- Not only has the Democratic-controlled Congress forgiven
the Bush regime for the felonies committed by Cheney, Bush and the National
Security Agency for violating FISA legislation signed into law by Congress
back in 1978, but they have given these criminals even more powers. Cheney
cleverly waited for the last moment right before the congroidial recess
to spring this new dictatorial power authority for the regime on the congroids,
threatening to waste the latter's August vacation time by holding them
as prisoners in their own legislative halls until they did sign.
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- And not only that, but the scare-mongering and terrorist-embracing
brown shirts in the GOP of Santorum, Giuliani and Chertoff also threatened
more harm if Congress didn't do exactly as they were told. They were warned
by one of the highest-ranking members of Republican nobility, Sir Thanks
A. Lott, as reported by Spencer Ackerman on August 2nd in <http://tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003851.php>TPMmuckraker:
"Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) ominously advised last
Thursday that Congress needed to pass changes to terrorist surveillance
laws before leaving for the August recess and warned that otherwise 'the
disaster could be on our doorstep.'" Ackerman in his article, "Lott:
Get Out of D.C. While You Still Can" reports, "It turns out the
Capitol Police have bolstered security around the U.S. Capitol after a
recent al-Qaeda communiqué threatened an attack on Washington.
Lott responded with characteristic gravitas. In light of the heightened
threat, Congress can either amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Act or all of us can run screaming into the inferno."
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- Ackerman continues quoting Sir Lott after His Highness
was pressed for more details: "'I think it would be good to leave
town in August, and it would probably be good to stay out until September
the 12th.'" So there you have it straight from the elephant's mouth!
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- James Risen of The New York Times reports in his August
6th article entitled, "Bush Signs Law to Widen Legal Reach for Wiretapping,"
offering: "President Bush signed into law on Sunday legislation that
broadly expanded the government's authority to eavesdrop on the international
telephone calls and e-mail messages of American citizens without warrants.
Congressional aides and others familiar with the details of the law said
that its impact went far beyond the small fixes that administration officials
had said were needed to gather information about foreign terrorists. They
said seemingly subtle changes in legislative language would sharply alter
the legal limits on the government's ability to monitor millions of phone
calls and e-mail messages going in and out of the United States."
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- Know why the "law" went "far beyond the
small fixes that administration officials said were needed" and why
the "seemingly subtle changes" will sharply "alter the legal
limits on the government's ability" to spy on Americans? It's because
as usual, the brainless morons and harlots in Congress didn't bother to
either read or study the bill before approving it that's why! It's
as Connie Francis sang back in '62: V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N time! Don'tja see?!
It's time to hit the beach! It's time for Disneyland and the French Riviera!
Time to hit the Hamptons on Long Island! But mostly, it's more than time
to get the hell out of Washington in case the GOP decides to blow it up!
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- Here's more from Risen: "They also said that the
new law for the first time provided a legal framework for much of the surveillance
without warrants that was being conducted in secret by the National Security
Agency and outside the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the 1978
law that is supposed to regulate the way the government can listen to the
private communications of American citizens. 'This more or less legalizes
the N.S.A. program,' said Kate Martin, director of the Center for National
Security Studies in Washington, who has studied the new legislation."
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- And isn't that the key? Can't you see it? This "legitimizes"
the felonies committed by the Bush regime BEFORE the congroids made it
legal today. It is precisely what the Founders forbade in the Constitution's
Article I, Section 9, third paragraph: "No Bill of Attainder or ex
post facto Law shall be passed." Congress just did, and invalidated
any and all pretense that the Bush regime would be held accountable for
violating the FISA laws and committing the felonies prohibited by a law
now deemed a horrible mistake!
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- And why shouldn't they? Cheney decided the regime needed
a decided advantage over its subjects in America, so he and Gonzales rescinded
Article I, Section 9, paragraph two: "The Privilege of the Writ of
Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion
or Invasion the public Safety may require it." Congress passed that
unconstitutional piece of garbage, the Military Commissions Act, as well.
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- Also in Risen's article, is the hint of bigger and better
things to come, brought to US once again to be put on our table by our
caring, compassionate dictatorship and its approving and regime-supporting
Democratic Party congroids: "The law also gave the administration
greater power to force telecommunications companies to cooperate with such
spying operations. The companies can now be compelled to cooperate by
orders from the attorney general and the director of national intelligence."
Private sector corporations can now be "forced" to break constitutional
law based upon "orders" given by the present attorney general,
an attorney general that has, and continues to, lie and who holds both
the Congress and our Constitution in contempt? And now secret, undercover
agencies of the federal government have direct police powers over private
citizens and private sector corporations? And "orders" to be
given by Gonzo? How Third World! Whatever happened to all that talk from
Leahy, and Schumer, and Specter calling for a special prosecutor to investigate
our gangster attorney general from the Harvard Law cesspool? What's up
with that?
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- Thanks Congress! And thank you as well Democrats! Wanna
know where all this is going?
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- Look no further than the latest congroid that is in trouble
with criminal investigators, the Republican Senator from Alaska, Ted Stevens.
While Cheney was threatening Congress with continued imprisonment until
they signed his bill, and Lott was threatening to blow up Washington, the
Gangsters of Politics [GOP] were busy sneaking a proposed bill [S. 602]
through the Senate Commerce Committee. It is entitled the "Child
Safe Viewing Act of 2007," and according to Adam Thomas of http://pressesc.com/news/85603082007/internet-
- filtering-law-approved-senate-committee
- pressesc.com , "may represent a step toward expanding
the FCC's censorship authority to include Internet content." "May
represent a step?" Bet the ranch on it!
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- Here's more from Thomas' August 3rd article, "Internet
filtering law approved by Senate Committee." "The law stipulates
that FCC's advanced blocking technologies would extend to 'a wide variety
of distribution platforms, including wired, wireless, and Internet platforms.'"
Think of Hillary's desperate need for Internet "gatekeepers."
Think of the state legislation proposed by Republican New Jersey Assemblyman
Peter Biondi to punish ISP's for allowing vile and offensive language and
political messages to be transmitted into the public domain. Biondi cited
a blog, OWNED AND OPERATED by none other than the Star-Ledger, the largest
newspaper in corrupt New Jersey.
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- Isn't it increasingly obvious that it is We the People
who are really being targeted because it is surmised that we hate our government's
"wealth and freedom?" Isn't it becoming clearer by the day that
we are being brought democracy by the flash of a badge and the muzzle of
a gun? Isn't it abundantly clear that BOTH the "administration"
and the Congress are working together to destroy the American people's
dream of individual freedom and its limitless opportunities for personal
wealth and yet more freedom? Isn't it clear that BOTH the Democratic Party
and the Republican Party are working towards these ends together as well?
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- What we have now is the secret and evil genius of Cheney
quickly jumping over lazy Americans and "yellow dog" Democrats
relying on the false autopilot of a long-gone and neutered Constitution,
the latter once thought to protect US from that which could never happen
here: dictatorship. It is here and it is now. All that needs happen is
another collapsed bridge, ferry crash, forest fire, or ANYTHING Cheney
decides can be used as an excuse citing "terrorism," and all
of the Bush regime's executive orders can be activated into martial law.
Think of hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and Bush eating cake and strumming
his guitar. At least one emperor had more class: he played the violin!
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- © THEODORE E. LANG 8/06/07 All rights reserved
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- Ted Lang is a political analyst and freelance writer.
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