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The great Uniter that never was

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Where was this great uniter Bush over the last 6 years? Where was this great uniter, who’s favorite words were ‘My way, or the Highway’ Great words for a uniter that never was. And never will be.

When will we see the great uniter? Right after he vetoes his first documents from a Democratic Congress. Something, anything, that he doesn’t like, something, anything he can’t control. Then we will see the true colors of this ‘great uniter’, The only thing he knows, is how to divide, he who is really only a great divider?

Soon, very soon, we will see his true colors.

The Code of Hammurabi should still work.

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The code is often pointed to as the first example of the legal concept that some laws are so basic as to be beyond the ability of even a king to change. By writing the laws on stone they were immutable. This concept lives on in most modern legal systems and has given rise to the term written in stone.

One of my favorite laws from this codex goes like this;

If a builder builds a house, and constructs it well, the owner will pay two shekels for each surface of the house.
If, however, he does not succeed, and the house falls in, killing the owner, the builder will be killed.
If the son of the owner dies, the son of the builder shall be killed.

In my previous post the Business community has sought to roll back the commonsense of such laws. Laws incorporated in the U.S. Constitution, the Magna Carte and even the Bible.

Big business has sought for years to create the power and privilege of ‘The Corporate Body’ or the right of the Corporation to have, and exercise, the same rights as a person. Now they are seeking to make that person, that corporate person, greater than a living person. That when they build a building and it kills the owner that they are exempt from punishment. And that when Enron collapsed the Corporate Body is not responsible. Only the maker of the bricks, should be killed.

And the Code that was once written in stone (now on that ‘god dammed piece of paper’ of the U.S. Constitution) president Bush and the GOP, the ‘defenders’ of this document are continuing it’s destruction by agreeing with this mindset. They believe that corporations are godlike, and are above the law. In that case we should not condem the Government, we should condemn the brick-maker, Bush, for the crimes of a collapsing United States?

Sounds good to me!

Who rules Congress

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If you ever had any doubts who controls congress this should make it very clear. Businesses Seek Protection on Legal Front not that you didn’t know it yet. But the little guy the Joe voter on the street is going to get screwed again.

Frustrated with laws and regulations that have made companies and accounting firms more open to lawsuits from investors and the government, corporate America — with the encouragement of the Bush administration — is preparing to fight back.

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Frustrated with Prevented from violating laws and regulations that have made companies and accounting firms more open accountable to lawsuits from investors and the government, corporate America — with the encouragement a payoff to of the Bush administration — is preparing to fight back grant themselves Imunitity from the law.

America, now a Tyranny

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Now that the U.S. is faced with the Death of Habeas Corpus: Freedom is now a distance memory. I am reminded of some favorite quotations


“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy”

and

“Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation”

Both from this man

James Madison, American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836

Republicans don’t care about your vote.

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Political triage is common as in the GOP Focuses on Best Bets except for the chosen victim, as in this case Mr. DeWine has been pick as a loser by an internal GOP poll. And thereby stands the problem with the GOP, they don’t believe that the vote of the public is important. They have already decided that DeWine has lost already and that you, the public no longer get to choose who wins or loses in any political contest. It’s the Republican arrogance raising it’s head, the elite GOP do not wish the public to express their right to vote for their elected officials. They want to choose for themselves who wields power. And it’s not to be joe citizen, but the moneyed elite in the GOP.

Why don’t the Americans riot against Bush

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If the Hungarians can riot about a government that lies to win an election as here:

The violence erupted at the state TV building following a largely peaceful rally calling on Mr Gyurcsany to quit.

In a leaked tape, Mr Gyurcsany admitted his government had lied to the public.

His comments, which were recorded just after a general election in April, have prompted calls for his resignation from opposition parties.


Why won’t the American’s riot against Bush, a master at lying to the americans? Mr. Gyurcsany only lied about the economy, Bush has been caught flatfooted in more lies than you can count. Why is he still in power, because the truth in the U.S. died a long time ago, that’s why. And the press have failed in their responsibility to report the facts to the american people.

Irish Rights gets visibility

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Digital Rights Ireland has gained new visibility in this article Digital rights activists take aim at EU data laws And more power to them. It’s about time that the governments of EU remember who they work for, the citizens of the EU.

As in the words of V ‘people shouldn’t be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their citizens’

Personal Demons

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I’ve heard of people fighting their personal demons, the ones carried deep inside their own minds, but this takes the cake Bush Says Iraq War Is Part of a Larger Fight

…because it is a battleground in an epic struggle between democracy and tyranny

Seeing how his personal demon is Democracy, the tyranny that he is fighting for in Iraq is his own to reap in the U.S. as he continues to use the war as a means to destroy that ‘Goddamn piece of paper’ called the U.S. Constitution.

