Letter to the Editor
Instead of investigating President Bush for breaking the law by illegally spying without the required warrant from the court, the justice department has opened an investigation into who is leaking that Bush was breaking the law to the press. We are opening an investigation into the unauthorized disclosure of classified materials related to the NSA," an official said on condition of anonymity. So the Bush Justice department is leaking to the press that they are opening an investigation into leaking to the press. Bush logic never ceases to amaze me.
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Now that Christmas is over and we are now in the Chanukah and Kwanzaa season I hope that all the nuts who made such a big deal about Christmas can find it in their heart to wish the rest of us a merry holiday season and a happy New Year.
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President Bush is asserting that he is above the law and that he can decide to just up and break the law if he finds it inconvenient. He doesn't need a warrant, he does what he wants. He's saying that a strong president doesn't have to obey the law. If America allows that to stand then we have a constitutional crisis.
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President Bush Keeps saying over and over that America is a nation at war but we are in fact not a nation at war. America has never declared war on Iraq. Only Congress can declare war and the last time that happened was when America declared war on Japan in WWII. Iraq isn't a war, it's an illegal invasion based on lies. Bush can't use war as an excuse to break the law. Spying on Americans without a warrant is illegal. Bush admitted he did it and says he's going to keep doing it. The president isn't above the law. Bush should be arrested. It's time for Bush to resign.
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Imagine if Clinton decided to just up and break the law. Do you think the press would sit there and let him get a pass? I don't think so. But they are getting paid off by the Pentagon with our tax dollars to keep silent about Bush's criminal activities. That bastard Gonzalles should be locked up too as well as members of congress who knew this was going on, that is, if there really were any who actually knew it!
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President Bush has finally accepted he made a lot of mistakes going into the war, but he now asks us to trust him to win the war. But can America afford to invest it's trust in a leader who hasn't been trustworthy? America is a nation of laws where we value honesty, trustworthiness, honor, freedom, liberty, and justice. The issue isn't if we want to choose between victory and defeat but if Bush has a plan for victory that will work. Bush has put America in a hole that we can't get out of by going deeper into the hole. We are on the path of defeat and if we want to have victory we need to turn around and go in that direction. America can't do that if our leader is a loser. A week leader puts our nation in jeopardy. I therefore think it's time to ask Bush to resign the presidency so that we can get a leader who can win the war.
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"I don't need no stinking laws! I'm the president, I do what I want." This is what Bush is effectively telling America when he decided to authorize using the NSA to spys on Americans without getting authorization from the courts. So I don't understand why Bush wants the Patriot Act renewed because if he really has the powers to authorize spying without law then why bother with laws? Bush now claims that he's above the law. I think someone need to remind Bush that he's not the king.
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Today's revelations that the Bush administration is using the NSA to spy on Americans without a court order is disturbing for many reasons. Besides the obvious move towards a communistic society the fact that the New York Times sat on this story for more than a year because the White House requested they keep it secret shows that not only are we secretly being spied on, but also that the Bush administration has control over the press. Congress has just passed a bill specifically written to try to get Bush to stop torturing people. I think it's time to make it illegal for Bush to stop spying on his political enemies by urging Congress to stop the so called "Patriot Act". The idea that moving towards Communism is a patriotic act is against everything America stands for.
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President Bush is often criticized for ignoring poor Americans but it looks to me like it's the rich that are being ignored. Every time he asks Americans to sacrifice for the country he always leaves the rich out. Is Bush saying that the rich aren't Americans?
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I find it somewhat amusing to see Christians making a huge deal about saying "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays" because Christmas isn't a Christian holiday in the first place. There is nothing at all in the Bible that relates to anything in the Christmas holiday. Christmas was started by Roman Pagans as Saturnalia in honor of the god Saturn. It was celebrated with a week of lawlessness with widespread intoxication, rape, and other sexual rituals. Christmas Caroling started with the tradition of naked singing in the streets and on the last day culminated in human sacrifice. In the 4th century Christians imported Saturnalia hoping to convert pagans who continued to celebrate it in the traditional way.
