Friday, December 08, 2006


Lame Duck Congress

This week, the lame duck Congress is building a new feeding trough for the mega-weathly and their favorite corporations. They rushing to pass a few bills -- mostly extending tax cuts, last minute tax credits for sales tax payments and breaks so that research and development is paid for by the tax payer instead of the corporations. Think of all of this as pork-barrel corporate welfare spending. It's a good thing Congressmen are not used to working too hard. They are not getting finished with all their business. Also, they're opening a new prison in Guantanamo Bay although many of the detainees are going to be moved to another secret location. Many of these people have been detained without due process for almost five years - their families don't know where they are at, they have not seen council, few have been charged with crimes... Why are we spending money on a new court building in Cuba when our laws don't apply there?? The US could have built the prison facility in the Florida swamps - near Krome Detention Center for example. That's pretty clear - so that you or I can't observe the secret court proceedings. US laws would fully apply on our soil. Perhaps people would hear that torture has been going on or that an innocent person is being shafted because the savage Bush needs his numbers. So why are we continuing on this path on one side saying we're the beacon of Democracy and on the other side these secret prisons, extraordinary renderings, torture... We live in a Fascist dictatorship and we're too snowed over to notice any different.

Is this really acceptable? No. We should demand a return to our values of personal freedoms and guarantee of civil rights.

# posted by Konrad Roeder @ 12/08/2006 03:21:00 PM

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Sad we send our men and ladys to fight for others freedoms while back home our leaders are destroying what OUR military is fighting for else where.But then even that fight has been confussing !!!!I wish we can keep our fought and died for freedoms at home too!!!!Bless all people who want real true freedom to the ring of life.


# posted by Blogger littlebitofsonshine : Saturday, December 9, 2006 at 7:19:00 PM UTC


 

Except for privatizing Iraq's oil, there is no particular objective in Iraq, that was lasting.

Neither major US party will end the concept of "unlawful detainee".


# posted by Blogger Frank Partisan : Saturday, December 9, 2006 at 8:48:00 PM UTC


 

It's pretty clear that Iraq is all about control over the oil. If it was about establishing a democracy, they would not have leveled most of the infrastructure - universities, schools, hospitals, and kept only the oil ministry offices.

Neither party will remove bad laws that were created during Bush's term in office. Instead, our only hope is that the bad laws are challenged in Supreme court.

The Supreme Court's ruling on Hamdan v. Rumsfeld was a strong rebuke of the Bush administration's unlawful detainee policy. The decision stated that any legal proceedings must provide fundamental fair trial rights to any detainee charged with a crime. The administration's response to this was to remove Habeas Corpus rights from detainees that have yet to be charged with a crime and to hurry up to build a court house in Guantanamo Bay.

Hopefully, the Supreme Court will remove most of these bad laws over time.


# posted by Blogger Konrad Roeder : Sunday, December 10, 2006 at 5:51:00 PM UTC


 

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