Michael B. Mukasey @ MindSay 
Democrates Blink - Bush wins - America Lost
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Post Script: From the New York Times, “A new study by researchers at the Harvard Medical School has found that millions of veterans and their dependents have no access to care in veterans’ hospitals and clinics and no health insurance to pay for care elsewhere.”
Support the troops is the call of the Christian Conservative; it is the call of the Right-wing; it is, as with all their words, another thing they work hard NOT to do.
Rally round the Flag Boys, Rally round the Flag – all the better to die.
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Date Line November 9, 2007
Ho Ho, what a call – the Democrats Blinked – the Senate confirmed Michael B. Mukasey as attorney general. The choice on torture was reject Mukasey and impeach Bush, or put their tails between their legs and run squealing to shelter. Naturally, Democrats buckled and ran.
No member of the American government wants to represent the people of this nation. Bush is a killer, he represents the worst that America has to offer – the Evangelical Christian Right-wing. He represents the Crusader mentality – those who rape, pillage, and murder in the name of their satanic deity.
Hey, don’t pick on me ... Even St John said it, in his “Revelation”. He proclaimed, at a time when there was only one Church emerging, that The Church of the City of the Seven Hills is the Church of Satan. That Church is the Church of Rome (antiquity’s only City of Seven Hills).
History tells us very clearly that the Church turned from the teachings they professed to support. But fortunately I’m not under their auspice and so have naught to fear – but those who follow the Evangelicals have much to fear; at least they have much to fear if there is any truth in the teachings they ignore.
I’ve said it before. The teachings state clearly that prisoners are to be treated humanly – no torture or waterboarding, or slapping across the side of the head. Basically, nothing which Bush and his supporters advocate is to be done to the prisoners.
Even our Constitution declares – however much bush selects to ignore it – that those under our jurisdiction are subject to all the rights of our Constitution (I believe that is Amendment Four – who cares, we ignore it anyway).
On a different note, President Bill Clinton backed the North American Free Trade Agreement and liberalizing trade with China – he was a party to the export of manufacturing from America. On the down side, that means less real product made here, and reduces us to a service economy. On the upside, service economies are mobile economies.
By mobile economy I am thinking the Russian during the Napoleon era and the invasions by Germany in both World Wars; I am thinking of their ancestral Scythian tactic of the nomad – burn the fields, and run before the enemy while striking at them like hornets. Let the elements and their own lack or provisions be their destruction.
No nation in the world can invade modern America. We do not have the native resources to support an invading army; and any invaders would require massive supply lines which are easily severed. Only absolute destruction – nuclear destruction – which leaves nobody alive and nothing to occupy would be a victorious tactic.
Unfortunately, as we have seen in Korea, Vietnam and now Iraq, this same tactic is the only one which modern society has at its disposal. If we wish war, it must be total – fought from great distances, with the objective of killing all within the target territory.
The kind of “wartime presidency” which Bush envisions – the vision of the historian (I believe Bush’s Harvard degree) – is no longer valid. We cannot invade and occupy. We cannot subdue. Because they have staying power, and offer no solid target, the insurgent must always be the victor. For the insurgent to lose, they must first be allowed to rule.
When they have a formal structure, they offer a fixed target; if they fail to form a formal structure, those they seek to rule will destroy them. The insurgent who is incompetent cannot suppress the insurgent force he has trained to overthrow incompetent leadership. People will have the government they are happy with; or they will rebel.
The People of America want Health Care; they want a stable economy; they want a future with promise, and not one filled with debt. The Most Harm to the Most People doctrine dictates they shall have none of these – and so shall formulate rebellion.
Destruction of America – a Political Objective for both Parties.
_____________________________________________________ No member of the American government wants to represent the people of this nation. Bush is a killer, he represents the worst that America has to offer – the Evangelical Christian Right-wing. He represents the Crusader mentality – those who rape, pillage, and murder in the name of their satanic deity.
Hey, don’t pick on me ... Even St John said it, in his “Revelation”. He proclaimed, at a time when there was only one Church emerging, that The Church of the City of the Seven Hills is the Church of Satan. That Church is the Church of Rome (antiquity’s only City of Seven Hills).
History tells us very clearly that the Church turned from the teachings they professed to support. But fortunately I’m not under their auspice and so have naught to fear – but those who follow the Evangelicals have much to fear; at least they have much to fear if there is any truth in the teachings they ignore.
