SUNDAY GOOD NEWS BAD NEWS
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by Mags
The good news and bad news this week are so stark in comparison that it makes my job easy today.
The bad news? The really bad news, is that the House and Senate have betrayed their country by giving George W. Bush absolute power of deciding who shall be free or who shall be seized and tortured. There is no way to soften that statement. It is simply true.
Think about it, when given the chance to be politicians or patriots, the majority of those "serving" in the legislature chose to be politicians, and not even good ones at that.
The good news side to this story is that this so-called law is likely to be challenged within days of its signing. And, the popularity of G-dub is definitely on the wane. He has few friends these days, and any moves by him at this point are likely under close scrutiny.
The bad news is that the Democrats have had to hold their own investigations of Bush’s war.
The good news is that Generals and Journalists are coming out with the truth that George W. Bush is at the very least incompetent and at the very most criminal in his negligence in his "leading" of the country and his execution of the war in Iraq. The bad news is that it took a long time to get here, and there are lives that could have been saved, and nations which could have remained stable.
The good news for W is that Congress so loves him that they are working to make sure he and his cronies will not be tried for war crimes. I am not sure how all that works. Seems to me that international laws cannot be abridged by the US Congress, but time will tell. If he escapes prosecution, it is bad news for the rest of us. But, like I have said in the past, I am the proverbial Pollyanna and I believe that we can as a people mete out justice to those in this criminal regime.
[It is time, in this writer's opinion that those guilty of crimes against humanity and acts of treason, which I believe Bush's attempts at dismantling our practice of oversight have been, should suffer the full consequences of their action. No more of these pardons and hand slaps. It is time the American people delivered a strong message to those in their employ.]
The good news is that Mark Foley resigned amidst scandal involving underage male pages and some pretty raunchy emails. The bad news is that innocent people were exposed to harm and that the Republicans sat on this information. The double bad news is that this man was Chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus. Is it too soon to wonder what other committees and cauci are being chaired by folks this antithetical to their stated premise? (Don't even get me started.)
[The other plus is that Dems will likely pick up this seat unexpectedly in the mid-term elections. However, it is Florida, the land of Disney, Jeb Bush, KKKatherine Harris and... Tim Mahoney.]
***An extra note here. As of today, I could not find this news on the main page of MSNBC or the Washington Post. Interesting. If this had been a Democrat it would be front page news and 24/7 on CNN and FOX. Anyone watching FOX? Is it playing there, I don't have the stomach to check.
The good news is that Chris Matthews and other journalists are pressing many guests who are using nonsensical statements to support the war in Iraq; he is going after the idiocy behind them. The bad news is that I am not a fan of Matthews, but hey, I enjoy watching the right wing liars squirm. When he interviewed Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn, I was entertained that he let her talk long enough to show how illogical the right is. She first says we must commit to Iraqis, but has no credible answer when she is confronted with the information that 61% of them want US troops dead. The bad news for the GOP and Bush is that THE TALKING POINTS are not being accepted at face value any more. Very good news for the rest of us, and generally life on the planet. Okay, okay, I may be carrying that a bit too far, but still........
[Author's note: MSNBC has been worth watching of late (except for poor Tucker, he just cannot manage to look like anything but a whining child no matter what show they give him, bow tie or no). Surely we all love Keith Olbermann, but even Matthews and Scarborough are asking some interesting questions of the right, and they have at least become palatable. I enjoy watching some news on TV again. Let them know you are watching if you are.]
The good news is that Woodward has come out with a book, State of Denial, exposing Bush for the incompetent self-serving coward that he is. This opens the way for many many conversations with Powell and other Generals and many others who have resigned from this administration in order to expose their incompetence and misdeeds. There is no bad news.
*** Kudos to Woodward for finding a way to get inside and expose the bastards. He may yet help to bring down another tyrant.
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The American people should know that George W. Bush is not only a war criminal: for example, he is also a hate-crime criminal.
George W. Bush had better stop committing hate crimes.
“What did you think of that NAACP anti-Bush race-baiting ad in 2000? You know, the one that practically said Bush was responsible for the dragging-to-death-behind-a-truck murder of a black man just because he didn’t sign a hate crimes bill several years after the man’s death” (Posted by Aaron. Retrieved December 11, 2008, from http://www.metafilter.com/14860/).
