It is outrageous and SHAMEFUL that Shumlin and other Vermont Dems have endorsed and are supporting Hillary Clinton!

Sanders is now within 7 points of Clinton in IOWA!  IOWA–A CAUCUS state!

Not only has Bernie straightened out his act with Black Lives Matter, but he has been speaking about how the same old same old ‘establishment’ politics are no longer relevant to the needs of THE PEOPLE because ‘establishment’ politicians and Congresspeople are in the pockets of the Rich and the Corporate Reich, and, that when we elect them, they act in the interests of those who would turn this nation into a Corporate Fascist State.  

He’s been saying in his speeches that The People need to exercise their POWER.  He’s right!  The People not only need to applaud and cheer for Bernie, The people need to SPEAK OUT along with him, to show that they are fed-up with and reject more BETRAYAL from the ‘establishment’ political system–that, as far as The People go, this system essentially is ‘broke’ and needs fixing.

So, I’m going to endorse Bernie, and try to DO SOMETHING TO HELP!

First off, I urge all Vermonters to contact the Vt. Dems I am listing below and DEMAND that, since this state is overwhelmingly for Bernie, that THEY repudiate any endorsements and support of Clinton and endorse and support Sanders.  Here are some numbers to call, folks:

Gov. Shumlin–828-3333

Peter Welch–802-652-2450, or 888-605-7270

Pat Leahy–802-863-2525, 0r 800-642-3193

The Vermont Democratic Party–802-229-1783

I also urge people to call your local radio stations, write or email Letters To The Editor, Vigil (You already know how to do that), DEMONSTRATE and MARCH and RALLY, call the TV stations and VPR, hand out flyers–which I will make out of this post, and you can also–and SPEAK OUT!

Bernie Sanders is only one man.  And he’s not Jesus Christ.  He cannot do it by himself, nor should we count on a ‘savior’ to do everything for us.  We have to get off our asses and SPEAK OUT!  Next year’s election gives us a chance to have IMPACT.  Even if Sanders doesn’t get the nomination, we will have begun to work on breaking down a system that is DESTROYING THIS NATION!

So, please people, especially YOU FRONT PAGERS here at Green Mountain Daily, it’s past time we speak out as Vermonters to show the rest of The People throughout the country what The People CAN DO!

Here’s Sanders out there saying what most of us feel, and here we are, SITTING BACK ON OUR LAZY ASSES WATCHING!  Get the emails of those folks above, and the emails of the papers, TV stations, etc.  Call them AND write them!  NOW is the time, NOT next year.  And it isn’t that hard to do.

It would be a hoot-in-Hell if Sanders won Iowa AND New Hampshire.  And wouldn’t our Little Dems here look awfully foolish?  Not to mention venile.

And think how foolish we would feel if we just sat back and let Sanders do it all by himself.  People all over the country would be saying:  “What’s the matter with those Vermonters?  Are they STUPID or just plain LAZY?  Or BOTH?

I’m Peter Buknatski and I approve this message.

Peter Buknatski

Montpelier, Vt.

I urge everyone to read Ghettoside by Jill Leovy (white lady reporter for LA Times), Spiegel & Grau, 2015.

This is a book about the plague of black on black murder, focusing on male blacks.  I’m only up to page 60 or so, but I thought I’d share with you her opening info, since it’s something I ranted about myself decades ago when I was a print reporter.

Ms. Leovy presents a subject most of us Whiteys don’t want to hear about–Urban black men murdering other urban black men at astronomical rates, something like 8 to 10 times more than white on white murder.  And the cases solved by the cops run about 30%, as compared with about 80% clearance for white on white murder.  Even Hispanic murders have a higher ‘clearance’ rate.  This has been going on and getting worse for decades, especially in South Central (Watts) LA, mainly because, according to Leovy, there is a substantial lack of law enforcement when it comes to black on black murder.  Urban police departments (she’s focusing on LA) don’t use the same amount of manpower and resources to solve male black on black murder than they use on white on white or Hispanic on Hispanic murder.  As one black woman says in the beginning of the book:  “Another black man down.  And nobody cares.”  

Black men shooting down other black men is viewed by the police, the media, and, yes, all of US as something everyday endemic to black communities, much like feel-good liberalism is endemic to Vermont.  And also something we don’t want to hear about, so the media hasn’t been reporting most male black on black murder.  Not as ‘juicy’ a story as celebrity murder, gun-nut massacres, and even white on white murder.  Another woman in the beginning of the book laments that when her husband was killed there was no story about it anywhere in the papers, on TV, or radio, because:  “Nobody cares.”

