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Ralph is the author of a new book "Truth in the Age of Bushism."

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Saturday, October 17, 2009
Peace Movement Grows Up, Codepink vs. "Anti-imperialist" Flap
(5 comments) We take a pre-bombed country, bombed because Ziggy Brzezinski couldn't wait to arm Islamic extremists to give the Russians "their own Vietnam", then bomb it some more then split. In the Seventies women were wearing mini-skirts in Kabul. Brzezinski and US policy fixed all that. Leave them to work their own problems out now? With what? They are already starving, have nothing to grow but poppies, their irrigation and ca

Thursday, September 3, 2009
Cheney Running Scared, But Where's Rahm Emanuel?
(21 comments) Emanuel could be using any of these credible sources to defend Obama against Cheney's all-but-announcing that Obama is a traitor putting American lives at risk. But so far, no Rahm.

Friday, August 28, 2009
Hey NY Times, How About the "Palestinian Hanging" Torture?
Keep it up, NY Times! Bloggers want the advertising rev you are losing every time your circulation goes down!

Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Does Being Dead Count for "Organ Failure" from Torture?
(4 comments) General Taguba makes no bones about where this must go. Not the low-levels, but those who gave the orders.

Sunday, August 23, 2009
Tom Ridge Bombshell Only Scratches Surface: Plame II
As the most visible ex-vice president in history Dick Cheney has spent an inordinate amount of time on the talk show circuit saying his torture saved lives, and that abolishing torture endangers the nation. The truth is, for tangible damage to the national security, no one comes close to what the Bush administration has wrought.

Sunday, August 23, 2009
Nine Republicans Tell Holder "Don't Go There" on Torture
(5 comments) We now have a fairly good alternative explanation of what motivated the administration's penchant for torture, and not mere waterboarding, either. It was the crayon that "connected the dots" for the official myth for public consumption. Binyam was 16 when he hung up by straps, beaten and had his genitals mutilated with a scalpel to make him confess to a 'dirty bomb' plot, very similar to that previously alleged of J

Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Anti-Torture Rock
(2 comments) Music can turn complacency around, new rock-rap against torture.

Saturday, July 18, 2009
President Carter: Many Children Were Tortured Under Bush
(3 comments) Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said at the time: "The American public needs to understand, we're talking about rape and murder here. We're not just talking about giving people a humiliating experience. We're talking about rape and murder and some very serious charges."

Thursday, June 25, 2009
What Next for TortureGate?
(4 comments) It is important to remember the context in which American soldiers were turned into brutal sadists. If you cry for the victims of torture in Iraq, cry for the soldiers too.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009
I am in Kabul, Afghanistan, Report I
(1 comments) A city full of formidable-looking men with automatic weapons posted at gates and doors. There is no hostility in the dark-eyed gazes under thatches of jet-black hair as you pass by them to walk inside a restaurant or hotel. They respond politely in kind when you say "salaam" and place your hand over your heart, in the warm greeting meaning "peace."

Wednesday, May 20, 2009
George Bush's Village People Moment
At stake is whether or not the most massive, carefully-orchestrated deception in American history will stand, with all its ramifications for our Constitution. I haven't forgotten about the nearly 5,000 of my American brothers and sisters who are dead over this, and countless Iraqis. I haven't forgotten that this war has cost us one trillion dollars so far when we need every penny at home. Yea, George Bush, you bet I care.

Friday, May 15, 2009
Torture, Joe Six-Pack, and the Iraq Thing
As the stockholders who make campaign contributions to politicians which result in 100,000 and 200,000 PERCENT returns on their politician investments now bargain hunt for property and the 401k mutual funds you had to sell at rock bottom just to eat, it's time for Joe to realize that money didn't just disappear. Someone took it.

Friday, May 8, 2009
A Really Stupid, Unnecessary War
(8 comments) What the congressmen and the media don't tell us as they bluster and pump us up for more war is that this is an easy one. Flood Afghanisan with cash-for-work job programs like they already have in some provinces like Jawzjan, Uruzgan, and Balkh, and you've got that many more young men who don't even like the Taliban quitting and not shooting at our guys.

