The Cat’s Meow
Greetings and salutations from the sand, sun and surf of Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, and the sunny island of Nantucket! Great to be back with you, as I have been on vacation for the past few days, a week really, which for a writer is an eternity, and I am very glad to be broadcasting again LIVE from Cape, on this Tuesday afternoon, the twenty seventh day of September, 2011. The sun is out in full force at this late four o’clock hour, as we experienced temperatures in the low to mid seventies, feeling a whole lot like Indian summer. Again, the best time to visit the Cape and Islands is right now until mid to late October, as the crowds have all left for the season, leaving the beaches, marshes, roads, restaurants, hotels, etcetera, wide open with no commercial interruptions…’so come on down and visit, we’ll leave the LIGHT on for YA!’ Since I have been away, not much has happened with the jobs crisis, as we all know. However, the republican field has seen giant swings in emotional bonds, or the lack therein, as the once ‘front runner’ Rick, “I’ll blow your head off if I have to”, Perry, the fine Governor from Texas, blew it at the Google/Fox News debate this past Thursday evening, seeming as though he was in need of a good stiff one, you know, one of those ‘Four Loco’ beverages that may have fired up his neurotransmitters, but alas, his handlers had forgot the coke, so, per his dismal performance, the ultra right wing media pounced on old Rick, “I’m pro-life except when it comes to executing people”, Perry, as the likes of Britt Hume from Fox, stated that Perry ‘threw up all over himself in the debate’, just a few days ago… Meanwhile, Mitt Romney, although looking like the cat who just ate the canary, is still not in the clear, as in the clear front runner, as rumors continue to fly that the new darling of the hard to please republican cluster fu&k party of no is none other than Chris Christie, the fine Governor of New Jersey, who, it turns out, is also the Koch Brother’s newest pet interest, a nasty combination of more of the same old horse$hit–horse$hit being defined as sleazy politicians in bed with their corrupt corporate masters…to the demise of the very people who put their collective fat a$$ in office to begin with… Good Luck Chris, if you think running New Jersey into the ground made you a little sick to your stomach, as your temper continues getting the best of you, wait until you lose the general election–but good! No amount of Tums will sooth that aching pain. Perhaps the most disturbing event that took place during my absence was the police brutality that no one reported on in the corporate owned media airwaves, that are beginning to look more like a joke everyday, save the real journalistic offerings such as “Countdown, with Keith Olbermann”, only on Current TV, airing at 8 and 11 p.m., weeknights, EDT, or any of the MSNBC line up starting at six p.m. with “Politics Nation”, with Reverend Al Sharpton, and ending with the ED SHOW at ten. I speak of this for it hits home with me personally, that you will read about soon with the release of my novel, “Taking Fog to Nantucket”, a novel that deals with police brutality in a big way, as well as the subsequent PTSD that always follows a traumatic assault on one’s person. In New York City, on this past Saturday afternoon, a peaceful protest on Wall Street, coined ‘Occupy Wall Street’, turned really, really ugly, with a group of thugs who call themselves police officers used their bully pulpit, if you will, to beat the living $hit out of a bunch of people who were merely stating the obvious, and stating in peace–‘the corrupt system of big banks, along with out of control corporate power and greed, and their ownership of our government, cannot stand for very much longer, as the MAJORITY of people in this fair land are hungry for Justice, fairness and a game that is not rigged in favor of the top one tenth of the top one percent, a small group of wealthy plutocrats who are raping and pillaging our land, for THEIR PROFIT–as they make out like bandits in a global game that 99.9 percent of the world’s population is not even invited to participate in…’ Yes, as these hippy, tree huggin’ liberal bastards were marching on the poor, little, helpless soul of Wall Street, on a Saturday!, the police, in their infinite wisdom, decided to use a little of that barbaric police brutality that goes counter to what they are hired for in the first place (’to protect and serve’) and proved to US all what side ‘the law’ really stands on these days, money, as the video tapes proved what we all know to be true. Someone called the mark and had many of them beaten and some of them pepper sprayed. The video I would urge you to look at is the one with a grouping of perhaps six to eight cops surrounding a group of three or four women, harmless women, hemming them in with menacing orange shields, pinning them down so they could not leave, and then spraying them in the face with this horrible blinding liquid, and as the women, one in particular screamed out in pain, all I could think of was, ‘how much longer is this country going to stand for the rich to continue to abuse the poor, or those who simply wish to exercise their first amendment rights?’ I am lucky, I lived, but some did not. In Rhode Island recently, a man was killed by police in yet another police brutality case that is just now catching national and international attention, and the list just keeps on getting longer and longer. Pretty soon, as municipalities run out of money, people like Mellon and the like will just hire out Blackwater to do the ‘policing’, say around Osterville, and if they see anyone they don’t think ‘looks right’ they will just take out an automatic weapon and blow them away, all in the name of ‘a kinder, gentler machine gun helping hand/neighborhood ethnic cleansing’, you know, genocide… President Barack Obama is making some progress in waking up the American electorate to the real clear choice that is before the people of this once great land, as he goes to town after town, group after group, so as to hopefully educate them as to what they are REALLY UP TO, and thus, again, hopefully, bringing us further away from the abyss Republicorp of America wishes the whole of the nation to jump into, creating a slave labor pool of poor, undereducated, unhealthy, NASCAR watching idiots who will do whatever their master tells them to do, creating a real life Stockholm Syndrome where the captives, ‘the American people’, are brainwashed into thinking they need to feel sorry for their captors in order to either not be hurt or killed, or, to keep their slave job so as to keep food on the table for their loved ones, loved ones they don’t see too often any longer because they work two or three of those slave jobs to pay for the bread that comes from a corporate, tax payer subsidized farm. Let us all pray that ENOUGH people will not only wake up and smell the odor coming from the likes of a pawn like Christie, who is a stooge for David and Charles Koch, or will be if, God forbid, elected President, but DO something about it, i.e. VOTE!!!, in the next national election–November, 2012–for if Republicorp has it’s way, God Forbid (the odds are against them), this country is headed straight for hell. Have a nice day and keep an ever vigilant eye on the TRUTH, embrace it, own it as your own, and you WILL see the LIGHT–for the TRUTH IS, and it is the only thing that will truly set you free. PRESERVE THE WILDERNESS! Peace~M