Leovy presents the case that black on black murder rates would go down if police investigated these murders more fastidiously; put the same effort into apprehending the killers as the effort they put into finding the killers of white people–in other words, EQUAL LAW ENFORCEMENT.  South Central LA has been at the bottom of the barrel in ‘clearing’ black on black murder.  Leovy writes that only around 17 to 20% of black men now in prison are there for the murder of another black man.  That most of our prisons are filled with black men who have committed the heinous crimes of shoplifting, car theft (whitey’s property), drunkenness, drugs, or general ‘arrogant behavior’ on the streets.  Black men go to prison for petty crime, not for murdering other black men.

Also, there sometimes is the ‘revenge murder’– where a couple of black men who are friends of the victim know that the cops are going to do little or nothing to bring in the killer.  If they know the killer, they go out and murder him, vigilante style.  And, according to Leovy, this solves another problem for the cops.  And the cops are not going to go after the revenge killers because the whole neighborhood would say something like:  “You leave those boys alone!  They did your job for you, cause you don’t care!”  So, ‘unequal’ law enforcement begets more male black on black murder.

Leovy writes that white activists and liberals do not want to talk about male black on black murder, and especially not about having more ‘law enforcement’ as a solution to it.  Bringing up black on black murder and suggesting a law enforcement solution is ‘racist’ according to these liberal activists.  Yes, equal law enforcement for male black on black murder suggests ‘police brutality’ to the liberal activists. They would rather not hear about it at all.  They would rather mouth the same platitudes and clichés about ‘education’ and ‘jobs’ and ‘outreach’ over and over again than face the reality that black men know that killing another black man is ‘no big deal’ to the police–or to ALL OF US WHITEYS.  It is more important for us whiteys to ‘feel good’ by saying ‘Black Lives Matter’ than really knowing just how much Black Lives DO NOT MATTER to us.  Because we don’t want to know or speak of male black on black murder, we make for more of it.  And Hell, the cops say when there’s a black on black shooting, one more dead N-Word is just one less problem out there. Let them kill each other.

Here is where lib-er-al-ISM has brought us–Now the cops are killing black men, cause what the Hell, they probably need killing, and “Nobody cares.”  Except for liberals who don’t want to be ‘identified’ with any of it.  That’s what the lib-er-al squawking is all about.  They have to squawk about this latest outrage of cop on black male murder to show that they are NOT racists.  Yet, black male on black male murder–we (I’ll include myself now) don’t want to hear about it.  And THAT, to me, is where the real racism is.

Now, one more thing, although I haven’t come across it yet in this book–GUN CONTROL.  Liberals seem to think that gun control, like education and outreach, is the answer to all gun murder in the U.S.  NO!  Saying that we need gun control as a substitute for ‘equal’ law enforcement of all gun-related male black on black murders is avoiding the issue–and TOTALLY RACIST.  Guns will always be available, and if we turn our backs again on urban male black on black murder because we’ve passed some ‘feel good’ gun laws, THAT IN ITSELF IS MURDER!  We’ve got to say that BLACK LIVES MATTER every time a black male is gunned down by another black male and the police blow-off the proper investigative procedures.  That BLACK LIVES MATTER every time a black man is murdered for no goddamn good reason except for being on the wrong street corner at the wrong time.  BLACK LIVES MATTER should mean cops should be held just as accountable for not solving male black on black murders as they should be for murdering black males themselves.

EQUAL LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR ALL AMERICANS!  And let’s pay attention when we hear a story (IF we get to hear it) about another black on black murder.  There is no such thing as a ‘nothing’ murder.  No such thing as a black person being ‘less murdered’ than a white person.  It’s all MURDER.

And PLEASE–I don’t want to hear shit about how ‘gun violence’ by black men against black men “effects us all.”  That’s BULLSHIT.  We’re white privileged assholes who have it pretty damn soft.  We’ve got our cops watching over us.  And we have our signs and candles.  Black folks pay taxes too–WHERE IS THEIR GODDAMN POLICE PROTECTION?!

Peter (Talking To Myself) Buknatski

Montpelier (SENSITIVEVILLE), Vt.

