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Impeach George Bush
The Senate Must Investigate Domestic Spying Program
Bill Frist has threatened to try to restructure the oversight function of the senate judiciary comitted to save his pally Bush the trouble of having to answer to anyone. It's a sham. Bill's got to know that we the people won't stand for it!
Source: www.usalone.com, 2006-03-06
Candidate: Republican Party
THE SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE MUST HOLD HEARINGS TO INVESTIGATE THE ILLEGAL DOMESTIC WIRETAPS
ACTION PAGE: http://www.millionphonemarch.com/wiretap_hearing.php
On March 7, the Senate Intelligence Committee will hold a vote on whether to investigate the domestic wiretaps that the president has already admitted were performed in defiance of the FISA court.
Bill Frist has now threatened to restructure the Senate Intelligence Committee itself to strip it of oversight responsibility if it even dares to investigate the president's dictatorial violations of the law.
It is critically important that we speak out now to make sure justice prevails in this very winnable fight. With the votes against him three weeks ago, senator Roberts has already once unilaterally blocked a vote on this matter. We must raise every voice to make sure they know the people will not let them get away with it again.
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User Originated Comments:
From: Robbie
2006-03-10 00:00:00
i believe that taxation and government oppression
are essential contributors to poverty both here
and worldwide.
jesus said:
"give
to ceasar what is ceasar's and to god what is
gods".
for a couple of good
reasons.
first, ceasar or the government,
in every way is in control of who makes money, how
much they keep, how they can get it and how much
tax they pay. while there is a certain amount of
"play" in such cases, in general regulation of
income methods (for instance, regulation of which
kinds of home-based businesses are legal, which
kinds of drugs are legal to sell, which properties
can be used for commercial purposes and which
can't, etc.) are the primary factor in wealth
creation.
these government-instated
monopoly systems allow the people who take
advantage of them early to press that advantage to
the point of gaining extreme wealth for themselves
and causing everyone else to be essentially
servants of that system - we work for companies
owned by other people, we buy our goods from
companies owned by other people, we pay our
rent/mortgage to banks owned by other people. -
for those of us lucky to be above the severe
poverty level -
paul wrote "if you can
become free, you should, but if don't worry if you
can't, serve christ as a slave"
(roughly).
and this is a fair
attitude.
now, on to the unfortunate
parts about what you wrote.
1) mexico
and china are third world countries. china is run
by a more repressive regime than the united states
and the decision to leave that regime is a
rational one. but the us isn't necessarily the
number one choice anymore. the european union's
standard of living for even its poor is higher
than ours nowadays.
china's population's
poverty is caused, primarily, by their immense
trade deficit with the united states. the goods
and services produced in china that would be
beneficial to chinese people to have are shipped
to the united states at near-slave-level prices
and tradede for cash which the chinese government
then controls and invests in us savings bonds,
rather than bringing any significant benefit into
their own country.
2) mexico has been
economically dominated by the united states for
nearly two centuries. we use our military might,
money and political savvy to control mexican
elections and their economy. as a result, we get
from mexico slave-level labor without having to
extend to them the benefits of american
citizenship. of course they'd prefer to live and
work here where their slave-level wages could, at
least be accompanied by a slightly higher standard
of living.
at the same time, you ever
live in a mexican slum in california or texas, for
instance, you know that the standard of living for
those immigrants is terrifyingly low from the
point of view of the land-owning cl-ss of
americans - the relatively wealthy.
these
are people who are happy to live in their vans for
long periods of time, who go without phones, who
have 2-3 changes of clothes total, who eat one
meal a day - and not every day. and this is not
because they're lazy - they come here to work
because the 30-150/week they can make as day
laborers here is relative wealth i
mexico.
in sum, it's not sensible to
glorify the united states for our enviable
standard of living when that standard of living is
built on the backs of slavery of the working poor
in third world countries.
now, as to
whether or not gw bush believes what he does will
give us liberty.
i'm not sure if you're
aware of the provisions of the patriot act nor of
how much our liberty has shrunk during this
administration:
1) the us government can
now take your property without a warrant.
2)
the us government can now hold your person without
trial.
3) the us government can, apparently,
now spy on you without a warrant.
4) the
standard of presumption of innocence has been
moved to rules of the administrative branch which
are decided without congressional or judicial
oversight (which means the police decide whether
you're guilty or not, essentially, without a
judge) for the purposes of administration of
occasionally violent
sanctions.
president bush's
administration has stood firmly behind these
policies even though they are clearly
anti-liberty.
as for president bush's
"long-term" leadership, the legacy that he'll be
leaving us is: a $900 billion dollar debt that he
alone created (clinton left a budget surplus); a
war-torn country divided over lies about nuclear
material in iraq; a fear-based government that
puts security above liberty.
i don't
expect a president to be a reactionary or even to
do the right thing -all the time-.
i do
expect them to do the right thing most of the
time, i expect them not to lie to americans, not
to spy on americans, not to steal from americans
and not to kill americans in needless foreign
wars. and in these respects, george bush has been
the worst example of a president ever.
From: blue state
2006-03-10 00:00:00
wow!! bill frist (r-tenn) is trying to save his
buddy bush from having to answer to anyone for
anything. why is it that these backwoods people
can't understand that if bush had to go out of his
way to exonerate any of them for anything, tough
shit!! you're on you're own. such as the case with
jack abramoff, who, now is on his own, nobody in
washington ever has heard of him. this is to m.d.
bill frist, wake up pal, bush is not your buddy,
he will use you as long as it benefits him, after
that, he will not admit to ever having known
you!!!
From: Freind
2006-03-09 00:00:00
please don't take offense i'm not judging you. i
don't know you. i'm just replying your opinion...
i'm not trying to insult you. you are my brother
on earth. peace man. i really don't think i’m
better than anybody else. i am confident in what i
believe. no insults are intended. god be with you
sir.
From: Freind
2006-03-09 00:00:00
thanks for your reply. your are thoughtful.
i agree with you and the bible. i just
don't see anywhere where it says that we must be
forced to pay the unfortunate and sometimes
"unwilling" through taxes. that is oppressive. i'm
happy to give voluntarily though. better yet, to
volunteer to help build a house for them who
choose to also participate. what a positive
program! i just don’t go for a program that
steals from the people who earn the money. it’s
their money; they earned it the right way
“most” of the time. it’s just not right to
steal and mislead the way these programs tend to
make these unfortunate people believe. that will
only weaken america.
yes, i agree with
christ & always will. i ask myself
“why are
mexican, chinese & etc. still flocking to the
u.s…. to be oppressed?” i really believe that
there is a honest way out of poverty if you are
willing. but, not through government programs or
welfare, through purpose, determination, faith and
a positive attitude. i happens daily. that is the
proof for me.
i expect a strong leader
like g.w. bush who governs for the long run and
does what he believes give us liberty, not a
superhero to come “save the day” just to be
fair or a poll taker reactionary who governs on
daily poll trends.
thanks again for you
effort. thanks for reading other opinions. god
bless and keep praying, friend
From: Robbie
2006-03-09 00:00:00
secondly, it's rather insulting and childish to
for you to make presumptions about my relationship
with god given that you don't know me, but your
presumption that somehow my relationship with god
isn't as good as yours is insulting and childish
and much more offensive than my -ssertion that you
were acting as a political propagandist.
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