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CORRUPTION UPDATES 32 January 12th to January 21st, 2007 The CORRUPTION UPDATES reviews corruption in the news. News Stories from California, the Nation and the World are abstracted below, and followed by commentary and references. |
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1) THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, 1-15-07:
Rice speaks softly in Egypt
By Michael Slackman
Monday, January 15, 2007
CAIRO
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/16/news/web.0116egypt.php
“Ms. Rice, who once lectured Egyptians on the need to respect the rule of law, did not address those domestic concerns. Instead, with Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit by her side, she talked about her appreciation for Egypt's support in the region.”
“It was clear that the United States — facing chaos in Iraq, rising Iranian influence and the destabilizing Israeli-Palestinian conflict — had decided that stability, not democracy, was its priority, Egyptian political commentators, political aides and human rights advocates said.”
“But the calculus of stabilization is so complicated and fraught in a region as fragile as the Middle East, where interests are defined by religion, geography, geopolitics and political opportunism, it is not at all clear that the new (old) approach will work. The United States is so unpopular in the region now, many here say, that its support is enough to undermine a government's legitimacy with its public.”
“ "The former pressure was an illusion and the lack of any pressure now will push the crisis between the people and their rulers to the edge," said Ibrahim Eissa, the editor of Al Dustoor, a weekly independent newspaper in Egypt that is critical of the government. That eliminates "all false appearances that the Arab regimes are against the United States in defense of their independent sovereignty and that the United States is supporting democracy when it is in strict alliance with the oppressive regimes," he added.”
“Ms. Rice raised the bar herself when she visited American University here in 2005 and said in a speech: "We are all concerned for the future of Egypt's reforms when peaceful supporters of democracy — men and women — are not free from violence. The day must come when the rule of law replaces emergency decrees — and when the independent judiciary replaces arbitrary justice." ”
“Since then, Egypt's
government has piled up a long list of repressive actions, including
ordering the police to block people from voting in parliamentary
elections; delaying local elections by two years; imprisoning an
opposition leader, Ayman Nour, on charges widely seen as politically
motivated; battling with judges who have demanded oversight of
elections; and imprisoning Talaat el-Sadat, a member of Parliament
and the nephew of President Anwar el-Sadat, for a year in a military
jail after he criticized the armed forces on television.”
THE COMMITTEE SAYS:
RICE THANKS DICTATOR FOR REGIONAL SUPPORT
IF SADDAM HAD KILLED FOR US, HE WOULD STILL BE IN POWER
American support for thirty years of dictatorship in Egypt, and dictatorships across the middle east, are causing significant problems in the region.
The first is psychological: The rise of “terrorism,” and independent political movements in the face of persistent violent repression are expressions of the Arabic rejection of American military and political power as the basis and source of power for the dictators who rule over the middle east.
What we call “globalism” is just the modern justification of imperialism.
The Saudi, Jordanian, and Egyptian governments are completely dependent on America, not on their own people, for their existence. As was the Shah of Iran. As was Batista in Cuba, Chiang Kai-shek in China, and a very long line of tin plated American Dictators.
These governments represent neither democracy, nor the culture, history, or the interests of their people. Our participation in this shameful history does not reflect American democracy.
Our foreign dictators represent the special interests who have stolen our democracy.
These American dictators have created the conditions for a firestorm of change which is forging itself in the fires of tyranny we have created around the world.
Our goal in all this? Control of the World Oil Market, Domination of the World Economy, and protection of the last western colony, Israel.
What we want, and what we will get, are two different things.
Also See:
Rice interviewed by Al Ahram, Hypocrisy of American supported “Democracy” highlighted:
Corruption Updates 18, 7th article on page, “Moderate Democracy”
Corruption Updates 18, 8th article on page, “Egypt Jails Sadat Nephew for Defaming Military, “Officials in Egypt said the US has Dropped All Pressure to Make Democratic Reforms”
Corruption Updates 27, 5th article on page, “EGYPT LEADING THE WAY FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IN MIDDLE EAST”
Corruption Updates 27, 6, “EGYPTIAN DICTATOR CHANGES CONSTITUTION”
Corruption Updates 30, Last article on page, “Egypt detains Brotherhood backers”
Search the Corruption Database under
Egypt
2) THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE WASHINGTON POST, 1-12-07:
Scientists
Reject Chemical Rules
White House Plan
to Change Risk Assessment Called 'Flawed'
By Rick Weiss
Washington Post
Staff Writer
Friday, January 12, 2007; A17
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/11/AR2007011101676_pf.html
“When the Bush administration last year proposed a controversial revamping of the rules by which federal agencies decide whether chemicals and other products pose risks to human health, it offered to run the plan by the prestigious National Research Council.”
“Yesterday the White House got its response: a 324-page report that says, in no uncertain terms, "Throw it out and start all over." ”
“The proposal by the Office of Management and Budget is "fundamentally flawed" and should be withdrawn, the report concludes.”
“John F. Ahearne, director of the ethics program at Sigma Xi, an international scientific honor society, who chaired the review committee, said that in his decades of experience working on such reviews for the National Academies, he could not recall any other instance when the conclusion was to reject a government proposal completely.”
“under
the proposed provisions, it concluded, risk assessments would be
"more susceptible to being manipulated to achieve a
predetermined result." ”
THE COMMITTEE SAYS:
BUSH TRIES TO KILL CHEMICAL RULES, SCIENCE, AND INTEGRITY IN ONE FELL SWOOP:
INTEGERTY FALLS, RULES AND SCIENCE DAMAGED, BUT STILL STANDING
Our country is governed by the best government Special Interest money can buy.
Unfortunately, government by bribery is neither democratic, nor does it provide safe regulation of dangerous business practices. Government by bribery does not respect, let alone protect, our most fundamental rights and freedoms.
Our government is not honest, trustworthy, or legitimate.
The assualt on science follows the victory of Bribery over Democracy.
