It is not the enemy from without that will destroy this nation. Our demise will come from within and this is quite evident. "Above the law", that is the opinion of the religious and far right and my honest concern is how can a free nation allow this to happen?

AMEN, Doug. Thank You. For the Longest time, I thought I was the only one that these things bothered. Certainly, that seems to be the case if you listen to the heavily scripted and controlled media. I agee with you, that we ceased to be America, the day this group of fascists were "selected."

Great to have you back, and in attack dog mode. I've spent my life fighting for the First Amendment and I never thought I'd see this day. The country needs to wake up--and you are helping to lead the charge. Thanks!

There is a very simple reason for the state of amerika today...the citizens are spineless cowards who prefer watching the latest 'reality' show while their country murders countless innocent human beings in the name of 'freedom'. What goes around comes around...and yours is coming soon. Burn in hell amerika.

I saw the exact prgram Doug referred to in the RANT. Russert was good but was completely frustrated by what I too saw as a VERY ARROGANT Pat Roberts.

He was using the same exact excuses as BUSH does. We live in a different time, a different era, under a different threat, etc etc etc. ALL THE WHILE never giving 5 seconds to the EXISTING LAW which is what the discussion was supposedly all about.

The only thing I didn't hear was that CLINTON did it so it must be OK.

I'm composing letters to my Senators requesting they censor Roberts for his Constitution shredding comments. Anyone care to join me?

It is refreshing to see a spade called a spade, especially since our media has decided that it is far more important to report on some skater's groin injury. (Not that her groin isn't attractive, mind you.)
I wonder just how long Sen. Roberts would maintain this pretty fiction should the presidency change hands. I suspect that the shake of a ewe's tail would shift positions far more slowly.

Roberts either forgets, ignores and is incapable of understanding three important points.
Everyone, including our dry drunk president, is beholden to and must follow the US Constitution.
With no oversight, congressional or senatorial, such ultimate, unrestrained power easily gets out of control. Federal critters which gain new powers rarely or never give them up.
By deliberately refusing to fulfill his own mandate and oath to restrict unbridled executive or judicial power. Roberts is a traitor to the United States of America.

This is indeed a sad day for our country. Luckily, we have people like Doug taking the lead and spreading the warning.

Doesn't anybody get it? Bush is above the law as long as he has a majority in the House and Senate. They aren't going to lift a finger to do anything to stop him.The inaction of our elected officials is so stunning that it makes me breathless. Will someone get a cattle prod and see if I'm still alive and capable of movement? Isn't this the way Nazi Germany started?

First they wiretapped the cell phones, but I only use it to call my husband in an emergency, so I didn't speak up.
Then they wiretapped residential phones, but I mostly use it to innocently chat with friends, so I didn't speak up.
Then they created no fly lists of questionable accuracy, but I don't fly, so I didn't speak up.
Then they confiscated library records, but I don't use the library much, so I didn't speak up.
Then they repealed the First Amendment and took away my right to free speech, and I had no way to speak up.

I think I have the solution America needs. Let Iran sell oil in euros like what Saddam was doing before bush waged war against this practice. We can still make the dollar strong because we have something much more marketable than oil right under our noses.America has a political regime that is hated by 99% of the world population. Now lets think about this for a second, 6 billion people who would jump for joy and dance in the streets all day long if they heard bush and cheney were dead or in jail. Now some say this sounds overinflated, but it isnt. So how can we turn these lemons in our government into lemonade, an intelligent person might ponder?I say use their inhumane laws against the bush regime, arrest the bush admin as enemy combatants, they fit the definition. Then we could produce a pay-per-view torture series to run for the next 25 years. If only 5% of the world population watched and paid this would run close to 5 trillion alone annually in revenues for repartation to the treasury they robbed.The real money could come from lottery sales for the chance to win a trip to America to torture these combatants on ppv series. I foresee a 20 trillion annual boon to the American treasury from this annually.It wouldnt have to be the inhumane torture that cheney subscribes too, it could be humane things like rubbing their noses in dog doodoo or throwing pies and rotten vegetables at them anything to humiliate them without real danger to these potential cashcows we have under contract.Ludicrous some may say, i say its sweet justice and considering that the usa takes in a little less than 3 trillion annually in government generated revenues, the staggering potential of this idea is limitless. So if bush and cheney reallly loved America they would volunteer for this.

I watched Russert yesterday too. I wonder how supportive Senator Roberts will be of all encompassing Presidential powers when that President is Hillary!!! Actually, I don't think she can win, but... we certainly have to do something to wrench control of our once great country from these madmen!

About three or four years ago I turned to my husband and said, "He's in for eight years 'cause he's got Americans so afraid of repeated attacks "we" will see Bushrovecheneyski as the Saviors and, mark my words, the cabal has come home to roost. We won't see another legitimately elected president in our time. It's the beginning of overt fascism. Most Americans won't care as they swill beer, can still afford WalMart and stay sated on TV."

Maybe Cheney needs to take him on a hunting trip???

Doug;

Thanks. They MUST be stopped! I'm scared witless that they'll steal yet another election this fall and then it'll truly be all over.

Throw these SCUMBAGS out!

