- Here we are five long years into the Cowardly New World
of 'the Decider,' and what do we have to show for it? It's been said that
"Nothing can check Bush's Power Grab" I disagree for the
following reasons
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- On the last day f September of 2006, Bush announced his
embrace (and ours by default), of his Principles of Darkness-as his closest
allies in his never-endings wars for the supremacy of money over humanity,
power over life and death, and of 'the Deciders right 'to rule over all
humanity. He did all that in this simple paragraph:
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- "The only way to protect our citizens at home is
to go on the offense against the enemy across the world. When terrorists
spend their days working to avoid capture, they are less able to plot,
plan, and execute new attacks on our people. So we will remain on the offense
until the terrorists are defeated and this fight is won.""
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- To 'go on the attack' against any perceived 'enemy'
anywhere in the world is to declare that there are no longer any laws,
or any rules of warfare anywhere, that can still protect any other nation
or its people from the greed and brutality of the ambitions inherent in
the will-to-empire.' This idea unilaterally drives the war machines that
seek to annihilate all opposition to the New World Order. It's one thing
to propose the kind of world we live in now-it's a very different thing
entirely to know that things will never return to the way they used to
be-but more importantly that the NWO will never end!
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- "The Center for Constitutional Rights has filed
the first legal challenge to the new Military Commissions Act passed by
Congress last week. The legal group has filed a habeas corpus petition
on behalf of 25 detainees held at Bagram Air Force base in Afghanistan.
The petition demands that the men be released or be charged with a crime.
Some of the detainees have been held for years without ever receiving a
hearing. Under the new bill prisoners have no right to challenge
their detention. On Monday, Bill Goodman, the legal director of the Center
for Constitutional Rights, warned about the dangers of the new law.
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- Bill Goodman: "No one can be held indefinitely,
and if they are, they have a right to go in front of a magistrate or a
judge and demand that the judge make a determination as to whether they're
charged with a crime and whether there's any real evidence to hold them.
And if there is not, the magistrate, the judge, can order the king, the
police, the FBI, or anyone, or George W. Bush, the President of the United
States, to let him go. That's what habeas corpus is. Without it, we are
virtually slaves to a police state."
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- Bill Goodman spoke last night in New York at a rally
sponsored by the group World Can't Wait. On Thursday, World Can't Wait
is organizing emergency protests in over 170 towns and cities to condemn
the government's sanctioning of torture.
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- Bill Frist: U.S. Might Never Win War in Afghanistan
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- Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist visited Afghanistan
on Monday and acknowledged that the United States might never win the war
against the Taliban. He said there are now too many Taliban fighters and
that they have too much popular support. Frist said backers of the Taliban
should be brought into the Afghan government." (3. What does this
say about our invasion of Afghanistan and our long-term commitment to the
original reasons given after 911 - for all the blood and violence?
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- It's one thing to promote 'freedom and democracy' in
the wider world at the expense of events here in the US, but its
something completely different when there is no time at all to even begin
to counter all the criminal acts on all fronts at the same time. To 'say'
that we have a two-tiered system of perks and privileges, is one thing,
but the reality is quite another thing entirely. For instance in the Foley
affair, it has been revealed that the FBI was involved early on and they
discussed this with the retarded congressional leadership, who assured
the FBI that they would take care of it. From this we know that the laws
are never equally enforced-especially against those who make the laws.
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- ABC News said: "It turns out Foley's obsession with
16- and 17-year-old male pages has been known to Republicans on Capitol
Hill for at least five years. But other than issue a warning, little else
seems to have been done about the congressman. A former page has come forward
to tell ABC News {that} warnings were issued about Foley to the pages in
2001.
- ABC News has obtained Internet messages sent by Foley
to three different pages after that warning. Two of them were sent to pages
in the 2001-2002 class, with sexually explicit messages, most too graphic
to be broadcast, from Foley using the screen name Maf54.
- Maf54: To be honest, I am a little too interested in
you. So that's why I need to back off a little
- Teen: Ya slow things down a little I'm still younglike
under 18. {I} don't want to do anything illegalI'm not 18.