Corruption Updates 19, 1st article on page, “TOP RECIPEINTS OF LOBBYISTS BRIBES ARE LEADERSHIP OF BOTH PARTIES”
Corruption Updates 26, 1st article on page, 12-8-06, “LOBBYISTS SEE NO CHANGE UNDER DEMS CORRUPTION PRESENTED AS FORCE OF NATURE, DEM CORRUPTION NATURAL”
Corruption Updates 10, 5th article on page, “DO BRIBED POLITICIANS PROVIDE SAFE REGULATION OF PIPELINES, OR ANYTHING ELSE?” AP IN BEE.
Corruption Updates 16, 4th article on the page, "EPA STANDARDS WILL KILL YOU: SPECIAL INTEREST BRIBERY BRINGS AMERICA DEATH"
Corruption Updates 21, 9th article on page, “White House under Investigation for Censoring Science”
Corruption Updates 24, 4th article on page, “ BIG OIL OWNS INTERIOR DEPARTMENT”
Corruption Updates 24, 5th article on page, NYTIMES, 12-3-06, “LOBBYING BY TRUCKING INDUSTRY BRINGS DEATH TO NATION'S HIGHWAYS INSURANCE AND SAFETY LOBBIES HAVE INSUFFICIENT BRIBE MONEY TO STOP TRUCKING LOBBY FROM GUTTING SAFETY RULES”
Corruption Updates 25, 5th article on page, AP, 12-6-06, “BATTERY LOBBY BRIBES ENDANGER HEALTH BUSH REPAYS BRIBES WITH OUR HEALTH AND WELFARE BY ATTEMPTING TO KILL LEAD STANDARDS”
Corruption Updates 25, 6th article, AP, 12-6-06, “FARM LOBBY BRIBES ENDANGER HEALTH GRASSLEY (R-IOWA) REPAYS BRIBES BY KILLING EPA REGULATION OF FARMS
Corruption Updates 32, 2nd article on the page, "BUSH TRIES TO KILL CHEMICAL RULES, SCIENCE, AND INTEGRITY IN ONE FELL SWOOP: INTEGERTY FALLS, RULES AND SCIENCE DAMAGED, BUT STILL STANDING
How lobbying buys lawmakers and law:
Corruption Updates 1, 2nd to last article on the page, “Big Oil Owns our Politicians”
Corruption Updates 2, 6th article down, “Contribute to Win, Big Contribs try to Trump State Safety Laws”
Corruption Updates 3, 2nd article on page, “Big Business Spends Lawmakers into Compliance”
Corruption Updates 4, 1st article on page, “Checks in, Laws Out, It's that Simple”
Search the Corruption Database under
Killing Safety Regulations
3) THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE LA TIMES, 1-19-07:
Wiretap review plan is still unclear
“Bush and Gonzales say the domestic spying program is essentially unchanged except for its legal justification.”
By Richard B. Schmitt, Greg Miller and David G.
Savage, Times Staff Writers
January 19, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-nsa19jan19,1,3195185.story?coll=la-headlines-politics
“WASHINGTON —
A day after announcing that it had scrubbed a controversial
warrantless surveillance program, the Bush administration refused to
provide details to Congress of how a new court-review process for
terror-related wiretaps would work, triggering a fresh round of
complaints and suspicions from Democrats about what the
administration was doing.”
“Bush said the
approval vindicated his position that he was justified in launching
the surveillance. "Nothing has changed in the program except
the court has said we've analyzed it and it's a legitimate way to
protect the country," Bush said in an interview with Tribune
Broadcasting.”
“Disputing the suggestion that the
warrantless program, run by the National Security Agency, had been
"terminated," Gonzales said, "It took us a period
of time to develop what we thought would be an acceptable legal
argument that would be acceptable to the FISA court." ”
“With Gonzales
and other officials mum about the program's details, Democrats
refused to accept their assurances. It was not immediately clear how
that stalemate might be resolved. The administration supplied
classified briefings to several members of Congress, but lawmakers
said they continued to have questions.”
“The
Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.),
and the ranking Republican, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), said the
chief judge of the FISA court had promised them late Wednesday
access to the court orders approving the surveillance. But Gonzales
indicated at the hearing that the administration might attempt to
block the move because of concerns that the documents contained
classified information.”
“The administration's
decision appeared to leave Congress with few options. Legal experts
said the ruling appeared to render moot a series of private lawsuits
challenging the program. The main option Congress has left is to
change the FISA law under which the court has acted, although
lawmakers acknowledge they have too little information at this point
to know whether that would be necessary.”
“The
officials also said the negotiations centered on securing an
agreement that would allow the administration to seek warrants on
groups of people in certain circumstances, rather than being
required to obtain separate court orders for every individual under
suspicion.”
“One official, who spoke on
condition of anonymity, said this was the "innovative"
new interpretation that Justice officials had described when
briefing reporters on the new guidelines.”
“The
changes appear to require individual warrants when the target is a
U.S. citizen or has permanent
legal resident status. But the changes could make it easier to
obtain multiple warrants rapidly when the targets are in the country
on temporary visas, as was the case with the Sept. 11
hijackers.”
“The new arrangement is likely to
continue to be a source of controversy because the ability to
obtain a "bundle" of warrants, as one official put it,
could be seen as undermining the intent of the law to require the
government to show cause in individual cases.”
“The
FISA law does distinguish between U.S. citizens
and certain foreigners living in the United States.”
“FISA says the government must seek a warrant first before "intentionally targeting a United States person" by listening to their phone calls. These persons are defined as U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents.”
PRESIDENT TRIES END RUN AROUND CONSTITUTION:
CLAIMS
ACTIONS ARE SECRET, AND ABOVE OVERSIGHT
The specific words of the Fourth Amendment of The Constitution are:
“...and No warrant shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
The president has no authority to interfere with this Constitutionally mandated standard. Nor does Congress, nor the Courts. Their jobs are to enforce the Constitution, not stand around stealing our treasure while Bush steals our Rights.
It is time for political officeholders to stand up, and protect and enforce the Constitution. Those that do not have rendered themselves Constitutionally illegitimate, and must be removed from office and prosecuted for betraying our laws and Constitution.
The Congressional and Court deference to clearly illegal actions by the President, against the Constitution and laws of this country, are a galling testament to the extent corruption has eroded our political institutions.