Here’s hoping that the GOP looses the House and Senate this year, and we get to impeach Bush before he declares another war.

UPDATE: A good rebuke Death of Habeas Corpus:

Democratic change in the wind

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My father who lives in the central U.S. shocked me today with the admission that should a good Democratic candidate appear, he would vote for him. This coming from a WWII vet, and life long Republican conservative. He voted for Bush twice, and now he wants him gone. If there is a barometer of political change, this is it. Forget your polls, forget rhetoric, the Republicans, the GOP, is going to loose big time this year.

With one exception, there must be a good Democratic candidate to place before the people.

Where’s a good Harry S. Truman when you need one.

The truth the press fails to publish

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When the press complain about bloggers, they always claim that bloggers do no research, and fail to verify their information before publishing. In recent Pew research 58% of bloggers do, research. Witness the alternative, that ‘professional’ journalist do research, and verify their data, then do not publish the truth, to support corrupt politicians. New York Times’ Eavesdropping Story Wasn’t The Only One Squashed For Bush During 2004 Campaign

Make’s you wonder who to trust, bloggers who publish information when they find it, or professional journalist who suppress the truth for political gain?

Not a very hard decision, is it!

GOP vs The U.S. Constitution

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As usual the GOP is fighting the notion that the U.S. Constitution is anything more than just that ‘dammed piece of paper’ that Bush likes to refer to. When they are forced to oppose the constitution, they make this out to be a partisan issue, like when a Ruling Against Wiretaps Further Sharpens Partisan Divide. It’s really very simple, Republicans are attempting to overturn the Constitution, and the rest of the country are trying to defend the Constitution. If that’s what the republicans call partisan, lets hope we can drive the monarchist out of control of the government in the fall.

Another Clueless Republican

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This a good article why the republicans are not only clueless about what democracy is, but are actively hostile to it’s true intent. In the article Demeaning Democracy Mr. Kennedy describes the republicans in exactly the same terms as I’ve used in past posting here.

Cheney and his crowd are all for free and open elections – as long as they turn out their way. They are all for free speech – provided it supports the administration.

And I’m glad that other people can see as clearly as I, what despicable langers the republicans are.

Cuba, and Bush’s Democracy

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In a world where Bush calls the U.S. Constitution “a goddamned piece of paper!”. When Bush calls for democracy in Cuba and assumes that any constitution is worthless, doesn’t he just define the Cuban government? Isn’t he wishful that he too, wants to be the autocrat of the world? Emperor George the first? Isn’t it amazing when Rice broadcast dismissed by Cuba is taken with surprise. While the Cubans are hardly free, or in many cases well informed. They are still aware of the nature of Bush regime, and believe they are better off where they are.

The Bush Democratic machine is a sham when they claim to support democracy, then withdraw support when Hamas wins an election, when one democracy, attacks another democracy in the the form of Lebanon vs Israel. When they support Egyptians voting for a one party candidate and call it democracy, but condemn it when the same vote happened for Saddam before they attacked them.

Bush and is followers do not have any concept of democracy, freedom or liberty, and never will. They continue to twist the meaning to one that supports them, and only them in power.

Meaningless words do not make a democracy. A constitution, made of laws which apply to everyone, and a government that is held to those laws which protect the rights of citizens of that country makes a democracy. And when Bush is finally held accountable for those violations of the U.S. Constitution, then we will have democracy.

A Religious reason is a misnomer

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I’ve been reading about What did Canadians do to deserve this? And while the article makes a strong argument that Islamic Terrorist believe things like this.

Sayed Qutb, the Marx of Militant Islamism, stated unequivocally: “Truth and falsehood cannot coexist on earth…the liberating struggle of jihad does not cease until all religion belongs to God.” Looking at the world through such eyes, freedom, tolerance and democratic values are not virtues – they are symptoms of weakness and moral decline.

The author Clifford D. May has ask the some of the hard questions

What were these young men taught by the religious leaders in their mosques? Did their neighbors not see where they were heading? Was it sympathy or fear that prevented them from speaking up? If it was fear – fear of whom?

His belief that the Muslim community has any more control of their radical members than any right wing Christian fundamentalist is misplaced. The problem is this; in a secular democracy where “freedom, tolerance and democratic values” are truly valued, religion is the problem. Religion is the antithesis of common sense, of reason, and truth. If you take any religion to extremes you might as well perform a frontal lobotomy. A person so conditioned is beyond reason.

You can’t reason with someone, who didn’t start out that way.

And the only hope for Democracies, who wish to preserve their “freedom, tolerance and democratic values” is education. Teaching reason, freedom and tolerance. And the first step, is practicing what they preach. To hold themselves up as a model, they should be proud to look in a mirror. In a war of ideologies, insure that your’s is the best.

UPDATE: A christian example: Fox News host to guest: ‘You’re going to hell!’