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- Maf54: cool don't forget to measure for me. {The length
of his penis}
- The FBI's preliminary investigation of Foley began over
the weekend, with agents in the cyber unit of the FBI already examining
some of the Internet messages. It's possible Foley could end up being prosecuted
under laws he helped to enact as the co-chairman of the House caucus on
Missing and Exploited Children."
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- What immediately comes to mind is, why was there no action
taken on what Hastert knew early on, and what has transpired since then?
This is having an effect upon various campaigns in the country-as it should.
Hastert must resign! Because what remains to be seen is, if this scandal
will actually bring about the needed changes in who does what in government
from now on!
- Add to this latest scandal that collection of criminals
who owe their existence to bush-league practices that contain no ethics
or logic at all-besides their worn-out-oaths to mega-money deals regardless
of real costs. Remember that Tom DeLay, Jack Abramoff, and Duke Cunningham
were also disgraced and have been charged with criminal violations, along
with others, in this same time frame. Is this what Cheney means about "the
New Normalcy"? Must we just get used to this as the new standard of
government behavior? Another' filthy little secret first raised its ugly
head in the Gosch-Guckert-Gannon Scandal that broke in March of 05-but
it had its origins in 2003. That scandal was never addressed by anyone
in the FBI or the White House. It seems that Mr. Guckert attended White
House Press conferences, impersonating an accredited reporter where he
was able to serve the president with softball questions that diffused tensions
and allowed the Decider to leave impressions with the public that Bush
wanted to convey. Bush claimed when he ran for his first term that his
administration would return ethics to the office of the presidency and
that 'there would never even be the hint of corruption or a conflict of
interest' anywhere within his administration if he were elected president.
Maybe, since he stole the office he just thought that he didn't need to
bother keeping that promise, because he was NOT elected!
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- The problem with Gannon came with the fact that Gannon
lived his lie for two years, without a security clearance, because each
time he was given a day-pass that allowed him to skip the Secret Service
Clearances required, for all the other reporters present. Gosch-Guckert-Gannon
had his own male-escort web site at the time where he offered a number
of controversial services at the same time as he was supposedly a
journalist covering the White House, in presidential press briefings. Gannon
apparently claimed to have had several hundred clients among the highly
placed in government, and therefore there was a continuous drumbeat of
"No Comment" that was allowed to kill that story every time it
was raised.
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- The question this time is will Hastert and Foley and
the FBI escape the responsibility that each of them bears in this new revelation,
so that the criminals-in-office won't be interrupted in the coming election-formality
in November. (It has been current practice for this government to block
the release of all damaging reports and or occurrences-whenever those reports
or events might change the outcome of pending 'elections.' This "practice"
has been used throughout the rein of the Decider, in both his illegal terms.
The Democrats did this too but to a much lesser degree-because they could
not hide behind the false shield of National-Security-in-a-Time-of-War.
- The White House would answer no questions about Gosch-Guckert-Gannon,
but this time things may be different. It would appear that the sleazy
behavior is becoming too difficult to contain, and that it may actually
further affect the coming elections-by uniting opposition to the bushwhackers
and to government corruption at all levels-as we begin the long trek down
the road to never-never-land as promised to us all by Vice President Dick
Cheney.
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- These events are really only the footnotes for what lies
ahead for Americans once the Decider's new rules for Fortress America are
firmly and finally in place. The corruption, the bribery, the endless flaunting
of privileges granted to the insiders, is becoming far too great a scandal
to continue to remain hidden. There's a new PBS documentary - Capital Crimes,
from Bill Moyers: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/index.html
Starring Tom Delay, Jack Abramoff, Ralph Reed, and others." The fallout
continues from the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal. A new bi-partisan House
report released on Friday details extensive lobbying contacts between convicted
lobbyist Abramoff and the Bush White House. Investigators found that between
January 2001 and March 2004, Abramoff and his associates had more than
400 contacts with White House officials. The committee conducting the investigation
noted that the records showed "an unusually detailed glimpse into
a sordid subculture of fraud and attempted influence peddling.""(1.
