If this has been diaried today, I haven't seen it.
From Rawstory.com:
http://tinyurl.com/drsrn
New York congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) delivered a fiery critique of the Bush Administration's drive to war in Iraq, labeling the push part of a "conspiracy" to deceive Congress and occupy the country.
The speech, made Sept. 19 outside the District Courthouse in Binghamton, New York before the federal trial of the St. Patrick's Four, was transcribed by RAW STORY's Jennifer Van Bergen.
Speaking of the four protesters who spilled their own blood at a military recruiting center, Hinchey said "what they were protesting was the conspiracy of the Administration of George W. Bush to bring about an attack and then an occupation of the country of Iraq, and as a result making the world a much more dangerous and difficult place than it was prior to those actions."
Now I've never heard of this guy, but WOW!
Here's more:
"It is that conspiracy," he added, "that conspiracy which has now been documented by among other things official British documents called the Downing Street Memo which are communications between the highest ranking officials of the British government - the head of the British Intelligence, the foreign officer, the prime minister himself."
Hinchley's remarks break ranks with most Democrats in Congress, who have been critical of the leadup and operations surrounding the Iraq war, but who have been loath to deliver stinging perorations. The New York Democrat said he saw the trial as somewhat Orwellian -- a move towards curtailing speech.
"We do not want to see an end to this democratic republic," Hinchey quipped. "We want it to be strengthened. We want it to go on forever. We don't want it to be ended by people who are telling us, or who would like to tell us, what we can do and say and even think. But that's what this Administration is engaged in."
We need to encourage more of this.
Here's the guy's website. Write him, call him, fax him, whatever him. Make sure he knows WE know what he said and did.
http://www.house.gov/hinchey/contact/
Perhaps we should write other congresspeople and tell them that THIS is what we expect of them.
