Save the USA

from the NY Times:

“President Bush broke the law and lied to the American people when he unilaterally authorized secret wiretaps of U.S. citizens,” said Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. “But rather than focus on this constitutional crisis, Attorney General Gonzales is cracking down on critics of his friend and boss. Our nation is strengthened, not weakened, by those whistle-blowers who are courageous enough to speak out on violations of the law.”

What’s frequently “overlooked” is that this spying is exactly what Hitler, Stalin and other dictators did. It’s what dictators have to do to remain in power. And now our President is doing that and telling us to trust him. After all that’s been exposed… trust this guy that still says “Saddam wouldn’t let the inspectors in”?!

This is madness, this idiot puppet “President” is blatantly assuming dictatorial powers (for his neocon masters)… where are America’s leaders? Where are all those “Leaders” in Congress, it’s like they’re all afraid or something….

What we need is Patriotic Americans in several large cities to start protesting, people willing to stay as long as it takes. These one day protests are just not cutting it. Time to camp out in numbers. Is freedom worth it?

I’ve been trying to start a Protest in DC the week before the SOTU
Cindy Sheehan has called for a Protest in DC at the SOTU Jan 31st
World Can’t wait is organizing a march for that weekend, Feb 4th.
Katrina Survivors are going to DC FEb 8-9th just $50 a ticket

Why not just combine them all, start showing up before the SOTU, and stay right on thru Feb until this cabal is ousted? If only someone would pony up some cash for tent housing, then they could afford to stay.

“Now is the time- it would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment.” — MLK
(Get this Martin Luther King Jr. Speech for MLK Day this Jan 17th!)

The problem now is not Bush believers, but the left leadership that is taking a dive. Phrases like broke the law, high crimes, impeachable offense, & treason are commonplace all over the net and now even mainstream media. At this moment, there should be loud calls for impeachment from every Democrat in America, and out of 200+ DC Dems, the best we’ve got is one call for Censure?

Where is Congress anyway? The Senate returns in a week or two, but the House may be on vacation until January 31st. Did most of them return to their home states, or are they still in DC? Seems to me like they’re in hiding. WTF are they doing taking a vacation when this SOB is has flagrantly violated the law, and he continues to do so. Congresspeople, where are you!

I’m listening to this mp3 of John Conyers…. “how much is enough?… the point where you can’t take it anymore.” - he’s just now getting there?

Honestly, Mr. Conyers is to be commended for speaking out since he appears to be the only Dem to do so, but I find myself listening and thinking that no movement will succeed with Mr. Conyers as the spokesman. No offense intended, but Mr. Conyers doesn’t have the charisma and/or passion to inspire a movement. His Censure deal now is about the Iraq war, something that should have been introduced back in June 2005, so now he comes out with right when the spy scandal breaks… and now he’s gathering signatures again. A fat lot of good that did last year, but he’ll try again, hoping that Bush listens this time? Bush is the criminal- don’t ask him to look at your petitions, prosecute him!

Seriously, why don’t we have a vibrant young leader “goin’ off” on everything Bush has done, there is sooo much evidence, all we need is someone to lead the charge and take him down. It’s like a vacuum on the left…. Where did everyone go?

The silence is deafening.

Is this it for America, are we just going down without a fight… at the end of the month, right when there could be massive Protests at the State of the Union, Congress will be considering the new “Patriot” act, which contains provisions to create a new Gestapo, a federal police force that travels the country and has the power to arrest people at will, 1yr in jail for “unauthorized signs”!!! Is this not exactly what Hitler did?

No, the real problem isn’t with the Bush followers, it’s with the LEFT that keeps following these fake groups and fake leaders that lead to nowhere. It’s time for the LEFT to wake up to how bad it really is, and that more is required than a donation to moveon. The time is ripe for a group to go down to your local “public” radio station and demand that the NPR propaganda be replaced with real, live dialogue between citizens.

So what’s it gonna be- will Americans riseup and reclaim our country- or we allow the neocons to assume the dictatorship while the continue to front dubya and laugh at the stupid sheep being led to the slaughter.

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In light of the increasing poverty in America, homeless veterans, Vets that just returned from Iraq and can’t get health care because the “Support our Troops” Republicans keep cutting their health care… these hypocrites are sick. BellaCiao

The Defense Department paid contractors $8 billion over five years in bonuses on weapons programs that were often dogged by severe cost overruns, performance problems and delays, the Government Accountability Office said.

