Author: TSO

Shit, they are on to us, initiate plan Zionism Two:

All wars are pre-arranged by this secret Ruling Cabal which is best defined as the circle of top world Banksters and industrialist run out of the City of London Financial District, a separate country like the Vatican with its own ambassadors and police…This secret Ruling Cabal has existed for hundreds of years and has planned to create a Globalist NWO system located in Jerusalem and is allegedly powered by the mass suffering, death and bloodshed of humans as a “blood-sacrifice” and/or a “soul-sacrifice”….The secret Shadow Government (SSG) has taken over the majority of these alien/ET treaty issues and has entered into joint programs with these aliens to build underground bases where they have set up hybridization labs to help the alien/ETs develop new hybrid/human beings with Psi-power and super-soldier characteristics.So far these experiments have failed and the aliens have not been able to synthesize the human soul which is what they are after. It is alleged that other major nations like China and Russia have entered into exchange treaties with various alien/ET entities also.

How do these assclowns still have advertisers? I mean seriously.

As noted scholar Matt Burden said:

This. changes. EVERYTHING.

Great song? Or THE GREATEST SONG?

I wrote this for my paying gig, but since it seems to be the topic de jure today, I thought I would share here as well.

We’ve been talking about the classification of the Ft Hood shootings since roughly the day after the shootings happened. The DoD and the President chose to classify them as “workplace violence” as opposed to terrorism. I took a lot of heat in the comments for agreeing with them in doing that. My fear was that if the President or the DoD called it terrorism and didn’t charge Hasan with a terrorism charge that it would be looked at as “unlawful command influence.” Further, I felt that if they did charge Hasan with terrorism that it would give him the opportunity to put the “War on Terrorism” itself on trial. I envisioned a scenario where Hasan (representing himself) dragged the case out for months and months introducing evidence and testimony from “Muslim Scholars” and others that would seek to basically turn him into a martyr for his cause. It was pretty clear he was getting the death penalty for the murders either way, so why muddy up the waters was my thinking.

But, I also agreed that it was in fact Terrorism. About a year ago now I said:

Again, I think this was Terrorism, but in labeling it that, the Pentagon would create a bunch of immediate problems. It’s easier from the standpoint of the Pentagon to wait until after the conviction, and then declare it terroristic. You can’t be accused of unlawfully influencing something that has already transpired, so there won’t be the problems after the judgment has already been reached.

So, we are now at that point. And thankfully some Senators and Representatives from the great Republic state of Texas are pushing that now:

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Today was pretty dry for a LONG time. There was a minor interesting discussion about whether “Terrorism” is a stand alone offense, or part of other offenses. Also some discussion of conspiracy, and a brief foray into constitutional law with respect to the “Appointments Clause.” Unless you are a TSO level dork, you won’t care about any of that.

But flash forward to a few minutes ago when we went down the rabbit hole of IT issues. Apparently the DoD’s IT is brought to us by the geniuses who brought us the Clareece (whatevs) Manning Security Clearance, $4000 toilet seats, and luminescent tape PT belts. And at one point a shit load of Defense emails were sent to the Prosecution and a shit load of prosecution emails went to the defense. So, that’s obviously a problem.

So flash forward as an Army JAG named Major Jason Wright (for the defense) got up to talk about how these problems have really hampered his ability to communicate with co-counsel. (OK, you have me hooked Major, reel me in!) “I’m forced to use 19th century technology to communicate with Mr. Nevin,” referring to a defense attorney from Idaho. (Yes Major! Speak it! Truth to power!)

So, what 19th century technology does he use? Proficiency in morse code? Banging sticks on railroads? Does he ride a string of horses across the country? Smoke signals? Bawdy song and dance routines communicated around the campfire while enjoying legumes that make you flatulent?

“Sometimes I have to download things to my external harddrive, and then go find a coffee shop like Starbucks that has wifi!” ……… um. What?

Holy paleolithic jurisprudential hurdles! It’s downright 19th Century of them! (Gold Standard! Go Williams Jennings Bryant!)

BTW- He was the class ahead of me in law school. If this doesn’t make GMU fall from 42nd in the country to 43rd, nothing will.

