Circular Logic

Recent News reports that Obama says those who actually did the physical torture of detainees cannot be tried for their crimes because they were “just following orders.” On the other hand, “those who ordered the torture cannot be tried as they only ordered it – They did not physically participate in the torture.” Therefore no one can be tried for torture. This is a perfect case of Circular Logic.

And a Carbon Copy of the Nuremberg Defense used by Nazi Torturers. Which didn’t save them. Bush, Obama, Congress, Cheney, Political Parties, people, are you listening? Continue reading →

Smaller Stimulus Leaves Room for Restructuring

For the past 30 years, an increasingly socialist U.S. Congress has drastically overspent in its errant attempt to ‘help’ everyone. In so doing, it has depleted the wealth of a hugely productive economy by consistently encouraging citizens to consume more than they produce. Today, America’s standard of living is financed largely by depreciation of the U.S. dollar, high taxation and by massive borrowing, from citizens, foreigners and from future generations. FULL ARTICLE

Forgive and Forget?

When Nixon was about to be impeached, he or his aides must have glanced at the Constitution and realized there is no pardon after impeachment. He agreed to resign, be pardoned and that would be the end of it. Many of us protested this ploy, but the Ford Admin said, “We must move on and put this behind us,” and, “Impeaching the President would denigrate the Presidency!”

What could denigrate the Office of the President more than letting murderous, thieving crooks rob the treasury, lie us into wars and condemn millions to death or ruin? What is more impeachable than to take an oath to “Protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” then refer to it as a “Just a God-damned piece of paper.”? Continue reading →

America’s Shame

Be a Proud American. Swagger and strut. Pretend that you are not besmirched by the shame that your government has heaped upon you. Take refuge in your ignorance, fostered by 60 years of Israeli lies, that the murder of Palestinians and the theft of their lands is “Israel’s right of self-defense.”  FULL ARTICLE

Why Congress Must Stop the Fed's Massive Pumping

As in the case of money-printing policy, if the pool of real savings is declining, massive government outlays cannot revive the economy; on the contrary, they will make things much worse. The only way fiscal stimulus could “work” is if the pool of real savings is still growing. The increase in economic activity when the pool of real savings is expanding is erroneously attributed to the government’s loose fiscal policy. If the pool is shrinking, real economic activity will continue to decline – regardless of any increase in government outlays. Again, government is not a wealth-generating entity; the more it spends, the more it takes from wealth generators, thereby weakening any prospects for a recovery. FULL ARTICLE

Obama and Congress Must Act to Restore the Constitution

Obama, running for the White House, initially talked of restoring the constitutional order, and of prosecuting crimes where they had occurred, much as he talked of ending the war in Iraq. But now, as he increasingly assumes the role of President, he is backing away from that kind of talk, with plans instead to extend the war and occupation in Iraq for years, while actually expanding the war in Afghanistan, and to give the outgoing administration of criminals and Constitution-wreckers a free pass, in the name of “letting bygones be bygones.” Ironically, he is doing this even as some in Congress, including House Judiciary Chair John Conyers, who ducked the issue of impeachment and sat on proposed impeachment articles against Bush and Cheney filed by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) for two critical years when he could have ordered a formal hearing by his committee, are now calling for a special prosecutor. FULL ARTICLE

Legacy empowerment in American politics

Rod Blagojevich, America’s newest political bad boy, now subject of impeachment by Illinois’ lawmakers intent on vanquishing him from the governor’s post, is an overt and crude example of how politics function in this nation. Overt this time, in the tradition of dirty, in your face, defiant politics that have forever, it seems, accosted Illinois, and more specifically, Chicago. FULL ARTICLE

Subsidizing Misemployment

The “Big Three” represent all that is bad in American industry. They may be past the point where even radical surgery can help. However, like an organ donor, many of the resources now poorly utilized by these companies could offer tremendous value to more vibrant manufacturers. FULL ARTICLE

The Silent Votes

by Wayne Bruce Allbin

The door into this millennium opens upon a universe of possibilities. We’ve experienced thousands of years of forms of government all of which were deformed by the power which they concentrated. Some great concepts have been strangled by tyrants; others have been/are being corrupted by greed and the abuse of trust.

As of July 12, 2008, the ratio of persons represented in the House of Representatives to the Representatives increases by one person every ten seconds–3,153,600 persons per year. The longer one is alive, the less one is represented. Continue reading →

Unconstitutional Bailouts and an Unconstitutional Congress

On Wednesday evening the Senate voted 75-24 to originate and approve the raising of $700 BILLION for the derivatives toxic paper bailout of banks and other financial institutions. (ed: still unconstitutional, Reid’s “tacking on” to a previously-existing House bill, notwithstanding) The vote was unconstitutional. Every Senator who voted in favor is in violation of his or her oath to uphold the Constitution — and we can hold every one of them responsible for knowing it. Every Senator who voted for this unconstitutional legislation is a Constitutional Criminal. FULL ARTICLE