Syria: 15 Year-old Boy Executed by U.S. Backed "Rebels" for Blasphemy

by Steven Argue

According to Aljazeera, Mohammad Kattaa was a young vendor selling coffee in the Shaar neighborhood of the northern city of Aleppo. A customer was trying to get free coffee, to which the boy is said to have responded, "Even if Muhammad comes down, I will not give it as debt." This was overheard by so-called "rebels" who, like many of the U.S. backed "rebels" in Syria today, don't speak the Syrian dialect of Arabic because they are foreign mercenaries recruited from elsewhere in the Middle East. These religious fanatics misunderstood what was said to be blasphemy against their religion, so they kidnapped Kataa, beat him, and then executed Kataa by shooting him. His mother and father were also tracked down, captured, and forced to watch the execution.



The area of this crime will likely be the next targeted for capture by the Syrian Arab Army after their stunning victories that have now taken Qusair. The battle to retake Aleppo is expected within the next couple days, perhaps hours. There are many things wrong with the Syrian government, but the U.S. backed rebels are far worse.



Among those supporting the "rebels" has been the United States, European Union, Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Israel. U.S. aid to them has officially been non-military, as if there is such a thing to a "rebel" army, but the U.S. is expected to decide on openly arming the Free Syria Army this week.



End U.S. Aid to Syrian "Rebels"! End U.S. Economic Sanctions Against Syria!



See my article:

U.S. Backed Genocide of Christians, Alawites, and other Minorities in Syria

by Steven Argue

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/05/30/18737666.php

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DO NOT CALL VA CRISIS LINE!!!!!

If you are a Vet in crisis and in need of help do NOT call the VA Crisis Line! Turn to a friend, family member, fellow vet, or look deep inside yourself. Because if you call the VA they will enter your "confidential" conversation into your records with arm chair diagnoses and use it for punitive purposes to the extent that they may deny health care that you really need. They will also use it to deny your rights under the constitution by labeling you and taking your rights to make decisions for yourself.

Just don't do it. It is better - and more noble - to die than to ask your government for the help that they owe us.

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The Verdict is in: The Veteran's Administration is NOT your friend

I have been trying - more like begging - for the Veteran's Administration to address a very real physical problem for several months, a problem for which I actually had documented evidence to support. I had a CT scan from a local hospital which clearly indicated gall stones almost an inch in diameter. The very reason that I went to the Emergency Room in the first place is because I had been sick and vomiting for weeks. The VA Primary Care provider that I went to referred me to a surgeon almost 250 miles away indicating that he suspect that the gall bladder was indeed causing me pain, nausea and discomfort.

The VA Surgeon in St. Louis, Jane Tenquist, decided upon reading all of the scurrilous and slanderous claims repeated over and over in my St. Louis VA records which indicate that in their professional opinion I am a danger to myself and that I have "major recurring depressive disorder" and "personality disorder" - among many other insulting invectives, that there was nothing wrong with me and that she felt I would be better served to have the VA stick a camera up my ass. EVEN AFTER VIEWING THE CT SCAN SHOWING THE GALL STONES!

I really have trouble understanding the VA compulsion to stick stuff up your ass! That seems to be their treatment de jure for anything that they don't want to face head on. But I digress....
I was so sick that I HAD to find SOMEONE - ANYONE - who might treat me for the problem. Which I did. This (non-VA affiliated) surgeon recognized immediately the seriousness of the matter and set up surgery for as soon as he could get me in. When he got inside of me and saw just how serious the matter had become he made the decision to document the procedure with photographs. The nurse told me that my gall bladder was "nasty" and that one of the largest stones had begun to traverse into the common bile duct. If you are uninformed on this complication, this can and likely will be life threatening!

When I returned from hospital I sent in a request for my VA medical records for the past six months. Those pages, when simple lab reports are removed, numbered somewhere around 30 and were riddled with fallacious statements made by "social workers" alleged conversations with me in person and via the telephone which painted me as a crazy person. And in those pages my alleged psychiatric condition is discussed more than anything else! Along with the allegations cited above they claim that I am a chronic substance abuser... without a shred of evidence to support those claims other than their word.

The simple fact of the matter is that, once again, the St'. Louis VA did all in their power to deny me much needed health care and treatment. I say "once again" because from '05 to '06 I complained of feeling as if "an elephant is setting on my chest". I had to ask help from US Congresswoman JoAnn Emerson's office to get them to recognize the fact that I needed emergency heart surgery.

Please stay tuned as I fully plan to post my medical records and pictures of this most recent surgery here. You don't have to believe me, you can decide for yourself.

But if you are a Veteran, heed this warning: The Veteran's Administration is the LAST place you need to go for help of any kind.

