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10 Oct 06 - 02:08 PM (#1855067) Subject: BS: W's strongest issue is a wet tissue From: Donuel The main Rove Bush strategy is to push the war on terror and security of the American people ahead of all other priorities. Well go ahead. What have you done mr bush? Then: The 9-11 conspiracy was allegely carried out by Saudi men who overstayed their visa. Now: Today there is zero accountability of tracking people who over stay their visas. Then: Homeland security will protect our ports and cities. Now: They cut homeland security funds to NYC and DC. They sold control of our ports to United Arab Emerites. Then: We had porous borders. Now: 6 years later we are thinking about building a mighty fence with leftover slush funds as the director of Homeland security deems appropriate in the future. Then: We had a modicum of civil rights and privacy. Now: Be it a trip to the library, a phone call, a bank withdrawl, a secret search of your home and secret confiscation of property... etc. all the way to ... if branded an enemy you will not have any rights to a trial. Then: We had a surplus to spend on security. Now: give or take a $ trillion in the hole. (our hole - their pile) As Amos said "JC on a crutch, who do they think they are?" Any rehtoric about the great Bush security can be punched through like a wet tissue. Moderates like Hillary won't make the above comparisons, but dammit I think strong candidates should. |
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10 Oct 06 - 04:44 PM (#1855242) Subject: RE: BS: W's strongest issue is a wet tissue From: Donuel Democracy Under Attack in the U.S. [Opinion] New law passed by Congress reminiscent of Hitler's Enabling Act Ronda Hauben (netizen2) Email Article Print Article Published 2006-10-04 07:16 (KST) The U.S. Congress has just passed a law that fundamentally changes the rights and protections afforded people under the U.S. Constitution. The law is called the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (S.3930). Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he knew the law violated the Constitution, as did others. That didn't stop them from voting for it. What is the significance of this new law? Essentially, it provides legal cover for the executive branch of government to violate the rights of the people in the U.S. The law says that if the government suspects that someone is an enemy of the U.S. or gives material aid to someone who is an enemy, that person can be taken into custody and held indefinitely with no way of challenging his or her detention. Only if the government decides to carry out a military trial -- a trial that is held in a way that is different from normal military trial procedures -- only then would that person have the ability to respond to being held in detention. This ability is also seriously limited by the way the new law modifies the processes and procedures that a person accused of a crime would have available. The new law essentially gives the executive branch of government the ability to create its own processes and procedures for how it will behave. And it removes any oversight processes from the other two branches of the government. This new law has been compared to the "Enabling Act" that Hitler used to consolidate fascism in Germany in March 1933. |
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10 Oct 06 - 11:37 PM (#1855532) Subject: RE: BS: W's strongest issue is a wet tissue From: The Fooles Troupe ... and rightly so... Donuel, you still want those cartoons you lost, a few of which I have? |
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11 Oct 06 - 11:46 AM (#1855882) Subject: RE: BS: W's strongest issue is a wet tissue From: Donuel Thats very kind of you. You can send me an email with inserts, (attachments are deleted) or if you are in the DC suburbs stop by anytime. |
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11 Oct 06 - 10:55 PM (#1856458) Subject: RE: BS: W's strongest issue is a wet tissue From: The Fooles Troupe Bit hard from Australia, mate! I have sent you an email... |