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  • "The Constitution was based on the principle that ’trust me’ isn’t good enough"
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON // As the White House prepared to ratchet up its defense for the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans without court warrants, a small group of House Democrats convened legal experts and advocates in a basement hearing room to poke holes in the administration’s legal rationale.
    President Bush’s argument that he has executive power to authorize such surveillance "flies in the face of both common sense and legal precedent," said Rep. John Conyers Jr., the top (…)

  • Democrats urged to consider impeachment
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - A Democratic congressman, a prominent legal scholar and a self-described target of government surveillance urged Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee yesterday to consider impeaching President Bush for his domestic surveillance program.
    The recommendation by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., law scholar Jonathan Turley and Florida-based political activist Richard Hersh emerged at an unofficial House Judiciary Committee hearing staged entirely by Democrats on the day that (…)

  • They hate our freedoms?Why did the President circumvent the government and disregard those freedoms?
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (Washington, DC) Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) issued the following statement today at a Democratic Judiciary hearing, which questioned the legality of President Bush’s controversial domestic surveillance programs. The hearing focused on findings by the New York Times and other news sources, which have been corroborated by the Administration that President Bush authorized domestic spying on U.S. citizens by the National Security Agency (NSA) without court approval. In addition, Richard (…)

  • Representatives call NSA surveillance an illegal treat to civil liberties.
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON - House Democrats and a panel of legal experts assailed the Bush administration’s secret domestic surveillance program Friday, calling it an illegal and dangerous threat to civil liberties and a presidential power grab that has thrown the country into a constitutional crisis.
    "The president of the United States is violating our nation’s laws by authorizing the National Security Agency to engage in warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens," said Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., the (…)

  • CRIES OF WAR NOW HEARD
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WAR CRIES
    By Peter Fredson
    January 23, 2006
    What is appropriate to describe the onset of a war? Crossing the Rubicon, The Die is Cast, The Flight of Birds signals disaster ahead, the Oracle has Spoken, or Crying Wolf?
    Certainly Greek and Roman warriors had their rhetoric, their beating of shields with swords, the symbolic flight of arrows, the chest-beating, the swaggering and strutting, the bellowing and threatening.
    In that respect we have not evolved a whit. The entire stage (…)

  • Above the Law
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Senate Judiciary committee will be voting on the confirmation of Samuel Alito next week. I had not been watching the hearings or following the "Alito story" too closely, (he will most likely be confirmed by the committee), today however, the story became interesting. The democrats lashed out at Bushco and Samuel Alito. Senator Leahy came out to say he will vote no to Alito who he feels will not provide the necessary check "at a time when the president is seizing unprecedented power" (…)

  • Why do Asians study in Australia, UK & US? PC racism of media lying over US war crimes
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    PC RACISM (politically correct racism) and cowardice in US-UK-Oz academia has resulted in the mal-education of a current establishment of PC racist journalists, academics and politicians who simultaneously DENY any racism, are COMPLICIT in horrendous mass murder in Asian wars and IGNORE the horrendous, continuing passive genocide of Asians in US wars in gross contravention of the Geneva Conventions (so far there have been 2.1 million avoidable post-invasion deaths and 1.7 million (…)

  • King Bush & Co. behind Bars: Long Live the People!!!
    22 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Rumbles from the Street: The King is Dead! Long Live the People! GNN Hawai’i January 23 2006 via Time Portal 2453756.726123
    Senator Clinton & U.S. Congressional Leadership: Three cheers from the American "street" and the "outlands" of the Americas for your timely metaphor regarding Congress being run like a "PLANTATION"— by which you surely mean it has become elitist, corrupted, poisoned by paranoia, blinded by industry? All the "good old boys" with their bankrolls and silky suits (…)

  • Ominous sign / The president’s growing disregard for the law
    22 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Bush’s latest tool for disrespecting the Constitution, Congress and the American people, used more than a hundred times so far, is the presidential signing statement.
    That statement is normally a few words that a president says when he signs a bill passed by Congress. In the past it was an occasion for the president to congratulate legislators who had been particularly active in passing the bill and to praise the new legislation generously, even if he himself had been (…)

  • The Iran Trilogy : Timmerman , Corsi, and Weldon
    22 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Isn’t it odd that three books have come out at the same time (Kenneth Timmerman’s "Countdown to Crisis " , Jerome Corsi’s "Atomic Iran" and Rep. Curt Weldon’s classic " Countdown to Terror" ) all positing the theory that Iran is preparing to deploy terrorists that will unleash a nuclear armageddon against the people of the United States. Funny none of these gentleman have apparently noticed that it is Israeli spies who have been caught engaging in surveillance of Naval stations in (…)