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General Interest => Tacitus' Realm => Topic started by: Anonymous on September 04, 2005, 10:12:00 PM
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Sign the petition:
http://http://www.votetoimpeach.org/
Other sites:
http://http://www.impeach-bush-now.org/
http://http://www.thefourreasons.org/
http://http://www.impeachbushbumperstickers.com/
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Bush is a fascist.
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George Bush is a tyrant, a racist, and a liar, who is responsible for scores of thousands of deaths. His government is destroying our national pride and shredding the constitution.
Clearly, he and his government are guilty of gross dereliction of duty, we see it all over the news.
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On 2005-09-07 07:23:00, Anonymous wrote:
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A MESSAGE FROM RAMSEY CLARK:
HURRICANE KATRINA, ANOTHER IMPEACHABLE CRIME
Dear xxxxx,
The stunning human tragedy of Katrina makes the impeachment of President Bush more urgent. His priority is not poor people, but militarism to exploit the poor at home and abroad.
President Bush sent National Guard units to Iraq from Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi in a criminal war of aggression and military occupation. They were thus unavailable to provide emergency services in their own states, or protect their own families. He refused to return them from Iraq to save and serve their own people, instead only authorizing the return of some Air National Guard personnel to protect and repair equipment at an Air Force Base. The forces and the resources that they command should be used to meet people's needs, not for violence.
His tax cuts for the rich, huge increases in military spending and deliberate slashes in social programs, including those funds specifically requested for flood control and to strengthen dikes in New Orleans and the surrounding areas, and his complete failure to even consider emergency transportation for the known poor in the path of a level-5 hurricane, followed by days of failure to send federal emergency relief personnel to seek and save the many thousands whose lives were known to be threatened, who were pleading for help on television and who faced death, was criminal negligence at best, and a failure to faithfully perform his duties as President.
George W. Bush will never recognize the rights or human dignity of the immense and growing population of Americans - overwhelmingly African American and other minorities and elderly - living in Third World conditions here at home. They were the principal victims of Katrina, as they are of his failure to assure equal protection of the laws to all. Their plight and peril will worsen while President Bush remains President.
The only act that can stop President Bush from continuing his criminal war of aggression against Iraq and his arrogant criminal acts and threats against Cuba, Haiti, Iran, Korea, Syria, Venezuela and any country in his path is impeachment. Impeachment is an act already two years past due. The cost of delay is staggering: two thousand U.S. military deaths, ten thousand and more wounded, many thousands more disabled, more than 100,000 Iraqi deaths, several hundred thousand injured, nearly $200,000,000 in federal funds, and even greater damage to Iraq in shattered lives and smashed cities and infrastructure. The cost of delay, already staggering, is greater every day.
While proclaiming freedom his credo, George W. Bush has done more to destroy freedom and the human dignity which it nourishes than all other Presidents in our history. Who would have dreamed of Abu Ghraib, scores of prisoners murdered, assassinations and summary executions, Guantanamo, thousands imprisoned in the U.S. without Constitutional protections, or sent to be tortured in client states with impunity, all for a President and those acting for him? What prior President has proclaimed himself above the law, coerced more than 100 countries into bilateral treaties promising never to surrender a U.S. citizen to the International Criminal Court?
The world watches and wonders why, if the American people are free, they fail to resist the criminal violence of their President.
The only act that can redeem the United States in the hearts and minds of those still capable of forgiving and believing our government can change its violent ways is the impeachment of George W. Bush and the responsible officials of his administration before it is too late.
The time to begin a final drive for impeachment is now. Together, we are not helpless. Power is in the people united for peace. Perseverance through the midterm Congressional elections in November 2006 can force incumbent members of the House of Representatives to impeach President Bush or face defeat. Failing that, it can restore integrity and honor to the President's oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
The Constitution, written with the abuses of King George III painfully in mind, is unequivocal in the action required for criminal conduct of civil officers of the United States:
"The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." Article II, Section 4.
The Nuremberg Judgment proclaimed war of aggression "the Supreme international crime." World War II was comprised of wars of aggression. President Bush boasted assassination and summary executions in his 2003 State of the Union message.
We need your help. Vote to Impeach. Persuade others to vote to impeach now.