Also see:
Corruption Updates 16, 1st article on page, “BUSH TRAINING CONGRESS TO OBEDIENCE: PROBLEM TEACHING THEM TO ROLL OVER WHEN THEY ARE ASLEEP”
Corruption Updates 22, 7th article on page, “Reid Threatens Bush with Oversight”
Corruption Updates 23, 4th article on page, “Bush Claims to Unlimited Power Contested”
Corruption Updates 23, 8th article on page, “Harmon Calls Wiretapping Illegal”
Corruption Updates 23, 9th article on page, “Times Soft pedals Presidential War Crimes and Domestic Crimes”
Corruption Updates 25, 2nd article on page, “US REPUB SENATOR FEARS WAR ILLEGAL: WHY DID IT TAKE THREE YEARS TO CONFRONT THE LIES?”
Corruption Updates 25, 7th article on page, “Italy Indites 25 CIA Operatives”
Corruption Updates 25, 8th article on page, “FBI Chief Defies Oversight”
Corruption Updates 29, 2nd article on page, “White House Claims Secret Policy Power”
Corruption Updates 30, 4th article on page, “White House Vows Cooperation in Probes”
Corruption Updates 31, 1st article on page, 1-17-07, “AG criticizes judges for terror rulings”
Corruption Updates 31, 2nd and 3rd articles on page, “Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Indefensible,” and “A Bush appointee's crude gambit on detainees' legal rights”
Corruption Updates 31, 6th article on page, 1-17-07, “Secret Court to Govern Warrantless Taps”
Corruption Updates 31, 7th article on page, 1-19-07, “Pentagon Revises Its Rules on Prosecution of Terrorists”
Corruption Updates 31, 8th article on page, 1-19-07, “Pentagon sets rules for detainee trials”
Corruption Updates 32, 3rd article on page, “Wiretap review plan is still unclear”
Corruption Updates 34, 4th article on page, “BUSH KIDNAPPING ON TRIAL IN GERMANY: WHY IS GERMANY HOLDING US TO THE RULE OF LAW?”
Search the Corruption Database under
Unconstitutional Presidential Power
An Interesting Video Report from ABC news is Most Informative on the Actual workings of the program to Illegally Search Americans; Click the Link below:
"The Whistleblower", March 7, 2007, Mark Klein, an ATT tech in SF, blows the lid off NSA totality of Domestic spying
4) THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE LA TIMES, 1-20-07:
High
court to review campaign finance law
By David G. Savage, Times Staff Writer
January 20, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-scotus20jan20,1,1673041.story?coll=la-headlines-politics
“WASHINGTON
— The Supreme Court set the stage Friday for striking down a
part of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law that bars the
broadcast of corporate and union-funded ads just prior to an
election.”
“Three years ago, the justices
narrowly upheld the McCain-Feingold Act of 2002 and its rule against
corporate-funded broadcast ads, which was adopted to prevent
powerful interests from using their money to sway elections in the
final weeks of a campaign. The now-retired Justice Sandra Day
O'Connor cast a deciding vote in favor of the law.”
“On
Friday, the justices announced they would hear a free-speech
challenge to the rule in April, this time before a court that is
likely to be more skeptical of laws that restrict election-related
spending.”
“The critics include Justices Antonin
Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Anthony M. Kennedy. They voted to strike
down the McCain-Feingold Act as unconstitutional. If Chief Justice
John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. join them, they
will have a majority to limit or strike the rule against
corporate-funded broadcast ads.”
“The
McCain-Feingold Act specifically bans corporate and union-funded ads
that mention a candidate for federal office within 30 days of the
primary election or within 60 days of the general election. In
upholding this rule in principle, the high court agreed with
Congress that these ads are intended to influence an election, and
therefore, they may be restricted because they amount to use of
corporate and union money to sway an election.”
“But
free-speech advocates have been eager to get a new challenge before
the high court.”
“The justices voted to
hear two appeals raising the same basic issue. They are Federal
Elections Commission vs. Wisconsin Right to Life and McCain vs.
Wisconsin Right to Life. The cases will be decided by late June.”
THE COMMITTEE SAYS:
SPECIAL INTERST DEMOCRACY, OR DEMOCRACY?
Supreme Court About to Unleash Unlimited Corporate Political Propaganda
All of the campaign finance reform rules we now employ have been crafted to be intentionally insufficient to preserve our democracy.
These laws have all failed to preserve for local voters the right to select candidates, and elect their own representatives. From city council to presidential elections, outside special interests exercise the predominate influence in determining who is a viable candidate and who gets elected.
Our “free Press” is owned and is no more than a mouthpiece for massive corporations, who operate to enrich themselves, with no regard for public welfare. Our politicians are creatures of the Corporate Special Interests. They craft domestic and foreign policy to serve the profits of the special interests, not the general welfare of the country. The Press and Politicians work to protect the corrupt status quo, not for the citizens.
McCain-Feingold made no attempt to distinguish between money contributed by voters, and the millions of dollars corporations, unions, and special interests are pouring into McCain and Feingold's PACs. How convenient.
All campaign finance “reforms” are doomed to fail at ending corruption until we define the voters as the only legitimate participant in election funding. No Corporations, Unions, or special interest contributions whatsoever.
After bribery is removed from our elections, then we could fruitfully determine the distinctions between free speech, and commercial free speech.
Soon the Supreme Court is going to unleash an unlimited torrent of special interest fueled political propaganda into political campaigns that will make the few citizens who still vote completely irrelevant.
Americans who are concerned about the strangle hold special interest bribery has on our politicians must be prepared to fight to restore our democracy. If you are ready to stop all non-voting special interests from direct participation in our elections, we need your help.
Until enough people like you are willing to stand up and say, “enough is enough,” we will continue to be a democracy in name only. Our political practices define us as a corporate state, and this is unacceptable to real Americans.
Also See:
Corruption Updates 3, 1st article on page, “FCC Quiets Big Money Voices for Now: Problematic limits on Free Speech Upheld”
Corruption Updates 22, 6th article on page “MONEY WINS IN ALMOST EVERY POLITICAL RACE “
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Free Speech
Killing Safety Regulation
Big Money Politics
Fake Reform
5) THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE LA TIMES, 1-20-07:
Ney gets 30 months in corruption case
“A prison alcohol-rehab program is also urged for the ex-congressman.”
