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by billp37 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 38 comments) on Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 10:26:26 AM

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These people are NOT stupid, they are EVIL. They WANT to cause a major constitutional crisis over Presidential Power and the Unitary Executive so that THEIR Supreme Court can rule on it. This is a MUST for them in the next 2 years, and they will sacrifice Bush if necessary to do it. The absolute power of the POTUS is critical to the Corporate Fascist state. Like a game of chess, they are setting up a key player at the center of the board to assure control -- they will sacrifice countless other pieces to achieve their goal. CharlieL Portland, OR

by Charlie L (2 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 747 comments [2 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 12:06:26 PM

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A list of who "they" are, with addresses and phone numbers would be very helpful. Could "we" possibly obtain such a list?

by Daniel Geery (26 articles, 95 quicklinks, 126 diaries, 912 comments [27 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 7:23:45 PM

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Give the man a cigar, exactly what I've been saying all along. These people operate in rings of chaos, hiding the truth of there evil powers they represent. They don't need to show there faces to exist in truth, they only need to control puppets from a maze of long strings. For many of years criminal enterprises have used a bate and switch pattern to fool the authorities. For example, send Johnny across the boarder with a pack of rolling papers to distract boarder security, well the Company sneaks across several hundred stinger missile's to sell to, lets say Iran Contras. Whether or not this has all been an elaborate scheme from the beginning to threaten our freedom or not. This truly is happening and the gates are left wide open for more of the same nonsense from corrupt political agenda's to follow.

by Fred F (1 articles, 1 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 361 comments) on Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 10:18:07 PM

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Let's send this illegal alien (can't produce documents for his grandparents) back to Mexico and let him see how much habeas corpus he gets in his country of origin.

by terk (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 15 comments) on Friday, Jan 19, 2007 at 7:57:49 PM

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The joke about Alberto Gonzales is that he's supposed to be the chief lawyer for the people, even if it means standing up against the government. Instead Bush has turned the very position ostensibly into another personal lawyer for himself. Remember Gonzales came straight along with Bush just like a barnacle from Texas where he was an Enron funded Judge, Bush's personal mouthpiece and got George off the hook when he lied about his past drunk driving infraction. What's wholly insulting is the sudden concern for child porn as a pretense for demanding every citizens internet records or opening citizens snail mail. Never once has Bush stated as an executive priority that child porn be tackled from the federal level, especially when so many localities, city and state law enforcement officials have so many stings and traps in place. We have children starving, flunking out and not receiving proper health care in this country. Bush's idea of helping them is going after an infinitesimal number of sex perverts while ignoring proven social programs? That's almost as stupid as throwing every facet up American life into upheaval with our fiscal future into upheaval because of 20 guys with boxcutters (while ignoring their boss). It's hard to believe the U.S, Attorney General is fighting to take away rights and freedoms from Americans and others. What a wrong guy for the job. I heard the hearings on Wednesday and I heard A-Gon being as squirmy and difficult as possible. He has a definite skill for finding ways to not answer questions, deceive by omission and cause interference, while each Senator's time clicks off the clock. Similarly, he has stalled and "gamed" the system in the Anthrax investigation and NSA case. I'll never forget Bush saying on air in an interview when asked why he felt the NSA should be able to bypass warrants mandated by FISA law. He replied dismissively "That's for the lawyers the figure out". Well, the U.S. District court appeal is coming up in which Bush will have to explain why bypassing FISA law is Constitutional. If Bush is found guilty, each count carries jail time and a $5,000 fine - he has admitted to thousands of counts. So his first move was to jettison Harriet Miers and replace her with Ronald Reagan's chief White House counsel, Fred Fielding, who has been around since the Watergate days. Not surprisingly, just days after he was hired, Gonzales announced they would now comply with FISA law as written. I can imagine the backroom meeting where he and Fielding showed Bush the letter of the law and Bush finally capitulated. While I'm speculating, I would also suggest that Bush's recent initiatives to step up internet tracking of our citizens, snoop in mail and obtain our personal financial records is a desperate attempt to find a terrorist quick to get his approval ratings up - or collect dirt on anyone that may prosecute him. This brings us back to Tricky Dick's days of paranoia and the reason FISA law was drafted in the first place. Enormous national protest movements, substansive proof of an illegal war, plummeting popularity, and Republicans jumping ship by the truckload. In truth, the NY Times revelation of bypassing thousands of NSA warrants should have been Bush's "Watergate", as should Seymour Hersh's revelation of Rumsfeld's Undersecretary secretly having soldiers conduct the type of interrogation we saw at Abu Ghraib. Not to mention the Downing Street memos in which Bush suggested painting a plane with UN colors and have it fly into hostile airspace to provoke an attack. Do not forget this has never been refuted (yet also never investigated). This is a testament to the do-nothing 109th Congress, as guilty as Bush in their complicity hiding their heads in the sand and your grandkids money in their donors' pockets. What I would suggest is for the next president to keep Gonzales as the AG, and in his/her first 100 hours, "detain" Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell and Stephen Cambone, whisk them away to Romania for questioning, and ultimately send them to the Hague for any number of international crimes. We can remind A-Gon of his duty to prosecute them here for domestic crimes, including high crimes, misdemeanors and treason, making sure he is reminded of the arguments he's made this week about the powers of the executive.

