The Bush Chain Gang visited the weekly peace vigil last night at 100 South State Street:
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If you read this short article carefully, you will see how it is framed to make readeres think that most Americans think votes will be counted accurately.
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Spotted on 10/19, by an eagle-eyed Wonkette reader: The Mid-Atlantic Shredding Services truck making its way up to the Cheney compound at the Naval Observatory.
Fun fact: Mid-Atlantic Shredding Services has been contracted by the Secret Service for our Executive Branch’s record-not-keeping needs.
The present contractor providing Pickup & Destruction of Sensitive Waste Material services is Mid Atlantic Shredding Services and the current rate is $0.095 cents per lbs.
You better get crackin’, Dick — that evidence won’t destroy itself!
(link to story shamelessly stolen from Project for an Old American Century)
Bush Moves Toward Martial Law
Frank Morales
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.
October 26, 2006
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.
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.”
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.”
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Last night the Bush Chain Gang made its official debut in Sugarhouse. People seemed receptive and enjoyed (after double-takes) the giant figures. The Gang will be spending Halloween in Sugarhouse and each Thursday at the weekly peace vigil, 100 South State Street, Salt Lake City. The Gang will be making appearances at other venues throughout the month of November.
(Pictured below: Rice, Rove, Bush ~ Cheney decided to attend a costume party elsewhere….)
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The Bush Chain Gang is in Salt Lake and will be milling around the streets between now and the end of November. Three of the four made an appearance at a local event last night in Salt Lake:
Dick Cheney
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I love the daily graphics on Project for an Old American Century. Here is today’s:
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Editor’s note: Kevin Tillman joined the Army with his brother Pat in 2002, and they served together in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pat was killed in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004. Kevin, who was discharged in 2005, has written a powerful, must-read document.
Much has happened since we handed over our voice:
Somehow we were sent to invade a nation because it was a direct threat to the American people, or to the world, or harbored terrorists, or was involved in the September 11 attacks, or received weapons-grade uranium from Niger, or had mobile weapons labs, or WMD, or had a need to be liberated, or we needed to establish a democracy, or stop an insurgency, or stop a civil war we created that can’t be called a civil war even though it is. Something like that.
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Somehow our elected leaders were subverting international law and humanity by setting up secret prisons around the world, secretly kidnapping people, secretly holding them indefinitely, secretly not charging them with anything, secretly torturing them. Somehow that overt policy of torture became the fault of a few “bad apples” in the military.
Somehow back at home, support for the soldiers meant having a five-year-old kindergartener scribble a picture with crayons and send it overseas, or slapping stickers on cars, or lobbying Congress for an extra pad in a helmet. It’s interesting that a soldier on his third or fourth tour should care about a drawing from a five-year-old; or a faded sticker on a car as his friends die around him; or an extra pad in a helmet, as if it will protect him when an IED throws his vehicle 50 feet into the air as his body comes apart and his skin melts to the seat.
Somehow the more soldiers that die, the more legitimate the illegal invasion becomes.
Somehow American leadership, whose only credit is lying to its people and illegally invading a nation, has been allowed to steal the courage, virtue and honor of its soldiers on the ground.
Somehow those afraid to fight an illegal invasion decades ago are allowed to send soldiers to die for an illegal invasion they started.
Somehow faking character, virtue and strength is tolerated.
Somehow profiting from tragedy and horror is tolerated.
Somehow the death of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people is tolerated.
Somehow subversion of the Bill of Rights and The Constitution is tolerated.
Somehow suspension of Habeas Corpus is supposed to keep this country safe.
Somehow torture is tolerated.
Somehow lying is tolerated.
Somehow reason is being discarded for faith, dogma, and nonsense.
Somehow American leadership managed to create a more dangerous world.
Somehow a narrative is more important than reality.
Somehow America has become a country that projects everything that it is not and condemns everything that it is.
Somehow the most reasonable, trusted and respected country in the world has become one of the most irrational, belligerent, feared, and distrusted countries in the world.
Somehow being politically informed, diligent, and skeptical has been replaced by apathy through active ignorance.
Somehow the same incompetent, narcissistic, virtueless, vacuous, malicious criminals are still in charge of this country.
Somehow this is tolerated.
Somehow nobody is accountable for this.
In a democracy, the policy of the leaders is the policy of the people. So don’t be shocked when our grandkids bury much of this generation as traitors to the nation, to the world and to humanity. Most likely, they will come to know that “somehow” was nurtured by fear, insecurity and indifference, leaving the country vulnerable to unchecked, unchallenged parasites.
Luckily this country is still a democracy. People still have a voice. People still can take action. It can start after Pat’s birthday.
Brother and Friend of Pat Tillman,
Kevin Tillman
I saw with excitement that the article about the SLCo District 5 race, in which I am a candidate, was published in today’s paper. As I read the article I became sorely disppointed that I was mentioned once as a candidate running. The entire article focuse on the GOP having a “firm hold” in this race and the republican candidate is expected to win. (This explains why I haven’t seen any signs of the republican candidate.)
The article very generously gave time to both the republican and democrat candidate, with quotes from them both and answers to questions they were asked and I was not.
Needless to say, I’m not happy. I feel I have been discriminated against, even though I paid the same filing fee and have completed all the required paperwork reqire to run for this office.
I would appreciate anyone who feels inclined to write a letter of disppointment to the editor of the Tribune regarding this.
Here is my response to the article’s author:
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As prices plummet at the gas pumps, Utah’s oil refineries aren’t diclosing how much money they are making.
Utah’s five oil refineries snubbed official requests for financial information — even inquiries that were part of an investigation ordered by Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.
A Utah official says refineries are refusing to cooperate with a state probe into gas prices and are gouging consumers.
“The refineries essentially flipped us off and said, ‘We’re not giving you any numbers,'” says Francine Giani, executive director of the Utah Department of Commerce, who led a state probe into gas prices. The Salt Lake-area refineries, she said, have demonstrated a wholesale disregard for any requests for information. “They don’t want consumers to know exactly how much they are making.
“Are we getting gouged? The answer is still yes,” Giani said.
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Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 