By Joel Havemann, Times Staff Writer
January 20, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-ney20jan20,1,3981611.story?coll=la-headlines-politics
“WASHINGTON
— Former Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio) on Friday became the second
member of Congress to draw a prison term for his role in
influence-peddling scandals that helped doom the GOP majority on
Capitol Hill in November's election.”
“Ney, 52,
was sentenced by a federal judge to 30 months in prison followed by
two years of supervised release — during which he is to
perform 200 hours of community service. He was also fined
$6,000.”
“ "You violated a host of laws that
you, as a congressman, are sworn to enforce and uphold," U.S.
District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle told Ney as she sentenced
him.”
“Co-conspirators in Ney's case, all of whom
pleaded guilty, included lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Ney's former chief
of staff and two aides to former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay
(R-Texas).”
“Ney admitted soliciting and
accepting bribes from Abramoff and his lobbying staff in return for
legislative actions that benefited Abramoff clients. He performed
similar illegal favors for Fouad al Zayat, a Syrian-born
businessman.”
“ "Today's sentence makes it
clear that our government is not for sale," said Assistant
Atty. Gen. Alice S. Fisher, who heads the Justice Department's
criminal division.”
THE
COMMITTEE SAYS:
Ney to Join Abramoff in Club Fed: Let's Just Put Bars Around Criminal Congress
Ney and Abramoff are not aberrations, nor exceptions, to the practices of bribery and corruption that run Congress.
Ney and Abramoff's corruptions are typical of how Congress works. They were doing nothing different than the rest of the Congressmen and Senators are doing right now.
Ney, and the rest of the Crooks in Sacramento and Washington, are elected officials precisely because they collected bribes sufficient to win elections, and after being elected they deliver huge payoffs to themselves, their families and friends, and especially to their bribers.
The real question is why did the Feds sentence and imprison Abramoff before they got him to fully spill the beans about the vast web of corruption he guided?
Abramoff, Ney, Cunningham, DeLay, and Wilkes investigations are being suppressed by the Feds. This is an intentional attempt to limit the extent of the corruption investigation, to protect sitting Congressmen and Senators of both parties, to mutually preserve the status quo of bribery and special interest payoffs that fund both parties.
The Democrats will not complain too loudly about the suppression of corruption investigations. The Democrats only seek political advantage, not political reform. And they will go down as hard as the Republicans in any through corruption investigation.
The
Democrats will be satisfied to have a couple of politically
advantageous show trials, not a series of investigations and trials
that would threaten their ability to solicit and collect huge
special interest bribes.
The corruption trials of Abramoff and Ney, and the outrage of the the few people who still vote (42% named corruption as a major concern in last November's election) have been addressed by the Democrats with a set of meaningless reforms.
Despite the public relevation that our elections are decided by political corruption fueled by bribery, neither party has directly, nor substantively, addressed corruption. That's because the parties feed off, and thrive on corruption. Corruption is not a problem for the parties, it is the water they grow on.
The only group capable of restoring our democracy is our own citizens. The real question comes down to, are there are enough people in this country who consider their citizenship more than a ticket to make money and live in luxury?
If money is the means and goal of citizenship, we have the government that we deserve, and its corruption is delivering the poverty, ignorance, and violence required to attain its greedy goals.
If we have democratic values with deeper roots than wealth and power, now is the time to draw upon, and apply, our core values to our political process.
If
we have honest democratic values, we need to express that now. or we
will have a political revolution.
Corruption Updates10, 5th article, “Ney Pled Guilty to Corruption:One Down, the rest of our Legislature to Go”
Corruption Updates 18, 3rd article, “Congressman Ney Convicted of Bribery”
Corruption Updates 28, 7th article, “Prosecutors: Ney at Center of Conspiracy”
Corruption Updates 35, 6th article on the page, "Aide pleads guilty in bribery scandal" (Ney's Chief of Staff)
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Bob Ney
6) THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE IRAN DAILY, 1-21-07:
Key Blair Aide Arrested
Iran Daily, 1-21-07
http://www.iran-daily.com/1385/2763/html/politic.htm
“LONDON,
Jan. 20--A key official close to British Prime Minister Tony Blair
was arrested in connection with a probe into alleged party political
corruption that has engulfed party politics.”
“According
to AFP, Ruth Turner, director of government relations at Downing
Street, was arrested on suspicion of breaching the Honours
(Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925 and perverting the course of
justice, Blair’s official spokesman said.”
“The
“cash for honors“ probe, launched early last year,
centers on whether Labour and other political parties offered seats
in Britain’s unelected upper chamber of parliament, the House
of Lords, in return for financial support.”
“The
probe, which has seen the entire cabinet including Blair questioned,
has piled pressure on the government, which came to power in 1997
pledging to get rid of the “sleaze“ associated with the
previous Conservative administration.”
THE COMMITTEE SAYS:
Peerages For Pay Scandal Tightens Noose Around Blair's Neck:
Key Aide Busted
As in America, money buys political power in England. Unlike America, money can also buy a politically privileged aristocratic title.
Despite these differences, the governments of both countries are no more than tools of monied, corporate elites, and a few powerful special interests. Neither the Brit nor American governments represent the democratic will of their peoples.
Our government was formed in a revolution against royal and aristocratic authority. Our revolution changed the source of legitimacy from the king to the individual citizen, and this changed the flow of authority from top-down, to bottom-up, from the people to the government.
Today, the English sell peerages to satisfy the demands of wealthy, while our politicians sell the powers of government to satisfy the demands of wealthy Americans. Despite our political and cultural differences, the end results are the same.
The prostitution of our democracy is far more repugnant to a free people than the prostitution of an aristocracy.