The 40s newspaper comic "Pogo" had Pogo saying to his cohort, "we have me the enemy and he is us." W's philosopher-hero turns out not to be Jesus (as he claimed when he ran for office in 2000). It's any dictator who can control his country, and then sets his sights on dominating the world. We become our enemies, all too readily. Mere pieces of paper (Constitution, Bill of Rights) are all there is between us and spiraling into chaos.

Thank God you didn't stay in retirement Doug!!! We need you to be out there telling it like it is and not mincing words about it!!!!!
The only ones that think they are above the law is that neocon president and his yes men,,,,We are a democracy and we willnot to let these morons ruin this country BUT I think we are hooked & tied till the nOV elections then we will see the shit hit the fan as they say & God willing we will see the modern nixon & Agnew get their asses kicked out of the door,,,at least I sure hope so!!!!!

This shows how important it is to vote out all these lemings and change control of the Congress to the Democrats. Then elect a Democtratic president. This lying guy we have as president must be stopped.

They don't need to steal another election. They've got the Supremes - remember. Anybody like to start a pool on the longevity of the other seven?

Senator Roberts has been walking the Yellow Brick road too long.

That Dubya, he jus know he da boss of his plantation, Dats all. He know dat da hole U.S. is his plantation. So y'all best get used to it. His mammie, Babba, she want dat cotten picked pronto! So ya bes quit complainin an git yo cotten pickin hands busy! Yall hear!
Now dat Condoleeza she git to live inside da house wit him. And she don't have to anser da door or serve da table either! No field work fa her, nossir!
She jus plays da piano fer Dubya, yassir an dey sings song like, way down upon da Swanee River an Jimme Crack Corn all day long, das what! Well das it signin off frum da Massa's white house
Dats all folks!

Has anyone asked lately for the definition of Terrorist... or enemy of the state? I think its time to define in black and white words on paper who this enemy is.
Personally everytime I heard ButcherCo say "the enemy"... I feel like he is talking about me and you.....
Now "the enemy" substitute... me and you... knows how this spy program works.....
Does anyone think for one minute AlQueda doesn;t know about wiretaps already??? It's the stupid American people who don;t know about them so that makes ALL OF US BUSH's ENEMY

"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it: Milton Mayer - Excerpt from pages 166-73 of "They Thought They Were Free" First published in 1955.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11845.htm

It Can't Happen Here...Can It?

http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/04/09/far04030.html

"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air -- however slight -- lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." : William O Douglas

One day we will realize that we too were terrorists in a foriegn land. Name calling makes no one innocent or guilty, it just gives them names. Some day I hope we learn to look past the names and see only the facts.

"How eager they are to be slaves." - Tiberius

What's the ultimate conclusion of this type of government? Concentration camps? Death squads? People disappearing in the night never to be heard from again? And news outlets will continue to air puff pieces. Better get your passport in order, if they'll give you one.

THANK GOD, SOMEONE STILL HAS THE "BALLS" TO SPEAK THE REAL "TRUTH" ABOUT THIS MAD MAD ADMINISTRATION. THE "TRUTH", AS THE RIGHT WING SEES IT, IS THAT THE TRUTH IS ONLY WHAT THEY SAY IT IS, NO MATTER HOW FALSE WHAT THEY SAY "IS". WE HAVE GOT TO IMPEACH HIM SOON OR IT WILL BE TOO LATE AND "HITLER" WILL REIGN SUPREME.

Here's the solution to the whole sordid mess, folks.
Just put a loaded shotgun in Dick Cheneys hands while he's with the President. Then yell 'Quail!!'
He'll have a bird hunting flashback, shoot old Bush,
they'll get him for assasination and we can go back to having fun again. Meanwhile, somebody put a muzzle on Pat. Use the one labelled 'Newt Gingrich.'

Voting machines, voting machines, voting machines. Do NOT vote for a candidate for ANY office who will not honestly and openly discuss this issue and TELL THEM THAT!

I came to this country for freedom, not for reliving history lessons of Stalin and Hitler. I watch the oxymoron neocons as they wage countless wars in the name of peace and destroy all freedoms and do it in the name of democracy (?!). America is a colony of serfs to their master, zionist Israel.

I know you are tired and worn out. Please dig deep, because your continued efforts are needed now more than ever before. Over the last year I have forwarded your articles to people who were not convinced of the dangers present. Your writing style and "In your face" approach have helped change some and worried all. You Sir are a patriot and you are making a difference.

Has Pat Roberts read the Constitution? Should we rename the SIC the Senate Lack Of Intelligence Committee? How these simple minded morons got into positions of power is beyond my comprehension. We truly must find find people with more intelligence and a wider viewpoint for election to office. Of course, as it stands now, people with intelligence tend to shy away from elective government positions. Damn shame. Thanks Doug for all your great work.

Pat Roberts is insane as well as delusional!!! The whole stinking,slimy cabal needs to be thrown out ASAP!!!!! The common people are dying right here in Amerika as well as in Iraq thanks to these cold hearted snakes.

The usurpation of power has been going on for almost 6 years, we should have all been demonstrating a long time ago.

By the way, is Alito really a member of Opus Dei?

Hitler had no problem with Rome either.

Bush, while admittedly an idiot, is constrained within the confines of a policy nexus that traces its roots to the Balfour Declaration and thus to Austrian journalist Theodore Herzel's book. Those who are not familiar with the facts can use a google search.

