No, the worst part is that OUR OWN LAWMAKERS are being restrained in what they can talk about.
This is a direct affront to the principle of congressional oversight.
Over time the legislature has determined that providing America's enemies with things such as its war plans and lists of its intelligence agents is a bad thing.
Congressional oversight occurs in hearings and results in votes, all of which continue all the same.
Third parties are at a disadvantage due to the American political system mitigating against extremes by its nature. The fight is for the middle - stray too far and you won't have enough support to be elected. That is why the media has had to work overtime on behalf of certain candidates. The police are most likely to behave as you suggest when they either have the wrong address, or the offense involved is one prone to involvement with violence, such as drug cases. The executive branch has zero power to declare laws, although it can regulate. None of what you wrote negates what I wrote. The bureaucracy is as dependent on the legislature and president as always.
And when you step back and ask, "Who ARE they afraid of?", I just think about where the politicians' money is coming from.
And I keep coming up with one answer: very wealthy business men hiding behind their corporations and Super PACs.
If what your wrote is true, the events listed below should be impossible. Since the events below actually happened, what you wrote is absolute rubbish.
WASHINGTON—Albert “Jack” Stanley, a former chairman and chief executive officer of Kellogg, Brown & Root Inc. (KBR), was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by participating in a decade-long scheme to bribe Nigerian government officials to obtain engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts and for conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud as part of a separate kickback scheme, the Justice Department’s Criminal Division today announced.
WASHINGTON—The United States has filed a lawsuit against Kellogg Brown & Root Services (KBR) alleging that the defense contractor violated the False Claims Act, the Justice Department announced today. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, alleges that KBR knowingly included impermissible costs for private armed security in billings to the Army under the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) III contract. The LOGCAP III contract provides for civilian contractor logistical support, such as food services, transportation, laundry, and mail, for military operations in Iraq.
WASHINGTON—The former chief executive officer (CEO) of Taylor, Bean & Whitaker (TBW) was sentenced today to 40 months in prison for his role in a more than $2.9 billion fraud scheme that contributed to the failure of TBW. At one time, TBW was one of the largest privately held mortgage lending companies in the United States.
JOHN ASHCROFT, the Attorney General of the United States, DAVID N. KELLEY, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and PASQUALE D'AMURO, the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI New York Field Office, announced today the unsealing in Manhattan federal court of a Superseding Indictment charging BERNARD J. EBBERS, the former Chief Executive Officer and President of WorldCom, Inc. ("WorldCom"). The Superseding Indictment charges EBBERS with conspiracy and securities fraud in connection with his participation from September 2000 through June 2002 in a scheme to inflate artificially the price of WorldCom common stock by hiding from investors the truth about WorldCom's declining operating performance and financial results.
I disagree. The very problem is that the government does not fear it's citizens. They are not beholden to the citizens any more.
Utter rubbish. The United States continues to elect its governments as it always has. The bureaucracy is as dependent on the legislature and president as always.
The US has already lost it's war on terror - its government and its citizens live in terror every moment of every day.
What you wrote is true to the same extent that the stories of the spread of penis stealing and penis shrinking magic from Africa to Australia and New Zealand have left all men outside of the armed forces (BTW, aren't you Australian?) as angry, emasculated remnants of their former selves. Is it true? Shall we call you "Little Richard"? Or are both rubbish?
The worst part is the government fears its citizens and the citizens fear their government.
American citizens continue to control their government by means of elections. There are some members (no offense) of society that do bear watching. The price of getting it wrong is a bit high.
Detroit: ‘Underwear Bomber’ Sentenced to Life in Prison for Attempted Christmas Day Attack
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called “underwear bomber,” was sentenced to life in prison as a result of his guilty plea to all eight counts of a federal indictment charging him for his role in the attempted Christmas Day 2009 bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253.
Minneapolis: Ohio Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to Somali-Based Terror Group
Ahmed Hussein Mahamud pled guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to al Shabaab, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization, in its fight against the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG) and the Ethiopian military, which supports the TFG.
Chicago: Chicago Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Provide Funds to Support al Qaeda in Pakistan
Raja Lahrasib Khan, a Chicago taxi driver and native of Pakistan who personally provided hundreds of dollars to an alleged terrorist leader with whom he had met in his native Pakistan, pled guilty to attempting to provide additional funds to the same individual after learning he was working with al Qaeda.
