Vermont Town Flexes It’s American Muscles
Activists look for arrest of Bush, Cheney
By PAUL H. HEINTZ, Brattleboro Reformer
“Shall the Selectboard instruct the Town Attorney to draft indictments against President Bush and Vice President Cheney for crimes against our Constitution, and publish said indictment for consideration by other municipalities?” Daims’ proposed article reads.
“And shall it be the law of the Town of
Daims recognizes the myriad legal barriers between his goal and its coming to fruition, but pointing to the Declaration of Independence as his inspiration, he contends that sometimes the laws of the land take second seat to “a higher jurisdiction.”
“There was no legal standing to the document that was written in 1776. It was just people saying ‘we’ve got to get rid of this guy,’” Daims said. “We can’t let him get away just because we don’t have the proper forms and paperwork.”
Bravo to an American town with balls. Let them lead the way for others to follow. Brattleboro, Vermont has the enlightenment to see through the media smoke screen and identify the real threat to America.
According to Newfane Selectboard member Dan DeWalt, who made headlines when his town called for Bush’s impeachment in March of 2006, even if Daims is unsuccessful in throwing Bush in the clinker, his message could resonate throughout the country.
Daims hopes other towns will be inspired by his quest and pursue similar courses of action — particularly
“We should do something Mr. Bush can feel.
Hat Tip to Kurt Daims who embodies the spirit of our founding fathers. Stand up to the tyranny imposed by the Bush – Cheney Crime Syndicate.
“This petition is as radical as the Declaration of Independence, and it draws on that tradition in claiming a universal jurisdiction when governments fail to do what they’re supposed to do,” said Kurt Daims, 54, a retired machinist leading the drive. 
Daims has been circulating documents that claim the community acquires a “universal jurisdiction” to take such steps “when governments breach their highest duties.”
With American History at his back, Kurt journeys forward to become a modern icon for what was once America. In the spirit of Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys, Kurt Daims stands up as a soldier and activist for independence for the American idea and autonomy for Vermont and its sibling states.
By the middle of the 18th century, differences in life, thought, and interests had developed between the mother country (Britain then, Bush Crime Syndicate now) and the growing colonies (states now). States today are vassals to the spider web of federal interests that often do not respond well to state issues (Katrina). A few brave souls, then, had the courage to rally their peers to action. Today is no different. Some true Americans are throwing the blanket of deceit on the floor and responding to the truth before them. Applause to Kurt for striking the match to shed light on the power of true Americans.
As a Texan, we shout “Remember the Alamo”. As Americans, we should shout, “Remember Brattleboro”.
Fun Conspiracy Web Sites to make your case against BushCo: Stewweb, Online Journal, The Consortium, Yellow Cakewalk, Gorilla News Network, Wayne Madsen, Conspiracy Planet, Democratic Underground, NogW, TakeBackTheMedia
Actual historic documentation for BushCo Agenda: The Guardian-UK, Rense, Democrats, Wikipedia, George Walker Bush Net, PNAC, PNAC Info, SourceWatch, The Oxford Group, Moral Rearmament
Educate yourself, make sense of it all, then see where this agenda is taking the USA. It will take a monumental effort to undo the damage to America and the world. Few Presidential candidates have what it takes to succeed it disarming the bomb Bush has set. Bush seeks Armageddon to pave the way into HIS personal interpretation of a “New World Order”.
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December 29th, 2007 at 9:46 am
I second that hat tip to Kurt Daims.
December 29th, 2007 at 11:02 am
It would be nice if Congress had the same spine the public has.
December 29th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
It would be nice if the congress was not as bought off as it is. They have privitized themselves along with all our public infastrutures, our military etc. We the people need to understand what Democratic Socialism is, and embrace it. After our crash , and burn of course. And our Oligarchs here are prepared for our unrest, have no doubt. – just keep in mind one thing..free market capitalism and democracy do NOT go hand in hand by any means. To conflate the two is our error, and the result of brain washing. Its why our public sector is being left to wither. Our public sector can be strong, for the common good of many and a good use of our tax dollars. and free markets are swell with Keynesian policies to soften the edges. etc.
Real freedom and democracy involves social policies that put people ahead of profits. It also requires that politicians are NOT up for grabs to the highest bidder, which sadly they are. The system is very rigged. and will not go down without a big time fight.
