Founding Freedoms Jan 2006

01-04-06 November Jobs Created 225,000...First Time Unemployment Claims 395,000. You may remember that just before the Christmas / holidays BushCo went on the news to brag about the fact that there (finally) was a decent number of new jobs created, but what they didn't tell anyone is that more people filed for first time unemployment claims, which means less people had a job at the end of the month then at the beginning of the month. So BushCo still has less people working now 5 years after he became president than before he was "Appointed" president. in 2000.

01-06-06 Could It Be That Ashcroft Left Because Of The BushCo Spying Program? On Jan 1st the NY Times reported a story that just died. The story reported about when Attorney General John Ashcroft, who was hospitalized for gallbladder surgery it seems that Andrew H. Card Jr., and Alberto R. Gonzales went to the hospital to persuade Ashcroft to approve the spying without a court order and Ashcroft told them flat out it was illegal.

01-06-06 Abramoff Could Become The New 6 Degrees Game. It seems that among other thing Mohamed Atta one of the 911 hijackers, made several trips on Abramoff gambling cruse ships. He also gave over $100,000.00 to Bush, and Bush is now returning $6,000.00 what about the other $94,000.00 George? Abramoff has ties to Grover G. Norquist, a leading conservative strategist and president of Americans for Tax Reform, and Ralph Reed, the former director of the Christian Coalition who is now a candidate for lieutenant governor in Georgia. Abramoff's former personal assistant once worked for Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political strategist. Then there is Chris Matthews, yes Chris Matthews, and Rick Santorum, Tom Delay and Bob Ney, Dennis Hastert, and David H. Safavian, who was the head of the White House procurement office. The List goes on and on and on, In total Abramoff gave $4.4 Million to over 200 Republican candidates and campaign committees since 1999.

I'm Going To Start Out By Lying To You... Again. (Smile Snicker) Because I think That You Are Nothing But A Bunch Of DUMB BASTARDS (Big Toothy Smile, Snicker). I'm Going To Throw In A Lot Of Reasons For You To Be Afraid Of Problems That I Helped Create. I Took Away Most Of The Social Programs For Most Americans, And Gave The Money To My Base (Really Big Smile) The Really Rich! Them I Threw People In Prison Because I Said I Could, I Tortured Them, and Stole The Oil Of Other Countries, (Smile, Pause) Because My Friends Wanted It (Smile Snicker). I Bet That Really Pissed A Lot Of People Off (Smile Snicker, Snicker)... You Know This Is Hard Work! (Big Smile Snicker, Snicker)... As I Said I Think That You Are A Bunch Of Dumb Bastards, And I Am The President, (Smile Snicker, Snicker, Snicker)...No Make That King...(Bigger Smile, Snicker), And You Dumb Bastards Will Do Whatever I Tell You To... (Frown Then Smile Turning To A Snicker) And You Will Kiss My Ass, (Frownie Smile) Weather You Like It Or Not, Because I'm King George. (Really Big Smile and A Snicker)

01-08-06 First Our Jobs, Now Our Money. Reagan than now Bush and the rest of the Republican party insisted that if we gave tax cuts to the extremely wealthy (by borrowing the money from our children), that they would spend it creating jobs. Guess again in an article in the NY Times today it explains how the money is now invested in foreign Stock markets, to the tune of $149 Billion more in 2005 than in previous years. Don't keep a sack ready for all that money BushCo promised you keep a bar of soap and towel handy because the trickle down you feel on your head ain't money.

01-12-06 From The Daily Kos And The Washington Post: Bush to criminalize protesters under Patriot Act as "disruptors....a little-noticed provision of the latest version of the USA Patriot Act bill, arguing that it would give the Secret Service wider latitude to charge protesters accused of disrupting major events including political conventions and the Olympics...The measure is the latest point of contention in a GOP (Republican)-approved conference bill that would make permanent most parts of the Patriot Act anti-terrorism law and would renew two other provisions for four years.

You Can Do Something. Take the time to Call Your Congressmen or Email them and tell them that you think that this is just WRONG, Unless You Like having Your Freedom Of speech Taken Away...A freedom given to us all by the deaths of our founding fathers with the blood of their family members in the creation of this country.

01-12-06 The Next Time Someone Tells You That The Democrats Took Money From Jack Abramoff.

Play This Sound Clip From Howard Dean. Click here to Play, Right Click and "save as" to keep

01-17-06 Click Here To Hear The Full Speech By Al Gore Yesterday. Amongst other thing he talks about the Bush Administration reaching for a power grab not intended by the Constitution and it's framers, as well as the illegality of their wiretapping. It really Is Well Worth Listening to.

