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Tuesday, January 10, 2006 |
News.com: "It's no joke. Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity."
In the meantime, George W. Bush gets away with mass murder.
TorontoStar: "The United States government has hired a bunch of poor souls who lost their arms and legs in accidents and has rigged them up with bags of fake blood so they can play wounded civilians in war games down at Fort Polk, La."
Madcap government in action.
But more serious is the lawlessness of the Bush cabal.
Private mail is opened by Homeland Security. Spying is general.
Moonarbor: "The Bush administration is caught red-handed in blatant illegality and responds by trying to arrest the patriot who exposed the administration's illegal behavior."
Salman Rushdie: "Beyond any shadow of a doubt, the ugliest phrase to enter the English language last year was 'extraordinary rendition'. To those of us who love words, this phrase's brutalisation of meaning is an infallible signal of its intent to deceive."
Bush's actions are leading to death and destruction without providing any security. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are a disaster.
Reuters: "Two suicide bombers dressed as senior police officers blew themselves up inside the Iraqi Interior Ministry compound in Baghdad on Monday, killing 28 people and wounding 25 as officials marked National Police Day."
ICH: "President Bush's off-hand summation last month of the number of Iraqis who have so far died as a result of our invasion and occupation as '30,000, more or less' was quite certainly an under-estimate. The true number is probably hitting around 180,000 by now, with a possibility, as we shall see, that it has reached as high as half a million."
Yahoo: "The American singer and activist Harry Belafonte called President Bush 'the greatest terrorist in the world' on Sunday."
IndependentInstitute: "The U.S. Constitution was written after a war of independence from what the colonists believed was a despotic king. The document was designed to strictly limit federal power, vis-à-vis the powers of the states and the people. Within the constricted federal realm, the framers intended to make the decentralized Congress the dominant branch and gave that body many more enumerated powers than the president or the judiciary.
In particular, the founders feared the power of a potent executive to impose wars upon the American people in which they would bear the brunt of the costs in blood and treasure - much as the autocratic European monarchs of the day inflicted such costs on their subjects. Thus, the framers, contrary to conventional wisdom, gave most of the war powers to Congress.
President Bush has justified unconstitutional acts in the 'war on terror' by expanding the power of the commander-in-chief beyond the founders' intention. He has used that power to justify torture, the surveillance of Americans without a warrant, and the effective suspension of habeas corpus by indefinite detention of 'enemy combatants' - including some Americans - without a trial or access to lawyers.
Also, torturing prisoners in violation of the congressionally approved Geneva Conventions and indefinitely detaining them without a trial seem to run afoul of the constitutional provisions providing that Congress has the power to make rules concerning captures on land and water and implying that only Congress, rather than the executive, has the power to suspend habeas corpus in times of rebellion or invasion (this provision is in Article I and not Article II).
So even though the president and his administration constantly say, 'we are at war', technically we are not.
In the current 'war on terror', because Congress has not declared war, the existing congressional resolution should not be used to justify domestic surveillance or anything else. Also, with no official war, the president's authority as commander-in-chief - interpreted narrowly by the founders - would be even more limited."
11:49:26 AM 
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When Christianity took over from the belligerent and greedy Roman empire, it did so on the basis of new ideals and tenets. These were essentially Pax et Justitia, Peace and Justice, as exposed by St. Augustine. Peace can only be based on justice. These ideals met with general acceptance and resulted in the success of the Christian church. When things went wrong in the Church it was because it became entangled in power and wealth.
"Remota itaque iustitia quid sunt regna nisi magna latrocinia?"
"Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies?"
De Civitate Dei (The City of God), Book IV, Chapter IV.
George W. Bush pretends to be a Christian. He is not. He may be the guru of the Church of Latter-Day Morons, but he only uses the power of religion to cheat and lie to his fellow citizens. Bush disguises himself in a cloak of righteousness and forces others to stick to his own dogmas which he invented for his own benefit, that of the GOP and the corporations, while he considers himself to be above all law, religious, civil, national, international or moral. If there is a definition of evil, it is this notion of the Uebermensch.
St. Augustine changed the course of history by giving a new alternative to the reign of war, his new tenets were Peace and Justice. These were the guiding principles of our Christian civilization for hundreds of years. George W. Bush is wiping out not only the American Constitution, but also the attainments of thousands of years of civilization. George Bush is a barbarian.
11:10:59 AM
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