Charlie Hebdo: FULL SPEED AHEAD!
Tubularsock has been mulling over this entire Charlie Hebdo cartoon mess.
It was truly fantastic to see people actually get off their butts and go to the streets in a statement of freedom of speech. And then Tubularsock realized that it was happening in France not the United States. So it isn’t as fantastic as it appears because the French have always gone to the streets in protests.
Years ago while Tubularsock was bopping around France he bumped into a huge protest in the streets of Paris himself. Tubularsock doesn’t speak French but he does drink French wine which gives him credibility in understanding.
The protest Tubularsock finally figured out was in favor of the French librarians being on strike.
No, you got that right ….. The French LIBRARIANS! (les bibliothécaires Français)
Tubularsock marveled at the size of the protest and was flabbergasted at the support for Librarians. WTF?
Leaving the protest and cutting through to smaller back streets Tubularsock ran smack into truck loads of the French military decked out in riot gear.
Come to find out street protest in France get out of hand often.
Side note: From that day forward Tubularsock has never had a library fine for late books. Librarians are a force to contend with! Some things just stick with you.
The French live in a cafe culture where people are out in the public sphere all the time and they know what is politically going on not only in France but in the world AND they express their opinion about it publicly.
And to see Voltaire’s statement being paraded about, “I may disagree with what you say but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it”, was music to Tubularsock’s core beliefs.
Which brings up some bottom line issues for Tubularsock.
Tubularsock really likes to at least attempt to take people as individuals and not as groups. On a one to one bases even an ass-hole has some good qualities. So grouping people as “All Moslems, All Jews, All Christians, All Atheists” doesn’t really make too much sense if you want to understand somebody else that isn’t like you.
And when “All Moslems, All Jews, All Christians, All Atheists” are grouped like that then usually they are grouped so as to ascribe some negative aspect to them. Not that you can’t dig some shit up about all of them but in general people are individuals.
That is where some issues come up that Tubularsock is attempting to explore.
Charlie Hebdo cartoons have always covered everyone across the board and make satirical positions whether using cartoons or words to push their view. And hell satire is funny.
But why is it that in France as Chris Hedges points out, “. . . a Holocaust denier, or someone who denies the Armenian genocide, can be imprisoned for a year and forced to pay a $60,000 fine. It is a criminal act in France to mock the Holocaust the way Charlie Hebdo mocked Islam.”
Why is that?
And Hedges continues to point out that, “French high school students must be taught about the Nazi persecution of the Jews, but these same students read almost nothing in their textbooks about the widespread French atrocities, including a death toll among Algerians that some sources set at more than 1 million, in the Algerian war for independence against colonial France.”
Why is that?
And just why is it that the media seemed to have missed the 2000 Nigerian, mostly women and children” that were slaughtered by Boko Haram the Islamist group and focused all their attention on the Paris attack.
Well Tubularsock does find Russell Brand’s explanation having some merit. Brand says that we (Western peoples) can identify with the Paris attack because we live in that type of environment ourselves while a “village” seems a stretch to identify with because it is not familiar. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg8Y0WpbfZw)
Why is that?
Have we as a people EVER really had the ability to walk in the other guys moccasins?
Tubularsock thinks not ………
And the reason Tubularsock thinks not is because if we had that ability we a long time ago would have stopped this constant killing and taking other peoples life, liberty and pursuit of happiness!
It appears to Tubularsock as institutions “All Moslems, All Jews, All Christians, All Atheists” have all created reason why walking in the other guys moccasins is of value but continue in reality to justify killing so as to grab those moccasins off their dead feet!
Now Tubularsock is not interested in taking a stand and walking out on the end of the limb without it being a true stand for a core belief. Tubularsock is not interested in riling people up without a good reason. Of course, in truth, Tubularsock can ALWAYS find a good reason. And Tubularsock can go off the deep end for the fun of it as well.
But poking someone with a stick doesn’t usually get a positive understanding in return.
Charlie Hebdo did a lot of anti-Muslim theme cartoons but they did a lot of anti-Pope cartoons and anti-political cartoons. They would have gone after the Jews but didn’t …. as Carlos Latuff, the Arab Brazilian freelance political cartoonist, so aptly conveys the double standard below:
You just have to remember if they make fun of YOU it’s not funny. If they make fun of THEM it’s funny.
