Has anyone seen the news footage of Bush trying to chum it up w/Putin? Thats the funniest thing i' seen in a while. i mean Bush is all like tryin' to kiss Putins' ass w/nervous, beligerent humour and Putin just kinda looks at him like he's not real and doesn't laugh. i think Putin just thinks Bush is a chump.
The Bush administation has stated that they are concerned about Putins' "backpedalling from democracy", Well i think Putin could make the same argument about Bush. The U.S.A Patriot act is detrimental to democracy. It allows the federal government to by-pass your constitutional right to privacy, by allowing federal agents to spy on and infiltrate citizens groups w/out a warrent there-by intimidating political opposition and public opinion.
i happened to attend a forum on civil rights about 2 years ago that was sponsered by the Unitarian Church and the A.C.L.U. One of the speakers there that day was congresswoman Tubbs-Jones from the 11th Ohio district. She is an outspoken critic of the Patriot Act and told the story of how it was passed into law. i will summarize it here for you : immediately after 9/11 Bush and Ashcroft put together a security bill, in order to fight terrorism,
titled: "The U.S.A Patriot Act" and submitted it to congress. The members of congress felt that the bill was too draconian and comprimised too many civil rights. Congress made some reccomendations concerning the protection of civil liberties and sent the bill back to the white house. For 6 weeks this went on. This is how our governmental system of checks and balances is supposed to work. Finally after 6 weeks of negociations congress thought they had a bill that would be acceptable to those who were concerned about fighting terrorism and to those who were concerned about protecting civil rights. On the night before the bill was to come up for the vote though, G.W. Bush and Ashcroft got together and decided that congress had watered down the Patriot Act too much and that the government simply had to have more power. In the wee hours of the night Bush and Ashcroft re-wrote the bill, w/out any of the comprimises which had been hammered out w/congress over the previous 6 week period. They did this w/out changing the title of the bill. The next day the bill was up for a vote but unbeknownst to congress it was not the U.S.A Patriot Act that they thought it was. Instead it was the same original bill that they had found too draconian when it was 1st sent to the house. G.W. and Ashcroft duped congress into passing their draconian and anti-democratic bill. Congress was simply tricked. Housemember Tom Udall corroborates this story
This story which i heard 1st hand, right from the 11th Ohio district congress woman's mouth, is indicative of George W. Bushs' true character. He is always talking about spreading democracy and the importance of democratic values but he does not practice what he preaches. If he had democratic values he would have said to the congress: "Hey I got an idea. I realize it might not be popular but we'll take a vote on it and if you guys don't like it well, then, since i believe in democracy, i have to accept it, etc,etc..." But that is not what happened. George W. Bush is a fascist, war mongering chump. He is an international embarressment and a humilliation to America. Shame on anyone who voted for him for electing an idiot.
The other thing that concerns me is why wasn't this reported on by the media. It should have been a front page scandal around the world?