Monday, May 4, 2009
Connell's Sister Now Doubts Plane Crash Was Accident
(1 comments) With the investigation and prosecution of Bush officials for torture unexpectedly and dramatically being pushed onto the front pages by Americans outraged at revelations of innocent victims, counter-productiveness in the war on terror, and methods reaching into pure sadism, it remains to be seen if the previous invincibility of the Bush administration has been sufficiently weakened to allow congress to investigate.

Sunday, April 26, 2009
Tortured Wrong Guys, Didn't Prevent Attacks, and Oh Yes, Helped Al Qaeda
(4 comments) The narrative must indeed be focused, and public. Leahy's commission must have a narrow title like "Commission on the Torture and Detention of the Innocent," otherwise the defenders of torture will shift the debate onto ground they like, that of the non-existent "ticking-bomb" scenario. And it must be public, broadcast on CSPAN full-blast.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009
General Petraeus, Will You Talk to Me Now?
(1 comments) Valley elder Sham Sher Khan says the way to counter the insurgency hasn't changed. "The Taliban say they are fighting because there are Americans here and it's a jihad. But the fact is, they aren't fighting for religion. They are fighting for money. If they had jobs, they would stop fighting."

Sunday, April 19, 2009
Beware the Abu Ghraib Trap on Torture, Start With Hayden
(2 comments) If we are going to prosecute a CIA official, fine. Our demands should focus on General Michael Hayden, the Director of the CIA under whose watch these acts occurred, and under whose watch nearly 100 interrogation videotapes were destroyed, which is felony destruction of evidence.

Saturday, April 18, 2009
Time Says No Win in Afghanistan without Jobs
(2 comments) The credit goes to activists who quietly forward and fax articles and arguments to congressmen, to the White House, to newspapers, to the media. They may not talk about it or write diaries or make comments in blogs, but they do the work. You are succeeding.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009
The Difficulty of New Thinking on Afghanistan
(7 comments) General Karl Eikenberry, former Commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, told Congress: "Much of the enemy force is drawn from the ranks of unemployed men looking for wages to support their families." If Biden and General Eikenberry are correct, then it follows logically, and the conclusion cannot be escaped, that by killing "Taliban" we are killing mostly young men whose main crime is that they want to feed their families.

Sunday, April 5, 2009
Leahy: Truth Commission Dead; Law School Dean Rocks Radio on Torture
(2 comments) The news is not all bad. Law School Dean Lawrence Velvel of the Justice Jackson prosecution project, which seeks to file a complaint against Bush administration officials for torture this spring, has taken to the airwaves and is tearing them up. This interview is a MUST LISTEN.

Friday, March 27, 2009
Center's Ratner Says New Bush Memos Amount to "Treason"
(29 comments) Saying that calls for prosecution of Bush officials can never let up, the director of the staid and respectable Center for Constitutional Rights, who is a legal scholar, has said that the legal arguments made in the infamous Yoo memos amount to treason against the nation's institutions, similar to the "Fuhrer's law" of Nazi Germany.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Bush Official: They Knew Many Innocent Were Tortured
(6 comments) Here it comes...the truth that Senator Pat Leahy must get at if his new Truth Commission has anything to do with truth. New whistleblower, former Colin Powell Chief of Staff Larry Wilkerson, is blasting the media for burying the story of many innocents captured and tortured by the Bush administration.

Thursday, March 19, 2009
Oxfam Warns Obama of Disaster in Afghanistan, Targets Louis Berger Group
In an unusually strongly worded letter to President Obama, the major non-profit organization at the center of relief and reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan has warned that the country is "sliding into a major humanitarian crisis" which could undermine significant peace initiatives now underway between major Taliban factions and the Karzai government.

Sunday, March 15, 2009
Afghan War Could Be Over, Please Keep Pushing!
(2 comments) In perhaps the most significant breakthrough since the overthrow of the Taliban, Taliban Chief Mullah Omar has given his approval for talks aimed ending the war in Afghanistan. A mediator for Saudi-sponsored peace negotiations, Abdullah Anas, said "A big, big step has happened. For the first time, there is a language of . . . peace on both sides."

Saturday, March 7, 2009
Senator Leahy? The "Truth" is Jack Bauer Tortured the Wrong Guys
The world is watching, Mr. Leahy. Will you dare remind folks that men we did this to had done nothing to us? Or will you stay this side of the Jack Bauer political firewall? This is important. You see, because the dirty little secret of Bush's conduct of the War on Terror is that Jack had the wrong guys all along.

