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Title: REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN RON PAUL PREDICTS BUSH IMPEACHMENT
Source: www.prisonplanet.com
URL Source: http://www.prisonplanet.com/article ... 2006/030306bushimpeachment.htm
Published: Mar 3, 2006
Author: Paul Joseph Watson
Post Date: 2006-03-03 01:42:20 by Mind_Virus
Keywords: CONGRESSMAN, IMPEACHMENT, REPUBLICAN
Views: 963
Comments: 65

Republican Congressman Predicts Bush Impeachment Says US close to dictatorship

Paul Joseph Watson/Prison http://Planet.com | March 3 2006

Republican Congressman Ron Paul has gone on record with his prediction that the impeachment of George W. Bush is right around the corner but warned that in the meantime the US was slipping perilously close to a dictatorship.

Appearing on the Alex Jones Show and addressing the port sell-out, Paul stated that, "it probably will contribute to the Republican's failure in the next election."

Asked if the Democrats would use gains in the mid-term elections to set in motion impeachment proceedings against George W. Bush, Paul responded,

"I predict that would happen."

"I think he (Bush) has numerous things that the Democrats if they get a chance, not only will they be after him for that but it will be payback for the Clinton impeachment."

Paul was inclined to believe that the port sales would go ahead anyway but took a positive perspective in pointing out that it again highlighted George W. Bush's complete abandonment of conservative principles.

"At least this has awakened a lot of people and I think this is going to serve as a benefit," said Paul. "They're likely to pull this deal off but the American people are awakening now and I think there's going to be a payback period in the election."

The Congressman expressed his resignation at the passage of the Patriot Act and how it again underscores Bush's unchecked powers

"They had a few token changes which mean nothing and under the present system he (President Bush) just ignores what he doesn't like anyway."

Asked if the US was heading into a dictatorship, Paul responded,

"It's getting close to it, it's called usurpation of power and it's done in many ways with Congress just going along because they're sound asleep and this certainly is an attack on our Constitution and on our freedoms." (2 images)

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#26. To: aristeides (#25)

I heard on Lou Dobbs a short time ago that Peter King and Susan Collins are offering the White House a face-saving way to back down, but apparently there is no assurance yet that the White House will accept the deal. Under the deal, DP World would remain the contract, but would subcontract all management functions in the U.S. ports to a U.S. subcontractor.

Today Limbaugh spent the first 1/2 hour of his show demonizing the Democrats for how they would react if, hypothetically, Halliburton took over the ports deal.

He also put a lot of effort into spinning up a story that Bill Clinton was heavily involved in the deal. He didn't say it was Clinton's fault, but it seemed important that the rubes be convinced that Clinton was in it up to his eyeballs. When asked if he still approved of the deal given Clinton's involvement, he said he wasn't sure.

Sounds like an American conctractor will step in as the sub and the GOP will pull an Abramoff blame spread ... claim that it is as much a Democratic scandal as a Republican one.

...  posted on  2006-03-06   20:38:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: mehitable (#18)

I wouldn't be too hard on Buchanan. He's a lifelong Republican who's obviously been having a lot of separation anxiety from the Party. However, I think he's consistently battled Bush over the past couple of years at least on a number of issues to the extent that he's persona non grata amongst most Pubbies. I can't really blame him for supporting Bush over Kerry in 2004. I despise Bush and only voted for Kerry as the lesser of two evils (my usual vote), but I definitely thought Kerry was a really bad candidate, on many levels. I can't really kick people too hard for not having a strong enough stomach to vote for Kerry. He's pretty nauseating.

Well, at least you're honest. I voted for Kerry too, but only because there was no third-party candidate on the ballot.

Having worked my butt off to get Ross Perot and Reform Party officialy recognized in Oklahoma, I cannot forgive Buchanan for wrecking it. If Buchanan had any integrity at all, he would have followed the example of Ralph Nader and continued the struggle against the Republicrats. Instead, he returned to big media, i.e., his paymasters in the establishment.

Life is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think.