December 29th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Alas, Americans have devolved into lazy sheep. American attention is mesmerized by brainless sports, brainless escapades of Hollywood’s lowest common denominators. Americans cannot get off their butts and put away the remote controller long enough to learn anything about current events and why they are happening. They are satisfied to have MSM dish propaganda by the spoonful, because, it requires no effort. The American voter is so misinformed that they can only elect who they are told to elect. So! The media has the reins. We all know who controls the media.
January 28th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
I wonder while they are at it if this town wouyld be willing to also arrest Sen. Kennedy for murder, President Clinton for Rape, and perjury, Sen. Clinton for Whitewater. Liberals have such a wonderfull double standart when it comes to crime
January 30th, 2008 at 6:14 am
I think your all nuts. If you don’t like what you see, get off your lazy democratic, sitting around with your hand out ass, and run for president. You can fix it instead of sitting around and talking shit on everyone else. President Bush did what he though needed to be done. I have seen no constitutional law that says he has to come to Vermont and get everyone’s ok. America is going downhill so fast because of fruitcakes like yourselves. Your democratic workers unions have done nothing but sent your damn jobs overseas and all you can do is blame everyone else. You all make me sick. Mr. Daims is only 54 years old, and is already retired. Lazy punk. A man with sitting on his ass talking shit on someone he can’t even begin to understand.
STOP COMPLAINING AND DO SOMETHING POSITVE. OH I FORGOT, YOUR A BUNCH OF DEMOCRATS. THAT’S RIGHT. ALL YOU KNOW HOW TO DO IS MUDDY THE WATER WITH YOUR COMPLAINTS AND WHINING. YOUR AN EMBARRESMENT TO THIS COUNTRY. YOU ARE ALSO A BORDERLINE TRAITOR. MR. DAIMS IS LUCKY HE IS IN AMERICA, AND NOT RUSSIA. PUTIN MIGHT TAKE A DIFFERENT APPROACH.
January 30th, 2008 at 7:05 am
Congratulations to Kurt Daims. One could make the argument that the “Gruesome Twosome” should be indicted for premeditated murder if, as it seems, they planned the invasion of Iraq before 9/11.
I just wonder, mothers love their sons but is it the case with “Dubbya”?
January 30th, 2008 at 8:36 am
Is anyone surprised this traitor is pictured with a beret on his head? Will any America hating liberal out there please tell me what law President Bush has broken? Be specific about what he did to break the law.
If he did break any laws than he is entitled to same justice Teddy “the swimmer” Kennedy got from his Chappaquidick “accident”.
January 30th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Vote Republican! “It’s easier than thinking”
If you’re not OUTRAGED by now, where have you been for the last 8 years?
January 30th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Che Guevara is alive? What a freak!
January 30th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Mindless dribble from a Monday Morning Quaterback that minimizes the sacrifices made by true patriots,the parents and the VOLUNTEERS of our Military. I would never disrespect the memory of our fallen soldiers by saying their sacrifice is an utter waste. Shame on you Kurt Daims. You reap the benefits of freedom earned by the sacrifices of better people than you. I agree with Mr. Joel Foster. But you need not go all the way to Russia. Just go south of the border and badmouth the politician there. Habeas Corpus… what?
January 30th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Kurt Daims should be lauded for calling for Dubya and Cheney’s impeachment. Do not any of you patriots realize that Dubya got his father and himself to the Republican Party’s national ticket by complying with a top secret order from the Nixon-Agnew reelection campaign to mysteriously disappear U.S. House Majority Leader Hale T. Boggs (Democrat-New Orleans LA)? The purpose of Dubya’s murderous mission was to prevent an October Surprise at the libel-immune congressional podium using court-sealed grand jury testimony passed to Rep. Boggs from New Orleans prosecutor Jim Garrison which would have dispelled the conclusion of the Warren Commission. Murdered Presient Kennedy’s brother-in-law was opposing Spiro T. Agnew for the vice presidency. Karl Rove spread the rumor that Dubya was AWOL on October 16 1972 thus distant from a lethal U.S. Air Force interceptor needed to shoot down the Boggs-Begich chartered Cessna 310 into the cold dark waters of the northern Pacific Ocean off Alaska. Dubya had no motive to go AWOL as he had cushy combat-dodging duty in Houston where he could carouse like a spoiled brat. AWOL has a statute of limitation while homicide does not. For Dubya to have gone AWOL would have disappointed his father’s cabal. George Herbert Walker Bush was rewarded for Dubya’s party loyalty with appointment to be envoy to Peking China then CIA Director in the Ford-Rockefeller administration. This lead to GHWB being on four successive GOP national tickets from 1980 to 1992. William Rhenquist knew of Dubya’s murderous loyalty to the GOP so he made sure that the U.S. Supreme Court selected Dubya as president in December 2000.
