It makes me weep for my grandchildren. The NY Times solicited questions for Ron Paul from their readers. They received over 400 questions, and have split up the answers into two parts. Part one is here. This section of questions didn’t get too far afield, and his answers were typical of his good sense approach to government, or the lack of it.

Where it got real sad, real quick, was the comments section of the post. I don’t think I made it passed 9, or 10 of them before I understood exactly why we will probably not escape the serfdom being applied to our lives by the four-faced machine that is Democrats, Republicans, the press, and the kelptocracy. They have done a proper job of dumbing down the populace beyond the capacity for thought.

I must here point out that it seems Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was prophetically correct a couple years ago when he said,

“I may be that the American public is no longer educated, or interested enough to sustain a free society.”

If I had to sum up our last election, I would have to say that I now believe it was just that; our last election.

This is Jonothan Turley, a professor on Constitutional Law appearing on Keith Olbermann’s Countdown about the implications of the C.I.A. erasing evidence.

On this day in History, December 15 The United States Bill of Rights became law after Virginia ratified it in 1791.

How soon we forget, then lose what’s precious.

Few thing seem as hard to convey in the correct light, to a broad spectrum of politically minded people, as the abandonment of our country’s principles by both of today’s major parties. Oh, and let me here include a completely gutless press.

Sibel Edmonds case: The real culprits of 911

Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds has made a number of disturbing claims about the 911 attacks, but perhaps the most disconcerting is her oft-repeated statement that the US authorities have covered up an entire organizational layer within al-Qaeda.

This is a woman who worked for the government as a translator who, after 9/11, was actually told to “slow down her translations”. And the supervisor who told her that was subsequently promoted! (So much for the Republicans “leading the war on terror”)

Given every encouragement by people like Congressman Waxman when she first turned whistleblower, she now finds the man won’t even take her calls. I can just see him now, hiding under his desk, the properly viscious chihuahua. I always knew there was a good reason why I thought the name “Weenie Waxman” fit him.

Thanks to Gabby and Kitty

Fred

Impeachment.
If you really need to ask why, then this article is not for you. Paul Craig Roberts, an economist for the Reagan administration rightly called George Bush, “the most impeachable President in history”.

The Democrats, having gained a majority in the 2006 elections, sold us out that very night. Naturally they have good excuses. Senators Clinton and Reid have said impeachment would be too expensive. I’ve also heard “too disruptive”, “partisan politics”, and many others.

Could someone explain to me what else we’re doing, so important, it cannot be interrupted by removing a criminal from the highest office in the land? Important to who?

What it sure looks like to me is both parties want to run out the clock. It’s a short-term winner for the Democrats, and a long-term winner for the fate of Republicans.  Like the Democrats will swiftly remind you now, “Bill Clinton was never convicted.” So in the future will the Republicans say, “Bush was never even impeached!”, and hence there was no crime.

That’s all the easy part. Now I come to the part that requires some thought. The people of this country had no idea what laid in store in 2000. In 2004 only a very few knew what was being done in their name.

In 2006 the Democrats were given a majority in both houses. From that day to this a majority of the people have been in favor of impeaching this President. Many people stood on principles, crossed party lines, and voted with a hope in their hearts. Do the Democrats think this majority was given to them so they could accomplish great things like raise the minimum wage?

The worst excuse I’ve heard yet is, “We don’t have 67 votes in the Senate.”

Congress is in recess right now. That means they are among us. As they go about, explaining all the great things they have in store for you, hear it and look upon them with this in mind; When it came to something that affects the rule of law, and the honor of this country now and for all time, they did nothing because “it was too hard, and probably wouldn’t have worked anyway”. Some epitaph for the American Spirit, huh?

What am I talking about?
While the people running both parties snuggle up to the idea they can’t possibly lose by doing nothing, here is what the American people, and their government will lose if we let them:

This country will lose any moral position to criticize any country for anything it does to anyone, even our own people, for all time.

Just a reminder here, torture of the guilty and innocent alike, always comes before there is a trial.

This President has had people, guilty and innocent alike, tortured. Some by employees of our government. Sometimes they “farmed it out” to places where torture is “legal”, like Syria, Egypt. This while pathetic shills like Condi Rice claimed “we broke no US law” with a straight face.

Maher Arar is a software engineer, and a Canadian citizen. Kidnapped from the airport in New York, he was sent to Syria to be tortured, and there for 10 months.
 For most of that time he had no idea where his wife was, he was only told that she was under suspicion too. When he was not being tortured, he was locked in a tiny cell, where he could hear the screams of others being tortured, including women.

When the event took place in Washington D.C., cell phone records, airline tickets, hotel bills, car rental receipts all prove Arar was in San Diego, Ca.

As a co-owner of this countrywhat have you to say to Maher Arar? How can you let your government say nothing?

Impeach Now!

From the Australian Herald Sun:

[Starting] next month, Tibetan living Buddhas will have to apply for reincarnation to the Chinese Government.

The new rules are “an important move to institutionalise the management of reincarnation of living Buddhas,” the Xinhua news agency said.

Well, it’s only natural! I mean, we can’t have souls wandering all over the universe, willy nilly!

According to the regulations, which take effect on September 1, all reincarnation applications must be submitted to religious affairs officials for approval, Xinhua said.

Chinese authorities detained the Dalai Lama’s choice as the Panchen Lama in 1995 when the boy was six years old, and he has not been seen in public since.

The Chinese Government’s choice as the Panchen Lama has, meanwhile, been paraded around the country in recent years to promote China’s rule over his homeland.

I’m sure the “free world” is plotting even now. I can just imagine the panic running up and down Dick Cheney’s spine. “My God! The commies are going to corner the Soul Market! We’ll be left to the mercy of God for new taxpayers, and you know what a pain he can be.”