The impeachment campaign will be achieving its largest ever street visibility by organizing a huge contingent on September 24th, at what will be the largest peace demonstration in Washington D.C. since the war of aggression against Iraq began in March 2003. The demonstration will call loud and clear for impeachment, withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, and full reparations to the victims of U.S. violence.
We are organizing buses from many cities on September 24th. Ticket prices are being kept low so that everyone who wants to come can attend. Printing banners, signs, posters add to the expenses. We are also preparing to publish another round of full page ads in the New York Times and other newspapers so that the message of impeachment resonates not only on September 24, but in the critical weeks and months ahead.
We need money now to help promote and transport people who want peace to Washington on September 24, for the next round of newspaper ads, and for the acceleration and continuation of the impeachment drive into the Congressional elections next year. Please take a moment to make a much needed donation:
http://www.pephost.org/site/R?i=J7VG8arl3O8IKGiA6d6p-A. (http://www.pephost.org/site/R?i=J7VG8arl3O8IKGiA6d6p-A.).
Sincerely,
Ramsey Clark
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Let's not forget The Mayor of New Orleans and the Governor of Louisiana and all the other grand standing finger pointing politicians. There is enough blame to go around especially the Mayor and Gov, those two incompetent dumb asses were the first ones in line and they failed to save the people who had no means of leaving N.O. and to be prepared.
Talk about piss poor leadership from the top to the bottom, Bush all the way to the Mayor of New Orleans makes me sick.
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Patriot, the other day I watched a congressional hearing on hurricane preparedness that took place in June of this year. I saw and heard those same officials from NO making plans w/ Fed officials from FEMA and other agencies in the event of a big storm. They knew that a cat 3 would breach the levies and that they had roughly 150k people who would be unable to evacuate. They asked for FEMA or someone to start sending in transport buses at least two days before expected landfal. They knew, they just don't care.
But look around the president. Who are his closest advisors, funders and supporters? Why, you should recognize some names there. They're our old buddies. These crazy bastards honestly believe that it's more important to send those choppers and SWAT teams to protect us from cannabis than to worry about those silly old failing levies. Never mind those silly old failing dams along the Allagheny, Mon and Ohio. God will provide, after all. And if we get hit w/ another big storm, why they'll just blame it on the fags and druggies and redouble their efforts to do God's work in chastizing them so that God won't deem to punish us w/ another big storm.
Patriot, you're wrong. And it's so sad. You're a good guy, as I remember. And these crazy bastards are not worthy of your fidelity. I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.
--Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist
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Ginger, all I meant by my post was shit rolls down hill. From Bush who DOES NOT HAVE my support, to the Mayor of New Orleans they all fucked up and failed the people. It is a sad day, and you are right they do not give a shit, at least until it?s their ass on the line for causing thousands of deaths by not providing or should I say following an evacuation plan. Some people that had the means to leave stayed that?s their fault but my heart aches for the people who did not have the means, the children that died and will die saddens me. I blame Bush, FEMA, The Gov, and the Mayor. Don't get me wrong they didn't cause the hurricane as some idiots seem to claim but they failed to save thousands of lives by sitting back on their laurels and pointing fingers. My company is currently working with relief efforts, I will be heading down their in a few days to assist in rebuilding communications networks destroyed in the hurricane, I am all ready sick to my stomach to imagine what I will see.
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Oh, don't get me started on the global warming argument! Yes, folks, the globe is warming. However, just one volcano erruption (of which there are many all over the planet, continually, even at the bottom of the ocean) releases more greenouse gasses than all the cars every manufactured, ever!
It's a stark reality that we're just going to have to deal with.
But, either way, I think the root of our problem (that part of it that we can address.... think Serenety Prayer here if you like) is that our leaders are bug all nuts! The people who comandeer roughly half of our productivity in the form of various taxes and mandates, who make our laws, who direct our military operations, who set our priorities in just about every area of our lives, lost touch w/ reality decades ago and haven't checked back for messages.
The solution is really pretty simple, though dauntingly difficult to carry off. What if we just ignored them? What if we took our federal tax returns and, instead of writing another check to these dangerous lunatics, we gave that cash to trustworthy local efforts--like, say, a fund to rebuild our local Ohio Valley dam system before it fails? What if a receipt for such donations were accepted by local law enforcement and courts as adequate excuse for not supporing the dangerous lunatics inside the Beltway? Since those jokers have demonstrated so thoroughly their inability and unwillingness to take care of us, why not take care of ourselves. Do what the western states are doing wrt medical marijuana. Sure, there are federal laws. And if DEA wants to enforce them, they'll have to provide all the manpower, all the equipment, all the judiciery resources and all the rest. No local cop or CHP officer will lift a finger to help.