(See, with Sanders gaining in the polls and drawing big crowds and being a real contender now, it’s not surprising that the establishment ‘corporate’ media shifts the focus away from the issues he’s brought to the campaign to what the voters really want, right?–the ‘salacious’.  His past love life?  His past ‘procreations’?  What?  His past high school and college ‘partying’?  ASSHOLES!  Well, here’s something for them.  Because I’ve learned the real story.  Illegitimate son?  Could that be you, Michael, out there in Walden?  I knew it.  I knew you were a lib-er-al fuck!  But my scoop is going to bust this campaign wide open.  And I dedicate this story to Peter Diamondstone.  And Donald Trump.)

THE REAL SCOOP ON BERNIE SANDERS

It was revealed today by undisclosed recipients that Bernie Sanders was born 73 years ago in France, the son of Polish woman beet-picker Olanda Sanderoski and Nazi SS Captain Hans Kissinger, who fell in love after the Germans invaded Poland, and then moved together to France when Kissinger was re-stationed there.

Sanders was born at the headquarters of the SS Death’s Head/Hells Angels From Dixie Armored Division.  Sanderoski had by then joined the Nazi Party herself, and she, Kissinger, and baby Bernard had to flee to Ireland after the Normandy invasion, where they lived under the name O’Sanders until 1948, when they moved to New Jersey as part of the post-war European migration to the U.S.

Sanders grew up allegedly not knowing about his parents’ participation in Nazi war crimes.  His favorite TV show in the late fifties and early sixties was Leave It To Beaver (from whence the Leave It To Bernie campaign slogan comes).  But his favorite character on Leave It To Beaver, however, was Eddie Haskell, the Nazi on the show.

Sanders attended Cliffside Park High School in New Jersey and fathered three illegitimate sons, named Larry, Darryl and Darryl, through affairs with women who themselves were the daughters of ex-Nazi SS men living in Jersey under new identities.  It has now also become known that Sanders is a cousin of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who himself was fathered by a Nazi war criminal named Von Christiandorf.

Sanders had many romantic affairs in his early days in Vermont, while his illegitimate sons would move to Hollywood to seek their fortune in television.  It is believed that Sanders and former Vermont Governor Maddy Kunin were lovers and also dowsers and Satanic Vegans.  Kunin, it is of course known, is the daughter of Hermann Goring’s right hand man, Adolf Kuninburg, who fathered her in 1933 in Munich.  Kuninburg is still alive at the age of one hundred and one, and living comfortably in a retirement commune in Greensboro, Vermont.

It was Kunin, the older woman in Sanders’ life, who manipulated Sanders’ election as Mayor of Burlington, Vt., with the help of other ex-Nazis from Burlington, Montpelier, Walden, and other towns in Vermont.  These Nazis, with help from Vermont ice cream moguls, The Fucking Rodriquez Brothers, created what now is the Vermont Progressive Party.

Sanders, although claiming to have absolutely zero knowledge of any Nazism attached to his parents, friends, lovers and supporters, is believed still to be a shill of the Vermont Progressive Party, which hopes that a President Sanders will ban cigarette smoking nationwide and replace the Bald Eagle with a Kale Plant as our new national symbol.

More details of this story are breaking every second now, and I can’t keep up with them, so fuck it, I’ll get back to this on Monday.  Because on Monday, here in Montpelier, Sanders is scheduled to meet with leaders of AIPAC, to explain to them how someone fathered by and involved with Nazis all his life wound up becoming a Jew.  It is rumored AIPAC fears that Sanders is secretly allied with forces wishing to destroy Israel, and put Muhammad’s face on the new twenty dollar bill.

                –30–

Peter Buknatski

Montpelier, Vt

(Don’t laugh.  Did you know that Donald Trump was fathered by Josef Mengele in 1946 when Mengele was hiding out in Bavaria?  I see a Nazi Masterplan/Conspiracy here in 2016.  And I haven’t even gotten all the good sex stuff yet.)

(See, with Sanders gaining in the polls and drawing big crowds and being a real contender now, it’s not surprising that the establishment ‘corporate’ media shifts the focus away from the issues he’s brought to the campaign to what the voters really want, right?–the ‘salacious’.  His past love life?  His past ‘procreations’?  What?  His past high school and college ‘partying’?  ASSHOLES!  Well, here’s something for them.  Because I’ve learned the real story.  Illegitimate son?  Could that be you, Michael, out there in Walden?  I knew it.  I knew you were a lib-er-al fuck!  But my scoop is going to bust this campaign wide open.  And I dedicate this story to Peter Diamondstone.  And Donald Trump.)

