tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post440614940000087201..comments2024-01-19T07:30:41.591-08:00Comments on An Average American Patriot: With the Patriots at 7 and 0 playing at 4:15 red Sox at 8:pm it's sports Sunday in new England! So I leave you thoughts of President Ford!jmsjoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17631105639275375922noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-82467180031344435372007-10-29T15:09:00.000-07:002007-10-29T15:09:00.000-07:00Larry I have to laugh! You don't live around her...Larry<BR/> I have to laugh! You don't live around here do you? I said the same thing to the assistant last week. you know as well as I do that it is crazy but it will be a fact and it has to be soon along with the attack on Iran that will trigger world war.<BR/> I had an interesting conversation with my son who flies. I asked him how he will react when martial law is declared and I become the enemy and it really befuddled him. It will happen but it will fracture us like never before and that is good as far as Bush is concerned.jmsjoinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17631105639275375922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-25056979589162947512007-10-29T12:33:00.000-07:002007-10-29T12:33:00.000-07:00Jim:I was at the dentist today and the assistant s...Jim:<BR/><BR/>I was at the dentist today and the assistant said there was a guy in there last week who said Martial Law was coming soon.<BR/><BR/>This girl surprised me by saying people think that is crazy, but she believes it.<BR/><BR/>At least there are a few who aren't blind, very few.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283557503536810926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-59875577867614929352007-10-29T07:54:00.000-07:002007-10-29T07:54:00.000-07:00Robert That's funny, you scared me for a minute ...Robert<BR/> That's funny, you scared me for a minute there. I have lived here all my life so I am a hard core fun but nothing gets in the way of my friendships. We will not be enemies! Funny, I am thinking of a storyline for today. It is time our sports figures make believe we are in trouble and step up.<BR/> Oh yeah, you might like this but I expect the Colts will beat us again and remain undefeated. Peyton is not only a Manning he is the man. We are favored by 1.5 points but I don't think so.jmsjoinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17631105639275375922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-50938142571972879342007-10-29T07:46:00.000-07:002007-10-29T07:46:00.000-07:00The Book on Ford! He feared Cheney was a liability...The Book on Ford! He feared Cheney was a liability and Clinton was a sex addict, preferred Guilliani. <A HREF="http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/29/ford.book/index.html" REL="nofollow">The Book</A>jmsjoinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17631105639275375922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-69118357316917753472007-10-29T07:44:00.000-07:002007-10-29T07:44:00.000-07:00James, for now we are friends. But next Sunday .....James, for now we are friends. But next Sunday ... at least until the game is over, we will be enemies! :)<BR/><BR/>GO COLTS!Robert Rousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07029114161553100445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-77440312292195512252007-10-29T07:12:00.000-07:002007-10-29T07:12:00.000-07:00Anon I know, I hope you got some of my comments ...Anon<BR/> I know, I hope you got some of my comments to Larry. The right sees it too. I saved this story about the Governments relentless control at of all places <A HREF="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,305539,00.html" REL="nofollow">Cavutto on Fox</A>jmsjoinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17631105639275375922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-50386494041269464932007-10-29T07:07:00.000-07:002007-10-29T07:07:00.000-07:00Larry You nailed it and I do not have to add any...Larry<BR/> You nailed it and I do not have to add anything beyond don't forget to add the cost to fight a world war.<BR/> I think I wrote it 2 or 3 days ago but you will see it. Read the race top world war Acts 1-6 and see the horrible results. It will be fact and more, much of it already is but people can not put 2 and 2 together and look at the big picture.<BR/> Thinking back, Lydia read that and did have a comment!<BR/> This untire mess will erupt when Bush attacks Iran. I have to think it will not go nuclear because that oil would be lost to everyone.<BR/> That is why monstrous bombs like our MOAB, Russia's FOAB, and our new 30,000 pound Bunker Buster are being built rapidly. what a damn mess and it will not be avoided. <BR/> One of the results of all this is the obvious bankruptcy and decline of the western powers. I know Bush is an idiot but he has to be banking on defeating China and cancelling our debt as I have said many times.jmsjoinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17631105639275375922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-64744598483593940992007-10-29T06:32:00.000-07:002007-10-29T06:32:00.000-07:00Damn Larry! You know I am more than a little b...Damn Larry!<BR/> You know I am more than a little bit concerned and it is only a matter of time. <BR/> It is not the powers available it is the idiot at the helm. You know HE IS GOING TO ABUSE AND MISUSE EVERY POWER HE GETS HIS HANDS ON.<BR/> I HAVE BEEN HAVING DISCUSSIONS WITH MY SONS IN THE MILITARY IN ANTICIPATION OF THIS IN ORDER TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THEIR REACTIION WOULD BE.<BR/> I wanted to find out whether or not they would turn against us. I am sorry to say the response is the one I largely get from the general public. They think I am crazy and say tht will never happen in America.<BR/> It will and soon! The idiot will not let these powers in someone elses hands.