“It's impossible for someone to have grown up in the ’50s and ’60s to envision a conflict with people that just kill mercilessly, using techniques that are kind of foreign to modern warfare,”Interesting this, in that George the Third said pretty much the same thing back in May of 1775 or so, when it became apparent that the ragtag minions of colonists and revolutionaries stopped fighting fair, using techniques that were "kind of foreign" to the imperial military behavior of those civilized Europeans. And since our Georgey is talking about citizens of the US (i gather he never once participated in a drop drill in school; the idiotic posture that was supposed to help us survive nuclear war {as if nuclear war is somehow now the appropriate norm for modern warfare and never consisted of the merciless killing of mass populations and abject radiological destruction of whole ecosystems}), he must be applying the same rational at the Third was expressing for his subjects: "these people simply don't know what is good for them."
If ever Georgey hasn't looked more imperial and kinglike than last week, i don't know what moment that would be? He was downright regally pissy about being disobeyed by his minions when he wanted to scrap the Geneva Conventions, excuse himself and his synchophantic courtesans from all perception of crimes against humanity, and put torture as the paramount legal policy of the US. I suggest we look more closely at something those colonists wrote about how George the Third got it wrong; and how Georgey is our own tyrant king.
The history of the present King of Great Britain [George III] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.We could of course simply rewrite this by inserting : ruler of the US for King of Great Britain, since all else is true.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.can we all say "signing statements?"
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.we need to get rid of only "his Governors" and replace it with "all members of his administration and party"
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only."you are either with us or you are the enemy" meanwhile bow down to the lord thy ruler damn it.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.can we all say Terry Schiavo? can we all recognize that the GOP Congress of the last two sessions has been the least useful, with the least number of days worked???
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.we are either completely supportive and give up all powers and rights, or we are terrorists and the enemy within and must be destroyed.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
can we hear his immortal words of last week: "we are safer, but we are not yet safe"?
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.can we look at immigration issues, New Orleans, taking military control of planetary resources, the use of the term "enemy combatant" and extraordinary rendition???
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.well to be fair he simply has ignored the judiciary and restructured the administration of justice to be outside the constitution and public purview and control
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.you're laughing right?? you better be, because just looking at his appointments we can see this is incredibly true.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.can we all say DHS, and all of its subsidiaries and private contractors?? can we all recognize the political agents who are regulating and controlling the federal bureaucracy by repressing science, information about our health and safety, and increasing the number of classified documents at rates in excess of the entire history of classification in the world?
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the consent of our legislatures.of course he then makes sure they are overseas when they are needed here in emergencies so that more and more of the population can be removed to camps and their homes and cities taken.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.can we all say Rumsfeld, as in there is only the three of them in charge--Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld? I don't see any civil authority operating here at all.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:can we see hundreds of signing statements, hundreds of executive orders, hundreds of military orders--all of which represent a usurption of the constitution and the development of a private secret government that does as it pleases, abandoning all rule of law and due process??
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:to be fair they are private security forces contracted through the DoD and DHS.
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:isnt this what he is all pissy about at the moment?? he is trying to get Congress to grant him blanket immunity from all crimes against humanity, so that he can then turn this same behavior on the US population before 2008!!!
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:can we agree that maybe the massive record setting trade deficits have essentially destroyed the future of the US economy, while benefiting only the wealthiest 1%???
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:someone is going to have to pay for that more than a trillion dollars in tax breaks for the wealthiest 1%, while they move trillions of US dollars and assets outside the US.
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:hell even the US Supreme Court has had to tell him he is in violation, just to make it look like something is being done, but it isn't, and the abuses continue
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:two words: extraordinary rendition
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:can't we all see unconstitutional actions declared by fiat to be appropriate?
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
the list here is simply endless isn't it?? we have essentially allowed him to destroy our democratic republic through election fraud, massive corporate corruption, and defying the constitution.
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.can we all say "signing statements?" can we recognize the many statements that he will do has he pleases and ignore any and all legal and constitutional constraints when it suits his purpose
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.can we all say the Patriot Act and the warrantless unconstitutional spying, terror watch lists, no-fly lists, restriction of all civil rights, abandoning the Geneva conventions, holding and torturing innocent persons against their will in prisons outside the US, etc., et al??
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our peoplecan we acknowledge his complete and total savaging of the planet's environment and the gulf coast?? he has removed, or tried to remove, every environmental protection and law in the US, and encouraged his corporate colleagues to ignore the health of the earth for increasing profit.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
more than half of all US forces in Afghan and Iraq are private contracted mercenaries. most of the US security apparatus (and emergency preparedness services) are private corporate agents serving only their masters without citizen or civilian oversight, nor rule of law.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.can we all say Iraqis?? can we describe his efforts to increase the terror and encourage others around the world to attack us: "bring it on" my ass?
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.okay, this one needs some work, but when one considers his handling of Katrina and the mess of 9/11 etc., it becomes immediately apparent that he has done everything in his power (granted this is really Cheney) to foment fear and terror among the citizens to excuse his own ordering of US military to his known rules of warfare, torture, destroying innocents and infrastructure at home and abroad!!!
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.exactly!!! nuf said!!! I am beginning to understand why those colonists reacted the way they did 230 years ago!!!!! Maybe we better get off our asses before it is too late!!!!
