Today In The Shadow Of The Dome Tuesday, June 17, 2008 (Part II)
Failure To Impeach Bush and Cheney Leaves Open The Door To An American Dictatorship.
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He said “the federal government, that part of Patriot II Act, the internal exile that the government is going to have to build now huge detention compounds on federal lands, probably in the West where the land is available, to potentially house 50 million or more citizens that will be in financial ruin.”
In 10 years time, whoever is left will be effectively starting again, he said. “More importantly, and I’m trying to think how we imply this or how we express this to the people, what extraordinary times we are living in and how the destruction of the planet has been engineered by the Bushonian Cabal from 1980 to 1992, and then from 2001 to present, which has effectively destroyed the economic liquidity of the planet,”
There will be “total collapse of public infrastructure, total collapse of medical care systems, all public pension plans, Social Security will collapse. All corporate pension plans will collapse.”
Julian Robertson Often called “Never Been Wrong Robertson”, the former head of Tiger Management (once the largest hedge fund in the world)
Bush and Cheney dictator and psychopath’s checklists are complete: time for impeachment
Witten by Roland Michel Tremblay Tuesday, 03 June 2008
George Bush: the great pretender
In an extract from a book that has rocked the White House, Scott McLellan, George Bush's former press secretary, accuses his boss of manipulating the truth to launch the Iraq war
Perhaps God’s greatest gift to us in life is the ability to learn from our experiences, especially our mistakes, and to grow into better people. I have written a book about the slice of history I witnessed during my years in the White House and about the well intentioned but flawed human beings — myself included — who shaped that history.
In my efforts on behalf of the presidential administration of George W Bush I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be. As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room. Although the things I said then were sincere, I have since come to realise that some of them were badly misguided.
More significant, however, is the larger story in which I played a minor role — the story of how the presidency of George Bush veered terribly off course…..
Preoccupied as we are with wanton and random bloodletting, rampant crime, spiralling food prices and football politics, major national issues in this crowded barracoon, interesting developments in the wider world could steal past us hardly eliciting a glance. Last week, David Davis, a very senior member of Britain's Conservative Party, shocked his colleagues and England by resigning his parliamentary seat over renewal of the "42-days detention" law. And in Washington the US Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision: detainees at the controversial Guantanamo detention camp are entitled to the privilege of habeas corpus.
Readers may well ask of Davis: who he? Until last Wednesday, he was the Tories' shadow home secretary-Britain's equivalent of our National Security Minister. True, his party is in opposition. But with ex-PM Tony Blair leaving the ruling Labour Party trailing the Conservatives in just about every poll, and worse, losing badly in recent local elections, the David Cameron-led Tories are smelling Whitehall blood. So potentially, Davis could be seen as Britain's home secretary-in-waiting.
Indeed, he is widely considered as prime ministerial material, having challenged Cameron for leadership of the party five years ago, and carrying 21 years of parliamentary experience under his belt. He cast aside what many saw as a dazzling political career on a principled stand. He felt the controversial law, which was extended by the narrowest of margins (some Labour members voted against it), which allows the police to detain "terrorist suspects" for up to 42 days without charging them, was part of a "slow strangulation of fundamental freedoms."
According to The Independent, "He thinks it is more important to make a stand now; that 42-day detention is such an infringement of our liberties. It may sound pious in the Westminster village but it may play well in the real world, where people have switched off from political parties…..
Bush's War Crimes Team Bellows About "Honor"?
The team that gave us a war based on deception to grab oil and expand empire, the team that has given us Abu Grhraib, waterboarding, rendition and unlimited torture and detention without trial, all of which are egregious criminal offenses under the U.S. Constitution dares lecture the rest of America and the world about honor!
In this case we are talking about more than "honor among thieves." It is not that this label does not apply in the wake of rushing to war after Dick Cheney and the New World Order corporate establishment divided up the profits of war even before the first Donald Rumsfeld "shock and awe" attack was perpetrated.
It is just that the massive excess of the Bush-Cheney international criminal enterprise has reached such suffocating lengths that the term "thieves" represents a classic understatement.
Scott McClellan has revealed no more than what any reasonably well informed willing to pay attention and face the ugly facts already knows. The big news is that an insider on the Bush-Cheney team has chosen to tell the truth, the same Scott McClellan who once questioned the patriotism and honor of Helen Thomas, the dean of White House correspondents.
