LIBERTY AND JUSTICE BETRAYED

WARNING: Pessimistic and crude language, but there is a point in here.
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George Carlin has some strong opinions

My only thing is that I feel We the People gave up our democracy before the ink was probably dry. Not to mention, the genocide on the indigenous people who lived here before the colonists stole the land and cultures of the native American indians. Not to mention the racism in the Declaration of Independence toward the native American indians. And not to mention the slave trading and ownership that has been with the government since conception. Not to mention the collective blind eye that we turn to the corruption of slavery within our borders today. Not to mention the corporate ownership of our claimed institutions of liberty.

The only, ONLY thing that can possibly be our saving grace is to empower ourselves of the fourth branch of our democracy, that of WE THE PEOPLE. And that WE THE PEOPLE let knowledge creep back into our awareness of what we have let our government do in our name and the liberties that we have lost.

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The United States Constitution

Habeas Corpus and the Constitution

International
Right groups welcomes US court ruling on Guantanamo bay

Source

Washington (PTI): Legal and civil rights groups have hailed the 5-4 decision of the United States Supreme Court that ruled prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay have the constitutional right to habeas corpus.

"The Supreme Court has finally brought an end to one of our nation's most egregious injustices," said Vincent Warren, Executive Director for the Center for Constitutional Rights.

"By granting the writ of habeas corpus, the Court recognises a rule of law established hundreds of years ago and essential to American jurisprudence since our nation's founding. With habeas you never would have had these men so many of whom have been cleared of any wrongdoing locked up and abused because no court was watching.

"In those cases, the government will now have to put up or shut up: it will have to show an impartial judge enough evidence to justify detention. This six-year-long nightmare serves as a lesson in how fragile our constitutional protections truly are in the hands of an overzealous executive," Vincent said in a statement.

Associate Justice Antony Kennedy writing for the majority opinion: "within the constitution's separation-of-powers structure, few exercises of judicial power are as legitimate or as necessary as the responsibility to hear challenges to the authority of the Executive to imprison a person.... Liberty and security can be reconciled; and in our system they are reconciled within the framework of the law."

Guantanamo Bay prison

MR. BUSH ~ TEAR DOWN GUANTANAMO BAY PRISON & ABU GHRAIB

. . . JUSTICE HAS BEEN OBLITERATED BY GEORGE W BUSH ~ COMMANDER IN CHIEF

Mr. Bush will be forever linked to Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. Not to mention his lies, Iraq and his choice of people to surround himself with.

When I was a kid, we had a next door neighbor boy who changed the rules when he didn't like how things were going in play. I read somewhere that one of George's cousins said this is how George operated when he was a kid. He hasn't changed. He does the same thing today. Don't like the law that has just been passed? He makes it okay if he doesn't want to follow it.

All I had to do to come up with information to back this up was type in the window: Bush Law signings. And there was a list of links to all sorts of articles about Bush and his law side-stepping.

Here is just one link:Bush

Bush’s contention that he can ignore provisions of the Patriot Act, whose renewal he ushered last month, has drawn scrutiny. (Jim Young/ Reuters)

Bush challenges hundreds of laws

President cites powers of his office

By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff | April 30, 2006

WASHINGTON -- President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution.

and in Berlin (Germany) there was a screening of an Abu Ghraib film
Thursday, 13 Dec 2007
The 58th Berlin Film Festival will screen an investigative documentary about the human right's violations at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
Source: presstv

And here is a link Tear down a piece of Guantánamo Bay
Source: Amnesty International USA

Current government policy allows foreign nationals to be held in a US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as "enemy combatants," without charges and with no legal rights. The government plans to try them before military tribunals, where they can be sentenced to imprisonment or even death with virtually no review.

For what this means in practice, see the photos below of men captured in Afghanistan being transported, hooded and hog-tied, in military aircraft to Guantanamo Bay. Le Monde Diplomatique article, United States: the Black Hole of Guantanamo
A description of the physical setup of the prisons at Guantanamo
Source: guantanamo


I received the information below from Larry Cox, Executive Director of
Amnesty International USA on December 5, 2007:

The Supreme Court will hear Bush administration lawyers attempt to defend the indefensible: that the President can hold people indefinitely, without charge and without question. With fundamental human rights principles on the line let's hope the Supreme Court rejects this lawlessness and demands an end to the injustice that flows from it.

A thousand miles from the Supreme Court steps, Amnesty International will be observing another crucial hearing today. This one will take place at Guantánamo Bay and while it will get less press attention, it is no less important.