Zoroaster  posted on  2006-03-07   5:50:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: Zoroaster (#27)

It was shocking how Buchanan supported Bush in '04, after all his criticism of Bush's Iraq war.

aristeides  posted on  2006-03-07   6:56:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: aristeides (#28)

It was shocking how Buchanan supported Bush in '04, after all his criticism of Bush's Iraq war.

It didn't surprise me: Buchanan showed where he was coming from right after Bush won the 2000 election, the ruins of the Reform Party were still smoking, when he returned to his big media paymasters. To understand Buchanan follow the money.

Life is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think.

Zoroaster  posted on  2006-03-07   7:18:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#30. To: aristeides (#25)

"Bush is no longer a lame duck – he's a dead duck."

Uncle Bill  posted on  2006-03-08   2:46:37 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#31. To: Five Vermont Towns Vote To Impeach Bush (#30)

Vermont Towns Newfane, Brookfield, Dummerston, Marlboro and Putney All Vote To Impeach Bush

Uncle Bill  posted on  2006-03-08   3:12:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#32. To: Uncle Bill (#31)

Is this the same state where the Jew Judge and his brother in law, the Governor's behind the scenes handler says child molesters go free ?? ...(for molesting white Christian kids at least)

Who gives a rats ass anymore what the Peoples Republic of Vermont says , thinks or does? Every sad and saggy 60s baby beatnik or love child hippie who can't make a living in the real world migrated to Vermont and ruined a formerly great state. It's a snake pit; including the much vaunted Dartmouth.

Brer'  posted on  2006-03-08   4:20:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#33. To: Coral Snake (#1)

Colt 1851 Navy and 1860 Army revolver replicas. Remington Beals and 1861 Army Revolver replicas. Ruger Old Army Revolver. Sharps Paper Cartridge Carbine replica. Smith Carbine replica.

Cute. Unless yer' talkin' about a nice collectible.....

You must have just been listening to an old Waylon Jennings CD. Maybe 'The Devils' Right Hand'?

Ballistics on hot new .22s is better than what you tout and the maintenance and cost is far less.

Cap'n'Ball.....Cowboys....Luddites.....sheesh

Where do they come from.....?

Brer'  posted on  2006-03-08   4:26:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: Brer' (#32)

Whatever it takes to get rid of Bush, and never hear the words Bush or Clinton again is fine with me. I don't care if they stand on their head and blow fart bubbles.

Uncle Bill  posted on  2006-03-08   4:30:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#35. To: ... (#26)

Today Limbaugh spent the first 1/2 hour of his show demonizing the Democrats for how they would react if, hypothetically, Halliburton took over the ports deal.

Sounds reasonable to me.

The Dims would be sputtering, spluttering and ' somebody give th' poor guy a drink fer chrissakes' Kennedy would be apoplectic and predicting imminent doom of the entire civilized world.

Sheeesh....Dims are marxists and Globalists ....just like Boy Jorge.

When you recognize the enemy for who it IS and not who it WANTS you to think it is ( two party divisions) then you'll make some progress. Util then you're just doing what your handlers want you to do; pissing in the wind and falling for the old two party bait and switch trap. Your handlers love it.

Brer'  posted on  2006-03-08   4:33:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#36. To: Uncle Bill (#34)

Whatever it takes to get rid of Bush, and never hear the words Bush or Clinton again is fine with me. I don't care if they stand on their head and blow fart bubbles.

Impeachment would be the death of Dims;

there are no grounds except the ranting imagination of frustrated Americans;

( except for refusing to control the borders , which is a Constitutional issue ; but strangely, polls say only about 10 % of the people care about the borders; imo THERE'S SOME SCARED BIG TIME LYING GOING ON IN THESE POLLS)

it would be , and is, just another diversion to distract you from the borders and illegal swarming and giving away America by the NeoCons who are poised again to migrate to the Far East.....

and it just ain't going to happen....so beat a drum that can be heard by those not lost in Fantasyland.

Brer'  posted on  2006-03-08   4:40:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#37. To: Brer' (#36)

Bush will be impeached easily, with a god damned piece of paper. Sorry.