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- That's from the formal and 'acceptable political world,'
in the real world where most Americans have to live, things are grim but
in a much different way. In the America beyond-the-spotlight; in the inner
cities with the wrong zip codes, the police do not respond to crimes, because
the callers are not the right kinds of people. In the schools, in medical
care, and in every transaction between government and the people, if you
are not a member of the right class-then nothing is done about your problems,
except perhaps to make things worse. This is common knowledge among those
most directly affected-it's only 'news' to those who have never had that
problem.
- Today there are the parents of those 'problem children'
who seemingly cannot adjust to society. It is there where the depth of
many of these problems potentially originate. It's the two to three hundred
dollar hand-held game with its own morality of random violence, rape, brutality
and murder for fun and "points" that seems to be making a difference
in the lives of so many who are not living on the streets yet. But these
future monsters are seething in the burbs with a malignant hatred and a
vast mistrust that seemingly escapes all the right studies on: 'What's
really wrong with America?' Are these 'games' providing the scenarios for
the recent spate of senseless killings that have befallen the nation in
the last week? The cops in too many cities won't bother to respond to small
instances of theft or violence, because in many cases the cops are overwhelmed,
but also because everybody knows that the items taken or the violence done,
is too small to really matter-especially to the already poor-so 'why bother'!
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- Drug use in the US has grown out of the legal over-the-counter
drug world into a population that finds its pleasures in injectable relief,
in pills and powders, and in a variety of artificial substitutes for real
life, for joy, or for genuine pleasure. Those who become hooked, if they're
not wealthy enough to afford their habits, become part of the overburdened
privatized prison system-where the jailers are compensated by the head-to
incarcerate the many, at a huge cost to both the society and the system
as a whole. Currently we are leading the world in the percentage of our
citizens behind bars. Is this part of the freedom and democracy that we
want to export to the world?
- This stuff isn't secret, and it's not officially part
of any city platform or budget reform plans. It's just life in the two
tiered system. The rich have fantastic lawyers and get off-the poor have
no legal representation worth a damn and they go to jail. That's the system
as it has grown up under the two-tiered system of privilege in America
now: and this will eventually lead back to the Marie Antoinette solution
for the rich-who-refuse-to care: That's where the guillotine became a very
effective physical comment on the excesses of the too-rich and the too-indolent
in an earlier time-in a different country. Yet the rule of excess power
still applies and may soon be revived here, unless there are checks soon
to be placed on the lawlessness-atthe-highest-levels - within this
country now. Will this 'system' still rule after we all enter that permanent
state of total war that Cheney dreams of?
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- The USA is not a nation in any sense of that term. We
are not 'one-people,' and we cannot site McDonald's and Home Depot as anything
like a culture, anymore than we can call Wal-Mart a business with a future
for those who work there. We have become a scam unto ourselves in this
land of "Me, My & Mine." We have no homegrown national arts,
and the music, the writing, and the arts we do have usually come from somewhere
else, because the USA has no use for those traditional and arduous disciplines
that demand so much from their creators, for so little commercially, in
return. Americans also seem to have an absolute hatred of history, because
history requires a context for events-and most Americans know nothing about
last week, much less last year. Yet without an awareness of what has gone
before; then every moment is no better or worse than any other moment in
life-so essentially nothing really matters anyhow! It's become the mantra
of the ignorant and the disconnected "Hey shit happens!"
And since the USA is virtually nothing much more than a vast emporium of
business schemes constantly competing for any advantage no matter how small-is
it any wonder that we haven't time for any of the things that every other
country must make room for?
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- Change has created a new paradigm whose speed alone has
forced so many changes now that nothing remains long enough to even be
carefully considered-never mind being something that anyone could actually
become involved in either defending, or resisting. If you go on vacation
for a month, when you return, your phone service provider may have merged,
your bank could have undergone a takeover, or most of your former 'services'
might have altered their names or changed owners, and all of this would
be only normal now, that too is part of Cheney's new normalcy! Does this
mean that Americans are to be stripped of all meaning from traditional
politics, by converting the process into a war between the classes: those
with the money to pay-to-play, and the vast majority, who have no voice
in anything.
