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So, the Army is the next casualty of Bush politics: LINK . Here’s a nice passage:

“He (Lieutenant General James D. Thurman, deputy chief of staff for operations) said he hoped, but couldn’t promise, that if demand stabilized at around 15 brigades, the use of stop-loss could be completed by the end of budget year 2009, or beginning of budget year 2010.

Those currently being held even though their service is supposed to be finished include more than 6,800 active-duty Army personnel, about 3,800 in the Army National Guard and close to 1,500 in the Reserves, he said.”

So, you sign a contract with the US government, to serve a certain amount of time, say 4 years. Once the 4 years are up, you are done, the contract is finished. If you try to breach the contract by leaving early, they can put you in jail. Stop-loss means the government does not have to fulfill it’s promise. They can just say you have to stay longer, and even though your 4 years are up, you can’t leave. If you do, they put you in jail. Nice freedoms, huh?

Heckuva job Bushie!

There is a country:
- being a practicing Christian is punishable by imprisonment or deportation, or torture

- women have few or no rights; from Wiki: The testimony of a woman is not regarded as fact but as presumption. The reasons women are forbidden to testify in proceedings are (quote):

1. Women are much more emotional than men and will, as a result of their emotions, distort their testimony.
2. Women do not participate in public life, so they will not be capable of understanding what they observe.
3. Women are dominated completely by men, who by the grace of God are deemed superior; therefore, women will give testimony according to what the last man told them.
4. Women are forgetful, and their testimony cannot be considered reliable.

- the majority of funding for terrorists comes from there: link . Here is a nice quote:
WASHINGTON – [Country X] remains the world’s leading source of money for Al Qaeda and other extremist networks and has failed to take key steps requested by U.S. officials to stem the flow, the Bush administration’s top financial counter-terrorism official said Tuesday.

- over 75% of the 9/11 hijackers came from there.

That country is Saudi Arabia, and President Bush likes them. They are our allies. From the White House web site : “Today, we renewed our personal friendship and that between our nations.”

I’m sure it has nothing to do with oil. It would be kind of sad to cozy up to the terrorist’s financiers and backers just because they are rich.

BP

Take a look at this: article on waterboarding. Remember, we hung Japanese officers for waterboarding US servicemen as documented .

It is certainly against the law to waterboard. There is no question, as the above article makes clear: “In 1983, federal prosecutors charged a Texas sheriff and three of his deputies with violating prisoners’ civil rights by forcing confessions. The complaint alleged that the officers conspired to “subject prisoners to a suffocating water torture ordeal in order to coerce confessions. This generally included the placement of a towel over the nose and mouth of the prisoner and the pouring of water in the towel until the prisoner began to move, jerk, or otherwise indicate that he was suffocating and/or drowning.”

The four defendants were convicted, and the sheriff was sentenced to 10 years in prison. “

It is a crime, worth 10 years in prison. And our government has done it. Now the question is: do we actually follow the law, believe in the law, and enforce the law? Or do we let certain people off?

As of now, we do not follow the law, it is a land of men, not laws.

BP

Well, it is looking like America is going to attack another country, again, without any Declaration of War. The President, and Vice President, appear to be planning to attack Iran, without Congressional approval, and without discussion.

This is completely opposite to the Constitution, which stipulates that ONLY Congress can declare war. This rule was intended to stop a run-away President from attacking on his own. This is precisely what President Bush is going to do, anyway.

So the real question becomes, what will YOU do when the Constitution is completely discarded, and a rogue President becomes a military dictator?

BP

Welcome to the United States of America. The rules are:

- every person is assigned a number, and this number is your ID
- all of your communications, including email, phone calls, etc, can be monitored with no notice and no warrant
- your reading choices at the library can be monitored without notice
- you can be searched at any time, without a warrant, including your car
- your sex acts are controlled and restricted. What you do, how you do it, who you do it with.
- you can only ingest approved substances (ie, tobacco, alcohol), and ingesting other natural substances can get you thrown into prison.
- you can be declared an enemy of the State, and taken in the middle of the night, imprisoned without charges and without legal representation, for as long as the State wants
- you can be flown to a “black site” where you can be tortured with no recourse
- you will pay a lot of taxes (sales, income, fees, etc), but have no right to health care

Ain’t Freedom grand?

BP