While the Supreme Court considers whether or not Congress improperly took away the writ of habeas corpus from detainees in Guantánamo, a hearing will be convened to determine whether or not Salim Ahmed Hamdan is an "unlawful enemy combatant" and subject to trial by military commission. Under the Military Commissions Act, "unlawful enemy combatants" cannot challenge the evidence brought before them or object to being convicted on evidence obtained through brutal means.

The two hearings are not unrelated.

Both challenge the administration's attacks on our system of justice. Both challenge the assertion that fear, not freedom, guides our country. But even more important, both hearings present a clear opportunity to move our nation back on track -- to a place of respect for truth, justice and liberty. As four Supreme Court Justices put it, "[I]if this Nation is to remain true to the ideals symbolized by its flag, it must not wield the tools of tyrants even to resist an assault by the forces of tyranny."

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IMPEACHABLE ACTS - WARNING - WILL BE OFFENSIVE TO BUSH ADMIRERS

IMPEACHABLE ACTS

I'm sorry if this offends you, but it is pretty much just how I feel.

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IMPEACHABLE ACTS – CONTEMPT OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, THE GENEVA CONVENTION, POLITICAL LIES, PERSONAL INDISCRETIONS

I didn’t vote for George Bush for President. I am alarmed by what he has done to our federal deficit, our constitutional rights, our citizens affected by hurricane Katrina, the forgotten U.S. citizens, the very young, the teens, the foster children of our country, the poor and neglected AND what major damage he and his dismal “Mr. Decider” decisions have done to the United States foreign reputation around the planet Earth. And yet, there are people in the U.S.A. who think he is a wonderful President. I have no idea how any one can believe that. But there are those who do. And my family members belong to that group. I just don’t understand the ignorance. I can’t say what I really think of him because taken out of context it would be unwise for me to write here. But having just been introduced to Youtube in the last couple of months, I have had my world broadened. I just found the YouTube included below, even though it is not a new song by Neil Young, it is new to my world. I warn you if you like George Bush, you won’t want to hear what this song has to say. I can’t argue with what the song says, because I believe it is truthful. Something that has not been a part of President George Bush’s intelligentsia. This President makes me cringe and embarrassed. Unfortunately when I went to Europe in November 2005, the treatment that I received as an American was 180 degrees different from all of my previous trips to Europe. I think that matters. I think it matters what others think of us. The fall of Rome didn’t happen overnight, but the fall of the U.S.A. is on its way unless we can wake up to how to command “real” power. It is not by force that we gain and maintain power. But “force” has been the Cowboy’s language since he took office.

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/georgewbush/ig/100-Bush-Pictures/index.htm

Full story at http://www.thebluestate.com/2007/02/v...

Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) stood his ground and joined the twenty-or-so other Republicans that have decided to vote with the House Democrats in favor of a non-binding Iraq resolution that condemns President Bush's troop surge.

Speaking of Bush, Congressman Paul was very straight-forward in his displeasure for Bush's "demented philosophy of conquest." Here is a portion of his floor speech:

RON PAUL: "In recent decades, our policies have been driven by neoconservative empire radicalism; profiteering in the military industrial complex; misplaced do-good internationalism; mercantilistic notions regarding the need to control natural resources; and blind loyalty to various governments in the Middle East."

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REP. RON PAUL on REAL TIME W BILL MAHER 3-30-07

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo6KIusCBoU

I find Representative Paul (R) off my mark of someone to support for President, but at least he uses his brain about what he’s trying to express. I give him that. But I think we are due to have a democrat in the Whitehouse to balance out the stuff we've had to endure as a nation and the world with the 8 year regime of the Bush mind. And remember the two Bush Presidents' choices for Vice-President. Poor choices, both of them. I can't cope with 4 more years of republican smallness. We need to think of the soul of our nation and the global ramifications of our leadership, or what shreds are left of it.

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Protest music is back with Neil Young's 2006 release, 'Living With War', featuring many great songs/ideas including this one, "Let's Impeach The President". Available in stores, online and on iTunes

Some of the things that this President has as his legacy include the Patriot Act, dismissing the adherence to The Geneva Convention and the undermining of human decency through lacking the manifestation of human and otherwise United States’ principles and Constitution at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. This President is proof of the Peter Principle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

The Patriot Act

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_PATRIOT_Act

The Geneva Convention

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions

Guantanamo Bay Detainment Camp/Prison

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detainment_camp

Abu Ghraib Prison

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_prisoner_abuse

Ignorance is no excuse for picking the leader of the free world who is so incompetent and has the moral attention span of one speech.

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Barack Obama 2008

http://www.barackobama.com/

Meet Barack:

http://www.barackobama.com/about/

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid452323111/bctid422561644

http://www.barackobama.com/live/

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GLOBAL DAYS FOR DARFUR
April 23 - 30, 2007
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Genocide Should Be Made History

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