Well Tubularsock can stretch his emotional view across this entire divide.
Tubularsock believes, the world as we know it is such a painful place that we should not rile people up. Just let them believe as they wish. But then again Tubularsock believes, fuck all that maybe a cartoon depicting Allah as a pile of pig shit will settle it.
And those extreme views rattle around in Tubularsock’s head ALL THE TIME!
But more to the point ……. Tubularsock doesn’t have a bone to pick with Allah or God, or Mohammad, or Jesus, or Buddha for that matter. No, Tubularsock leaves all the fantasy manipulations to Disney.
Tubularsock has a bone to pick with the ignorant Air Force Captain who reads his Bible and then climbs into his jet and bombs the fuck out of his fellow humans beings.
Tubularsock has a bone to pick with that ignorant mujahid who reads his Koran and then marches off to bomb the fuck out of all those who don’t believe as he does.
Tubularsock has a bone to pick with the governments that play the ignorant to achieve domination over others.
But most of all Tubularsock has a bone to pick with all those who don’t realize that we are all one …….. now how fucking simple is that?
This entire Charlie Hebdo cartoon mess falls back to that playground scene most everyone who went to grade school has witnessed.
You know ……. “if you step over that line I’ll punch you”.
And what ALWAYS happens?
Yep.
And just like the playground scene there are the background players who egg each side on.
And Tubularsock still has the 10 year old stance when it comes to being “warned” not to do something. Tubularsock’s “adult-self” likes to be reasonable and rational about decision making but confronted with that WARNING/THREAT from anyone over anything and Tubularsock ALWAYS jumps to his 10 year old self.
Now Tubularsock would like at this point to say that he had overcome his 10 year old response for his adult-self response. But in truth the only thing that has changed is that when someone gives that WARNING/THREAT Tubularsock steps back three paces. Not to take an adult appraisal of the situation but to give himself more speed as he head butts the fucker.
Well, so much for all those anger management sessions.
Just when will mankind wake up and say enough? You know the answer as well as Tubularsock and that is why Tubularsock just happens to be selling bulletproof vests.
CHANGING CHANGELESS CHANGE?
I guess Tubularsock holds a grudge.
Enjoying the sun coming through Tubularsock’s top floor corner office windows in his underground bunker overlooking Washington, D.C. from Oakland, CA Tubularsock sits and ponders as he often does each new year.
Tubularsock’s observation is simple. What the fuck is new about a new year? What has changed from 11:59 to 12 midnight that would warrant the hype?
And depending on where you are on planet earth when that 11:59 to 12 midnight happens are at different fucking times. So in Istanbul when the partying starts New Yorkers are still waiting for this illusionary time to arrive for them and by the time it arrives in Oakland, CA well …… fuck it! It’s old time. Tubularsock has gone to bed. Tubularsock doesn’t like to wait!
But that isn’t why Tubularsock holds a grudge which he still clings to from the top of this page.
Tubularsock’s second observation is why doesn’t change change? EVERYONE pontificates that change is, change will, or change won’t change.
But what are they talking about?
For example, some people “change jobs” but they still get up in the morning and eat their breakfast on the run. Catch the bus or drive their car or ride their bike to the “changed job”. They still get a break or at least take a break mid-morning, have lunch on the run, and end up in a cool bar to drink after work to complain to whoever else have survived another work job day. So where’s the change.
How about political change …… no Tubularsock isn’t trying to be humorous here.
We are led to believe we elect a President but where does he/she or it come from to run for President. Really, raise your hand if you have ever known a President as a personal friend. See! Where do they really come from?
Well, they all say they come from a groundswell. So does that mean that we are all dirt?
They all say they want to change Washington and the Nation but who gets the advantage of that change or more to the point does it even change?
Because you are dirt you get to pick A or B. There is no C,D,E,or F. Only A or B and in truth they are the same.
Stop, Tubularsock knows the argument. So don’t give me all that shit about how important electing one of these two jerks is our sacred right as citizens. If no one showed up to vote one of the two jerks would be President anyway. And there are some individuals who know right now who that will be!
A or B all have gone to the same schools, join the same clubs, hang out with the same whores (sorry, meant escorts), are on the same board of directors, use the same PR firms, use the same political advisors, snort the best cocaine, smoke Cuban cigars or use them as sexual objects (talking to you Bill) and are always intwined with the CIA in some manner.