Payment due has now exceeded accounts received with the inevitable consequence that there will be "Hell to pay" until our policy is reformulated to reflect certain politically incorrect realities.

http://www.speedstar.net

Having been born in 1941, I have always wondered what it was about the German pre-war period that led ordinary people to approve - or at least not speak out against - the gathering of dictatorial powers by Hitler and his henchmen. Today's talking heads and craven politicians explain it all.

Speaking as a moderately conservative (Sorry, Rush.) Republican who never voted for Bill Clinton, I am ashamed of my party, and I intend to join the Democratic party immediately after I vote, in the primary, against Rick Santorum.

Enough.

Thanks for speaking out and I will continue to speak out too as we all should. The more of us who continue to speak out, the more chance we will turn the tide before the Bush Gestapo hauls us away. I think our speaking out and predicting what horrible things Bush will do to stay in power has prevented him from carrying out some scenerios. Not only should we continue to speak out on what he is doing, we should continue to predict what he might do and spread it everywhere. Our only tool of prevention at this point is to make the public aware of what he could be possible of. Make the worst scererio so obvious that they don't try it.

Wow!!! Then if one is to believe Mr. Roberts, his job and those of his committee are now over, as there is clearly no reason to pay someone to oversee a president who requires no overseeing. Sorry Pat, you can pick up your check at the door.

Doug, It's great to see that your recent inclusion on the ever-growing "No-Fly List" hasn't dampened your spirits.

Bush, in his State of the Union speach last month, declared the "War on Terror" has now been upgraded to a War "to to defeat radical Islam".

We now have a never ending war against the newly minted "Universal Adversary", in the hands of the first Dictatorship in US history.

www.tyrannyalert.com

www.scholarsfor911truth.com

I gave 22.5 years to the service of my country. I shed blood on three continents for it. I retired with pride in what I had done. My reward? I’ve been able to sit back, rest, and watch the three stooges destroy everything I defended and fought for. Of course they haven’t done it all by themselves. They’ve been aided and abetted by a conspiratorial group of self serving morons who have the audacity to call themselves Congressmen and Senators of the United States of America. Silk suited imitators of real Americans who conduct comedy skits with looks of grave concern as if there is some issue about the president’s warrantless wiretaps by the NSA when there isn’t one. The president has confessed to practices that are unconstitutional; actions for which he can’t blame low-ranking, ill-trained zealots. This is personal. It’s about George W. Bush and the law and no amount of official committee posturing can turn it into an “issue” to be decided upon
When Bush claimed his wiretapping was legal because congress gave him the authority, blah,blah, blah, I laughed out loud because I’ve read the Constitution. I find it comical that the argument ensues among the members of Congress as to whether Bush has, or was given, the right to violate the Fourth Amendment. No one has that right and every member of Congress knows that.
Bush did NOT swear an oath to protect and defend America, although some such duty is implied in Article II, which, also, makes him commander in chief of the armed forces. Therefore, the idea that this entails authority to order wiretaps on civilians collapses on itself. Article II does not make him “commander in chief” of American civilians. Whatever authority the Article confers is strictly military and the Constitution further provides that the military has no jurisdiction over civilians.
Whatever civil power to protect does exist, is set forth within the limits of the Constitution and regarding wiretaps, we must turn to the Fourth Amendment. It doesn’t say that people’s right to be secure in their homes and “effects” may be violated only by Congress or only by the judiciary or only by the president. It says that the right “shall not be violated” period. It doesn’t say that Congress shall issue no warrants without probable cause, or the judiciary shall not issue such warrants, or the president shall not issue them. It says “no Warrants shall issue” in violation of the conditions that immediately follow.
The president, having routinely ignored the Fourth Amendment rights of a host of victims, insists that the amendment doesn’t apply to him because of an invisible grant of discretion hiding in Article II. He invokes some heretofore undetected constitutional immunity to the Constitution, and asserts that the unwritten trumps the written. He includes another pious but pointless defense: that nobody bugged communications in which both parties were on U.S. soil. But that raises the obvious question: If he is ignoring the Fourth Amendment, what difference does it make where one of the suspects plants his feet?
Go back to the oath Bush DID take, twice. In it he promised (as required by Article II) to “preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the United States.” He did not swear that he would preserve, protect and defend only select parts of it. Why then, are members of Congress bothering to discuss the FISA law that created a secret court to expedite urgent requests for warrants and even provides for issuance of a warrant after the deed has been done. Federal laws don’t trump the Constitution. Without question, Congress has power to create “inferior” courts. But they cannot create one with power to waive a part of the Constitution. To do that, they would have to amend the Constitution. And, that renders absurd the question so many members of Congress have asked, “Why didn’t Bush come to them and ask them to authorize the wiretapping?”
President Bush and every member of Congress knows that there is no issue to be argued or discussed. The warrantless wiretapping the president ordered was and is unlawful and he can’t blame it on anyone else. There’s no one he can sacrifice, no aide or faithful secretary to fall on his sword. There is no law nor authority assumed or granted allowing him to violate his oath and break the law. Congress has no alternative but to impeach Mr. Bush and remove him from office and they know it. President Bush knows it. Should Congress fail to live up to their responsibility, the citizens must remove this Congress and install one that will obey the Constitution of the United States of America. Otherwise, America will be right back where we started and the Constitution will be thrown out with the morning trash - All Hail King George II.

