March 19 2006 the Third Year Anniversary of The Iraq War
Mood:  energetic
Now Playing: WAR PROTESTS ALL OVER THE WORLD
Topic: PROTEST!
Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, a strident Bush critic, said world opinion is turning against the war as he offered some of his harshest criticisms of the U.S. president in months. "The world is opposed to your war, Mr. Danger," Chavez said Sunday on his weekly television and radio program. He also called Bush a "coward," a "donkey" and a "drunkard."
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~ PEACE MARCH 2006 ~
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THANKS TO INDY MEDIA PHOTO JOURNALIST AND POSTERS FOR THE FOLLOWING PICTURES FROM AROUND THE WORLD.
BEING SHARED HERE, FOR THE UNIFIED PURPOSE OF STOPPING THIS WAR
(portland indy media)

Portland, Oregon

A protest march with demonstrators carrying signs that said "Impeach the Evildoer," took nearly an hour to pass through the streets. Police estimated the turnout at about 10,000 and reported no arrests.

A handful of protesters donned orange boiler suits and wore shackles on their wrists to mimic outfits worn in the US Guantanamo Bay prison, and carried photographs of prisoners.

One protesters comment was that his initial estimate was about 10,000-15,000 but people kept flooding the park while the speakers spoke so by the time we marched there must have been 20,000-40,000 people.

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~ MEANWHILE ACROSS THE GLOBE PEOPLE HAVE FLOCKED TO THE STREETS IN PROTEST, AS SHOWN BY THE INCOMPLETE LIST BELOW:

Africa
Johannesburg, Omdurman, Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Latin America
Caracas, Managua, San Juan, Santiago, S?o Paulo, Tijuana-San Francisco.

Asia-Pacific
Adelaide, Armidale, Brisbane, Jakarta, Melbourne, Sydney, Wellington.

Asia
Adana, Ankara, Baghdad, Basra, Bangkok, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Seoul, Tokyo.

Europe
Aalborg, Aarhus, Alicante, Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Bonn, Bremen, Brussels, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dublin, Duisburg, Geneva, Gijon, Goteborg, Helsinki, Istanbul, Lisboa, Ljubljana, London, Madrid, Malmo, Nicosia, Odense, Oslo, Reykjavik, Rome, Rotterdam, San Sebastian-Donostia, Stockholm, Tarragona, Trabzon, Warsaw, Vienna.

......North America......
Albuquerque, Ann Arbor, Atlanta, Bangor, Battle Creek, Bemidji, Berkley, Boston, Buffalo, Burlington, Calgary, Camden, Chattanooga, Chicago, Chico, Colorado Springs, Covington, Dallas, Davenport, Denver, Detroit, Eau Claire, Edmonton, El Centro, Evergreen, Fayetteville, Fort Collins, Fresno, Gainesville, Galveston, Grand Rapids, Halifax, Hartford, Highland Park, Houston, Indianapolis, Irvine, Janesville, Kalamazoo, Kansas City, Kent, Ohio, Lake Helen, Lansing, Las Vegas, Little Rock, Los Angeles, Louisville, Madison, Melbourne, Florida, Memphis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Mobile-New Orleans, Mocksville, Montreal, Mountain View, Naples, New Bedford, New Haven, New York, Oklahoma, Orange, Ossining, Ottawa, Palo Alto, Pittsburgh, Quebec City, Roxbury, Salisbury, Salt Lake City, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Sarasota, Seattle, Southwest Portland, Southold, Stevens Point, Tallahassee, Toronto, Tucson, Vancouver, Victoria, Washington DC, Windsor, Winnipeg.

San Francisco
Organizers of the march said 25,000 attended, but police estimated the crowd at about 6,000. The march took two hours to wend through downtown San Francisco, and the crowd stretched across several streets.


In Japan
Anti-war rallies stretched into a second day today, with about 800 protesters chanting ``No war! Stop the war!'' and banging drums as they marched peacefully through downtown Tokyo toward the US Embassy. A day earlier, about 2,000 rallied in the city.

