Move "Forward" with the President not backward with Totalitarian Republican Oppressors

The Right-Wing is made up of Oppressors who strive to do nothing other than to chain Americans with the shackles of Right-Wing oppression and wage slavery.

President Obama's election team unveiled their new campaign slogan, "Forward". Immediately the Right-Wing imbeciles jumped up and declared Forward means Maoism or Leninism! But after realizing most of their conservative myna bird-brains didn't grasp Maoism, The Washington Times simplified for the duped conservative drone, New Obama Slogan has long ties to Marxism, Socialism.

Now, while Forward also happens to be the State Motto of Wisconsin and the domain name "Forward.com" is the website of The Jewish Daily Forward, a publication begun in 1897 with strong socialist roots, it would be fantastic if Barack Obama was a Socialist, but his voting record clearly shows President Obama is a fiscally moderate/conservative. Which is why the U.S. hasn't emerged from the Republican Recession.

30+ years of Conservative economic policy is precisely why we have massive Income Inequality and why CEOs "earn" almost 400 times what the average worker makes. The 1% have been pissing down the backs of all Americans and telling them it's trickle down prosperity for 3 decades

But, remember no matter what the 1% and their Republican lackeys and Right-Wing lapdogs tell you it's not Socialism when Billions in Tax Payer Dollars are funneled to their tax dodging Corporations or Plutocrats off-shore bank accounts. No that's helping "Job-Creators", it's only Socialism when it comes to Medicaid to the indigent or Social Security to the disabled.

However, even though conservatives are oppressors there is a hierarchy amongst the Oppressor Class. Normally it directly correlates to money or power but, anyone willing to denigrate and divide the people can be accepted into the bosom of the Totalitarian Right-Wing fold. For example, Sarah Palin.

Today Palin has money, not Koch Money, mind you, but some. However, her rise from obscurity to her 18 month dominance of the right-wing world occurred precisely because she was willing to go on word salad tirades against the oppressed and in favor of keeping the oppressed down.

But, the weak and stupid amongst the Oppressors only know the Oppressor/Oppressed Dichotomy and having grown up in a misogynistic, Patriarchal, homophobic, repressive rich-deifiying society see no other recourse but to Oppress those whomever they can, which is how we have poor conservatives who use medicare and social security siding with the Hedge Fund Vultures who make money off of firing American workers and starving children to death in Africa and who are pushing their Republican Lackeys to eliminate the programs which aid Millions of Americans.

Oppressed Conservatives side with their Oppressors, the 1%, because they don't know anything better than to try and knock down the oppressed, as well.

This was clearly illuminated, in the Pedology of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire,

But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors, or "sub-oppressors." The very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradictions of the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped. Their ideal is to be men; but for them, to be men is to be oppressors.

So, the attacks on Socialism are not because of the conservative catch-phrase, 'Eventually you run out of other peoples money', the Plutocrats Theft of Billions of US Tax Payer Dollars proves that. No it is because that while there is a hierarchy amongst the Oppressors, even the lowliest conservative is an Oppressor and knows no other way.

So, it's going to be another 6 long months of frothingly insane rants against Socialism, violent Ted Nugent rhetoric, and the occasional Tea Party Extremist Domestic Terrorist Murder Spree as the Totalitarian Right-Wingers fear their ability to oppress and control the 99%.

And just as with JT Ready and all the other Conservative Domestic Terrorist attacks [See My Post: Another Anti-Government Domestic Terror Attack (Conservative Terrorism)] their language is going to be sickeningly evil. The Republican Party and their Right-Wing lapdog bloggers are going to vilify #Occupy and OWS and Women and African-Americans and the poor and the sick and the elderly and all of the Oppressed.

Again from the Pedology of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire,

For the oppressors, however, it is always the oppressed (whom they obviously never call "the oppressed" but -- depending on whether they are fellow countrymen or not --"those people" or "the blind and envious masses" or "savages" or "natives" or "subversives") who are disaffected, who are "violent," "barbaric," "wicked," or "ferocious" when they react to the violence of the oppressors.