Thanks Doug,
For speaking truth to power. You are one of the only ones who has the 'nads to tell it like it really is. Thanks for that, and thanks for coming back.
All I can say is that when the bastids (as we say in Massachusetts) break my door down, come to drag me away, they damned well better bring tape for my mouth.
I am a proud American who wears her "visit" from the Secret Service as a badge of honor. They, the SS, asked me how I "felt" about Bush. This was 2001 so I said, "If you're askin' me if I voted for him the answer is no. But in that regard, sir, I am in the majority so I will give you that." They took handwriting samples and photos, of myself and my belongings. Somewhere in Washington DC, they have my photo, looking pissed off, bed head, bathrobe and all. And that makes me very proud. As does accessing your RANT every morning. It makes me proud Doug, proud that this whole frigging country hasn't turned into a bunch of pod people. I can see them pointing and screaming now, pointing and screaming at Cindy Sheehan...

In Jan. 1933 Hitler went to Hindenburg and in their discussion indicated he was the right man and would do everything to protect the country and get it moving again. An old man gave in, and as a result, I.......born in WWII Germany, lost everything my family owned and some of us our lives. Today, the old man is Congress and definitely the weary, worn-out Democrats that don't seem to care, and we are turning a blind eye towards the same danger as in 1933. All of us. We need to wake up now, or it will be too late. Pleeeeease don't let my adopted country go the same way Germany did. (I am a USAF veteran too, so I served the USA well!!).

I'm amazed how you people carry on with one another that you must defend your freedoms even if it means less morals. Freedom? What freedom? You lost your freedoms in 1913 the moment President Wilson signed in the Federal Reserve. Years later , he spoke about it using words like, "I have destroyed my country." Former JFK's wife Jackie, re-married a powerful man after her husband and brother-in-law's assassinations, not for wealth and name but for protection. Even her late son was a threat to those who hate the truth, and so he is no more. Jeff Gannon, the Kennedy's, Pearl Harbour, controlled stock market crashes , the former building 7 in New York are hints for a people on the most part are turning in greater numbers toward disbelief and unacceptance of the evidences that speak for themselves but also too many folk's are just what the program order'd, totally clueless. America's freedom is a fraud now and your blind justice is falling apart faster than chunks of marble landing on it's very steps under the words EQUAL JUSTICE UN-DER LAW. Bush's father spoke of the "new world order" and his beloved son is going to dictate not only to American's but the world over and will wave off with a crafty nazi style hand fluttering, any walls in his way to carry out that very order. Your freedoms are lost forever. Accept it.

If these "Representatives" are supposed to be an example of the educated elite, it is high time to elect the morons. They couldn't possibly do worse and, they still believe in the constitution.

Now you know why Robertson flunked the bar exam and went into preaching instead.

As reported on NPR this weekend, the program is esstenially useless since they currently have over 8000 hours of phone calls that have yet to be listened to much less interpreted as they are in foreign languages.

Absolutely BRILLIANT Doug. Now we need to fix the voting mechanisim and get rid of Diebold so that we can have a fair change in leadership. Educating the voters is not an easy thing, but you certainly seem up to it. Best Wishes....Dr. Bob M.D.P.C.

To quote that great American, Pogo (okay, Walt Kelly), "We have met the enemy, and he is us."

Thank you, Doug, for speaking what is on the minds of so many Americans. Please keep up the excellent work that you do. I really am terrified of where America is heading, the loyalty that so many people seem to have for this "born again Christian" dictator. Have we become a nation of "koolaiders"???

Great writing, which is your hallmark. Good comments above. Thanks for your efforts. It is unfortunate that WaPo and NYT have already given up their Bill of Rights; and, they did it without even putting up a fight. How sad.

Google: "Arrest Bush 41"

By the comments of Sen. Roberts, Bill Clinton should be cleared of any wrong doing, because he would also be above the law. I can't believe that guy said that. He should be voted out of office pronto before his ilk does more damage to democracy. And the US is holding up democracy to the Iraqis? The Iraqis have more integrity that this watered down Bush democracy.

What self serving dishonest people are running our beloved America! Doug you go guy!

Can you imagine the kind of family values this kind of stuff teaches today's kids? Johnny, can lie and push the boundaries of the law and then say, the president can break the law, why can't I?

The leadership from today's White HOuse is no leadership and no integrity.

It's clear that we all are considered "terror suspects" in Bush's "New World",all 290 million us. Bush's twisted fantasy, post 9/11 dreamworld in progress has had the help of a congress with it's head still stuck up it's ass.

When do you expect china to take over this country?

It should be obvious that they are not going to the FISA court to get warrants because they are using the NSA to spy on political opponents and anybody who would disagree with them. Otherwise, why wouldn't they get the proper warrants and disclose to select members of congress who it is they are spying on? This whole bit about wiretapping al Queda is just a smokescreen.

Does Senator Roberts also believe that Bush can invalidate the 22nd amendment, the 2008 election and remain in office because it is in the national interest.

Right On!! Thank you for persisting in voicing the concerns of the people who care.

...And welcome back.

Fight the Good Fight!

-pd

ps: Can we send Herr Busch on a hunting trip with Cheney?

Praise The Lord & Pass The Ammunition!

