The Special Interests' Playbook

Our Vietnam war began with military advisers .
Then special interests set their incisors.
A great President was killed by their madness.
The Maddox and Turner Joy wrought great sadness.

The special interests' playbook is still the same.
False flags and mission creep is the name of their game.
A Libyan false flag and more death they will reap.
Learn from history or it will repeat.

Our Republican Friends Hope We Won't Notice

Our Republican friends hope we won't notice.

The will of the people thwarted with malice.

Wall Street got a handout. Main Street got sold out.

The rich get richer and the rest of us get poorer without a doubt.

We have a revenue problem our Republican friends ignore

While they balance the budget on the backs of the poor.

Enormously profitable corporations pay no taxes then get rebates.

Enormously wealthy citizens pay taxes at the lowest rates.

TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK!

It's time to take our country back!

The will to do it is what we lack.

No longer can we stand idly by.

Else, special interests, this country will buy.

A do nothing Congress in circles is racing.

The “party of no” needs complete replacing

Some Democrats too have sold their souls.

Our Country is heading for perilous shoals.

They've already drove us into a ditch.

Now they take from the poor and give to the rich.

30 years of tax cuts for the rich led us to our present plights.

We must stand up and fight for ours and our children's rights.

Ballot boxes for this New American Revolution will be or weapons.

To rid Our Country's Statehouses and Congresses of treacherous minions.

We know who they are! We won't forget what they've done!

Vote them out of office, making wise choices, and we will have won!

OUR COUNTRY'S PROBLEMS

20% of U.S. Power comes from nukes.

Of this 1% per year we should plan to reduce.

This amount wind and solar can easily replace.

Our Country's energy policy is a national disgrace.

The lords of dirty coal should clean their dirty mess.

10,000 lives per year dirty coal does arrest.

Wealth inherited from generations of environmental abuse.

Our country's treasury should be closed to “clean coal's” use.

The lords of dirty oil pollute the air, the land and the sea.

Use alternate fuels to save Mother Earth we plea!

To load their coffers with wealth is their delight.

While war after war they have our boys fight.

The hedge fund speculators work with tax cut dollars.

While the nation with increasing prices suffers.

Bubble after bubble the hedge funds create.

Then burst the bubbles, and our wealth they take.

THE TRAITOR by Marcus Tullius Cicero:

THE TRAITOR by Marcus Tullius Cicero:

“A nation can survive its fools,

and even the ambitious.

But it cannot survive treason from within.

An enemy at the gates is less formidable,

for he is known and carries his banner openly.

But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely,

his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys,

heard in the very halls of government itself.

For the traitor appears not a traitor;

he speaks in accents familiar to his victims,

and he wears their face and their arguments,

he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.

He rots the soul of a nation,

he works secretly and unknown in the night

to undermine the pillars of the city,

he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

A murderer is less to fear.

The traitor is the plague.”

DECLARATION OF WAR

The declaration of war is the tyrants' delight.

It takes their power to its great height.

To find new enemies, the tyrant endeavors.

It gives access to steal America's treasures.

International criminals, past leaders are labeled.

For fear of arrest, their travels curtailed.

To what depths this country has sunk.

While minions feed us lies, black information and bunk.

WAR WITH LIBYA

Marching off to one more war we are going.

To keep the money to the military flowing.

Rebuild Our Country first, not later.

Let our allies topple Libya's dictator.

Our Country is rotting at the core.

We should care about that a whole lot more.

About obsolete nuclear plants we should worry.

Spend some money here, before off to war we hurry.

YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET - MAYBE

I'm from Illinois. In Illinois we have our governors make our license plates.

When I made this statement to a fellow retiree from another state he said that I was wrong. He said that he read somewhere that his state had more public servants in jail than any other state. (I'll have more to say about political corruption later.)

I'm strongly supporting Wisconsin's fight. I've been writing poems about the "Wisconsin 14" and sending them to Progressive Radio hosts, wisdems.com and many others, including all of the "Wisconsin 14".
But Wisconsin's fight is not only about Wisconsin. Presently there is a serious threat against democracy in several states as well as a threat to the the United States in particular.

Many states voted for candidates who were “Trojan horses loaded with hidden agendas and false promises.”

One of the hidden agendas that these Trojan horses have revealed to their constituents is a desire to crush unions.

An apparent “Trojan horse” was unmasked in Wisconsin thanks to the "Wisconsin 14". Because of that public unmasking, the whole Country is indebted to the “Wisconsin 14" for giving us all time to think and digest what is happening.

Now all the people of the United States can relate to what is happening throughout the Country and especially in their own states.

Michigan, Indiana, New Jersey, Ohio and a great many other states including Wisconsin, are having "buyers remorse" over the candidates they voted into offices in their states in November 2010.

In actuality, what these states, and many other states are fighting is an apparent plan by certain special interests (“tyrant and their minions”) to seriously hinder voter turnout for the 2012 Presidential election by crushing unions and thereby reducing or eliminating their membership's participation in getting out the vote.

If enough of these states lose their battles against these special interests - you ain't seen nothin' yet.

I try to briefly and concisely describe this dire situation - the destruction of democracy in the United States of America – by using simple language using the least amount of words.

I do this by writing poetry because I feel that most Americans get political news in “thirty second news bites”. Much if not most of the “thirty second world” will be supported and spread by the special interests through the main stream media which they own.

Democracy needs an informed electorate to survive. Since the United States Supreme Court ruled that special interests' corporations can talk, the people of the United States will have a harder time deciding what is true and what is bullshit. This is especially true because the special interests' corporations have acquired control of the main stream media an now control the flow of information to the public. The main stream media has demonstrated time after time that they cannot be relied upon to provide an unbiased reporting of news and especially political news and discussion.

