Freedom Is On The March (toon, commentary) ----------- >

[napkinz]

2005: Pessimism Unleashed

by Milo Clark

(Swans - December 19, 2005) How can I look at 2005 dispassionately? Is it my shadow over which I consistently trip?

I am thrown back most involuntarily to 1971-72 when Vietnam and Nixon were unraveling, imploding in Kohr's sense. Rove shadows Haldeman. Colson was the muscle mind of the times. McNamera played a combination Cheney and Rumsfeld.

The players in today's dramas were cutting their bureaucratic teeth in support roles. Those who were to define usurpation of conservative as a socio-political identity were lurking shadows in the corridors of power. The coup d'état of 2000 was a wet dream of adolescent power fantasies. ...

Incidentally and revealing, (Mike) Tucker is no fan of George W. Bush. "Ground truth in Iraq lends little to support President Bush's repeated assertion, in the fall of 2004, that 'freedom is on the march'. . . . Freedom is not on the march in Iraq. Radical Islam is on the march." (P. 226)

http://www.swans.com/library/art11/mgc172.html

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. We'll all be free in March??? Counting down now.... nt.

[napkinz]

2. March 2007

Step 1: Win the House back Nov. 2006
Step 2: Impeach
Step 3. Bush resigns in March 2007 to avoid conviction

[napkinz]

3. Time to Impeach Bush

It's Time to Impeach Bush for These Blatant Violations of the Law

by Andy Ostroy

Bush surely is deserving of impeachment. Here's a partial list of what should be ample ammunition for the House and Senate to serve justice on one of the most corrupt, tyrannical and treasonous presidents in history:

1. Falsifying intelligence and providing false information to Congress to unjustly and illegally invade Iraq, a sovereign nation.
2. Lying about Niger/Iraq uranium connection in 2003 State of the Union speech.
3. Diverting money appropriated by Congress for Afghanistan to planning the Iraq war.
4. Authorizing the use of taxpayer funds to pay for war-propaganda campaign in Iraq.
5. Authorizing of torture and Geneva Convention violations at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.
6. Inhumane, illegal treatment of detainees in the "War on Terror"
7. Leaking a covert CIA agent's identity as retaliation against a political enemy.
8. Illegally spying on Americans within the United States.
9. Illegal use of taxpayer funds to pay for Armstrong Anderson/No Child Left behind propaganda.

Let's hope the Democrats win back the House next November, which would enable them to commence impeachment hearings.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_andy_ost_051221_it_s_time_to_impeach.htm

[caffefwee]

4. FREEDOM ON THE MARCH by CHUCKMAN

http://miami.indymedia.org/news/2005/01/607_comment.php

[napkinz]

5. Bush's Violations

The Truth About Bush's Warrantless Spying - In violation of Federal Law - what IS impeachable?

NATIONAL SECURITY
The Truth About Bush's Warrantless Spying

On Saturday, President Bush acknowledged that he had personally authorized a secret warrantless domestic surveillance program more than three dozen times since October 2001. Bush's actions run contrary to the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which forbids "unreasonable searches" and sets out specific requirements for warrants, including "probable cause." They demonstrate a dangerous disregard for the basic liberties that serve as our nation's guiding values. They are also in violation of federal law. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) makes it a crime, punishable by up to five years in prison, to conduct electronic surveillance, except as "authorized by and conducted pursuant to a search warrant or court order." Moreover, since 1978, 18 U.S.C. Sec. 2511(2)(f) has directed that Title III and FISA "shall be the exclusive means by which electronic surveillance...and the interception of domestic wire and oral communications may be conducted." The President's actions were not necessary; if he had legitimate concerns about FISA, "the appropriate response would have been to go to Congress and expand it, not to blatantly violate the law." Below, we debunk the administration's attempts to justify Bush's actions.

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/3149

[napkinz]

6. The Constitutional crises of 2006

De facto dictatorship looms if America doesn't act now

In the waning days of 2005, a number of Beltway developments have pointed to 2006 as a pivotal year in the future -- if there is to be any -- of American democracy.
The most far-reaching of these has been the Bush administration's aggressive advocacy of its once-secret program of NSA spying on American citizens. No lawyer outside a small clique of Bush appointees has seriously defended the NSA program, already renewed 30 times by Bush, as legal. Indeed, the only way that it can possibly not be construed as a blatant, ongoing violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (note the key word: Foreign) is if the President has the authority, as Commander-in-Chief, to suspend or override any law. And this is precisely the claim George Bush is making.

Combine this with the fact that Bush and his cabal have also claimed that their so-called "War on Terror" -- the Dubya-launched war Bush is referring to when he calls himself a "wartime president" -- is one they expect, and presumably intend, to last for up to 100 years. In other words, what Bush is claiming is that for the next several generations, the rule of law and the Constitution need not apply. Bush is thus claiming the right as "wartime president" to do anything he likes. Anything. Hey, why not disband Congress? (There'd probably be a lot of public support for that one.) Why not suspend the 2008 election?

This is deeply alarming.

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=20120

[LittleClarkie]

7. That phrase just brings up the weirdest images

I keep reading march as "goosestep"

[napkinz]

8. Hence the Reich Wing