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A list of Bush " boo-boo's"...............

kolanuraven

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This comes from the local tribal web site.


Bush regime preaches democracy, proposes tyranny
by Paul Craig Roberts


Americans had best rethink the “war on terror” while they still have the liberty to do so. For all of President Bush’s blah-blah talk about bringing democracy to the world, the Bush administration has proved that it is no friend of liberty at home.

The Bush administration has violated constitutional principles, U.S. law and the Geneva Conventions as no previous administration has done. Here is a short list of the Bush administration’s crimes:


* Spying without court warrants on Americans in violation of both the U.S. Constitution and the FISA statute.

* The denial of habeas corpus, attorney-client privilege, due process and Geneva Conventions protections to those, American or foreign, designated without evidence as terrorists or enemy combatants.

* The justification and use of torture to coerce confessions and the kidnapping of foreign nationals who are sent to be tortured in foreign prisons.

* The initiation of military aggression against states based on intentional deception by the Bush administration of the U.S. public and the United Nations, and the intentional fabrication of “evidence” to justify unprovoked aggression against sovereign states, which is a war crime under the Nuremberg standard established by the United States.

* Violation of the oath of office to defend the U.S. Constitution by practically every member of the Bush administration and Congress.

* Bush has assaulted the separation of powers and the rule of law with “signing statements” and “executive orders” that President Nixon’s White House Counsel John Dean says are commands that treat the co-equal branches of government and the electorate as subservient to executive authority. In April 2006, Boston Globe reporter Charlie Savage listed 750 laws “challenged” by the Bush administration. Not even the demonized president of Iran claims to be above the law.

* Genocide against the people of Iraq, where 1 million Iraqis have died as a result of Bush’s invasion and several million Iraqis are displaced persons.

* Massive civilian casualties in Afghanistan, which is a form of genocide in which military force is routinely applied to unarmed noncombatants.

* Massive corruption in which no-bid contracts are issued to Republican corporations in exchange for kickbacks to political campaigns.

* The theft of two national elections, as documented in books by Mark Crispin Miller and Greg Palast.

* The Bush administration has even conducted Stalinist show trials against innocent Muslim charities as part of its propaganda to make the American people fearful that they are surrounded by hostile terrorists. In December 2001, President Bush declared the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development to be a “terrorist organization” and seized the charity’s assets. Bush put the charities’ officials on trial as terrorists. Six years later, on Oct. 22, 2007, after years of investigations and two months of testimony by “Israeli intelligence agents” (according to The New York Times), the U.S. government’s case fell apart in the courtroom.

One of the jurors said that the case “was strung together with macaroni noodles. There was so little evidence.”

Georgetown University professor of constitutional law David D. Cole said the case “suggests the government is really pushing beyond where the law justifies them going.”

While committing these unprecedented crimes, President Bush has claimed the moral high ground despite having lied to the American people and despite devastating two countries in the name of “making the world safe from terrorists.” When people in Iraq and Afghanistan are asked who are the terrorists, they answer that it is the Americans.

The Bush administration has not been held accountable for any of its crimes. By failing to hold government accountable to law, the Constitution and the American people, the opposition party and the corporate media have abandoned their responsibility to protect freedom and democracy in the United States.

There can be no democracy where there is no government accountability, and there is no government accountability in the United States — except, of course, to the Israel lobby.

Now, the Bush administration wants to take away the American people’s freedom to travel within their own country by airplane. Not content with an 80,000-person “no fly” list and a subset of a 500,000-750,000-person “watch list,” the Bush administration’s Transport Security Administration has proposed new rules that will require Americans to get government permission 72 hours in advance prior to being allowed to board a domestic flight.

The TSA justifies this extraordinary violation of our constitutional rights on the grounds that 90 percent to 93 percent of all travel reservations are final by then.

So what?!

And what of the 7 percent to 10 percent of flights that the TSA estimates are not on the books 72 hours in advance? These are family emergencies and critical business deals. What does the TSA care if a member of your family dies while you await the government’s permission to fly?

Any agency of the government that can propose such a tyrannical regulation should be abolished. The TSA’s mentality shows it to be a far greater threat to Americans than are terrorists.

Even without the “permission to fly” rule, the TSA’s practices are ridiculous and unjustified. The confiscation of toothpaste and unopened bottles of perfume, the harassment of U.S. military officers in uniform, the harassment of old people struggling with their walkers, of mothers struggling with small children — none of this makes any sense except in terms of getting Americans accustomed to harassment as a citizen’s duty to government and to train a cadre to conduct warrantless searches of fellow citizens.

The no-fly list itself is absurd. If a known terrorist were to show up at an airport, he would be arrested, not refused permission to fly. Anyone else who can clear security like other passengers has every right to fly.