Bush is a coward cardboard cowboy.

Martial law will be declared right after the neocons allow another "terrorist" attack.

Come on folks, follow the money. Who made money on 911? Who benefits by having "terrorist" to scare us?

I am still trying to understand what part of
" YOU BROKE THE LAW "
That the moran does not understand.

Ooooooh LUV the Cheney shot tooooooo Should never let a DICK have a gun!!

It is terrifying me the more I learn about what Bush et al are doing. I have written 12-15 letters to him which are always copied to my congressional delegation. I have had one nonsensical answer from the pres. Various ones of the congressional delegation have responded. The Republicans give me pablum. The Democrats agree with me but are stymied by the numbers in Congress.
My letters seem to be way ahead of anything reported as results in the media or literary references: 1984, etc., and how about The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire (especially the fall). My letter about Iraq fighting back was too late. He had already made up his mind and was just manipulating Congress to approve.
At this point, he is the terrorist terrifying me. His next blunder will be making war on Iran. Will we go along with his blunder. It doesn't matter, does it. He can do whatever he wants.

So what if some fascist imbecile like Roberts thinks that El Fascista Maximo is above the law? Anybody with a brain, meaning, apparently, anybody who is not a member of Congress, knows that he is full of it.

Instead of people wringing their hands about the coming police state, why doesn't everybody remember that this is a nation of 290,000,000 people, and that the only way that this band of murdering thugs can impose a police state on us is if poltroons and idiots stand there and let it happen? How many armed individuals, many ex-military, are there in this country, anyway? Frankly, if the people in this country had a collective spine, they would have done a remake (they're popular these days, you know) of The American Revolution by now, and these people would all be worm food. The fact that these people are all still walking, and doing what they do, is proof positive that this is a nation of sheep.

As far as Iraq goes, how about another remake? We could call this one Fragging for Dummies.

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I am awaiting the backlash from our moral right. I am awaiting.....oh wait, thats what just happened.....the backlash. Sad days in America.....sad.

I am appauled to think this administration can get away with the biggest corruption scandles in history. That Bush can do anything he wants, the DICTATOR, shame on the American people for putting up with such behavior. Bush should be impeached and Rove along with other in the administration should be in prison for the acts they have committed to get where they are this very minute. WAKE AMERICA, IT MAY BE TOO LATE, DEFEND OUR FIRST AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION. WE ARE A FREE COUNTRY?

When is the emporer and his cohorts going to start talking about three presidential terms instead of two? Then they'll go for four? We'll see.

I wish you weenies would shut up once and for all.
When people were warning of this series of events two or three years ago they got the tinfoil hat treatment.
When folks predicted that this would come to pass because a group of fascists had taken control of both Washington and the GOP, the words "kinspeerisee theerie" were trotted out and we were called paranoids.
It's too late, too many have had a long drink of the Kool-Aid and the rest are too chickenshit to do anything about it and are hoping they can still watch "The Batchelor".
We got what we deserved and the only tragedy is that our kids will inherit this terrific nightmare.
I hope I get to meet some of you who tried to hang a tinfoil hat on me when we get to the camps.
I will hang "a jacket" on you, call you a Bush toadie and steal your shoes.
Now sit down, shut up and enjoy the police state.
You bought it, you voted for it, and you paid for it, and worst of all, most of you shouted down those of us who tried to warn you about it in the first place.
So go get your big foam finger and stick it straight up your rear end and sit on it, and then plaster some of those yellow ribbon magnets across your pie-holes so we dont have to listen to you cry as your lives are destroyed.
No one listened then, and too few are listening now.

Torture? Holding people indefinitely without counsel or knowing what the charges against them are? Illegal wiretapping? Financial oblivion?

THIS IS NOT MY COUNTRY!
WE MUST THROW THE BASTARDS OUT!!!! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!

im australian and feel sorry for you guys.your empire is crumbling and its all to late.you really deserve george[hitler]your cancer is on the inside and will consume your once great country slowly but surley.we have little john howard the sherrif .hold on to your seats its all down hill for the great satan.

Its comforting to know that all of you have not be brain washed like the rest of the world has in believing Bush is fighting for peace,,, like hell he is! world domination more like,, and its your billions of tax payers dollars thats wasted on this master plan of his. Youve got to stand up and fight for what little freedom you have left. Im not an American, im British but I feel for you guys I really do! Good luck!

Bush supporters should read their History Books especially the part where even the people that tried to Buddy up to Hitler, "Came under the Gun" the simularities Between todays Amerika and 1936-1938 Nazi Germany are to numerous to list, And with BushCo's Concentration Camps Popping up all over the place,(In the U.S) "You just might run into some of us",(JEFFERY)

ARE YOU a Bush supporter?

I am so SORRY, I re-read your Post, and I F***ed up Bigtime, I thought you were one of them,.....SORRY,SORRY SORRY.I too am hoping to run into some Bush people in the Camps. I APOLIGIZE FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART MAN!!!!!!

Doug ur the man !! I look forward to reading your posts. I'll miss them after your spirited off to some foreign prison for rendition. I don't think Bu$h Co is going to tolerate open dissent too much longer. My guess is after their next planned terror attack they will completely shred what little is left of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Shmoe.....at least you're not a "Shmoo", but apparently most of us ARE...Shmoos.
Do a Google search on Shmoos and the similarities will amaze you.

