August 06, 2007

Not only has the Democratic-controlled Congress forgiven the Bush regime for the felonies committed by Cheney, Bush and the National Security Agency for violating FISA legislation signed into law by Congress back in 1978, but they have given these criminals even more powers. Cheney cleverly waited for the last moment right before the congroidial recess to spring this new dictatorial power authority for the regime on the congroids, threatening to waste the latter’s August vacation time by holding them as prisoners in their own legislative halls until they did sign.

And not only that, but the scare-mongering and terrorist-embracing brown shirts in the GOP of Santorum, Giuliani and Chertoff also threatened more harm if Congress didn’t do exactly as they were told. They were warned by one of the highest-ranking members of Republican nobility, Sir Thanks A. Lott, as reported by Spencer Ackerman on August 2nd in TPMmuckraker: “Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) ominously advised last Thursday that Congress needed to pass changes to terrorist surveillance laws before leaving for the August recess and warned that otherwise ‘the disaster could be on our doorstep.’” Ackerman in his article, “Lott: Get Out of D.C. While You Still Can” reports, “It turns out the Capitol Police have bolstered security around the U.S. Capitol after a recent al-Qaeda communiqué threatened an attack on Washington. Lott … responded with characteristic gravitas. In light of the heightened threat, Congress can either amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or all of us can run screaming into the inferno.”

Ackerman continues quoting Sir Lott after His Highness was pressed for more details: “‘I think it would be good to leave town in August, and it would probably be good to stay out until September the 12th.’” So there you have it straight from the elephant’s mouth!

James Risen of The New York Times reports in his August 6th article entitled, “Bush Signs Law to Widen Legal Reach for Wiretapping,” offering: “President Bush signed into law on Sunday legislation that broadly expanded the government’s authority to eavesdrop on the international telephone calls and e-mail messages of American citizens without warrants. Congressional aides and others familiar with the details of the law said that its impact went far beyond the small fixes that administration officials had said were needed to gather information about foreign terrorists. They said seemingly subtle changes in legislative language would sharply alter the legal limits on the government’s ability to monitor millions of phone calls and e-mail messages going in and out of the United States .”

Know why the “law” went “far beyond the small fixes that administration officials said were needed” and why the “seemingly subtle changes” will sharply “alter the legal limits on the government’s ability” to spy on Americans? It’s because as usual, the brainless morons and harlots in Congress didn’t bother to either read or study the bill before approving it – that’s why! It’s as Connie Francis sang back in ’62: V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N time! Don’tja see?! It’s time to hit the beach! It’s time for Disneyland and the French Riviera! Time to hit the Hamptons on Long Island ! But mostly, it’s more than time to get the hell out of Washington in case the GOP decides to blow it up!

Here’s more from Risen: “They also said that the new law for the first time provided a legal framework for much of the surveillance without warrants that was being conducted in secret by the National Security Agency and outside the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the 1978 law that is supposed to regulate the way the government can listen to the private communications of American citizens. ‘This more or less legalizes the N.S.A. program,’ said Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies in Washington, who has studied the new legislation.”

And isn’t that the key? Can’t you see it? This “legitimizes” the felonies committed by the Bush regime BEFORE the congroids made it legal today. It is precisely what the Founders forbade in the Constitution’s Article I, Section 9, third paragraph: “No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.” Congress just did, and invalidated any and all pretense that the Bush regime would be held accountable for violating the FISA laws and committing the felonies prohibited by a law now deemed a horrible mistake!

And why shouldn’t they? Cheney decided the regime needed a decided advantage over its subjects in America, so he and Gonzales rescinded Article I, Section 9, paragraph two: “The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.” Congress passed that unconstitutional piece of garbage, the Military Commissions Act, as well.

Also in Risen’s article, is the hint of bigger and better things to come, brought to US once again to be put on our table by our caring, compassionate dictatorship and its approving and regime-supporting Democratic Party congroids: “The law also gave the administration greater power to force telecommunications companies to cooperate with such spying operations. The companies can now be compelled to cooperate by orders from the attorney general and the director of national intelligence.” Private sector corporations can now be “forced” to break constitutional law based upon “orders” given by the present attorney general, an attorney general that has, and continues to, lie and who holds both the Congress and our Constitution in contempt? And now secret, undercover agencies of the federal government have direct police powers over private citizens and private sector corporations? And “orders” to be given by Gonzo? How Third World! Whatever happened to all that talk from Leahy, and Schumer, and Specter calling for a special prosecutor to investigate our gangster attorney general from the Harvard Law cesspool? What’s up with that?

Thanks Congress! And thank you as well Democrats! Wanna know where all this is going?

Look no further than the latest congroid that is in trouble with criminal investigators, the Republican Senator from Alaska, Ted Stevens. While Cheney was threatening Congress with continued imprisonment until they signed his bill, and Lott was threatening to blow up Washington, the Gangsters of Politics [GOP] were busy sneaking a proposed bill [S. 602] through the Senate Commerce Committee. It is entitled the “Child Safe Viewing Act of 2007,” and according to Adam Thomas of pressesc.com , “…may represent a step toward expanding the FCC’s censorship authority to include Internet content.” “May represent a step?” Bet the ranch on it!

Here’s more from Thomas’ August 3rd article, “Internet filtering law approved by Senate Committee.” “The law stipulates that FCC’s advanced blocking technologies would extend to ‘a wide variety of distribution platforms, including wired, wireless, and Internet platforms.’” Think of Hillary’s desperate need for Internet “gatekeepers.” Think of the state legislation proposed by Republican New Jersey Assemblyman Peter Biondi to punish ISP’s for allowing vile and offensive language and political messages to be transmitted into the public domain. Biondi cited a blog, OWNED AND OPERATED by none other than the Star-Ledger, the largest newspaper in corrupt New Jersey.

Isn’t it increasingly obvious that it is We the People who are really being targeted because it is surmised that we hate our government’s “wealth and freedom?” Isn’t it becoming clearer by the day that we are being brought democracy by the flash of a badge and the muzzle of a gun? Isn’t it abundantly clear that BOTH the “administration” and the Congress are working together to destroy the American people’s dream of individual freedom and its limitless opportunities for personal wealth and yet more freedom? Isn’t it clear that BOTH the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are working towards these ends together as well?

What we have now is the secret and evil genius of Cheney quickly jumping over lazy Americans and “yellow dog” Democrats relying on the false autopilot of a long-gone and neutered Constitution, the latter once thought to protect US from that which could never happen here: dictatorship. It is here and it is now. All that needs happen is another collapsed bridge, ferry crash, forest fire, or ANYTHING Cheney decides can be used as an excuse citing “terrorism,” and all of the Bush regime’s executive orders can be activated into martial law. Think of hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and Bush eating cake and strumming his guitar. At least one emperor had more class: he played the violin!

Theodore E. Lang

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Ted Lang is a political analyst and a freelance writer.

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