Set aside the violation of the Constitution and the Soviet-style tyranny of the loss of the freedom to travel, and consider merely the practical aspect of the proposal. What American wants his travel plans dependent on a government bureaucracy capable of putting U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy on the “no fly” list and of issuing U.S. visas to two of the alleged 9-11 hijackers six months after they allegedly died in the attack?

If we believe the official story, 9-11 itself reveals a government totally devoid of any competence whatsoever.

The “war on terror” is fraudulent. The cruel war and the deceptive vocabulary that protects it are a cover for expanding U.S. and Israeli hegemony in the Middle East and for constructing a functioning police state at home. A country in which people cannot make airline reservations without the government’s permission is not a free country.
 
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Anonymous

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Tribes are probably getting worried they will be next on the invasion lists... :wink: :lol: :(

I remember the youtube clip of the Bush speach where he was asked to define his understanding or definition of "sovereign nation"-- He mumbled for 3 minutes without actually saying anything- leaving the impression that he doesn't have a clue to what a "sovereign nation" really is or means..... :roll: :wink: :lol: :lol: :( :( :( :( :(
 

Mike

Well-known member
* Massive civilian casualties in Afghanistan, which is a form of genocide in which military force is routinely applied to unarmed noncombatants.

Is this sorta like the "Enola Gay" bombing?

Maybe Truman should have been hanged?

We might could wait a few years and take one from Iran or another Islam country to even the score? :roll:
 

backhoeboogie

Well-known member
Oldtimer said:
Tribes are probably getting worried they will be next on the invasion lists... :wink: :lol: :(
:(

My white ancestors wrote the book on ethnic cleansing. Not much of a mention of it in American History books. It happened right here in the good ole US against my native ancestors. They never kept their word in the treaties signed going back a few hundred years.

This is all nothing new. Go back to any of it in the past. Remember Watergate? Someone got caught. Remember the LBJ ballot stuffing?

Now fast forward to present day. Demo supporters and Rep supporters will tell you anything to sway you to their side. Candidates will tell you anything to get your vote.

Your vote is worth something. Your opinion is not what they want. Just your vote.
 

hypocritexposer

Well-known member
kolanuraven said:
This comes from the local tribal web site.


Bush regime preaches democracy, proposes tyranny
by Paul Craig Roberts


Americans had best rethink the “war on terror” while they still have the liberty to do so. For all of President Bush’s blah-blah talk about bringing democracy to the world, the Bush administration has proved that it is no friend of liberty at home.

The Bush administration has violated constitutional principles, U.S. law and the Geneva Conventions as no previous administration has done. Here is a short list of the Bush administration’s crimes:


* Spying without court warrants on Americans in violation of both the U.S. Constitution and the FISA statute.

* The denial of habeas corpus, attorney-client privilege, due process and Geneva Conventions protections to those, American or foreign, designated without evidence as terrorists or enemy combatants.

* The justification and use of torture to coerce confessions and the kidnapping of foreign nationals who are sent to be tortured in foreign prisons.

* The initiation of military aggression against states based on intentional deception by the Bush administration of the U.S. public and the United Nations, and the intentional fabrication of “evidence” to justify unprovoked aggression against sovereign states, which is a war crime under the Nuremberg standard established by the United States.

* Violation of the oath of office to defend the U.S. Constitution by practically every member of the Bush administration and Congress.

* Bush has assaulted the separation of powers and the rule of law with “signing statements” and “executive orders” that President Nixon’s White House Counsel John Dean says are commands that treat the co-equal branches of government and the electorate as subservient to executive authority. In April 2006, Boston Globe reporter Charlie Savage listed 750 laws “challenged” by the Bush administration. Not even the demonized president of Iran claims to be above the law.

* Genocide against the people of Iraq, where 1 million Iraqis have died as a result of Bush’s invasion and several million Iraqis are displaced persons.

* Massive civilian casualties in Afghanistan, which is a form of genocide in which military force is routinely applied to unarmed noncombatants.

* Massive corruption in which no-bid contracts are issued to Republican corporations in exchange for kickbacks to political campaigns.

* The theft of two national elections, as documented in books by Mark Crispin Miller and Greg Palast.

* The Bush administration has even conducted Stalinist show trials against innocent Muslim charities as part of its propaganda to make the American people fearful that they are surrounded by hostile terrorists. In December 2001, President Bush declared the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development to be a “terrorist organization” and seized the charity’s assets. Bush put the charities’ officials on trial as terrorists. Six years later, on Oct. 22, 2007, after years of investigations and two months of testimony by “Israeli intelligence agents” (according to The New York Times), the U.S. government’s case fell apart in the courtroom.

One of the jurors said that the case “was strung together with macaroni noodles. There was so little evidence.”

Georgetown University professor of constitutional law David D. Cole said the case “suggests the government is really pushing beyond where the law justifies them going.”

