Wiretapping Terrorists?

Would you be shocked if you found out that this administration was spying on anti-war groups? Would it shock you that this is, in part, part of the terrorist watch program, the one with all of the warrantless wire tapping? No? Me either.

If Bush is refusing to get a warrant to tap your phone, then it can't be for a "real reason." Similar to his refusal to go under oath, he won't because he most certainly isn't going to tell the truth.

The Pentagon's new intelligence undersecretary is recommending the Defense Department shut down a controversial classified database that has been criticized for improperly collecting information on anti-war groups and citizens.

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The database has been under critical review since it was publicly disclosed in December 2005.

Anti-war groups and other organizations, including a Quaker group — the American Friends Service Committee — protested after it was revealed that the military had monitored anti-war activities, organizations and individuals who attended peace rallies.

Pentagon officials last year said the program was productive and had detected international terrorist interests in specific military bases. But they also acknowledged that some workers may not have been using the system properly.

So, peaceful anti-war protesters are actually terrorists in disguise?

Why are we so eager to lay down our civil liberties? Why isn't the public storming the castle over this? Why do we not care? Are we that afraid? Or, do we just not care?

A wise friend told me (I don't actually know how accurate this is, but...) the attacks of 9/11 took ten years from planning to execution. With a grin, he remarked it was "Bush to Bush". He also, in his infinite wisdom, declared that if this warrantless wiretapping was working here.... maybe we should try that in Iraq, rather than this so-called "surge". I think he may have a point.

The TALON reports — collected by an array of Defense Department agencies including law enforcement, intelligence, counterintelligence and security — are compiled in a large database and analyzed by an obscure Pentagon agency, the Counterintelligence Field Activity. CIFA is a three-year-old outfit whose size and budget are secret.

Last year, a Pentagon review found that as many as 260 reports in the database were improperly collected or kept there. At the time, the Pentagon said there were about 13,000 entries in the database, and that less than 2 percent either were wrongly added or were not purged later when they were determined not to involve real threats.

Pissed off yet?

De(a)mon Days

April 27, 1970. That is a day that will live in my heart forever. A day that my dad died for the first time, a day that I saw my mom be a woman, a mom, a grieving mom who lost a son.

To the Hank's and BobMc's of the world, "Fuck you!"

I have given more to this country than you'll ever consider. I have cared more and done more than you'll ever give notion to. I have lost and loved and seen and believed and hated. And in this cluster fuck, you call a liberation, I say no. No more. It is time, beyond time, these courageous men and women come home to the open arms that await them.

It is time the lies end and the truth and justice begin. It is time the Impeachments begin and time that the country and its peoples begin to heal. It is time we stand together. Together in unity for the good of all people and the good of a nation. It it time we be heard. NO MORE! Impeach them for their lies, for their war crimes and begin anew.

Doug, I miss you. Dad did too. I put a picture of you in his coffin. I hope for the sake of a country, for the sake of a peaceful world, no death was in vain.

Rev. Yearwood Says "It's time for Bush to go!"

Amen Brother!!

Terrorism With a Human Face

Let me introduce you to one of my biggest pet peeves. Any and all news agencies that bother to tell me what the pope, Vatican or any religious leader thinks. I don't care. But this, this is a new low, even for the self-serving religious right.

"terrorism with a human face."

What, if anything does that phrase mean to you? To me, it's Bush's carnage on the Iraqi people, it's the lack of honesty and respect this administration has given our troops, our people. It's the sheer lack of caring for those in need, for the working parents without enough food for their children, without health care. It's the victims of Katrina, ignored, homeless, still in pain over the loss of property and loved ones.

To the Vatican? That phrase means Gay marriage and abortion.

Of course, what can you expect from a religion who named one of Hitlers Youth the pope? Do these people bother to even look at what is being done in Gods name in Iraq? Darfur? The KKK? Oh hell no. There's no money in it.

The Catholic Church is the wealthiest business in the world. All tax free, I might add. The hypocrisy and carelessness of the Vatican and this administration belong together. Neither one can see the reality of their "vision" yet they chose to point at a woman's right to quality health care or a basic human right, like marriage and call that "terrorism". Neither of which has a single ounce of reality scrambling about their collect brain. Neither of which belong in government. Both should just step aside, shut up and leave the worlds pain and realities to the sane and rational, to those who care, not just claim to to our face and do whatever money dictates behind our backs.

These actions, these words from the Pope and this administration is the true "terrorism with a human face."

Building Barriers

Bush's new brilliant idea is building walls around Baghdad, separating the Sunni and Shiite neighborhoods. Once again this administration got it wrong.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Sunday that he has ordered a halt to the construction of a barrier that would separate a Sunni enclave from surrounding Shiite areas in Baghdad, saying there are other ways to protect the neighborhood.

Once again he didn't bother to consider anyone involved. Once again he didn't bother to consult the Iraqi's. Once again, the Iraqi's don't matter.

In his first public comments on the issue, al-Maliki said he had ordered the construction to stop.

"I oppose the building of the wall and its construction will stop," al-Maliki told reporters during a joint news conference with the Secretary-General of the Arab League Amr Moussa in Cairo, Egypt. "There are other methods to protect neighborhoods."

He did not elaborate but added "this wall reminds us of other walls," in an apparent reference to the wall that divided the German city of Berlin during the Cold War.

And, one again, he is reminding me and others of past dictators.

Once again, I will repeat myself and echo the words of the majority of Americans and the Majority of Iraqi's. It's time to get out. It's time to stop occupying their country and it's time to stop forcing and demanding and for God sake Shrub, start acting like an adult and not a spoiled child that needs needs a good ol' fashioned ass whoopin' and a long time out. Or, you just might get it.