Global
Can the Brits feel the love yet? Exporting democracy, it turns out, means more than just showing unfortunate non-westerners the joys of having someone else write a decent constitution for them. We have now advanced to the point where we can tell even the land of the Magna Carta just where they went wrong. Apparently, they are so inept at running their own country that George Bush and his coterie of war criminals need to tell them just how to tailor democracy to American tastes.
The exported version, of course, is frighteningly like the domestic one. Free speech, first of all, is overrated, and is easily abused by misfits, peaceniks, trade unionists and other pesky troublemakers. Might we suggest a few important, um, improvements to make the whole thing run a little more smoothly? Really just a nip here and a tuck there. There you go-a Rolling Exclusion Zone would be nice. That way no one can ever get anywhere near a visiting head of state, even if he dragged your country into war and your people are plenty pissed off about it.
The exported version, of course, is frighteningly like the domestic one. Free speech, first of all, is overrated, and is easily abused by misfits, peaceniks, trade unionists and other pesky troublemakers. Might we suggest a few important, um, improvements to make the whole thing run a little more smoothly? Really just a nip here and a tuck there. There you go-a Rolling Exclusion Zone would be nice. That way no one can ever get anywhere near a visiting head of state, even if he dragged your country into war and your people are plenty pissed off about it.
Thanks to millions of real American patriots (peace, freedom, and environmental activists from every walk of life) the
truth about the ugly goals of the murderous Bush regime are being widely recognized.
In the face of the raucous and near-constant barrage of Republican neo-con lies and deceptions, as broadcast to us by the handful of fanatical right-wing billionaires that control our mass media, learning the truth about Bush is perhaps the greatest demonstration that our evolving democracy is still functioning.
In the face of the raucous and near-constant barrage of Republican neo-con lies and deceptions, as broadcast to us by the handful of fanatical right-wing billionaires that control our mass media, learning the truth about Bush is perhaps the greatest demonstration that our evolving democracy is still functioning.
To the SEC
Enforcement@sec.gov
November 19, 2003
Re: Cover up of Enron facts while repealing the Public Utility Holding Company Act
On behalf of the Alliance for Democracy, and in conjunction with Common Cause/Ohio, I have been litigating a matter for over three years during which the respondents, the US and Ohio Chambers of Commerce, to an Ohio Elections Commission complaint have engaged in extraordinarily evasive measures so as to avoid the most basic discovery as to who was involved in the election violations involving a corporate funded attack on the Ohio Supreme Court. This continues today and, I anticipate will go on for some time.
I have been following similar machinations in Texas, by the Texas Association of Business, over a corporate funded attack on the Texas House of Representatives, where the inquiry is criminal in nature, but nevertheless the evasion as to who was involved seems to be without limit.
Enforcement@sec.gov
November 19, 2003
Re: Cover up of Enron facts while repealing the Public Utility Holding Company Act
On behalf of the Alliance for Democracy, and in conjunction with Common Cause/Ohio, I have been litigating a matter for over three years during which the respondents, the US and Ohio Chambers of Commerce, to an Ohio Elections Commission complaint have engaged in extraordinarily evasive measures so as to avoid the most basic discovery as to who was involved in the election violations involving a corporate funded attack on the Ohio Supreme Court. This continues today and, I anticipate will go on for some time.
I have been following similar machinations in Texas, by the Texas Association of Business, over a corporate funded attack on the Texas House of Representatives, where the inquiry is criminal in nature, but nevertheless the evasion as to who was involved seems to be without limit.
It should also be IMPEACHABLE for Bush to have buddies: Sequoia, Diabold, ES&S plus another can't remember to be having
them manufacturing voting machines--
No Paper Trail (no printout)--We have to more fast to at least get Rep. Rush Holt's bill "Voter Confidence Act" (requiring every voting machine have paper printout trail) pass in time.
Patricia D. Hilton, "The American Homemaker"
P.S. I WROTE TO REPS & SENS AND U.S. SUPREME COURT TO BEGIN IMPREACHMENT PROCEEDINGS.
No Paper Trail (no printout)--We have to more fast to at least get Rep. Rush Holt's bill "Voter Confidence Act" (requiring every voting machine have paper printout trail) pass in time.
Patricia D. Hilton, "The American Homemaker"
P.S. I WROTE TO REPS & SENS AND U.S. SUPREME COURT TO BEGIN IMPREACHMENT PROCEEDINGS.
Dear Free Press,
I've been traveling a lot lately and everywhere I go I've talked to people about our current administration. I've
distilled my findings into the following verse:
Here is what I've learned in my travels round about:
That George Bush is a moron and Cheney is a lout,
And Rumsfeld hides his emptiness behind a knowing frown
When word comes from Iraq that another chopper's down.
Greg Farnum
Auburn Hills
When trade ministers from the Americas gather for the Free Trade Area of
the Americas (FTAA) Ministerial in Miami November 20-21, U.S. Trade
Representative Robert Zoellick and his team of advisors are unlikely to
walk away with the agreements they seek. The FTAA is an ambitious
undertaking intended to link every country in the Western Hemisphere
(except Cuba) through a free-trade agreement covering a broad array of
issues.