In Tokyo
800 demonstrators took to the streets


Malaysia
At least 1,000 people turned out

Seoul, South KoreaHad 1,000 people protest the Iraq war which by the way has the third-largest contingent of foreign troops in Iraq after the US and Britain.

Australia, Asia, and Europe
drew smaller-than-anticipated crowds

Turkey
3,000 in Turkey


London,
Police said 15,000 people joined a march on Saturday from Parliament and Big Ben to a rally in Trafalgar Square

Chicago, USA
More than 7,000 people marched through downtown in one of the US biggest marches

New York,
About 200 joined a march Sunday down New York's Fifth Avenue
Seventeen people were arrested for disorderly conduct, police said. Saturday's rally drew more than 1,000 people.

A short story about being Poor
Mood:  chillin'
Now Playing: RICH or POOR ~ To Be or Not To Be
Topic: ANYBODY * ANYDAY
I found the following short story ...
"on this blog here"

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"How Poor People Live"
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One day a father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the firm purpose of showing his son how poor people live. They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family.

On their return from the trip, the father asked his son, "Did you enjoy the trip?"

"It was great Dad."

"Did you see how poor people live?" the father asked.

"Oh yeah," said the son.

"So, tell me, what did you learn from the trip?" asked the father.

The son answered: "I saw that we have one dog and they have four. We have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and they have a creek that has no end. We have imported lanterns in our garden and they have the stars at night. Our patio reaches to the front yard and they have the whole horizon. We have a small piece of land to live on and they have fields that go beyond our sight. We have servants who serve us, but they serve others. We buy our food, but they grow theirs. We have walls around our property to protect us, they have friends to protect them."

The boy's father was speechless.

Then his son added,

"Thanks, Dad, for showing me how poor we are."

Airports Fail Security Tests = America Lost Civil Rights = Who Cares?
Mood:  loud
Now Playing: HOMELAND SECURITY IS ONE BIG JOKE - RECENT TEST PROVES
Topic: CIVIL RIGHTS


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THEY SURE WANT TO USE THEIR "NO FLY LIST"
THEY SURE WANT TO LOOK UNDER MY WIFE'S SHIRT
THEY SURE WANT TO READ THE BOOK I'M BRINGING ON BOARD
THEY SURE WANT TO HAVE ME WALK BAREFOOTED
THEY SURE WANT TO PUT ME IN THE BOMB AIR SNIFFING MACHINE
THEY SURE WANT ME TO GIVE UP MY CIVIL RIGHTS
THEY SURE WANT TO PUT MY NAME IN THEIR SUPER DATA COMPUTER
THEY SURE WANT TO SPEND BILLIONS FOR BULLSHIT AIR-RULES
THEY SURE WANT TO MAKE ME EMPTY MY POCKETS
THEY SURE WANT TO BE AUTHORITARIAN
THEY SURE WANT TO ABUSE MY FREEDOM TO TRAVEL

BUT THE STUPID 1/2 ASS JOKE OF AN INTRUSION INTO MY PERSONAL LIFE SO THAT I CAN FLY WHICH IS BEING DONE TO PUT FEAR BASED TERRORISM-SEARCHES, IS REALLY AN EXCUSE TO SPY PRY AND RUIN CIVIL RIGHTS & FREEDOM.
Z3 READERS READ THE HEADLINES THEN YOU CAN SAY -->
"Shit joe you were right about ALL this years ago!"
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..........NOW! HOW safe DOES THIS MAKE YOU FEEL?........
THURSDAY'S HEADLINES FROM MSNBC


In all 21 airports tested, no machine, no swab, no screener anywhere stopped the bomb materials from getting through. Even when investigators deliberately triggered extra screening of bags, no one discovered the materials.
New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean, chairman of the 9/11 commission, said,
"I'm appalled," he said. "I'm dismayed and, yes, to a degree, it does surprise me. Because I thought the Department of Homeland Security was making some progress on this, and evidently they're not."


