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Only in America

November 23, 2005

The wheels of justice grind slowly but grind they do in spite of the Bush administration’s never ceasing obstruction to an American’s civil rights and to the nation’s jurisprudence. In “Terror suspect Padilla charged” by Eric Lichtblau, Jose Padilla, President Bush’s desperately needed “enemy combatant” is finally going to get his day in court as any American citizen who had been held in custody for over three years without a charge. The initial “charge” for Padilla detainment was to detonate a radioactive bomb in America. Now that his court date is looming ahead the Justice Department isn’t going to enter the “dirty bomb” accusation against Padilla; the Justice Department is already flying on one wing since that accusation was the initial and sole reason for detaining Padilla without due process all these years. Of course, new charges are to be brought forth for the coming trial, charges brought about through interrogation. Can you say “torture?” All this has the shades of John Walker Lindh. Lindh was interrogated and then charged with conspiring along with Osama bin Laden in bringing down the Twin Towers. But after plead bargaining, Lindh was found guilty of just carrying a gun. I see a more weaker government’s position and resolution against Jose Padilla.

Welcome home, Joseph Stalin

November 28, 2005

American jurisprudence drops dead in “Administration calls all the shots on detainee cases” by Adam Liptak marks a incoming watershed that individual duo process in this country is evaporating fast into oblivion. Really quick and dirty: Jose Padilla and his defense team are quite aware they’re hopping in a kangaroo court as oppose to a court of law. Aside from the ponderousness of the article, comments such as Eric Freedman, Hofstra Law University, stated that the executive branch (meaning President Bush) can “be judge, jury and executioner,” with any American citizen. But what’s most shocking is that if Padilla does get acquitted from what “charges” are level at him, the president reserve the right to detain Padilla again, just-like-that. Instead of reason we get such idiotic drivel like that of Tasia Scolinos, a Justice Dept. spokeswoman, spouting “the important thing is for someone not to come away thinking this whole process is arbitrary, which it is not.” Come again? The whole process is as arbitrary as Joseph Stalin.

Republicans use a Democrat.

Why not true culprit. Reagan.

SWINNEY FACT CHECK

LBJ
1968 Expenditures-178 Billion (rounded)
1963——————111 Billion

60% Increase

REAGAN
1988 Expenditures—1,063 Billion
1980 ———————590 Billion

80% Increase

In order for Bush to exceed either this would need to take place

+ 60% –Expenditures2860 Billion (possible)
+ 80% —Expenditures 3218 Billion (highly unlikely)

Clarence Swinney
Political historian
Burlington nc
cwswinney@netzero.net

The stock market today took a nose-dive on reports that consumer confidence in the US was down to just above it’s lowest level in a decade (via Americablog). The main culprit behind the crash was the bullshit industry, which reported a steady decline…

If you feel, as the majority of Americans and people throughout the world do, that the war in Iraq is wrong, and you wish you had a way to show the Bush Administration, the Government of the United States, and the world, how you feel about it, then join us in our world wide walk out on November 10th 2005.

Show the world how you feel, and just how many of us feel this way. Let’s drive the point home by taking away from them their most precious item; money.

On November 10th 2005, unless you hold a position which people rely upon in the event of an emergency (you work at a hospital, a firemen, policemen etc), don’t go to work. Try not to drive your car; don’t watch T.V.; don’t use the internet. Stay at home. Read a book. Play with your kids. Engage in a hobby.

Plan a vacation day at work. Call in sick. Use your best judgment on how to take this day off.

If we don’t get their attention this way, we’ll just do it again, until we do.

If the people speak, and speak together, they have to listen.

Please email this to as many of your friends and colleagues as you wish/can.

“The White House said the other seven attacks included plans to:

• Bomb several sites in Britain in mid-2004.

• Attack Westerners at several places in Karachi, Pakistan, in spring 2003.

• Attack Heathrow Airport using hijacked commercial airliners in 2003.

• Carry out a large-scale bombing in Britain in spring 2004.

• Attack ships in the Arabian Gulf in late 2002/2003.

• Attack ships in the Straits of Hormuz, a narrow part of the Persian Gulf where it opens into the Arabian Sea, in 2002.

• Attack a tourist site outside the United States in 2003.”

Even if said attacks were successfully stopped, this is NOT how you account the government for accomplishing the task of securing the country. A great start would actually to have the population express their feelings on how the nation is now safer than then.

The city very likely has better coordinated intelligence and public safety operations than anything any of those cowboys could ever dream up while clearing brush in Crawford.

I think there was credible information which lead to yesterday’s press conference by our mayor, the FBI, and NYPD. Hopefully it wasn’t just some diversion planted by a chubby, baby faced friend of W’s with too much clearance.

If our city has succeeded in thwarting a terrorist attack, the credit goes to New York City… in spite of W’s mismanaged administration.

He gets credit only for attaining the presidency… not earning it, not performing required tasks, and certainly not making America safer.

1. Jose Padilla
2. Iyam Faris

3. London tube bombings – Not the Bush administration who “foiled” it, but hey, they did say “and partners”…
4. Portland Seven – Not technically an “al qaeda plot” as these were muslims who attempted to travel to Afghanistan to fight against the US, but they’re probably counting it, and this was partly inside the US, so it might be the third..
5. Lodi “Terrorist Cell” – Anyone know much about this one? Is this the third one inside the US?

Anyone want to guess at what the other five are, remember they are outside the US… They may be classified because they consisted of assassinations of people the Bush administration disapproved of or similar activities. Any other suggestions?

Z.

At least that way all these poor dumb losers from Lackawanna and Lodi wouldn’t have to go to jail.

My guess is that this incident will eventual prove to be more smoke and mirrors. i mean its been almost 5 months and the whole matter has more or less slipped from even the local news.

Hell, just last night he came by and we sat and bullshitted each other over an immaculate amount of beer and cigarettes. He said he’d been on the other side of the universe for a few years checking on a few planets that had gotten it right and were progressing beautifully.

I asked him about his boy, George Bush, and he said that by all means George wasn’t his boy. Huh? He said that damn Satan has always taken advantage of when he leaves for a while to go check out his other worlds and this time was no different. He also added I’m just biding my time for when the time is right I’ll let the world know that George Bush is not a man of Me. He is the spawn of Satan. (Handing God another beer) So, God, when, pray tell, will this happen? And God said, real soon my friend! Real soon. You know all his friends that are being indicted and investigated now? I said sure! Well a few of them are going to start singing like my beautiful canaries. And it will be a lovely song! Now hand me another beer or I’ll make you change your nickname! Sure God, Sure! No problem