be long now. King georgie halibush & company will soon be declaring martial law for our "protection" in these dangerous times of terror. Some homegrown "terrorist incident" is just around the corner, so gather yourselves and head for the fucking hills!

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I'm hoping that executive orders are now being disobeyed to avoid later war crime charges. Some must recognise the pattern and become ACTUAL patriots again.

History has those rare examples as well.

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...I can think of plenty of reasons why Escalade drivers should fear.

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At least in this instance Bush has shown some restraint. As yet, nothing has surfaced to suggest he wanted to bomb CNN!

How can anyone not like him?

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Does anyone seriously believe that, given what we know now, the Bush administration didn't spy on the democrats in 2004. What evidence do I have? (other than the case of Chrisiane Amanour?) Not much; An educated guess. When you run into someone in a dark alley who is holding a smoking gun and has a desperate look on his face, there really isn't any tangible accusation to make. But you know in your heart of hearts that he's done something REALLY BAD!

This entire administration should be removed from power and that includes the president, the vice-president, the secretary of state (where did they find that Uncle Tom bitch?) and everyone who has signed on to the immoral, illegal policies of the neo-con agenda. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney should be handed over to the Hague and put on trial for war crimes. As I write this, it has just been announced that nine soldiers were killed in Iraq yesterday, 5 January.

Oh sure, you might say, Tom Degan is a left-wing looney, drinking some kind of ideological Kool-Aid. Let me set you straight: I've always considered myself a slightly left-of-center moderate. In years past, although I tended to vote democratic, I was very cabable of voting republican. Where I come from in Orange County, New York, we used to have a very capable and much-loved representitive in congress by the name of Ben Gilman. He was our congressman for over twenty five years untill his district was gerrymandered out of existence by George W. Bush and George Pataki (who really believes he is going to be our next president - How pathetic is that?) Poor old Ben realized the hopelessness of his situation and declined to seek re-election. His crime? He wasn't extreme enough for the Georges. Pity. He was as fine a congressman as they come.

To any republican who may be reading this: Your party is the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, inarguably our greatest presidents - only a fool would argue with that statement. But forty two years ago, in the summer of 1964 at the republican national convention in the Cow Palace Arena in San Fransisco (of all places) your party was hijacked by a cabal of kooks, criminals and fools. And all these decades later, they (or their ideological heirs) still retain tight control of the GOP. Take your party back because it's worth saving if only for the legacies of Abe and Teddy, if nothing else.

Pray for peace

Tom Degan
Goshen. NY

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...that Tom Degan does not drink Kool-Aid.

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Especially if it has a stiff shot of bourbon in it. We have a certifiable madman in control of our nation who is now spying on our own people with no fear of consequences. He is a criminal and so are the lunatics he has surrounded himself with. Perhaps the news that Dubya is spying on Christiane Amanpour will jolt people out of thier apathy and move them towards demanding impeachment- the whole corrupt crew in D.C should be held accountable for thier criminal acts against both our nation and the world.

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As Naomi Klein makes clear in a recent special issue of The Nation, torture is as American as apple pie. The difference between Bush and his buddies using it and previous administrations is that the current crop crows about it. Why? Doesn't make much sense unless you put it together with this gang's obsession with silencing dissent.

Get it? What goes around comes around. And if you think it might be coming for you, you just might be a little less obstreperous in your objections.

We have indeed fallen under the ancient Chinese curse. We live in very interesting times, indeed.

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It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why King George didn't go to the FISA court for approval, which had only turned down something like 15 out of 11,000 requests. The chances are, he's probably spying on damn near everyone who he thinks is "again' 'im" – that would be just about 200 million Americans. Big file.

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Don't kid yourself: Pentagon/CIA 'Keyhole' satellites can look down on America just a easily as they can foreign countries, and they can resolve images small enough to get nice 8 X 10 glossies of someone getting a b.j. in his backyard. You don't think the administration is using them on us any time that something fires its paranoia hair-trigger? Guess again.

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/06/nsa.amanpour/

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