January 30th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Way to go, Kurt Daims! And to the town that dares to step up for the Constitution!
January 30th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
I for one will never ever ever buy another thing in the town of brattleboro again if this nutty idea comes to fruition. This guy Daimes is a nut . Whats with that dopey red beret? Is he some kind of grey panther or something? Oh well, he got his 15 minutes of fame and W will go down in history as one of the greatest ever.
January 30th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
All I have to say is anyone who can still defend Bush and Cheney have been living under a rock for the past 8 years. Or, you actually do live in a parallel universe.
Reading the Constitution might enlighten some ignorant beliefs about how this country runs. And I don’t mean “run” the Bush and Cheney say.
January 30th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Talk about a parallel universe ! I think they call it Bush derangement syndrom What freedoms have you lost under Bush?Try to remember 9/11 and the people that stay up late at night thinking of ways to kill you and your family. Dubya has done a good job preventing that from happening. But don’t worry in one year he will be out of office and you will have to invent a new paranoid fantasy to worry about.
January 31st, 2008 at 1:11 am
hats off to daimes. it is beyond me that this country has tolerated this administration’s conduct for all these years. the republicans tried to get clinton impeached for lying ONE time about an office hummer and cry when the talk of impeaching bush/cheney surfaces. recent british study shows that this administration lied (”false statements”) over 950 times prior to invading iraq. shall we count the dead on both sides?! not to mention the horrible pulic relations disaster around the globe. to entertain the conversation of impeaching the president is not unamerican. nixon was impeached for his clandestine wiretaps…but bush/cheney have potentially been responsible for killing thousands – including our own troops. i applaud anyone that keeps this conversation active.
January 31st, 2008 at 1:16 am
and i am not sure how y’all feel safer with dumbya in office. traveled overseas lately? we are not liked. his aggressive policies have not helped our relationship with the middle east and has certainly erroded our support by allies. yes, he has disrupted al queda but we have lost over 4,000 soldiers doing it. and their recruiting around the world is at all time highs. oh yeah, iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. even bush said that. hmmm. why are we there?
January 31st, 2008 at 1:19 am
and if brattleboro has products for sale i would like to buy them.
please send me a catalog. a coffee mug? thank you.
January 31st, 2008 at 4:53 am
Petehimk:
What freedoms have we lost. under Bush? Are you kidding me? Have you not been reading or listening to Constitutional scholars who have been talking about it and publish papers for 3 years now.
BTW: Constitutional scholars I do not mean Bush,Cheney, Gonzales or Rove!
Here’s a few; habeas corpus… completely gone, illegal wiretapping, the patriot act.
Also I really can not believe that you actually buy all the crap that Bush and Cheney attach to 9/11. Even member of the 9/11 Commission find much of it bull shit.
January 31st, 2008 at 5:00 am
Michael:
I am convinced that people who don’t get that we are disliked around the world has never traveled more than a few hundred miles from their home or the U.S.
Iraq=9/11….Bush has even confessed on that huge lie.
I wonder if theses people are as committed to their spouses or partners as they are Bush and his lie.