As for me, I sell rock and roll on the internet so I am already a subversive enemy of the state and I'm not afraid to put the link to it either.

We're already screwed my man. Just be ready to head for the hills when the digested food matter strikes the rotational air output device.

Seeg heil,

JeffH

Suggestion: We can always vote third party this year and kill to vultures with one stone!

I took a good look at all those people for the last couple of weeks who support Bush's mafia and It's like looking into the eye's of robots. People who are not really there, as if they are all demon possessed and ready and willing applauding and dancing with endless ovations handed to godfather , no matter the crimes they are going to serve their master.

How many times do you want your government to laugh their ass's off at you. Your GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA now has the reputatation all over this earth as a government with ZERO creditablity and a people so mother f**king stupid that you haven't got a chance in hell to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

All Americans should know this: Bush came into power with an agenda--to suppress and ultimately eradicate the middle class and Constitution. He and certain traitors and fascists in his party (not everyone, mind you--some are true Conservatives) are guilty of forethought with malice in their treasonous actions. This in principle is NO different than what happened in Hitler's Germany. Of course Bush is NOT Hitler and the circumstances and such are different; however know this: His intentions from the beginning were to overthrow the Constitution and Bill of Rights and the Middle Class in this country. He didn't just walk into this unknowingly or it isn't just happening because of incompetence or some other reason (that is their handy excuse). It was rather premediated and planned to a high degree and with great efficiency over many years, including the use of covert operations, propaganda, fear, agent provocatuers, and well placed 'agents' in positions of power. In short, this is a CIA type action turned inward against Americans! What for years was used in other countries to influence, undermine and overthrow legitimate regimes, IS NOW BEING USED ON US! Wake up folks!!

TRUE,TRUE ALL OF THE ABOVE ALL I HEAR FROM DUBYA IS WAR,WAR DOES THIS MEAN THAT HE OR THEY ARE SETTING HIM UP FOR MORE TIME AS THE PRES NOT SURE ABOUT THE LAW DEALING WITH THIS BUT I BELIEVE AS LONG AS WE ARE AT WAR THE DUBYA WILL STAY IN POWER.
WE HAD BETTER BE AWARE ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH THIS PERSON AT THE HELM.

TRUE,TRUE ALL OF THE ABOVE ALL I HEAR FROM DUBYA IS WAR,WAR DOES THIS MEAN THAT HE OR THEY ARE SETTING HIM UP FOR MORE TIME AS THE PRES NOT SURE ABOUT THE LAW DEALING WITH THIS BUT I BELIEVE AS LONG AS WE ARE AT WAR THE DUBYA WILL STAY IN POWER.
WE HAD BETTER BE AWARE ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH THIS PERSON AT THE HELM.

Clinton got impeached for telling a lie. bush (and please never give this bastard the respect of an upper care cirst letter) has never told the truth.

Can November, 2006 be too soon? If we allow the right wing lunatics to stay in office we damn well deserve what we get in return.

Doug, you are a brave patriot.

I waver daily between the hope that some agency within our government will restrain the Commander in Beast, and a sense of futility.

And i waver continually that we as a people have become so blind as to willfully succumb to our own demise, and the faith i have in our collective spirit.

You are a brave man and a Patriot, Doug. Let's hope your spirit speaks for a majority of us.

Where's a really bitchin' "pretzel" when America needs it most? (Funny, I think I hear the Gestapo at my door...)

Poor Doug... you try to retire but they won't let you! Thanks for taking this stand.

What a strange time this is... unabashed fascism from above, massive resistance from below.

All agree: this can't last.

If we are to get this bunch of criminals out of office, we had better think seriously about changing the was we hold elections. Computerized elections are not fraud proof and as crooked as the present administration is (the Republicans) don't be surprised that if the same method of voting continues, we will have another Republican dominated government

http://www.the7thfire.com/new_world_order/final_warning/final_warning_table_of_contents.htm

If ever there has been a display of how the American voting public can be led and convinced by empty statements of "patriotic/freedom" rhetoric (what the hell is patriotic about the Patriot Act?), the last 5+ years have proven it. For those people for whom history still has some significance, compare the last five years with German history circa 1936 to 1939. That was another period of time where liberals were condemned, nationalism/economics were justifications for invading another sovereign country, and the government was granted powers to disrupt and suspend human rights to privacy and well-being. Too similar to our contemporary moment, there was a core of intense and zealous "patriotism" which equated to condemnation of any political stance outside that of the nationalistic/conservative right wing, and a political/economic agenda that rationalized the invasions of Czechoslovakia and Poland by suggesting that those "evil neighboring countries" were plotting the demise of Nazi Germany. Poland, particularly, was trumped up as preparing for war and thus Germany was vindicated by invading first (Iraq, anyone?).
The arrogance and self-rightiousness of this current administration is too frighteningly similar to that of the most horrific this world has ever experienced. We don't learn from history, as recent as it was. Hopefully someday we will awaken and realize how far this nation is from it's designers' intentions. Subscription to extremism or cults of personality can contribute to building a bridge to tyranny. Inflexible perspectives and an arrogant presumption of moral exclusivity - too often associated with conservative extremism - can quickly lead to Naziism or Fascism. This country deserves better, and only exists now for our ungrateful benefit because our ancestors were cautious about damaging our platforms of freedom and human rights. That's certainly not occurring in the current administration - in fact, what's happening should be scaring us out of our apathy.