Isn't that just about the most peaceful and orderly way to get out from under a corrupt empire? Can't we just agree to ignore them?I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
--Abraham Lincoln
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Ginger Warbis ~ Antigen
Drug war POW
Seed Chicklett `71 - `80
Straight, Sarasota
10/80 - 10/82
Apostate 10/82 -
Anonymity Anonymous
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Sadly, even this display of special interests
and not caring about non-whites and the poor
will not get the Republicans out of office.
They will just smash-mouth anyone who runs
for office, and the dumb ass citizens will
vote Republican.
It has worked flawlessly, and there is no
reason to believe anything will change.
The American people are conditions to vote
emotionally and let the facts become secondary.
In another month this hurricane will be long
forgotten, just like the Iraq war ...
Sad, but true!
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CNNUSATODAYGALLUP POLL: ONLY 13% BLAME BUSH?
Wed Sep 07 2005 10:42:26 ET
A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll of 609 adults taken September 5-6 shows:
Blame Game -- 13% said George W. Bush is "most responsible for the problems in New Orleans after the hurricane"; 18% said "federal agencies"; 25% said "state and local officials"; 38% said "no one is to blame"; 6% had no opinion. -- 29% said that "top officials in the federal agencies responsible for handling emergencies should be fired"; 63% said they should not; 8% had no opinion.
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Government Performance -- 10% said George W. Bush has done a "great" job in "responding to the hurricane and subsequent flooding"; 25% said "good"; 21% said "neither good nor bad"; 18% said "bad"; 24% said "terrible"; 2% had no opinion. -- 8% said federal government agencies responsible for handling emergencies have done a "great" job in "responding to the hurricane and subsequent flooding"; 27% said "good"; 20% said "neither good nor bad"; 20% said "bad"; 22% said "terrible"; 3% had no opinion. -- 7% said state and local officials in Louisiana have done a "great" job in "responding to the hurricane and subsequent flooding"; 30% said "good"; 23% said "neither good nor bad"; 20% said "bad"; 15% said "terrible"; 5% had no opinion.
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On 2005-09-07 12:44:00, Antigen wrote:
"Oh, don't get me started on the global warming argument! Yes, folks, the globe is warming. However, just one volcano erruption (of which there are many all over the planet, continually, even at the bottom of the ocean) releases more greenouse gasses than all the cars every manufactured, ever!
It's a stark reality that we're just going to have to deal with.
But, either way, I think the root of our problem (that part of it that we can address.... think Serenety Prayer here if you like) is that our leaders are bug all nuts! The people who comandeer roughly half of our productivity in the form of various taxes and mandates, who make our laws, who direct our military operations, who set our priorities in just about every area of our lives, lost touch w/ reality decades ago and haven't checked back for messages.
The solution is really pretty simple, though dauntingly difficult to carry off. What if we just ignored them? What if we took our federal tax returns and, instead of writing another check to these dangerous lunatics, we gave that cash to trustworthy local efforts--like, say, a fund to rebuild our local Ohio Valley dam system before it fails? What if a receipt for such donations were accepted by local law enforcement and courts as adequate excuse for not supporing the dangerous lunatics inside the Beltway? Since those jokers have demonstrated so thoroughly their inability and unwillingness to take care of us, why not take care of ourselves. Do what the western states are doing wrt medical marijuana. Sure, there are federal laws. And if DEA wants to enforce them, they'll have to provide all the manpower, all the equipment, all the judiciery resources and all the rest. No local cop or CHP officer will lift a finger to help.
Isn't that just about the most peaceful and orderly way to get out from under a corrupt empire? Can't we just agree to ignore them?I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
--Abraham Lincoln
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Ginger Warbis ~ Antigen
Drug war POW
Seed Chicklett `71 - `80
Straight, Sarasota
10/80 - 10/82
Apostate 10/82 -
Anonymity Anonymous"
There is a way to stop paying taxes and do just what you are saying Ginger. I know some Quakers that have refused to pay since the late 60s. Of course it came with a price though. One was a university professor and was fired over some trumped up charges and they made it impossible for him to be hired at any other universitys.