Saturday, February 28, 2009
Obama'stan: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
(3 comments) American casualties are at an all time high in Afghanistan, and will go higher as young soldiers fight heroically and with extraordinary sensitivity against both insurgents, and a deaf, dumb, and blind American foreign policy.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Pelosi Does About-Face on Bush Prosecution
(7 comments) In a startling reversal on Fox News Sunday, Nancy "impeachment-is-off-the-table" Pelosi said the law might compel Democrats to press forth on some prosecutions, even if they are politically unpopular, adding: "That's not up to us to say that doesn't matter anymore." Of Bush administration crimes Pelosi questioned "do we even have a right to ignore it."

Thursday, January 15, 2009
Prepare to Impeach Obama if He Accepts Unconstitutional Powers
Obama is in a tenuous position, and it would behoove him to understand that there are those on his own left who take the constitutional form of government seriously. If he does not explicitly renounce the power to torture, detain Americans as enemy combatants, and engage in warrantless surveillance, them he implicitly endorses them and will pass them on to his successor, who could be Jeb Bush. Now that's scary.

Friday, December 26, 2008
Rove's Dead IT Guru Was Saving Unborn Babies
(3 comments) Conyers and Kucinich were informed because the first thing you do if you are afraid something like this might happen to you is you tell people who are high-profile, because you feel it might protect you.

Thursday, December 25, 2008
Did Lame Congress Enable Connell Murder?
(5 comments) Hey, this is what happens when you have a congress that starts out its term by putting "impeachment off the table." By never, ever, ever holding these people accountable, they start to think they can get away with anything.

Saturday, December 20, 2008
Blago Was Standing up to Bank of America, Crooks They Can Live With
(2 comments) My my, look at how fast someone can be impeached when they are messing with B of A. This is serious, not just starting some dumb old war, shredding the Constitution, defying congressional subpoenas, and otherwise in a thousand different ways telling the American people to go f**k themselves.

Thursday, December 11, 2008
Impeach: Bi-Partisan Panel Says Bush Directly Responsible for Torture
(3 comments) It doesn't matter if impeachment passes, as much as it matters that the American people have stated to the world their clear break with the men (and Rice) who did this in their names. Don't worry about whether it can pass or not. Don't worry if you think time is short. Pick up the phone and say "impeach" just so you can tell your grandchildren that you did it. It's your Christmas present to them, someday in the future.

Saturday, December 6, 2008
Impeach if You Care About Obama, You Have Been Warned
(1 comments) It's been nine years since "impeachment fatigue" and America is ready again. Don't hand the right-wing a fresh impeachment play. They are already gearing up to impeach Obama for trivia, unless Democrats beat them to the punch. This is how they hamstrung Clinton's presidency.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Cheney Indicted, So Impeach Bush, Mr. Conyers
(1 comments) At the very least an official impeachment inquiry should be called on the Administration scrubbing the 2002 "White Paper" of the conclusion that Saddam was not an imminent threat, and would attack only if we attacked him first. Congress WAS NOT looking at the same intelligence on the eve of the Iraq war vote.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Where is Obama's Moral Compass on Torture?
(3 comments) Is this what the Democrats think that millions of newly enfranchised Americans turned out in record numbers to vote for? Is this kind of same-old same-old the reason why people were dancing in the streets the night of November 4th? For most ominous missteps on important issues, before even taking office, I nominate the president-elect.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Bush and The Great Escape, Impeach Obama?
(3 comments) The problem with right-wing radio is that 60 million people listen to it as their main source of opinion. You can only counter these kind by clipping their wings, meaning calling an impeachment hearing right now. If they get their way, Bush will be off the hook but guess how long it will take for impeachment to come back into fashion?

Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Here it is! Bush Indictment for Dummies
(2 comments) The classified 2002 National Intelligence Estimate gave Bush notice, prior to the speech in Cincinnati, that the CIA DID NOT CONSIDER HUSSEIN AN IMMINENT THREAT TO THIS NATION. SO WHEN BUSH TOLD THE NATION ON THE EVENING OF OCTOBER 7 THAT HUSSEIN WAS AN IMMINENT THREAT TO THIS COUNTRY, HE WAS TELLING MILLIONS OF AMERICANS THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHAT HIS OWN CIA WAS TELLING HIM. BYE BYE GEORGE!!!