The agency, an independent auditor for Congress, reviewed 93 of 597 military contracts in force between 1999 and 2004 that included the possibility of a bonus. Contractors on average were awarded about 90 percent of the bonus money available, the agency said in the draft of a report it sent to the Pentagon and plans to release next week.

For example, Lockheed Martin and Boeing, the two largest defense contractors, received $1.7 billion, or about 91 percent of $1.847 billion available on four major programs, including the Joint Strike Fighter, even as these programs “experienced significant cost increases, technical problems and development delays,” the draft said.

And this $8 Billion in bonuses is only for 93 out of 597 contracts- at that rate there could be another $40 Billion in bonuses the Pentagon auditor hasn’t reviewed yet. We only know about this because two Senators

asked the agency to review the bonus system after senior defense officials complained that the awards are paid regardless of performance.

There are homeless veterans in America, yet our gov’t is giving Billions of dollars in bonuses to the military-industrial complex, “regardless of performance”. Just like the tax cuts- billions to the rich while most of America suffers. Are these the actions of noble leaders, or con-men?

Dictator: a ruler who is unconstrained by law

re: the illegal spying
Bush is trying to establish himself above the law. He just slapped Congress in the face then, rather than apologizing, he lied about it and told them he was going to continue the illegal spying whether they like it or not. He’s asking Congress to roll over once again, let him admit to an impeachable offense, then let him off the hook again- this time proving to all that Bush is above the law, in effect crowning him America’s first dictator. Perhaps thats even why they did it- to showboat their power to the elite, while the masses of sheep are distracted by gadgets, tv, viagra… there’s a diversion for everyone.

Spying on Americans without a warrant is expressly forbidden in the Constitution. Bush admitted to authorizing this unconstitutional act more than 30 times. This means Bush broke the law. There is no grey area here, Bush broke the law- period.

What’s worse is that Bush knows he was breaking the law, and then continued to lie about it at his press conference Dec 19th when he claimed that he had this authority under the Constitution- an outright lie to America on national television.

Proof: During a series of campaign speeches in 2004, Bush talked about wiretaps and claimed that a court order was always used in cases of domestic spying. We know now that this was untrue- Bush deliberately lied to his supporters on the campaign trail.

To all Bush Supporters: he looked in your face and lied to you.

But more importantly, this video proof of Bush on the campaign trail proves that he knew it was against the law to spy on Americans without a warrant… and he did it anyway as he lied to his followers.

Bush also lied when he said they were only monitoring international phone calls. A leak to NY Times reporter exposed that in fact, the NSA had tapped into the main arteries of America’s telecommunications system. Supposedly looking for patterns of terrorist activity, they were monitoring all phone and email traffic in America.

Maybe they didn’t authorize rogue agents to use this tool to identify dissenters… but they opened the door for such abuse to take place. That is a High Crime worthy of Impeachment.

NOWHERE in the Constitution does it mention Censure in regards to a President. Nowhere. Censure is for Congress to shame one of it’s own, Impeachment is to be used in the case of a renegade President. Bush swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. He broke that oath in a very serious manner and he must be impeached, or the rule of law is dead.

Censure is also BUllSHit for this reason- the repubs will sign on, then claim that’s good enough, any calls for impeachment will be brushed aside as, “we already censured him.” Censure is not good enough.

At this point, there is no need for an investigation. ZERO. All the evidence is in public. The President admitted to an impeachable offense on national tv.

If Congress does not hold Bush accountable, then they are telling the world that Bush is above the law- that he is dictator.

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Plan of Action

We The People remind Congress that they too took an oath to defend the Constitution, from both enemies foreign and domestic. If they side with their buddy Bush, then they too are traitors and will be tried alongside Bush, Cheney & the Neocons when we finally arrest them.

1. Call or Fax (this pdf) Congress and let them know, impeachment or else. Imagine if Kos, TPM, other progressive sites picked up on this, so many thousands of faxes could be sent…)
2. Organize State Of The Union MOSH II protest, gather in DC to put the pressure on Congress the week before the SOTU.
3. Jan 31st, surround the capitol building, project truth videos to the riot cops, remind them that they too took an oath to defend the Constitution.

One more thing… just say no to candlelight vigils- it’s time to be loud and rockin’ - check out these two samples from the upcoming Public Enemy reunion with special guest Paris.

