[Rhodes22-list] political: CNN Poll Finds Rhodes 22 Owner As #1Political Irritant

[petelargo]

Thanks for that sobering slap in the face. I don;t know what I was thinking!


Robert Skinner wrote:
> 
> Now, Pete.  You know that "The constitution is 
> just a piece of paper," and we must all back the 
> President without reservation, or foreign terrorists 
> will question our will to lay down our lives, 
> liberties, and happiness in support of the 
> military-industrial complex that keeps us free.
> 
> We must be thankful that someone has taken on the 
> burden of deciding what is right and wrong.  It 
> is abundantly clear that privacy and the right to 
> be free of arbitrary arrest and detention are 
> intolerable impediments in our death struggle with 
> those foreigners who threaten our exercise of our 
> freedoms.
> 
> I hope this helps you get back on the right track.
> You need to stop challenging those who have a 
> perfectly clear picture of that way things should be.
> Your questions could weaken the resolve of citizens
> to support our war with global terrorism, wherever it 
> is, and however our leadership chooses to define it.
> 
> Where did you get this idea that we could or 
> would actually impeach a sitting president?  
> Or even prosecute after him leaving office?
> 
> Presidents do not commit crimes.  They may be a bit 
> overzealous in pursuit of the national interest, 
> which naturally coincides with their own, but they 
> are not criminals, no matter what they do.  They are 
> national father figures, and are automatically 
> pardoned so that their actions do not embarrass or
> divide the nation.
> 
> And remember, our leadership has decided that the
> old namby-pamby restrictions on interrogation methods 
> do not apply to terrorists.  If you are not for our 
> leadership, you are against it -- and could be 
> declared a terrorist.
> 
> Remember that.
> 
> /Robert (cum grano salis)
> 
> petelargo wrote:
>> 
>> Just got back from 3 day cruise in the florida keys. It was awesome.
>> Then,
>> Herb, I saw your posts. You ask me for my sources (verbally denigrating
>> me
>> and doubting that I even have them). Then when I give them to you, you
>> don't
>> like them or go "so what". It seems as if you are just going to hide
>> behind
>> the 3 monkeys rule and regurgitate your views (while acting like you are
>> the
>> only one without an agenda-laughable by itself).
>> 
>> I don;t know what it means that the troops supported Ron Paul as their
>> number one candidate. I just thought  it was interesting that they did.
>> Don't you think it's interesting that they supported a fringe candidate
>> like
>> him? It's open for discussion. But it's true as I said it was. Why, why,
>> why.
>> 
>> When ANY politician hides their past records it is a red flag for
>> concern.
>> Lack of transparency in politics is the road to ALL evils. And again it
>> is a
>> fact that Bush made his service records confidential. Why, why why.
>> 
>> You are not up to date on the illegality of Bushes DOMESTIC wiretapping. 
>> Or
>> again you are hiding behind the 3 monkeys rule (see no..hear no.. speak
>> no..
>> about Bush). And yes I am doing something about it as a supporting member
>> of
>> IMPEACHBUSH.ORG. However, I have made it clear that if Bush is caught in
>> a
>> proper sex scandal I will immediately drop my membership.
>> 
>> data for all your illegal domestic wiretapping reading needs:
>> http://thewall.civiblog.org/rsf/house_nsabrief_docs_012006.html
>> 
>> 1) "Now, I want to be absolutely clear. What the President ordered in
>> this
>> case was a crime.... and we have to deal with that as citizens and,
>> unfortunately, You have to deal with that as Members of Congress....Now,
>> Members that stay silent are making a choice.  Very few Members have
>> faced
>> this type of test of Faith.  But You are facing it now, and as Citizens
>> and
>> as Members, it's now up to us.  We are called to account to the many
>> benefits that we have gotten from this system. We are called to account
>> to
>> do something, and not to remain silent."
>> Jonathan Turley
>> Professor of Constitutional Law,
>> George Washington University
>> 
>> 2) "...so indiscriminate and sweeping a scheme of domestic intrusion into
>> the private communications of American citizens, predicated entirely on
>> the
>> unchecked judgment of the Executive Branch, violates the Fourth Amendment
>> 'right of the people to be secure . . . against unreasonable searches and
>> seizures' even if it otherwise represents an exercise of constitutional
>> power entrusted to the President by Article II or delegated to the
>> President
>> by Congress in exercising its powers under Article I......the argument
>> goes... Invasion of that citizen’s privacy was, alas, but one of
>> war’s sad
>> side effects — a species of collateral damage. The technical legal term
>> for
>> that, I believe, is poppycock. ”
>> 
>> Laurence H. Tribe
>> Professor of Constitutional Law
>> Harvard University
>> 
>> 3) "...it is not simply a claim that the President has the sole power to
>> decide which laws to violate and when to go outside the judicial power,
>> but
>> that he has the power to do so in secret....until the New York Times
>> reviewed this program, he withheld the fact from the American people that
>> his view was that FISA did not limit his powers.  He secretly believed
>> that
>> he had broader authority than was laid out in the public statutes, but he
>> withheld and misled the American people about that view of his own
>> powers......examine what kind of misleading statements, if not deception,
>> were put before the Congress in connection with this”
>> Kate Martin
>> Director
>> Center for National Security Studies
>> 
>> 4) "...when Congress enacted the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in
>> 1978, it expressly rejected the President’s claim of inherent authority
>> to
>> conduct warrantless wiretaps. It then went further and made it a crime to
>> conduct such wiretaps. The President has acted contrary to the express
>> will
>> of the Congress. The Supreme Court has never approved a claim of
>> presidential authority to authorize acts outlawed by the Congress.”
>> 
>> Kate Martin
>> Director
>> Center for National Security Studies
>> 
>> 5) "...under his interpretation ... he could suspend the writ of habeas
>> corpus, ... saying: This authorization enabled me to do anything in
>> furtherance of the war effort. I can suspend the writ of habeas corpus
>> unilaterally even though Congress hasn't ...He could authorize breaking
>> and
>> entering of homes in order to secure intelligence to fight the war
>> against
>> terrorism, despite the fact that there is an authorized procedure in an
>> amendment to FISA that governs physical searches......the principle that
>> the
>> President has established here, if gone unchecked, will, as Justice
>> Robert
>> Jackson said, lie around like a loaded gun and be utilized by any future
>> incumbent who claims a need. And the history of power teaches us one
>> thing,
>> that if it's unchecked, it will be abused.”
>> 
>> Bruce Fein
>> Deputy Assistant Attorney General
>> Reagan Administration
>> 
>> 6) "In each case the president’s answer has been the same ... Courts
>> and
>> Congress have little or no place to question his decisions....it is
>> nonetheless a dangerous path for our nation. Our laws provide ample tools
>> for fighting terrorism without eroding basic liberties. No one, not even
>> a
>> wartime president, is above the law”
>> Michael S. Greco
>> President,  American Bar Association
>> 
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