War is Peace

"WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH"

And now the Roberts court adds "Integration is Discrimination." Rolling back the famous Brown v. Board of Education ruling while purporting to uphold and quote it is, well, Orwellian. Justice Alito as well as Justice Roberts were both confirmed by the Senate, in no small measure, due to their testimony that they were firm believers in stare decisis(following prior precedent). Now, just months after claiming to be true conservatives and strict constructionists, Alito and Roberts lead the way in basically nullifying the famous Brown ruling. This blatant judicial activism will go unmentioned by the cable news 24 hour cycle. In decision after decision, the Roberts court has reversed course on important issues that have already been decided. Most of these decisions have been 5-4 rulings, with no principled reason for ruling counter to the previous ruling. Justice Ginsberg noted in one of her dissents, that the only thing that has changed has been Alito for O'Connor. Most recently, Roberts had the gall to cite Brown in saying that the government cannot assign whites and blacks to the same school in order to integrate them (The Brown decision had said that the government could not assign whites and blacks to different schools in order to segregate them.)

Thus, "Integration is Discrimination" Orwell would be so proud of Roberts and his newspeak.

DICK cheney claims he is untouchable

As recently as early 2007, DICK cheney has asserted that he does not have to turn over "working papers" under any circumstances because he and his office claim they have executive privilege and therefore cannot be forced to turn over these working papers even for a felony investigation (See Scooter Libby).
Let's just give old Darth the benefit of the doubt, just for the sake of argument. Let's say that he enjoys all the perks of the executive branch including the fabricated executive privilege. If a person or a vice-president is executive enough to be covered by executive privilege, shouldn't they be governed by the same laws as the president and everyone else that works in the executive branch of government? Well, not according to DICK. You see, there is a little known group of bureaucrats called the National Archives' Information Security Oversight Office. These men and women are part of the National Archives and are charged with making sure that each office that handles state secrets and classified information, keeps that information secret. They also do spot checks to see if these officials have systems in place that safeguard this classified information.
Mr. Executive Privilege, DICK "Darth" cheney, for some time now has been blocking what amounts to a Presidential order because (this is where it gets good) he claims he is not a full member of the executive branch. His argument is that he is president of the Senate so why should he have to bow to oversight of the executive branch.

In case you didn't catch it, DICK claims he and his office don't fall under the executive OR the legislative branches of government so, as some of us already knew, he is free to operate outside the law. Yes, DICK has created his own branch of government where he makes the rules and the rest of you can just fuck off if you don't like it! Apparently, this cocksucker even tried to get the office that does the oversight abolished. Hey, I have to applaud DICK for the huge set of brass balls he must have for even trying this shit. I know what he was thinking because most people aren't paying attention anyway so I could see where he might get the idea that he can do anything he wants without repercussions.
So far this miserable excuse for a man has gotten away with everything he has wanted. Maybe it's about time Congress cut him down to size. In steps Rham Emanuel, who is trying to cut executive branch funding for the vice-president's office. Emanuel is trying to force the vice-president to either let the Archives do the spot checks OR release all documents that have thus far been shielded under the dark shadows of executive privilege.

The Congress has a great case here but if I were going to venture a guess I would say that the democrats (lower case until spine replacement surgery) will fold. Why, you ask? Because they always fold. Our Congress is filled to the brim with Chickenhawks on the right and Chickenshits on the left. Dick Cheney will get his way because the aggressor always wins. Any poker player will tell you that but Harry Reid is too stupid to figure it out, and he is FROM Nevada.

Fucking Idiots

I have been silent of late for many reasons too plentiful to list but including laziness and complacency(we did win, or did we?). Not to break the silence on a sour note but I noticed over the last couple of days that a growing contingency of anti-war protestors are actually protesting against the troops. What the fuck are these people thinking? It is one thing to burn an effigy of George W. Bush in protest but quite another to burn a fake Army Ranger. I take personal offense to this stupidity, as my father was a Ranger/Green Beret in the Vietnam war. I am personally against this occupation of Iraq because there is nothing left for us to gain but to try and soil the reputation of our fighting men and women is stepping over the line as far as I am concerned. Where does one get the balls or lack thereof to criticize the volunteer army that we have put together?

I understand the right to free expression and I celebrate its rough character but dragging a fake corpse of a soldier behind you is just plain devicive and makes all liberals look like assholes while undermining the entire credibility of the anti-war movement. Good, free thinking liberals like myself cringe when presented images like the one above. I am not telling you to quit marching, I'm just saying quit looking like a bunch of pansy ass pacifists while doing it!

Enough of the burning of soldier effigies you fucking assholes!

George Bush and Houston Nutt long lost brothers?

With the plight of the free world on the line, supposedly, G.W. takes a play out of Houston Nutt's playbook. We're looking at 4th down and 20 to go, so we obviously call for a tunnel screen, don't we? G.W. has decided, as the decider generally does, and the rest of us are supposed to just follow along as if he has never done us wrong before. 20,000 new troops, spread out over the course of six months, does not constitute a SURGE, more like a drivel.
Had we dropped 400,000-500,000 men into Iraq in the first place, we would all be having lattes conversing about how we could not believe that we had won our last four wars while losing a combined 1,000 men. Instead, we let the retarded cousin of Houston Nutt, complete with his two page playbook, run the show. Now, he has fucked this thing up so badly that even the triumverate of Eisenhower, Patton, and Jesus Christ couldn't come up with a winning strategy. Normally I know the answer to most questions, but with the quandry that the Idiot in Chief has put us in, even I can't answer "What should we do next?"