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impeach pdf flyer

impeach t-shirt
or print your own cuckoo bananas shirt on an iron-on t-shirt transfer

more impeach t-shirts

The NSA Spying on Americans without warrants was much larger than Bush said, in fact they were:

tapping directly into some of the U.S. telecommunication system’s main arteries.

BushCo was not spying on terrorists, they were spying on everyone, doing “pattern analysis”… spying on every American looking for patterns that might lead to a terrorist. This is sooo opening the door for someone to plant evidence against dissenters, thus tagging individuals that are a threat to this mafia called the US gov’t, as “terrorists”… this is a major power grab.

If Congress allows Bush to break the law and lie about it with a series of lame excuses, then they are crowning him above the law, America’s first dictator, the village idiot.

This pattern analysis program had the government asking for who-called-who, when and where type info, exactly the information the Israeli firm Comverse Infosys had(s) the contract for, as per Carl Cameron’s Fox News Report on Israel spying in the US. In other words, it’s entirely possible that it’s Israeli spies are passing the gov’t information determining which Americans are labeled “terrorists”. Scary. Watch all four parts of that Fox news story, then consider alongside today’s revelation…. S.C.A.R.Y.

Strike now while the iron is hot. Gather in DC at then end of January for the State of the Union, pressure Congress to impeach Bush or We the People Impeach them all.

I’m not the only one stating that Bush has declared himself above the law….

Jay Bookman in the Atlanta-Journal Constitution:

In asserting his right to ignore the law, President Bush has slapped Congress right across the face and told them they better like it.

Congress can now mutter “Yes, sir” and cower in its corner like a whipped dog, as it has for most of the past five years, or it can fight back to defend its institutional authority. Either choice will mark a turning point in U.S. history.

Well put. Wake Up America! Pull yer head out of the stupid sitcoms and realize that a 21st century fascist dictatorship is trying to assert itself. The wannabe dictator shamelessly lied on national tv, everyone paying attention saw it… will he get away with it and become dictator, or will we demand the rule of law prevail?

27 yr CIA Veteran Ray McGovern:

Whether authorizing torture or wiretaps, [Bush] reserves the right to act irrespective of domestic or international law.

The question is whether Congress and the courts will acquiese in this usurpation of their own powers, or whether there are still enough men and women in those branches of government determined to honor their oath to defend the Constitution of the United States “from all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

A glimmer of hope from

Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, who told reporters:

“I took an oath of office to the Constitution. I didn’t take an oath of office to my party or to my president.”

What is Congress going to do about it? Probably nothing, unless We put the heat on them.

Note to Progressives: Ever notice how all the big name progressive blogs have tons of ads… What would it take to get these bloggers to advertise a DC protest- they won’t earn any money, but they could help give birth to world peace. Are y’all capitalists working for cash, or patriots working for peace? It’s time to show your true colors. Please consider posting an Impeach Now banner, link to any Impeach Bush Now page you desire- just focus on Impeachment NOW- before the next attack.

I sincerely believe that this moment in time will be remembered as Bush’s naked grab for power

re: The Illegal Spying- He’s declared that he’s above the law and if he gets away with it, then he’s free to continue breaking the law, because he’ll just lie about it later- to a weak-kneed Congress that is far too eager to bend over.

Bush broke the law spying on Americans
no warrants because they weren’t spying on terrorists. They were spying on dissenters- that’s why they didn’t get a warrant.

I wouldn’t go counting on any politicians to stand up to this mob- in true mafia fashion, it seems they have something on everyone. So we must do it ourselves… I made this IMPEACH BUSH NOW page to hopefully inspire a non-ANSWER/UFPJ protest from Now til the State of the Union.

Please pass this idea on, perhaps put up an Impeach Now banner on your site… we must not allow the media to bury this, including the movement to Censure… It’s not in the Constitution, it’s just a way for the Cointelpro agents to diffuse the anger and let Bush get away with it- again.

Aren’t there any millionaires that understand the gravity of the situation?

We must Impeach Bush and investigate this criminal cabal that has a stranglehold on our government. Isn’t there anyone with money willing step forward and start organizing The Tent City.

The Ukraine had a tent city with self-monitored security, food vendors, heated sleeping tents and common areas… Why can’t America do the same thing- right now- not when the weather’s better- right now before they attack Iran.