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Does anyone know what companies and things we should boycott to stymie the World Bank and Bush and his robber baron friends? To really disempower and frustrate them.
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God sent the rains and storms to that area and destroyed gambling houses in Biloxi. I applaud God that no innocents died. George Bush had nothing to do with it. Th House of the rising sun is under water and now these people must begin anew and be real Saints. Not voodoo people. That area was full of sin.
I don't think we're here for anything, we're just products of evolution. You can say 'Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose' but I'm anticipating a good lunch.
--Dr. James Watson, American biologist
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Whether you believe that humans are contributing to global warming or not, it is happening and there are some practical things to consider:
Published on Wednesday, September 7, 2005 by TomDispatch.com
Sucker's Bets for the New Century:
The U.S. after Katrina
by Bill McKibben
If the images of skyscrapers collapsed in heaps
of ash were the end of one story -- the U.S. safe
on its isolated continent from the turmoil of the
world -- then the picture of the sodden Superdome
with its peeling roof marks the beginning of the
next story, the one that will dominate our
politics in the coming decades of this century:
America befuddled about how to cope with a planet
suddenly turned unstable and unpredictable.
Over and over last week, people said that the
scenes from the convention center, the highway
overpasses, and the other suddenly infamous
Crescent City venues didn't "look like America,"
that they seemed instead to be straight from the
Third World. That was almost literally accurate,
for poor, black New Orleans (whose life had never
previously been of any interest to the larger
public) is not so different from other poor and
black parts of the world: its infant mortality
and life expectancy rates, its educational
achievement statistics mirroring scores of
African and Latin American enclaves.
But it was accurate in another way, too, one full
of portent for the future. A decade ago,
environmental researcher Norman Myers began
trying to add up the number of humans at risk of
losing their homes from global warming. He looked
at all the obvious places -- coastal China,
India, Bangladesh, the tiny island states of the
Pacific and Indian oceans, the Nile delta,
Mozambique, on and on -- and predicted that by
2050 it was entirely possible that 150 million
people could be "environmental refugees," forced
from their homes by rising waters. That's more
than the number of political refugees sent
scurrying by the bloody century we've just
endured.
Try to imagine, that is, the chaos that attends
busing 15,000 people from one football stadium to
another in the richest nation on Earth, and then
multiply it by four orders of magnitude and
re-situate your thoughts in the poorest nations
on earth.
And then try to imagine doing it over and over
again -- probably without the buses.
Because so far, even as blogs and websites all
over the Internet fill with accusations about the
scandalous lack of planning that led to the
collapse of the levees in New Orleans, almost no
one is addressing the much larger problems: the
scandalous lack of planning that has kept us from
even beginning to address climate change, and the
sad fact that global warming means the future
will be full of just this kind of horror.
Consider the first problem for just a minute. No
single hurricane is "the result" of global
warming. But a month before Katrina hit, MIT
hurricane specialist Kerry Emmanuel published a
landmark paper in the British science magazine
Nature showing that tropical storms were now
lasting half again as long and spinning winds 50%
more powerful than just a few decades before. The
only plausible cause: the ever-warmer tropical
seas on which these storms thrive. Katrina, a
Category 1 storm when it crossed Florida, roared
to full life in the abnormally hot water of the
Gulf of Mexico. It then punched its way into
Louisiana and Mississippi -- the latter a state
now governed by Haley Barbour, who in an earlier
incarnation as a GOP power broker and energy
lobbyist helped persuade President Bush to renege
on his promise to treat carbon dioxide as a
pollutant.
So far the U.S. has done exactly nothing even to
try to slow the progress of climate change: We're
emitting far more carbon than we were in 1988,
when scientists issued their first prescient
global-warming warnings. Even if, at that moment,
we'd started doing all that we could to overhaul
our energy economy, we'd probably still be stuck
with the 1 degree Fahrenheit increase in global
average temperature that's already driving our
current disruptions. Now scientists predict that
without truly dramatic change in the very near
future, we're likely to see the planet's mercury
rise five degrees before this century is out.
That is, five times more than we've seen so far.
Which leads us to the second problem: For the ten
thousand years of human civilization, we've
relied on the planet's basic physical stability.