yes its good television from down under.deputy john howard doing back flips in the presence off the boss.we have the biggest loser,macs,and all the shite propaganda we have gorged on your crumbs and become sick.you are us .we bought in big with uncle stooge.karmic accounts of nations ..wow isnt it fun people the party is over were all drunk and dazed and wake up to find that its all so funny and sad .lets go home im tired paramdham.seed stage rest....beyonb the material.. merge with the brahm element.the bell of time is ringing the stage is set welcome to the stage the best kept secret off them all ...great spiriitual forces at work here it will be the power off silence vs the power off science.this ought to be seen .incognito things have taken place since 1937. the cycle has spun take off your costumes ....

I'm originally from Pat Robert's home town in Kansas. He's not the brightest stick in the bunch, and word around town is that he is getting filty rich off of the Republicans. When he first ran, he used a phony mailbox address since he didn't actually live in the area he was hoping to represent.I also watched him remain silent to save his own but when an unfair accusation and lie was fabricated about a colleague. He is, in every sense of the word, a lemming who doesn't understand the very fundamental values of our Constitution, and worse than that, he doesn't have the intelligence to make wise decisions when the terrorists do decide to act here again. Roberts isn't the only ignorant citizen! I teach at a reputable private university and every semester, I ask my students who was responsible for the 9/11 attack. Nearly every student still says "Iraq." After I ask them that question, I ask them to briefly explain the balance of power set forth in our Constitution. One in thirty knows at least a little something about it. After providing them with the answers, I then ask them to write essays that ask, "Why is it important to know this information?" With an uneducated populace, the New-Cons will do whatever they want, and they will get away with it! As a Democrat from Kansas, I've had to learn to defend my positions my whole life. I've seen idiots like Roberts run on "America-God-Apple Pie" platforms while the Republicans use his ignorance and that of others to stab Democracy in the back for corporate gain. In my home town, like so many, I've watched Mom-and-Pop stores give way to Walmart. I've seen the demise of the family farm. I've seen at least a half-dozen neighbors die prematurely from brain tumors presumably from the high nitrates in the water (due to the dumping of cattle paunch.)Sadly, nothing can be done because the Republicans have managed to downsize all of the watchdog agencies. It's a sweet deal they've been planning for decades, and unless we wise up, it will only get worse. I research for a progressive news program called libertynewstv.com. (On line, on cable access, featured on LINK and Free Speach TV) It isn't easy for any of us who work there to provide the time needed to put this monthly program together, but, if in some small way, we can wake a few Americans up, it will have been worth it. Thanks, Doug, you are truly a voice in the wilderness of beautiful Floyd County. (Ironically, I have family there too!) I've seen my hometown in Kansas fall prey to corporate meat packing plants, and I cry when I go home and see how they've destroyed what was once a beautiful town. Pat Roberts and his filthy associates have ruined it with their corporate objectives (As they destroy the environment and increase the need for schools and jails, they enjoy a full tax abatement in the name of "economic development.") Thank you, Pat Roberts, for representing the area you were never from in the first place!

America's government has studied China for years on how to keep it's own population from uprising and over taking the elite. Simple. Fear. Fear is the factor. Fear of death, fear of your neighbor, but mostly fear of giving up your freedoms which is very puzzling to George B. He see's how it works in China but American's for some reason , can smell a commi around every corner. The neo-con's are commi's that's why the media never talks about them.

well - you know what to do next .... vote democtate at the mid terms ... then impeach!

Does anyone really believe the Republicans will give up power in an "election"?
If King Shrub has absolute power, he has the power to void any "election" the Repos might lose.
As Lucas notes in Star Wars, "How does democracy die? To the sound of applause." With Sen. roberts,Rev. Roberts, Ann Coulter, et al., applauding the loudest and most fervently.
As for impeachment, do we really want Chen6y as the Pres with the power to appoint a new Vice Pres who will run for election from the White House, with all its trappings and power?
Either both are impeached or neither. And if the Repos steal any more elections, its time to man the barricades.

You have a fine posting for folks that can see the light, but maybe others could be brought into the circle of truth through these already informed ones.

If each one were to work at sharing this program through a chain letter principal, your following could increase very rapidly, and unless it does, you will find November has come and gone, with little change.

Consider, chain letters are not illegal unless the people participating are sending money through the mail. There is nothing illegal about asking people to view the views of others. Most sane people should fear for their own safty.

Doug, I am right there beside you. When the American Gestapo start kicking down my door, I don't plan on going with them to the Haliburton built, FEMA ran and BLACKWATER staffed concentration camps.

well you fine folks that give a dam about freedom sure dont have much left.home of the brave and free?weak and in chains .get out while you still can but if you do decide to leave take a vow of silence because we dont take kindly to yous guys much in the rest of the world.loud mouth yanks fat and free. pushing there way to the front of the que.well its time you were all quite and learnt to stand at the back off the line .and bow your head in shame.no where to go nowhere to hide exposed before the world without a moral foot to stand on

Well said Doug Thompson! As a kid growing up I had to listen to people talk about how stupid the germans were for allowing the 3rd reich to rule their country. Well my great-granddad opposed that regime and was put in prison for one year under suspicion of being a socialist, then released due to lack of evidence.(my mom is german) One day the police came and searched the family apartment for socialist literature which my great grandmother had just thrown in the neighbors open window, then they took great-granddad away. This country is now apparently on a similar path.After the war was over the americans apparently allowed only one book to be burned: The Secrets of the Federal Reserve by Eustace Mullins.

