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Thoughts on The Surge

January 15, 2007 B. John 368 Views 0 Comments Iran, Iraq

I guess the biggest story going on now is the President’s “surge” strategy for Iraq, and their obvious attempts to generate a confrontation iwth Iran. While I have always felt that George and Dick were stupid and dangerous, I have refrained from calling for an impeachment. However, it is clearly time to set loose the dogs. In the past several months more domestic surveilance by the CIA and the Defense Department has come to light. Bush has started to fire Federal Prosecutors who are investigating Republican congressman.

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W Proud Elections Not Cancelled. Huh?

November 13, 2006 B. John 232 Views 1 Comment

We should be “proud” that the federal government didn’t cancel our elections? That the Bush administration didn’t use the war as an excuse to interrupt the democratic process? Sounds to me like a tinge of regret he didn’t cancel them.

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Waterboard Rumsfeld?

November 10, 2006 B. John 293 Views 0 Comments Abu Ghraib, Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General, CIA, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Guantanamo Bay, rendition, SecDef, Secretary of Defense, torture, War crimes, Waterboarding

Just days after his resignation, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is about to face more repercussions for his involvement in the troubled wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. New legal documents, to be filed next week with Germany’s top prosecutor, will seek a criminal investigation and prosecution of Rumsfeld, along with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former CIA director George Tenet and other senior U.S. civilian and military officers, for their alleged roles in abuses committed at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison and at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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And , Always, Always…Wrong

October 19, 2006August 10, 2015 242 Views 0 Comments george bush, Habeas corpus, Keith Olbermann, Military Commissions Act, torture

Keith Olbermann, on his MSNBC show, has often offered some very insightful special comments at the end of his broadcast. Yesterday’s was especially poignant, so I wanted to share the transcript with you.

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The Day America Died

October 18, 2006 B. John 185 Views 0 Comments Habeas corpus, Military Commissions Act of 2006, Ulysses S Grant

Note to self…October 17, 2006…the day the United States Government nullified the Constitution, and Americans did nothing.

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Chertoff's Web of Terror

October 17, 2006 B. John 218 Views 0 Comments Government Monitoring, Homeland Security, Internet, Michael Chertoff

I’ve seen several articles about this over the past day or so. I’m linking to a brief article on Wired News. Apparently U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is laying the ground work for the more agressive government monitoring of the web, if not outright control. Disaffected people living in the United States may develop radical ideologies and potentially violent skills over the internet and that could present the next major U.S. security threat, Chertoff said on Monday.

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Denny Hastert Nullifies Special Congressional Election

October 16, 2006 B. John 166 Views 0 Comments Brian Bilbray, California, Dennis Hastert, Francine Busby

On June 13, 2006, Bilbray flew to Washington, DC and was sworn in as a member of the United States House of Representatives by House Speaker Dennis Hastert. On or about June 30, 2006, 17 days after Bilbray was sworn in as a member of the House, Mikel Haas, Registrar of San Diego County, officially completed the audit of election results required for certification, and officially certified the election of Bilbray over Busby based on 163,931 votes cast, of which 2,053 votes were said to be cast on Diebold TSX touchscreens, and the remainder scanned via Diebold Accuvote OS computers.

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Convicted Representative Still House Member

October 16, 2006 B. John 158 Views 0 Comments Bob Ney, Bribery, Dennis Haster, Ohio

Now Ohio Representative Bob Ney has plead quilty to multiple counts of accepting brides, yet he remains an illustrious member of U.S. House of Representatives. Of course, once that became public, they all started saying how they would demand his resignation, “once they come back into session after Election day.”

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The Keys To The Kingdom

October 3, 2006September 29, 2018 249 Views 0 Comments Detainees, Dictatorship, Due Process, facism, Freedom, Habeas corpus, Leahy, Specter

With the detainee law, the Republican Senators and Congressmen (with the help of 12 Democrats) basically said to Bush, “Here are the tools to be a dictator, go forth and …have fun with it.” It is the worst legislation ever passed in my lifetime, and I am in my late 40s.

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Waiting For The Black Helicopters

September 30, 2006September 29, 2018 B. John 527 Views cheney, Code of Military Justice, Detainees, First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Geneva conventions, Gonzales, Habeas corpus, Hamdan, Hamdi, Magna Carta, Rumsfeld, supreme court, Terrorism, Terrorists, torture

Buried amongst the untold affronts to the Bill of Rights, the Constitution and the very spirit of America, the torture bill contains a definition of “wrongfully aiding the enemy” which labels all American citizens who breach their “allegiance” to President Bush and the actions of his government as terrorists subject to possible arrest, torture and conviction in front of a military tribunal.

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No Protection For The Innocent

September 28, 2006 B. John 199 Views Bil or Rights, Dennis Hastert, Nancy Pelosi, Terrorism, Terrorist

We’ve heard the rhetoric before. Republicans are repackaging their “tough on crime” speeches as “tough on terror” and complaining that