I rest my case!
~ joe anybody

Thomas Jefferson said - "Every Generation Needs A New Revolution"
Mood:  sad
Now Playing: Where are all The People's when we need them?
Topic: POLITICS
"Every Generation Needs A New Revolution"
Gosh z3 readers, those fore-fathers sure were insightful. How did they know that bushman's neocons were going to be ruining our country and that a "Revolution" is what we would be needing. Just like Thomas Jefferson said?

READ THE TEXT BELOW AS QUOTED FROM THE WEBSITE -->
The Daily Reckoning
article date: 3-16-06


The United States? ticking time bomb...if debtor is slave to the lender, what does that make Americans?
The big news is that the U.S. current account deficit rose to a new record, its ninth record high in 10 years.
The number for last year was $804
billion. The number for the last quarter of last year was $224.9 billion,
which shows the trend is still upward. At the current rate, the current
account deficit will hit $1 trillion within a year or two. It is already
at 7% of GDP - a figure that would normally only be seen in a banana
republic or an empire going bananas.

Why doesn't the election process produce better political leaders?
It is
because as time goes by, more and more people become complicit in
decadence. The voters are further and further removed from the actual
process of government...it is only slogans and photo-ops to them. The
people close to power are the hacks and the hustlers, the politicians on
the make, the parasites and players on the take.

Laws multiply like the fishes and the loaves. Moses handed down only 10
commandments; Jesus said only two of them were really important. But
federal, state and local government give us 10,000 commandments - each one
of them designed to protect or pamper some slimy creature living in some
dark hole of the republic. More and more people get checks, subsidies,
grants and payoffs. More and more committees, agencies, and bureaus are
set up to provide sinecures and curry favors.

If we read it right, as many
as half all the jobs created in America in the last five years were
created by government!

History cannot seem to leave well enough alone. Economies, societies,
institutions, animals, vegetables, and even minerals are always
degenerating, degrading, and disappearing. When our present civilization
has finally gone away, what will be left of it? Just a few old coins, and
granite countertops...some converted into tombstones.

Yawn......... Bushman aopproval ratings Lowest Ever
Mood:  happy
Now Playing: Good Golly ...Did 1/2 of America Decide to Wake Up?
Topic: POLITICS
THE POLLS ARE THE WORST EVER
IT IS "PAR FOR THE COURSE" ....
WE HAVE THE WORST PRESIDENT EVER!

READ THE FACTS ON THESE LATEST POLLS ---> HERE

Yet the poll also shows something else that goes beyond the November midterm elections: A strong majority believes Bush is experiencing a long-term setback from which he’s unlikely to recover.
“He’s losing his grip on governance,”
“It’s now a sense that we’ve seen the best that he’s going to produce as president of the United States.” says Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart, who conducted this survey with Republican Bill McInturff.

.....THE CROOK SHOULD BE IMPEACHED

THIS NATION OF MINE HAS PATHATICLY SUPPORTED *WITH THEIR WHOLE DAMN HEAD IN THE SAND FOR THE PAST 6 YEARS, THESE NEOCON CLOWNS AND THEIR MESSED UP HIGH-JINKS!



** ** ** I M P E A C H M E N T - N O W ** ** **

I am embarrased and extremly ashamed of the way Bushman & his Neocons Croonies have been ruining the USA ....ya that means you too Gun n Run Cheney

How Serious Do You Take The 911 Attack And Our Security
Mood:  don't ask
Now Playing: 9-11 failure to protect, and now a botched trial
Topic: 911 TRUTH
**OH WAHT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE ...WHEN WE PRACTICE TO DECIEVE**

We get attacked on Sept 11 2001
The Busman Administration had many previous warnings of an airplane attack possible being used against us. In fact Rumsfeld quit using commercial airplanes to get around....Ya he knew!
Don't let them lie and say "we never knew"

Then with in just hours of the Tower buildings collapsing there is a dozen pictures of who done it on the TV = Hijackers "they say" who did it.
Now how did they know that so quick?
(its bullshit is how)(in fact some of those pictured as a highjack are still alive and have been asking "hey that?s my picture on American TV)
Later bull shit like wallets in the rubble and .....in an airport parking lot, they found a car with {planted}evidence .