Uncle Bill  posted on  2006-03-08   4:51:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#38. To: All (#37)


Uncle Bill  posted on  2006-03-08   5:23:34 ET  (2 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#39. To: Uncle Bill (#37)

Bush will be impeached easily, with a god damned piece of paper. Sorry.

Never will this happen. NeverNeverLand of Dims.

Brer'  posted on  2006-03-08   5:37:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#40. To: Brer' (#39)

Time to impeach the son of a bitch

Insight Magazine: Impeachment hearings: The White House prepares for the worst

Americans Support Impeaching Bush for Wiretapping (52% SAY CONGRESS SHOULD CONSIDER IMPEACHMENT

Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment? * 186468 responses (86% say yes)

FOX News Conclusion: With Economy Tanking and Bush Not Able To Speak Like Clinton - Impeachment Looms

THE WASHINGTON TIMES: George W. Bush - "Congress should undertake a national inquest into his conduct and claims to determine whether impeachable usurpations are at hand"

Jonathan Turley: Bush Guilty Of Violating Federal Law and of High Crimes and Misdemeanors."

Barron's - Wall Street Journal Publication - "They ought to investigate it, consider it carefully and report either a bill that would change the wiretap laws to suit the president or a bill of impeachment."

Get Ready For Impeachment - Worldnetdaily

WorldNetDaily showed that 45 percent of WND readers – who tend to lean strongly Republican – believe that George Bush deserves to be impeached
"America was founded on the principle that it is right to sacrifice blood for liberty. It is telling that the Bush defenders make precisely the opposite argument, that it is right to sacrifice liberty in order to avoid the shedding of American blood. In this they are, like the Dear Leader, avowedly anti-American. That George Bush is in open and repeated violation of his oath to uphold and defend the Constitution is no longer debatable. In keeping with his many anti-constitutional actions, he has publicly declared that he has no way of knowing what is, and what is not constitutional."

Pat Buchanan - "Some courageous Republican, to get the attention of this White House, should drop into the hopper a bill of impeachment, charging George W. Bush with a conscious refusal to uphold his oath"

"I've shown that they've ruined the country and Bush should be impeached."
Michael Savage - The Savage Nation - January 12, 2004.

"The plan is so disastrous to our country's well being and so fraught with potential risk to our country's security that the plan should be regarded as bordering treason! "
Chuck Baldwin - Source.

"Time to impeach the son of a bitch"
Doug Thompson, Capital Hill Blue.


Clinton Impeachment:

"This nation sits at a crossroads. One direction points to the higher road of the rule of law. Sometimes hard, sometimes unpleasant, this path relies on truth, justice and the rigorous application of the principle that no man is above the law. Now, the other road is the path of least resistance. This is where we start making exceptions to our laws based on poll numbers and spin control. This is when we pitch the law completely overboard when the mood fits us, when we ignore the facts in order to cover up the truth. No man is above the law, and no man is below the law. That's the principle that we all hold very dear in this country."
Tom Delay, Speaker of the House Rep.(R-TX)

"I suggest impeachment is like beauty: apparently in the eye of the beholder. But I hold a different view. And it's not a vengeful one, it's not vindictive, and it's not craven. It's just a concern for the Constitution and a high respect for the rule of law. ... as a lawyer and a legislator for most of my very long life, I have a particular reverence for our legal system. It protects the innocent, it punishes the guilty, it defends the powerless, it guards freedom, it summons the noblest instincts of the human spirit. The rule of law protects you and it protects me from the midnight fire on our roof or the 3 a.m. knock on our door."
Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.)

"What is on trial here is the truth and the rule of law. Our failure to bring President Clinton to account for his lying under oath and preventing the courts from administering equal justice under law, will cause a cancer to be present in our society for generations. I want those parents who ask me the questions, to be able to tell their children that even if you are president of the United States, if you lie when sworn "to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth," you will face the consequences of that action, even when you don't accept the responsibility for them."
Rep. James Sensebrenner (R-WI)

"There can be no shading of right and wrong. The complicated currents that have coursed through this impeachment process are many. But after stripping away the underbrush of legal technicalities and nuance, I find that the President abused his sacred power by lying and obstructing justice. How can parents instill values and morality in their children? How can educators teach our children? How can the rule of law for every American be applied equally if we have two standards of justice in America--one for the powerful and the other for the rest of us?"
Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE)