It’s not that hard- Put the call out:

• Food Vendors: Come to DC
• Unemployed Americans: Come to DC and get a job working in our tent city- housing provided.
• Construction workers, security guards, all Americans- come to DC and we’ll find work for you.

Now I’m not talking long term… just a month or two. We need someone with some money to buy a bunch of 2×4s, canvas, stakes, cordless drills… thousands of tents could go up in a day… and after we reclaim the government, there will be millions more jobs available nationwide. Is it really that hard to believe? It’s simple, we reclaim the Billionaire tax cuts, and the Billions in bonuses to denfense contractors, the Billions ‘lost’ in Iraq, the Billions stolen by Halliburton and others war profiteers… and turn that into jobs for all.

What are we waiting for? It seems like “the left” is paralyzed, waiting for the Bush cabal to make the next move. Why? The time is ripe now, everyone is outraged…

If not now, then when? Will it be better after the next terrorist attack?

Hey Wealthy Americans….. imagine a coordinated effort of patriotic techies with wireless cameras, laptops, digital projectors, etc… ready to broadcast the revolution directly to the web… and to the Riot cops in the line. What if the cops can be reached- with patriotic songs and video available on the web now- it doesn’t have to be violent, if we can educate the cops and get them to turn away from the dark side…. It all comes down to money. Isn’t there a single millionaire with a heart out there… the time is ripe.

If not now, when?

If not you, who?

87% out of 70,000 vote for Impeachment at MSNBC

click for screenshot

One argument the Repubs are pulling out to avoid impeachment is the “America voted for it” so we have to accept it… what a crock. Bush “asked” the New York Times to withhold the information- the election would have been dramatically different if this info had come out in 2004… perhaps the Dems would have been able to put up a real candidate, instead of being tricked into accepting lay-down-and-roll-over Kerry. He and Marvin had better things to do.

If Kerry were for real, he would be raising hell that this information was withheld before the election, not withheld to protect us, but to protect Bush from bad PR in an election year. That is not acceptable, and any real oppostion candidate would be pointing this out. Since Kerry doesn’t, he’s either too lazy, or literally complicit in helping BushCo in this blatant power grab.

Spying Without Warrants

Sure, Bush claims he’s only spying on terrorists, but then again, just ago MSNBC reported that the Pentagon was spying on peace groups, even quakers. Does that sound like a gov’t looking for terrorists, or a military-industrial complex looking for ‘troublemakers’ that might interfere with their plans?

The tv pundits have yet to touch on the issue of why spying without warrants is such a threat - because it opens the door to a Gestapo. Spying on anyone, anytime… the new “Patriot” Act sets up a secret police and new powers to arrest anyone they want. John “Death Squads” Negroponte is the top spy… the guy that ran death squads in Honduras has unchecked spying power, he’s above Congress. We’ve got national id cards with barcodes and radio tag tracking devices… to protect, or enslave?

Is there a military-industrial complex profitting from war? Is there an oil mafia spearheaded by the PNAC gang, anxious to gain a strategic foothold in the Middle East, to protect “our interests” and Israel? Would they have the motivation to keep this war going at all costs- including arresting dissenters… they killed a hundred thousand- taking out dissenters is nothing to them.

What are Bush and Co capable of?
They Exploited 9/11
Give Billions to cronies
Take billions from the poor
Lied to start an illegal war
Exposed our Troops to Depleted Uranium
Criminal failure in New Orleans
War Crimes in Iraq

Would this criminal cabal use a Gestapo to stay in power? YES!

Bush is trying to undo the Posse Comitatus Act, to allow the use of military on our own citizens… after the next “terrorist” attack or “natural” disaster you can expect more “incompetence” with blackwater mercenaries guarding the rich, while the poor shot for “looting”. They are trying to start a race war in America, trying to incite riots so they can declare martial law to “protect” us.

It is imperative that Americans realize that THIS IS IT. If Bush gets away with this, ‘I say it’s legal so it’s legal’ bull…. let’s just say it would be a terrible step towards dictatorship. We must reign in this corrupt cabal before the next attack, before they’re able to pass the new patriot act….