Raffi Torres, Marian Hossa, Perceived Unfairness and the failure of the NHL

Update: Gary Bettman proved in an interview with David Haugh, he doesn't recognize that Perception is Reality. "A lot of it is perception and misperception," Bettman said. "The game is physical, the game is emotional. These games are hard-fought." Bettman was in attendance for the game and apparently can't see a repeat offender taking out the Hawks leading scorer with a cheap illegal hit proves that what people perceive about Bettman, being an empty suit who's providing inconsistent leadership, are destroying the NHL.

In last night's Chicago Blackhawks - Phoenix Coyotes Hockey game, Raffi Torres of Phoenix laid a deliberately malicious hit to the head of Marian Hossa, which resulted in Hossa being taken off the ice on a stretcher and to a nearby Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Even in real time, the hit was obviously "dirty". Torres, launched himself at Hossa (his skates left the ice), well after Hossa had passed the puck, lead with his shoulder/arm, aimed at Hossa's chin/jawline and by-passed the Blackhawks player actually with the puck. The hit was so violent the nearby NHL linesman flinched away as it was delivered.

The story not only lead in Chicago, but dominated NHL.com, ESPN, Yahoo Sports, SB Nation and produced a huge reaction on Twitter and on-line editorials.

The NHL is in big trouble. The League has declared it wants to crack down on illegal hits and wants to aid in player safety. But, there is a perceived unfairness in the way the NHL and head disciplinarian of the Department of Player Safety Brendan Shanahan has reviewed and punished hits or other gross misconduct in games. Please read this article from Globe and Mail about the Fallout the Perception of different standards of punishment certain players receive is having upon fans.

Earlier in the day, Shanahan gave Chicago Blackhawk player Adam Shaw a 3-game suspension for a hit on Phoenix goaltender Mike Smith. However, in the leagues official ruling, Brendan Shanahan makes clear that Shaw has no history of illegal hits and the hit itself was not made with intent. The Phoenix Coyotes gamed the league by holding Smith out of practice and not indicating if he would start until the 3-game suspension ruling was delivered.

Raffi Torres' hit was clearly made with intent and resulted in a serious injury to Hossa, most likely one which will keep him out of the rest of the playoffs. Raffi Torres is also a repeat offender and a year ago took out a Chicago Blackhawks player in a Playoff series.

But, even Blackhawks players indicated they have no idea if Shanahan is going to issue a properly severe suspension for this hit and of course, Torres and his coach demurred calling it a "Hockey play".

Putting aside the conspiracy theories that the NHL wants the Phoenix Coyotes to advance in the playoffs to increase their sale price, the league is currently in receivership of the Franchise, the NHL has a serious problem. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman mismanagement of the league, especially the mid-1990's off-handed disrespect towards the rabid Canadian fan base by relocating multiple Canadian Teams and Northern US teams, to Carolina, Phoenix, Dallas, and Florida (x2), were there exists no natural fan base, the recent economic stagnation have crippled the NHL's marketability.

But, more importantly no one thinks the League is going to handle the Torres hit properly*. And once the idea sets in that a League or powerful individuals in the League are capricious or actively biased that League is in serious trouble of crumbling and going the way of the ABA or the USFL.

How long should Torres be suspended? Personally, I think if the league wants to really crack down on "head-hunting" and illegal hits it needs to suspend players for as many games as missed by the injured player and with the expected minimum of double digits on the first offense and increase fines from the current Collectively bargained amount of $2,500.

But, even so what we see in the Blackhawks-Coyotes series could be a harbinger of the downfall of a League which Greed and bad management and sometimes blatant disregard for the fan base hath brought about.

Fortunately, for myself, besides band-wagoning onto the Blackhawks 2010 Stanley Cup Winning Team my hockey fandom has never taken over my senses. So, when I simply refuse to watch hockey ever again I'll not feel deprived of anything worthwhile.

*- Travis Hughes of SB Nation is reporting:

Phoenix Coyotes forward Raffi Torres has been suspended indefinitely pending an NHL hearing on Friday for his vicious hit on Chicago Blackhawks forward Marian Hossa during Tuesday night's Western Conference Quarterfinal Game 3. Torres will travel to the NHL's office in Manhattan for the in-person hearing, which was originally scheduled for Wednesday but delayed at the request of the NHL Players Association.