Now Hugh Tower Building collapsing from fire or planes hiting them is unheard of, it never happens unless they are a controlled-demolition. In fact there is footage of explosion in the towers prior to collapsing. WTO building 7 collapsed and nobody knows why to this day except [z3 readers know this link]

Cheney was using all the NORAD planes in practice with all kids of convenient blips all over the FAA radars as he practiced ....the onslaught began

Bush sits and reads to kindergarten kids ..no big deal (read = "ahhh plan is unfolding")

Within days the whole Patriot Act is passed.
100's of 1,000 of pages already to be signed in and constitution in the garbage can.

"Attack Afghanistan" Bushman says, "QUICK THEY DID IT, IT WAS BIN LADIN!"
And then after Afghanistan....before I can get the flag off my car antenna ....we moved illegally and under/with MAJOR F* LIES ....
We invade a country that had nothing to do with 911

Good job head in the sand crowd! The Neocon?s in following their Project For The New America {More Here} plan have their pre-planned --> "new pearl harbor"

So then after torturing, rendition to secret prisons in illegal lying ways they start spying on Americans and snooping without warrants (nice move bushman!) saying all the time ..."we are catching evil doer's" cock n bull story.

OK then after all this is going on and has been implemented (WAR - TORTURE - USING FORIGN PRISON WITH CIA PLANES - SPYING - PATRIORT ACT - SEDATION OF JOURNILISTS - ARRESTING PEASE DESENTERS - IGNORING MOTERS OF DEAD SOLIDERS) ...they now 3-15-06 move on to a "high profile court case against the only person in custody named "Zacarias Moussaoui" from the 911 attack that they have got their dirty lying paws on"

BUT GET THIS Z3 READERS --> THEY CONTINUE TO BOTCH - CHEAT - FIX THE EVIDENSE
TO THE POINT THEY GET COUGHT like in todays coaching the jury
.......hahahaha DAMN RIGHT THEY CHEAT & LIE !!!!!

THE CHEATING NEOCON BASTARDS WERE TRYING TO FIX THE JURY AND DO ILLEGAL COACHING.

Folks this is par for the course of an administration running ammuck and with no regard to LAW! How terrible does all this bushman crap get ...it is far from over.....
Read--> more here from todays news

These sad sack American justice drum beaters are crooks and cheats...just like the top bush aid who was just caught stealing from Target Stores.....{no shock to this joe)

These bastards that were trying to load the death penalty on this character being charged have screwed up so bad the leading attorney may be charged with a felony crime {noooo?}

EVERY BIT OF THIS BUSHMAN 911 TERROR PROBLEMS HAPPENED ON HIS WATCH

THESE BUMS not only SHOOT THEIR FRIENSDS IN THE FACE
KILL THOUSANDS OF OUR OWN SOLIDERS
NEGLECT OUR OWN HOMELAND AND DISASTERS
KILL THOUSANDS OF CIVILLIANS IN AN INVADED COUNTRY
BOTCH THE INVISTIGATION INQUIRIES OF THE 911 TOWERS AND CALL THEM SELVES AN HONEST 911 COMMISION.

now

THEY BOTCH THE TRIAL FOR THE ONLY "SUPPOSEDLY" CAPTURED PARTICIPANT OF THE 911 ATTACK?
TOWER PLANE DEBACLES, LIES, AND COVER UP THE PENTAGONE TRUTH OF REALLY HIT THE PENTAGONE
(WHAT PLANE THEY FOUND NOTHING!)
IT?S ALL A BAD JOKE ON US FOOLS!

HERE IS TODAYS LINK to CHECK ON THE BOTCHED FRAME-UP OF THE BUNGLED 911 TRUTH SMEAR, THAT BUSHMAN IS TRYING TO HANG ON ONE MAN.....HE SHOULD BE LOOKING IN THE MIRROR.