Sure, there have been hurricanes and droughts and
volcanoes and tsunamis, but averaged out across
the Earth, it's been a remarkably stable run. If
your grandparents inhabited a particular island,
chances were that you could too. If you could
grow corn in your field, you could pretty much
count on your grandkids being able to do
likewise. Those are now sucker's bets -- that's
what those predictions about environmental
refugees really mean.
Here's another way of saying it: In the last
century, we've seen change in human societies
speed up to an almost unimaginable level, one
that has stressed every part of our civilization.
In this century, we're going to see the natural
world change at the same kind of rate. That's
what happens when you increase the amount of heat
trapped in the atmosphere. That extra energy
expresses itself in every way you can imagine:
more wind, more evaporation, more rain, more
melt, more... more... more.
And there is no reason to think we can cope. Take
New Orleans as an example. It is currently pro
forma for politicians to announce that it will be
rebuilt, and doubtless it will be. Once. But if
hurricanes like Katrina go from once-in-a-century
storms to once-in-a-decade-or-two storms, how
many times are you going to rebuild it? Even in
America there's not that kind of money --
especially if you're also having to cope with,
say, the effects on agriculture of more frequent
and severe heat waves, and the effects on human
health of the spread of mosquito-borne diseases
like dengue fever and malaria, and so on ad
infinitum. Not to mention the costs of converting
our energy system to something less suicidal than
fossil fuel, a task that becomes more expensive
with every year that passes.
Our rulers have insisted by both word and deed
that the laws of physics and chemistry do not
apply to us. That delusion will now start to
vanish. Katrina marks Year One of our new
calendar, the start of an age in which the
physical world has flipped from sure and secure
to volatile and unhinged. New Orleans doesn't
look like the America we've lived in. But it very
much resembles the planet we will inhabit the
rest of our lives.
Bill McKibben is the author of many books on the
environment and related topics. His first, The
End of Nature, was also the first book for a
general audience on global warming. His most
recent is Wandering Home, A Long Walk Across
America's Most Hopeful Landscape.
© 2005 Bill McKibben
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Governor and Mayor at it again over the evacuation
September 8th, 2005 by Scared Monkeys -->
Can this situation get any more bizarre? Or should I say inept? At odds over the evacuation of New Orleans? A city in complete disarray and there is a question still of whether to evacuate.
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco seemed at odds with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin Wednesday, hours after the mayor ordered the mandatory evacuation of the crippled Crescent City by force if necessary.
Its been how many days since Hurricane Katrina hit and the governor is still not calling for a mandatory evacuation. What is she waiting for the next hurricane to come into the gulf coast area? The continual lack of foresight and leadership demonstrated by Governor Blanco has been catastrophically incompetent. Certainly Mayor Nagin has been no pillar of leadership; however, he has some flashes of normalcy where he doesn?t seem to be completely over his head. On the other hand, Governor Blanco seems like she may need to be shown the door. And still the Governor cannot pull the trigger on issuing a mandatory evacuation.
Nagin late Tuesday authorized law enforcement officers to force the evacuation of the estimated 10,000 residents who refuse to heed orders to leave.
But in a Wednesday interview with FOX News, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco (search) said she had not signed off on the decision.
?The mayor certainly has ordered that but the governor, and that would be me, would have to enforce it or implement it. We are trying to determine whether there is an absolute justification for that,? she told FOX News.
One wonders what else Governor Blanco could have prevented in this disaster? One does not have to look too far these days. Major Garrett of Fox News tells another tale of ineptitude or poor judgment as seen courtesy of the Politcal Teen.
Major Garrett explained that FEMA/Red Cross had a truckload of water and other necessities , however the Louisiana Department of Homeland Security DENIED it. Why? Because they didn?t want to attract more people to the Superdome or the convention center, they want to get them out. Garrett also brings to light that FEMA couldn?t initially bring the National Guard into Louisiana because it is not their jurisdiction. Who has to give them jurisdiction? *Drumroll please* GOVERNOR KATHLEEN BLANCO.
The Radioblogger has the full transcript of the Hugh Hewitt and Major Garrett interview.
MG: Well, the Red Cross, Hugh, had pre-positioned a literal vanguard of trucks with water, food, blankets and hygiene items. They?re not really big into medical response items, but those are the three biggies that we saw people at the New Orleans Superdome, and the convention center, needing most acutely. And all of us in America, I think, reasonably asked ourselves, geez. You know, I watch hurricanes all the time. And I see correspondents standing among rubble and refugees and evacuees. But I always either see that Red Cross or Salvation Army truck nearby. Why don?t I see that?
