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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Sept 15, 2006 20:17:03 GMT -6
George Bush continues his battle to legalize torture in the questioning of alleged terrorist detainees. Many feel his recent maniacal ranting for his pro-torture bill is designed to retroactively immunize himself from prosecution for previous war crimes he's committed. A Washington Post editorial from 9/15/06 sums it up best. "A Defining Moment for America
The president goes to Capitol Hill to lobby for torture.
Friday, September 15, 2006; A18
PRESIDENT BUSH rarely visits Congress. So it was a measure of his painfully skewed priorities that Mr. Bush made the unaccustomed trip yesterday to seek legislative permission for the CIA to make people disappear into secret prisons and have information extracted from them by means he dare not describe publicly.
Of course, Mr. Bush didn't come out and say he's lobbying for torture. Instead he refers to "an alternative set of procedures" for interrogation. But the administration no longer conceals what it wants. It wants authorization for the CIA to hide detainees in overseas prisons where even the International Committee of the Red Cross won't have access. It wants permission to interrogate those detainees with abusive practices that in the past have included induced hypothermia and "waterboarding," or simulated drowning. And it wants the right to try such detainees, and perhaps sentence them to death, on the basis of evidence that the defendants cannot see and that may have been extracted during those abusive interrogation sessions...."www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/14/AR2006091401587.html
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Post by kathaksung on Oct 3, 2006 16:36:27 GMT -6
429. Power grab (8/20/06)
In today's Mercury News, there is an article "US looks for lessons from British sleuths". It said British model gives agents more flexibility in monitoring and detaining suspects. "If you want to get a warrant, all you have to do is call up a minister". Sen. Pat Roberts, 4-Kan., said last week. In US, the equivalence of "a minister" is President, or Attorney General. In another word, administration authorize themselves the right to survey and monitor the citizen. The agents bypass the court system to do whatever they want to do.
Does the current system make the administration hard to work? Or as they said that they couldn't react immediately in emergency? They lied.
In current system, agents are allowed to react immediately without a court warrant to survey and wiretap in emergence, only they have to apply a warrant later. They were given a 7 days grace period. Time enough to prepare a paper work.
Then why did the administration omit the grace period, and rant on "impractical"? They want an unlimited power. Court system was set up to check the government if they abusing power. If administration think they do the right things, why they dare not want to apply a court approval later? Because they know they did something illegal. It's not about terrorist, it's about revenge, about power abusing. They worry about the revelation of the crime they committed themselves. And they know that kind of illegal action won't go through a court survey. That's why they pursue a warrantless surveillance.
Quote, "Stop the presidential power grab
Sen. Arlen Specter has crafted a bill that would rubber-stamp the program. Worse, it would essentially embed into federal law the notion that the president has the power under the Constitution to conduct electronic surveillance on anyone he wants, indefinitely and without judicial oversight, making a mockery of the right to privacy. The bill could come before the Senate Judiciary Committee as early as Thursday (8/3/06) and must be defeated.
.... If the Specter bill becomes law, court orders will no longer be required for electronic surveillance of ordinary Americans. Because wiretaps would be secret, their targets would never find out they were monitored, even if they were deemed to be innocent. It would be up to the American people to trust the government's claims that it is only monitoring terrorists. In short, it would be an invitation to wholesale abuses of power and to the return of the politically motivated domestic spying that was commonplace int 1960s and 1970s. " (Mercury News 8/2/2006)
The most important thing is: if this bill becomes law, then the principle of three separate powers which check and balance each other will collapse. A democracy will become a totalitarian. The Constitution will become a void check. US will be ruled by secret agency worse then Gestapo, KGB.
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Post by kathaksung on Oct 21, 2006 18:38:52 GMT -6
Chavez is brave enough to speak up against a super power, a war criminal. At this point, he is admirable.
You can't view him from the level of some coward who shy to express their kissing ass feeling but hurry to discredit in the name of "patriot", let alone those hypocrites who dress in "gentlemen and ladies" suit in the name of "educated" but with a bloody hand of massacre in Iraq.
To find an evil is easy. Check the hands of Chavez and Bush, which is tainted with blood. ....
