I've always thought Cheney was way out there - the most Voldemort-like official I've run across. But even in my harshest musings about the vice president, I never imagined that he would declare himself not only above the law, not only above the president, but actually his own dark planet - a separate entity from the White House.
Now we have it-- clear evidence that Cheney is again hiding, evading, avoiding the transparency and checks and balances that keep America safe and fair.
Today, the lamestream media are covering the story. But, if they follow the same old M.O., they will be off the story by tomorrow and on to the next kidnapping, the next off the wagon celebrity, the next siamese twins surgery, or an update on Paris, Anna Nicole or Michael Jackson.
Let's try something different. Tell them you want them to cover the Cheney story. Tell them you want them to put investagive journalists on the story-- if they still have any. Tell them that you want to hear about this more than about any of the distrations they usually waste the airwaves on. Tell them failure to do so is failure to do their job to protect democracy.
Tell their advertisers that you don't want to see more Paris Hilton, that you are disappointed in Larry King for giving her airtime.
Make two phone calls. Send two emails. Send two snail mail messages. You ought to be able to do it in ten minutes. Send this on to ten friends.
There are eight members of congress on the Cheney impeachment bill. Call your member of congress. Ask what your representative is doing about all of Cheney's abuses of the constitution. Ask why he doesnt' think the constitution is important enough to protect. Ask him or her to sign on to Kucinich's bill to impeach Cheney. That should take you three to five minutes.
Cheney's arrogant abuse of the constitution, the secrecy in which he's operated has been going on since the first days he was in office. He's gone too far. It's time to call for hearings and investigations. Reps conyers and Waxman should be subpoenaing Cheney current and former staffers to start building pressure. There's no need for a full impeachment. It will never go that far. As soon as Cheney sees the writing on the wall, he'll get a note from his doctor and resign for health reasons. I repeat. Cheney will resign for health reasons as soon as the heat starts to build under him. That's okay. We can prosecute after the 2008 elections are over.
So make the calls, send the emails and letters today. Recruit your friends. This is doable. Keep the stories about Cheney coming. Demand that the lamestream news network break their pattern and do their job.
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Rob, sure, I'll write the MSM, I could probably stand on my head naked (not a pretty sight) as they walk in their doors to go to work with a sign hanging form my toes asking them to report on this criminal organization we jokingly call our government. But you seriously think it would do any good? The MSM cares about as much about our opinions as the politicians care about them.
Boycotting their sponsors would get their attention more than anything we might say to them. I really don't know why progressive sights don't advocate general strikes. General strikes are an effective way to get the attention of those in power to change policy. Not everyone has the time and money to protest in the streets, but boycotting a product is easy, wearing a symbol for a day that stands out. Recently I sent a condom to the idiot congressman that suggested Mexicans should be given free condoms to keep their population here in control. Can you imagine what kind of effect a million telegrams being hand delivered to the floor of the Congress would have a day before they vote on a bill? If that would have been done before the vote on refunding the war, would they still have voted to do so?
The Washington Post allows comments and I'm sure they have some low level employee keeping score on how they lean, and I've seen where 90% of comments would rage against the machine and condemn WoPo for not going further or covering-up this or that. Does it change anything? No WoPo still acts like every other MSM outlet and follows the dictate of the people that sign their checks. And to me those are the people we should be targeting. If a million people boycotted Exxon/Mobile for a week you think you'd see action? If GE products were listed and people stopped buying them might that have a bigger effect than any single rant or even a million letters?
I know there are some that are advocating general strikes but not any of the major membership sites and I wonder why? Sites like Moveon, Huffington Post, Alternet and others have a combined membership of millions. Can you imagine if they all asked their members to to join in a general strike what kind of effect that would have? I've asked why they don't do it and get no response. I don't get it?
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Mr M (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 20 diaries, 1782 comments)
on Monday, June 25, 2007 at 10:28:25 AM
" In May of 2001, by presidential order, Cheney was handed direct control
of all wargame and drill operations. This meant he was solely in charge of the overlapping NORAD drills and wargames on the morning of 9/11, that prevented Standard Operating Procedure from being implemented, and
any of the hijacked planes being intercepted."
Dickhead Cheney had had himself IN AN UNPRECEDENTED MOVE;
appointed as singularly in charge of the FIVE war games going on at the EXACT same time as 9/11 ( the attacks were disguised as 'war games')
The CIA had also been enacting a simulation of a hijacked jet crashing into the Pentacon at the exact same time as well. #325
Now what ARE THE ODDS OF THAT ??!
Cheney is at least responsible, culpable, and Impeachable on the basis of negligence during 9/11, although testimony of Mineta and others crucifies him for standing down NORAD in front of witnesses.