But none of that is why Tubularsock is holding a grudge.
And then do we really want change?
Most people get their groove on when they are young and try to play it out the rest of their lives for better or for worse.
Death is the ultimate game changer of change. As is divorce, illness, and children.
Shit happens along the way and change is usually the culprit!
How you end up playing the new hand you are dealt is what makes change good for you or bad for you. It is really a crap-shoot.
So is change good or bad is a moot point …….. change is.
So why is Tubularsock carrying this grudge all this time you may ask?
Simple! What we see isn’t what we get and what we get isn’t what we see.
That is how life’s hologram works.
Tubularsock doesn’t know whether you realize this or not BUT nobody was asked if they wanted to be here ……..
Nobody gets to choose their parents.
Their culture.
Their religion or belief structure.
Their social position.
No, YOU WERE TRAINED INTO ALL THAT.
Even to the point that A NEW YEAR is like some kind of new beginning, a starting point.
IT’S NOT! It is a trained mind frame that you live from because you have been trained to do that.
That is why Tubularsock holds this grudge. NO ONE ASKED HIM!
And that is why Tubularsock sits in his top floor corner office in his underground bunker overlooking Washington D.C. from Oakland, CA.
Some shit is just difficult to believe.
Tubularsock has JUST figured it out!
And now let Tubularsock say it before others …… “thank you Tubularsock!”
Well, Tubularsock has many hats, sort of speak, and then with cleaning the bunker and all, well it took some time to figure it out ……….
Anyway ………
Even after you figure it out it’s not without confusion.
Now there is al Qaeda, and al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and ISIL, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Islamic State) or ISIS, Islamic State in Iraq and Syria or DAIISH (or DIISH or DAISH) the group’s name in Arabic al dawla al islamiyye f’il iraq w’al sham …….. aren’t acronyms fun?
The last three are the same group which is confusing in the first place.
And then the Al-Nusra Front, and Al-Shabaab, and 63 others on the United States terrorists list.
But the new kid on the block is the Khorasan group. Oh yea!
And they don’t even appear on the terrorist list!
The Pentagon said that they were “seasoned al Qaeda veterans”!
AND these battle-hardened al Qaeda fighters travelled from Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere to Syria allegedly to plot several attacks on American interests.
And GET SCARED because the leader of this band of merry men is Muhsin al-Fadhli, a designated terrorist and apparent 9/11 insider who received advance notification that terrorists would strike the United States on September 11, 2001, along with George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, the CIA, the FBI, the Mossad, the SVR (the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service), the Saudi Intelligence Agency and some Israeli “students” who were taking pictures and jumping for joy as it was happening.
But Muhsin al-Fadhli is no longer with us because our bomb attack wiped him out! Or that is what the “social-media” has been reporting.
But Susan Rice, the U.S. National Security Advisor stated, “We can’t confirm that at this stage. We’ve seen reports on social media to that effect. We will continue to look for signs as to whether or not that’s, in fact, the case.”
So you can see that EXTREME EVIL may be impervious to death no matter if the bombing mission cost us $500 million dollars!
Now don’t you worry. Remember in our last escapade when we would kill the worst of the worst al Qaeda leader only to discovery that a new leader would appear and we’d kill him and then the next ……
Well, trust Tubularsock on this, there are plenty to go around!
And as for the “FACT” that these seasoned battle-hardened al Qaeda fighters that make up the Khorasan group are sitting all together to be bomb is got to be amazing when we were lead to believe by Dick Cheney that the “worst of the worst” of al Qaeda were locked up in Guantanamo.
Wow, just who can one believe?
Anyway ……. there is plenty of fear to go around.
You see Muhsin al-Fadhli is/was being trained by the SCARIEST OF SCARIEST bomb maker that the world has ever known, Ibrahim al-Asiri !!!!!!
Ibrahim al-Asiri was the “chief” bomb maker of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
He was responsible for making the bomb that was used in the “2009 Christmas Day bomb plot” in which the Nigerian passenger, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, attempted to set off plastic explosives sewn to his underwear.
The result was Abdulmutallab burnt his dick but the bomb failed!
And then Ibrahim al-Asiri also made the bombs for the “2010 cargo plane bomb plot” in which plastic explosives and a detonating mechanism, were found on separate cargo planes. The plastic explosives were hidden in a printer cartridges in each plane.
