Archive for September, 2006
LTE: After Protest, Specter Toes the Line
The only thing surprising in Steve Goldstein’s article
about Senator Specter’s decision to vote for the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which the Senator correctly characterized as “patently unconstitutional”, is how long it took for the Inquirer to catch up with what everyone else has known for the past three years: Arlen Specter talks a good [...]
Waterboard Holiday
This is what waterboarding looks like.
The photos come from Tuol Sleng Prison in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, now a museum documenting the depravity of the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot.
Given the Bush Administration’s efforts to emulate Pol Pot’s techniques, I offer you today’s very apt Friday video:
Holiday In Cambodia
Dear Mr. Bush…
“The party of FDR and the party of Harry Truman has become the party of cut and run.”
Yeah? Well YOUR family funded the Nazis.
George Bush’s grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.
The Guardian has obtained [...]
Eleven Traitors
I expect the Repulicans to act like the Nazi thugs they are.
I do not expect this behavior from Democrats.
The following Democrats are traitors to the Constitution:
Tom Carper (Del.)
Tim Johnson (S.D.)
Mary Landrieu (La.)
Frank Lautenberg (N.J.)
Bob Menendez (N.J)
Bill Nelson (Fla.)
Ben Nelson (Neb.)
Pryor (Ark.)
Jay Rockefeller (W. Va.)
Ken Salazar (Co.)
Debbie Stabenow (Mich.)
Gutless Connecticut for Liebermans saying Aye:
Joe Lieberman (Conn.)
Scum. [...]
Pledge
I pledge nothing
to the nothing
of the United States of Nothing,
And to the Nothing for which it nothings
One nothing, under nothing,
With nothing and nothing, for nobody.
Welcome to Gulag America
Feeling safer?
Here’s just one example of what’s in the bill that few people are aware of. Yale professor Bruce Ackerman writes in a Los Angeles Times op-ed: “Buried in the complex Senate compromise on detainee treatment is a real shocker, reaching far beyond the legal struggles about foreign terrorist suspects in the Guantanamo Bay fortress. [...]
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New York Times Obituaries page A-22
America, United States of
(b.July 4, 1776, d. September 28th, 2006)
An historic moment came yesterday when the world’s oldest democracy, it’s greatest and youngest nation quietly passed away in her sleep.
* mikey666’s diary :: ::
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“The world is a darker place.” lamented several saddened and tearful citizens. [...]
Phone calls
Only one Democrat, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, voted agaisnt the Specter/Leahy Amendment. The New York Times editorial page called for a filibuster.
I have been running up my cell phone minutes calling every Democrat in the Senate to stop this bill via filibuster. The time is ripe, and they have the support of the [...]
Specter Amendment Defeated, 51-49
Good bye to habeas corpus if this bill passes (and it’s expected to).
Here are the fuckers who voted to do away with your right to a fair trial. One of them, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, is a Democrat.
NAYs —51
Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Allen (R-VA)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burns (R-MT)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo [...]
Patrick Henry
Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights tend to the security of your liberty? Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings–give us that precious jewel, and you may take everything else! …Guard with jealous attention the [...]
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