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Bush exposed yet again and again and again …
by Kingfisher Wednesday, May 28 2008, 10:28pm
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I have lost count of the (too) numerous times Bush and senior members of his criminal government have been exposed for gross deceptions and criminal pursuits. If a HOLOCAUST in progress and an ECONOMIC MELT-DOWN AT HOME doesn’t rouse the people what would former press secretary, Scott McClellan, hope to achieve with his revelations? Less than a week prior to McClellan’s revelations, news of the loss/misappropriation of $15 BILLION in Iraq roused only a few yawns from the American population -- 'good luck' with book sales, Scott!
Pentagon auditors are unable to account for FIFTEEN BILLION DOLLARS, an amount and failure that would have brought down any previous government – but not a murmur, bang or even whimper from the cowering, thoroughly whipped and servile, American ‘dog’ population. What effect or repercussions do YOU imagine the latest revelations of ‘improper behaviour’ will have on Bush and his government? You guessed it – NO EFFECT, NONE WHATSOEVER!
As stated on many previous occasions by numerous contributors to this newswire the FAILURE in the U.S. is not of government, it is systemic and cultural; the failure is of the NATION! It is a people’s failure; a lack of courage and moral outrage infects America.
Only a few decades earlier the population demanded JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY from government. The INDEPENDENCE of the American legal system MUST be RESTORED or the nation will be lost PERMANENTLY to gangsters, MURDERERS AND THIEVES.
The machinations of Bush and the neo-cons have been exposed countless times. Their FAILED PLANS to dominate the world and circumvent the democratic process via orchestrated wars are common knowledge today yet the criminals in government laugh and continue to treat the population with scorn and contempt!
However, final responsibility for government rests with the American people – the people’s prerogatives are encoded in the Bill of Rights and American Constitution; documents that Bush views as “pieces of (toilet) paper.” It’s YOUR nation and heritage that is at stake – it is under attack and almost lost!
See:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/29/2259065.htm
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Bush Claims More Powers than King George III
by Jeff Demers and Sherwood Ross via reed - Global Research Thursday, May 29 2008, 9:37pm
The Bush administration has arrogated powers to itself that the British people even refused to grant King George III at the time of the Revolutionary War, an eminent political scientist says.
“No executive in the history of the Anglo-American world since the Civil War in England in the 17th century has laid claim to such broad power,” said David Adler, a prolific author of articles on the U.S. Constitution. “George Bush has exceeded the claims of Oliver Cromwell who anointed himself Lord Protector of England.”
Adler, a professor of political science at Idaho State University at Pocatello, is the author of “The Constitution and the Termination of Treaties”(Taylor & Francis), among other books, and some 100 scholarly articles in his field. Adler made his comments comparing the powers of President Bush and King George III at a conference on “Presidential Power in America” at the Massachusetts School of Law, Andover, April 26th.
Adler said, Bush has “claimed the authority to suspend the Geneva Convention, to terminate treaties, to seize American citizens from the streets to detain them indefinitely without benefit of legal counseling, without benefit of judicial review. He has ordered a domestic surveillance program which violates the statutory law of the United States as well as the Fourth Amendment.”
Adler said the authors of the U.S. Constitution wrote that the president “shall take care to faithfully execute the laws of the land” because “the king of England possessed a suspending power” to set aside laws with which he disagreed, “the very same kind of power that the Bush Administration has claimed.”
Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, Adler said, repeatedly referred to the President’s “override” authority, “which effectively meant that the Bush Administration was claiming on behalf of President Bush a power that the English people themselves had rejected by the time of the framing of the Constitution.”
Adler said the Framers sought an “Administrator in Chief” that would execute the will of Congress and the Framers understood that the President, as Commander-in-Chief “was subordinate to Congress.” The very C-in-C concept, the historian said, derived from the British, who conferred it on one of their battlefield commanders in a war on Scotland in 1639 and it “did not carry with it the power over war and peace” or “authority to conduct foreign policy or to formulate foreign policy.”
That the C-in-C was subordinate to the will of Congress was demonstrated in the Revolutionary War when George Washington, granted that title by Congress, “was ordered punctually to respond to instructions and directions by Congress and the dutiful Washington did that,” Adler said.
Adler said that John Yoo, formerly of the Office of Legal Counsel, wrote in 2003 that the President as C-in-C could authorize the CIA or other intelligence agencies to resort to torture to extract information from suspects based on his authority. However, Adler said, the U.S. Supreme Court in 1804 in Little vs. Barreme affirmed the President is duty-bound to obey statutory instructions and reaffirmed opinion two years later in United States vs. Smith.
“In these last eight years,” Adler said, “we have seen presidential powers soar beyond the confines of the Constitution. We have understood that his presidency bears no resemblance to the Office created by the Framers… This is the time for us to demand a return to the constitutional presidency. If we don’t, we will have only ourselves to blame as we go marching into the next war as we witness even greater claims of presidential power.”
© 2008 Jeff Demers, Global Research
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9119
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