These bombs were never detonated but were discovered as a result of intelligence received from Saudi Arabia’s security network.
So this is all the work of the MASTERMIND BOMB MAKER attacking the United States. Three bombs no explosions.
Scared yet?
Well Ibrahim al-Asiri did have one, kind-of successful, bomb that he made detonate.
And that is the one where he took the plastic explosives and shoved them up the “rectum” of his 23 year old brother, Abdullah al-Asiri. Abdullah then detonated himself in an attempt to assassinate Muhammad bin Nayef, the Saudi deputy minister of Interior but he detonated his plastic-explosive-rectum-device by cell phone too early and Nayef was only slightly injured.
Needless to say Abdullah did not fair as well. Could it be that he dialed the wrong number?
So what we have here is a hint that the al-Asiri family aren’t the brightest crayons in the box. One brother can’t make a workable bomb except the one he put up his younger brother’s rectum.
And the younger brother who has his head up his ass even to agree to having plastic explosives shoved in his butt!
Yet, Ibrahim is the guy that is helping the now blown up Khorasan group to make bombs.
What is wrong with this picture?
And to make matters worse if you remember the “Christmas Bomber” was escorted onto that passenger fight without being run through security and without a passport! Say What!
So this is the MASTERMIND BOMB MAKER that has frightened the United States to bomb the Khorasan group?
But that isn’t the only bombing that has occurred due to Ibrahim and his bomb making attempts. Last year a CIA drone strike took out Ahmed Said Saad, a Syrian medical doctor who had been working with Ibrahim on his experiments.
You see, the rectum-bomb worked, it actually blew-up! So Ibrahim teamed up with Ahmed Said Saad (a medical doctor) before the CIA droned him and according to U.S. officials succeeded in developing a bomb that can be surgically implanted inside the human body. The military refers to such a weapon as a “surgically implanted improvised explosive device,” or SIIED. …….. aren’t acronyms fun?
So the plan is that radicalized Westerners who have Western passports will be implanted with these implanted bombs and blow themselves up within the United States.
And to think that Ibrahim al-Asiri, dropped out of his chemistry class in college which just goes to show you that “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing”.
Anyway this is what Tubularsock has figured out. The solution to these deadly human weapons. And how to detonate them BEFORE they cause damage to others.
Well we could take the old fashion approach and just stop bombing people so as not to make MORE terrorists but sane approaches are not respected due to the simple fact that by doing that huge profits would have to be forfeited …… need Tubularsock say more?
An approach needs to be expensive, wasteful, and secret because that is the only way the public will believe they are safe.
Now Tubularsock is used to being ridiculed and persecuted for his futuristic ideas but that has never stopped him before. Mockery and derision is always directed at those on the cutting edge.
And huge profit? …….. Tubularsock can get behind that but only because saving the nation is the only patriotic priority.
Now if you would care to invest in Tubularsock’s new venture just send a check, cash, bit coin, a goat, a pick-up truck, a bushel of non-GMO corn to:
New Technology Mega Data Implementation, Ltd.
333 Underground Bunker
Secret City, CA 66633-5484
Now here is the expensive, wasteful, and secret plan. WARNING, it is in code.
Now Tubularsock has estimated that there are “X” number of terrorists.
The NSA has EVERYBODY’S cell phone number.
The number of terrorists with cell phones are “XY”
The number of non-terrorist with cell phones are “Z”
Are you still following this? Don’t you have something better to do with your time?
X – XY= WYZ
Z – WXZ= HZYU The exact number of terrorists using cell phones.
Or something like that ………
So NTMDI, Ltd. will call every “HZYU” every six minutes ( the seventh minute we rest).
So if a terrorist is in the process of carrying a SIIED he’d explode ……
And NTMDI, Ltd would charge $3.00 per call to the government or NTMDI, Ltd + HZYU = a fucking great deal of $$$$$$$$. ………. Aren’t acronyms fun?
What do you think? Brilliant or what?
Ok, bottom line …… the U.S. Government will fall for this and if Tubularsock can get enough Congressmen/women to fall for this WE (my investors) will be catapulted into the 1%!
Hell, we’ll even be able to use the United States Senate’s Gym to do push-ups!
Save the accolades for later ……. cash is preferred!