Pat Tillman's brother speaks out

Posted on Oct 19, 2006
Courtesy of the Tillman Family

By Kevin Tillman
Editor’s note: Kevin Tillman joined the Army with his brother Pat in 2002, and they served together in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pat was killed in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004. Kevin, who was discharged in 2005, has written a powerful, must-read document.
It is Pat’s birthday on November 6, and elections are the day after. It gets me thinking about a conversation I had with Pat before we joined the military. He spoke about the risks with signing the papers. How once we committed, we were at the mercy of the American leadership and the American people. How we could be thrown in a direction not of our volition. How fighting as a soldier would leave us without a voice… until we got out.

Much has happened since we handed over our voice:
Somehow we were sent to invade a nation because it was a direct threat to the American people, or to the world, or harbored terrorists, or was involved in the September 11 attacks, or received weapons-grade uranium from Niger, or had mobile weapons labs, or WMD, or had a need to be liberated, or we needed to establish a democracy, or stop an insurgency, or stop a civil war we created that can’t be called a civil war even though it is. Something like that.
Somehow America has become a country that projects everything that it is not and condemns everything that it is.

Somehow our elected leaders were subverting international law and humanity by setting up secret prisons around the world, secretly kidnapping people, secretly holding them indefinitely, secretly not charging them with anything, secretly torturing them. Somehow that overt policy of torture became the fault of a few “bad apples” in the military. Somehow back at home, support for the soldiers meant having a five-year-old kindergartener scribble a picture with crayons and send it overseas, or slapping stickers on cars, or lobbying Congress for an extra pad in a helmet. It’s interesting that a soldier on his third or fourth tour should care about a drawing from a five-year-old; or a faded sticker on a car as his friends die around him; or an extra pad in a helmet, as if it will protect him when an IED throws his vehicle 50 feet into the air as his body comes apart and his skin melts to the seat.

Somehow the more soldiers that die, the more legitimate the illegal invasion becomes.

Somehow American leadership, whose only credit is lying to its people and illegally invading a nation, has been allowed to steal the courage, virtue and honor of its soldiers on the ground.

Somehow those afraid to fight an illegal invasion decades ago are allowed to send soldiers to die for an illegal invasion they started.

Somehow faking character, virtue and strength is tolerated.

Somehow profiting from tragedy and horror is tolerated.

Somehow the death of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people is tolerated.

Somehow subversion of the Bill of Rights and The Constitution is tolerated.

Somehow suspension of Habeas Corpus is supposed to keep this country safe.

Somehow torture is tolerated.

Somehow lying is tolerated.

Somehow reason is being discarded for faith, dogma, and nonsense.

Somehow American leadership managed to create a more dangerous world.

Somehow a narrative is more important than reality.

Somehow America has become a country that projects everything that it is not and condemns everything that it is.
Somehow the most reasonable, trusted and respected country in the world has become one of the most irrational, belligerent, feared, and distrusted countries in the world.
Somehow being politically informed, diligent, and skeptical has been replaced by apathy through active ignorance.
Somehow the same incompetent, narcissistic, virtueless, vacuous, malicious criminals are still in charge of this country.
Somehow this is tolerated.
Somehow nobody is accountable for this.

In a democracy, the policy of the leaders is the policy of the people. So don’t be shocked when our grandkids bury much of this generation as traitors to the nation, to the world and to humanity. Most likely, they will come to know that “somehow” was nurtured by fear, insecurity and indifference, leaving the country vulnerable to unchecked, unchallenged parasites.
Luckily this country is still a democracy. People still have a voice. People still can take action. It can start after Pat’s birthday.

Brother and Friend of Pat Tillman,
Kevin Tillman

Republicans throwing themselves an anvil

With new scandals popping up each day, it's hard to keep track of them but let's try anyway. The wheels are coming off the bus over at the GOP headquarters and with the midterm election only 22 days away, it is hard to tell whether the Republicans will even have any Senators or Congressmen (no offense to the ladies) left to run. With Bob Ney's recent guilty plea, the total number of Republican "leaders" to resign in shame over the last few months now stands at four (if you include the already convicted Ney who has yet to resign), with another four under investigation.
Oh, where to begin? How about at the top? Tom Delay has been indicted in Texas for money laundering and election fixing. Bob Ney, of Jack Abramoff fame, was just convicted of conspiracy and improper gifting. Randall "Duke" Cunningham was convicted of accepting bribes to steer defense contracts. Mark Foley, of course, was outed as a part time pedophile. The ongoing investigations include but are not limited to: Senate majority leader, Bill Frist is under investigation by the SEC for insider trading, Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House and Senator Conrad Burns, are under investigation for their part in the scheme to defraud Indian tribes by lobbyist, Jack Abramoff. Jerry Lewis is under investigation for using earmarks to benefit one of his lobbyist friends, Bill Lowery.
On the soon to be under indictment list are the fellows in Congress that knew about the predator in the House, Mark Foley, they are as follows: House majority leader, John Boehner, Rep. Eric Cantor, Rep. Tom Davis, Rep. Tom Reynolds, Rep. John Smuckus, and the list goes on and on and on.
If the Republican majority can't even be trusted around children and money then why should we trust them to prosecute a war on "terror" or to protect our borders (see Asa Hutchinson)? These miserable fucks are only interested in two things, money and power. The quicker we relinquish them of the latter, we can take the former.
Once the Democrats have taken power in a few short weeks, the first order of business should be a rendering of all these thugs, including the President, V.P. and all their staffs to an undisclosed location in the Eastern bloc of the former Soviet Union for a little taste of their own medicine. These men are traitors to their country and terrorists to the rest of the world. Maybe we can get all these illegal immigrants started building a new Hague for all of the war criminals we have in our midst.

20 most corrupt members of Congress

I thought you might enjoy this site which lists the twenty most corrupt legislators and five dishonorable mentions.


http://www.beyonddelay.org/