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Cheney and Gonzales Indicted! But not for what you think :(

by ThePete 12:22 am 2008-11-19


Well, it's not all bad–anytime there is as much evidence of criminal activity as there is against people like Cheney and Gonzales, I'm happy to see them get indicted for anything.  Hell, Al Capone had to be brought down on tax evasion charges.  But as you can see from the screencap attached to this post (check out the original article on CNN.com from earlier today), Cheney and Gonzales are being:

indicted on separate charges related to alleged prisoner abuse in federal detention centers, Willacy County, Texas, District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra told CNN Tuesday.

The indictment stems from Cheney's investment in the Vanguard Group –
an investment management company that reportedly has interests in the
prison companies in charge of the detention centers, according to The
Associated Press. It also charges Gonzales halted an investigation into abuse at the detention centers while he was attorney general.

NICE.  Well, not the best thing that could happen to two men who will hopefully be remembered as two of the luckiest horrible men to live in modern times.  Not Hitler-level-horribleness, but almost as amoral.  So, yay Willacy County, Texas, District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra!!  Take these bastards on and please don't let this be a reason for the next AG to not bring Cheney and Gonzales up on all sorts of other charges, too–at the very least these guys should be put on trial for stuff like domestic wiretapping and all that fun enemy combatant stuff.

Oh and can I just say that "Juan Angel Guerra" is one of the coolest names I've ever heard?  Translated into American, that's "John Angel War."

Seriously cool name.

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by ThePete 12:22 am 2008-11-19 In TheNews, Politricks, ThePete.Com | Tags , , , , , , | $ |

Congress Must Demand Bush and Cheney Resign

by ThePete 2:01 am 2008-09-21

So, I’m not entirely sure how my personal email address got on the “Democrats.com” email list, but some how it got on it. (My email was on the Republicans email list, too at one point, but I had the good sense to remove it.) Earlier tonight I got an email from them that had an amusing subject–I’ve made it the title of this post.

My first reaction was: “That’s rich! Where were the Democrats five years ago when Bush illegally invaded Iraq?”

I still think it’s a valid concern, but I actually read their email and something in it really got me going. Have a look:

Congress Must Demand Bush and Cheney Resign

George Bush wants taxpayers to pay $700 billion to bail out Wall Street for its reckless investments in mortgage-backed securities. That’s on top of $800 billion for other recent bailouts, including A.I.G., Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Bear Stearns.

The current financial disaster is the direct result of the Bush-Cheney Administration’s 8-year policy of deregulation, corruption, and greed.

The Bush-Cheney Administration cannot be trusted to solve the massive problems they created. Before Congress gives the Bush Administration one dime of taxpayer money for financial bailouts, Congress must demand the immediate resignation of George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Henry Paulson and the appointment of Speaker Nancy Pelosi as President until our next President is sworn in on January 20, 2009.

Email your Senators and Representative and spread the word:
www.democrats.com/resign

Again, my instinct, initially, was to blow this email off, just like I did Robert Wexler’s attempts to impeach Bush while simultaneously asking for campaign donations. However, I’ll give you one guess at what it was in this email that made my ears prick up.

No, it wasn’t the basic message that Bush and Cheney should be gone from the White House. I’ve been saying that for years and there are WAY more reasons for them to leave than just Bush and Cheney’s move to embrace socialism for corporations. No, what made my right eyebrow rise was that last bit. They want Bush, Cheney and Paulson out and:

…the appointment of Speaker Nancy Pelosi as President until our next President is sworn in on January 20, 2009.

Now, I’m no fan of Pelosi. She lost my faith when she said that impeachment was off of the table a while back. However, getting a Democrat woman into the White House before even the election would be a devastating blow to the McCain campaign. There would be no way in hell he could win after enough of raised our voices to get his man out of the Oval Office.

I get scared looking at the polls and wondering why Obama isn’t doing better in them. How can they be polling so close to neck and neck when McCain is campaigning on a platform he ripped off from George Bush?

I don’t believe Americans are that stupid. This is why I’m hoping you, my faithful readers will please click on that link above (or this one here: www.democrats.com/resign ) and voice your support for a demand of resignations from Bush, Cheney and Paulson.

If enough of us speak up now they won’t have a choice but to actually react. We, The People of the United States of America can make our opinion known by telling Congress ourselves that we want this administration GONE from the White House.

Please, please, please, please, do this!

I don’t ask for much–I hardly ever ask my readers to sign on any dotted line, but if we can just get together on this one point–that we want the Bush Administration gone IMMEDIATELY–we don’t have to worry about McCain winning in November.