Washington Field: Revolution Muslim Leader Guilty of Soliciting Murder, Promoting Extremism
Jesse Curtis Morton, aka Younus Abdullah Muhammed, pled guilty to using his position as a leader of Revolution Muslim Organization’s Internet sites to conspire to solicit murder, make threatening communications, and use the Internet to place others in fear.
Tampa: Florida Man Indicted for Attempting to Use Weapons of Mass Destruction
Sami Osmakac, of Pinellas Park, Florida, was charged with attempting to use weapons of mass destruction against persons and property in the U.S., as well as possessing an unregistered machine gun
Detroit: ‘Underwear Bomber’ Sentenced to Life in Prison for Attempted Christmas Day Attack
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called “underwear bomber,” was sentenced to life in prison as a result of his guilty plea to all eight counts of a federal indictment charging him for his role in the attempted Christmas Day 2009 bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253.
Minneapolis: Ohio Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to Somali-Based Terror Group
Ahmed Hussein Mahamud pled guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to al Shabaab, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization, in its fight against the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG) and the Ethiopian military, which supports the TFG.
Chicago: Chicago Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Provide Funds to Support al Qaeda in Pakistan
Raja Lahrasib Khan, a Chicago taxi driver and native of Pakistan who personally provided hundreds of dollars to an alleged terrorist leader with whom he had met in his native Pakistan, pled guilty to attempting to provide additional funds to the same individual after learning he was working with al Qaeda.
Washington Field: Revolution Muslim Leader Guilty of Soliciting Murder, Promoting Extremism
Jesse Curtis Morton, aka Younus Abdullah Muhammed, pled guilty to using his position as a leader of Revolution Muslim Organization’s Internet sites to conspire to solicit murder, make threatening communications, and use the Internet to place others in fear.
Tampa: Florida Man Indicted for Attempting to Use Weapons of Mass Destruction
Sami Osmakac, of Pinellas Park, Florida, was charged with attempting to use weapons of mass destruction against persons and property in the U.S., as well as possessing an unregistered machine gun
Denver: Man Arrested for Providing Material Support to a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization
Jamshid Muhtorov was arrested by members of the FBI’s Denver and Chicago Joint Terrorism Task Forces on a charge of providing and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic Jihad Union, a Pakistan-based designated foreign terrorist organization.
Baltimore: Man Pleads Guilty to Attempted Use of a Weapon of Mass Destruction in Plot to Attack Armed Forces Recruiting Center
U.S. citizen Antonio Martinez, aka Muhammad Hussain, pled guilty to attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction against federal property in connection with a scheme to attack an armed forces recruiting station in Catonsville, Maryland.
Washington Field: Man Pleads Guilty to Shootings at Pentagon, Other Military Buildings
What's the betting that protesters get way higher average sentences than the guy who has had too much to drink and is causing a nuisance in a public place.
Given the range of criminal behavior that the "Occupy" protesters have been involved with the chances are pretty high.
Nice try. He said "where brown people live" because that's where we are using bombs and where we most likely will use bombs next. Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb ba France? Where are we bombing non brown people? What country with non brown people could we possibly invade? We bomb brown people because the majority of American people don't think of them as people or civilized or whatever excuse they use to make killing people OK.
Just like the good ol' day of the crusades. Saracens aren't people so go get 'em boys.
In living memory, just barely, the United States has bombed or fought against multiple European countries, and several Asian countries, in more than one war. Those conflicts, like the present one, have nothing to do with racism and everything to do with the behavior of the people being bombed. Repeated attacks with the goal of mass killings of Americans isn't going to be acceptable regardless of the color of the nationals involved be they European or Arab. I will also point out, since you are apparently ignorant of the fact, than many Americans are non-white, and are fully accepted members of American society. Take the race baiting elsewhere.
So they will not be paid to teach as much as they will be paid to lead meetings... just what we need in the education system is less teaching and more meetings -not-
It really all depends on what you need from the "education" system, doesn't it?
than spent making and expending explosives where brown people live.
So, it's OK with you if people of other colors get bombed, just not "brown people"? What a splendid use of the highly over-used race baiting phrase "brown people" to demonstrate racism.