While committing these unprecedented crimes, President Bush has claimed the moral high ground despite having lied to the American people and despite devastating two countries in the name of “making the world safe from terrorists.” When people in Iraq and Afghanistan are asked who are the terrorists, they answer that it is the Americans.

The Bush administration has not been held accountable for any of its crimes. By failing to hold government accountable to law, the Constitution and the American people, the opposition party and the corporate media have abandoned their responsibility to protect freedom and democracy in the United States.

There can be no democracy where there is no government accountability, and there is no government accountability in the United States — except, of course, to the Israel lobby.

Now, the Bush administration wants to take away the American people’s freedom to travel within their own country by airplane. Not content with an 80,000-person “no fly” list and a subset of a 500,000-750,000-person “watch list,” the Bush administration’s Transport Security Administration has proposed new rules that will require Americans to get government permission 72 hours in advance prior to being allowed to board a domestic flight.

The TSA justifies this extraordinary violation of our constitutional rights on the grounds that 90 percent to 93 percent of all travel reservations are final by then.

So what?!

And what of the 7 percent to 10 percent of flights that the TSA estimates are not on the books 72 hours in advance? These are family emergencies and critical business deals. What does the TSA care if a member of your family dies while you await the government’s permission to fly?

Any agency of the government that can propose such a tyrannical regulation should be abolished. The TSA’s mentality shows it to be a far greater threat to Americans than are terrorists.

Even without the “permission to fly” rule, the TSA’s practices are ridiculous and unjustified. The confiscation of toothpaste and unopened bottles of perfume, the harassment of U.S. military officers in uniform, the harassment of old people struggling with their walkers, of mothers struggling with small children — none of this makes any sense except in terms of getting Americans accustomed to harassment as a citizen’s duty to government and to train a cadre to conduct warrantless searches of fellow citizens.

The no-fly list itself is absurd. If a known terrorist were to show up at an airport, he would be arrested, not refused permission to fly. Anyone else who can clear security like other passengers has every right to fly.

Set aside the violation of the Constitution and the Soviet-style tyranny of the loss of the freedom to travel, and consider merely the practical aspect of the proposal. What American wants his travel plans dependent on a government bureaucracy capable of putting U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy on the “no fly” list and of issuing U.S. visas to two of the alleged 9-11 hijackers six months after they allegedly died in the attack?

If we believe the official story, 9-11 itself reveals a government totally devoid of any competence whatsoever.

The “war on terror” is fraudulent. The cruel war and the deceptive vocabulary that protects it are a cover for expanding U.S. and Israeli hegemony in the Middle East and for constructing a functioning police state at home. A country in which people cannot make airline reservations without the government’s permission is not a free country.


really Kola? I thought it was just data...1s and 0s :lol:
 

Steve

Well-known member
isn't it amazing.. when Bush did it.. it was bad...

now that Obama is "still" doing it .. ... now... no big deal...
 

hypocritexposer

Well-known member
Steve said:
isn't it amazing.. when Bush did it.. it was bad...

now that Obama is "still" doing it .. ... now... no big deal...

I just can't figure out how they forget what they posted, or bring it up, without a simple search first...

...what goes through their minds?

"obama hasn't done anything like what Bush did"

submit

"oh crap, I forgot about how I demonized Bush, for doing the exact same thing"

"how do I get out of this now...maybe, I'll just lurk for a while and they'll forget all about it"

"Or...maybe if I tell them, I quit, because I have new business ventures, and can't stand the name-calling, I do, anymore...I'll just post on Ranchtalk, ya...that's it. Maybe change my name and tell them the same old story about a friend roping an antelope. Maybe confuse these mouthbreathers, with 1s and 0s, that'll work."

:lol:
 

Mike

Well-known member
Same columnist, different day. I think HE gets it. :lol: :lol:
Another Phony Jobs Report From A Government That Lies About Everything –Paul Craig Roberts

June 7, 2013. The payroll jobs report for May released today continues the fantasy.

Goods producing jobs declined, with manufacturing losing another 4,000 jobs, but the New Economy produced 179,000 service jobs.

Are these jobs the high-powered, high-wage “innovation jobs” that economists promised would be our reward from Globalism. I’m afraid not.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the jobs created are the usual lowly paid
non-exportable domestic service jobs--the jobs of a third world country.

Retail trade accounts for 27,700 of the jobs.

Wholesale trade accounts for 7,900 jobs.

Ambulatory health care services accounts for 15,300 of the jobs.

Waitresses and bartenders account for 38,100 of the jobs.

Local government accounts for 13,000 of the jobs.

Amusements, gambling, and recreation account for 12,500 of the jobs.

Temporary help services provided 25,600 jobs.

Business support services provided 4,300 jobs.