Please go here:

www.democrats.com/resign

…and fill out the form.

Here are some other places around the ‘net you can read about this email:

digg.com/political_opinion/Congress_Must_Demand_Bush_and_Cheney_Resign

suzieqq.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/congress-must-demand-bush-and-cheney-resign/

boards.msn.com/MSNBCboards/thread.aspx?threadid=788298

mccainsucks.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/congress-must-demand-bush-and-cheney-resign/

www.nj.com/forums/politics/index.ssf?artid=1801971

Got a blog? Please blog about this. Got a Twitter account or an account at another micro or miniblogging site (like Jaiku or Tumblr)? Pleeease post about this there.

Feel free to post links to your blog posts in the comments.

By doing this we can avoid giving our flawed election system the chance to screw up another presidential election with a tight race! We need a landslide to have an undeniable winner–unlike in 2004 and in 2000 when Bush won by an iffy hair’s width.

By making your voice heard you can beat the electronic systems that are owned by Republicans and don’t provide reliable methods for recounts.

I’ve already filled out that form. I hope you will, too.

Please and thank you! Congress Must Demand Bush and Cheney Resign 

by ThePete 2:01 am 2008-09-21 El Archivos del Arbusto, In TheNews, Politricks, ThePete.Com | Tags , , , , , , , , , , , | $ |

Cheney & Energy Task Force Plotted Iraq pre911

by ThePete 12:31 pm 2008-07-30
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So, as I’ve said recently, I’m slowly catching up on my podcasts. One podcast I don’t like to miss is the audio version of "Bill Moyer’s Journal" on PBS (site: http://www.pbs.org/…rs/journal podcast (audio): http://www.pbs.org/…odcast.xml podcast (video): http://feeds.feedburner.com/bmjvodcast ). I was listening to the episode from June 27, 2008 when Moyers started talking about the war in Iraq. My gut instinct was to assume he was going to go on about how it was all for the oil and run the typical blood-for-oil argument you hear from so many people. Which is pretty much what he started to do. I immediately thought to myself "Yeah, but Bill, where’s your hard evidence?"

That’s a question I’ve asked many times of anti-war folks. Usually I just get the answer "it’s obvious!" or "You really think we’d be in Iraq if there wasn’t oil there?"

Of course, they’re right, but what really connects Cheney to a oil-motivation?

Well, for once, a person quoting the blood-for-oil argument (BOA) actually had some evidence to back it up. The above screencap is part of it. And what’s really messed up about this is that the above screencap comes from a press release dated July 17, *2003* (see the original page here: http://www.judicialwatch.org/…d-pr.shtml ).

Now, maybe I missed it in the cacophony of crap the Bush Administration was puulling at the time (back in July of ‘03 we’d only been in Iraq for four months). Regardless, what Judicial Watch found is downright damning.

If you look at the above cap, you’ll see that they say: "Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse, said today that documents turned over by the Commerce Department, under court order as a result of Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit concerning the activities of the Cheney Energy Task Force, contain a map of Iraqi oilfields, pipelines, refineries and terminals, as well as 2 charts detailing Iraqi oil and gas projects, and “Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts.” The documents, which are dated March 2001, are available on the Internet at: www.JudicialWatch.org."

Yeah, that’s right, *before* 911, Cheney was eyeing maps of oilfields in Iraq. Why would Cheney need to know where oil was in Iraq while planning for America’s energy future? Sure, we could give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he was just learning as much as he could about "our energy partner in the middle east," or some such crap they might spew to excuse maps being there (and not just say charts of oil output and other less visual aids), but after all that has happened, I can’t imagine that he was doing anything but looking at those maps and thinking "yeah, we gotta secure that shit."

Especially considering the growing concern in 2001 that the world’s peak oil limit might be approaching. "Peak Oil" is the theory that the Earth will produce more and more oil until it begins to run out–production will peak–then, we, as a planet, will start to run out and prices will climb. That last bit sounds familiar, doesn’t it?

I heard about this theory for the first time in 2003, I believe. There was a December 2000 talk given by an oil expert called CJ Campbell, a guy who worked for oil companies, helping them find oil. You’d assume he’d be aware of just how much oil was left on the planet. (You can read a blog post I wrote about it here: http://thepete.com/…o-run-out/ )

So, there Cheney was, just a few months after Campbell’s talk, chatting over energy policy with maps of oil fields in Iraq–before the 911 Attacks, before invading Afghanistan, before invading Iraq.