01-18-06 The Pimping of the Presidency. Jack Abramoff and Grover Norquist Billing Clients for Face Time with G.W. Bush. It started just 4 months after Bush was sworn in that if you wanted access to the president to discuss a political matter or any other matter you had to pay for the privilege. Click here for the Full story or Here If Link Is down

01-20-06 Louise Slaughter On The Majority Report On Wednesday Reveled That Delay And Frist, had day traders working out of their offices. That gave the day traders the inside track on what stocks to buy at a lower price prior to the passing of laws that would cause a stock to go up. And Martha Stewart went to prison Why? Louise Slaughter's Web addresses: On-line Office , Election Page

01-21-06 Alberto R. Gonzales Claims The Power Of A Monarchy For The Presidency. Gonzales claimed the under the Constitution, which he does not as I pointed out before. "If you review the legislative history of FISA, you will find Attorney General Griffin Bell testifying before the intelligence committee saying this was specifically passed to prevent a president from claiming inherent presidential powers to do this again." Do you now see why Bush wants Alito on the Supreme Court? There are 2 reasons, Alito believes in the "Monarchy Presidency" and will agree that Bush can spy on Americans, because he can. Then The second is if things go really bad and it winds up before the Supreme Court Alito will come to the rescue and again twist the law to let Bush off, you know the Republican favor game, that Abramoff used.

01-25-06 For those of you that missed it... When Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales gave his speech at George town university he was greeted with a group of students reminding him what one of our founders once said about our security.

Protesters turning their backs on Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales's speech yesterday at Georgetown University. C-SPAN aired this for the length of his speech. I wonder why they were not "escorted out" the way so many others have been in the past? Could it be because the entire hall was filled with lawyers and student lawyers?

01-26-06 Click Here For Audio (1.5Mb) Of Howard Dean On NBC Morning Show With Katy Couric. Dean was ready for bear and put Katy in Her place. The Question is will Katy ever report back that Howard Dean was right about... "Not One Democrat, Got One Dime From Jack Abramoff". You would think that a news program would have gotten the research right before going on the air with a bunch of False Republican talking points.

01-26-06 Voting News…More Reasons Not To Trust Diebold, Or Their Election Results. When the Alaska Democratic Party looked at the official tallies for the 2004 elections, and then they looked at the tallies that Diebold had released they discovered a discrepancy. So when they went to the state and brought it to their attention the numbers that the state was posting on its web site not match what Diebold is saying the asked to see the original files? In fact Kay Brown said, “We must be able to verify the accuracy of our elections, its fundamental to the whole process, the people can have confidence in the election results, so the states division of elections refusal to let us have the file”, Because the state said no you cannot see the data files, Kay Brown said the just means that the data that they are using for past elections and the data they are using for future elections will not be subject to public review and this is wrong, and we need to get this situation straightened out.” Now before you reach for your now very worn “Tin Foil Hat” It appears that the state wanted to turn over the files but, (well maybe now you can start reaching for the hat now). Alaska found that the could not turn over the files, because in Alaska just as in a large part of the Unites States they found that the votes had been outsourced, to a private corporation, and in Alaska the cooperation is Diebold as in much of the US, Diebold said “We will not show you those files or give you access to them, they are proprietary, and they represent trade secrets, the files belong to Diebold election systems and you may not have it”. There were over 2000 absentee ballots that appear to not have been counted and unless they can have access to the files they will not be able to understand what caused this and other Bazaar inaccuracies in the 2004 elections. Miss Brown went ton to say “These votes belong to us, these are a public record, it’s wrong that a contractor like Diebold can keep us from seeing the record”.

Now do you see why I keep saying that it is completely insane to privatize the vote? A private corporation now stops us from seeing a public record.

01-30-06 Remember That Conservative For Hundreds Of Years Meant Aristocracy. Think about that the next time you run into someone who calls themselves a conservative Republican. Than ask them if they like to be ruled by a king... which by the way King... is just another word for Dictator!

1-30-06 09:07 PM According To ABC News Cindy Sheehan Was Invited By A Californian Congressmen to Attend, And Had A Front Row Seat for Tonight's State Of The Union Speech, But Was Arrested Before she Even Got There.

Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed serving as a U.S. serviceman in Iraq, is escorted by security personnel into the U.S. House of Representatives chamber for the State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington January 31, 2006.

Sheehan talks with security personnel in the House chamber after arriving for the State of the Union address. She was escorted back out of the chamber and later charged with "demonstrating within the Capitol."

Sheehan is then rushed out of the House chamber by security personnel. After being arrested on a misdemeanor, approximately 60 demonstrators rallied near the U.S. Capitol. Sheehan was wearing a shirt that read "2,242 Dead" and "Veterans for Peace."

The Presidential Oath of Office Directly From The Constitution: I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

What Really Happened.

by CindySheehan

Wed Feb 01, 2006 at 03:19:44 AM EST

Dear Friends,

As most of you have probably heard, I was arrested before the State of the Union Address tonight.

I am speechless with fury at what happened and with grief over what we have lost in our country.

CindySheehan's diary :: ::

There have been lies from the police and distortions by the press. (Shocker) So this is what really happened:

This afternoon at the People's State of the Union Address in DC where I was joined by Congresspersons Lynn Woolsey and John Conyers, Ann Wright, Malik Rahim and John Cavanagh, Lynn brought me a ticket to the State of the Union Address. At that time, I was wearing the shirt that said: 2245 Dead. How many more?