January 31st, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Michael
I guess your scholars disagree with my scholars. Lets talk about you and everybody you know. I will bet dollars to donuts that you and all your pals have not lost any of your rights as a US citizen. I guess we were loved over seas before bush especialy by those 20 guys that took the right to life away from 3000 of your fellow citizens. Like I said 1 year to go . Hang tough it will be over soon bush out of office and all will be well with the world
February 1st, 2008 at 5:30 am
Sounds to me like I’ve stirred up a few more democratic whiners. The ones that are so stupid and arrogant they call the president of their country some detrimental nickname(a reflection of themselves). The one’s that drive their cars all over the place, to and fro. The one’s that don’t even consider the politics that go into each tank of gas they fill up with. The one’s that take the rights they have so for granted they don’t even consider what it takes to insure those rights. It must all just come to them because they are such good people. It must just be their unalienable right. Lucky them. Never mind the fact that it was a democratic, wussy pushover like Jimmy Carter that sat on his ass with both hands while a third world country like Iran held our embassy hostage. I grew up watching nightline, watching folks like the current president of Iran putting guns to the side of our marines heads in front of the world. That is not acceptable. If we want to enjoy the lifestyle we have, we must protect it not only for ourselves, but for our children and future generations. Saddam invaded one of our major oil suppliers and we went and kicked him out. Never mind the atrocities he ravaged upon the people of Kuwait. He then refused to abide by the agreement that left him in power. He sat back and caused us every problem he possibly could. He walked daily upon the picture of the face of a American president while the cameras were rolling for the rest of the world to see. He sent money to Palestinians who strapped explosives to their body and killed innocent Israelis. Hanging was too good for him. He should have been tortured to death like he did to so many others. Maybe super democrat Bill Clinton should have done something more than shoot a few missiles into the desert during his eight years in office. He sat on his ass just like Carter when the Cole was hit. He could have prevented 9/11 if he would have grown some balls. Instead all he could think of was chasing pussy and taking every kind of payoff he could. No wonder the Europeans loved him so much. The same Europeans that said they were our allies, but who were all illegally selling Saddam all they could while lying their ass off about it in the UN. They only got mad at us because we screwed up their black market trading with Saddam.
Wake up people. Your lifestyle depends directly on the availability of oil. What happens if you can’t drive? Think about it. You can’t drive to work, to the supermarket, or to vote for your demcratic president. Don’t worry, the world will love us again as soon as they are able to buy out the next democrat in office. Maybe they will figure out a way for Bono to be president.
February 1st, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Yeah, I’m sooooo glad that this war has freed up such a huge supply of oil and that, due to this over-supply, oil is back to $13.00 a barrel and I’m buying gas for 98 cents a gallon. Oh wait, that hasn’t happened. What has happened is that Exxon has posted a record breaking earnings of over ELEVEN BILLION DOLLARS IN THE 4TH QUARTER OF 2007 ALONE! What’s that in your pocket oil industry? Oh it’s little Dubya and his intimate connections with the terrorist sponsoring/harboring state Saudi Arabia!
Neocons are destroying America day by day with a Jacobian-imperial mindset that would make any true conservative puke. You want to talk about conservative? How conservative is this:
Average Govt Outlays per year under Clinton: 1.558 Trillion
Average Govt Outlays per year under W: 2.247 Trillion
(From the Congressional Budget Office)
And all this time I thought the GOP hated “Big Government.” Here’s the deal: these guys really aren’t republicans, they are fascists (as are the pro-W people replying on this blog). Notice just how far the real republicans are distancing themselves from Bush and Co.
The only person on the republican ticket with half a brain is Ron Paul (and even he’s a little nuts with his views on Fed).
Good job Brattleboro. As Vermonter (Burlington) living right smack dab on the buckle of the bible belt (Memphis) it is nice to know that there are some people in this country who, still live without blinders or rose colored glasses.
Fun suggestion to people who are going to post a rebuttal to this: Try and reply to this intelligently and without an Ad Hominem argument. I bet you can’t, but if you can then I will be happy to conduct a nice civil discussion on the state of our country.
February 1st, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Hey Kurt I guess this is also the fault of the bush administration. I think Dick Cheney planted and then set those bombs off so he could make AQ look bad .
Those evil bastards
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BAGHDAD (AP) – Two mentally retarded women strapped with remote-control explosives—and possibly used as unwitting suicide bombers—brought carnage Friday to two pet bazaars, killing at 73 people in the deadliest day since Washington flooded the capital with extra troops last spring.
The coordinated blasts—coming 20 minutes apart in different parts of the city—appeared to reinforce U.S. claims al-Qaida in Iraq may be increasingly desperate and running short of able-bodied men willing or available for such missions.
But they also served as a reminder that Iraqi insurgents are constantly shifting their strategies in attempts to unravel recent security gains around the country. Women have been used in ever greater frequency in suicide attacks.
The twin attacks at the pet markets, however, could mark a disturbing use of unknowing agents of death.
Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, Iraq’s chief military spokesman in Baghdad, said the women had Down syndrome and may not have known they were on suicide missions. He said the bombs were detonated by remote control.
In Washington, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the bombings prove al-Qaida is “the most brutal and bankrupt of movements” and will strengthen Iraqi resolve to reject terrorism.