The six contributors to this book are all French, and all hail from the Left. The book's original publication in France created a sensation, because its cumulative effect is to establish that Communism is the twentieth century's fiercest practitioner of state violence and "crimes against humanity." It forthrightly challenges the claim that Nazism has a monopoly on "absolute political evil" in our time.
The chapters on the Soviet Union and China are as powerful as they are in large part because their authors, Nicolas Werth and Jean-Louis Margolin, avoid excessive polemics and allow the evidence to simply speak for itself. If anything, Werth is excessively conservative in his estimates, drawing almost exclusively from not always reliable "official" party and state archival materials to verify politically--inspired deaths and incarcerations in the Soviet Union. Despite the limits of this method, Werth concludes that the Bolshevik regime was responsible, directly or indirectly, for the deaths of 20 million people between 1918 and 1956, and for the imprisonment in camps of millions more. He demolishes the notion of a good Lenin and a bad Stalin by showing that terror defined the Soviet regime from its inception. And he concludes that there is no basis for the claim that the terror of the 1930s was driven by overzealous Party and police officials acting independently of orders.
Likewise, Margolin's chapter on China shows that the crimes of Maoism are rooted in ideological hubris and a denial of the humanity of political or class "enemies." Margolin demonstrates that Mao committed crimes unprecedented in Chinese history, and damaged the nation in everything from economics to ethics. The devastating consequences of Mao's rule: 65 million lost lives. Perhaps the deepest reason The Black Book has sparked controversy is that it argues Communism is as intrinsically perverse as Nazism. Editor Stephane Courtois argues that Communist crimes, like Nazi ones, partake of the desire to eliminate groups of people on the basis of their origins, not because of any individual culpability or responsibility. He denies that Communism's crimes have any right to be excused or qualified because they were committed in the name of egalitarian principles. Courtois shows that Communism is an exterminationist ideology which selects its enemies on the basis of class. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn suggested in The Gulag Archipelago that the USSR's war against the independent peasantry--the so-called "de-kulakization" campaign --was the first systematic effort to eliminate an entire class of people for ideological reasons. In this sense, Hitler was Lenin's and Stalin's faithful pupil.
The problem is, once the guy is extradited to anywhere else within US he can end in Minnesota or Texas, or whatever place they decide to send him in.
That is nonsense - absolute rubbish. American states are sovereign, each with their own laws and legal system. If you commit a crime under Minnesota law you can't and won't be handed over to Texas for trial for the crime in Minnesota. If the prosecution is for a federal crime, then the location doesn't matter - the law is the same.
US may not be as bad as North Korea, but it is every bit as bad as China these days.
And yet, for some odd reason, Chinese people keep moving to the United States.
Both are countries were justice is unreachable for common people, and where dominant groups do basically whatever they want.
At a trivial level that is trite. At a more profound level it is nonsense.
China censures information, US floods it in an ocean of propaganda and disinformation. In the end all is the same
So, the Chinese government jailing or oppressing people for expressing themselves on common topics, such as politics, is the same as Americans expressing themselves freely?
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No, the worst part is that OUR OWN LAWMAKERS are being restrained in what they can talk about.
This is a direct affront to the principle of congressional oversight.
Over time the legislature has determined that providing America's enemies with things such as its war plans and lists of its intelligence agents is a bad thing.
Congressional oversight occurs in hearings and results in votes, all of which continue all the same.
Third parties are at a disadvantage due to the American political system mitigating against extremes by its nature. The fight is for the middle - stray too far and you won't have enough support to be elected. That is why the media has had to work overtime on behalf of certain candidates. The police are most likely to behave as you suggest when they either have the wrong address, or the offense involved is one prone to involvement with violence, such as drug cases. The executive branch has zero power to declare laws, although it can regulate. None of what you wrote negates what I wrote. The bureaucracy is as dependent on the legislature and president as always.
And when you step back and ask, "Who ARE they afraid of?", I just think about where the politicians' money is coming from.
And I keep coming up with one answer: very wealthy business men hiding behind their corporations and Super PACs.
If what your wrote is true, the events listed below should be impossible. Since the events below actually happened, what you wrote is absolute rubbish.