"I will have no part in the creation of a constitutional double-standard to benefit the President. He is not above the law. If an ordinary citizen committed these crimes, he would go to jail."
Bill Frist, Senate Majority Leader, (R-TN)

"When someone is elected president, they receive the greatest gift possible from the American people, their trust. To violate that trust is to raise questions about fitness for office. My constituents often remind me that if anyone else in a position of authority -- for example, a business executive, a military officer of a professional educator -- had acted as the evidence indicates the president did, their career would be over. The rules under which President Nixon would have been tried for impeachment had he not resigned contain this statement: "The office of the president is such that it calls for a higher level of conduct than the average citizen in the United States."
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas)


VIDEO CLIP

Source.

"T he House Judiciary Committee's Democratic staff recently released a report concluding that Bush "misled Congress and the American people regarding the decision to go to war with Iraq." And the 273-page minority report goes on to conclude that "the President, Vice President and members of the Bush administration violated a number of federal laws, including 1) Committing a Fraud against the United States; 2) Making False Statements to Congress; 3) The War Powers Resolution, 4) Misuse of Government Funds; 5) federal laws and international treaties prohibiting torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment; 6) federal laws concerning retaliating against witnesses and other individuals, and 7) federal laws concerning leakings and other misuses of intelligence." It's true that as long as Republicans are in control, members of Congress are no more likely to impeach Bush than they are to vote themselves a pay cut. If the Democrats take control of Congress in 2006 - a prospect that is becoming less implausible - the president could find himself in deeper doo doo than his daddy ever dreamed of."

Uncle Bill  posted on  2006-03-09   14:32:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#41. To: Uncle Bill (#40)

Sleep with dogs you get fleas...and Boy Jorge chose the same NeoCon handlers that doomed the Clinton regime.

Brer'  posted on  2006-03-09   14:41:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#42. To: Brer' (#41)

That's because they are the same, just two different heads from the same neck.

Uncle Bill  posted on  2006-03-09   15:02:38 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#43. To: aristeides (#42)

Great reminder. Thanks. God bless you!

"Impeachment is a political act. It doesn't require criminal liability. Federal Judge Nixon was impeached and removed for the same acts for which he had been acquitted in a federal criminal court, and the courts -- up to and including the Supreme Court -- upheld his removal."
aristeides

Uncle Bill  posted on  2006-03-09   16:39:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#44. To: Brer' (#36)

there are no grounds except the ranting imagination of frustrated Americans

In violating FISA, and publicly proclaiming an intent to go on violating it, Bush has committed a felony more brazenly than any previous president.

aristeides  posted on  2006-03-09   16:42:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#45. To: aristeides (#44)

"Bush has committed a felony more brazenly than any previous president."

Uncle Bill  posted on  2006-03-13   20:26:32 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#46. To: Mind_Virus (#0)

BTTT

Press 1 for English, Press 2 for English, Press 3 for deportation

Uncle Bill  posted on  2006-07-26   19:53:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#47. To: Brer' (#36)

by the NeoCons who are poised again to migrate to the Far East.....

If you think the Chinese will welcome Jews, you're the one who lives in a fantasyland.

"Benjamin Franklin was shown the new American constitution, and he said, 'I don't like it, but I will vote for it because we need something right now. But this constitution in time will fail, as all such efforts do. And it will fail because of the corruption of the people, in a general sense.' And that is what it has come to now, exactly as Franklin predicted." -- Gore Vidal

YertleTurtle  posted on  2006-07-26   20:04:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#48. To: mehitable (#19)

Unfortunately I'm sure most Americans would guess that Ron Paul is Mrs. Paul's husband.

ROTFLMAO

But sadly you're right!

Lady X  posted on  2006-07-26   20:07:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#49. To: YertleTurtle (#47)

I am dyin' for them to move to the Far East..

Lady X  posted on  2006-07-26   20:08:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#50. To: Brer' (#35)

Util then you're just doing what your handlers want you to do; pissing in the wind and falling for the old two party bait and switch trap.