See, it really could happen here.
And it is.

And the american people are so nullified
by fear of jail, there is no turning back.

We love you Big Brother.

Doug I'm glad you recognize the current situation. If General Washington were alive today, do you think he would be in chains at Guantanamo Bay?

It's because of people like Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Roberts, Rice, Negroponte, Chertoff that the founding fathers wrote the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution. So that government doesn't become a legal criminal.

Pat Roberts a Man Of God. Give me a break, he is a man of himself. How dare he represent the church. How dare he think Bush or himself unrepoachable! The Evangelistics need to wake up. Bush was elected because of their support. He lied to them, he lied to the American people and now an reknown Evagelistic telling us he is above God's law. Which is to do the right thing. Our Constitution has stood the test of time, what makes Bush and Pat Roberts think they are above it. Lord help us for those that use your name are using for self serving purposes.

I think all the comments are correct. We have no one to blame but ourselves. The House of Representatives told us in 1994 it was either their way or they would shut the government down and they did, till the senate wouldn't go along with them. They then managed to get control of both houses and the presidency so now it is a dictatorship. Again we have no one but ourselves to blame.

Thank You Doug. It seems the only people that are speaking out on bush, are you and the Editorial Cartoonists. If any others are, they are whispering.
This is the tip of the Iceberg, bush is preparing us for future abuses of power that will make wire tapping a joke.
Over 220 years ago the people that started the country had to fight to gain independence and enjoy a free life. It could come to the point where history might have to repeat itself, to get back to that point.

a word from down under.its here people of the world that we will see the truth come out and all the lies of those in power exposed.you people have exactly what you asked for .isnt it amazing how gently a nation is sung to sleep.let go because to rage against the machine would only be futile.become the detached observer and enjoy the final scenes of this most wonderfull drama of life.learn to laugh at it all and "let it go"....

Thank you for honest journalism.

As an American living abroad (since 1988), my first sence of leaving the USA was at the perspective change. Looking back at the fishbowl of my youth, the lack of sensitivety and understanding at home of the worlds perspective on the USA has always been indeed frightening. Since 9/11, the fear driven paralysis of believers in constitutional law and historic propriety from both sides of the US political spectrum have been frightening.
Now that the emporer has crossed over into complete loss of judgement, perhaps the pendulum has begun to turn and the healthy US democratic system can indeed heal itself and return to a semblance of progressive evolution for the forces of good. So much damage has been done.

Misereatur vestri omnipotens Deus, et dimissis peccatis vestris, perducat vos ad vitam aeternam.
Amen.

Doug Thompson:
I must congratulate you on your phenomenal articles on Capitol Hill Blues. I am in awe of your courage, and your honesty. I am scared for you, because we all know that if one speaks the truth, the rath of "the Dictator" could be upon you, and you might fear for you life.
I hope you stay safe!!!!
Thanks for your great articles!!
Iris Budd
Ontario, Canada.

I totally agree with this. Bush has made us ashamed of America, has ruined every thing he has touched, Come on Mrs Hillary Clinton we need you to put this train wreck back on it's rails again, between the deficit, war, SS, listening in on all of us, with out perm. Inc, Prescriptions out ragisly high,no inc. for children and schools, medicare and medicade, katrina, euthansia,Putting in a good show for Terri Schiavo, then just forgetting all about her LOL he could have brought in the milita if wanted but no he made his show and walked away, hospices,taking from the poor and giving to the rich,I can't list all his messes here he is the worst President we have ever had.. Come on Mrs. Clinton we need you bad.. Show the repb. you do have a back bone.. k. Bennett

I would like to know exactly what is illegal about wire tapping suspected terrorists? If anything, it gives the so called Goose-steppers an upper-hand in defending this country. I don't see American citizens being hauled off to Cuba. I do see the terrorists scrambling to find other ways to communicate to carry out their sick Jihad. If any American citizen is helping to kill our fellow citizens, we have a right to know how they are doing so. Show me what has been done illegally and I will be happy to research for myself. GO BUSH.

I would like to know exactly what is illegal about wire tapping suspected terrorists? If anything, it gives the so called Goose-steppers an upper-hand in defending this country. I don't see American citizens being hauled off to Cuba. I do see the terrorists scrambling to find other ways to communicate to carry out their sick Jihad. If any American citizen is helping to kill our fellow citizens, we have a right to know how they are doing so. Show me what has been done illegally and I will be happy to research for myself. GO BUSH.

I would like to know exactly what is illegal about wire tapping suspected terrorists? If anything, it gives the so called Goose-steppers an upper-hand in defending this country. I don't see American citizens being hauled off to Cuba. I do see the terrorists scrambling to find other ways to communicate to carry out their sick Jihad. If any American citizen is helping to kill our fellow citizens, we have a right to know how they are doing so. Show me what has been done illegally and I will be happy to research for myself. GO BUSH.