THE REAL SCOOP ON BERNIE SANDERS

It was revealed today by undisclosed recipients that Bernie Sanders was born 73 years ago in France, the son of Polish woman beet-picker Olanda Sanderoski and Nazi SS Captain Hans Kissinger, who fell in love after the Germans invaded Poland, and then moved together to France when Kissinger was re-stationed there.

Sanders was born at the headquarters of the SS Death’s Head/Hells Angels From Dixie Armored Division.  Sanderoski had by then joined the Nazi Party herself, and she, Kissinger, and baby Bernard had to flee to Ireland after the Normandy invasion, where they lived under the name O’Sanders until 1948, when they moved to New Jersey as part of the post-war European migration to the U.S.

Sanders grew up allegedly not knowing about his parents’ participation in Nazi war crimes.  His favorite TV show in the late fifties and early sixties was Leave It To Beaver (from whence the Leave It To Bernie campaign slogan comes).  But his favorite character on Leave It To Beaver, however, was Eddie Haskell, the Nazi on the show.

Sanders attended Cliffside Park High School in New Jersey and fathered three illegitimate sons, named Larry, Darryl and Darryl, through affairs with women who themselves were the daughters of ex-Nazi SS men living in Jersey under new identities.  It has now also become known that Sanders is a cousin of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who himself was fathered by a Nazi war criminal named Von Christiandorf.

Sanders had many romantic affairs in his early days in Vermont, while his illegitimate sons would move to Hollywood to seek their fortune in television.  It is believed that Sanders and former Vermont Governor Maddy Kunin were lovers and also dowsers and Satanic Vegans.  Kunin, it is of course known, is the daughter of Hermann Goring’s right hand man, Adolf Kuninburg, who fathered her in 1933 in Munich.  Kuninburg is still alive at the age of one hundred and one, and living comfortably in a retirement commune in Greensboro, Vermont.

It was Kunin, the older woman in Sanders’ life, who manipulated Sanders’ election as Mayor of Burlington, Vt., with the help of other ex-Nazis from Burlington, Montpelier, Walden, and other towns in Vermont.  These Nazis, with help from Vermont ice cream moguls, The Fucking Rodriquez Brothers, created what now is the Vermont Progressive Party.

Sanders, although claiming to have absolutely zero knowledge of any Nazism attached to his parents, friends, lovers and supporters, is believed still to be a shill of the Vermont Progressive Party, which hopes that a President Sanders will ban cigarette smoking nationwide and replace the Bald Eagle with a Kale Plant as our new national symbol.

More details of this story are breaking every second now, and I can’t keep up with them, so fuck it, I’ll get back to this on Monday.  Because on Monday, here in Montpelier, Sanders is scheduled to meet with leaders of AIPAC, to explain to them how someone fathered by and involved with Nazis all his life wound up becoming a Jew.  It is rumored AIPAC fears that Sanders is secretly allied with forces wishing to destroy Israel and put Muhammad’s face on the new twenty dollar bill.

                –30–

Peter Buknatski

Montpelier, Vt

(Don’t laugh.  Did you know that Donald Trump was fathered by Josef Mengele in 1946 when Mengele was hiding out in Bavaria?  I see a Nazi Masterplan/Conspiracy here in 2016.  And I haven’t even gotten all the good sex stuff yet.)

10 Rulings The New Lib-Er-Al Supreme Court Will Come Up With Now That Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Been Baking Pot Brownies:

#1–They will reinstate the Voting Rights Act, with even tougher language, and appoint the NEW BLACK PANTHERS to enforce it.

#2–Citizens United? No, Corporations are NOT people!  Fuck ’em! (“These brownies are really tasty, Ruth.”  “Thank you, Tony.  Have some more.”)

#3–The voting age will be lowered to 16.

#4–People will have the right to make citizens arrests of the police.  (“Man, Ruth…what did we just rule?  Hanh?”  “It’s okay, Jack.  Here, eat another brownie.”)

#5–The Confederate Flag may only be displayed by people or groups with a special permit on Halloween Night.

#6–Term limits for U.S. House members will be 4 terms; for U.S.Senate, 2 terms; and for Supreme Court Justices, 10 years.  (“Yeah, well I’ve been getting kind of tuckered-out lately, Ruth.  Whoa…what’s IN these brownies?  Whoa…Can I have another?”  “Sure, and pass them to Clancy, Tony.”)

