July 02, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

HOLD BUSH AND CHENEY ACCOUNTABLE

Some people don't believe that impeachment is practical. After all, they'll point out this horrible administration is winding down. They have a year and a half left. But I would point out that murder has no statute of limitations. The multitude of crimes committed by this administration can not go unnoticed and unpunished. They have defiled the Constitution and the reputation of the United States. They have murdered and tortured in our names. They have desecrated the entire premise of civil liberties. Even if they can't be impeached before leaving office, I believe they should be held accountable after leaving office. Bush showed his contempt today for the law by commuting the sentence of Scooter Libby. It's one standard for Bush and his tribe and a different standard for the rest of us. This commentary by Timothy Gatto is at www.smirkingchimp.com:

Some people might think that people who want Bush and Cheney impeached are “overreacting”. I don’t believe that is the case. Let us look at the facts here. Bush purposefully lied to the Congress and to the American people in the case for war against Iraq. He lied about Saddam possessing a nuclear capability or even an active chemical capability. From reports we are getting now from people that used to be in his “inner circle” such as George Tenet and others, Bush knew all along what capabilities Saddam did or didn’t have! So let me ask anyone that is reading this, is that not grounds for impeachment? Is the fact that he told outright lies to further his personal belief that we should be at war with Iraq not grounds for impeachment? Is this the kind of man that you want making decisions again regarding Iran or some other nations for the next 19 months?
The war and the lies leading up to it, while being more than enough to warrant impeachment, aren’t the only reasons Cheney and Bush need to go. In the time that they have been in power they have actively and maliciously subverted the Constitution of The United States of America. Some of it was done with the blessing of Congress, and some of it was done unilaterally by the President. Since this man has been in power, he has continued to write signing statements that excludes him from obeying laws he doesn’t want to obey by using what he calls the “Unitary Power of the Executive Branch”. Since Bush has been President he has put his name to more signing statements than all prior Presidents combined! Let’s face it, this man has demonstrated that he feels that because he is the President of the United States, that he is above the law! I believe that he is not and I also submit to you that these actions alone warrant impeachment and removal from office.

May 05, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY


EVERYTHING IS A CRIME

Since the terrorist attacks on 9/11 Americans are being treated more and more as criminals. We have to go through almost absurd checks to get on an airplane. Our names can be added to no fly lists. The Bush administration wants to read our email, monitor our Internet activity, listen in on our phone calls, and track what we buy. When I last renewed my driver's license I got hassled because I don't like to use my given first name. It was never a problem before, but I had to take my birth certificate and get my driver's license issued in the name I don't like. I had to file for unemployment last year and had to provide a mass of documentation to the Employment Development Department to get a few lousy unemployment benefits. This article talks about the criminalization of everyday life. The article is at phoenixwoman.wordpress.com:

It is difficult these days to get personal records from government agencies, especially from another state. There are restrictions on obtaining copies of anything that can be used for identification, because, you know, you might want it because you’re a terrorist or illegal immigrant in need of a false ID, and not, for example, an amateur genealogist.

It’s a reasonable precaution for financial transactions, because there are in fact so many ways to steal account information. But for most other activities, it worries me that we’re being trained to “show our papers” and tolerate being treated like suspected criminals.

I have many friends who will not fly, or who will no longer cross the Canadian border, because of the absurd “security” requirements. Their boycott doesn’t affect the government policy in the slightest; it just restricts their own activities. (If you think the security is necessary or useful, you need to be reading security expert Bruce Schneier’s blog. He’s demonstrated repeatedly why airport security does not make us safer but only makes us accept any kind of nonsense the government wants to inflict on us. To make this point, Bruce is sponsoring a contest to “invent a terrorist plot to hijack or blow up an airplane with a commonly carried item as a key component. The component should be so critical to the plot that the TSA will have no choice but to ban the item once the plot is uncovered”.)