Late Great Mike Ratner & Words of Wisdom
The unprecedented executive powers assumed by both presidents since 9/11 have crippled America's body politic ~ Wed 11 Jan 2012
If there were ever a contemporary version of what we imagine as the best of our Founding Fathers it would be the incredible Michael Ratner. My temptation is to go off on a rant of citations for why Mike was so wonderful, but we have his own words. The more important point, in this age of vast Executive power weilded covertly is to ask who holds what levers now and how much more freedom has fear destroyed.
Full article Wayback is linked to the image… the intro pasted below.. hope you’ll read it all for a better measure of where we are from where we’ve been. #RIP <3
On 11 January 2002, the United States began showing major signs of what I call "Guantánamo syndrome", after one of the ailment's first and most enduring symptoms. That was the day when the Bush administration transferred the first 20 detainees to Camp X-Ray at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, after being assured by its Department of Justice that the location placed detainees outside of US legal jurisdiction.
But the first hint of our national illness appeared earlier, in the weeks following the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Centers, when the Bush administration took the lid off unlimited executive power. This is the lid that nobles, who had endured centuries of rulers imprisoning anyone who ticked them off and holding them indefinitely without having to state or prove any kind of case, affixed in 1215 with the Magna Carta. It's the lid that the original framers tightened to the specifications of the United States when they ratified the Constitution in 1790…
How the CIA Killed Che ~ The Murder of a Revolutionary ~
Michael Ratner, Michael Steven Smith
We have been fighting this authoritarian rulership for centuries, it's just now that people can see how distorted their powers have become. After ww2 it just got more and more centralized in the name of global peace. They manipulated peace to justify their wars and stop others.
https://youtu.be/63AZ4wcGu4A
"What if the words "all men are created equal" never really meant all people? Uncover the hidden truths in America's founding documents and explore why our Constitution might not be as inclusive as we think. This eye-opening revelation will make you question everything you thought you knew about equality and justice."
Michael Ratner obviously didn't have any family members murdered by Che Guevara but I did.
Michael Ratner obviously didn't have any children viciously raped and sodomized by Che Guevara, but African men and women did.
Che Guevara was a dirty, smelly loser who was killed by a Cuban CIA agent who is a friend of my family. Castro requested his deletion as Che was a nuisance - he was thrown out of Africa because of atrocities he committed against African women and children, he indiscriminately murdered African men. Che despised Blacks.
Che was not a revolutionary- he was a coward who enjoyed raping and sodomizing African children. Fidel was a revolutionary, Che was a pedophile and a murderer. He was killed at the request of Fidel Castro.
I can't believe two lawyers would write a book fantasizing about a pedophile and murderer, as if he were a revolutionary. Che was never a leader. Fidel got rid of him because he was a nuisance.