01.13.08
Posted in Accountability, Fascism, Political rant at 3:15 pm by angela
He’s at it again.
Reporter: Mr. President, following up on Vladimir Putin for a moment, he said recently that next year, when he has to step down according to the constitution, as the president, he may become prime minister; in effect keeping power and dashing any hopes for a genuine democratic transition there.
Bush: I’ve been planning that myself.
Ok, let’s get serious here. Do we really think that Bush would put himself above the law and the Constitution and pull an end-run play into a full dictatorship?
Um…don’t answer that. Let’s try a different question. Do we think that Bush thinks he deserves to be President-for-life, like such luminaries as Idi Amin?
Yup. I’m sure he thinks he is the best qualified person to be president in the country. And since he’s clearly indicated in the past that there is no law that can stop him from whatever he wishes to do… Would he do that?
Maybe he’s just being his asinine self, the one who can’t crack a joke without sounding like a deadly serious mentally-ill moron. Maybe what he really meant is that now that he’s solved all the problems of this country, he’s going to move on and solve the problems of Russia, too. He is, after all, god’s gift to humanity. Just ask him and he’ll tell you how he spreads good will wherever he travels around the world.
But in case he does decide to continue in the Presidency, I’ve got my CafePress t-shirt all planned. It will say, “Off with his head…of state.”
Close enough.
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11.19.07
Posted in Fascism, Miscellaneous, neocon crackpots at 7:27 pm by angela
Right about the time it turns out that the Center for Constitutional Rights hopes to ‘flood the Oval Office’ with 25,000 copies of the Constitution (more information on how you can take part in or help sponsor this exercise here), it is revealed that someone in the government cared enough to make a training pamphlet declaring that people who quote the constitution to support themselves should be considered potential terrorists. Video clip
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11.11.07
Posted in Communications breakdown, Fascism, Totalitarianism at 8:03 am by angela
Government seeks to redefine privacy
WASHINGTON – A top intelligence official says it is time people in the United States changed their definition of privacy.
Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, a deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguards people’s private communications and financial information. MORE
“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.” –GW Bush, Washington, D.C. June 18, 2002
Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. –George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language”, 1946
So war is peace, truth is lies, and ‘privacy’ is when the government is listening in and approves of what you’re thinking, right?
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