- In less than ninety days the Pelosi Democrats have proven
that their campaign promises are nothing but that-empty promises! The impetus
was to stop the War-in-Iraq, and bring the troops home. Even before the
election Pelosi began by throwing monkey-wrenches into the fray. She began
by taking impeachment 'off the table,' which was not her call to make:
as impeachment is the lawful and constitutional remedy for corrupt government
officials.
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- The election proceeded and the democrats gained tentative
control over both houses of Congress. They promised "action"
within the first one-hundred hours: They delivered 'action' but not on
the War-in-Iraq, or on bringing the troops home. Instead they gave us the
National I.D. Card. This was followed by a new Bush-directive, called "the
Surge" that would increase the number of troops in Iraq and
Afghanistan. Congress continued to dither and quibble but did nothing to
stop the war, to bring the troops home, or to address the Surge, which
Bush had implemented immediately after he announced it: and throughout
it all, the newly formed 'congress' did absolutely nothing.
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- Yesterday these same Pelosi-democrats caved-in on their
pending legislation that would have forced Bush to get permission from
the Congress before attacking Iran (war number 3). Where does all this
Double-Speak leave the voters and that 70% of the population that wants
to stop-the-war and bring the troops home?
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- Without a doubt, this leaves us high and dry-frustrated
once-again by the same system many "looked-to" to change the
course that 'the Decider' has sworn to maintain. Now the world is looking
at thirty days till Pandora's box gets opened in the Middle East, and all
of the above will 'Beyond a Doubt' become nothing but another damning footnote
to this 'ancient history,' that will underpin the run-up to World War III
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- On the home-front things are not looking much better.
It seems the White House, in the personages of Karl Rove & "the
Decider," had initially decided to fire all 83 US Attorneys, in a
huge re- visitation to Nixon's 'Saturday Night Massacre that only involved
some Special Prosecutors, back in Nixon's Watergate Days. Here's some of
what's been unearthed on the US Attorney's plight now:
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- "The president did not call for the removal of any
specific United States attorneys, said Dana Perino, a White House spokeswoman.
She said she had "no indication" that the president had been
personally aware that a process was already under way to identify prosecutors
who would be fired.
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- Earlier in this New York Times story, officials had said
that the White House was "deeply involved" in the dismissal of
the US attorneys. In fact, Bush even went to Gonzales to discuss the matter.
But if Bush didn't talk about specific attorneys, then just how was the
decision made?
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- But Ms Perino disclosed that White House officials had
consulted with the Justice Department in preparing the list of United States
attorneys who would be removed.
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- See? They weren't specific attorneys, because they were
on a list. It's only a vendetta when you go after them one at a time.
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- Does the idea that the list was created in "consultation"
with the Justice Department leave some doubt that this was a top down purge?
Let's clear that up.
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- The idea of dismissing federal prosecutors originated
in the White House more than a year earlier, White House and Justice Officials
said Monday.
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- The admission that the list of US attorneys to be canned
came from the White House to justice flies in the face of previous statements.
Rather than responding to reports of attorney performance, the White House
had been sharpening their knives for more than a year before the orders
went out." (2)
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- The above obscenity was designed to convert the Offices
of the U.S. Attorney's into a defacto political branch of the Republican
Party. Behind the scenes, there are also calls for the resignations or
firings of current Attorney General, Alberto Gonzalez, and Robert Mueller,
the continuing director of the FBI for gross incompetence, and for exceeding
their lawful authority in obtaining Justice Department letters to
seize the private information of over 142,000 people surreptitiously: Thanks
to 'their interpretations" of the USA Patriot Act, which they saw,
as allowing individual agents to act on their own authority, to seize private
information.
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- This fiasco is typical of the number and kind of actions
that the overly broad USA Patriot Act II created. The actions of the US
Department of Just-Us, under the Decider has exceeded all bounds, when
it comes to hunting for 'whatever' in the private lives of American citizens
without "just cause." I worked with the Reagan administration,
and the National District Attorney's Association way back in the late 1970's
when these egregious and then criminal excesses were first being
thought about. The goal then was to do away with all the protections of
the First Amendment, whenever there was a conflict between law enforcement's
"right to know," versus the citizens' Fourth Amendment right
to protection from unlawful or unwarranted search and seizure by the government.
It's taken them 28 years, but apparently they finally got what they have
for so long desired-a fully funded police-state where there is no appeal
to what the government can now do to the public in their fascistic zeal
"to know all" about anyone they might deem to be some kind of
risk regardless of constitutional proscriptions, then, against just
such "illegal-excesses now."
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- It is the job of this disappointingly spineless congress,
to stop these invasions of privacy, and to place limits on Total Information
Access (that is still functioning in collusion with the phone companies
& the banks), to strip all Americans of any right to their own private
information concerning their accounts, their conversations, their medical
& financial information, and their personal relationships with people
that they know or do business with. If and when there is a legal reason
to investigate anyone- then there should be no problem with getting a judge
to approve of these kinds of intrusive searches: But to give that "authority"
to a rogue-field agent of the FBI is illegal and ridiculous! The current
situation is one that law enforcement has dreamed of for years on end (28
years that I know of). However; observing the constitutional rights of
citizens is not something that should be taken so lightly-and while observing
the protections guaranteed by the constitution might make things difficult
for 'law- enforcement:' It should be remembered that living in a democracy
should not an easy thing for those who want to create a police- state here.
And with these latest revelations it seems clear, that this is the agenda
being followed in Washington by all three branches of this government.
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- If congress were not so consumed with meeting the immediate
needs of Israel, perhaps they might find a few moments to spare, for the
citizens of this country and for our legitimate concerns; for protections
from this outlaw spin-off that got its start by stealing the nation on
12-12-2000/. Maybe if Nancy Pelosi had spent as much time on these problems,
as she did in preparing to speak to AIPAC over the last weekend-then perhaps
some of our current problems might not be quite so real and pressing.
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- However that obviously did not happen which is
why there is now 'No Doubt' about the ability, of our new congress to stop
any of the huge transgressions (whether here or overseas) that this administration
is pushing for!
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- It is not too late to for the congress to stop these
high-crimes and transgressions against the people of this nation. However
Congress will have to come together and form a consensus, unlike their
most recent fiasco over the Wars, and their failure to stop the Surge-if
there is to be any real change made, in holding the government to account
for its actions in the immediate and potentially horrifying future. The
time for the idle-palaver that congress loves to engage in is over.
If there is anyone in the 535 Club that aspires to anything resembling
"real leadership," then the time to display that "leadershipbeyond
all doubt" is NOW!
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- kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net
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- 1) 30-Day Countdown to War
- http://www.321gold.com/editorials/moriarty/comment/20070311.html
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- 2) The For Cause Story Unravels
- http://www.vivalablog.com/???????
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