(Quote, "Delegates and leaders from around the world streamed back into the chamber to hear Mr Chávez, and when he stepped down the vigorous applause lasted so long that it had to be curtailed by the chair. - Guardine U.K. )
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Post by kathaksung on Oct 31, 2006 15:18:35 GMT -6
Bush and Lieberman, American zionists He starts war in Mid-east, for the security of Israel. And he wants more (Iran and Syria) Bush doesn't care for the interest of US. He let American fight and die for his master. Says it's for Freedom. He is not a Republican. He is an American Zionist like Joe Lieberman. (Who is not a Demo, too). Both party now start to realize it. The reddest state rises to slam Bush. Re: Salt Lake City, Utah mayor slams 'dishonest, war-mongering' Bush David Edwards Published: Thursday August 31, 2006 During a rally held in Salt Lake City yesterday, thousands cheered Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson as he blasted George Bush as a "dishonest, war-mongering, human-rights-violating president." Utah is considered to be the "reddest" state, showing that there is growing debate about the Iraq war even in friendly Bush territory. www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Video_Salt_Lake_City_mayor_leads_0831.htmlRe: "Bush breaks rank to boost independent's bid 18 August 2006 WASHINGTON — President George Bush gave a boost to Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman's re-election bid as an independent this week by taking the rare step of refusing to endorse the Republican candidate running for Lieberman's US senate seat. It is highly unusual for a sitting president not to endorse a senate candidate from his own party and suggests the depth of the political machinations over Lieberman's seat after his defeat in last week's Democratic primary by Ned Lamont, a well-financed challenger running on an antiwar platform. www.businessday.co.za/articles/world.aspx?ID=BD4A252493
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Nov 3, 2006 16:41:56 GMT -6
"Then why did the administration omit the grace period, and rant on "impractical"? They want an unlimited power. Court system was set up to check the government if they abusing power. If administration think they do the right things, why they dare not want to apply a court approval later? Because they know they did something illegal.... They worry about the revelation of the crime they committed themselves. And they know that kind of illegal action won't go through a court survey. That's why they pursue a warrantless surveillance."
Kathaksung,
You hit the nail on the head. The Bush dictatorship is simply trying to cover up all of their illegal activity.
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Post by kathaksung on Nov 11, 2006 20:25:26 GMT -6
Bush makes US troops uncivilized.
Kerry tells the truth. Those American soldiers are ignorant or something as Kerry said, not much educated.
Bush herds the troop to an unjust war. He lets other people's children fight and die for the interest of a little group. And he says these soldiers are "smart", "patriot". That's cheap praises to cannon fodder. Bush won't let his own daughters to do that smart action.
So many US soldiers deserted. They know it's an unnecessary war. Pentagon even dare not to release that number.
More than 600,000 civilians died since Bush invades the Iraq. To occupy, kill Iraqi civilians, US troops become accomplice of a war criminal. There is reason to say they are uncivilized.
Not because they are soldiers of US, then they must be "smart". When their general is a Fascist minded war criminal, the soldiers in an unjust war can be said "uneducated" or more correctly - uncivilized.
Too bad some people are bound to Bush's war chariot decorated with "US" and have to follow him. They think that's patriot. It's not.
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Nov 12, 2006 17:18:38 GMT -6
Bush makes US troops uncivilized. Kerry tells the truth. Those American soldiers are ignorant or something as Kerry said, not much educated. No, Kerry meant that President Bush is "ignorant," and that his ignorance got us into Iraq. He meant that lack of study, and the resulting ignorance, is what caused Bush to send our troops into Iraq. Personally, I think it was greed and ulterior motives that got us into Iraq, at least on the part of the Bush Administration.
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Post by kathaksung on Nov 21, 2006 19:44:06 GMT -6
Quote, "Gunmen in military-style uniforms have kidnapped more than 100 men from a research institute belonging to Iraq's higher education ministry. news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6146152.stm A Holocaust in Iraq It's obviously an operation of CIA special force, or a special force trained by CIA. No one else could do it in such way. The strategy is to wipe out the Iraq elite which possibly will become opposing party when US troops withdraw from Iraq. US is systematically carring out a holocaust. Quote, "Soldiers say officers commanded them to 'kill all military age males' in Iraq Associated Press EL PASO, Texas - Four U.S. soldiers accused of murdering suspected insurgents during a raid in Iraq said they were under orders to "kill all military age males," according to sworn statements obtained by The Associated Press. www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-07-21-soldiers-statements_x.htm
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