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- Cynicism too, has been prefigured into this equation,
so that those most turned off will simply not vote; which is exactly what
Cheney-Rove prefer. What was not-counted on was that the public would cling
so determinedly to what is actually happening in the wars overseas-as well
as what the Decider and his trolls have done to Americans, to the Constitution
and the Bill of Rights here at home. "We" were expected to continue
to "trust him" and to follow each outlandish new assertion as
though we actually had a choice. The only thing that GWB can be trusted
to do-is to kill any of us who stand in his way-and he's not bothered by
any illegalities that he might need to commit to accomplish his needs as
'Decider.'
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- Remember; remember the twelfth of September when
we & the world were told - this War will NEVER end?
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- "Back in 2001, Vice President Cheney warned us,
"There's not going to be an end date when we're going to say, there,
it's all over with. Many of the steps we have now been forced to take will
become permanent in American life..I think of it as the new normalcy."
This is from a man who stepped outside of 'normalcy', when he got himself
not one, but five deferments. This 'new normalcy' of forever war is fine
rhetoric from a man, who spends the days of his life Fly Fishing in Wisconsin,
or going off to some fenced hunting preserve to shoot trapped animals,
when he's not visiting one of his mansions." (2.
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- Power, and any nations' flirtations with its intoxicating
charms, has always been extremely deadly for those innocent of the depths
to which power can push people or nations-in their forbidden grab for the
whole damned world!
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- For over half-a-century now the political machine of
the 'two-party-system' has been in disarray. First it slipped into a six
party system of the extreme wings plus the middle of each party. That was
followed by absorbing both parties into a battle over technicalities that
effectively ended the differences between party labels. Any true political
party would have been something that involved people month in and month
out, in those policies and actions that most directly would have affected
the lives of the people supposedly represented. But what we have now is
something that only 'appears' at elections, something that cares nothing
at all for the so-called 'members' of its party labels. "Politics"
is only about how much can be stolen at any one time, under the rubric
of 'the needs of the people.' With a handful of exceptions, the current
'leaders' ought to be thrown from office in every election but only
after everything they did while in office is gone over carefully by a special
prosecutor.
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- This congress has been the ideal vehicle for Cheney-Bush
on their privatized-path to Empire. Out of the 365 days in the year this
congress has only been in session for 92 days-making it the least often
to meet of any congress-and certainly the one body most responsible for
key changes in the destruction of the United States and what remains of
the laws that supposedly 'protect and defend' either the people or the
constitution. Congress will be leaving again soon, on yet another vacation,
and they're assuming that their special positions will remain protected
in the coming elections; in order to keep themselves out of jail-but that
too may now be in doubt: America was a nation where personal independence
once counted for a great deal. In fact personal 'independence' was what
supposedly drove this nation from its very beginnings. The question is
how will those formerly 'independent' individuals now deal with having
the proverbial gun placed to their collective heads-when it comes to compliance
with the demands of this treasonously illegal government?
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- Independent people tend to not sit still for bogus demands,
for government blackmail, or for baseless intimidation-no matter where
it comes from. That idea of resistance stems directly from refusing to
live in fear, and from not responding to threats, regardless of their source.
People should be afraid when their lives are threatened - but the key is
not to live inside that fear. This principle applies to all of us, regardless
of the level attained within this corrupted society because this
is where Dick Cheney's promise of permanence becomes a direct threat to
every American with eyes to see and ears to hear with and the passion
to resist tyranny and treason wherever they are found.
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- If that ethic holds, then Come-November - this government
will fall: If not, then this nation will just be another place upon a map,
a nothing to be used by whatever power chooses to enslave us, for fun or
profit! How much independence is really still out there among Americans
as a group maybe there are enough of these rebels to help tip the
nation back toward survival and away from servility, censorship and servitude.
It's possible even at this late date-but it must be acted on now, or everything
will just be flushed down the proverbial rabbit-hole: and the USA will
take its place among third or fourth world nations that are only fit for
subservience, for financial frauds and for anything else that the twisted
minds of the powerfully perverted can conceive.
- kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net
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- 1) "A Swashbuckling Spectacle of Corruption"
- Bill Moyers
- http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/02/1321259
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- 2) War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery: the Dangers of
- A Total Surveillance Society http://tcrnews2.com/IAO.html
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- 3) October 3, http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/03/141259
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