What would it take to get all the “progressive” blogs and news sites to stop business as usual… to focus on impeachment, on a rally in DC (and/or Crawford) right now- just like Ukraine, where we stay as long as it takes- or until the State of the Union when Bush and Congress are all in one place… we make Mosh II a reality. Thousands show up in such numbers, putting women and children and lots of video cameras in front, the police will magically realize that they’re not billionaires, and that their life would be better too, so they part and let us through to interupt Bush’s speech on live TV

If Congress fails to impeach this would-be-dictator, then they must be impeached as well. Ukraine had a tent city, with food, water, elec, toilets…. don’t we have at least one millionaire on our side? We can bus Katrina refugees….

Bush swore to uphold The Constitution, that means no spying on Americans without warrants. Bush violated that fundamental right, then asked the New York Times not to run the story before the election. These are impeachable offenses- period. We don’t need no stinkin investigation- we demand impeachment now!

Congress swore to uphold the Constitution, which includes holding the executive branch accountable. If they fail to do so, then they have violated that oath and must be removed from office.

The argument of ‘it’s a republican congress so impeachment is never going to happen’ if pure bullshit. If they feel the heat, they will have no choice or they may face a trial themselves. They’re just like bush, they want to save their ass… so let’s offer them a plea bargain- act now and we may let you off the hook…

When people describe the Bush regime as similar to Nazi Germany, it’s not an absurd exaggeration, but a realistic comparison. In fact, they just tried to ram a bill through Congress that would create a Gestapo Secret Police, unaccountable goons roaming America at the whim of Chertoff:
from Section 605 of the new “Patriot” Act:

There is hereby created and established a permanent police force, to be known as the `United States Secret Service Uniformed Division’. Subject to the supervision of the Secretary of Homeland Security

and it’s not just for DC, but for anywhere (Ex) Presidents travel, or Foreign dignitaries, or “National Security Events”, and they can even:

make arrests without warrant for any offense against the United States committed in their presence, or .. if they have reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed [a] felony.

Local cops won’t enforce these policies, that’s why the BushNazis need this secret police- to travel the country and arrest people, putting them in prison for a year- for holding “unauthorized signs” at “national security events” - Section 602 of the new “Patriot” Act

or up to 10 years if you’re holding a “dangerous weapon” - like a sign, or a camera like the cops claims in this video - which is another tragedy altogether- New Orleans heartless evictions.

A coalition of Iraqi Resistance leaders have agreed to lay down their arms if the US agrees to withdraw no later than 6 months.

This initiative enjoys the backing of all elements ( political and the non-terrorist resistance) in Iraq and represent the Arab nationalist vision of transitional solution toward a peaceful and united Iraq.

Assuming that the situation in Iraq will remain chaotic despite the Bush administration claims otherwise even after the upcoming election, this initiative will have more momentum as a viable, concrete and reasonable alternative and realistic exit strategy.

They have an official looking 21 point plan

1- A declaration by the American side of an unequivocal decision to withdraw fully from Iraq according to a short time-table of no more than six months. In consequence, all American, and other occupying contingents, should withdraw their forces from all Iraqi cities toward temporary and recognized military bases in agreement with the new Iraqi Government. These forces should not engage in any security or military operations during the time of their withdrawal. Furthermore, by the end of the six months period, all of these forces should have completed their withdrawal from those bases [in Iraq].

2- The Iraqi National Resistance will declare a ceasefire, while keeping their arms, until the final withdrawal of the American and the other national occupation forces have been completed.

Seems reasonable to me, bring the troops home ASAP, then turn our attention towards the fools that made this mess.

This should be headline news on all the networks… maybe we should fax this info to Congress, Air America, CNN…

Oh, that’s right, we can’t leave because… civil war - no, that’s not it…. israel - no, don’t say that…. terrorists… the terrorists will be winning- that’s why.

Isn’t it sad that racism is at the heart of Bush’s argument… he say’s Iraqis resisting imperial domination are “terrrists” …. and some Americans are buying it. We couldn’t declare war on Sweden, nobody would believe they were terrists, but brown skinned aye-rabs, they are mostly terrists… we see it on hundreds of movies and tv shows. Kids grow up with it thanks to Disney- we all saw the Lion King, evil Scar the Arab killed Simba’s father and wanted to get pure, noble (whitey) Simba.

Funny how if you look at history, white missionaries wreaked havoc around the globe… and now its (anti) Christian George killing 100,000 needlessly while claiming that islam is a “murderous ideology” … yet Jesus is the most quoted prophet in the Koran.