Services to buildings and dwellings provided 6,400 jobs.

Accounting and bookkeeping services provided 3,100 jobs.

Architectural and engineering services provided 4,900 jobs.

Computer systems design and related provided 6,000 jobs (most likely filled by H-1B work visas).

Management and technical consulting services provided 3,200 jobs.

For a decade this has been the jobs profile of “the world’s most powerful economy.” It is the profile of third world India 40 years ago. The jobs that made the US the dominant economy have been moved off shore by corporations threatened by Wall Street with takeovers if they did not increase their profits.

The easiest way for corporations to increase profits is to take advantage of cheap labor in countries with massive quantities of unemployed labor.

So, if we believe the BLS report, and the reported new jobs are not simply a product of faulty season adjustments and a faulty birth-death model, why is the financial press happy that the US economy can only create third world jobs? Why was the stock market up on the news that the US economy has created 179,000 third world jobs? Would rational markets be up on such discouraging news?

But are the jobs really there?

With retail sales going nowhere, why 35,600 new jobs in wholesale and retail trade?

With real median incomes declining, why 38,100 more waitresses and bartenders? For every month as long as I can remember the BLS reports numerous new jobs in waitresses and bartenders, despite the long-term decline in real median income.

In the May jobs report, where are the jobs for the vast number of new college graduates?

The US now has more hotel maids, bartenders, and waitresses than it has manufacturing workers. The US has twice as many people employed in government than in manufacturing.

The services of maids, bartenders, waitresses, and government cannot be exported.
Therefore, the US trade deficit remains large and without exports to reduce it, a crisis in itself.

What the BLS jobs reports have been telling us for many years is that the US economy is in crisis, in a death-spiral. Yet, not a handful of economists’ voices have been raised.

Today president obama’s economist said that the notch upward in the unemployment rate was because the economic outlook was so good that more people were encouraged to enter the labor market than there were new jobs available.

The conclusion is inescapable: The same government that lies about weapons of mass destruction, Saddam Hussein’s al-Qaeda connections, Iranian nukes, and so on, also lies about jobs, the unemployment rate, the inflation rate, rigs every financial and commodity market, pretends that terrorism is such a threat that the US Constitution must be set aside and that Americans are safer without the protection of habeas corpus and due process.

It is amazing how rare terrorism is, especially with Washington in the second decade of trying to stir up terrorism by invading countries on totally false pretenses, murdering citizens of countries, such as Pakistan and Yemen with drones, and supporting Israel’s never-ending murder and dispossession of the Palestinians.

After such massive provocations from Washington, one would think that the world would be ablaze with terrorism. But it isn’t.

As there is so little terrorism, Washington and its presstitute media call those who resist
Washington’s invasion of their countries “terrorists.” Everyone who resists Washington’s military aggression is a terrorist. Just ask the New York Times, Fox News, or any neoconservative. Or, for that matter, the Bilderbergs, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, and Homeland Security, the Gestapo organization that now defines all American dissenters to be “domestic extremists.”

Washington’s claim that Americans have “freedom and democracy” is the sickest joke in human history.

In 21st century America, defendants have no more rights than the accused in Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia. The FBI now shoots suspects brought in for questioning in the back of the head even before the suspect is arrested. http://lewrockwell.com/spl5/fbi-executed-my-boy.html

Long before Bradley Manning’s trial the presstitutes have convicted the accused based on lies leaked by the prosecutors. Consider Bradley Manning. After three years of detention, including one year of torture, he is brought to a rigged trial as a national security danger. All that Bradley Manning did was to comply with the Military Code and report war crimes. As his corrupt superiors did not want to know, he complied with his duty, apparently, by going public.

Now he is being made an example. The message is clear: Support Washington’s war crimes or be destroyed.

The Amerika that exists today has more in common with Nazi Germany than with the America in which I grew up. The young don’t know any different. But those my age realize that we have lost our country. America no longer exists.
 

Whitewing

Well-known member
The young don’t know any different. But those my age realize that we have lost our country. America no longer exists.

Someone here has been saying that for some time now. :wink:
 

Steve

Well-known member
Same columnist, different day. I think HE gets it

I don't think they do get it.. when Bush was president.. he was in charge of everything.. even the janitor at the capital... (who didn't lose his job to the sequester)

but now.. it is "the goverment" some rogue mid level employees are running the country...

the "numbers lie"

the "faulty seasonal adjustment'..

now the goverment has even "tortured" some hacker by putting him in a cell....

no they don't get it.. in their minds they are still blaming the government faults on Bush.. or conservatives.. anyone but themselves...
 

loomixguy

Well-known member
Remember that darn video that got all the Hadji's panties in a twist in Benghazi, Libya, last September?

Isn't the guy who made the video STILL in the clink? WTF is up with that??
 
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