This whole 911 ordeal from day one is a sad pathetic joke ...this trial is one tiny part
*what a bunch of stupid scammers*

WHO ARE THE TOP 10 IRAQ WAR PROFITEERS & HIGH PROFILE PLAYERS
Mood:  blue
Now Playing: Here is a list of the UK, Big Money Makers making "bank" off this Illegal war in Iraq
Topic: WAR
I found the list for the top ten war profiteers in the UK --> here!
{USA Top ten will be published within the week}

1. AMEC
2. Aegis
3. Erinys
4. Petrel Resources
5. HSBC
6. Cummins
7. PB Power
8. Control Risks
9. MerchantBridge
10. Global Risk Strategies
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TOP HIGH PROFILE PLAYERS ARE
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NICHOLAS SOAMES
The former Defence minister (from 1994-97), is a non-executive director of Aegis

MAJ-GEN JEREMY PHIPPS (RETIRED)
Former SAS, former head of British special forces 1989-1993. Previously linked to the consultancy group Control Risks, Phipps is now the head of Aegis operations in Iraq

SIR MALCOLM RIFKIND
The Tory former defence secretary is a non-executive director and chairman of Armor Group, which has been awarded #11.4m of public contracts in Iraq

HARRY LEGGE-BOURKE FORMER CAPTAIN IN WELSH GUARDS
Friend of Prince Charles and brother of Prince William's nanny. Former aide-de-camp to chief of defence staff. Operations chief for Olive Security - turnover almost doubled in 2004.

GENERAL SIR MICHAEL ROSE
Commander of the 22nd SAS regiment, 1979-82. Commandant of school of infantry, of staff college, Camberley, and first Director special forces, 1988-89; non-executive director of Control Risks Group

TIM BELL
His firm Bell-Pottinger was awarded a #3m by the British Government to promote democracy in the run-up to the 2004 elections. His company is closely involved in campaign to promote concepts such as return of sovereignty

SIR JEREMY GREENSTOCK
One of Britain's foremost diplomats, he is a non-executive director of De la Rue, a financial services company which has won one of the biggest contracts in Iraq for printing the new Iraqi dinar

BARONESS BLACKSTONE
Former minister of state, appointed a non-executive director of the Mott MacDonald Group in 2005. The engineering consultancy was given a #1.2m contract from DfID for infrastructure work in Iraq.

GEORGE ROBERTSON
Former secretary general of Nato and former Labour defence secretary, is a non-executive director of Weir, the engineering company, which was involved in contract doing oil assessments. Has been in Iraq since May 2003


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THE FOLLOWING BIG MONEY PROFITEERS NAMES ARE NOT TO BE OVERLOOKED OR LEFT OUT
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Adam Smith International, Consultants, #4,1m; AD Consultancy,security; Aggreko, power supply; AKE Group, security; Alstom, power; Armor Group, security, #11.4m;
Baker Wilkins, construction; Bell-Pottinger, consultants, #3m; Birks Sinclair & Associates, "socio-economic development"; B-Plan Information Systems, computers, #4.5m;
BP Global, petroleum, #2.8m; British Council, teaching, #3.1m; Chiltern Broadcast Management, media, #1.3m; Conren, materials, #20,000; Costain, construction, #15m; Crown Agents for Overseas Government, procurement, consultants, #8m; Datasat, telecomms;
De La Rue, financial; DfID: anonymous contractors, #1,1m; Dynamic Processing Solutions, petroleum

#12m+ (approx); Eaton Electric Europe, power; Enterplan Ltd, consultants, #4.5m; Eris, consultants, #61,012 ; European Land Solutions, security,
Exploration Consultants, petroleum; Foster Wheeler UK, construction, power, #4.87m; Halcrow, construction, #6.8m; Hart Group, security; Hedra Consortium, consultants, #245,540;
HTS Development (now HTSPE), consultants; Inclarity Plcc telecomms, most of its #18m revenue from Iraq; Janusian, security; Kroll Associates, security; Llewelyn Davies Yeang, architects, unknown proportion of #1.6m development; Maxwell Stamp consultants, #3.2m;
Minimum Risk, security; Mott MacDonald, power and water, #1.2m; Mowlem, construction, #3m; Olive Security, security; PA Consulting Group, consultants #427,548; Powertecnique, power; Schneider Electric UK, power; Scott Wilson, engineering,
unknown share of a $160m contract; Serco, services, #7.5m; Shell (Anglo-Dutch) petroleum; Siemens, power; Solace Enterprises, consulting; Standard Chartered, financial services;
TQ Education & Training, education, #5.73m; United Mesopotamia, security; Weir, petroleum