UPDATE: I talked to the guy afterward, and he’s super nice. All the media ladies here swoon over him too, because he does have fabulous hair. However, when you say 19th century, I want 19th century. It was like some big tease. But, in case he sees this, I now somewhat feel bad, because he is genuinely a good chap.

Crossposted:

Coming to you from Gitmo again, and we had an interesting meeting last night with the families of some of the 9/11 victims that are down here watching the trial.  My videographer, John Napolitano was kind enough to edit it this morning because I was so interested in one of the comments made by a father.  He sums up EXACTLY how I feel about this trial.  I know I sound frustrated with some of the stuff that goes down, but I also believe this trial is needed.  If only to prove that no matter how others act, our country is a country of laws.  We’ll get our vengeance, but we’ll get it after affording these guys certain legal protections.

Anyway, I love this quote:

We want these people to get a proper defense.  We want these people to have the rights that our families were not given.  Let them have the best defense that they can get…..and then lose.

Awesome.

Anyway, the whole video is really good and poignant.

OK, so I kind of feel like hell today.  I’m not saying I got sick from eating a sandwich at Subway yesterday, but I’m definitely not *NOT* saying that as well, if you get my drift and I think you do.  So, I kind of want to go sleep.

But, in yet another in our interminable discussions on handling of classified materials and testimony, a fairly interesting colloquy came up.  Now, remember that on Day 1 we discussed a case of volcanic shits, on Day 2 we talked about the lack of Olives and Honey constituting heinous psychological terror, and yesterday if you missed it, a guard allegedly smuggled in 50 Shades of Grey to set up a detainee or some other bullshit.  (This caused me to snark to a fellow attorney that “This is getting 50 Shades of Ridiculous.” His response: “getting? . . . we crossed that line the 10th hour into the arraignment.”)

So anyway, today they are talking about what happens if an article in a magazine is potentially classified, and the defense attorney needs to discuss it with his/her client….  So the example they used was “How to Make a Bomb in your Mom’s Kitchen” from the magazine Inspire.  This is where I sat up.  And then one of the defense attorneys and the judge started talking about what would happen if they had to subpoena the author of that piece.

I’ll tell you what would happen if he showed up:  I’d run faster than Usain Bolt to get the fug out of here.  Dude that wrote that was My Pet Jawa’s buddy Samir Khan, who got turned into a fine red mist about 2 years ago from watching 98 straight hours of Spongebob, and getting a hellfire missile shot up his ass, mostly the hellfire up his ass.  So if that mofo shows up, it means we’ve gone total World War Z, and I’m the only dickhead on this island without either firearms or a metal cage around me that could be protective.

So, now I’m too afraid of Zombies to sleep, I’ve been shitting like bin Attash, and I don’t get the cartoon channel here.  So I guess I’ll sit my happy ass right here and hope old Sami boy doesn’t get called to teh stand.

 

Thank God the DoD is all over this like Oprah on a ham:

“A freshly-prepared standard detainee halal meal was provided to the
defendant by the Joint Task Force during the lunch recess. The defendant
complained that his lunch did not include condiments such as olives and
honey.”  This is attributable, on the record, to US Navy Capt. Robert
Durand, Director of Public Affairs, Joint Task Force Guantanamo.

Ain’t that some bullshit? Dude, I’ll do you one better.  The DoD is torturing me as well, and I intend to file suit.  Everyday they have a PFC come around and ask us if we want Subway.  So I filled out this onerous form to get my sandwich (Roast beef, tomoatoes, hot peppers, onions, sweet onion sauce.)  And today, because of the mental torture, I forgot to check the box for 12′ sub, and only got a 6 inch sub.

Now, earlier I had suggested that the dude deserved an AAM for excellent delivery of Subway sandwiches to the needy bitch dude in teh media room.  But now….dude brought me a 6 inch.  That’s right, a 6 inch sub.  What man do you know that ever ordered a 6″ sub?  Do I look like Jared?  Look PFC, I’m going to die young, and I’ve come to peace with that.  Bring me the 12″.  I have half a mind to march down there and demand he take me to Subway.  But I won’t.  Mostly because we still seem to occasionally discuss bowel movements in this case, and the only thing I like more than the SyFy channel is good bowel movement discussions in open court.

If you think I’m not adding “olives and honey” to my Subway order tomorrow, I’ve got a non-halal punch for your face.

Torture indeed.