The only “progress” in Iraq, unless you count the looting.

source: icasualties.org

Notice 2003 in red is consistently below ‘04 and ‘05

as you can see, a bit of forecasting on my part (- ;

Bush acknowledged that he authorized eavesdropping on Americans without a warrant, something expressly illegal according to the Constitution.

Bush swore “to uphold and defend” the Constitution - he has done the opposite.

His argument is that we must trust him, they’re only spying on terrorists…

‘Hypothetical’ scenario: Out of the thousands of CEOs in America, there is at least one greedy bastard. This SOB could lose millions of dollars if a certain lawsuit is successful, he needs to stop that damned lawyer.

This CEO finds a corrupt cop (not that hard) - a quick $20,000 transfer and the CEO’s hitman can get the GPS data from the lawyer’s cell phone - obatined without a warrant thanks to Bush’s illegal order - then run him off the road to make it look like an accident.

So even if Bush were an absolute angel (not needing to protect his ass), there is still room for abuse- that’s why they have warrants, so there can be no abuses.

Bush would have you believe this scenario is not even close to USA 2006. Bush also said there was no doubt about the WMDs.

Think about these two big news stories this week
Spying on peace groups (not terrorists, but dissenters- that’s something Hitler would do.)
Spying on Americans without a warrant

Bush said he authorized this domestic spying program “using constitutional authority vested in me as commander-in-chief.” Of course that what he says- he’s covering his ass. He didn’t mention the “lone wolf” provision that allows him to classify an American an “enemy combatant” even though there is no connection to terrorist groups.

Bush says we should trust him. Suuuure. This SOB lied to start a war, and now we should trust you with spying on us, on those millions of Americans that would love to watch him on tv, in prison, easting slop, on the chain gang. I think the Bush family should lose their personal fortune… the Cheneys too.

Supposedly even Republicans are not to happy with the illegal spying… “There is no doubt that this is inappropriate,” said Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) whose Committee will be holding hearings on these abuses as soon the Senate returns in January.

The stage is set for a massive peaceful protest in DC, we force Congress to Impeach Bush, or we Mosh. No UFPJ or ANSWER organizers, just a spontaneous gathering, it worked in the Ukraine… we stay as long as it takes, or until the end of January, we’ll have our own State of the Union celebration.

from the WaPo:

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said yesterday that Democrats should not seek a unified position on an exit strategy in Iraq, calling the war a matter of individual conscience and saying differing positions within the caucus are a source of strength for the party.

Pelosi said Democrats will produce an issue agenda for the 2006 elections but it will not include a position on Iraq.

This is utterly absurd for the supposed “Opposition Leader”. Who elected her Leader? Why don’t the Real Democrats try to vote her out- if nothing else it’d expose who is complicit among them.

Thankfully- the Senate rejected the new Patriot Act. Unfortunately, as soon as “the next attack” hits, they’ll blame the liberals for not passing this Big Brother bill, then they’ll pass a new version with ever more power.

So we need to get this quote from Feingold on tv, Air America, everywhere…

according to Senator Frist and Senator Specter, the President would rather let the law expire than support the unanimously passed Senate bill or a short extension to let negotiations continue.

This is pretty powerful evidence that demolishes their, ‘it’s the Democrats fault’ argument.

Two major problems with the new ‘Patriot’ Act:
14/16 of the ’sunsetting’ (freedom-stealing) provisons made permanent
No Accountability

These two ‘problems’ leave open the door for rogue elements within the Police & Armed Forces to be capable of targeting dissenters. It gives police more power than they’ve ever had, power to spy on any American without a warrant. Combine that with They hired Lockheed Martin to spy on US! and it seems clear that this equation is not good for US.

Some would argue the military-industrial complex killed JFK, MLK, Malcom & Bobby - all threats to their war profiteering in Vietnam. Now we have Lockheed Martin, the mi-complex poster-child, spying directly on US- not necessarily targeting Americans, but with the door wide open, the opportunity exists- with NO ACCOUNTABILITY.

Now we know that Bush authorized the NSA to spy on us, and that the New York Times kept the news from us for a year….

“We have far more to fear from an unaccountable government than any foreign terrorist” - Rep Ron Paul

There are two kinds of Republicans these days, Bush & non-Bush Republicans. Here are two from Congress- one is correct, the other is either lying or perhaps merely confused.

Bushie Senator Bill Frist: “”We have more to fear from terrorism than we do from this Patriot Act.”

