United states Army General John P. Abizaid (private mercenary) commander of the U.S. central command says of the progress of the Afghan- and Iraqi-American Wars, “The vast majority of troops in the field know that we are winning and know it is better to fight abroad than to fight at home.”

       [added 10/16/2020]

         While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are in Afghanistan, Djibouti, Iraq, the Philippines and west Africa defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Republican (fascist/socialist) President George W. Bush calls it “disgraceful” that the,” Los Angeles Times, New York Times and Wall Street Journal, have disclosed the existence of a secret joint effort by the Central Intelligence Agency and the department of the treasury to monitor international financial transactions.

       NOTE: The editors would have less of a problem with this practice if the Internal Revenue Service were not using this information to prosecute peaceful United states subject/enemy/citizens for trying lawfully exercise their right to financial privacy.

         [added 2/18/2024]

         The supreme court, of the corporate United states, hands down kansas v. Marsh: the state’s death penalty is consistent with Article VIII of Amendment to the Constitution for the united States even when the “aggravating evidence and mitigating evidence are equally balanced.”

         In a concurring opinion, Anton Scalia, associate justice, writes that there is,

         not … a single case—not one—in which it is clear that a person was executed for a crime he did not commit.  If such an event had occurred in recent years, we would not have to hunt for it; the innocent’s name would be shouted from the rooftops by the abolition lobby.

         [added 2/18/2024] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.

         Rush Limbaugh, a nationally syndicated, “conservative” radio talk-show host—and a rabid “drug warrior”—is caught by Customs agents trying to enter the United States carrying a bottle of viagara that had been prescribed to someone else.  Limbaugh is already in a plea agreement with prosecutors regarding his illegally acquiring another prescription drug—Vicodin.  Limbaugh is released without being charged.

         [added 2/18/2024]