Also See:
Corruption Updates 13, 9th article on page, “Want to be A Lord? British Tories Selling Peerages”
Corruption Updates 14, 7th article on page, “Donors Police Quiz Top Blair Aide”
Corruption Updates 14, 8th article on page, “Tories Accused Over "Secret Cash"
Corruption Updates 27, 9th article on page, “Police Question Blair on Peerages for Pay Scandal”
Read articles on Peerage Scandal
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England
7) THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN Al-Ahram, 1/18 to 1/24--07:
“President Hosni Mubarak's proposed constitutional amendments were approved by the People's Assembly majority --- but not without a barrage of criticism from opposition and independent MPs, Gamal Essam El-Din reports .”
Al-Ahram 18-24 Jan 07
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/828/eg5.htm
“The People's Assembly yesterday provisionally approved President Hosni Mubarak's 26 December request to amend 34 articles of the constitution.”
“In a 58-page report the Assembly's General Committee heaped praise on Mubarak's initiative, arguing that it reflected "a keenness to improve the democratic climate and upgrade the constitutional backbone of Egypt's political system".”
“The report also praised moves to scrap the emergency law in favour of anti-terror legislation.”
“Mahmoud Abaza, leader of the liberal-oriented Wafd Party, surprised the Assembly when he gave his party's provisional approval of the amendments.”
“Abaza called for Article 74, which provides the president with sweeping powers in the face of threats to national security, to be dropped. "This is too much power. The emergency law is quite enough for the president to face such threats," argued Abaza. He also criticised the failure to amend Article 77 to restrict the president to two terms in office. And in forging the new anti-terror law, Abaza cautioned, public freedoms should not be compromised.”
“Hussein Ibrahim, another Brotherhood MP, said he feared the new anti-terror law will violate articles 41, 42, 43, 44, and 45 of the constitution.”
“"These articles uphold the inviolability of private life and protect citizens from wiretapping and other forms of police aggression on the private sphere," said Ibrahim.”
“"This law could worsen the treatment citizens receive in police stations," said NDP MP Mohamed Kiwita. Kiwita also fears the new election system will aim to remove independents from the political landscape.”
THE COMMITTEE SAYS:
EGYPTIAN-AMERICAN DICTATOR DICTATES REPRESSIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS AMENDMENTS APPLAUDED BY ONE-PARTY STATE ASSEMBLY
The “Peoples Assembly” in Egypt is anything but a peoples assembly. Egyptian politics are, and have been, controlled by Hosni Mubarak through The National Democratic Party.
American support for the Egyptian Dictatorship was purchased in 1987 at Camp David. The Egyptian dictatorship was promised political, military, and economic support in exchange for recognizing Israel. Suppressing Egyptian Democracy, and the will of the Egyptian people was the goal of the Camp David Deal.
This agreement, and the Egyptian government that made it, are illegitimate. The agreement was made against the will of the Egyptian people, by a dictatorship willing to use foreign support to maintain its unchecked, undemocratic power over the Egyptian people. This was achieved with our blessings, guns and money.
The United States provides Egypt the military, economic and political tools required to maintain Hosni Mubarak's Egyptian dictatorship in power. American economic, political, and military support is the only factor that holds the Saudi, Jordanian, and the current Lebanese governments in power.
Democracy is not, nor has it ever been, the goal or motivation of our middle eastern foreign policy. Our support for tyrannical governments, and our manipulations of their economic and foreign policies, have engendered a deep hostility for the United States, and the tyrants we support, across the whole middle east. And much of the world.
The United States is the Greatest Enemy to Freedom and Democracy in the World today. This cannot be changed in Egypt, Venezuela, or by any external source. Our undemocratic Empire can only be defeated here, in America, by Americans, by reinstituting the democracy that our corporations and special interests have stolen.
Corruption Updates 18, 7th article on page, “FOR MODERATE DEMOCRACY EGYPTIANS BELIEVE DEMOCRACY IN EGYPT IS NOT A REAL CONCERN” (of the United States)
“Egypt Sends Sadat's Nephew to Prison for Defaming Military,” Corruption Update 21, 3rd article on page, states that:
“The United States had at one time talked about Egypt as leading the way toward democratic reform in the Middle East. But with the chaos in the region, and the political uncertainty in Egypt, officials in Egypt said the United States has dropped all pressure to make democratic reforms.” Now compare that with our latest rational for the Iraq war: “We Will Spread Democracy across the Middle East.”
For further developments on the toleration of the suppression of democracy by the American sponsored dictatorship in Egypt, see,
“Egypt Cracks Down on Brotherhood,” Corruption Update 27, 5th article down.
“2007, Redrawing the Map,” Corruption Update 27, 6th article on page.
This article describes Mubarak's suppression of democracy through Constitutional amendments.
Corruption Update 30, 7th article on page, “Egypt detains Brotherhood backers”
Corruption Updates 31, 10th article on page, “Pakistan US DICTATORSHIPS CONTINUES TO FUEL “TERRORISM”
Corruption Updates 32, 1st article on page, “RICE THANKS EGYPTIAN DICTATOR FOR REGIONAL SUPPORT”
Corruption Update 40, 6 th article on page, "Before the vote" (MUBARAK ABOUT TO IMPOSE BUSH RULES ON EGYPT The Constitutional changes Mubarak is about to impose on Egypt are the same powers Bush has claimed here)
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8) THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN Al-Ahram, 1/18 to 1/24--07:
The Muslim Brotherhood says it will continue to measure its responses despite the regime's latest heavy-handed clampdown
Jailan Halawi
Al-Ahram 18-24 Jan 07
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/828/fr2.htm
“The first sign of a change of tack in the regime's approach to the legally outlawed Society of Muslim Brothers (MB) came on 11 January when press agencies carried statements made by President Hosni Mubarak during an interview with the editor-in-chief of the weekly independent Al-Osbou, warning that the group poses a threat to Egypt's security. Should political Islam gain power in Egypt, said Mubarak, it will threaten foreign investment and could isolate the country from the world.”
“The interview was interpreted by many as giving a green light to a new phase in the ongoing clampdown on the group which began a month earlier with the arrest of some 200 MB members. Some analysts even argue that Mubarak's statements signaled the beginnings of a policy of zero-tolerance of the group by the state.”