The letter sounded like something from a totalitarian regime
Mood:  don't ask
Now Playing: Sedition or just free speech?
Topic: CIVIL RIGHTS
In an article titled "Nurse Courage" a disturbing trend in intimidation by the government is going around. In this case a VA Nurse writes a letter to the editor and get a suprise vist from the brown suits.
In the New Mexico VA Hosipital where she works with vetrans is where she received the nasty letter from her supervisor....well Z3 readers, It sounded like in her words
...."something from a totalitarian regime"

Read this one link, of an ongoing trend of Patriot Act Style of abuses against good hearted, peace and loving American citizens.
The brown suits are starting to shake the tree a little,,,hhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmm??
*** FREE SPEECH IS STILL LEGAL ***

Here is the Alternet.org link It is great story of freedom and courage in the making this very day!

Oh!I must remind you all again!
"Yest ye forget from my 3-7-06 post*

THIS IS AN AMBOMINATION OF OUR CHERISHED CIVIL RIGHTS

Joe Anybody Calls for Public Awarness
Mood:  loud
Now Playing: IMPEACHMENT IS MY HOPE
Topic: POLITICS
Hello Folks
I have about a dozen excerpts from an online article I read that I want to share with you all. I was reading in an article on how bad Bushman has violated this countries integrity and it was to hard to just read over and not make an issue of it, by blogging or sharing it with you all.
I had to say something, once I had read it!
It was so true and fitting.
It was somber yet encouraging hopeful.
These next few excerpts, will put into context, why IMPEACHMENT is the best resolution to this hell hole Bushman has drug us into. Read the following highlights and then check the link at the bottom for the full article written so eloquently by journalist: Onnesha Roychoudhuri

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In fact, the case for the impeachment of President Bush is arguably the strongest in American history. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) makes this amply clear in its recent book, a concise indictment of President Bush that lays out four clear legal arguments that point to impeachment as a necessary remedy for the gross violation of our Constitution.
The Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush covers illegal wiretapping, torture, rendition, detention and the Iraq war. An appendix compares the impeachment proceedings of Andrew Johnson, Nixon and Clinton to the comparatively more powerful case against Bush.
Lawyers at the CCR, indeed lawyers throughout the world, have been embroiled in litigation with the administration for years. But the administration has consistently demonstrated disdain for the law, with the president effectively thumbing his nose at the Supreme Court, Congress, and the American people.

It is this reality that led Michael Ratner and his fellow lawyers at the CCR to provide a clear argument for impeachment to the American people and Congress.

As Ratner told AlterNet, "While our battles against illegal wiretaps and Guantanamo are critical for trying to get back legality, until we get rid of what I consider a criminal administration, we will not be able to go back to even a semblance of civil liberties and human rights."

The Articles of Impeachment make clear that this is no longer just about President Bush. Rather, it is about preventing the executive branch from obtaining carte blanche to disregard the two other branches of government. This is a paradigm shift that has already gained substantial footing through this administration's steady erosion of legal precedent


......man is this right to the point of what is needed right now or what ?......

This is a few paragraphs of an interview that the author(Onnesha) had with Michael Ratner from CCR....I enjoy this kind of conversation...


OR: What do you say to Americans who think it isn't worth bothering with impeachment with the president currently in his final term?