After the PSOTU press conference, I was having second thoughts about going to the SOTU at the Capitol. I didn't feel comfortable going. I knew George Bush would say things that would hurt me and anger me and I knew that I couldn't disrupt the address because Lynn had given me the ticket and I didn't want to be disruptive out of respect for her. I, in fact, had given the ticket to John Bruhns who is in Iraq Veterans Against the War. However, Lynn's office had already called the media and everyone knew I was going to be there so I sucked it up and went.

I got the ticket back from John, and I met one of Congresswoman Barbara Lee's staffers in the Longworth Congressional Office building and we went to the Capitol via the undergroud tunnel. I went through security once, then had to use the rest room and went through security again.

My ticket was in the 5th gallery, front row, fourth seat in. The person who in a few minutes was to arrest me, helped me to my seat.

I had just sat down and I was warm from climbing 3 flights of stairs back up from the bathroom so I unzipped my jacket. I turned to the right to take my left arm out, when the same officer saw my shirt and yelled; "Protester." He then ran over to me, hauled me out of my seat and roughly (with my hands behind my back) shoved me up the stairs. I said something like "I'm going, do you have to be so rough?" By the way, his name is Mike Weight.

The officer ran with me to the elevators yelling at everyone to move out of the way. When we got to the elevators, he cuffed me and took me outside to await a squad car. On the way out, someone behind me said, "That's Cindy Sheehan." At which point the officer who arrested me said: "Take these steps slowly." I said, "You didn't care about being careful when you were dragging me up the other steps." He said, "That's because you were protesting." Wow, I get hauled out of the People's House because I was, "Protesting."

I was never told that I couldn't wear that shirt into the Congress. I was never asked to take it off or zip my jacket back up. If I had been asked to do any of those things...I would have, and written about the suppression of my freedom of speech later. I was immediately, and roughly (I have the bruises and muscle spasms to prove it) hauled off and arrested for "unlawful conduct."

After I had my personal items inventoried and my fingers printed, a nice Sgt. came in and looked at my shirt and said, "2245, huh? I just got back from there."

I told him that my son died there. That's when the enormity of my loss hit me. I have lost my son. I have lost my First Amendment rights. I have lost the country that I love. Where did America go? I started crying in pain.

What did Casey die for? What did the 2244 other brave young Americans die for? What are tens of thousands of them over there in harm's way for still? For this? I can't even wear a shrit that has the number of troops on it that George Bush and his arrogant and ignorant policies are responsible for killing.

I wore the shirt to make a statement. The press knew I was going to be there and I thought every once in awhile they would show me and I would have the shirt on. I did not wear it to be disruptive, or I would have unzipped my jacket during George's speech. If I had any idea what happens to people who wear shirts that make the neocons uncomfortable that I would be arrested...maybe I would have, but I didn't.

I have some lawyers looking into filing a First Amendment lawsuit against the government for what happened tonight. I will file it. It is time to take our freedoms and our country back.

I don't want to live in a country that prohibits any person, whether he/she has paid the ulitmate price for that country, from wearing, saying, writing, or telephoning any negative statements about the government. That's why I am going to take my freedoms and liberties back. That's why I am not going to let Bushco take anything else away from me...or you.

I am so appreciative of the couple of hundred of protesters who came to the jail while I was locked up to show their support....we have so much potential for good...there is so much good in so many people.

Four hours and 2 jails after I was arrested, I was let out. Again, I am so upset and sore it is hard to think straight.

Now do you see why I keep saying that it is completely insane to privatize the vote? A private corporation now stops us from seeing a public record.

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01-12-06 Why Is It Not A Lie When Alito Lies To Congress, He Was Only Trying To Get A Job, and It’s Not Important. If It’s Ok To Lie To Get A Job Then, How Do We Know He Is Not Lying To Us Now ? Aren’t Republican Double Standards are Just Grand ?

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01-11-06 This Is a Copy Of Two Letters I sent To My Reprehensive. If You Wish to Do the same Use This Link

After researching Judge Alito on the web for several days and now listening to the hearings, I am convinced that this is someone who does not belong on the highest court in the land.

Why is it that when the Republicans were on a tare to get President Bill Clinton the telling the truth was the most important standard to live up to. Why is it now Judge Alito lied in the past about several points from Job application to not reusing himself from cases that he stood to profit from, it’s not lying. Why is it the republicans now say that it’s ok to be un-truthful on a job application? If that’s the case, which is it, was he lying then and not now, is he lying again? This is not the time to take a chance on him, for this job.

We do not need someone who dreamed up the “signing clause” that President Bush used that basically said that I sigh this bill into law but If I wand to just Ignore it I can, as though he is some sort of King.

I for one am disgusted with the duplicity in the Republican Party and their two sets of standards.

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