ON THE TOPIC OF HATE CRIME(S):
George W. Bush hates black people (indicated at http://andrewyu-jenwang.blogspot.com/2008/12/andrew-yu-jen-wang-responds-to-stokely.html).
“Sean Penn accuses Bush of ‘criminal negligence’” (Retrieved December 11, 2008, from http://www.deadlykatrina.com/?p=115). Thus, Sean Penn believes that George W. Bush was at fault, criminally, relative to the Katrina disaster.
“Had the residents of New Orleans been white Republicans in a state that mattered politically, instead of poor blacks in city that didn’t, Bush’s response surely would have been different. Compare what happened when hurricanes Charley and Frances hit Florida in 2004. Though the damage from those storms was negligible in relation to Katrina’s, the reaction from the White House was instinctive, rapid, and generous to the point of profligacy. Bush visited hurricane victims four times in six weeks and delivered relief checks personally. Michael Brown of FEMA, now widely regarded as an incompetent political hack, was so responsive that local officials praised the agency’s performance.”
“The kind of constituency politics that results in a big life-preserver for whites in Florida and a tiny one for blacks in Louisiana may not be racist by design or intent. But the inevitable result is clear racial discrimination. It won’t change when Republicans care more about blacks. It will change when they have more reason to care.”
Jacob Weisberg. (2005, September 7). An Imperfect Storm . . . How race shaped Bush’s response to Katrina. Slate. Retrieved December 7, 2008, from http://www.slate.com/?id=2125812&nav=tap2/
“And I’m sorry, but anyone who doesn’t think race has anything to do with the way things have gone down in New Orleans is really beyond help. Like my man Big Sexy said: ‘Do you think folks woulda been left out like that if this had happened in Vermont?’ A complete and utter disgrace” (Posted by Jackie Chiles. Retrieved December 7, 2008, from http://aofg.blogs.com/the_airing_of_grievances/2005/09/kanye_west_.html).
Assuming that George W. Bush had in fact been criminally negligent relative to the Katrina disaster, would Bush be responsible for hate crime(s)?
“One of those very least were George Bush’s personal complicity in the death (murder to be precise) of my friend Margie Schoedinger[,] [an African-American woman,] in September of 2003. Determining the exact whereabouts and contacts of [then] president-elect George Bush on September 21 thru 22, 2003, should be entirely lacking in difficulty” (Leola McConnell (Nevada Progressive Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in 2010). Retrieved November 29, 2008, from http://leolaforussenate.blogspot.com/2008/02/leola-mcconnell-for-us-senate.html).
Does George W. Bush’s murder of Margie Schoedinger constitute a hate crime?
“A woman in Texas who filed a lawsuit against the president for rape and torture[,] [Margie Schoedinger,] was found shot to death. It was ruled a suicide. No one is investigating. Bush reportedly dated the woman in high school and speculation is that he was using the woman as his sex slave because he is above the law” (John Kaminski (author of “America’s Autopsy Report,” a collection of his Internet essays published on hundreds of websites around the world). (No date listed). Why We Need Martial Law . . . Criminal government is destroying America; military must step in to restore Constitution. serendipity.li. Retrieved December 10, 2008, from http://www.serendipity.li/wot/jk_on_martial_law.htm).
Do George W. Bush’s rape and torture of Margie Schoedinger constitute hate crimes?
“I believe that George W. Bush hates black people. Through secret government machinations, he caused Hurricane Katrina to form and aimed it at New Orleans on purpose, just so he could wipe out lots of poor blacks. I also believe that before the hurricane hit, he snuck into New Orleans and stole the keys to every school bus in the city to make evacuation of poor people impossible” (Janet M. Stroble. (2006, April 12). Now I Believe. http://www.military.com/. Retrieved November 26, 2008, from http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,94064,00.html).
If George W. Bush intentionally did what Janet M. Stroble indicated, would Bush have committed hate crimes against countless black people?
