• Alan hosts LIVE on Memorial Day.
• Could McCain have a bigger “pastor problem” than Obama? Bruce Wilson of Talk To Action weighs in.
• The man who prosecuted Charles Manson now says President Bush should be prosecuted – for murder! Vincent Bugliosi presents his case.
The Violation by the Executive Branch and the Department of Justice of Article 6, 2nd Paragraph, “This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution of Laws of any State to the Contrary not withstanding,” is not fully understood by many Americans. A Treaty like the Geneva Conventions is as much a part of US Law as the Constitution as outlined by Article 6. The Office of the President has no authority to interpret or void the Treaty. The President has to uphold, preserve, and defend the Law. The White House has no business by Law to play the part of a Court or Legislature. Violating the Geneva Convention is a crime. Congress would have to renegotiate with the participating nations any new interpretation of the Treaty, or totally withdraw from the Treaty for the actions of the Executive Branch to be within the Law of the Land. They have not, therefore the Geneva Convention and any other Treaty is in full force. The President and the Office of Legal Council can put forth any memo they wish, or make any statement they would like about the Geneva Convention, but it would not have the weight of Law. They have no legal Jurisdiction to alter, interpret, or ignore any Treaty, Law, or Constitutional principle via unitary action.
Any action by the Executive Branch, the Justice Department or Pentagon is Unconstitutional and illegal.
Many Americans claim that this is still a free country, because people can still write a book or make statements that criticize G. W. Bush. This is the act of living in denial. Sure one can write a book about why G. W. Bush and his Administration should be tried for crimes against humanity. But the author may find himself or herself on a “No Fly List,” or a “Watch List,” thus black listing them without their knowledge. Sure you can say what you want but it is no longer exempt from scrutiny or action by the government. There is no actual free speech if Citizens have to watch what, when, or how they speak out of fear of being added to some secret list. These “Lists” curtail our free expression and speech. We have lost the Privacy at our Public Libraries, New and Used Book Stores, our communications via Phone, E-Mail, and Postal Letters; we have lost most of the Constitutions definition of Privacy to the So-Called War on Terror. Due Process of Law has been altered to the point that there is no expectation for US Citizens under Federal Guidelines, who are suspected of being an Enemy Combatant can now have all the Rights of Citizenship removed. That means there is no expectation that you will always be protected by the Constitution. We are now potential non-citizens if you buy the wrong DVD, Book, visit the wrong Web site, speak to the wrong Person, march or protest in the wrong way, or with the wrong Group. This is not Liberty. This is not Sovereignty of the Citizen. This is not respecting the Principles that our Nation was founded upon. This is China lite, our very own 1984, or the act of living in terror of our own government. Before any American can be called an ‘Enemy Combatant” they should be proven guilty of being an “Enemy Combatant” beyond a reasonable doubt, in a Court of Law, by a Jury of their piers, and following all the other aspects of Due Process before they can be treated as an “Enemy Combatant.” Right now the President can act as Judge and Jury over who has Rights and who does not. This is not Law, rather it is Authoritarianism bordering on Dictatorship by the Executive Branch acting as a rouge Court and Legislature placing the President above the Law, and free from Congressional Oversight.
Oh hey, guess what? If you’re planning on protesting the GOP convention the FBI wants to hire you: C&L.
The prisons must be full up. They’re conducting investigations again, instead of just tossing people in slam. How many prisons could we build on $12 billion a month? Oh, well.
We can start with this label “weapons of mass destruction.”
This is an attempt to rank chemical and biological weapons on a par with nuclear weapons. It’s part of the war-mongering politics of fear. It’s been applied to Saddam’s regime as part of the campaign to justify the invasion.
And Barone is quoting Douglas Feith, who used to be the number three civilian at the Pentagon.
Here’s what
Bob Woodward said: “Powell felt Cheney and his allies — his chief aide, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby; Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz; and Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith and what Powell called Feith’s “Gestapo” office — had established what amounted to a separate government.”
The Gestapo office. Now that’s apt.
And I remember Alan’s interview of Feith. The man took responsibility for nothing, and as far as I’m concerned nothing he says should be believed. Because he is clearly a man who will say anything to justify everything.
But as I suggested earlier, there’s no need to impeach Bush. Habeas corpus is obsolete. Our government can do whatever it wants, regardless of the constitution, or law, and therefore we should have no problem just throwing Bush and his gang of revolutionaries into prison.
Ship them all off to Guantanamo. They’ll be among people with ideologies they should find very familiar.
Michael Barone wrote a great piece on May 8th on US News:
“Every intelligence agency believed Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, and the post-invasion Duelfer report concluded that he maintained the capability to produce them on short notice. There was abundant evidence of contacts between Saddam’s regime and al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. Given Saddam’s hostility to the United States and his stonewalling of the United Nations, American leaders had every reason to believe he posed a grave threat. Removing him removed that threat.”