Christmas is at best a stolen pagan holiday. I'm surprised that Christians even still celebrate it considering its origin and history. I just hope they don't bring back human sacrifice.
Here's the Real Story behind Christmas.
Letter to the Editor
The Patriot Act threatens religious freedom and the American way of life. I don't know why Americans who have fought and died for freedom and liberty have to waste their sacrifice as Congress legislates away the freedoms and principles that this country was founded upon. Under the patriot the government can send spies into your church and issue secret warrants to track people who oppose government policy. We didn't elect these people to vote in communism so please let your congressman know that voting away our freedom and liberty is wrong.
71% of Iraqies believe that Americans just make up statistics about Iraq.
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They tell us that we are on the verge of a world wide killer bird flu pandemic where millions are going to die and the Republicans are cutting funds to the Center of Disease Control. We are a nation gone mad!
This story about the passenger getting shot today just doesn't add up. You have a guy who they say claimed he had a bomb but his wife was shouting he was just off his meds. I don't believe that even if he was shouting he had a bomb that anyone with any common sense, let alone training would believe it. He wasn't even on the plane when he was shot so I'm just not buying this story.
One thing that you will see in 100% of shootings by police is that any time someone is shot they always claim that the killed person did something aggressive that justified the shooting. In this case to justify the shooting there has to be a claim there was a bomb and that there was reason to believe that he was going to detonate it. It is a given that no matter what really happened that the story would have been the same.
So as I'm watching them blow up luggage on the tarmac when clearly they already knew at that point that they totally fucked up, what I see is at least theatrics and at worse the destruction of evidence.
My opinion is that what is most likely the case is that this guy mouthed off and they decided to teach him a lesson because they knew they could get away with it.
Let's see if they find any passengers who actually heard the bomb threat other than the cops. It wouldn't surprise me if they made that up.
I don't trust police and I know how they lie. Having been kidnapped 3 times by the police I don't have a very high opinion of their honesty. I don't want to sound like I don't appreciate them because most cops are good public servants. But when cops do bad things they all come together and cover up for the bad cop every time. And in this case the facts just don't add up to something I think is believable. I don't believe that when a guy is off the plane and just acting a little nuts that he was a serious danger of being a terrorist. I would guarantee that a real terrorist would not behave that way. A real terrorist would be as cool and normal looking as you can get.
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The United States Supreme Court ruled today the the government can garnish the Social Security checks of old disabled people who haven't paid back their student loans. The decision against a 67 year old Seattle man who lives in public housing who says he needs his $874 a month to pay for food and medicine. It may be legal for America to take money from a poor old disabled man but that doesn't make it right. It speaks as to who we are as a nation and a people and reflects the (lack of) heart of America's soul.
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This Iraq war is making America weaker and the enemies of America stronger. And Bush wants us to "stay the course"? I don't think so! When one figures out they are heading in the wrong direction it is time to turn around.
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America can not win the war in Iraq because in order to win the war we are going to have to defeat the very people who we are supposedly trying to liberate. The people of Iraq are not terrorists. They are a people who are fighting for freedom against a brutal invading force who has used rape, torture, and chemical weapons against the civilian population. Saddam is gone. There are no weapons of mass destruction. Bush lied to get us into this war and we have no plan to get out and we don't even understand why it is we are there in the first place. Iraq was better of when Saddam was in power than it is now. The situation is bad and the longer we stay there the worse it gets.
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It is not a surprise the the Bush administration is bribing Iraqi journalists to print stories in Iraqi newspapers written by the US military pretending to be Iraqi citizens. After all - the Bush administration is doing the same thing here. That's why we are fighting a fraudulent war in the first place. I suppose if you lie your way into a war you might think that you could lie your way out of one. This is America. Can't we do any better than this?