Correcta-mundo

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds (smites) you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

Samuel Adams ... and I concur !

noone222  posted on  2006-07-26   20:11:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#51. To: Lady X (#49)

This photo is bizarre...Robertson/Bush morphed...

“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"

Eoghan  posted on  2006-07-26   20:12:34 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#52. To: aristeides (#15)

If an impeachment makes it out of the House, it will be very interesting to see what happens in a Senate impeachment trial.

More Bread and Circuses for the unwashed masses !

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds (smites) you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

Samuel Adams ... and I concur !

noone222  posted on  2006-07-26   20:14:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#53. To: ... (#26)

and the GOP will pull an Abramoff blame spread ... claim that it is as much a Democratic scandal as a Republican one.

The Talk Radio mouthpieces do the "they're worse than we are" tango almost daily. I wonder when people will quit idolizing these scumbags regardless of party affiliation.

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds (smites) you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

Samuel Adams ... and I concur !

noone222  posted on  2006-07-26   20:20:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#54. To: Lady X (#49)

I am dyin' for them to move to the Far East..

Only if you want them exterminated ;-)

"Benjamin Franklin was shown the new American constitution, and he said, 'I don't like it, but I will vote for it because we need something right now. But this constitution in time will fail, as all such efforts do. And it will fail because of the corruption of the people, in a general sense.' And that is what it has come to now, exactly as Franklin predicted." -- Gore Vidal

YertleTurtle  posted on  2006-07-26   20:30:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#55. To: YertleTurtle (#54)

Hmmm, I hadn't thought of it from that angle.

Lady X  posted on  2006-07-26   20:32:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#56. To: Mind_Virus (#0)

This video tells it all John Bucannon, Rep. contender for President in 2000

http://illuminati-news.com/Videos/keeping-it-in-the-family.wmv

The mind once expanded by a new idea never returns to its' original size

Itisa1mosttoolate  posted on  2006-07-26   20:37:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#57. To: Mind_Virus (#0)

IMPEACH BUSH

http://www.impeachbush.tv/ impeach/grounds.html

The mind once expanded by a new idea never returns to its' original size

Itisa1mosttoolate  posted on  2006-07-26   20:45:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#58. To: JRadcliffe (#17)

I favor Ron Paul for President. He ran on the Libertarian ticket, but most AmeriKKKans are so stupid, they will not vote outside their narrow little range in their narrow little minds in their narrow little world.

Don't blame me, I can't count. I tried once but Rethugricans chased me off and reminded me they knew where my relatives lived.

Quit bogarting that peace, Herbert!

Dakmar  posted on  2006-07-26   20:47:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#59. To: YertleTurtle (#47)

If you think the Chinese will welcome Jews, you're the one who lives in a fantasyland.

You had better check your history on this one. There are Jewish cemetaries in China and the Chinese have allowed Jews to live there for many years.

But after the Zionists have killed their U.N. observer, that may change. ;0)

"Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back." Lord Keynes

BTP Holdings  posted on  2006-07-26   20:58:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#60. To: BTP Holdings (#59)

You had better check your history on this one. There are Jewish cemetaries in China and the Chinese have allowed Jews to live there for many years.

I know my history. Jews have been expelled from at least 81 areas in less than 2000 years, almost always because of their attempts to destroy whatever cultures are stupid enough let them in. The Chinese are not stupid. They'll never let millions of Jews move there, no matter how much Mandarin is taught in Israeli schools.

They've finally worn out their welcome in Europe and Russia, they're under attack in the Middle East, and they're finally screwing up big-time in America. Do you really think the Chinese, who are a different race than Jews, and who consider themselves the only civilized people in the world, and call China "the Middle Kingdom" (the center of the world) are going to let a bunch of idiots move in, who immediately will start insulting the Chinese and whining they're "anti-Semitic"?