The first bomb was detonated about 10:20 a.m. in the central al-Ghazl market, the home of a weekly pet bazaar with various small animals but mostly birds. At least 46 people were killed and more than 100 wounded, said police and hospital officials.
Police said the woman wearing the bomb sold cream in the mornings at the market and was known to locals as “the crazy lady.”
The pet bazaar has been bombed repeatedly, but with violence declining in the capital, the market had regained popularity as a shopping district and place to stroll on Fridays, the Muslim day of prayer.
But on Friday, it was returned to a scene straight out of the worst days of the conflict. Firefighters scooped up debris scattered among pools of blood, clothing and pigeon carcasses.
A pigeon vendor said the market had been unusually crowded, with people taking advantage of a pleasantly crisp and clear winter day after a particularly harsh January.
“I have been going to the pet market with my friend every Friday, selling and buying pigeons,” said Ali Ahmed, who was hit by shrapnel in his legs and chest. “It was nice weather today and the market was so crowded.”
He said he was worried about his friend, Zaki, who disappeared after the blast about 40 yards away.
“I just remember the horrible scene of the bodies of dead and wounded people mixed with the blood of animals and birds, then I found myself lying in a hospital bed,” Ali said.
About 20 minutes after the first attack, the second female suicide bomber was blown apart in a bird market in a predominantly Shiite area in southeastern Baghdad. As many as 27 people died and 67 were wounded, police and hospital officials said.
Rae Muhsin, the 21-year-old owner of a cell phone store, said he was walking toward the New Baghdad bird market when the explosion shattered the windows of nearby stores.
“I ran toward the bird market and saw charred pieces of flesh, small spots of blood and several damaged cars,” Muhsin said. “I thought that we had achieved real security in Baghdad, but it turned that we were wrong.”
The bombings were the latest in a series that has frayed Iraqi confidence in the permanence of recent security gains.
The U.S. military in Iraqi issued a statement that shared “the outrage of the Iraqi people, and we condemn the brutal enemy responsible for these attacks, which bear the hallmarks of being carried out by al- Qaida in Iraq.”
The U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, said the bombings showed that a resilient al-Qaida has “found a different, deadly way” to try to destabilize Iraq.
“There is nothing they won’t do if they think it will work in creating carnage and the political fallout that comes from that,” he told The Associated Press in an interview at the State Department.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said the attacks were motivated by revenge and an attempt “to stop the march of history and of our people toward reconciliation.” He confirmed the death toll was about 70.
Navy Cmdr. Scott Rye, a U.S. military spokesman, gave far lower casualty figures—seven killed and 23 wounded in the first bombing, and 20 killed and 30 wounded in the second.
He confirmed, however, that both attacks were carried out by women wearing explosives vests and said the attacks appeared coordinated and likely the work of al-Qaida in Iraq.
Associated Press records show that since the start of the war at least 151 people have been killed in at least 17 attacks or attempted attacks by female suicide bombers, including Friday’s bombings.
The most recent previous attack was Jan. 16 when a female suicide bomber detonated her explosives among men preparing for the Ashoura holiday in a Shiite village in Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad.
While involving women in such deadly activity violates cultural taboos in Iraq, the U.S. military has warned that al-Qaida is recruiting women and young people as suicide attackers because militants are increasingly desperate to thwart stepped-up security measures.
Syria also has reportedly tightened its border with Iraq, a main transit point for incoming foreign bombers.
Women in Iraq often wear abayas, the black Islamic robe, and avoid thorough searches at checkpoints because men are not allowed to touch them and there are too few female police.
Even the use of the handicapped in suicide bombings is not unprecedented in Iraq. In January 2005, Iraq’s interior minister said insurgents used a disabled child in a suicide attack on election day. Police at the scene of the bombing said the child appeared to have Down syndrome.
Many teenage boys were among the casualties in the al-Ghazl bombing Friday, according to the officials who gave the death toll. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to release the information.
In Late November, a bomb hidden in a box of small birds exploded at the al-Ghazl market, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens. The U.S. military blamed the November attack on Iranian-backed Shiite militants, saying they had hoped al-Qaida in Iraq would be held responsible for the attack so Iraqis would turn to them for protection.
The U.S. military has been unable to stop the suicide bombings despite a steep drop in violence in the past six months. Friday’s blasts were the deadliest in the capital since an April 18 suicide car bombing that killed 116 and wounded 145. Washington’s “surge” of an additional 30,000 soldiers into Baghdad and other parts of central Iraq began in February, but did not reach full strength until June.