HH: And the answer is?
MG: The answer is the Louisiana Department of Homeland Security, that is the state agency responsible for that state?s homeland security, told the Red Cross explicitly, you cannot come.
Wizbang has more on the just unbelievable lack or wisdom and leadership.
Governor Kathleen Blanco kept the Louisiana National Guard from assisting the New Orleans police department
The Captain?s Quarters blogging on the these incredible to believe events.
The Junkyard Dog with Let Them Eat Cake.
The Anchoress , Gov. Blanco still dithering?
What? Say WHAT?
There is a problem, here, with the Governor of Louisiana, who fiddles and fiddles before she cries, but refuses to let anyone else take the reins.
Update: Rusty at My Pet Jawa comments on Blanco preventing Red Cross food and water to the Super Dome.
Posted in Politics, Bizarre, Natural Disaster | No Comments »
http://www.scaredmonkeys.com (http://www.scaredmonkeys.com)
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Two things I ran accross today.
July 15, 2004
This Is Kerry On Drugs
Starve a peasant, feed a terrorist
Mike Krause and Dave Kopel
For those who oppose the federal government's disastrous war on drugs, there are many things to dislike about the Bush Administration, not the least of which is its shameless?and dangerous?use of the war on terror to prop up the failed drug war and the accompanying $18 billion dollar bureaucracy. And there is no indication that four more years of a Bush presidency will offer anything but more of the same.
But anyone who thinks a vote for John Kerry means a vote for a more liberalized approach to drug policy should think again.
http://www.reason.com/hod/dk071504.shtml (http://www.reason.com/hod/dk071504.shtml)
Remember those multi-million dollar Super Bowl ads that came out right after Büsh's first term? The ones indicting 13yo pot smokers as terroist supporters? Did we really think these delusional zealots were going to use that money and power to keep us safe against real dangers? How could they? They're fucking delusional! They were delusional prior to that election and the next gang is likely to be even more far removed from reality than the last.
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So yeah, I'm not going to support or condemn anyone specific for what's going on here.
And another thing to think about when we start pointing fingers is this. The government is never equipped to handle a crisis like this. There's too much bureaucracy -- initiative-stifling bureaucracy which prevents swift, effective action. I would like to hear from government employees on this. The nature of that bureaucracy is such that you have very specific guidelines to follow for even the most minute tasks. You need approval for just about everything, and the person you need approval from usually needs approval to give you the approval.
It's not as easy as say rounding up 4 of your co-workers and saying, "We've got someone at such and such an address, let's go grab her and get her out of there." Now add a destroyed or disabled command and control center to that bureaucracy and you've got a total and complete mess.
You (as a civilian) don't need "Approved" stamped on 3 different forms before you can run into your neighbor's house and pull them out. I hope this makes sense.
--Michael Barnett
That's from a former Special forces guy in the downtown business district in New Orleans, keeping his company's websites up and running. Tough mother fucker, eh?
I think this illustrates one of the more important aspects of the mess we're in; giving money and power to any government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenaged boys. I do hope that people start to come to terms w/ this in a little less rhetorical way now. Just don't expect a huge, centralized government to take care of you on an individual or collective basis; not when they're selling you the bill of goods nor when it comes due.
Till your Victory Garden right now!
Don't laugh when you leave this courtroom, thinking you have beat the system because you have looked these things up yourself. We are going to get you down the road.
Anonymity Anonymous (http://fornits.com/anonanon)
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Impeach the fukn bastard. Only problem is a Nixon scenario. Cheney will pardon him and fuk us even harder. If he doesnt keel over first, how many pig hearts can he go through.
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I'll fuck ya even harder SyN :wink:
-love, NAILZ
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Bush identifies scapegoat
Breaking News: FEMA chief relieved of Katrina duties
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In a faux press conference:
President Bush has just announced his official
scapegoat for the New Orleans debacle.
He apologized at how long it took to find
someone to blame.
In a related announcement the President
said he is now free to begin planning for
his next vacation.
Then he left the White House to play golf ...
***USATODAY.com Breaking News***
WASHINGTON - Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown is being removed from his role in managing the Bush administration's Hurricane Katrina relief efforts and is returning to Washington, Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff announced.
For more on this story, go to http://www.usatoday.com (http://www.usatoday.com).
