: i don't think it's possible to be a high profile high ranking political pillar of the american establishment and not be an asshole. doesn't matter which party they're from, from clinton to reagan, the most successful american pols are very charming charismatic assholes who favor rotten evil policies like the infamous drug war)...
i'm not at all surprised that 'patriot' joe biden is a media darling and favorite among many liberals, touted as the best candidate to beat trump next year. he's someone the surreal powers that be, the shadowy puppet masters of the 'deep state', can feel very comfortable with. someone who can be trusted to not go rogue on them (a habit of trump's which obviously has him out of favor with those powers that be, as witnessed by how the whole 'liberal' media (not counting faux/fox news, obviously) has been unleashed to criticize and attempt to rein him in)... 'patriot' joe, like 'slick willy' and killary clinton and barack obomb'em, is an establishment wet dream.
while biden promises to be an upgrade over the moronic donald trump, i see very little reason to rejoice at the prospect of a president biden. nothing of greatest importance will change much. i'm inclined to agree again with my dead man carlin who once observed (slightly paraphrasing) 'forget the politicians. they're there to give u the illusion of choice. u have no choice. u have owners...'
the fact that we live under oppressive orwellian regimes that tout 'democracy', 'freedom', and 'rights' while presuming to have the right to make laws that harshly infringe upon individual sovereinty (the right to control one's own body, one's sexuality, what one ingests, etc.)... or in other words which act as though individuals are the property of the state/(government), is another topic worthy of much greater attention. i intend to try to give it just that in the future on this blog. living under the boot heel of oppressive, dogmatic, puritanical 'authority' has long been a severe pet peeve of mine. it's the very sort of authoritarianism the 'patriot' joe bidens of our world embody and promote.
i'm now going to try to listen to the rest of richard dolan's brilliant 9/11 talk. i hope some of u will check it out too if u haven't already, as it's so informative and interesting. for your convenience, here again is the link to it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aXVzLMVdWM
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