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February 1st, 2008 at 5:20 pm
My God, but I had no idea that a bunch of Americans could be so stupid and so callous about wanting to get their little “revenge” of the President who just happens to have a set on him that it takes to make you sissy pinkos have a safe warm place to park your sorry butts at night.
Please all you just go back to France. Nothing to see here…move along.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Jordan,
The neocons ran four jets full of mothers and fathers and daughters and sons into the trade towers and the Pentagon. Do we have to keep turning the other cheek? You keep hitting the biggest guy on the block in the nose and you will eventually get your ass whipped. That makes us neoconservative no more than it makes you neoliberal. Saddam was the biggest problem in the Middle East. Osama just finally got us off our asses. He was just the straw that broke the camels’ back. We are going to secure our oil interests no matter what you like or think about it. Our culture and way of life depends completely on it. As for government spending, we are at war. We were attacked by the neocons that really do make me want to puke. Big words are not a sign of intellegence. Intelligence is defined by comprehension of what is really happening around you and what you do about it. We were all told before we went into Iraq that it would be a long, hard, fight. So you have to pay a little more for gas. Support your country and your president. Your not being drafted into the army. Your not having to fight, heaven forbid. Unless you want to run for office and change something, quit being a hypocrite or stop driving your damn car. If we don’t directly support our interests in this very strategic part of the world, someone else will. By the way, calling the kettle black is not Ad Hominem, it’s just calling the kettle black. Some people stand around and watch while others go do something about it. Which are you?
February 4th, 2008 at 10:26 am
Joel,
You are absoulutely correct. There is no way we could turn the other cheek. And finally (over 6 YEARS LATER) we actually make a half-effort and actually go into Warziristan (albeit with an unmanned drone) to hunt down the REAL terrorists! My question is why don’t we go into the tribal lands and kick some ass! Bush took out Saddam (an evil man, yet he had the purpose of stabilization: Iran is now a much greater threat than Iraq ever dreamed of being, and now Afganistan is being overrun again by Taliban imports from the tribal lands in Pakistan). It’s these people in the tribal lands that murdered our countrymen and it’s these people that deserve to pay. We were on the right track until Bush derailed us with his pipe dream of creating a Bush legacy by getting rid of Saddam. Most all of the gains won in Afganistan have been lost and its Bush’s fault for taking his eye of the ball (and the sad part is that through his use of over 900 false statements to the media he took the rest of the country’s eye off the ball too).
Now, I’m not saying that Kerry or Gore could have done any better with the situation (they are both idiotic meat puppets) but I can’t see them going into Iraq under false pretenses and costing the American people trillions of dollars and thousands of it’s sons and daughters.
Having the courage to stand up against what some feel to be an unjust government is something that our forefathers would have celebrated; please don’t tell these modern day patriots to move to France: they’re needed right here in the United States. Because when the checks and balances inherent in the three-part federal government don’t work (due to spineless democrats in the house, a court nobody in the executive branch respects, and a presidnecy that seeks to classify every mistake it has ever made and then site it’s actions as “executive privilege”) then it is up to the people to hold its leaders accountable.
February 4th, 2008 at 10:49 am
to joel foster:
where to start with you?…you are such a product of republican propaganda. yes bad people did bad things to us. that happens all over the world. we have just been spoiled. yes a response would have been appropriate…but this is where you miss the bus…you seem to think that us bombing the crap out of iraq is the answer. even dumbya said 9/11, saddam were not connected. sure saddam was a bad guy but certainly not as bad as so many others that we “tolerate” because they’re not sitting on oil kegs. and even though he was misbehaving he was a stabilizing factor there. now take a look at the situation. not to mention the 4,000 americans killed with no gain. or the 1,000,000 iraqis dead. do you think this was handled well? (i support the troops – just not the war criminal giving orders) michael
February 27th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Mr. Daims has not done his due diligence. By using Hurricane Katrina as an example of the federal government not responding to state’s interests, he is accepting the media’s completely biased and flat wrong conclusion that the city of New Orleans was treated unfairly. I have personally spoken to people living in the areas hardest hit, and they all stated that anyone and everyone with half a brain evacuated ahead of the hurricane. It has also been shown that federal funds were made available to New Orleans years ago, to correct the problems that lead to the damage, but New Orleans did not take action. He should get his facts straight.