#7–The Patriot Acts, The War On Drugs, The War In Afghanistan, Fracking, SUVs, Dress Codes, and not deferring to seniors walking with canes will be declared Unconstitutional.

#8–People over 50 will not have to pay any taxes, and taxing the Rich as much as possible will be considered a civil right and civil ‘duty’ of the people.  (“Hey, Ruth, I think this is a pubic hair in my brownie.”  “YOU FUCKING MORON ASSHOLE!  Shut up and eat it, or you’ll be eating my fist!”  “Okay, okay, Elena.  Jeez…I was just trying to…”  “SHUTTHEFUCKUP PIG!  EAT IT!!!”)

#9–Sexual harassment in the workplace or any place will be a felony punishable by chemical castration for men and counseling and paid vacation time for women.  Also, it will be the job of the FBI and Homeland Security to investigate any and all ‘conspiracies’ to commit sexual harassment, as defined by the ‘conspiracy parameters’ in the recent decision handed down in BUKNATSKI v EVERYBODY.  (“Now…wait a minute…did we…what was the vote on…who wrote the…ah shit…pass the brownies.”  “Tony ate the last ones.  Tony…Naughty.”  “Ah chill, Ruthie.”)

#10–Marihuana, health care, day care, utility bills, public transport, fresh water, and vegetable and flower seeds will be provided free by the appropriate government agencies.  There will be no laws applicable to marihuana as a ‘cigarette substitute’, nor may any state, municipality, district, neighborhood, school, church, or co-op attempt to restrict the people’s right to smoke marihuana and/or cigarettes when enjoying drinks at their favorite ‘club’ or gin mill while peaceably plotting the overthrow of the U.S. government, as is their right as citizens, immigrants, visitors, and the born and unborn of all races, mixed races, all genders, and mixed genders residing in the United States and its territories, or in vacation spots around the world which American males gather in because the legal age of consent in said vacation spots around the world is 14.

“We so rule, today, June 29, 2015.  Court is adjourned.  Ruth, is that what I think I smell in the oven?”

Peter Buknatski

Montpelier (Sensitiveville), Vt.

Now, Section 700 of Title 18, the U.S. Criminal Codes, applies to desecration of the ‘United States Flag’, with some vague language about physical abuse.  And 47 States still have laws on the books about desecration of their State Flags.

If I were a Southern Gentleman, I would lobby my State Legislature to pass a State Law making use and display of the Confederate Flag by Hate Groups (Neo-Nazis, Anti-Blacks, Anti-Gay, Anti-Jew, Etc.) in any of their marches, rallies, gatherings, store-fronts, etc. a crime punishable by fines, imprisonment, or both.  Why let them ‘hide behind’ the Confederate Flag?

Very simple.

And, PLEASE South Carolina, and other Southern States and communities–when the Stars And Stripes are lowered to half mast, you LOWER THE STARS AND BARS TOO!

Very simple.

And let all the goddamn Nazi Groups use the Swastika Flag, instead of hiding behind the Confederate and U.S. Flags.  SO EVERYONE WILL KNOW WHAT THEY’RE ALL ABOUT!

What do you folks think?

Peter Buknatski

Montpelier, Vt.

12 SIGNS YOUR MALE STATE SENATOR OR STATE REP MAY BE A SEX PERVERT*

#1–He’s a Republican.

#2–He shows all the ladies at the Statehouse how neatly clipped and smooth his middle fingernails are.

#3–He used to hang out years ago with Peter Shumlin at the Langdon Street Cafe; now he hangs out with all the guys from West Virginia who come up to Charlie Os to tell Vermont women how pro-choice they are (“…Darlin’, and I clipped my fingernails.”)

#4–He’s a guest speaker at every Middle School in his area.

#5–When’s there’s a forum in Room 11 at the Statehouse and a well-dressed female comes forward to sit in front of his committee and speak, he keeps dropping his pen on the floor.

#6–He owns a sheep farm.

#7–His re-election bumper sticker reads: YOUR VOTE WILL GET ME ERECTED!

#8–He takes all his vacations in Thailand.

#9–He frequently complains at Co-ops that the organic kale has pubic hair in it (and sometimes he’s right).

#10–He says: “Hey! Hey! Hey!” a lot.

#11–When you call him at the Statehouse about legislation, you get connected to a 900 number.

