Archive for August, 2006

Video: O’Reilly asks if judge who ruled against NSA wants Americans to die

One test of a logical argument is whether or not you can turn it around and have it still be true. Bill O’Reilly never turns his questions back upon his own beliefs. For example, he has never once asked whether President Bush wants American soldiers to die. By O’Reilly’s logic, President Bush must want American soldiers to die because he sent them to Iraq. In this example argument, both Bill O’Reilly and President Bush would say that they don’t want American soldiers to die, but that Freedom is a goal worth fighting, and dying, to defend.

So, Bill O’Reilly thinks that it is a bad thing that a judge upholds constitutional freedom and that it could result in the death of American Citizens; but that it is a good thing that President Bush sends the troops off to fight in Iraq, where they can die to impose our ideas of Freedom on another country? Has Bill O’Reilly forgotten that our soldiers are American citizens too? Or does he feel, like Bush seems to feel, that soldiers are cannon fodder to be spent as needed?

The preservation of Freedom is the responsibility of all American citizens. Freedom begins at home, and with defending our constitution at home. It’s obvious that Bill O’Reilly doesn’t intend to enlist and take a tour of night patrols in Iraq, so the least he can do is shut the hell up when a judge rules in favor of the constitution rather than the current transient majority political party.

So, Bill, my question to you is: Why do you want the Unitied States to become a totalitarian government with an ignored Bill of Rights where everyone is under constant surveilance?

-Chris

Judge: Wiretap Program Unconstitutional
By SARAH KARUSH, Associated Press Writer
Thursday, August 17, 2006

(08-17) 09:23 PDT DETROIT (AP) –
A federal judge ruled Thursday that the government’s warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional and ordered an immediate halt to it.

Judge: Wiretap Program Unconstitutional

Once again I rejoice in our three-party system of government, and that the judicial branch has not yet forgotten that we have a constitution…

-Chris

I am quoting this from truthring.org because their database is overloaded and the page is unavailable:

“Today on CNN, Seymour Hersh of the New Yorker, the one who mainstreamed the Abu Gahrib story, has confirmed with insiders that Bush and the Israeli Government planned months in advance that any incident, no matter how small, would ignite a broad and punishing response by Israel in a preemptive move to start a war with Iran. Bush’s Neocon advanced plan actually included Israel destroying Hezbollah’s missles as pre-cursor to an attack on Iran. The war with Iran is on the assembly line. Only a mass (I mean millions of people marching) protest will stop this insane neo-dictator in the Whitehouse. Hersh even says that Bush doesn’t even regard Congress or the people when deciding foreign policy. I think this little vid is an ominous insight.”

This is beyond disturbing.

-Chris