Thursday, October 30, 2008
Potential Bush Prosecutor AG Candidate in Vermont Lays-Out Jurisdiction
(3 comments) Charlotte Dennett and Vincent Bugliosi contended that the "effects" principle of the law gave state prosecutors jurisdiction if it could be shown that a crime which occurred outside the territorial jurisdiction of the state had a harmful effect on the people of the state. Vermont has the highest per capita loss of soldiers in Iraq of any state in the nation.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Senator William Blount Was Impeached, Impeach Pelosi for Complicity in War Crimes
(5 comments) The Constitution allows for the impeachment of "The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States." The impeachment of Senator William Blount in 1798 shows that "all civil officers" includes congressmembers and senators.

Thursday, September 25, 2008
This Impeachment TV Ad Now Running in Conyers' District
(1 comments) The 110th Congress is far from over, and it comes back to a full workload and schedule of hearings after the Nov. 4th election. Bush's case is far more open and shut than Clinton's ever was, since their offenses are admitted and in the public record, including the most recent impeachable offense: the defiance of congressional subpoenas.

Thursday, September 25, 2008
This Impeachment TV Ad Now Running in Conyers' District
The 110th Congress is far from over, and it comes back to a full workload and schedule of hearings after the Nov. 4th election. Bush's case is far more open and shut than Clinton's ever was, since their offenses are admitted and in the public record, including the most recent impeachable offense: the defiance of congressional subpoenas.

Friday, September 5, 2008
2014
(5 comments) Legal analysts lamented that, at every stage of the way, precedents had been allowed to stand unchallenged which led to the next expansion of executive powers. The precedents which the Bush-Cheney administration of the past had set, which at the time had been called by a small minority of activists "impeachable offenses" which constituted "breaking the law," were breaking the law no more.{Back to Future story]

Saturday, August 30, 2008
Bush and the Rest on Film Saying One Thing Then Exactly Opposite
(3 comments) One of the most moving videos I have ever seen, of Bush Cheney and the rest saying one thing then exactly the opposite. Alex has captured them in their own words coming from their own mouths. Shame on Democrats, shame on Republicans for not getting it. No one will finish watching this short video unaffected.

Friday, August 29, 2008
Will the Charge of "Treason" Stick to George Bush?
(2 comments) There has been discussion within the impeachment movement over whether George Bush can formally be accused of treason, or if such accusations, though arguable, would not meet legal muster. I believe they would.

Thursday, August 28, 2008
Would a Charge of Treason Stick to George Bush?
(1 comments) There has been discussion within the impeachment movement over whether George Bush can formally be accused of treason, or if such accusations are fanciful and would not meet legal muster. I believe they would.

Saturday, August 16, 2008
Breaking: Conyers Calls Committee Back from Summer Recess to Investigate Suskind Allegations
(27 comments) Participate in the campaign to reach Judiciary members' campaign contributors, to ask them as one citizen to another to withhold contributions until the member does this clearest of patriotic duties. Why this route? Because congressmen have shown themselves to be impervious to any amount of constituent pressure.

Saturday, August 9, 2008
Did Bush Lie About Saddam and 9/11? Authorization to Use Force REQUIRED Bush to Make the Link
(7 comments) It doesn't matter that it's August. It took Nixon less than a week-and-a-half to resign after the House Judiciary Committee adopted a single article of impeachment, on obstruction of justice. Ordering Rove to defy subpoenas is enough to impeach Bush

Sunday, August 3, 2008
Bush Appointee Bates: Meirs Must Testify, Sets Up Constitutional Crisis
(7 comments) If congress does not cancel summer recess, referred to in the official calendar as their "District Work Period," we must be clear that we will be camped on their front lawns with signs. They will come out and talk to us and explain why they aren't in Washington doing their jobs. There will be no fiddling while Rome burns.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Impeachment Hearing This Friday, July 25
(1 comments) How wrong that these courageous soldiers are not the ones making decisions for our country, while the ewes in congress tremble before the power of George Bush to do something bad to them.

Friday, July 18, 2008
Executive Privilege, Why Aren't They Hollering "Cover-up?"
(1 comments) The congressional game is to attempt to appease the impeachment movement with some sort of action while keeping it as quiet as possible, lest the general electorate catch wind. We need to ask them why they aren't hollering "cover-up!" to Bush's recent claim of executive privilege.