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I keep hearing that Katrina was an act of God unlike 911 that was an act of terror. This maynot be the case. It is a fact that our government has been involved in weather modification for years.
http://www.pureenergysystems.com/news/2 ... index.html (http://www.pureenergysystems.com/news/2005/09/06/9600160_Weather_Modification/index.html)
Did our own government or foreign power create Katrina? I don't know but it sure seems odd.
Have you ever heard of HARP?
http://www.wealth4freedom.com/truth/6/HAARP.htm (http://www.wealth4freedom.com/truth/6/HAARP.htm)
I don't believe a damn thing our govenment and/or the national media is throwing at us. There job is to deceive and contol us lemmings don't you think? And weather being an act of god may not be true after all.
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Here is some more info on Haarp.
http://www.wealth4freedom.com/science/HAARP.htm (http://www.wealth4freedom.com/science/HAARP.htm)
Come on people face the music, we are being lied to. Have you ever seen this information before on your local news cast? Why??
It's very simple, deceive the masses, keep them stupid, and expand government control.
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Many Americans are asking the President to fire Michael Brown, head of FEMA. Unfortunately, due to the red tape, firing Brown will take 6 to 8 months. For now the best that can be expected is to take responsibility of managing Katrina's damage away from the head of FEMA.
Now Brown will have more time to golf with the president. There really is a silver lining to
political moves.
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Pres. Bush sent V.P. Cheney to New Orleans. Is that really what they need down there? Another person requiring emergency medical help?
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Congress announced a plan to rename the Gulf of Mexico. They want to call it Persian Gulf 2 in hopes that the President would send troops there faster.
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Big news: Pres. Bush announced a plan to put a man on Mars. It's the head of FEMA.........
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You know the difference between FEMA and Social Security? You might actually live long enough to get benefits from Social Security.
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Today convoys of troops and aid started to arrive along the Gulf Coast. 5 days after the hurricane. Kind of makes you miss the innocent days when Mr. Bush only sat on his ass for 7 minutes.
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He announced he has a plan; unfortunately it's a faith-based plan that involves getting two of every animal onto a big boat.
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Day 27 -- Bush uses 70,000 gallons of fuel to fly home to deal with the oil crisis.
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Hurricane Katrina has been particularly hard on Pres. Bush, who was forced to end his vacation two days early. You know, if he doesn't use his vacation days, he loses them, so this has really hit him hard.
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What is really funny:
just 3 more years of the Bush administration ... !
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I guess the glaciers are melting for no reason.
What evidence would the naysayers accept as proof?
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It's getting warmer that's for sure. I just don't think it's from man. It's from the Sun. The sun operates in cycles too as you know. There are many scientist that point to global warming as a direct result to increased solar activity from the Sun. This makes more sense to me.
That aside it is a moot point. We still will experience the effects of a warmer climate. But in time this to will change.
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anyone see the daily show showing the guy telling cheney to fuk off. cant spin this one. no matter how hard they try this could start the downward spiral.
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On 2005-09-09 09:19:00, Anonymous wrote:
"I'll fuck ya even harder SyN :wink:
-love, NAILZ"
nice try, not nailz, just a DINK in anon clothing.
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VoteToImpeach.org
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ON SATURDAY THE IMPEACHMENT MESSAGE GOES TO WASHINGTON
JOIN RAMSEY CLARK AT THE VOLUNTEERS' TENT
Dear xxxxx,
It is nearly impossible to keep up with the surge of support and participation in the September 24 anti-war demonstration and the massive ImpeachBush contingent that will be assembling at 11:00 am at the White House's Ellipse.
We will be joining Ramsey Clark, Cindy Sheehan, Actor Jessica Lange, Congresswomen Cynthia McKinney and Maxine Waters, British parliamentarian George Galloway, survivors of Hurricane Katrina and more than 100,000 others in the most vivid repudiation of George Bush's criminal war.
Impeachment volunteers will start gathering at 10:00am at a large tent, adorned with beautiful ImpeachBush.org banners, on the grounds of the Ellipse (south side of the White House.)
We are excited to announce that Ramsey Clark will join us at the volunteers' tent on the Ellipse prior to the start of the 11:30 am rally. Ramsey Clark has been spearheading this movement.