I’ve said it before. The teachings state clearly that prisoners are to be treated humanly – no torture or waterboarding, or slapping across the side of the head. Basically, nothing which Bush and his supporters advocate is to be done to the prisoners.
Even our Constitution declares – however much bush selects to ignore it – that those under our jurisdiction are subject to all the rights of our Constitution (I believe that is Amendment Four – who cares, we ignore it anyway).
On a different note, President Bill Clinton backed the North American Free Trade Agreement and liberalizing trade with China – he was a party to the export of manufacturing from America. On the down side, that means less real product made here, and reduces us to a service economy. On the upside, service economies are mobile economies.
By mobile economy I am thinking the Russian during the Napoleon era and the invasions by Germany in both World Wars; I am thinking of their ancestral Scythian tactic of the nomad – burn the fields, and run before the enemy while striking at them like hornets. Let the elements and their own lack or provisions be their destruction.
No nation in the world can invade modern America. We do not have the native resources to support an invading army; and any invaders would require massive supply lines which are easily severed. Only absolute destruction – nuclear destruction – which leaves nobody alive and nothing to occupy would be a victorious tactic.
Unfortunately, as we have seen in Korea, Vietnam and now Iraq, this same tactic is the only one which modern society has at its disposal. If we wish war, it must be total – fought from great distances, with the objective of killing all within the target territory.
The kind of “wartime presidency” which Bush envisions – the vision of the historian (I believe Bush’s Harvard degree) – is no longer valid. We cannot invade and occupy. We cannot subdue. Because they have staying power, and offer no solid target, the insurgent must always be the victor. For the insurgent to lose, they must first be allowed to rule.
When they have a formal structure, they offer a fixed target; if they fail to form a formal structure, those they seek to rule will destroy them. The insurgent who is incompetent cannot suppress the insurgent force he has trained to overthrow incompetent leadership. People will have the government they are happy with; or they will rebel.
The People of America want Health Care; they want a stable economy; they want a future with promise, and not one filled with debt. The Most Harm to the Most People doctrine dictates they shall have none of these – and so shall formulate rebellion.
Destruction of America – a Political Objective for both Parties.
Post Script: From the New York Times, “A new study by researchers at the Harvard Medical School has found that millions of veterans and their dependents have no access to care in veterans’ hospitals and clinics and no health insurance to pay for care elsewhere.”
Support the troops is the call of the Christian Conservative; it is the call of the Right-wing; it is, as with all their words, another thing they work hard NOT to do.
Rally round the Flag Boys, Rally round the Flag – all the better to die.
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Goodbye to the American Dream
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Date Line November 1, 2007
Congress is in the process of revealing its politicized hypocrisy.
We witnessed Alberto Gonzales validate American use of torture and repudiate the Geneva Convention; we funded – the Congress of the United States funded – illegal detention centers and violated the United States Constitution granting of Constitutional Rights to any and all who are under our jurisdiction.
In case you do not get it – someone we are holding in prison cells, here or abroad, is, like any Federal prisoner, under our jurisdiction. All those we have held without trial have had their Constitutional Rights denied – the President and Congress have been, and are, in clear violation of the Constitution. They have subverted YOUR Rights as much as they have denied the rights of those being held.
When George W Bush authorized and defended the torture of others, he violated his oath of office – when members of Congress failed to impeach, they too violated their oaths of office.
Now we have political appointee games being conducted – the rules are clear: challenge someone on their opinion on legality, declare the action “obviously” illegal ... but shun responsibility for enforcing the law.
The best answer to the Water-boarding question, as posed to Michael Mukasey, was Mukasey’s response that he didn’t know if it was illegal. Obviously, if it were illegal under our laws, and also a violation of the geneva Convention – hence international law – the authorization and facilitating of the practice would be a “High Crime or Misdemeanor“ in the Constitutional context mandating impeachment.
Congress, by refusing to impeach, has declared water-boarding legal under the United States Laws and Constitution.
If his refusal to assert water-boarding illegal is the worst, the only, thing Congress can find against Michael B. Mukasey – if Mukasey’s acceptance of that which Congress holds to be legal is a problem, I would suggest we have a very real problem.
The problem at hand is the continued existence of the united states as a nation of laws. Congress has said that it should not be honored – that the thing which it accepts should not be accepted by those who wish to be employed by the government.