Proponents argue that the accord would increase trade and economic growth among the participating countries, leading to increased prosperity and strengthened democracy throughout the region. But a large and growing number of citizens organizations and some of the region's governments, particularly Brazil, argue that such an agreement would devastate farmers, working people and the environment, and consolidate the power of transnational corporations.
Proponents argue that the accord would increase trade and economic growth among the participating countries, leading to increased prosperity and strengthened democracy throughout the region. But a large and growing number of citizens organizations and some of the region's governments, particularly Brazil, argue that such an agreement would devastate farmers, working people and the environment, and consolidate the power of transnational corporations.
In a March 7th Bush Commentary, you note:
"Jack Beatty in the Atlantic Monthly: Beatty suggests ... Bush's apparent belief that God has appointed him to lead a global crusade against evil.
"He writes, 'If this is what Bush believes, if his talk of Armageddon is not just catnip for the religious right, then he is in a fair way to becoming the American Ayatollah.
"'Bush's belief in God is based on his personal narrative of divine salvation as a recovering alcoholic. He once told members of the clergy, 'There is only one reason that I am in the Oval Office and not in a bar. I found faith. I found God.'"
First, I highly suggest that the two previous articles noted in my piece GEORGE W. and ALCOHOLISM as published In Counterpunch be read. Michael O'McCarthy: Bush and Alcoholism (Counterpunch - October 19, 2002)
There is nothing, absolutely nothing to indicate in the lifestyle of George Bush that he is a "recovered" alcoholic. (As indicated above, Bush explicitly implies that he is alcoholic.)
"Jack Beatty in the Atlantic Monthly: Beatty suggests ... Bush's apparent belief that God has appointed him to lead a global crusade against evil.
"He writes, 'If this is what Bush believes, if his talk of Armageddon is not just catnip for the religious right, then he is in a fair way to becoming the American Ayatollah.
"'Bush's belief in God is based on his personal narrative of divine salvation as a recovering alcoholic. He once told members of the clergy, 'There is only one reason that I am in the Oval Office and not in a bar. I found faith. I found God.'"
First, I highly suggest that the two previous articles noted in my piece GEORGE W. and ALCOHOLISM as published In Counterpunch be read. Michael O'McCarthy: Bush and Alcoholism (Counterpunch - October 19, 2002)
There is nothing, absolutely nothing to indicate in the lifestyle of George Bush that he is a "recovered" alcoholic. (As indicated above, Bush explicitly implies that he is alcoholic.)
This was an outstanding article:
Harvey Wasserman
Bush to veterans: Drop Dead
November 12, 2003
I wished more journalists were just as brave, take their collective heads out of the sand, and tell it like it is as Mr. Wasserman did in this article. I am proud of him and journalists like him. He has my heartfelt support to continue to do HIS JOB unlike others who have abdicated theirs!!!
Bush to veterans: Drop Dead
November 12, 2003
I wished more journalists were just as brave, take their collective heads out of the sand, and tell it like it is as Mr. Wasserman did in this article. I am proud of him and journalists like him. He has my heartfelt support to continue to do HIS JOB unlike others who have abdicated theirs!!!
George Soros is dedicating his life to defeating
George Bush. He feels that Bush has the same dangerous
tendencies that Soros suffered, first under Hitler and
then under the Soviets.
A belief that God is on your side, that contrary evidence is mere bias and that those who oppose you are non-patriots marks the extremist, even if their God is ideology.
Unfortunately Soros, by focusing on the extremism of Bush and the Righteous Right, misses the larger picture of our problems with democracy. If an enemy attacks you, most agree that you must take up arms and defeat him. But that doesn't mean you believe in war. In similar fashion, Soros needs to focus his war against Bush beyond this inferior presidency. Defeating Bush by outspending him is a bit like defeating Osama bin Laden by restricting freedoms and wounding innocents.
A belief that God is on your side, that contrary evidence is mere bias and that those who oppose you are non-patriots marks the extremist, even if their God is ideology.
Unfortunately Soros, by focusing on the extremism of Bush and the Righteous Right, misses the larger picture of our problems with democracy. If an enemy attacks you, most agree that you must take up arms and defeat him. But that doesn't mean you believe in war. In similar fashion, Soros needs to focus his war against Bush beyond this inferior presidency. Defeating Bush by outspending him is a bit like defeating Osama bin Laden by restricting freedoms and wounding innocents.
Thank you for this article. I agree with the sentiments expressed and you brought to my attention additonal facts that I
was unaware of. Regarding the issue of Bush donning a military uniform as a civilian, you omitted a comparison to another
national leader who enjoyed parading around in a uniform, while never serving in his country's military: Saddam Hussein.
Keep up the good work! We all must do whatever we can to expose this sham of an administration before it's too late.