Thursday, July 17, 2008
Nine Republicans Break Party Ranks: Send Impeachment Article to Judiciary for Hearings
(9 comments) In a stunning development which fell with the silence of a feather yesterday, nine Republicans broke with their iron-fisted party to put country first, and voted to send Rep. Dennis Kucinich's article of impeachment HR 1345 to the Judiciary, where Chairman John Conyers will hold a hearings on abuses of power by the Bush administration, according to the Congressional Quaterly's CQToday.

Friday, July 11, 2008
Appeal to American NSA Officers: Join Us
(2 comments) No law may be made which is contrary to the Constitution, which is the "Supreme Law of the Land." The Constitution can only be changed by Constitutional Convention, and ratified by all 50 states. Any law which violates the Constitution is illegal.

Thursday, April 10, 2008
A New 9/11 Commission: Defining Amnesty
(1 comments) If you believe 911 was an inside job, and you believe that in order to get at the truth, it may be necessary to grant officers in the military and in the civilian branches like the CIA some sort of immunity, that is, full or partial amnesty for their role or knowledge of the events, how do you determine who gets what?

Thursday, April 3, 2008
It Has Happened: I'm a 9/11 Truther; A New Investigation, Broad Amnesty, and Forgiveness
(34 comments) The biggest problem with the 9/11 Truth Movement is where it leads: a place dark and evil beyond imagination. Even if deep down you believed it was an inside job, you would need to deny it. So when hundreds of American military officers, pilots, engineers, and CIA veterans stepped forward to say they believed the official story to be a monstroThe conspiracies led to the deep dark hole that we are ruled by criminal psychos.

Thursday, March 27, 2008
New Hampshire State Reps to Vote on Impeachment Resolution, Please Call
(1 comments) Nixon resigned just one and 1/2 weeks after three articles were adopted, there is plenty of time. The New Hampshire State House of Representatives will vote on an impeachment resolution filed by 87 year-old State Representative Betty Hall sometime in early April, employing little-known "Jefferson's Manual" rules in an effort to force Congress to begin impeachment hearings against George Bush and Dick Cheney.

Thursday, March 27, 2008
An Impeachment Resolution in Every State; One Way to Jump-Start Impeachment
(1 comments) Here's the dirty little secret: it's really easy. All you need to do is print out a version of the below resolution, walk it to an amenable state representative (or assemblyman/woman), and have them enter it into State House business. Now you have an active impeachment resolution in your state. 50 states having impeachment resolutions in the works would make Congress's I-See-Nothing position untenable.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008
A Call for Alliance Among Impeachment Advocates; Immigration Reform, Constitution, War on Al Qaeda
(1 comments) There comes a time in the struggle for freedom when Americans must unite. At times we unite with those whose priorities may not be ours, and those whom with we disagree on many things. I launch this call because I will do anything to save my Constitution. My call is to my countrymen in the Immigration Reform Movement, who believe that George Bush must be impeached for aiding unacceptable levels of illegal immigration.

Sunday, February 24, 2008
Al Qaeda, Impeachment, and Iraq
(1 comments) I hope to show that not only is our presence in Iraq beneficial to Al Qaeda; they actually need us there to survive. Al Qaeda is neither wanted nor liked in Iraq. The sooner we pull out, the sooner the local populations will identify and expel them, or kill them.

Monday, February 18, 2008
Congressman Reyes Takes On Bush Lies on FISA, American Safety
If our nation is left vulnerable in the coming months, it will not be because we don't have enough domestic spying powers. It will be because your Administration has not done enough to defeat terrorist organizations – including al Qaeda -- that have gained strength since 9/11.

Monday, February 11, 2008
ObaMO
(1 comments) Keep ObaMOMENTUM going, circulate this essay, go to ObaMO.org.

Saturday, February 2, 2008
The Forever Wartime Powers Coup
(2 comments) When George Bush declared war on an enemy which, for the first time ever, cannot be seen, and never knows when he's beat, it should have set off alarm bells.

Friday, February 1, 2008
Foreign Policy Advice for Barack Obama
You can have a muscular foreign policy without being militaristic. You can apologize without surrendering. You can use that line if you want, Barack.