The media reports: “The biggest problem for Mr. Mukasey remains his refusal to take a clear legal position on the interrogation technique.”
The biggest problem for everyone else is that Congress has failed to enforce its political position on interrogation techniques which none in Congress would consider – if applied to them personally – anything less than outright torture.
The American Congress has failed to meet its responsibilities. George W has won; the evangelical movement has won, the American ideal has been crushed, the basis of moral responsibility has been destroyed and obliterated – America is passing into the dusty pages of mythology and legend. American ideals, the American dream, is going the way of King Arthur’s Round Table and Camelot.
Depressing?
Yes it is. Very Depressing! More so because we are living under the rule of law which has ceased to exist. We have no place to go, nothing we can do but ride it out and hope that our grandchildren survive the horrors which must befall us in the next decade or two.
Remember! Remember this is a president who said he didn’t care about what history thought – and gave as a reason that fact that we would all be dead. He then, with the blessing of Congress, the Courts, and the majority of the people – he then went on to do everything he could to kill us physically and economically
Gee daddy George .. Is there Global Warming? No of course not! Oh, ignore the opening of that Northwest passage, and ignore the exposure of tree stumps which, for the last seven millennia, were encased under tens to hundreds of meters of ice.
Let it be known to one and all, with the deliberate and thoughtful assistance of Congress: The Mighty Oz has spoken! – don’t look behind the curtain.
We witnessed Alberto Gonzales validate American use of torture and repudiate the Geneva Convention; we funded – the Congress of the United States funded – illegal detention centers and violated the United States Constitution granting of Constitutional Rights to any and all who are under our jurisdiction.
In case you do not get it – someone we are holding in prison cells, here or abroad, is, like any Federal prisoner, under our jurisdiction. All those we have held without trial have had their Constitutional Rights denied – the President and Congress have been, and are, in clear violation of the Constitution. They have subverted YOUR Rights as much as they have denied the rights of those being held.
When George W Bush authorized and defended the torture of others, he violated his oath of office – when members of Congress failed to impeach, they too violated their oaths of office.
Now we have political appointee games being conducted – the rules are clear: challenge someone on their opinion on legality, declare the action “obviously” illegal ... but shun responsibility for enforcing the law.
The best answer to the Water-boarding question, as posed to Michael Mukasey, was Mukasey’s response that he didn’t know if it was illegal. Obviously, if it were illegal under our laws, and also a violation of the geneva Convention – hence international law – the authorization and facilitating of the practice would be a “High Crime or Misdemeanor“ in the Constitutional context mandating impeachment.
Congress, by refusing to impeach, has declared water-boarding legal under the United States Laws and Constitution.
If his refusal to assert water-boarding illegal is the worst, the only, thing Congress can find against Michael B. Mukasey – if Mukasey’s acceptance of that which Congress holds to be legal is a problem, I would suggest we have a very real problem.
The problem at hand is the continued existence of the united states as a nation of laws. Congress has said that it should not be honored – that the thing which it accepts should not be accepted by those who wish to be employed by the government.
The media reports: “The biggest problem for Mr. Mukasey remains his refusal to take a clear legal position on the interrogation technique.”
The biggest problem for everyone else is that Congress has failed to enforce its political position on interrogation techniques which none in Congress would consider – if applied to them personally – anything less than outright torture.
The American Congress has failed to meet its responsibilities. George W has won; the evangelical movement has won, the American ideal has been crushed, the basis of moral responsibility has been destroyed and obliterated – America is passing into the dusty pages of mythology and legend. American ideals, the American dream, is going the way of King Arthur’s Round Table and Camelot.
Depressing?
Yes it is. Very Depressing! More so because we are living under the rule of law which has ceased to exist. We have no place to go, nothing we can do but ride it out and hope that our grandchildren survive the horrors which must befall us in the next decade or two.
Remember! Remember this is a president who said he didn’t care about what history thought – and gave as a reason that fact that we would all be dead. He then, with the blessing of Congress, the Courts, and the majority of the people – he then went on to do everything he could to kill us physically and economically
Gee daddy George .. Is there Global Warming? No of course not! Oh, ignore the opening of that Northwest passage, and ignore the exposure of tree stumps which, for the last seven millennia, were encased under tens to hundreds of meters of ice.
Let it be known to one and all, with the deliberate and thoughtful assistance of Congress: The Mighty Oz has spoken! – don’t look behind the curtain.
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