This happened after she inquired about Bill of Rights massive violations by the Bush-Cheney team under Patriot Act legislation and a believed inherent right to take whatever actions the chief executive pleases under special and unlimited war time powers in fighting the war on terror.
McClellan's false and also tasteless response was that the administration was interested in fighting terrorism and that Helen Thomas apparently was not.
The use of such a broad and unchecked mandate is generally reserved for dictatorial tyrants. In this case it came from John Yoo of the Justice Department.
Had Yoo not been the willing servant of the moment can we reasonably doubt that the necessary legal justification to do whatever it takes by a crew of marauders willing to do anything to carry out its destiny of broad and sweeping rule by empire would have found another source to serve its ends?
The history of dictatorial regimes is to find appropriate sources to issue the correct directives, which they then expeditiously implement.
In this case a gang that cannot ultimately shoot straight and is marked by acts of the brutally obvious has reached the point of what, given less tragic circumstances, would register as the hallmark in comic opera, the kind that would have prompted Gilbert and Sullivan to turn green with envy….
U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Miramar, says President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney deserve to be impeached for what they’ve done to the nation. But he voted against an impeachment resolution because it’s not a fight worth pursuing with just seven months left in Bush’s term.
“Bush and Cheney should not only be impeached, they ought to be jailed for what they did to this nation,” Hastings said. “I feel there are high crimes and misdemeanors committed by the president of the United States.”
Even though he thinks they deserve to be removed, and many in the Democratic base would love the idea, he said it would be a mistake.
“It would tear this country apart, despite my ideological feelings about what has transpired,” Hastings said. “This nation is in a gut-wrenching death grip ideologically. To split it no matter what Cheney and Bush have done would leave us probably beyond repair in our lifetimes.”
What the ignorant fools and naive well-meaning of this nation do not understand is that if nothing happens before Denver and Minneapolis the odds are much better than even that this nation will be torn apart is the violence of blood, steel and fire in the streets. I just talked with a secretary last week in a local dentist’s office, and her unsolicited comment to me was: “I can feel real violence and bloodshed coming in America. The press won’t talk about it, but it is going to be worse than the 60’s and 70s because so many don’t see it coming.”
When Change Is Not Enough: The Seven Steps To Revolution : By Sara Robinson
"Those who make peaceful evolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable."
— John F. Kennedy---
Turbulence of ’68 paved way for Obama, new revolution
Forty years ago, we were on the cusp of a bona fide revolution. Now, with the certain nomination of Barack Obama, we may be on the verge of another one.
Everything changed
It was as if a tornado suddenly descended on us in the midst of a perfectly warm and sunny day. Innocence was obliterated, sons took up moral arms against fathers, many of them proud World War II veterans who could not believe their boys were burning draft cards, marching in the streets and seriously thinking of fleeing to Canada. I was a young man in the early stages of a teaching career. Friends died, two students never returned from the war, and one of them fled to Paris. He is now a French citizen, still disenchanted with turbulent memories.
In September 1969, Paul Goodman penned an article published in The New York Times Sunday Magazine. It was titled “The New Reformation,” and the central thesis was that “the situation [in America] is very like 1510 when [Martin] Luther went to Rome. There is everywhere protest, revaluation, attack on the Establishment.”
As if it were a prophesy, eight years earlier, John Osborne wrote “Luther,” in which referring to corruption in the Catholic Church, the title character told a cardinal, ‘‘A withered arm is best amputated, an infected place is best scoured out, and so you pray for healthy tissue and something sturdy and clean that was crumbling and full of filth.’’
No obligation for a revolutionary to come up with a replacement program. Get rid of the pus within and take your chances. In 1968, the new revolutionaries felt the same about their government. Picture a situation in which two Jesuit priests, Philip and Daniel Berrigan, led a draft-burning party at the Selective Service Unit in Maryland.
I could cry; I could shriek because I know so many of you are blind to the growing reality that has served up warning from the shadows and like everything else you have you heads in the Ostrich Sand with your asses exposed saying over and over again peaceful protest and “It can’t happen”. Well it can and it is about to happen again!
There are those who argue that the “Impeachment Game” is over and the real race that is at the starting line is a race between American Fascism and a new American Revolutionary War though the streets of this nation.
This man is Lying S.O.B. spin master Neocon Sock Puppet, excuse Puppet Master!
Kristol asserted that "anyone arrested in" the U.S. has habeas rights -- but not under law he supports.
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