Tue 28 Aug 2007
When I was three years old, my parents let me watch the Wizard of Oz. A wholesome movie, right? Holy crap did it terrify me. I made my parents inspect the closet every night before bed because I knew, I JUST KNEW those damn flying monkeys were in there. I could hear them scratching around – digging for scraps of mortal flesh and since they hadn’t gotten to me yet, I knew they were HUNGRY!
One full year later, I was able to go to bed with the lights off.
So here we are, ten months into the so-called Democratic Revolution and Pelosi and Reid have accomplished damn near nothing. The only thing they can chalk up is the pitifully small increase in the minimum wage. We are still in Iraq, a war criminal is still running the country and we haven’t regained our civil rights. I have heard the hand-wringing apologists for the Dems – the excuses about a one vote majority in the Senate, the Blue Dog Democrats that are infesting the House of Representatives and the biggest whopper, “impeachment wouldn’t be good for the nation.”
Last Summer and Fall, I ran all around the district telling people the Dems were going to act on their agenda and by electing Dems we would get our country back. Sadly, what I didn’t realize, we would also need to get rid of the Dems that are IN Congress to get our PARTY back.
Gonzales is off the table and gone. Now can we get back to the war crimes at hand? Can we get out of Iraq? Can we maybe get our rights back?
I have no inkling as to why the Dems are continuing to fund the war and most recently, agreed to let Bush continue to abuse the FISA courts. Who is even letting these bills come to the damn floor? If I knew this crap was going on, I would NOT have been knocking on doors for months and months last year in an effort to get these sorry individuals in power.
The Dems got voted into power about 10 months ago. When will they come out from under the bed? When will they overcome their fear? When will they begin to govern?
It took me a year to conquer my fear of the flying monkeys and I was three years old. I hope the Democrats get their act together soon, our soldiers are dying on the battlefield while Pelosi cries under her bed.
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August 28th, 2007 at 10:09 amGonzales and the Democratic Fear of Flying Monkeys
click to enlarge When I was three years old, my parents let me watch the Wizard of Oz. A wholesome movie, right? Holy crap did it terrify me. I made my parents inspect the closet every night before bed because I knew, I JUST KNEW those damn flying mon…
August 28th, 2007 at 10:23 am
I am so sorry the Dems are doing absolutely nothing…I don’t know why…Does anyone?
August 28th, 2007 at 10:38 am
I don’t know why…Does anyone? There are two types of Democrats. Those who think (and act like) the GOP is in its ascendency (see: Hillary Clinton and the idea triangulation). They are afraid of the Republicans and think that they have to emulate them. The other type are those who were (generally) not in office during the 1990’s and are not awed by the (now discredited idea of) the “permanent Republican majority.” They want to confront the GOP head-on. Unfortunately, the current leadership falls into the former category. We need Democratic leaders who fall into the latter category.
August 31st, 2007 at 3:26 pm
pEdNeMany Dems don’t seem to want confrontation, either. Why did Gore allow the theft of Florida to decide the election? Why did Kerry give up so easily?
Why did WTC 7 collapse?
Who told Giuliani that the towers will collapse?
Where are the jet engines at the pentagon and why won’t the FBI release the videos?
Why are we spending hundreds of billions on death and cutting childrens’ healthcare?
How could we spend $116 billion and still fail to rebuild New Orleans’ ninth ward?
How can people ignore the fact that this war is a crime, that torture is a crime, that “rendition” is a war crime?
Why do so few note that Bush is a mass murderer?
I guess the answer is “cui bono”– “who benefits”?
Those who profit from others’deaths. The “military-industrial complex”.
US Code, War Crimes Act
By martinweiss
US Code, Title 18, Part 1, chapter 118, paragraph 2441
p. 2441. WAR CRIMES
(a) Offense.— Whoever, whether inside or outside the United States, commits a war crime, in any of the circumstances described in subsection (b), shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for life or any term of years, or both, and if death results to the victim, shall also be subject to the penalty of death.
(b) Circumstances.— The circumstances referred to in subsection (a) are that the person committing such war crime or the victim of such war crime is a member of the Armed Forces of the United States or a national of the United States (as defined in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act).
(c) Definition.— As used in this section the term “war crime†means any conduct—
(1) defined as a grave breach in any of the international conventions signed at Geneva 12 August 1949, or any protocol to such convention to which the United States is a party;
Geneva Convention section 4 Common Article 147.
Grave breaches to which the preceding Article relates shall be those involving any of the following acts, if committed against persons or property protected by the present Convention: wilful killing, torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments, wilfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health, unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement of a protected person, compelling a protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile Power, or wilfully depriving a protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial prescribed in the present Convention, taking of hostages and extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly.
Our government… teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
Louis D. Brandeis