<BR/> Anyway the Declaration will activate me. I have limited resources but I will go on my own and spend all I have to fight this. I will shut up because I just do not trust anyone including this medium but please stay with me on this!<BR/> One last thing, I had this discussion yesterday and the day before on kos. I can't think of the guys name off hand but it is about comment 30 on my last story.<BR/> we are in so much trouble but we will not relent. Anyway like I just said, he too unbelievably think cooler heads will prevail. It just blows me away that peopl do not have a clue as to what is coming!jmsjoinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17631105639275375922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-44208484835496901282007-10-28T20:16:00.000-07:002007-10-28T20:16:00.000-07:00Just think what the next 4 years will be like when...Just think what the next 4 years will be like when the Decider decides not to step down.<BR/><BR/>Talk about total destruction and you won't be able to take a piss without permission.<BR/><BR/>God Bless.Anon-Paranoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16689838429335195289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-24246485858440283552007-10-28T17:48:00.000-07:002007-10-28T17:48:00.000-07:00After the U.S.S.R. dissolved, Americans believed t...After the U.S.S.R. dissolved, Americans believed their country was the sole, remaining superpower, but the strength of any nation is its economy. Without a robust and thriving economy, the U.S. never could have built the vast military machine that projects American power to all corners of the globe. But the U.S. has weakened. Since 2006, Bush admits he’s increased the deficit by three trillion dollars since taking office, but creative book keeping conceals the real number. Add the as yet unfunded future payments to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, Veterans Benefits, plus individual, corporate and the fifty state’s collective debt, and the deficit skyrockets to 44 trillion dollars. This figure was determined by economists and budget analysts at the US Treasury, the Federal Reserve, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Congressional Budget Office. The Bush Administration’s tax cuts, the corporate scandals that occur with rapid fire frequency, the huge expenditures on prosecuting the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and now the threats against Iran send the message to foreign lenders that the U.S. has no intention of reining in its spending. "The budget should be balanced; the treasury should be refilled; public debt should be reduced; and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled." Cicero. 106-43 B.C.<BR/><BR/>The occupation of Iraq was going to greatly reduce U.S. dependence on oil imports. The plan was that after seizing Iraq’s oil fields, U.S. oil producers would move in and get the wells pumping again, and before you could say, “Iraqi Oil” the U.S. would be shipping high grade crude to American refineries. Rebuilding Iraq? Don’t worry about it. As soon as the dust settles, the money will flow. But like everything else about the occupation, it didn’t work out that way. The Iraqi oil ministry is carefully weighing the options of how best to help the war ravaged land and its people. Russia is rebuilding Iraq’s power plants and are waiting to help Iraq develop its unexplored oil fields. Iraq has claimed their vast oil wealth a natural resource that belongs to the Iraqi people. The U.S. watched from the sidelines as Iraq discussed honoring pre-war contracts with Russia, China, France, and India. No major drilling concessions have been awarded yet, but it’s expected that a multinational conglomerate of oil producers will eventually share in developing Iraq’s unexplored oil reserves. <BR/><BR/><BR/>The Bush Administration’s hawkish elements had once dreamed of ccupying the entire Middle East. If the U.S. controlled a significant percentage of the world’s oil wealth they reasoned, it could maintain its faltering superpower status. The plan had been to occupy Iraq, take Iran’s oil fields, go after Syria - then Egypt. But the neocons have been forced to see the impossibility of their pipe dreams, and now Russia and China have warned the U.S against an Iranian attack. On October 25th, during a press conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, “To run around like a madman waving a knife is not the best way forward,” He added, “Why drive the situation into a dead end?'' This, from a man whose soul Bush looked into, and found good. <BR/><BR/>Russia is not a friend to the U.S, and contrary to popular belief, it isn’t a weak, bygone power either. Russia is still very much a communist state, and as such, remains an enemy of free market capitalism. The Financial Times reported in August of 2006, that Russia’s proven oil reserves had surpassed Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest. This puts Russia in a position to dominate the world’s oil markets, and with Bush weakening U.S. influence around the globe, Russian oil exports to European Nations may soon be paid for in rubles, replacing the dollar as the world’s fiat currency. This plays directly into Russia’s plans to isolate the U.S. from its traditional allies, and Bush seems to be doing everything he can to assure the Russian plan succeeds. The world’s contempt for U.S. foreign policy, if a permanent war footing can be called that, has been greatly exacerbated by Bush’s abandonment of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the Biological Weapons Convention, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and the Global Arms Trade Treaty.