Thursday, January 24, 2008
20 Years: What Political Prisoners Can Expect in the Future
The Bush administration has managed to carve out an illegal authority to pick anyone up off the street, lock us up incommunicado for at least a few years, and send us to trial knowing that, after what they did, we'd be pretty much useless in our own defense. Today's sentencing of Jose Padilla is not about Padilla. This is about you. After the next terror attack, it will be easy to include any bothersome political diarists.

Sunday, January 20, 2008
The Crimes of Dick Cheney
(2 comments) On July 22, 2005, Special Forces Colonel Patrick Lang said before a congressional committee that, as a result of the exposure of Valerie Plame, our ability to know when terrorists would "carry 10-pound bags of explosive in subway stations" would "go right down the drain." The media never reported this. Instead it was busy chasing the White House spin that Plame was not a covert agent.

Sunday, January 13, 2008
Admirers of Constitution Booted for Wearing Impeach T-shirts in DC
(6 comments) With the original First Amendment "Freedom of Speech" looking on, admirers of the U.S. Constitution in the Washington D.C. National Archives Building today were ordered to leave for wearing tee-shirts reading "Impeach Bush and Cheney." Many of the tourist-activists were in town to hail the arrival of impeachment marcher John Nirenberg, the 61 year-old college professor who has just walked from Boston to D.C.

Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Why We Should Not Mess With Iran
The people of Iran are not our enemy. They don't hate us.

Monday, December 31, 2007
A Conservative's Case for Impeachment
(9 comments) An "Eisenhower-Teddy Roosevelt Republican" calls for an accounting for the violation of Americans' rights. Even John Ashcroft from his hospital bed couldn't stomach the NSA warrantless surveillance, and he's not exactly liberal.

Saturday, December 29, 2007
Pakistan Totters as Bush's "Gift" to bin Laden Bears Fruit
With the assassination of Bhutto, Pakistan is closer than ever to civil war. And ultimately, Islamist forces marching into Islamabad in victory, us tied down in Iraq and not able to do a damned thing about it. This is the first of the many dominoes bin Laden had envisioned, including the "apostate" regimes of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and UAE. But most especially on bin Laden's list was Pakistan.

Saturday, December 29, 2007
Obama Campaign Hits Bullseye on Pakistan
We have exactly ZERO time left to get this, folks. Bin Laden is on a roll. He wants no change in American foreign policy whatsoever. Only for us to keep doing exactly what we have been doing.

Saturday, December 22, 2007
C.I.A. Tapes a Smoking Gun on American "Enemy Combatant"
Missing almost entirely from news coverage of the destroyed CIA tapes is the explosive fact that they involve Jose Padilla, the American citizen held incommunicado and without charges or a trial for nearly four years.

Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Senate Challenger Laurie Dobson, Maine
(2 comments) Laurie Dobson does not mince words. The"mother bear in defense of my children and their future", as she describes herself, says she is "disgusted with the depravity and the cowardice of our leaders." The fifty-one-year-old mother of three who is running to unseat Senator Susan Collins spares no Democrat.

Thursday, December 13, 2007
The Padilla Tapes
And what could be so important in the destroyed CIA tapes that are the object of current controversy, that despite the criticism which would certainly follow, they were destroyed anyway? Abu Zubaydah, a subject of the tapes, is none other than the foreign national whom Padilla's lawyers say was tortured into linking Padilla with Al Qaeda.

Thursday, December 6, 2007
Thomas Paine the Impeacher
(2 comments) As we shop and consume our way toward tyranny and fascism, let us remember Paine's words, and remember that as overweight, addicted, and alcoholic as we are as a nation, we are also one other thing: We are free. We are still free to demand these criminals be brought to justice. We are still free to demand they be impeached. Rich, poor, conservative, liberal, powerful, powerless, we are all just Americans now.

Friday, November 23, 2007
Next Impeach Target: Major Campaign Contributors
Wars will come and go, even Iraq, but once the Constitution is gone, it's gone forever. Begin dialogue with congressmens' major campaign contributors to force Congress to do its duty to impeach Cheney and Bush.

Monday, November 19, 2007
Expanding NSA Power Bad, Fourth Amendment Good
(1 comments) Did the Founders, who took pains to enshrine freedom from "unreasonable search and seizure," without "probable cause," understand what the Stasi, Hitler, and the KGB all understood? That knowledge is power, and absolute knowledge of peoples' lives becomes absolute power?

 

 

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