#12–One of his aides sells Girl Scout cookies.

(I think I’m going to do a PolitenessMan on ole Norm.)

*Pervert–The correct spelling and pronunciation is Pre-vert, as proclaimed by Colonel Bat Guano (Keenan Wynn) in DR. STRANGELOVE, 1964.)

Peter Buknatski

Montpelier (Sensitiveville) Vt.

(Over 1 Million Condoms Sold)

BERNIE SANDERS CALLS FOR MANDATORY VACCINATIONS OF PALESTINIANS; POLITENESSMAN HITS HIM WITH STEEL HANKIE THROWN ALL THE WAY FROM TEXAS  

(Dedicated to my beloved Jewish Princess, Maggie Lenz McQuilken)

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders drew more flack today, this time from voters in Walden, as he tried to amend statements he made a few weeks ago to voters in Cabot about Hamas and Israel.  He also drew a STEEL HANKIE from PolitenessMan.

“What I meant to say was,” Sanders started to explain, “was that possibly a solution to that volatile situation over there might be to vaccinate the Palestinians with some kosher nice serum.  I’m sure Wall Street and Big Pharma have something like that already approved by the FDA.  Of course, the vaccinations would be mandatory, to protect…”

“Fascist!” someone from the crowd yelled.  Others began to heckle Sanders, calling him a hypocrite on war and justice.  And the person who yelled ‘Fascist’ then yelled:  “You LIB-ER-Al FUCK!”

“Is that you, Colby?”  Sanders interjected.  “I want that person removed!”  Sanders screamed to the 14 State Police officers doing security.

Then, all of a sudden, ‘THUNK!’–a STEEL HANKIE slammed Sanders in the skull.  Attached to it was a note that a gray-bearded man picked up and read out loud to the crowd:

“Senator Sanders,” the note read, “I think your positions on some issues need clarifications and much more tidiness.  It is impolite and impolitic to expect voters to accept a shallow posture of credence.  Especially when you claim to be their savior and their servant.  Good servants, knowing their place, do not commit breaches of good decorum.  You must be civil and truthful to the voters.  All candidates must comport themselves so.  It shall be my mission in 2016 to see to it that all candidates maintain the good manners of courtesy, deference, and sophistication when addressing the voters, so that all of us, candidates and voters, can achieve the state of political aplomb necessary to deal with the Global Rudeness that threatens to destroy our planet.  I have sent this STEEL HANKIE all the way from Texas where I am dealing with a very untoward situation involving Governor Abbott here.  He is contributing to the acceleration of Global Rudeness.  President Obama felt I was the only way to deal with Governor Abbott.  After he got done laughing.

“My regards, Senator, and adieu to you.  And also to Mr. Michael Colby, as I assume he is there, what with all the offensive language being bandied about.  Thank you.”

“Sonofa…” Sanders began, “…I mean…well…if it’s coming from PolitenessMan, then I guess I owe you all a huge apology.  Officers, you can unhand that man.  It was rude of me to have him taken into custody.  And I promise all of you folks that the next time someone calls me a LIB-ER-Al FUCK, I will answer by saying: ‘Thank you.  I am grateful that you called that to my attention.  And I will do my best to ameliorate that.  May I buy you the beer of your choice at the Three Penny Taproom in Montpelier after this forum and hear more of your eclectic views?’  And THANK YOU, PolitenessMan.  Already I am inspired to use a higher level of speechifying.  Good luck in Texas.”

Thus, once again did PolitenessMan correct a situation before it deteriorated into another vile and vulgar display of Global Rudeness, the number one threat to life on this planet.

Adieu.

Peter Buknatski

Montpelier, Vt.

(PolitenessMan should take over the Protest Movement.)

Jap Prime Minister Abe, in a speech in Ferguson, California, said that:  “Comparing things to Baltimore and Bill Cosby, I would say Japanese actions in Nanking in 1937 and the so-called Bataan Death March are basically cases of a few individuals under stress.  Your police are now reacting to threats from your black people much the same as our glorious Imperial Army had to react to threats from Chinese women terrorists in Nanking, and those American and Filipino soldiers in Bataan?…well, we were trying to get them quickly to camps before your B-17s from Australia bombed the whole column.  They just weren’t marching fast enough.  No discipline.  But we saved as many as we could.  Look it up.  But not in Japan.  We’re so peaceful, we don’t carry war books in our libraries.”