“A day after Mubarak's statements, the Muslim Brotherhood announced that it intended to establish a civil political party, embracing Muslims and non-Muslims. It would not, however, submit a request to the Parties Committee for a licence, a process which, the Brotherhood claims, is intended to obstruct rather than facilitate the setting up of political parties.”
“In what appears to be an official response, the state-owned Al-Ahram daily published a statement quoting an anonymous state official who described the Brotherhood's plans to form a party as "propaganda... aimed at attracting attention and outmanoeuvring the state security apparatus."”
“Meanwhile, the clampdown on the group continues, with six senior group members arrested on 14 January, and more arrests reported yesterday. The six MB members detained earlier in the week were remanded in custody for 15 days pending interrogation. They include Mohamed Bishr, of the group's Guidance Bureau, and Issam Hashish, a Cairo University professor and Brotherhood's leader in Giza. The others were Medhat El-Haddad, Osama Abdel-Mohsen, Abdel-Rahman Saudi and Khaled Ouda, all wealthy businessmen. This gave rise to speculation that the current wave of arrests is intended to undermine the group's financial infrastructure. The prosecutor- general's office has accused the Brotherhood of money laundering.”
“This week's arrests are the latest in a series that began after Islamist students at Al-Azhar University staged a military- style parade in which they wore militia- style uniforms and balaclavas. Following the demonstration, tens of students were rounded up, along with the group's deputy supreme guide, Khairat El-Shatir, on charges of forming a para- military group.”
“Banned since 1954, the Muslim Brotherhood is Egypt's largest and most effective opposition bloc. Members of the group, standing as independents, now hold 88 seats in the 454-seat parliament. In a telephone interview with Al-Ahram Weekly, MB Deputy Supreme Guide Mohamed Habib denied that the arrested businessmen were the Brotherhood's financiers, claiming the arrests were part of "a smear campaign aimed at tarnishing the Brothers' reputation".”
“By escalating its clampdown on the group, Habib says, the state is seeking to divert attention from ongoing discussions over amendment to 34 articles of the constitution, which the government wants to steamroll into law.”
“The Brotherhood, says Habib, has always been accused by analysts and intellectuals of lacking a political vision "so now we are going to issue a political programme reflecting our vision of how to solve the daily problems faced by Egyptian citizens, be they social, cultural, economic, political or health-related... as well as our views of domestic, regional and international policies". Hence the decision to form a party which, Habib assures, will be democratic and represent all segments of society.”
“"[Christians and women] are an inseparable component of the nation and partners in destiny with equal rights and duties," says Habib. Asked about the current escalation against the Brotherhood, and the measure the group will take, Habib said, "the [state] claims we are showing tactical reserve, I say we are patience embodied. This [clampdown] is not something new for the MB, and God willing, we will survive it." “
THE COMMITTEE SAYS:
BROTHERHOOD MODERATE IN FACE OF DICTATORIAL REPRESSION
DECADES OF REPRESSION FOCUS BROTHERHOOD INTO FORMIDABLE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL FORCE
Sorry for the propaganda, but the article above is the most legitimate voice of the “MB” I can find, even though it is filtered through the Egyptian state press.
The Egyptian state media offers a whole lot more coverage of the contradictions of Egyptian politics than we get here, from the American Corporate Media. Our media cannot seem to recognize a dictatorship, if the dictatorship works for us.
Here, in America, it is clear that our media have missed American support of dictators, death squads, and Banana Republics for the last 100 years. According to ABC, NBC, and CBS we are fighting for freedom and democracy in Iraq. And “everyone thought” Saddam had WMD. Good reporting, asswipes.
Our greed and violences are bringing the political situations in the middle east to a head, well before we will be able to moderate our own behavior enough to assure the rise of an independent middle east that will regard the US as a friend.
An independent middle east is going to rise, and it will be very hostile to the countries that oppressed it for 100 years.
Practically speaking, this means that Egypt will not transfer power from Hosni to another American puppet dictator. His son will not take power. The Saudi monarchy will not be able to maintain authority based on American backing. The monarchy in Jordan is already dead, but too stupid to lay down in its grave. Pakistan will shed its American backed dictator, and will become an independent, Islamic nation with nuclear weapons. And so will Iran. And they will all hate us.
Bush's invasion doomed what it was meant to preserve: American hegemony over middle eastern resources and politics. Thus it is good that Bore and Korny were not elected. Their “soft” version of American Corporate Fascism would not have stopped the birth of independent Islam, but only delayed it.
Gore and Kerry would have tried to maintain our colonial system, (globalism) and the dictatorships that support it, through moderation, rather than Bush's “preemptive,” military approach to the emergence of local sovereignty and democracy.
Moderation is not possible now, no matter how wise a corporate Democrat the corporations sponsor for President.
Our international system is immoral, if preserved through moderation or militarism. The former only delays the fall of our empire, while militarism hastens its decline.
The unintentional consequence of our idiotic, imperial foreign policy is that the loss of American political control of the middle east, and its oil, will give Americans, here in the “homeland,” (of foreign labor and multinational corporations) an opportunity to end the corporate hijacking of our democracy.
Also See:
Endnotes
of Article 7, above.
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9) THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE TEHRAN TIMES, 1-21-07:
MPs say threat to Iran’s security would disrupt world’s energy lifeline
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=1/21/2007&Cat=9&Num=022
Tehran Times Political Desk
1-21-07
“TEHRAN - Top U.S. officials have recently toughened
their rhetoric against Iran, especially since President George W.
Bush announced his new Iraq strategy on
January 10.”
“The Pentagon has announced that it has decided to send a second aircraft carrier battle group and a Patriot anti-missile battalion to the Persian Gulf area. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates also indicated that new military moves in the Persian Gulf are meant to send signals to Tehran.”
(Iranian MPs and Officials said;)
“ “The U.S. is seriously vulnerable and fragile, and if it tries to ignite a fire, it will undoubtedly burn itself.” ”
“The U.S. should know that it should not start a new war in the region “because any insecurity in the region will cause serious international problems.” ”
“Asked about the sensitive and strategic Strait Of Hormoz, which Iran can fully control in response to any unwise actions by the U.S. and Britain, he said, “I don’t think the Americans would commit such a mistake that there would be a need for such options.”