Texas Rep. Ron Paul: “We have far more to fear from an unaccountable government at home than from any foreign terrorist.” - from his House site - The 911 Commission Charade

Who do you Trust?

related:
Two major problems with the new ‘Patriot’ Act

Bill Frist caught lying about his Trust Fund

Bill’s family business is HCA (fomerly Columbia) health care- an HMO, in fact the HMO guilty of the largest Medi-care fraud ever… but it wasn’t the Frist’s fault- so it’s lucky they were able to settle with the government for $1.7 billion, and avoid a nasty lawsuit that might have cost them much, much, more.

seems like good fodder for a Holiday (extended family) conversation (- ;

Progressives on the net need to push the phlogs into covering the real issues. Supreme Court Nominee Samuel Alito is not an issue- Bush is a criminal as such he shouldn’t be appointing any Supreme Court Judges.

Earlier this year we had the story of $9 Billion ‘lost’ by Paul Bremer, the Zogby poll indicating the majority of Iraqis wanted US to leave, and the 52 Warnings before 9/11, info that Bush withheld until after the ‘election’ - all of these major stories were buried by the mainstream press, and by the fake left blog and news network.

These major stories all came out in Jan 05, right about the time the phlogs ‘broke’ the Jeff Gannon male prostitute in the White House story… oh yeah, that was funny and intriguing… but not really incriminating to BushCo.

For at least a month the Gannon story was all over the ‘alternative press’, while the 52 Warnings story was buried. Some call it a ‘limited hangout’ technique- slam Bush on certain issues to gain credibility, then bury the incriminating stories while diverting readers and activists to issues that won’t bring down the house.

I write about this now, because the phloggers are still covering for Bush today. There is enough evidence to Impeach Bush Now- the Downing Street Memos proved that the war in Iraq was PRE-MEDITATED MURDER- it was not a last resort- period. Bush and Blair planned to go to war, WMDs were merely the excuse.

Colin Powell made a presentation to the UN, trying to persuade the Security Council to approve of the war, but after forgeries and spying were exposed, the vote for war was going to lose embarassingly, so Bush pulled the 2nd UN Resolution and invaded anyway.

[Note: I wrote this before the Spy Scandal. With Bush admitting to breaking the law, and telling Congress he’s going to continue to do so and they can just stuff it…. this is a blatant grab for power. Hitler did the same thing, and when the courts laid down he assumed total power. That’s what is happening right now!]

That’s what the phony phloggers are covering up right now… there is no need for an investigation- it’s all public knowledge, proof that Bush, Cheney, Rummy, Condi and the gang all LIED to start a war- if this is not a High Crime, then what is? Lying to start a war is far worse than Clinton’s BJ, yet the phloggers just want to continue ‘battling the Bushies’ for three more years- oh well, America voted for him. BUllSHit!

The phloggers are covering that up too- the 2004 Election was stolen. AND if they can fix the Presidential Election, then it’d be really easy to fix Congressional races too. They manufactured the Republican Congress to keep themselves out of prison. Pundits keep saying, he’ll never be impeached with Repubs in power…. that’s exactly the point- that’s why they had to steal Congress as well. Yet this is taboo to bring up- the phloggers rarely mention the 2004 election theft, and NEVER mention the possibility that other races could have been fixed as well. Why? Is it really that outlandish- after seeing what these monsters are capable of- is fixing a few House races really a ridiculous notion?

Nobody like accusations, but this is my list of left gatekeepers - supposedly progressive news sites that are all to happy to let the big stories drop to focus on Judge Roberts, etc. I believe these sites are infiltrated, if not outright managed by the Establishment.
CommonDreams, Truthout, Democracy Now, Air America, TomPaine, AntiWar, Democrats.com, DailyKos, Michael Moore, TalkingPointsMemo, Atrios, MoveOn, DemocraticUnderground, HuffingtonPost, etc…. There may be good people involved with each organization, but that doesn’t stop the goons from burying the big news and focusing the left on safe issues like Alito, Roberts, etc.

If these sites were for real- they would all unite in demanding impeachment for the entire Bush Administration- immediately. Bush broke the law, and continues to do so- and just like Hitler, he says it’s to protect us. Who would believe this? Yet all these “progressives” are eager to for another Diebold election? This spying information would have changed the 2004 election- that ought to be reason enough to throw Bush out on his ass. Why aren’t they all raising hell about that?