When Abe was asked about whether Japanese agents were responsible for driving author Iris Chang to suicide in 2004, by repeatedly harassing her on her book and lecture tours, or if, in fact, Japanese agents actually staged her suicide, Abe replied:  “No, no, no.  Bill Cosby was responsible for Iris Chang.  He ravished her while she was in a drunken depressed state.  Look it up.  Hasn’t that come out yet?  It will.  Don’t forget, you Americans Atom-Bombed us.  Twice.  That’s a lot worse than, say, 25 million Chinese deaths and a few American POWs and a bunch of Chinese and Korean Dragon Lady terrorists trying to give the entire Japanese Imperial Army VD.*

“Now,ask me about how much more of your National Debt you want Japan to invest in,”  Abe said.  “And who’s that old geezer back there with the BATAAN DEATH MARCH SURVIVOR T-Shirt?  Perhaps one of those who kept falling down and holding up the march?  When people in Japan fall down, they do the honorable thing.  It’s call Seppuku.  When we take over America after calling in your debt, we will be honored to teach you about honor.”

*(I HATE the Japs–Still truly the world’s most EVIL PEOPLE)

Peter Buknatski

Montpelier, Vt.

About 600 people, maybe 700, on the State House Lawn today.  That’s NOT GOOD.  Considering what Shumlin and the Legislature are doing to the working class and working poor.  Considering what’s going on in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Seattle, etc.. And considering that our Legislature is looking to eliminate state tax deductions on charitable donations under $5000.00 to non-profit and activist groups who assist the poor, the disabled, the underpaid, the environment, the people, it seems to me that whoever is responsible at the Vermont Workers Center and other groups to get the people out is really doing a terrible job.

I was talking to my friend Duke Forcier, a guy my age who used to run Blouin’s here in Montpelier years ago.  We agreed that May Day turnout, instead of increasing over the last few years, is now in an anemic phase, and getting worse.  We both were underwhelmed by the crowd today, and wondered WTF is going on with the so-called activists who are supposed to be getting the crowds out so the media will do bigger stories and the politicians will take notice.

Duke and I are both 66.  Having been active with Leftie groups myself since the sixties, and having organized Marches and rallies and forums here in Montpelier since ’98, I put THE BLAME squarely on the backs of this younger White Semi-Yuppie generation of activists who think everything can be done electronically.  That sending out an email and phoning the same people who already got the email is enough.  IT IS NOT!  Young and Dumb!  Duh!

You need MEDIA!!!  You MUST have PSAs on the radio stations, stories in every paper, announcements in every community calendar, phone calls, emails, faxes AND personal contact with news people from WCAX to The Montpelier Bridge and The World. And I mean over and over again right up to the day of the event. 600, 700 people on MAY DAY???  Should be 6 to 7000.  Some people are not doing their PR jobs.  Or else activism in Vermont has become an INSIDER thing–an Elite ‘Feel Good’ Club.  Today’s May Day turnout would shame the TEA PARTY.  It should certainly shame you new generation of activists

Call VPIRG and every other activist group and get them to pitch in with mailings and phone calls.  Duke suggested you could call on Ben & Jerry, or some other RICH Lib-er-al to donate a few thousand dollars for a media blitz.  Get on VPR and WDEV.  Where was the front page story in the Main or State section of the Times-Argus this morning?  What The Fuck do you youngsters think?  That ‘word of mouth’ will do your job for you?  That people will come out because they like you?  I don’t much fucking like you now, and haven’t for years.  Since ’98 here in Montpelier, I’ve seen the lazy half-assed approach you have to organizing and publicizing a political event.  There was an old joke in SDS in the sixties:  “The Left could fuck-up (or be late for) an ambush.”  Well, yes, we had our fuck-ups back then, but nothing as DISGRACEFUL as today’s non-event.

I shook hands with you, JAMES HASLIM, just before the rally started, expecting, I guess, more people to show up.  I should have given you SHIT about the turnout then.  Cause it didn’t get any better.  And WHERE was the Workers Center post on THIS blogsite?

A spade is a spade.  You people maybe need to sit down and go back to March & Rally 101 from the sixties.  And, for Christ’s Sake, PLEASE don’t pat yourselves on the backs for today’s event.  It was a LOSER!

This is why the RICH and the Republicans are WINNING!!!  SHAME!!!

Peter Buknatski

Pissed-off in Montpelier, Vt.