Thursday, December 29, 2005

For your review

or not.

Peace, Earth & Justice News

Affair of Illegal Interrogations of Pakistani Immigrants in Greece Embarrasses London and Athens

"These assertions are absolutely baseless," the Foreign Office (visibly embarrassed by this media tempest on account of the diplomatic cover offered to "6" agents deployed abroad) limited itself to declaring. To protect the identity of one of Her Majesty's spies named by the Greek journal, the British media were "muzzled" through the intervention of a government injunction prohibiting publication of his name. Moreover it was unofficially emphasized that the revelations in question are provided by a Greek investigative journal that often tends to the sensational.


Fear Destroys What Bin Laden Could Not

Had anyone said our president would invade a country and kill 30,000 of its people claiming a threat that never, in fact, existed, then admit he would have invaded even if he had known there was no threat - and expect America to be pleased by this - I would have thought our nation's sensibilities and honor had been eviscerated.


Exploiting Fear and Insecurity

To date, they still don't get it. Possibly because they have no reasoned arguments or because fear mongering has gotten them more visibility than they ever had before, they persist. Fear, it appears, is the only arrow they have in their quiver.


The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.

Censuring Bush Requires Citizens' Help

Bonifaz is right. But it is unlikely that the effort to censure Bush and Cheney, let alone impeach them, will get far without significant organizing around the country. After all, the House is controlled by allies of the president who have displayed no inclination to hold him to account. Indeed, only a few Democrats, such as Conyers, have taken seriously the constitutional issues raised by the administration's misdeeds.


I would much rather see the House moving towards articles of impeachment.

See also Censure Bush, Impeachment Buzz and The I-Word Is Gaining Ground, immediately below.

For anyone with understanding and respect for the Constitution, it is obvious that Bush has violated the Fourth Amendment and federal law. This is the definition of "high crimes and misdemeanors". Clinton lying about sex is nothing compared to this. It is timely and responsible to talk about impeachment. If the Republicans were loyal to the Constitution, they would be discussing impeachment. Bush has declared himself king in an undeclared war. We don't allow kings in this country. The Founding Fathers came here to avoid that.

2 comments:

Faye_Hart said...

This spying on everyone thing is really "bugging" me. No pun intended.
No one should be unaccountable.

Criminal Minds Fan said...

I think it just smells bad when Big Brother feels that they can do anything they want without due process. :(