<BR/><BR/>Russia, in response, has rearmed its ballistic missiles with MIRV’s, Multiple Independently guided Re-entry Vehicles. It has also resumed long range bomber flights, that are presumably nuclear capable. In November, 2005 The Washington Times reported that Russia had developed a new ballistic missile that was capable of changing course in mid-flight, negating any technology the U.S. possesses to intercept incoming missiles. In January of 2006, during a news conference, Russia’s president said, “These missile systems don’t represent a response to a missile defense system, but they are immune to that. They are hypersonic and capable of changing their flight path.” Alexei Bayer, a frequent contributor to Geopolitical, Global Analysis writes, “The Pentagon Budget may be larger than the sum total of what the rest of the world spends on defense, but Russia can still incinerate all of the U.S. in about 15 minutes—hardly a condition for world domination by Washington.” <BR/><BR/>The Bush Administrations strategy, if one is charitable enough to call it that, is to hand the democrats the enormous debt Bush and his neocons have incurred. They’ll also hand the democrats the unenviable task of finding an exit strategy out of Iraq. This assumes the democrats will win the White House in 2008, and Bush doesn’t attack Iran. If he does, the entire Middle East will erupt in anti-American hatred, with Muslims the world over vowing revenge against U.S. interests, including American citizens abroad. Russia will not sit idly by while the U.S. establishes military bases on the Russian border. <BR/><BR/>Reagan began the U.S. decline with his deregulation of American corporations. The American public bought into the scheme with promises of lower costs for everything through healthy competition. The opposite has proven true. As Paul Krugman recently wrote in the New York Times, “Unfortunately, assertions that unregulated financial markets would take care of themselves have proved as wrong as claims that deregulation would reduce electricity prices.” Corporate failures, from the S&L’s to California’s utilities, have destroyed overseas confidence in U.S. markets, and have cost taxpayers trillions of dollars that should have been spent on infrastructure, educating a globally competitive workforce, and a serious investment in alternative energy, freeing the U.S. from oil blackmail. Bush and his neocons thought that occupying Iraq and taking control of its oil would make them all fantastically wealthy. Instead, their misguided and disastrous invasion has seriously threatened the U.S. economy, and has cast a long shadow on America’s once, good name.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283557503536810926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-86408046837374672292007-10-28T17:34:00.000-07:002007-10-28T17:34:00.000-07:00It's coming Jim:In a stealth maneuver, President B...It's coming Jim:<BR/><BR/>In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law (1). It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President's ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking to undo those prohibitions. <BR/><BR/>Public Law 109-364, or the "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" (H.R.5122) (2), which was signed by the commander in chief on October 17th, 2006, in a private Oval Office ceremony, allows the President to declare a "public emergency" and station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to "suppress public disorder."<BR/><BR/>President Bush seized this unprecedented power on the very same day that he signed the equally odious Military Commissions Act of 2006. In a sense, the two laws complement one another. One allows for torture and detention abroad, while the other seeks to enforce acquiescence at home, preparing to order the military onto the streets of America. Remember, the term for putting an area under military law enforcement control is precise; the term is "martial law."<BR/><BR/>Section 1076 of the massive Authorization Act, which grants the Pentagon another $500-plus-billion for its ill-advised adventures, is entitled, "Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies." Section 333, "Major public emergencies; interference with State and Federal law" states that "the President may employ the armed forces, including the National Guard in Federal service, to restore public order and enforce the laws of the United States when, as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition in any State or possession of the United States, the President determines that domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of ("refuse" or "fail" in) maintaining public order, "in order to suppress, in any State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy."<BR/><BR/>For the current President, "enforcement of the laws to restore public order" means to commandeer guardsmen from any state, over the objections of local governmental, military and local police entities; ship them off to another state; conscript them in a law enforcement mode; and set them loose against "disorderly" citizenry - protesters, possibly, or those who object to forced vaccinations and quarantines in the event of a bio-terror event.<BR/><BR/>The law also facilitates militarized police round-ups and detention of protesters, so called "illegal aliens," "potential terrorists" and other "undesirables" for detention in facilities already contracted for and under construction by Halliburton. That's right. Under the cover of a trumped-up "immigration emergency" and the frenzied militarization of the southern border, detention camps are being constructed right under our noses, camps designed for anyone who resists the foreign and domestic agenda of the Bush administration.