We need hundreds of volunteers to come to the ImpeachBush.org tent so that people can pick up leaflets and other impeachment materials to be distributed during the course of the day. If you think you can join us as a volunteer, please come to the tent when you arrive at the Ellipse in the morning.
It is extremely heartening that so many people have supported this campaign. So many volunteers have taken time to make this movement grow.
Many have continued to show their support. Please make a much needed contribution now for the growing costs of this demonstration - from many thousands of signs and flyers to buses to help get people to DC. Help us fill the streets with ImpeachBush banners and placards - and people!
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The calendar in the weeks ahead is full and we ask everyone to participate in some way. The impeachment movement can't do it without you:
THREE INITIATIVES FOR THE IMPEACHMENT MOVEMENT
* September 24: Mobilize a massive contingent for the National March on Washington DC. This is a demonstration initiated by the peace movement and it is shaping up to be the largest demonstration since the beginning of the Iraq war. We will make the demand "Impeach Bush" highly visible throughout the day. The ImpeachBush movement will be assembling at the south side of the White House (an area called the Ellipse at 11:00 am). You can pick up ImpeachBush banners, placards, signs, literature, hats, and petitions. We need volunteers to help us dispatch people and materials starting in the early morning of September 24. If you can help out please send an email letting us know your availability to be an ImpeachBush.org volunteer.
* September 26: Flood Congress with emails calling for Impeachment. ImpeachBush/VoteToImpeach.org is setting up an easy to use mechanism so that hundreds of thousands of emails can be sent by people all over the country on Monday September 26 demanding that their elected official introduce Articles of Impeachment for George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and other high officials.
* Take out full page newspaper ads. We have placed full page newspaper ads in the New York Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle and in newspapers in other parts of the country. We are soliciting funds now so that the next round of newspaper ads can follow directly after the September 24 mass demonstrations and the September 26 National Lobbying Day.
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War risk should be shared
By DENNIS ROGERS, Staff Writer
It took me until age 19 to realize I knew everything. The only thing I didn't know was how to make a living. Every job I found required an apron and a goofy paper hat. I was on a career path that offered little hope for money, fun or girls.
That was also the year the college dean became tired of me skipping classes and hanging out in the library all day. He said since I had only passed one class in three full semesters, perhaps I wasn't college material after all. Imagine that.
So I went to see the Army recruiter. He took one look at my buff 111-pound physique and said I had to pass a test before he'd talk to me. Like the dean, he assumed I was as dumb as I looked and didn't want to waste time with a loser.
His interest perked up when I aced his little soldier test. He went from "don't bother me, boy" to "look at the many opportunities the Army offers a fine young man like you."
I was, in Army lingo, a Category I. That made me prime rib in a fatback world.
In 1966, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara declared that 100,000 young men formerly barred from military service because of low scores on the same Armed Forces Qualification Test would be allowed to join the military. He said the benefits of a life in uniform should not be denied those classified as Category IV.
That's what he said. What he meant was that most Category I, II and III enlistees were able to choose training that kept them out of the really dangerous jobs, like the infantry.
The brass was running low on people to send in harm's way. Since Category IV recruits got little choice in assignments, a lot of them ended up in combat jobs the rest of us thought we were too smart to take.
We called them "cannon fodder." Today, more than 2,000 of their names are engraved on that sad wall in Washington, D.C.
Now we're in another ugly war. As with Vietnam, recruiters are having a hard time meeting quotas because fewer young folks are willing to risk their lives in a war that appears to be losing the support of the American people.
So what to do? Rather than a simple, no-deferment military draft that would spread the dangers of wartime service across the full spectrum of American life -- rich and poor, smart and slow, men and women, college kids and drop-outs -- the Pentagon is again turning to Category IV kids to fill military ranks.
The Army has announced it will allow up to 4 percent of new recruits to be from Category IV, up from the previous 2 percent. Today's Category IV includes kids who scored as low as the 16th percentile on tests the military gives to all potential recruits.
Think about that: 16th percentile. That means 84 percent of those who took the test did better than these new soldiers. So much for the argument that we can't have a military draft because borderline soldiers can't be trained to handle high-tech military gear.
If the fight to keep Americans safe from terrorism is worth the lives of any of its young people, then it is worth the lives of all of them, the best and brightest as well as kids in Category IV.
The only fair way to share a war's sacrifice is a draft. Until then, it will be a rich man's war and a poor man's fight. Again.