by Gustav Wynn (77 articles, 65 quicklinks, 5 diaries, 421 comments [34 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Jan 20, 2007 at 7:43:31 AM

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Daniel, a list of who 'they' are can be found in the chapter entitled 'The Global Dominance Group' in the excellent book 'Impeach the President' edited by Dennis Loo and Peter Phillips. It is chilling to ponder how the pieces of the puzzle might fit together - suspension of habeus corpus, gutting posse comitatus, the building of detention centers ON US SOIL...

by Susan Guest (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 91 comments [1 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Jan 20, 2007 at 8:05:46 AM

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For over four years now the nation has maintained policies which in the words of Vice President Dick Cheney are that " we are not going to play under the old set of rules." Included in the policies are due process requirements which prevents an individual's right to question the authority and execution of arrest-- the habeas corpus remedy. Habeas lay at the very core of our Bill of Rights and assurance of the Constitution. While the attack on September 11th presented one of those "challenging and uncertain moments in our nation's history that our nation's commitment to due process is severely tested; it is in those times we must preserve our commitment to the principles for which we fight abroad." (O'Connor, Handi v Rumsfeld) . Make no mistake about it; the profiles, backgrounds and characters of those held in American custody at Guantanamo Bay ( "detainees") are of very dangerous sort. They have been linked to the September 11th attack, the attack of the U.S.S. Cole in 2000, the Bali bombings in 2002 and the 1998 attack of the US Embassy in Tanzania. But habeas and due process rights for those detainees speaks about who we are rather than who they are. What was acceptable in the aftermath of 9/11 cannot continue. America has returned to normalcy. Planes fly regularly over the skies. People have returned to work .The nation's schools and universities are open. The press and media provide free opportunity to be supportive or critical of the Administration . Elections have been held throughout the nation continuing the 'great experiment" of liberty and justice. As a nation, America is not just about military might and patriotism . We are inventors, improvers, engineers and teachers. And those of good faith who have come to recognize the potency of principles over policy . We have realized the stability which results from investing in the lands and people. We are a responsible people, able to build energy needs, design public health systems, and raise the harvest of grains and agriculture. . But we cannot do that without the core of that which has made us--our principle of freedom and liberty with the understanding that no man is either above or beneath the law. No matter how heinous the crime or intent. No matter the political charge or partisanship; no matter, wealthy or impoverished. We have returned to normalcy and must employ the very principles which are "American". Comments such as Gonzales presented reflected how warped the Administration is...

by Eliot Gould (16 articles, 0 quicklinks, 28 diaries, 200 comments [3 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Jan 31, 2007 at 7:49:24 PM

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