<BR/><BR/>An article on "recent contract awards" in a recent issue of the slick, insider "Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International" reported that "global engineering and technical services powerhouse KBR [Kellog, Brown & Root] announced in January 2006 that its Government and Infrastructure division was awarded an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to support U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities in the event of an emergency." "With a maximum total value of $385 million over a five year term," the report notes, "the contract is to be executed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers," "for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to augment existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) - in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs." The report points out that "KBR is the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton." (3) So, in addition to authorizing another $532.8 billion for the Pentagon, including a $70-billion "supplemental provision" which covers the cost of the ongoing, mad military maneuvers in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other places, the new law, signed by the president in a private White House ceremony, further collapses the historic divide between the police and the military: a tell-tale sign of a rapidly consolidating police state in America, all accomplished amidst ongoing U.S. imperial pretensions of global domination, sold to an "emergency managed" and seemingly willfully gullible public as a "global war on terrorism."<BR/><BR/>Make no mistake about it: the de-facto repeal of the Posse Comitatus Act (PCA) is an ominous assault on American democratic tradition and jurisprudence. The 1878 Act, which reads, "Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both," is the only U.S. criminal statute that outlaws military operations directed against the American people under the cover of 'law enforcement.' As such, it has been the best protection we've had against the power-hungry intentions of an unscrupulous and reckless executive, an executive intent on using force to enforce its will.<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, this past week, the president dealt posse comitatus, along with American democracy, a near fatal blow. Consequently, it will take an aroused citizenry to undo the damage wrought by this horrendous act, part and parcel, as we have seen, of a long train of abuses and outrages perpetrated by this authoritarian administration.<BR/><BR/>Despite the unprecedented and shocking nature of this act, there has been no outcry in the American media, and little reaction from our elected officials in Congress. On September 19th, a lone Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) noted that 2007's Defense Authorization Act contained a "widely opposed provision to allow the President more control over the National Guard [adopting] changes to the Insurrection Act, which will make it easier for this or any future President to use the military to restore domestic order WITHOUT the consent of the nation's governors."<BR/><BR/>Senator Leahy went on to stress that, "we certainly do not need to make it easier for Presidents to declare martial law. Invoking the Insurrection Act and using the military for law enforcement activities goes against some of the central tenets of our democracy. One can easily envision governors and mayors in charge of an emergency having to constantly look over their shoulders while someone who has never visited their communities gives the orders."<BR/><BR/>A few weeks later, on the 29th of September, Leahy entered into the Congressional Record that he had "grave reservations about certain provisions of the fiscal Year 2007 Defense Authorization Bill Conference Report," the language of which, he said, "subverts solid, longstanding posse comitatus statutes that limit the military's involvement in law enforcement, thereby making it easier for the President to declare martial law." This had been "slipped in," Leahy said, "as a rider with little study," while "other congressional committees with jurisdiction over these matters had no chance to comment, let alone hold hearings on, these proposals."<BR/><BR/>In a telling bit of understatement, the Senator from Vermont noted that "the implications of changing the (Posse Comitatus) Act are enormous". "There is good reason," he said, "for the constructive friction in existing law when it comes to martial law declarations. Using the military for law enforcement goes against one of the founding tenets of our democracy. We fail our Constitution, neglecting the rights of the States, when we make it easier for the President to declare martial law and trample on local and state sovereignty."<BR/><BR/>Senator Leahy's final ruminations: "Since hearing word a couple of weeks ago that this outcome was likely, I have wondered how Congress could have gotten to this point. It seems the changes to the Insurrection Act have survived the Conference because the Pentagon and the White House want it."<BR/><BR/>The historic and ominous re-writing of the Insurrection Act, accomplished in the dead of night, which gives Bush the legal authority to declare martial law, is now an accomplished fact.<BR/><BR/>The Pentagon, as one might expect, plays an even more direct role in martial law operations. Title XIV of the new law, entitled, "Homeland Defense Technology Transfer Legislative Provisions," authorizes "the Secretary of Defense to create a Homeland Defense Technology Transfer Consortium to improve the effectiveness of the Department of Defense (DOD) processes for identifying and deploying relevant DOD technology to federal, State, and local first responders."<BR/><BR/>In other words, the law facilitates the "transfer" of the newest in so-called "crowd control" technology and other weaponry designed to suppress dissent from the Pentagon to local militarized police units. The new law builds on and further codifies earlier "technology transfer" agreements, specifically the 1995 DOD-Justice Department memorandum of agreement achieved back during the Clinton-Reno regime.(4)<BR/><BR/>It has become clear in recent months that a critical mass of the American people have seen through the lies of the Bush administration; with the president's polls at an historic low, growing resistance to the war Iraq, and the Democrats likely to take back the Congress in mid-term elections, the Bush administration is on the ropes. And so it is particularly worrying that President Bush has seen fit, at this juncture to, in effect, declare himself dictator.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283557503536810926noreply@blogger.com