Instead, the phloggers are content to talk about Bush’s Supreme Court nominee. ‘The Blogosphere’ has been flooded with phonies. As BushCo tries to establish a Homeland Security Gestapo in the new “Patriot” Act, the phloggers don’t say a damn word about it. They just keep on flooding us with more news- we don’t need to keep reading news for 3 years while these crooks continue to destroy America, we need to hold BushCo accountable with the evidence already available.

The bottom line is, don’t be distracted by phloggers and their stall tactics,

Demand Impeachment Now

A few Republican Senators are planning on filibustering the new Patriot Act, (the House version makes permanent 14 out of 16 of the ’sunsetting’ provisions). They passed it right after 9/11, taking away our freedoms to protect us, telling us it would only be temporary. Now they’re trying to take our freedoms permanently by ramming this bill through a lazy Congress that just wants to go home for vacation.

Please call or fax these Senators, encouraging them to filibuster as long as it takes (in ‘71 Senator Mike Gravel filibustered for 5 months to end the draft!) Their sworn duty is to uphold the constitution, maybe we can encourage one or more of them to stand strong in the face of adversity.

Republicans set to filibuster the Patriot Act:

Senator Lisa Murkowski- R. AK
DC Phone: ….. 202-224-6665
DC Fax: ……… 202-224-5301

Senator John Sununu- R. NH
DC Phone: …. 202-224-2841
DC Fax: ……… 202-228-4131

Senator Larry Craig- R. ID
DC Phone: …. 202-224-2752
DC Fax: ……… 202-228-1067

or contact your Senators

14 bodies found in Iraq- killed by insurgents… that was the story until this memo suggests otherwise. It has the time of the abduction and the names of all 14 victims written down, described as ‘detainees’ by an Iraqi General.
[Tom Lasseter, Knight Ridder] hat tip: GI Special

A document obtained by Knight Ridder appears to reveal the existence of an Interior Ministry death squad.

A memo written by an Iraqi general in the ministry operations room and addressed to the minister’s office says on its subject line: “Names of detainees.” It lists 14 men who were taken from Iskan, a Sunni neighborhood in western Baghdad, during the early morning hours of Aug. 18. It also marks the time of their detention: 5:15 a.m.

The bodies of the same 14 men were found in the town of Badrah near the Iranian border .. killed by single gunshots to their heads.

The general who signed the Interior Ministry memo, Brig. Gen. Abdul Kareem Khalaf, confirmed its authenticity. But despite a heading that reads “Names of the detainees in the Iskan District,” Khalaf maintained that insurgents, not Interior Ministry police, had abducted the men.

It’s unclear, however, why an Interior Ministry general would refer to men who’d been kidnapped by Sunni insurgents as “detainees” in an official government document, or how the general knew the exact time of the abduction.

Pressed for more details, Khalaf said: “The minister is very upset. He wants to know how such a document slipped out of the ministry.“

ha ha ha- just like his American counterparts, not concerned about the crime, just about plugging the leak.

I wonder if this Death Squads story would have any effect on the Iraqi election?

Who authorized these folks to endanger life on earth just to launch a plutonium powered satellite to pluto. Unbelievably, there is a 6% (1/16) chance of failure- and this is not the only launch, they have more planned- and they’ve already crashed, spreading 2.1 pounds of plutonium into the atmosphere. This time they’re sending 24 pounds.

Of the 25 U.S. space missions using plutonium fuel, three have undergone accidents, admits the NASA EIS on New Horizons. That’s a 1-in-8 record.

The worst occurred in 1964 .. with 2.1 pounds of plutonium fuel. It .. failed to achieve orbit and dropped to Earth .. disintegrated in the fall, spreading plutonium widely. Release of that plutonium caused an increase in global lung cancer rates, says Dr. John Gofman, professor emeritus of medical physics at the University of California at Berkeley.

One bad mistake and this could be a global catastrophe worse than any terrorist attack, plutonium particles less than a micron in diameter could spread globally

through parts of the Caribbean, across North Africa and the Mideast and then India and China and Hawaii and other Pacific Islands and then Mexico and southern Texas.

Yet they’re going ahead with it- and the machinists working on it are scabs because the Boeing Union was on strike at the time!

Scabs are sending plutonium into space!

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!

Whatever happened to sanity?