Former Chairman and CEO of Kellogg, Brown & Root Inc. Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Foreign Bribery and Kickback Schemes
U.S. Sues Kellogg, Brown & Root for Alleged False Claims Act Violations Over Improper Costs for Private Security in Iraq
Former TBW CEO Sentenced to 40 Months in Prison for Fraud Scheme
U.S. Charges Ex-Worldcom CEO Bernard Ebbers
Two Former Canopy Financial Co-Founders Sentenced to 15 and 1
I disagree. The very problem is that the government does not fear it's citizens. They are not beholden to the citizens any more.
Utter rubbish. The United States continues to elect its governments as it always has. The bureaucracy is as dependent on the legislature and president as always.
The US has already lost it's war on terror - its government and its citizens live in terror every moment of every day.
What you wrote is true to the same extent that the stories of the spread of penis stealing and penis shrinking magic from Africa to Australia and New Zealand have left all men outside of the armed forces (BTW, aren't you Australian?) as angry, emasculated remnants of their former selves. Is it true? Shall we call you "Little Richard"? Or are both rubbish?
The worst part is the government fears its citizens and the citizens fear their government.
American citizens continue to control their government by means of elections. There are some members (no offense) of society that do bear watching. The price of getting it wrong is a bit high.
Horror at Fort Hood: Gunman Nidal Malik Hasan kills 13, wounds 31 in rampage on Texas Army base
FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending February 17, 2012
FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending February 10, 2012
FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending February 3, 2012
FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending January 27, 2012
....why in the hell did they start the massive gov't surveillance programs in the first place. Did they not think the Dems would 'improve' upon them?
Hard to say, . . . I guess it will be an eternal mystery.
Horror at Fort Hood: Gunman Nidal Malik Hasan kills 13, wounds 31 in rampage on Texas Army base
FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending February 17, 2012
FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending February 10, 2012
FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending February 3, 2012
FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending January 27, 2012
My goodness . . . I thought dissent was the highest civic duty, but it looks like "Occupy" partisans don't tolerate dissent. Will wonders ever cease?
But, here again is the link: Occupy Wall Street Blotter
I'm not trolling, I'm completely serious. . . as are some of the criminal charges.
Or maybe they do know it, but just need evidence that will stand up in court.
Some protesters doing that is not a reason to blame all of them or be harsher on all of them.
No, but the protesters that were doing it don't deserver lighter sentences because they were protesters either.
What's the betting that protesters get way higher average sentences than the guy who has had too much to drink and is causing a nuisance in a public place.
Given the range of criminal behavior that the "Occupy" protesters have been involved with the chances are pretty high.
Of course members of the "Occupy" movement have engaged in far more serious behavior: Occupy Wall Street Blotter
...that even in the 15th century, you still had to ensure you protected your washing line from underwear fetishists.....
You think the lady doth undress too much?
This scientific achievement clearly ranks right up there with discovery of the Higgs Boson. Is there a Nobel prize for underpants?
Perhaps this discovery could be titled the discovery of the Higgs Bosom covering?
Since "Grammar Catholics" has no time-reference, I suppose a good version could be "Beware the Henry VIII Grammar Anglicans" instead ?
Surely you jest? Henry VIII's Grammar Anglicans? As a descendant of Huguenots you can't expect . .
Knock, knock . . . Smash! . . .
Ah ha!! Nobody expects the Anglican grammaticians!* . . . Cardinal Biggles! Read the charges!
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* Nope, not made up! And I won't stop calling you Shirley.
What a splendid parody of defending stupid race baiting.
Nice try. He said "where brown people live" because that's where we are using bombs and where we most likely will use bombs next. Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb ba France? Where are we bombing non brown people? What country with non brown people could we possibly invade? We bomb brown people because the majority of American people don't think of them as people or civilized or whatever excuse they use to make killing people OK.
Just like the good ol' day of the crusades. Saracens aren't people so go get 'em boys.
In living memory, just barely, the United States has bombed or fought against multiple European countries, and several Asian countries, in more than one war. Those conflicts, like the present one, have nothing to do with racism and everything to do with the behavior of the people being bombed. Repeated attacks with the goal of mass killings of Americans isn't going to be acceptable regardless of the color of the nationals involved be they European or Arab. I will also point out, since you are apparently ignorant of the fact, than many Americans are non-white, and are fully accepted members of American society. Take the race baiting elsewhere.