MR: This administration has gone so far beyond what the requirements of the Constitution and the law. The question is whether this country can ever come back and resemble a democracy again. Unless you hold accountable the people who actually carried out an illegal war with Iraq, warrantless wiretapping and torture, there's nothing to stop the next administration -- whether it's Republican or Democrat -- from continuing with the same. We have to show that what happened in this country in the past four years is an utter subversion of our Constitution and completely unlawful under domestic and international law. Otherwise, I fear that this country may be changed forever in a very negative direction.

OR: What's at stake here?

MR: What's at stake is a presidency that is becoming an imperial presidency -- in which he's no longer responsible to the judiciary or the Congress. This is a president that thinks that, on his own, he can wiretap people, torture people, pick them up anywhere in the world. This has to be beaten back, and it has to be done soon. It is becoming embedded in our society in a way that is very hard to get rid of.

MR: Yes, this is about a particularly bad president -- a president who doesn't care about constitutional rights. But what's really going on here is what Cheney actually came out and stated a month ago when he talked about warrantless wiretapping. He said that they wanted to overcome what happened to the presidency during the '60s and the '70s.
There's an absolute intent here to make the presidency much more powerful, what they call a unitary presidency where they're not just a co-equal branch, but they are the branch -- no court or Congress can check them. This is not just about the president any longer, it's about these assertions of inherent power in the executive to override constitutional, international, congressional limitations, and judicial limitations. That's a big problem because that's essentially a dictatorship.

OR: With all this gratuitous conduct that has been amassed in the media, the question arises, why haven't there been many legal successes stopping this behavior?

MR: At the CCR, in almost every single action discussed in the articles, we have various lawsuits going. The problem is that they take a long time. Also, the courts are not always in our favor. And, even when we win, the administration is able to undercut them. You don't just win by lawsuits; you win by popular protest, people in the streets. That's the way you have to win. The Center really believes that our lawsuits are important and people have to be represented. We have to stop torture to the extent that we can. But there has to be popular protest in this country, or our lawsuits are not going to change anything.

To Go To the Original Great Article written by >Onnesha Roychoudhuri for Alternet.org
please click --> HERE

Holding some Accountability to the Administration
Mood:  cool
Now Playing: Russ Feingold, says,,,
Topic: POLITICS
Sen Feingold is proposing censuring President Bush for authorizing domestic eavesdropping

A longtime critic of the administration, Russ Feingold, D-Wis was the first senator to urge a withdrawal timetable for U.S. troops in Iraq and was the only senator to vote in 2001 against the USA Patriot Act, the post-Sept. 11 law that expanded the government's surveillance and prosecutorial powers. He also voted against the 2002 resolution authorizing Bush to use force in Iraq. On March 13 2006 he has the following to say to the Associated Press in an interview.

"The president has broken the law and, in some way, he must be held accountable,"
The five-page resolution to be introduced on Monday contends that Bush violated the law when, on his own, he set up the eavesdropping program within the National Security Agency in the months following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

A censure resolution, which simply would scold the president, has been used just once in U.S. history _ against Andrew Jackson in 1834.


Meanwhile .., In the House, Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, is pushing legislation that would call on the Republican-controlled Congress to determine whether there are grounds for impeachment.


I got this info from an AP release --> HERE

And of course, this has caused Bill Frist to jump up and down and referring this to ....
"weaking the commander in chief during a war time"....
[get a clue Frist]

Frist say's, concerning Feingold's proposal, "The signal that it sends, that there is in any way a lack of support for our commander in chief who is leading us with a bold vision in a way that is making our homeland safer, is wrong." He also called the proposal "a crazy political move"

Seems like his priorities are ass-backward to this here joe!

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As an added explaination below is what Wikipedia says "censure means"
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"Censure is a process by which a formal reprimand is issued to an individual by an authoritative body."

Censure is a congressional procedure for reprimanding the President of the United States or a member of Congress for inappropriate behaviour.
News and other media often use the term incorrectly, confusing their viewers.
When used to condemn the President, however, it serves merely as a condemnation and has no direct effect on the validity of presidency.
Unlike impeachment, censure has no basis in the constitution, or in the rules of the Senate and House of Representatives. It derives from the formal condemnation of either congressional body of their own members.