Barone went on to say that Douglas Feith (Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from 2001-05) in his new book stated that the problem was than an Iraqi Interim Authority wasn’t created fast enough.
So we should prosecute and impeach Bush based on what? War mismanagement? Is that impeachable?
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Oh great! I really enjoy Vincent Bugliosi.
May 26th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Ditto that.
But we don’t need to prosecute Bush. Let’s just detain him as an enemy combatant. Or better yet just toss him into a Navy brig and leave it at that.
May 26th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
I’ve signed an online petition for his impeachment… most likely nothing will come of it, but I still like to get my support.
What exactly did we free the Iraqi’s from? Why was freeing the Iraqis more important than say, standing up for Darfur? Oh, I remember. There’s no OIL in Darfur. MY BAD.
May 26th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Great point Cheryl. What exactly did we free the Iraqi’s from? Well it appears we freed quite a few of them from… IRAQ! I have read that there are now one and a half million Iraqi refugees out there wandering around other countries.
May 26th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
I am sick and tired of these RW nuts who don’t like the fact that Obama has seperated himself from his former pastor…..(which I don’t agree he had to do personally)by saying “he went to “that” church for 20 yrs~!” That is quite lame, because people don’t go to any church because of the pastor, they go because of God, and a church us more than just sitting in the pews…..So trying to make yourself feel better, or to justify your selective manufactured outrage, it is just good enough for the senator to condemn or distance himself from the words of Jeremiah Wright….I certainly think after seeing Wright’s behavior at the Nat’l Press Club more parishoners of Trinity United weren’t a bit shocked either, and agreed with Obama for ditancing hinself once and for all, even though he is no lnger the pastor there. Obama is not responsible for what Wright says, and for John McCain to reiterate this “20 yrs” nonsense, when he can’t describe anything in Obama’s nature or character that would make him or anyone who is so worried about these “20 yrs” nonsense, that would lead them to believe that Barack Obama harbors those views or has acted apon them. John McCain has a worse pastor problem IMO, and even though the idea of being so opinionated about ones religion or what sort of pastors or reverends or priests or ministers, or rabbis, ect that have been in your lives is anyone’s business…I always thought that religion was a personal issue as is one’s faith. McCain for years thought these ministers like Hagee and the late Falwell were “messengers of intolerance” and all sorts of other unpleasant things, then seeks out the endorsements of the likes of those very pastors that he once reputiated all those years, because he needed to secure the conserative base of the Republican Party, and people are now supposed to reward John McCain because he so calculatedly condemned and repudiated these specific preachers twice, while acting ‘dumb” about the whole issue, and not wasting any time taking a “cheap-shot” at Barack Obama cause it makes him feel like such a “big” guy now~!!! This is all quite insulting, with what John McCain and his supporters like LIEberman are doing.
May 26th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Vincent Bugliosi is great. I loved his book about the Florida recount….superb~!!
May 26th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Obama’s pastor problem is the worst possible obstruction because it deals with white treatment of black Americans. And it’s an angry black man who’s doling out the reminders.
If you want whites to vote that’s the perfect storm to keep a whole lot of them away.
Other pastors can talk disgustingly about Jews, other religions, muslim hate, just about anything really, but the “Tuskegee experiments”?
Oh no. That won’t do at all.
Most Americans just don’t care about that other stuff really. (Unless your an American muslim, Catholic, or Jewish person.)
And many many whites hate hearing about the racial divide if it requires some sort of repentance.
May 26th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
If Bush were to be impeached, we’d be stuck with Cheney anyway.
May 26th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
I totally support Vincent Bugliosi. I only wish that Tony Blair and John Howard (the coalition of the killing) could be taken down with Bush. After all, if they didnt support Bush in the first place, there may have been a totally different scenerio.
May 27th, 2008 at 12:18 am
Yeah right, Michael. They’d have to find Cheney first. So we can safely count him out.
I’m going to buy that book, probably tomorrow.
Two things I encourage folks to think about, especially conservatives:
1.) Stop thinking about party lines, and think about what’s right and wrong. Clear your mind and review the evidence. Either way you’ll be better for it.
2.) I 100% support the effort to impeach and/or prosecute W. He’s not above the law. Being President does not make you Untouchable. That’s not democracy. When you lie, when you PURPOSEFULLY misuse your office, there needs to be consequences.
May 27th, 2008 at 12:23 am
Alan’s bumper music was good tonight.
May 27th, 2008 at 12:35 am
Michael Barone wrote a great piece on May 8th on US News:
“Every intelligence agency believed Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, and the post-invasion Duelfer report concluded that he maintained the capability to produce them on short notice. There was abundant evidence of contacts between Saddam’s regime and al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. Given Saddam’s hostility to the United States and his stonewalling of the United Nations, American leaders had every reason to believe he posed a grave threat. Removing him removed that threat.”