Am I reading into things? Maybe. But I can’t help but wonder why Cheney and friends would withhold these maps from Judicial Watch when they first asked for them in April of 2001. Check out something else from the above screencapped press release: "Judicial Watch has been seeking these documents under FOIA since April 19, 2001. Judicial Watch was forced to file a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Judicial Watch Inc. v. Department of Energy, et al., Civil Action No. 01-0981) when the government failed to comply with the provisions of the FOIA law. U.S. District Court Judge Paul J. Friedman ordered the government to produce the documents on March 5, 2002."

So, in 2002, a judge ruled that effectively Cheney had violated the law by keeping these documents from JW. I wonder why they would have done that.

Shades of things to come.

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by ThePete 12:31 pm 2008-07-30 In TheNews, Politricks, ThePete.Com | Tags , , , , , , | $ |

Wexler’s Post-Impeachment Hearing Newsletter

by ThePete 7:58 pm 2008-07-25

Robert Wexler is one of the guys in DC that is actually pushing for Bush and Cheney to be impeached. Which is great–in that, it’s great when people actually bother to do their job. In this case, it’s the job of Congress to oversee the Executive Branch–a job they’ve been shirking for, oh, about the entire time Bush has been in the White House. So, finally, now that there are about six more months left in Bush’s 8-year reign over America (and the world), Wexler and pals are actually doing their job. Today they held hearings and what follows is Wexler’s email to me and the other folks on his mailing list, along with a bit of commentary.

Dear Pete,

Today, in the Judiciary Committee, we held a full day of hearings that focused entirely on the crimes of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney,

YAAAAY!!!

and featured testimony by Rep. Dennis Kucinich regarding his Articles of Impeachment against President Bush.

…oh–Kucinich–he’s the impish guy with the hot wife, right?

This is a great start – but I am far from satisfied.

That makes two of us.

Following statements by Chairman John Conyers and the Ranking Republicans,

A great band name! “John Conyers and the Ranking Republicans!!” I saw them play at the Roxy and they were GREAT. Can’t believe they’re not acoustic anymore though. :(

I opened with a forceful call for genuine and immediate Impeachment Hearings for President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

Well it’s usually better to open with a joke. But that’s cool–I bet you still got a laugh. ;)

The crimes of this Administration must be revealed and Bush and Cheney must be held accountable.

Ooo, that’s a 10-point penalty for double-anding!

Oh wait–maybe he meant to use a “&”. I’ll let it go, THIS time. o_O

Without Impeachment Hearings, we cannot break through the blatant and unprecedented efforts by President Bush to shut down legitimate oversight by this Congress.

Legitimate? I’ll settle for ANY.

As you know, President Bush has inappropriately and repeatedly invoked Executive Privilege to keep Karl Rove, Harriet Miers, Josh Bolten, and other White House officials from complying with legal, Congressional Subpoenas.

Not to mention invading a couple countries without provocation in violation of the UN Charter and by default international law–but that Executive Privilege thing is annoying, too.

I believe the only appropriate remedy is to hold Impeachment Hearings.

That I completely agree with. Please, Congressman Wexler, go on.

DONATE

Gah!!

Donate for WHAT? Huh?

While Inherent Contempt might dislodge some testimony or at least guarantee the appearance of witnesses, the larger concern is the President’s outrageous abuse of Executive Privilege.

Well, that and his sanctioned use of torture against terror suspects, but yeah, that Executive Privilege thing is a bitch.

We have been down this road before: in 1973, Articles of Impeachment were introduced against President Nixon after he illegally tried to use Executive Privilege to bury evidence of his wrongdoings.

Which were ultimately ignored when he resigned. The USG could have even brought criminal charges against Nixon, but they didn’t so Ford could announce that “Our long national nightmare is over.”

Sadly, we didn’t have to go back to sleep to experience our current one.

I fully recognize the significance of holding Impeachment Hearings, and I have not come to this position lightly – but when the President of the United States takes actions that amount to high crimes, we are left with no other option than to seek his impeachment and removal from office.

You know, you didn’t even have to wait that long–according to the GOA he violated federal covert propaganda law years ago.

Our government was founded upon a delicate balance of powers – whereby one branch carefully checks the other branches to prevent a dangerous consolidation of power.

Yeah, I heard about that–how’s that working out, by the way?

President Bush’s actions have totally destroyed this careful balance.

Ohhhh. :(

Without these checks and balances, the President could run roughshod over any law and turn us into a nation…
…where wars can be waged based on lies
…and laws can be rewritten without the input of Congress or the American people.

Thank God that hasn’t happened to OUR country!

…ohhhhhh! =(

Congress must end this disturbing pattern of behavior, and in these circumstances, the only option left is impeachment.