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Hunger Strike is over and canned Spam is better than the comments here

Yeah, I quit on the hunger strike after day six. Nobody gave a fuck. Especially the Veteran's Administration at whom it was aimed. I've sicked my State Representative on them. For all the propaganda that is pumped out about how much this suck ass country wants to honor and care for its Vets one could use it to build a causeway from Miami to Cuba complete with Circle K stops... and a few titty bars!

But the thing that I find most annoying is the spam comments that these posts have generated. This blog was linked to by CNN for over a week at one time. I had regular readers. I had thoughtful comments. I met wonderful people. Now, all I get is spam. I kind of like canned spam once in a while. But the crap that appears here (awaiting moderation as I have that option turned on) are nothing short of insulting.

Capitalism is sooooo wonderful. I'm posting shit about my health deteriorating and the VA doing nothing when it is contractually their obligation and all anyone wants to say in their comments is "come to my website and buy my shit". So, capitalism is doing exactly what it is created to do: benefit from the suffering of others.

I'm a heartbeat away from turning comments off completely. I tire of seeing that crap. If you don't have anything to say about what I am writing - good, bad, or indifferent - then simply move along. I don't care if you like me or agree with anything I say. And I don't care if you say so! But if you provide a link to some "buy my shit" bullshit in a comment IT WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED!

So, read or don't read. Comment if you like so long as your comment has anything at all to do with the post. If I keep getting spam I'll just turn the shit off... you blood sucking capitalist pigs.

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Day 4 of VA Hunger Strike

It's storming ice and snow here now. Has been for a few hours. Then I remembered that the ramp to my front door can be a challenge when iced over. So, I slipped some clothes on over my bedclothes and made the arduous trip out to my shop where I stored the salt from last year.

I've gotta tell ya, sleet propelled by 50 mph wind striking you in the face is kind of like getting sand blasted. It's no fucking fun at all. But then, neither is begging the government to live up to its end of the military service agreement.

Ooops. Gotta go. A tree limb just came through my roof.

Oh, and fuck the VA and the USA.

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New Directions

I know of at least one veteran who has gone on a hunger strike because the Veteran's Administration won't treat him. On day 3 now.

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By all means, tax the poor!

This article at Huffington Post is a real piece of work. In fact, Senator Dick Lugar (yet another "Dick"), the author of the post, and the vast majority of the commenters on that article are ALL "special people". As in, they will be competing in the Special Olympics for the mentally challenged.

I get so sick and tired of each time the wealthy, corporations, and the politicians screw the pooch and leave our country and economy in shambles, each time they decide that they need desperately to balance the budget to make up for their transgressions, the thought of actually correcting their own behavior never even enters into their mind and certainly not the conversation! But the very FIRST thing that comes up is what they so woefully call "entitlement programs". And along with that terminology comes a perceived misrepresentation of it as "welfare" or some kind of government hand out which was never earned and is somehow coming out of the pockets of the working poor (there is no middle class any more, regardless of what poor people think of themselves. If you don't make 150-200k per year, you are frigging poor).

But if this perception is correct, which in my case it most certainly is not, I'd like to know what these morons think all of that FICA tax that was held out of my paycheck for all of those years that I DID work was all about. I'll tell you: THAT WAS MY SOCIAL SECURITY! That was the money that the government took out of my check to set back for me in case I became unable to work or retired. And that is what happened, I became unable to work. So, as far as I am concerned, that meager check that I receive each month that is a fraction of what working people make each week, IS MY OWN MONEY TO BEGIN WITH! And I would appreciate it very much if the cock suckers running this country would leave it the hell alone!

However, when these idiots in Washington get caught with their hand in the till while spending recklessly, they blame people like me and expect US to suck it up and pay for their mistakes by cutting the benefits that were set back for us out of our own money.

One day YOU TOO will become sick, disabled, or old and you will be forced to rely on Social Security. Hell, even John McCain is on Social Security! So, don't say you won't. If you do, I call you out right now as a liar. So, each time you attack Social Security benefits being paid out as the source of all the nations woes, just remember: Social Security itself is solvent and the only thing that is placing it in any jeopardy at all is the gluttonous morons in Dick City who can't keep their hands out of it. This BROKE ASS country has borrowed from the Social Security reserve for so long that all Social Security HAS any more is PAPER. Worthless Paper with the United States name on the IOU!

I haven't had a cost of living adjustment in TWO YEARS while the average cost of living has risen 8% in the same time frame. And now you want to reduce my benefits over a period of time? You people have a twisted way of trying to explain things so you don't look like the amoral trolls that you are. But I see it clearly and plainly. You talk of reducing my cost of living increases. Well, I have news for you: a reduction from 0 is a cut. And no matter HOW you spin it, you are talking about raising the retirement age.

This shit make me mad. Do you REALLY THINK that we can't see what you are doing? You are protecting your own wealth by making the poorest among us shoulder the cost of your mistakes.

You fucks.