"Benjamin Franklin was shown the new American constitution, and he said, 'I don't like it, but I will vote for it because we need something right now. But this constitution in time will fail, as all such efforts do. And it will fail because of the corruption of the people, in a general sense.' And that is what it has come to now, exactly as Franklin predicted." -- Gore Vidal

YertleTurtle  posted on  2006-07-26   22:53:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#61. To: Uncle Bill (#11)

If Democratic candidate Tony Trupiano wins a Michigan House seat this fall, he pledges that one of his first acts will be to introduce articles of impeachment against President Bush

Hasn't Conyers already done this? or tried to anyway?

Of course, I truly hope this happens, and I'd send money to help any efforts, but I think there'd have to be a widespread change in the current crop of Congresswhores, and I don't know if that's gonna happen. Not to the extent that the Dems would like.

"I woke up in the CRAZY HOUSE."

mehitable  posted on  2006-07-26   23:26:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#62. To: YertleTurtle (#60)

The Chinese would force them to adhere to the one child policy. But Gingrich wants to bring them all here. I don't think so.

The Fable of the Ducks and the Hens

"Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back." Lord Keynes

BTP Holdings  posted on  2006-07-26   23:39:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#63. To: christine, Zipporah, robin (#62)

Where Bush's Arrogance Has Taken Us

Alternet
Jim Hightower
August 23, 2006

During his gubernatorial days in Texas, George W let slip a one-sentence thought that unintentionally gave us a peek into his political soul. In hindsight, it should've been loudly broadcast all across our land so people could've absorbed it, contemplated its portent?and roundly rejected the guy's bid for the presidency. On May 21, 1999, reacting to some satirical criticism of him, Bush snapped: "There ought to be limits to freedom."

Gosh, so many freedoms to limit, so little time! But in five short years, the BushCheneyRummy regime has made remarkable strides toward dismembering the genius of the Founders, going at our Constitution and Bill of Rights like famished alligators chasing a couple of poodles.

Forget about such niceties as separation of powers, checks and balances (crucial to the practice of democracy), the First Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, and open government-these guys are on an autocratic tear. Whenever they've been challenged (all too rarely), they simply shout "war on terror," "commander-in-chief," "support our troops," "executive privilege," "I'm the decider," or some other slam-the-door political phrase designed to silence any opposition. Indeed, opponents are branded "enemies" who must be demonized, personally attacked, and, if possible, destroyed. Bush's find-the-loopholes lawyers assert that a president has the right to lie (even about going to war), to imprison people indefinitely (without charges, lawyers, hearings, courts, or hope), to torture people, to spy on Americans without court or congressional review, to prosecute reporters who dare to report, to rewrite laws on executive whim?and on and on.

Here, we are pleased to give you a sense of the enormity of what Bush & Company are doing under the cloak of war and executive privilege in a handy- dandy poster format.

The War President

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
-George W., August 2004

Press 1 for English, Press 2 for English, Press 3 for deportation

Uncle Bill  posted on  2006-08-24   4:38:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#64. To: Uncle Bill (#63)

Worldcan't wait

The mind once expanded by a new idea never returns to its' original size

Itisa1mosttoolate  posted on  2006-08-24   5:20:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#65. To: Uncle Bill (#63)

# Number of signing statements issued by Bush as of July 2006: more than 800 (This is more than the combined total of all 42 previous presidents.) A few examples of congressionally passed laws he has effectively annulled through these extralegal signing statements:

# a ban against torture of prisoners by the U.S. military

# a requirement that the FBI periodically report to Congress on how it is using the Patriot Act to search our homes and secretly seize people's private papers

# a ban against storage in military databases of intelligence about Americans that was obtained illegally

# a directive for the executive branch to transmit scientific information to Congress "uncensored and without delay" when requested

# Provision of the Constitution clearly stating that Congress alone has the power "to make all laws": Article 1, Section 8

# Provision of the Constitution clearly stating that the president "shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed": Article 2, Section 3

# Name of the young lawyer in the Reagan administration who wrote a 1986 strategy memo on how to pervert the use of signing statements in order to concentrate more power in the executive branch, as Bush is now doing: Samuel Alito, named to the U.S. Supreme Court by Bush this year

These signing statements are what give the Imperial Presidency it's ability to runover our Constitutional Rights.

"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country."

- Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers

robin  posted on  2006-08-24   7:59:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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