When we turn our backs on the Law, we have told the bin Ladens they’ve won!

by Mary MacElveen

I have been speaking of what is a warranted fear as opposed to an unwarranted one and as I read this statement from the extremist right-wing-nut, Dick Cheney in which, concerning Ned Lamont’s win in the Conneticut Democratic primary, he stated that he found it "disturbing."

The rightist vice president then went on to say “the al Qaeda types, they clearly are betting on the proposition that ultimately they can break the will of the American people in terms of our ability to stay in the fight and complete the task.”

First of all: that statement, in itself, is disturbing on so many levels, and this is clearly a warranted fear. Why? For this one simple fact that Cheney is trying to bully and cower the American people from backing anti-war candidates.

We have given them enough time to fulfill their task and it is not working.

Through obscene statements such as this he is flogging the electorate into brutal submission. The will of the American people is just fine if left alone from threats from this rightist vice president.

What he is saying is "either you vote our way, or more attacks and threats will happen."

Well excuse me, Cheney, we’ve seen many threats under your brand of leadership(?) and we’ve seen an increase in terror attacks worldwide ... and do you think that voting for men like Ned Lamont will increase them? No! They will not increase, and that is because candidates like Lamont want to start working along with the world community and not against them.

* Lamont and others like him want to diminish the proliferation of terrorists in the world.

Really take a look at who was the target of past threats and attacks ... it was those that sided with the likes of Bush, Cheney and ... yes ... Lieberman. As Bush made his way down to the Americas summit last year, what businesses were the target of the riots that met him? They were American businesses.

Was this the fault of those who oppose the neo-con way of thinking?

No, it was not! Bush made those US businesses the target of hatred.

The world is speaking to us through this increase in violence and folks like Bush, Cheney and Lieberman are not listening.

* The worldwide community is telling us that we are the problem and not the other way around...

So ... who is the perfect Al Qaeda backed candidate?

I would say to Joe Lieberman that since Al Qaeda will keep on speaking to us through violence should the US electorate keep voting for candidates such as him.

I read "Cheney’s argument assumes that the war in Iraq is helping the United States defeat terrorists. He’s wrong. His own State Department found last April that Iraq had become a safe haven for terrorists"

This is exactly what I have been saying since the day we commenced with the ’Shock and Awe’ campaign. World leaders such as Venezuela’s President Chavez have also stated it and we (USA) dismiss his findings. Ned Lamont says that we need to take United States’ face off of this war and act as a support system to help rebuild.

Continuing this destructive force, is how groups such as Al Qaeda recruit more members to their causes.

Pro-war candidates ... no matter which party they’re from ... must own all aspects of this war in Iraq and answer to the human rights violations being seen by the theocrats they helped put into power.

This weekend, I came across a disturbing video feed from UK Channel 4 News. I was horrified when I clicked on the report "Persecution of Iraq’s gay community." When Lieberman stated that, in matters of war "Politics should stop at the water’s edge.” I want to remind Lieberman that this is not a political, but a human rights issue and I want to know where his voice is when it comes to this slaughter.

President Hugo Chavez once said "(North) Americans do not want to be the scourge of the world... The United States like all countries has a human soul ... feelings and love!"

It deeply bothers me when I read statements such as that "the United States of America is the most hated nation on earth. In most countries its president is by far the most despised international figure." Just reading the US State Department’s Travel Advisories is to realize that to take a trip overseas is a pretty grim prospect for an US citizen as there are so many countries to which it is deemed to be highly dangerous for a US citizen to venture.

Many/most US citizens do have a soul and have feelings and love...

We do not want to be thought of as a scourge ... we should be about freedom, but when you have your own government working against you and do not feel safe or free to travel, Osama bin Laden has won the day.

I will not let the likes of Bush, Cheney and Lieberman stop me from traveling to any place on this planet. That is my freedom that I am taking back. If I were to travel to another country, I would tell them that not all of us think in the way the evil triumvirate do. I do not see the world as being subservient ... but, rather, as equals.

In an article "Republicans are Bad on National Security" by Larry Beinhart, he mentions, "George Bush and the Republicans failed to get Osama bin Laden. We got both Hitler and Hirohito in less time than we’ve been chasing bin Laden. Every day that bin Laden’s out there, he’s proof that you can attack the United States and get away with it. That’s a bad message to send, and believe me, people in the terrorist world have heard it loud and clear. That’s very bad for national security."

Through good old-fashioned police work here in the United States, we are able to capture spree murderers such as the D.C. snipers, serial killers and other heinous monsters ... and yet our federal government (with all the intelligence available to them) is not able to capture Osama bin Laden?

Tell us, Lieberman when will you and Bush capture Osama bin Laden?

Ah, so let me take a bold leap here and state, the GOP (and those like Lieberman who support Bush) are indeed Al Qaeda’s best candidates. Is the United States safer when this administration has failed to capture Osama? Please answer that, Joe.

Bush and rightist candidates such as Lieberman gave bin Laden what he wanted and that was to bog us down in a quagmire. We learned absolutely nothing from history when we saw Russia bogged down in the Afghan War and our own war in Viet Nam.

When Bush, Cheney with the help of Lieberman and those just like him turned their back on our United States Constitution by passing the Patriot Act, we told bin Laden that he had won.

When we turn our backs on the laws of this nation, we have told the bin Ladens of the world they have won.

When we think it is okay to tap someone’s phone, detain them without due process and say to the world that it is okay to torture, we have become the very thing that we have always abhorred.

Stop letting these bullies cower you... You are much bigger than they are. You want your freedoms back ... then, the only way is to take back this country somehow. It’s time you tell rightists such as Lieberman to take a hike and that will clearly send a message to both Bush and Cheney that you have simply had enough.

I would love nothing more than to see a real change in Washington, D.C.

That will be LIBERTY and we can finally say that recruitment days are over ... we would be working WITH the world community in peace, instead of war.

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