The evidence that NO JET hit the Pentacon is now OUT, and posted near the bottom of my plot page at #481, 513, 538, 896, 897, 901
I couldn't agree with you more about Cheney. Personally I think Cheney & Bush should be prosecuted for their crimes & then hung side by side in a televised hanging from the White House Lawn.
But I don't understand why all of you keep referring to this as a Democracy we are trying to protect. Our Forefathers did not create a Democracy. They knew the horrors created in a Democracy. That's why they created a Republic so we could demand our elected reps be replaced when they get out of control.
No need to reply. I know you get to many emails all the time. I would just appreciate seeing it refereed to as a Republic in future articles as I belong to a group trying to restore our Republic.
Thanks for keeping up the fight as a true Patriot.
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Mitch LaRoche (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 22 comments)
on Monday, June 25, 2007 at 1:20:32 PM
For a moment I thought I had blundered onto some other site with bizarre political ideas at a conspiracy theorists picnic.
Cheney is without doubt a health hazzard for the world worthy of the title "unnatural disaster" but let's keep this real. 67000 or 200000 signatures are not going to do much what is needed is representative and senatorial pressure and a smoking gun to get rid of him. I would also wonder what real difference his departure would make. Let's be real the whole administration is rotten. After it has ended I wonder how may Resumes will show an 8 year work holiday overseas rather than admit culpability in the Bush catastrophe.
Rob the trouble is with arm chair commentary is exactly that it's armchair. There are alway people like me who would not to put a too fine a point on it but the 70's song says it all What I would like to do with the administration 'Up up in a puff of smoke'. To me there's a lot to be learned from English political history especially from Guy Fawkes. Seriously though what is needed it to somehow motivate the 'indifentude' (the indiferent multitude). To me the only way is to make sufferage universal and controlled by a Fed. dept. controlled by the congress as a whole. Likewise Supreme Judges should be selected for their jurisprudential skills and not by a partisan prez. Alternative make me emperor and yes "trust me".
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Andris (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 531 comments)
on Monday, June 25, 2007 at 9:29:29 PM
thanks for the reminder, Rob and thanks for helping the people with access to real news and info.
Now and then i tell MSM (usually after some crappy lies they just published about which i know better cuz i read and support independent media) that i boycott them and tell everyone to, and like growing number of Americans, i only pay attention to what they're saying to monitor the lies being fed the public.
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Better World Order (4 articles, 448 quicklinks, 32 diaries, 986 comments)
on Monday, June 25, 2007 at 9:58:36 PM
one of the organizations which do this for you is mediamatters -- you can sign up to their emails and get a listing of lies and spin throughout the day.
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Blue Pilgrim (0 articles, 3 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 997 comments)
on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 at 8:26:34 PM
The Office of the Vise (sic) President is listed as a Cabinet level post in the official White House website, and although the VP is directed by the United States Constitution to preside over the Senate and can vote in order to break a tie, the office is in the Executive branch with a Constitutional tie to the Legislative no matter what claims are made by Richard Bruce Cheney and his office. Before he maintained his hold on secrecy by claiming Executive Privilege, yet now he claims his office is not in the Executive Branch, therefore not subject to an Executive Order. This maneuver is nothing more than an obfuscation of the job description of Vice President. He doesn't want anybody to know what his job actually is so he can go about doing what he has been doing ever since he took office: not letting anybody know what he has been doing and getting away with it. Whilst our mainstream media may notice this behavior today, it is almost certain it will be overwhelmed by some furball of a celebrity and neglect to maintain their weather eye on our errant second (some call him the president with a sock puppet named George) in command.
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Dave Kisor (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 158 comments)
on Monday, June 25, 2007 at 11:38:28 PM
Good article Rob. I have called, emailed and snail mailed my local paper, my representatives and the lame media many, many times over the years. For the most part, I get a thanks and don't call us, we'll call you kind of answer. I'm not saying that I am giving up, far from it. But I am fed up. Where are the people? Are they so comfortable with the status quo or just to busy with their own lives to see or care what is and has been happening? I remember the sixties. Boy did they care. Where is that passion today? There is more at stake now then there ever was. I will write and call. I'll sign petitions and I am certainly willing to boycott. It's just that we need millions doing this. Well as they say, "the longest journey starts with the first step." So I'll get busy, again. Get on the phones, email, snail mail, anything I can do. Lets get busy folks, much to do.
Elaine
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Elaine (0 articles, 2 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 5 comments)
on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 at 12:19:09 AM
Steve Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists
Peter Baker, reporter for The Washington Post
David Rivkin, attorney in private practice and former Justice Department official during the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations. Worked in the Office of the Vice President for Dan Quayle.
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Kathlyn Stone (42 articles, 227 quicklinks, 27 diaries, 665 comments)
on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 at 12:22:30 PM
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