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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
1781: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated..."
2008: "what are you doing that is soooooo private?"
"If we know this much about torture, rendition, secret prisons and warrantless wiretapping despite the administration's attempts to stonewall, then imagine what we don't know,..."
...8 million Americans are now listed in Main Core as potentially suspect" and, in the event of a national emergency, "could be subject to everything from heightened surveillance and tracking to direct questioning and even detention."
Hey, I bet Greenwald is on the list, maybe even the entire Salon employee payroll. You might want to establish a "Hiding Place" http://www.amazon.com/Hiding-Place-Corrie-Ten-Boom/dp/0553256696. You know, just in case Bush labels you an enemy combatant and subjects you to round up, as one of many unpatriotic Americans what simply refused to let Bush lie to protect the nation. It'll have to be something better than wall space, seeing as they have infrared and body heat detection devices and you don’t.
And I certain that you all know that Nancy Pelosi will be far too busy keeping impeachment off the table to care about your disloyality problems.
John Dean, repentent and reformed member of the Nixon political team that so badly disgraced their offices and our government, has written a book entitled "Worse Than Watergate". Dean suggests that the crimes perpetrated, and the harm inflicted on the nation, by the Bush/Cheney administration will be ajudged to be far worse than Watergate and other Nixonian criminal activity.
Dean is right, of course. Considering only those cimes committed by the Bush/Cheney administration known to date, their magnitude and resulting harm far exceed anything Nixon and his gang of thugs dealt the nation. What's worse, we don't have to read Mr. Shorrock's excellent piece to know in our collective gut that there is more to be uncovered, and that it will likley be shocking.
One need only consider the past conduct of Bush and Cheney, the nature of the people they've empowered, and the policies they've imposed, to know that there are far worse surprises yet to be uncovered. Considering the personalities and political philosophies of these individuals, you can know this with virtual certainty. It's a simple but inevitable formula. They have had the power, therefore they have abused it. It's what people like them do.
The kind of investigation into the abuses perpetrated by the Bush/Cheney administration described by Mr. Shorrock is absolutely necessary to the current and future legitimacy of this republic; however, as he points out, the complicity of Democrats in Congress, most notably perhaps, Rockefeller, Harman and Pelosi, does not bode well for the publication of these abuses, let alone for accountability.
While it may correctly be said that the Republicans are primarily responsible for the post 9/11 attack on the Constitution, the Democrats have earned their own brand of shame, either actively joining in the endeavor or meekly acquiescing. Unless there is strong and relentless public pressure applied to Congress and the post Bush White House for the conduct of just such an investigation, we may never know the extent of the criminal activity engaged in by the Bush/Cheney adminstration, or the extent to which the privacy and liberties of the American people have been and are being compromised.
What is this? I thought Salon had a bit more finesse than this headline and article shows they do. Salon sure seems heavy on the self-flattery for finding an anonymous someone who heard another anonymous someone accidentally see something years ago. That's it.
And drawing from that the idea that there could be Watergate-style hearings seems just as reaching. One had to go to the bottom of the article to realize that absolutely no politician in his right mind is actually for such a spectacle. The article would have you believe, up to that point, that half of congress were piling through the White House shredder bins.
This is the same type of sound and fury right wing talk radio makes over the supposedly impending comeback of the fairness doctrine. They even have more claim to legitimacy than this, Kerry and Clinton have both said that they'd like to see it return. But in the end, it is all just a bunch of hot air, trying to get people to think that their story is a lot bigger than it actually is. Ditto for Salon today.
Congratulations. Your Excellence in Broadcasting Award for headline and subtitle writing, directly from the Limbaugh Institute should arrive in five to ten business days.
Pinky: If you need proof that Obama will cave in to Bush all you have to do is look at how he voted with the republican's and 26 other democrat's to give immunity to Bush and the telecoms so they can't be tried for their crimes--that tells me that he want's the same power to continue to spy on us. Bush committed at least 33 felonies by illegally spying with the help of telecoms according to Professor Turley at Georgetown U.Obama with his flip flopping and big loud mouth wife would be a disaster as would Old Man McCain who want's to stay in Iraq for a 100 years and bomb,bomb,bomb Iran.
1775: "I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" -- Patrick Henry
2005: "None of your civil liberties matter much after you’re dead." -- Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas)
(Of course, as has been pointed out by many folks before, it's not even really a trade-off between security and freedom. Giving away our freedoms doesn't make us safer.)
You mean Nancy "Off the Table" Pelosi?
I will reiterate here a reference to David Ray Griffin's latest book, "9/11 Contradictions: An Open Letter to the Congress and the Press":
http://www.amazon.com/11-Contradictions-Letter-Congress-Press/dp/1566567165
And also I would like to share this post from Rense that I found to be very interesting regarding the events of 9/11. The "who, what, when, where and WHY's". But of particular interest in this article is exactly what can be done legally to go after the perps of 9/11.
http://rense.com/general82/wounds.htm
I'd really like to see Glenn Greenwald and perhaps the writer of this piece today follow up on the information given in the Rense article above.
Once the truth of 9/11 is revealed for all the world to see, then and only then can we go about the systematic cleansing of our body politic. For even though disrespect for the Constitution began, say back in 1871, when Congress decided to shred the Constitution and declare the united states of america "The United States of America THE CORPORATION", and also it happened with the coup against Roosevelt (Google Gen. Smedley Butler) and on and on throughout all other U.S. Administrations, for me 9/11 was the real IN YOUR FACE false flag operation to propel an illegal cabal's fascist agenda.
Our country has been an imperialistic pariah on the planet from the moment Christopher Columbus said "Hello and fuck you!" to the Arowack Indians and cut off their hands for not bringing him enough gold. Columbus Day says it all!!!! Now it has become our thug-like M.O. to cock our deadly arsenal into various countries heads and say, "Do as we say or we'll shoot!" This is no secret to the world. It's exactly how we got away with "Shocking and Aweing" the poor people of Iraq so we could get their oil, control of the fly-over space to hit Iran and more of a foothold into the Caspian oil basin. Oh, if only the history books could be written with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth!
In the meantime we have an American citizen by the name of Robert Kahre who decided to pay his independently contracted employees with U.S. minted pre-1964 silver coins and watch what the IRS, the FBI and the SWAT teams did to him and his business for it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VJ3son-ha8
I believe it's Article 1, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution that says, "No state shall make anything but gold and silver coin a tender and payment of debts."
And don't get me started with the IRS. According to the late Aaron Russo's film, "America: Freedom to Fascism" (and many ex-IRS agents in the film), the 16th Amendment to the Constitution was NEVER legally ratified.
And now we have the U.S. Gestapo doing what was done to Robert Kahre and not a peep from the MSM or any member of Congress!!
Tim Shorrock? Glenn Greenwald? Salon.com? Salon posters? Some serious follow-up/comments on all this please?
P.S. For those Danny Casolaro and "The Octopus" aficionados, wasn't it interesting the way the police claimed Danny took a razor blade and cut his left wrist through the tendons then somehow managed to pick up the blade with his left hand!! and cut through the tendons on his right wrist as well?! He was in thick with Hamilton and the INSLAW investigation against the Justice Department and much, much more.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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