When I was growing up we had a saying : “MONEY TALKS AND BULLSHIT WALKS” If someone made an inaccurate or false statement they would be challenged to “put their money where their mouth is”.

Most of the American people know bullshit when they hear it. What we need to do is to vote against the bullshit spread by the special interests through their hoards of corporations and their armies of minions.

This country is choking on bullshit fed to us by special interests and their army of well paid minions. The trouble is some of it was gobbled up as the truth.

According to most, if not all, public opinion polls, politicians in general have the lowest ratings in our society.

Political corruption may be one reason that so many people are disenchanted with politics and politicians.

Why vote if you no longer believe in the political process anymore?
Why vote if you believe that your vote doesn't count?.
Why vote if you believe all politicians are crooks?
Why vote if you believe that all politicians sold out to the special interests?
Why vote if you believe corporate special interests have taken over the government?

The answer to these questions is:

If you don't vote WISELY, your right to vote will be taken away from you! -You ain't seen nothin' yet - MAYBE!

Hopefully my poems might inform motivate and perhaps even inspire the American people to get out and vote against the bullshit and the bullshitters everywhere.

Whether the bullshitters are Republican or Democrat doesn't matter. This fight that we all are in, is not about whether your Republican or Democrat or Independent or Carpetbagger or Teabagger.

The fight we are in is about political corruption and the sellout of the middle class and the American dream.

As I said at the beginning of this article:

I'm from Illinois. In Illinois we have our governors make our license plates.

I've posted my poems at my GOOGLE page:  MICHAELANGELO-RAPHAELO.blogspot.com and on Thom Hartman's blog page.
Please take the time to read my poems at: MICHAELANGELO-RAPHAELO.blogspot.com. 
best regards,
Mike from Illinois

CLEAR THE STATES OF MINIONS

Because not one of Wisconsin's 14 Senators would fold.

The tyrants and their minions were stopped cold.

Wisconsin is not real estate for the tyrants to take.

The future is Wisconsin's people to make.

Clear the State House and Congress of the tyrants' minions.

This should be every State's mission.

Else, “The Party of No” will leave This Country to rot.

And in the future our children will have naught.

The “Tyrants of No” are the great cash cow.

To them all their minions curtsey and bow.

Their Trojan horses stormed State Houses and Congresses.

Using stealth campaigns loaded with hidden agendas and false promises.

SUBVERTING DEMOCRACY

Black propaganda is the business the tyrants are in.

Disinformation, misinformation, censorship, and division,

Distortions, contortions, lies, fear, uncertainty, doubt and spin,

These are some of the tools, they use to win.

Democracy requires information to survive.

Democracy also allows tyrannical plots to thrive.

Subverting Democracy is the tyrants' great desire.

So minions as President and in Congress they can sire.

Wikipedia definition: (look it up)

Disinformation (a translation of the Russian word dezinformatsiya) is false or inaccurate information that is spread deliberately with intentions of turning genuine information useless. For this reason, it is synonymous with and sometimes called black propaganda. It is an act of deception and false statements to convince someone of untruth. Disinformation should not be confused with misinformation, information that is unintentionally false.

Unlike traditional propaganda techniques designed to engage emotional support, disinformation is designed to manipulate the audience at the rational level by either discrediting conflicting information or supporting false conclusions. A common disinformation tactic is to mix some truth and observation with false conclusions and lies, or to reveal part of the truth while presenting it as the whole (a limited hangout).
Another technique of concealing facts, or censorship, is also used if the group can affect such control. When channels of information cannot be completely closed, they can be rendered useless by filling them with disinformation, effectively lowering their signal-to-noise ratio and discrediting the opposition by association with many easily disproved false claims.

THE NEED FOR ALTERNATE ENERGY NOW

QUICKLY! QUICKLY! DON'T DELAY!

Solar, Wind, and alternate energy sources are ready today.

Drill baby drill will bring more pollution.

More nuclear is a problem, not a solution.

"WISCONSIN 14" MAKING A DIFFERENCE

For the lack of 14 Democrats, the tyrants' plans trashed.

The Tyrants' stealth campaign, and all the minions unmasked.

Tho' Indiana, Ohio, New Jersey and Michigan fell under the tyrants' heel.

The State of Wisconsin, the tyrants, and all of their minions, could not steal.

The tyrants and minions in justice's hall.

The tyrants and minions had a great fall.

All the tyrants' money, and all the tyrants minions,

May not put the tyrants' plans for Wisconsin together again.

God Bless Wisconsin!

THE FIGHT FOR WISCONSIN

Wisconsin minions overplayed their hand.

One man, One vote, is the law of the land.

There once was a duty called “Noblesse Oblige”

Now honor and duty is replaced by greed.

Reagan warned of a possible plight.

Wisconsin remembered and took up the fight.

Reagan said liberty could be lost in a lifetime.

Thank you Wisconsin for throwing a lifeline.

THE SHOUT HEARD 'ROUND THE WORLD

Wisconsin's “shout heard round the world”.

Signaled renewed hope and determination unfurled.

Ohio, Michigan and Indiana must take up the call.

Join the fight for truth, liberty and justice for all!

THANKS TO THE " WISCONSIN 14"

Thank you "Wisconsin 14" for taking a stand!
You've given Democracy a helping hand!
Your voices were heard in all the states.
To your plight, all the country relates.

Thank you Wisconsin for being brave!
For standing up!  For not being afraid!
Through 20 minions Wisconsin could be sold
To the usurpers of Democracy who are so rich and bold.