Barone went on to say that Douglas Feith (Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from 2001-05) in his new book stated that the problem was than an Iraqi Interim Authority wasn’t created fast enough.
So we should prosecute and impeach Bush based on what? War mismanagement? Is that impeachable?
May 27th, 2008 at 1:43 am
We can start with this label “weapons of mass destruction.”
This is an attempt to rank chemical and biological weapons on a par with nuclear weapons. It’s part of the war-mongering politics of fear. It’s been applied to Saddam’s regime as part of the campaign to justify the invasion.
And Barone is quoting Douglas Feith, who used to be the number three civilian at the Pentagon.
Here’s what
Bob Woodward said: “Powell felt Cheney and his allies — his chief aide, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby; Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz; and Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith and what Powell called Feith’s “Gestapo” office — had established what amounted to a separate government.”
The Gestapo office. Now that’s apt.
And I remember Alan’s interview of Feith. The man took responsibility for nothing, and as far as I’m concerned nothing he says should be believed. Because he is clearly a man who will say anything to justify everything.
But as I suggested earlier, there’s no need to impeach Bush. Habeas corpus is obsolete. Our government can do whatever it wants, regardless of the constitution, or law, and therefore we should have no problem just throwing Bush and his gang of revolutionaries into prison.
Ship them all off to Guantanamo. They’ll be among people with ideologies they should find very familiar.
May 27th, 2008 at 2:33 am
Oh hey, guess what? If you’re planning on protesting the GOP convention the FBI wants to hire you: C&L.
The prisons must be full up. They’re conducting investigations again, instead of just tossing people in slam. How many prisons could we build on $12 billion a month? Oh, well.
May 27th, 2008 at 4:05 am
Many Americans claim that this is still a free country, because people can still write a book or make statements that criticize G. W. Bush. This is the act of living in denial. Sure one can write a book about why G. W. Bush and his Administration should be tried for crimes against humanity. But the author may find himself or herself on a “No Fly List,” or a “Watch List,” thus black listing them without their knowledge. Sure you can say what you want but it is no longer exempt from scrutiny or action by the government. There is no actual free speech if Citizens have to watch what, when, or how they speak out of fear of being added to some secret list. These “Lists” curtail our free expression and speech. We have lost the Privacy at our Public Libraries, New and Used Book Stores, our communications via Phone, E-Mail, and Postal Letters; we have lost most of the Constitutions definition of Privacy to the So-Called War on Terror. Due Process of Law has been altered to the point that there is no expectation for US Citizens under Federal Guidelines, who are suspected of being an Enemy Combatant can now have all the Rights of Citizenship removed. That means there is no expectation that you will always be protected by the Constitution. We are now potential non-citizens if you buy the wrong DVD, Book, visit the wrong Web site, speak to the wrong Person, march or protest in the wrong way, or with the wrong Group. This is not Liberty. This is not Sovereignty of the Citizen. This is not respecting the Principles that our Nation was founded upon. This is China lite, our very own 1984, or the act of living in terror of our own government. Before any American can be called an ‘Enemy Combatant” they should be proven guilty of being an “Enemy Combatant” beyond a reasonable doubt, in a Court of Law, by a Jury of their piers, and following all the other aspects of Due Process before they can be treated as an “Enemy Combatant.” Right now the President can act as Judge and Jury over who has Rights and who does not. This is not Law, rather it is Authoritarianism bordering on Dictatorship by the Executive Branch acting as a rouge Court and Legislature placing the President above the Law, and free from Congressional Oversight.
May 28th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
The Violation by the Executive Branch and the Department of Justice of Article 6, 2nd Paragraph, “This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution of Laws of any State to the Contrary not withstanding,” is not fully understood by many Americans. A Treaty like the Geneva Conventions is as much a part of US Law as the Constitution as outlined by Article 6. The Office of the President has no authority to interpret or void the Treaty. The President has to uphold, preserve, and defend the Law. The White House has no business by Law to play the part of a Court or Legislature. Violating the Geneva Convention is a crime. Congress would have to renegotiate with the participating nations any new interpretation of the Treaty, or totally withdraw from the Treaty for the actions of the Executive Branch to be within the Law of the Land. They have not, therefore the Geneva Convention and any other Treaty is in full force. The President and the Office of Legal Council can put forth any memo they wish, or make any statement they would like about the Geneva Convention, but it would not have the weight of Law. They have no legal Jurisdiction to alter, interpret, or ignore any Treaty, Law, or Constitutional principle via unitary action.
Any action by the Executive Branch, the Justice Department or Pentagon is Unconstitutional and illegal.
May 28th, 2008 at 6:05 pm