Letters to the Editor
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Can't voters in any of the districts of any of these traitors
open an investigation into corruption.
After all, it was Murtha who was smeared while the leadership post between him and Hoyer was going on.
Gee wonder who was responsible for that? AIPAC ya think?
From what I remember-Murtha was raked over the coals for hiring a brother for a post-yet look at the partisan-Hatch Act-violating corruption of the GOP and Dems like Difi, Hoyer, and others-it looks like tiddly-winks compared to the shit thy're doing.
You've got more than enough evidence to open an investigation into them and "conflict of interest" and profiteering" even RICO violations. We also already know how much $ they get from telecoms-which looks like a bought vote (Rockefeller, Clinton, Difi, Reid)-so investigate them already.
States should be able to investigate those whose interests these jerks "claim" to represent-to bad thier votes constitute a "conflict of interest" to those voters.
I N V E S T I G A T E.
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California Democrats
Since Feinsten ran virtually unopposed in the Democratic primaries, California Democrats didn't have much of a choice but vote for her. As terrible as she has been, the Republicans she had defeated were to the right of Mussolini. She isn't running for reelection, I'm not sure if California can recall a US senator, so we are stuck with this Republican from San Francisco for 5 more years, tragically, unless she is nailed through her husband shenanigans. As a matter of priniple, Feinstein has utter and complete disregard for her constituents and could really care less about their opinions of her. By the time she retires to spends all her time at her twenty million dollar San Francisco Pacific Heights mansion, she will have helped turn this country into a full pledged fascist empire, and she won't lose one moment of sleep over it.
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Glenn
That Feinstein is widely perceived the way she is in the absence of any real campaign to show people otherwise is neither surprising nor particularly meaningful.
-- GlennGreenwald
We know that Feinstein can't be voted out. We know that an investigation, of sorts, is underway to look into her dirty dealings. But We can have only so much confidence that the truth of that will come out, and that it will have enough impact on Feinstein to squelch her power down to nil.
So, I wonder if a well aimed and organized campaign to expose Feinstein for who and what she is, and has been for these many years, could be successful for putting her out to pasture.
As bad as she has been over the years, these last few years with her propping up the Bush administration could finally cause so many who have paid little attention in the past to take the problem of Diane Feinstein very seriously now.
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Why does Feinstien do this?
Thanks for shining a light on Feinstein's enabling of the Bush extremism.
The part I don't get is why she does this. Does she actually believe in the Bush policies or does she not believe in them and just seek a pat on the head from conservatives?
I don't think she believes this stuff, she is just to cowardly or compromised to stand up to them. She needs to vacate the seat.
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My little campaign on Dianne Feinstein
I have been writing increasingly critical letters to Dianne Feinstein over the last year or so, getting more and more frequent, and more and more critical recently, for obvious reasons.
I am on my third request to the California Secretary of State for materials and documents on recalling a sitting U.S. senator. I have got no response except automated emails telling me they are busy.
But it is a curious thing that since I wrote to the Secretary of State, Dianne Feinstein's office no longer sends me any automated posts, no longer sends me any automated emails in response to my letters. I didn't mention her in any of my requests, though.
I did get surveyed by the Department of Homeland Security on my disaster preparedness for CBRNE attacks. Probably no connection, I might be on their mailing list because I take their online courses. Why would they want to know my income?
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Can't something be done?
People's Courts.
Every now and then, Americans come to the realization that they don't have to wait for Authority to take appropriate action -- and they also realize that Authority as presently constituted is antipathetic to the interests and will of the People.
They come to realize, if only briefly, that in the United States, The People are Sovereign, not the State.
It's a risky step, but every now and again, it is the only one that makes sense.
Shouldn't there be Federal or State investigations and indictments of DiFi for -- let's say -- corruption? Of course there should. Will there be? No. She is a Player, a Major Player. She will not be touched.
How, then, to achieve justice? We can either say it's not going to happen at all, or we can constitute People's Courts and indict and try her there. Of course they have no "legal" force, but since The Rule of Law is a joke in this country anyway -- thanks in part to the subversive activities of people like DiFi -- who cares?
There is another option I don't advise, but it's been successful in California in the past, so why not: the Massive Smear, to force the miscreant out of office. (Cf: Gray Davis recall, Kevin Shelley's forced resignation, the attempt to force Núñez out of the Assembly). All you have to do is start beating the smear drum and DON'T LET UP. The trick to it, though, is to get leaders of the Target's party to help out the smear campaign. In DiFi's case, that is almost certainly not going to happen.
People's Courts may be stunt-ish, but damb.
If the Powers That Be won't do anything, the People have to.
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Heh - Progress
When it was first released (the film premiered in Washington, D.C., on October 17, 1939), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was attacked by the Washington press, and politicians in the U.S. Congress, as anti-American and pro-Communist for its portrayal of corruption in the American government. However, neither the Republican nor Democratic party is mentioned in the film.
The film was banned in Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Soviet Russia and Falangist Spain. According to Capra, the film was also dubbed in certain European countries to alter the message of the film so it conformed with official ideology.
When a ban on American films was imposed in German-occupied France in 1942, some theaters chose to show Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as the last movie before the ban went into effect. One theater owner in Paris reportedly screened the film nonstop for 30 days after the ban was announced.
Mr. Smith goes to Washington has been cited as one of the quintessential whistleblower films in American history. Dr. James Murtagh and Dr. Jeffrey Wigand cited this film as a seminal event in U.S. history at the first "Whistleblower Week in Washington" (May 13-19, 2007).
This film is also one of the first "environmental" message films of the 20th century. It is now viewed as an excellent depiction of how activists mobilize grassroots support to preserve unique places from corrupt government development projects.
It is further cited as a patriotic tribute to democracy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Smith_Goes_to_Washington
Communist propaganda then. American propaganda today.