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Does Congress need to establish a corollary to the FISA court? Discuss today's Blowback.
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RW has a lot of ???????. I would to hear his answers.
2. President Bush and his administration have shown time and time again that they will circumvent current pracices at their own imperial whim. What is needed is adherence to current laws, courts, and rules of civil rights. It is not the job of this administration to rewrite law, but to obey it. Somewhere along the line people in the White House decided that they were the creators and changers of laws of justice and military and civilian interrogation practices. They have disregarded the Geneva Convention rules of conflict and interrogation and imprisonment repeatedly. This is not about partisan politics.
3. What's really important is getting people to realize the danger we are in by allowing govement to rule our lives. And....voting for anyone of the top people in the running now for president will surly put us over the edge. Every day I listen to the news both political and otherwise and I am so discussted by the reaction of so called democrats. It's all kissy and oh poor thing. I am so fed up with the way the country makes everything complicated. Get the damn aliens out of here - no more bennies, they are draining the system. Say no to Mexico - they are trying to push us to become part of a North American Union. Are you still an American?
4. Zzzzzzzzz
5. I came across this article through a link from a Yahoo news feed that reported on the trials of the supposed "masterminds" behind the carnage of the 11th of September 2001. I wanted to put trial in inverted commas too but resisted. The hideous irony is not lost on me that these accused men are being charge for war crimes whilst being held in Guantanamo Bay; the capital of human rights abuses and war crimes. America's hypocracy and knee-jerk violence terrifies me but people like Rieger, with common sense and compassion, give me hope.
6. Let's just give in. Forget fighting liberals and just let them have their way. No more secrecy, no torture, no interrogations, no punishment for cutting people's heads off or blowing them up in markets, and no border security. Most of all, we should not target anyone of any ethnicity or nationality, regardless whether or not we know they are responsible for killing innocent people. We will have to live in an environment where we wonder daily whether or not we will be killed or blown up. It will be like my tour in Iraq where people get to die at random...everyday. But that is OK, I would not want to offend those who try to kill me.
7. Of the million Iraqi civilians (children included) that the US government has killed in various hideous ways, including carpet bombing and phosphorus chemical weapons that are considered illegal, RW, I doubt that many of them needed to even consider what the average bloated capitalist like you was doing, let alone hate you for it. "We" are not hated by "Them". The US government is usuing all of us, factions in Iraq and average Americans to fan this war so that they can become rich. Why don't you look at publicintegrity.org to find out just how corrupt this government is.
8. We do NOT need to establish yet ANOTHER court? What we NEED is for half the country realize there are a LOT of people out there who hate us just because we are us and not them. Better yet, why don't we appoint a "special prosecutor" to investigate those who DON'T believe we need another SPECIAL court. Even better, why don"t the democrats in congress rediscover that the government was split into three equal parts intentionally and realize that when one tries to gain power over the other(s) we start heading down a particularly slippery slope.
9. FOR POST 11Cont'd: WHAT, you say,--those were D-E-M-O-C-R-A-T-I-C presidents and can be excused??? People with attitudes like yours are worse than idiots--idiots are born that way, stupidity takes LOTS of regular, intensive practice...and you seem to be at the top of your class.
10. FOR POST 11: Why don't we ask the Pearls, and all of the other people who have been beheaded as well as all the victims, arab and isreali, about how they feel about the mindless religious extremism causing the present state of affairs???? AT the same time, why don't we ask the people on the 4 airplanes and the 3,000 people in the twin towers how they feel about it too. Why don't we also try Carter and Clinton for botching the hostage rescue attempt and for failing to nail Osama? How about Kennedy, Johnson, and McNamara for getting us into 'Nam, how about Roosevelt for WWII and Truman for Korea??
Submitted by: Just Me
2. President Bush and his administration have shown time and time again that they will circumvent current pracices at their own imperial whim. What is needed is adherence to current laws, courts, and rules of civil rights. It is not the job of this administration to rewrite law, but to obey it. Somewhere along the line people in the White House decided that they were the creators and changers of laws of justice and military and civilian interrogation practices. They have disregarded the Geneva Convention rules of conflict and interrogation and imprisonment repeatedly. This is not about partisan politics.
Submitted by: Obey The Law
3. What's really important is getting people to realize the danger we are in by allowing govement to rule our lives. And....voting for anyone of the top people in the running now for president will surly put us over the edge. Every day I listen to the news both political and otherwise and I am so discussted by the reaction of so called democrats. It's all kissy and oh poor thing. I am so fed up with the way the country makes everything complicated. Get the damn aliens out of here - no more bennies, they are draining the system. Say no to Mexico - they are trying to push us to become part of a North American Union. Are you still an American?
Submitted by: LAK
4. Zzzzzzzzz
Submitted by: SB
5. I came across this article through a link from a Yahoo news feed that reported on the trials of the supposed "masterminds" behind the carnage of the 11th of September 2001. I wanted to put trial in inverted commas too but resisted. The hideous irony is not lost on me that these accused men are being charge for war crimes whilst being held in Guantanamo Bay; the capital of human rights abuses and war crimes. America's hypocracy and knee-jerk violence terrifies me but people like Rieger, with common sense and compassion, give me hope.
Submitted by: Marnie Prickles
6. Let's just give in. Forget fighting liberals and just let them have their way. No more secrecy, no torture, no interrogations, no punishment for cutting people's heads off or blowing them up in markets, and no border security. Most of all, we should not target anyone of any ethnicity or nationality, regardless whether or not we know they are responsible for killing innocent people. We will have to live in an environment where we wonder daily whether or not we will be killed or blown up. It will be like my tour in Iraq where people get to die at random...everyday. But that is OK, I would not want to offend those who try to kill me.
Submitted by: TC
7. Of the million Iraqi civilians (children included) that the US government has killed in various hideous ways, including carpet bombing and phosphorus chemical weapons that are considered illegal, RW, I doubt that many of them needed to even consider what the average bloated capitalist like you was doing, let alone hate you for it. "We" are not hated by "Them". The US government is usuing all of us, factions in Iraq and average Americans to fan this war so that they can become rich. Why don't you look at publicintegrity.org to find out just how corrupt this government is.
Submitted by: To RW and generalizers without facts.
8. We do NOT need to establish yet ANOTHER court? What we NEED is for half the country realize there are a LOT of people out there who hate us just because we are us and not them. Better yet, why don't we appoint a "special prosecutor" to investigate those who DON'T believe we need another SPECIAL court. Even better, why don"t the democrats in congress rediscover that the government was split into three equal parts intentionally and realize that when one tries to gain power over the other(s) we start heading down a particularly slippery slope.
Submitted by: RW
9. FOR POST 11Cont'd: WHAT, you say,--those were D-E-M-O-C-R-A-T-I-C presidents and can be excused??? People with attitudes like yours are worse than idiots--idiots are born that way, stupidity takes LOTS of regular, intensive practice...and you seem to be at the top of your class.
Submitted by: RW
10. FOR POST 11: Why don't we ask the Pearls, and all of the other people who have been beheaded as well as all the victims, arab and isreali, about how they feel about the mindless religious extremism causing the present state of affairs???? AT the same time, why don't we ask the people on the 4 airplanes and the 3,000 people in the twin towers how they feel about it too. Why don't we also try Carter and Clinton for botching the hostage rescue attempt and for failing to nail Osama? How about Kennedy, Johnson, and McNamara for getting us into 'Nam, how about Roosevelt for WWII and Truman for Korea??
Submitted by: RW
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