While most Americans were busy over the holidays with festvities and peace and good will towards men and all of that rot, and our Congress was away on vacation, (only making a token Senate skeleton watch so Bush doesn't make any vile recess appointments we'll grow to hate him even more for), with both of our political parties focused on electing Bush's successor, Mister Bush and his war criminal gang have been busy very, very busy! Yes, just as busy as little bees.
[Disclaimer follows: This is my "teaser comment", you know like the your local MSM tells us, "Tune in at 5 o'clock for the rest of the story". I hate it when they tease us like that.]
If anyone reads this, maybe I'll go into more depth tomorrow and invest four or five hours on it as usual, instead of just the three hours it took me to write this rant with lots more proof[links]. But if it's not read, I've got better things to do with my time, like read international news rags and diaries here, and other Dem blogs.
My hope is that I can convince you who do inbibe from that poisoned well of deceit, and it does smell up to high heaven sometimes, that I can help break your habit in 2008, and hope that you begin to drink from the online international news magazines' wells, at least as much from trusted (by me and I don't really need to say this do I?) Democratic blogs like Dkos. I promise you from the depths of my soul that I and they won't steer you wrong!
A FACE ONLY A MOTHER COULD LOVE: (Not really. Some folks have actually grown to trust and love me with all of their life!)
And no, that's not alcohol or neo-con koolaid I'm drinking. Haven't had a drink in seven years! Sorry to you party animals out there!
I implicitly trust these media outlets, and if you knew me, you'd know that I don't easily trust anyone walking around in just any old bag of bones breathing nauseous noxious fumes, like me. If you live long enough to see a ripe old age, you too, will become the skeptical anti-war, anti-establishment Democratic party hippie I've been almost my whole life. But it's not too late for you, if you would care to learn how to put down the neocon establishment and corporate status quo koolaid cup.
America is like that man who got ran over by the train and still thinks he has both of his legs! Little does he know that he is just two minutes from bleeding out, that he will never see another tomorrow, much less ever walk again!
America has had both of its legs cut-off by this Bush regime of war criminals, who are running down the railway tracks like runaway train, yet most of us Americans go about their daily lives thinking everything's just as snug as a bug in a rug. Well, it isn't. Everything isn't just hunkey dorey, in the eyes of the world from their perch's view of America.
The rest of the world views America as the greatest single threat to world peace, not al-Qaeda. Shocking news, aay? You shouldn't be surprised at all, you should be enraged that they have been able to pull this thing off, that they have succeeded in undoing every single good thing this once great nation ever stood for. And it only took them seven years to do it!
Some of you might be thinking, so what, what can the rest of the world hope to do against our mighty military, the greatest superpower the world has ever known? Ask all of the greatest civilizations that ever walked this planet what happened to them, when they outgrew their britches, and thought they too were untouchable, unstoppable, invincible.
A good man has many friends, and little worries keeping him up at night and robbing him from his sleep. A clear conscience is worth all of the world's gold or precious stones--or oil.
An evil man sleeps with one eye and both ears open, his garrison constantly vigilant manning his castle's ramparts, terrified of sleep, not knowing when any of his enemies may come and storm his castle, overcoming his garrison, and hanging him upsidedown in his own square after slicing his throat, as an example to the rest of the world of the price of stomping on the weak and grinding the faces of the poor and downtrodden into the ground, and as a testament to the ultimate price of tyranny.
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
— Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.[De facto revokation of our citizenships by passing laws legalizing warrantless wiretaps and surveillance of the whole American people, scrapping the Bill of Rights, save the 2nd Amendment. Nullifying the Great Writ of Habeas Corpus, denying the whole American people of Due Process of the Law.]
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.[He has effectively dissolved the Congress by holding our troops hostage, threatening to leave them in dire straights and in harm's way, and in danger of losing their very lives in a combat zone, extorting funds for his war by, caused by his own hands and by his own will, if our Congress does not succumb to his egregious demands, and steadfastly refusing to hear the will of the people.]
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.[A nation built by immigrants, America now has no comprehensive immigation policy, making criminals and enemies of same, engendering hatred and bigotry, thus endangering our national secuirty.]
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.[Signed over 1200 Signing Statements--MORE THAN ALL OF THE PREVIOUS 42 PRESIDENTS COMBINED, committing de facto coup d'etat or overthrowing both the Legislative and Judicial branches. Signing Statements are found nowhere in our U.S. Constitution, yet Bush treats them as having the FULL weight of law made by an edict from a KING!]
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. [The U.S. Department of Justice and Attorney General serves as his personal law group to oppress the people.]
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. [Department of Homeland Security]
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.[The 2007 John Warner National Defense Authorization Act creates a National Police Force, rewriting the Posse Comitatus Act and the Insurrection Act, unconstitutionally turning America into a police state by the sole will of the president until the period of the "national emergency" is deemed by solely him to be over, exclusive of, and without the need of any further congressional authorization or over-sight, or Judicial review. Ergo, Police State.]
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power. [Blackwater Worldwide Private mercenary Praetorian Guards or Schutzstaffel SS are immune from our civil, criminal, and military laws governing murder, atrocities, and other war crimes and/or treasons.]
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:[Effectively waging war on the American people with the H.R. 1955: Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007, and given himself dictatorial powers by his own hand with NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE/NSPD 51 & HOMELAND SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE/HSPD-20.]
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:[Blackwater Worldwide.]
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:[Abusing the power of the pardon to give clemency for criminal acts conspired by, committed by, and in the direct service and orders of the president, thusly mocking the rule of law.]
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:[Maliciously lying us into war under false pretenses, causing us to wage imperialistic wars of aggression in our names, and forcing us and laying upon our backs the heavy debts of these wars, with no end in sight, against the will of the people, and despite the cries from the American people for these illegal wars to cease.]
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:[Military Tribunals by the Military Commissions of the 2006 Military Commissions Act.]
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:[Extraordinary Renditioning and secret prisons. Codifying waterboarding and other such methods of heretofore illegal in the civilized world, methods of torture and inquisition.]
[I could go on, but for the sake of my sanity(and yours) I'll let the mountain of Bush Intolerable Acts stop here for now.]
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.
We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence.
They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
To those who read my diary, I say thankyou, and I'll see you again. To those who didn't, I'll see you again, too. At any rate, I'll see you all again. Goodnight, and God Bless. Oh, and a Happy New Year to all!
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