“I believe that George W. Bush hates Moslems. All that garbage about freedom, democracy, and the right to vote is a pollution of their culture. I believe that George W. Bush hates immigrants. There were a lot of immigrants working in the World Trade Center and George W. Bush didn’t warn them ahead of time” (Janet M. Stroble. (2006, April 12). Now I Believe. http://www.military.com/. Retrieved November 26, 2008, from http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,94064,00.html).
In that George W. Bush hates immigrants and deliberately failed to warn them ahead of time as indicated by Janet M. Stroble: would Bush accordingly be responsible for hate crimes relative to racial minorities who were harmed?
“Did Kanye West[’]s [comment], [‘]George Bush Hates Black People[’][,] get his mother killed?” (Retrieved October 18, 2008, from http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread364428/pg1).
There is a discussion at http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread364428/pg1 relating to whether President George W. Bush murdered Kanye West’s mother—Ms. Donda West.
Did President George W. Bush, who hates black people, murder Kanye West’s mother in the heat of raging racism? Somebody indicated that although the president of the United States is monitored by the Secret Service, he certainly can meet with one or more persons where his conversations are not intercepted and secretly “order a hit” on someone or order the murder of someone.
If George W. Bush did murder Kanye West’s mother, would it constitute a hate crime?
GEORGE W. BUSH MURDERED A JEW!
“George W. Bush murdered the Jewish former Senator—Paul Wellstone” (Retrieved December 10, 2008, from http://andrewyu-jenwang.blogspot.com/2008/12/senator-paul-wellstone-assassinated-by.html). This Internet site has a lot of information indicating that George W. Bush murdered Wellstone.
“Bush’s visit to Israel is under the guise of Middle East peace. You gotta be kidding me! Bush is THE MASTER ARCHITECT of Middle East war, not peace. . . . Bush didn’t go to Israel because he likes Israelis or like Jews, nope, he went there because he hates them. He went there to spread his message of doom, war, pain and death” (Storm Bear. (2008, January 10). PROOF: George W Bush Is An Anti-Semite! http://www.bitsofnews.com/. Retrieved November 23, 2008, from http://www.bitsofnews.com/content/view/6706/).
“‘We have a president who was selected rather than elected. He stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities’” (Barbra Streisand at BarbraStreisand.com. Retrieved November 26, 2008, from http://mindprod.com/politics/election.html).
“A new book out today quotes George W. Bush back in 1993 as saying: ‘You know what I’m gonna tell those Jews when I get to Israel, don’t you Herman? I’m telling ‘em they’re all going to hell’” (Posted by Terry Olson. (2006, September 5). The anti-Semite and the agnostic: George W. Bush and Karl Rove. OlsonOnline. Retrieved November 23, 2008, from http://joesschool.blogs.com/olsononline/2006/09/antisemite_and_.html).
“It’s now official: the Bush family wealth is linked to the Jewish Holocaust” (Retrieved November 2, 2008, from http://hubpages.com/hub/Its_now_official_the_Bush_family_wealth_is_linked_to_the_Jewish_Holocaust).
“Bush Family Are Nazi” (Retrieved November 2, 2008, from http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=132271029&blogID=198480648).
“How the Bush Family Helped Hitler Kill 6 Million Jews” (Retrieved November 2, 2008, from http://groups.google.com.vn/group/alt.atheism/browse_thread/thread/ed8f042caa600036).
“But now the multibillion dollar legal action for damages by two Holocaust survivors against the Bush family, and the imminent publication of three books on the subject are threatening to make Prescott Bush’s business history an uncomfortable issue for his grandson, George W. . . .” (Retrieved November 2, 2008, from http://sci.tech-archive.net/Archive/sci.med.cardiology/2004-09/2146.html).
Assuming that George W. Bush did in fact murder the Jewish former Senator—Paul Wellstone, would Bush have committed a hate crime? Bush would have “purposefully” (criminal-law terminology) murdered Wellstone. Wellstone’s Jewish wife and Jewish daughter also died in the plane crash. Bush would have “knowingly” (criminal-law terminology) murdered Wellstone’s wife and daughter. However, would Bush’s murders of Wellstone’s Jewish wife and Jewish daughter also have constituted hate crimes?
Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
“GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY” BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
http://andrewyu-jenwang.blogspot.com/
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