“The top MP said regional countries should maintain security in the Persian Gulf themselves through bilateral and multilateral agreements.”
“In order to justify their presence in the Persian Gulf, they are trying to make regional countries suspicious of each other and Britain is playing a “central role” in this regard, he observed.”
“Contrary to certain views being presented, the presence of U.S. troops has only led to heightened regional tension, he stated.”
“Iran sits on world energy route...”
“Gholam-Hossein Nozari, the managing director of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), said that OPEC produces 30 million barrels of crude oil, 24 million of which pass through the Strait of Hormoz.”
“Iran enjoys a very important strategic position as far as geographical and energy issues are concerned, he added. Majlis Energy Committee Chairman Kamal Daneshyar said that the world’s key energy route, the Strait of Hormoz, is “within Iran’s full control.” ”
“ “If the fire of insecurity is ignited in the region it will not be extinguished easily,” he added.”
“He went onto say that the world is aware of Iran’s strategic superiority in the Persian Gulf.”
“ “If the Americans do something against Iran’s interests, we will forcefully defend our interests in the region and will jeopardize U.S. security in the Persian Gulf.” ”
“He added, “Oil consumers will suffer the greatest damage if the Persian Gulf becomes insecure, and this would bring about many problems.” ”
“MP Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh said a threat against Iran would put the transit of 46 percent of the oil destined for international markets into jeopardy.”
“ “This region is the most strategic energy route in the world,” the member of the Majlis Security Subcommittee noted.”
THE COMMITTEE SAYS:
IRAN THREATENS TO DISRUPT AMERICAN INTERESTS, GLOBAL OIL SUPPLY IF AMERICA ATTACKS
In case you are confused, let me set you straight: We Lost the War in Iraq.
WMDs, Saddam, and democracy, have all fallen to the wayside as justifications for our defeat. Either they did not exist as a rational or legal justifications for war, or they were canards, false justifications covering our real intentions.
In any case, we have broken Iraqi society, and have no credible plans to stop the deterioration, let alone fix the damage we have done to their country, or the balance of power in the region. Except expanding the war into Iran.
Our fake reasons for going to war, which the Democrats almost fully supported, are now irrelevant when faced with our inability to control Iraq. Iraq is now critical not only because it is attracting and providing training to aggrieved Arabs, (“A training ground for terrorists”) but because it is where we have broken the delicate regional balance of power between the western supported colonial monarchies and dictatorships, their unhappy people, and the infant independent states.
The Iraqi war has fanned the already rising flames of resentment felt in the hearts of middle eastern peoples after 100 years of colonial domination, supported first by the British, and now by US.
Bush's war has advanced the notion of democracy across the middle east. But the people there will not accept our version of “democracy” controlled by dictators, corporations and western nations. If we let them raise their own candidates and vote freely, they will reject every aspect of our interference in their politics. That is not the democracy Bush spoke of.
The middle east is inextricable moving towards rejecting governments that represent America.
But, to get their independence and democracy they will have to defeat our kings and dictators, and the American political and military power that supports them. Remind you of another revolution that rejected the King?
Bush's war and middle eastern policies have driven the people of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia to the conclusion that controlling their own political and national destinies is the next step required to end western control of their nations.
We have lost the Iraqi war, but we have also lost the whole middle east. And we are not going to change our attitude or policies until our defeat is complete.
Bush's yearning to attack Iran will not stabilize Iraq, but rather spread instability, and the Sunni-Shia civil war, across the whole of the middle east. Our puppet regimes will fall, or be radically transformed, in this conflict.
The American allies in the middle east are kings, dictators, and a western-sponsored religious state imposed in the heart of the Arabic lands.
The character of our “friends” in the middle east should give pause to observers who value stability, and horror to those who value justice. People who understand that long term stability depends on justice understand that decades of American Imperial foreign policy has left a legacy of hatred and resentment that Bush's war is organizing into effective resistance to American control of the middle east.
We are now running towards the same defeats the British Empire deserved, and received, in the middle east. But when the British were driven from their middle eastern, and global empire they could hide themselves behind big oceans on their tiny island.
Modern technology has made the oceans of little value to defend our country against people dedicated to inflicting revenge attacks on western countries for their colonial abuses. We cannot run, nor can we hide, from the injustices we have inflicted on the middle east.
Our Iraqi adventure, like the shocking application of “shock and awe” that opened this war, acts as an explosive strobe light, each blast and flash of violence revealing to the world the nature of American power in the middle east. The flashes from the bombs and missiles have starkly revealed the deep bonds between American power and the kings and dictators we supply with military and political weapons in the middle east.
Because American injustice has such a deep and long history in the middle east, Bush should have understood that invasion would trigger a widespread feeling of hatred against us, and those who support us, across the whole middle east. The Saudis and Egyptians begged him not to start this fight.
Because of these historical and contemporary facts, we lost the war in Iraq before we even invaded, assuring the breakup of Iraqi stability into a civil war, where the only common denominator between the warring sides is hatred of America. We are screwed whichever side wins. Good work Bush.
In Iraq, we are pitting the American Bulldog against a million Piranha. In a river. No matter how big the mouth of our American Bulldog, its bark and bite are insufficient to deter the swarming schools of Piranha from eating it one little bite at a time.
This would just be tragic, except we are too stupid to see our own shortcomings, or so arrogant to believe we can cover our lack of perception with military power.
That approach has failed, or is failing, across the middle east, and the world.
Bush has no plan to address the strategic failures and shortcomings of his failed war. Bush's response to the failure of his policies, and war, are a stumbling expansion of the failed policy. And he is going to expand the war to Iran.
Bush will attack Iran, even if they fail to rise, and respond to our provocations. If they don't respond to our insults and attacks, we will create an “imminent” pretext for Israel and Us to attack.
This is Bush's only way to redeem, and continue, his attempt to reimpose American Supremacy on the middle east and their oil for the Next Forty Years.
He will fail.
(Sorry for the propaganda, again. Printing the other side's propaganda may help us better understand our own.)
Also See:
Seymore Hersh, “The Redirection” in The New Yorker.
10) THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE LA TIMES, 1-21-07:
Call for UN Action Against US Abduction
http://www.iran-daily.com/1385/2763/html/
Iran Daily,1-21-07: (Third Article Down)
“UNITED NATIONS, Jan.
20--Iran complained to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that the
United States has illegally attacked its consulate in the northern
Iraqi city of Irbil and detained five Iranians in Iraq. It pressed
the UN for an urgent response.”
“The US military
accused the Iranians of links to Iranian Revolutionary Guards and
disputed Iranian claims that the arrested men were diplomats and the
office a consulate, AP reported.”
“In a letter to the
UN chief, Iran’s deputy ambassador Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi strongly
condemned the attack and accused the United States of “another
flagrant violation of the basic principles of international law“
and diplomatic conventions which bar attacks on diplomatic
missions.
The Foreign Ministry said US forces disarmed the
consulate’s guards, broke down the door of the building, beat
and injured the consular officers, and confiscated documents and
other property. It said Iran has had an office in Irbil since 1992,
and its status was officially changed to a consulate in the past
year in an exchange of official documents with the government of
Iraq.”
“ “This illegal act, together with the
unlawful arrest and detention of some Iranian diplomats and
officials by the US forces in Baghdad a few weeks earlier, have once
again displayed the contempt of the United States of America for
international law and the basic principles on which international
relations are based and operate,“ Danesh-Yazdi said.”
“He
called for the immediate release of the five Iranians, the return of
the property seized by US forces and compensation for damages to the
Iranian Consulate.”
Bush's Parade of International Crimes Continue
ATTACK ON IRANIAN CONSULATE A NEW LOW IN AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC HISTORY
Sorry for the propaganda, again. Printing the other side's propaganda may help us understand our own.
Series of US attacks on International Rule of Law:
Harbingers of the New World Balance of Power
The attack on Iranian diplomatic offices and officers by The United States is another incident in a series of American attacks on the International Rule of Law.
American violations of the rule of law include an illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq, torture, kidnapping, secret non-judicial detentions, and homicide, if not murder. Now we can add attacking consulates and consular officers to the list.
These actions have changed what is acceptable to do in the world. Our crimes have set the bar significantly lower for justifying the use of violence, and expanded the types of violence that can be used to fight “terror.”
This has not gone unnoticed by repressive regimes around the world. Bush's vague pronouncements about “evil, terrorism, and 911” can be translated into local terms, and justify anything; from the use of torture to using nuclear weapons, by unsavory regimes around the world.
Why?
Because Bush has legitimized the use of arbitrary unilateral
violence. Because Bush keeps the nuclear “option” on the
table. Because America uses kidnapping and torture outside of the
rule of law.
Bush has created a world where justifying unilateral violence is as easy as calling someone a name. Being called a name like “terrorist,” or “evil” now cancels your human rights and your civil liberties.
Disturbingly, we only know about a small percentage of our government's recent crimes. Bush and Gonzales seem to consider kidnapping, secret prisons, and torture as high level national secrets that are above oversight or judicial review. When the government breaks the law, it is apparently a state secret.
Bush's words and deeds have changed the tone and character of world diplomacy for the worst. Bush's rhetoric has weakened human rights and civil liberty around the world.
Bush's use of the rhetoric of “terrorism” has been adopted by dictators and regimes around the world to justify violence against their opponents.
The crazy irony beneath Bush's insane drive to consolidate American control of the world's oil, is that Bush seems to have forgotten that the US has been monopolizing the world's resources UNDER the international rule of law for 50 years. The rule of law has been our friend in imposing our will on the rest of the world.
The cost of Bush's weakening of the rule of law is ultimately going to be much greater that the short term advantages Bush foolishly hoped to achieve.
Bush's foolishness will threaten the American monopoly of the world's resources, and lead to the formation of new global alliances which will produce a New World Balance of Power.
For all of Bush's shortcomings, he is heaven sent for those of us who want to restore the rule of law-our Constitutional democracy-in our own country.
Bush's corruptions, incompetencies and greed are typical products of our corrupt political system, not just an aberration.
Bush
is a warning about the status of our whole political system. Bush is
what your system produces when our political class ignores our
Constitution's promise of democratic elections and institutions that
have checks and limits on their power, its serious restraints of (on) governmental authority to intervene in the private affairs of
citizens, and (exercises) its duty to regulate commerce.
Both
parties have failed to defend or protect any of these aspects (elements) of our
Constitutional framework.
Bush's
mixture of international arbitrary violence, and (with) domestic influence
peddling, bribery and corruption, qualify(s) Bush as a world class
incompetent.
I look forward to the time, in the not to distant future, when Bush's international crimes keep him from leaving the US, while his domestic crimes, incompetences, and corruptions make him an object of scorn and ridicule here. Bush will be like a little ugly bug under a powerful magnifying glass.
Sadly, Bush's international and domestic crimes have gone almost completely unchallenged by Congress, our Courts, or our Corporate Media.
The failure of Congress, the Press, or the Courts to rise to the defense of our rights against the open crimes of this president is a true gauge of how deeply and throughly corruption has penetrated our media and parties. This measures how badly we need to reform both the press and politics.
Now, Bush's incompetence will give us an opportunity for real reform. But it's up to us, the Citizens, to seize the opportunity these crimes give us to stop the corruption at its source, by stopping the special interests from bribing our politicians and stealing our democracy.
Let's kill corruption with real reform, and drive these thieves back to the dark places where (the) cockroaches of corruption belong.
The citizens of this country are ultimately going to have to take responsibility for the Bush's crimes. So we might as well start now, by taking our government back, and run the corruption out of our system right now.
It
will be a whole lot easier on everyone if we do it now, rather than
later.
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I did slight grammetical edits on 1-28-09, indicated by the strikethroughs and () in the text.
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See: indictments in germ and Italy, of CIA for kidnapping, and etc.
Corruption Updates 34 , 4th article on the page, "BUSH KIDNAPPING ON TRIAL IN GERMANY"
Corruption Updates 25 , 4th article on the page, "ITALY CHIEF OF INTELLIGENCE, 25 CIA OPERATIVES INDICTED FOR KIDNAPPING"
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