[K-Dog]

Luigi as Che. 

Gen X compares Luigi to a comic book hero.

I see a resemblance to one of the most authentic men who ever lived.  Acting on beliefs is something few of us have courage to do.  Our social matrix blinds us to inequity and the suffering of people we do not know.  Few of us have the courage to make the change that in our hearts we know the world needs.

Our system murders by the millions and we look away pretending that it is not so.


Rule by a heartless few is no way to live.

[TDoS]

Rule by a heartless few is no way to live.

Indeed, and agreed. And as both commies (good ones such as yourself or those icky other kind there are more of), democrats, aristocrats, technocrats, aristocrats, oligarchcrats, rich folk and most any other group in charge of collecting more stuff than they deserve just keep doing it anyway. Us regular folks let them do it and have been for at least a generation or longer, if you count how long communists at least have decided that communism means enslaving the people in pursuit of power for the few.  And we old geriatrics around here with not much in front of us except a dirt nap..... why does how the world works in your and all of our twilight years bother you so? Does 2+2=4 bother you as well? Gravity? The speed of light?

[K-Dog]

"Now the whole group of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one claimed private ownership of any possessions, but everything they owned was held in common. With great power the apostles gave their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all. There was not a needy person among them, for as many as owned lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold. They laid it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need."

Félix Ismael Rodríguez Mendigutia is a Cuban American former Central Intelligence Agency Paramilitary Operations Officer in the Special Activities Division, known for his involvement in the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the execution of communist revolutionary Che Guevara as well as his close ties to George H. W. Bush during the Iran–Contra affair.

In 2005, Rodríguez oversaw the opening of the Bay of Pigs Museum and Library in Little Havana, Florida.  He became the chairman of the board of directors.

The motherfucker is alive and well in Florida.  So Free Luigi  Nobody in a suit has a right to throw a stone.

* I  would tell the AI construction of the Lugi 'che' image to use a black beret but I only had 4 free credits. 
  The red star should be a  that is a hint if anyone wants to continue the effort.

I want the T-shirt.

  Do not be killing.  He has to ask for forgiveness.  And I suggest he render a manslaughter conviction to caesar.  Other than that, none of you are fit to lift a stone against him.

[RE]

Violence has no place in Politics?  Violence IS Politics.  Wars, Armies, Police, Revolutions, Riots, Assassinations, Torture, Terrorism, Prisons, Deportations, Embargoes, Sanctions...every nation-state in the world does or uses some or all of these techniques to further their political goals and agendas.  Often the actions are covert and the general population never evn know about them, much less has the ability to consent to their use. What they really mean is that the State has a monopoly on the use of violence and the individual or group opposed to the State can't retaliate in kind.

As those of us who observe the way the world REALLY works know, the violence is often the ECONOMIC kind, be it sanctions that prevent a country from purchasing energy to insurance companies that refuse to pay for life saving medicines or procedures, resulting in deaths measured in the hundreds or thousands.  As Gen. Smedley Butler wrote, his real job in the military was as an enforcer for Wall Street.



The Economic Hitmen of the IMF enslave entire countries making loans, fomenting revolutions and coup d'etats and piecemeal selling off a nation's wealth in privatization of the commons.  It's systematic large scale violence perpetrated every day in the global political landscape.

Individuals who retaliate in kind are hunted down and vilified, despite the fact their crimes are orders of magnitude less violent than the actions of the state and the corporatocracy that controls it.  Only when people grasp that they are being violently abused and defend themselves against it will they be able to break this monopoly on violence.

RE

[monsta666]

There is a saying:

War is a mere continuation of policy by other means. - Carl von Clausewitz, Prussian general and military theorist

Dude called this out in the 18th century...

[K-Dog]

The Terrorism Report

Considering Luigi is charged with terrorism, I want this guy charged too.  I am more afraid of this guy than I ever was of Luigi, and I speak for all of Seattle since this shooter is still at large.

[RE]

This doesn't look like terrorism, it looks like a hit.  WTF is walking alone at 3AM in this neighborhood, and how does the shooter know he's going to show up?  I would bet this is drug related.

Also, since the victim is not a CEO, I doubt they will mobilize the entire FBI to find the shooter.

RE

[K-Dog]

This doesn't look like terrorism, it looks like a hit.  WTF is walking alone at 3AM in this neighborhood, and how does the shooter know he's going to show up?  I would bet this is drug related.

Exactly right, so do you think this guy and the shooter the Luigi is alleged to be are the same guy?

There is a lot in common.

Capital hill at this location is essentially downtown.  It was near where the CHOP was.

[RE]

Luigi is under arrest so it's not him.  I don't see much in common between these shootings.

RE

[K-Dog]

Just a city street under cameras where one guy waits for another, shoots him, and then runs away.  All of it videotaped by surveillance.  Nothing in common at all?  It seems to me, based on the video, that they have everything in common.  And my point is there is so much in common that it should be the same charge.

That is why this guy should be charged with terrorism.

Or do we need to know the occupation of the dead guy first before it becomes terrorism?

[K-Dog]

Luigi is under arrest so it's not him.  I don't see much in common between these shootings.

RE

Not Luigi because he is in New York.  But it could still be the shooter.  Nothing is proved yet.

[RE]

The rationale is in the motive for the shooting.  The Terrorism charge is being brought because he was targeted for his position as CEO of an insurance company.  We don't know exactly why this other guy was targeted, but it probably wasn't that.  Probably owed money for drugs, or maybe he was fucking the shooter's wife.  Anyhow, Luigi's shooting makes a political statement.  Thus the Terrorism charge.

RE

[K-Dog]

The rationale is in the motive for the shooting.  The Terrorism charge is being brought because he was targeted for his position as CEO of an insurance company.  We don't know exactly why this other guy was targeted, but it probably wasn't that.  Probably owed money for drugs, or maybe he was fucking the shooter's wife.  Anyhow, Luigi's shooting makes a political statement.  Thus the Terrorism charge.

RE

I dispute that.  If there is a political statement being made it is being made by the state, and all the other players in this drama.  Of which we are a small part.  Not by the NY suspect who is in the klink, and working with his lawyers I'll guess full time. 

All we really have in both cases is video of a shooter, and a man dying on a city street.  That is all we know in both cases.  Everything else we know is coming from the FSOA and news coverage.  Good bad, and everything in-between.  Everyone else is filling in the blanks.  I go back to the fact that the fossil record shows nearly identical crimes. From my philosophical materialistic point of view, that is all that matters.

Interpretation like the conjuring of the terrorism charge is all in ones head.  In both cases dead is dead and really nothing else.  That is what the universe sees.  The universe saw bullets move.  Everything else is a story. 

The terrorism charge is a pre-crime charge.  The actual charge is murder.

[K-Dog]

And this guy could just be a crazy and not a terrorist.  It depends on if he acted alone.

[RE]

Supposedly they also have a manifesto.

RE