Indeed! OK, Congressman, you’re on a roll! Please keep going!!

DONATE

Dah!!!

What the hell??? Why do you keep throwing donation links at the readers of your newsletter, man??

Since when do you need donations to do your job?? Don’t you HAVE a salary?? Don’t I already pay it in the form of taxes???

Sheesh…

This is not a partisan issue: Congress is a co-equal branch of government with the Executive, and it cannot allow this attack on our powers to go unanswered.

Yeah, that would be like letting the guy behind 911 get away!

…oh wait.

To ignore these actions is tantamount to a willful concession of our rights as legislators.

Not to mention your responsibilitieeeeeeez!

o_O

No Democrat, Republican, or Independent should allow Congress’ powers to be so undermined.

Yeah! Especially since Congress already let that happen all by themselves!

Nor should Congress allow the calendar to determine whether we should ignore abuses of office.

You mean like it did back in 2000 with determining who “won” the 2000 election?

Maybe not.

No President should be given immunity and free-reign just because there are only a few months left in their term.

Or seventy-two months?

Impeachment Hearings can be held very quickly – in a manner of weeks.

IF YOUR IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS AREN’T COMPLETE IN UNDER THIRTY DAYS THEY ARE FREE!*

*offer void in the contiguous United States.

Although today we don’t have the votes to impeach today –

Oooo, double-use of “today”–that’ll cost you points!

…neither did the Judiciary Committee investigating President Nixon until AFTER hearings were held and the truth was revealed. We must put a halt to this historic Administrative power grab.

Not to mention the lies they still tell us about how well things are now going in Iraq.

Congress has not lived up to its promises, and we can no longer credibly claim that impeachment would upset our agenda.

AGENDA?? Who said anything about an agenda?? This is Washington DC! We don’t have agendas!!

…we have campaign promises!

“DONATE”

j/k ;)

Our agenda has not withstood presidential vetoes or senatorial filibusters. If we do nothing, this session will be remembered for our conceding the rightful and constitutional powers of Congress, and little more.

Uh, what else have you guys done?

Is there anything less than nothing?

I am unbowed in my determination for Impeachment Hearings

Yeah, we’ll see how long that lasts.

You going to encourage criminal prosecution after he’s out of office?

and I know you feel the same way.

I felt the same way YEARS ago, motherfucker*.

*That one was for George Carlin!

Encourage your friends to stay updated and demonstrate their support by signing up at www.wexlerwantshearings.com.

Um, NO.

As always, thank you for your kind emails, contributions, and encouragement.

Congressman Robert Wexler

DONATE

GAH!!

Paid for by “Wexler for Congress”

DAMN YOU, WEXLERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!

by ThePete 7:58 pm 2008-07-25 El Archivos del Arbusto, In TheNews, ThePete.Com | Tags , , , , , | $ |

Cheney Edited Global Warming Testimony

by ThePete 8:23 pm 2008-07-10
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I grabbed this from Google News just after midnight on 7/9/8. It seems that somebody in the USG admitted that Cheney had edited the testimony a USG health official gave to Congress.

Isn’t that nice? A man with no experience or expertise in the field of environment-related health issues told a government expert in said issues what to tell another part of the government about the issue.

Will this absurd royalism ever stop?

I know, I know–it’ll stop January 20, 2009.

But to that I say this: I wonder if the Obama Administration (knock on simulated wood grain) would give into the temptation of getting all big-brothery on our asses. If the last guys did it, what’s to stop the new guys?

Of course, I still think Hillary will pull it out and win it. :P

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by ThePete 8:23 pm 2008-07-10 In TheNews, Politricks, TheBig Brother, ThePete.Com, TheScience | Tags , , , , | $ |

Vermont Town to Vote on Arresting Bush & Cheney

by ThePete 1:15 am 2008-01-28

The above screencap comes to us from: http://www.rutlandherald.com/…ll/article

Bloody brilliant this is!

I just hope they vote to do it.

LET’S HEAR IT FOR STATE’S RIGHTS!!

After that it’ll be about getting Bush and Cheney to set foot in Vermont :)

Oh and in case you’re not convinced Bush and Co. have broken the law, go to www.GAO.gov and do a search for "covert propaganda" (or just go here: http://thepete.com/…law-again/ ).

If that’s not enough, check out the part of the UN Charter that says no sovereign member can be invaded without invading someone else first. Then check out the part of the US Constitution that says international treaties we enter into become law for all of us domestically (or just go here: http://thepete.com/…k-illegal/ ).

Weeee!
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