So they will not be paid to teach as much as they will be paid to lead meetings... just what we need in the education system is less teaching and more meetings -not-
It really all depends on what you need from the "education" system, doesn't it?
Teachers’ Unions 101: ‘A’ Is for ‘Agitation’
As long as they don't teach critical thinking.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/texas-gop-rejects-critical-thinking-skills-really/2012/07/08/gJQAHNpFXW_blog.html
I'm guessing you're safe for a teaching position.
than spent making and expending explosives where brown people live.
So, it's OK with you if people of other colors get bombed, just not "brown people"? What a splendid use of the highly over-used race baiting phrase "brown people" to demonstrate racism.
The second link is to "World Net Daily", a site that has about as much credibility as the John Birch Society.
Allow me -
Chinese step up computer espionage against United States
The Evolution of Espionage: Beijing’s Red Spider Web
Chinese telecom firm tied to spy ministry
Exactly!
Well said. To which I will add this reference:
The Black Book of Communism - translated by Jonathan Murphy and Mark Kramer - available at Barnes & Nobel and Amazon.
Review by Daniel J. Mahoney, American Enterprise, of: The Black Book of Communism
The six contributors to this book are all French, and all hail from the Left. The book's original publication in France created a sensation, because its cumulative effect is to establish that Communism is the twentieth century's fiercest practitioner of state violence and "crimes against humanity." It forthrightly challenges the claim that Nazism has a monopoly on "absolute political evil" in our time.
The chapters on the Soviet Union and China are as powerful as they are in large part because their authors, Nicolas Werth and Jean-Louis Margolin, avoid excessive polemics and allow the evidence to simply speak for itself. If anything, Werth is excessively conservative in his estimates, drawing almost exclusively from not always reliable "official" party and state archival materials to verify politically--inspired deaths and incarcerations in the Soviet Union. Despite the limits of this method, Werth concludes that the Bolshevik regime was responsible, directly or indirectly, for the deaths of 20 million people between 1918 and 1956, and for the imprisonment in camps of millions more. He demolishes the notion of a good Lenin and a bad Stalin by showing that terror defined the Soviet regime from its inception. And he concludes that there is no basis for the claim that the terror of the 1930s was driven by overzealous Party and police officials acting independently of orders.
Likewise, Margolin's chapter on China shows that the crimes of Maoism are rooted in ideological hubris and a denial of the humanity of political or class "enemies." Margolin demonstrates that Mao committed crimes unprecedented in Chinese history, and damaged the nation in everything from economics to ethics. The devastating consequences of Mao's rule: 65 million lost lives. Perhaps the deepest reason The Black Book has sparked controversy is that it argues Communism is as intrinsically perverse as Nazism. Editor Stephane Courtois argues that Communist crimes, like Nazi ones, partake of the desire to eliminate groups of people on the basis of their origins, not because of any individual culpability or responsibility. He denies that Communism's crimes have any right to be excused or qualified because they were committed in the name of egalitarian principles. Courtois shows that Communism is an exterminationist ideology which selects its enemies on the basis of class. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn suggested in The Gulag Archipelago that the USSR's war against the independent peasantry--the so-called "de-kulakization" campaign --was the first systematic effort to eliminate an entire class of people for ideological reasons. In this sense, Hitler was Lenin's and Stalin's faithful pupil.
Why Doesn't Communism Have as Bad a Name as Nazism?
The problem is, once the guy is extradited to anywhere else within US he can end in Minnesota or Texas, or whatever place they decide to send him in.
That is nonsense - absolute rubbish. American states are sovereign, each with their own laws and legal system. If you commit a crime under Minnesota law you can't and won't be handed over to Texas for trial for the crime in Minnesota. If the prosecution is for a federal crime, then the location doesn't matter - the law is the same.
US may not be as bad as North Korea, but it is every bit as bad as China these days.
And yet, for some odd reason, Chinese people keep moving to the United States.
Both are countries were justice is unreachable for common people, and where dominant groups do basically whatever they want.
At a trivial level that is trite. At a more profound level it is nonsense.
China censures information, US floods it in an ocean of propaganda and disinformation. In the end all is the same
So, the Chinese government jailing or oppressing people for expressing themselves on common topics, such as politics, is the same as Americans expressing themselves freely?
Chine has been buying up hard assets.