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  • Is George Bush a Mad Emperor?
    23 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.” - Cicero (1)
    The Roman masses finally figured out that their highly eccentric Emperor, Caligula, was a raving lunatic when it was revealed that he was having lavish dinner parties in honor of his favorite horse and that he had even considered making it a Consul! Caligula’s reported incestuous relationships with his sisters was bad enough for them to stomach; the “horse thing,” however, became the tipping point. (2) (…)

  • Bush’s Impeachable Offense
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Tuesday, Dec. 20, Washington Post polling editor Richard Morin participated in an online chat with readers. The liberal blog MyDD urged its users to take part, and evidently they did. In previous days, legal experts had declared that Bush had committed a federal crime by authorizing the surveillance of American citizens without a court order, and Morin was grilled about the issue of impeachment.
    First, someone from Naperville, Ill., asked Morin why the Post hasn’t polled on public (…)

  • Impeach Bush: Bush’s Slippery Slope Leads To A Police State
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    IMPEACH BUSH: NO PRESIDENT IS ABOVE THE LAW, NOT IN CHILE, NOT IN THE U.S.
    Bush’s Slippery Slope Leads To A Police State, Plain And Simple
    (Dec. 21, 2005, Ed. Note: It is a sad state of affairs to have the President of the United States admit to the nation and to the world that he is spying on the citizens he is elected to safeguard.
    It is worse to have the President aggressively justify his “big brother” politics in the name of an ill-begotten, counter-productive war on terrorism (…)

  • George W. Bush’s Impeachable Offenses
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Several recent presidents could have been impeached for selected unconstitutional or illegal actions during their presidencies. But the sitting president, George W. Bush, may win the prize for committing the most impeachable offenses of any recent president.
    Yet when one thinks of bad behavior leading down the road to possible impeachment, Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon come to mind first. Although Bill Clinton was impeached for having sex with an intern and then lying about it to a grand (…)

  • Spying, the Constitution - and the ‘I-word’
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    2006 will offer up Nixon-era nastiness and a chorus of calls to impeach Bush
    WASHINGTON - In the first weeks and months after 9/11, I am told by a very good source, there was a lot of wishing out loud in the White House Situation Room about expanding the National Security Agency’s ability to instantly monitor phone calls and e-mails between American callers and possible terror suspects abroad. “We talked a lot about how useful that would be,” said this source, who was “in the room” in the (…)

  • Mushrooming depleted uranium (DU) scandal blamed
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Bob Nichols
    Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter charged Monday that the reason Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi stepped down earlier this month was the growing scandal surrounding the use of uranium munitions in the Iraq War.
    Writing in Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter No. 169, Arthur N. Bernklau, executive director of Veterans for Constitutional Law in New York, stated, “The real reason for Mr. Principi’s departure was really never given, however a special report (…)

  • New Poll: Majority of Americans Support Impeachment
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Flashback from Nov 4
    By a margin of 53% to 42%, Americans want Congress to impeach President Bush if he lied about the war in Iraq, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
    The poll was conducted by Zogby International, the highly-regarded non-partisan polling company. The poll interviewed 1,200 U.S. adults from October 29 through November 2. (…)

  • A TIME TO IMPEACH
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I wrote the following for the forthcoming issue of L.A. Weekly:
    When the U.S. Senate last Friday refused to renew the liberticidal Patriot Act — with its provisions for spying on Americans’ use of libraries and the Internet, among other Constitution-shredding provisions of that iniquitous law — it was in part because that morning’s New York Times had revealed how Bush and his White House had committed a major crime.
    By ordering the National SecBush_dark_mood_1urity Agency — the N.S.A, so (…)

  • MTA Strike: The Politics of No-Tomorrow
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Wayne Barrett
    Would this strike be happening if Governor George Pataki were running for re-election next year? Would Mike Bloomberg’s city be shut down if the expiration date on the Transport Workers Union’s contract were September or October, when he reached pre-election settlements with half a dozen city unions?
    If your answer is no to either question, then you believe, as anyone with a memory in New York knows, that politics is the only explanation for this maddening and (…)

  • Global Migration Coursing Through Mexico
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Michael Flynn
    President Bush’s “comprehensive strategy” on border security aimed at preventing “people from coming here in the first place,” announced last month, does nothing to address the growing phenomenon of global migration. What’s more, it leaves Mexico to clean up a mess it didn’t make.
    According to the UN’s Global Commission on International Migration, the number of people worldwide living outside their country of birth has doubled in the past 25 years, rising to more than (…)