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One thing that we have to remember about this awful scenario that we have witnessed concerning the Terrorist Act perpetrated against the good people of TVUUC. The possibility, or perhaps probability, of copy-cat terrorism.

The Republican Right sees it slipping away. Politically speaking, they have been soundly defeated. Their radical, lie-based agenda is “in it’s last throes".
Their desperation now more evident than ever as the quintessential Conservative Republican, Jim “Al Qaida” Adkisson, murders peaceful, unarmed church goers in their pews.

I caution against assuming that this will be the last.

There are few notables in Social Conservative Terrorism History. Others have received little press.
Oklahoma City Bomber, Timothy McVeigh, Abortion Clinic Bomber, Eric Rudolph, and Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski.
Most have been dramatically underreported.

Very little attention was paid to one Chad Castanaga. The Republican terrorist that mailed supposed Anthrax laced letters to numerous Americans including Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi.
Many of these acts rarely make it past the local news of the community in which they were committed.

One thing is for sure, the intellectually and spiritually stagnant Right-Wing political base is not beyond the calculated murder of innocent, unarmed Americans. This is real, people. For the heroes at Tennessee Valley UUC, it’s very very real. They lost their lives, their loved ones, almost lost their children were it not for the heroic efforts of people like Greg McKendry.

I know most Liberals don’t care for firearms. I really don’t either, I just have a personal understanding of their necessity in this society.
I urge Liberals everywhere to get a gun and learn how to use it.
You have the right to defend yourselves and your families, friends, fellows etc. from Right Wing zealots and other such Nazis.
Al Qaida Adkisson attacked the church because they were Liberals, sure. But he also attacked because they were unarmed. Thus is the way of the coward.

The mullahs speak, the terrorists kill

It’s ugly and revolting to think that meeting violence with violence is sometimes necessary, but that unfortunately is a fact. We cannot just lay down and take this crap from these Pigs any longer. Arm up, prepare to defend. Terrorism is on the doorstep and it’s not coming from “over there". It’s right here at home and it will likely get worse before it gets better.

Sometimes you have to fight. Even Jesus and Ghandi could admit that.

Be aware of your surroundings at all times.

God bless,

What a tragic situation. I guess we should be thanking God the kids weren’t killed. We should definitely be thanking God for the heroic, selfless efforts of the fine Liberals at TVUUC who risked and gave their lives, without hesitation, to save others.

He who gives up his life for the sake of another shall surely see the Kingdom of God….

Now, to the root of the problem.

How does an uneducated, Right-Wing freak of fucking nature like Adkisson get to be what he is? Well, it all started in 2000. Some clown named George W. Bush stole an election and made hate crimes and intolerance chic.

It goes along with the overall Conservative Republican Hive Mentality. People like this never initiate, they only know to be a drone and follow. Mimicking the actions and words of their Conservative leaders.
How much Rush Limbaugh do you think this waste of air listened to on a weekly basis? How many Pat Robertson anti-Liberal rants do you think he heard?…

LINK

The suspect in a fatal shooting at a Knoxville church Sunday was motivated by frustration over being unable to obtain a job and hatred for the liberal movement, police said Monday.
Jim Adkisson, 58, was charged with first-degree murder after Sunday’s shooting at the Knoxville church.

Yeah, well. Jobs are hard to find for smart people in the Bush Amerika, let alone idiots.
“Hatred for the liberal movement"? That is a direct result of the Conservative Movement and the verminous scum that perpetuate it.
From George Bush and Dick Cheney to Rush Limbaugh, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, Rod Parsley, Ann Coulter, Michele Malkin, Mike Savage Wiener, and every other piece of shit with ears that constantly fills the heads of low-life scumbags like Adkisson with some apocalyptic horse shit that Liberals are going to take his guns and make him listen to Timothy Leary seminars for the rest of his life.
The feeble minds of the average Conservative Republican idiots cannot process such rhetoric and discern the lies and manipulations of those who promote evil.
So this is what happens, the average Conservative Pig goes on a shooting spree in a church full of “Liburls". Another Tim McViegh is born.

Jim Adkisson is a terrorist. In true Al Qaida fashion. He listens to his Mullahs (Pat Robertson etc) then it’s off to kill some unarmed Liberals like the filthy Conservative coward that he is…

Piece of Social Conservative Shit

The influence has been there for years. The Right Wing, fake-ass blaspheming preachers. The Right Wing politicians. The Conservanoid talking heads. All are guilty of filling the heads of the intellectually challenged sub-humanoids like this Adkisson piece of crap with the motivation needed to commit the most heinous of cowardly terrorist acts.

The Taliban is alive and well in America. And their influence has cost courageous, innocent people their lives.

Want more Jim Adkisson’s? Vote Republican in November and the evil that has permeated our nation since 2000 will continue to grow and cost real Americans their lives.

UPDATE: 7/29/08

LINK

Police found right-wing political books, brass knuckles, empty shotgun shell boxes and a handgun in the Powell home of a man who said he attacked a church in order to kill liberals “who are ruining the country,” court records show.
…
Adkisson targeted the church, Still wrote in the document obtained by WBIR-TV, Channel 10, “because of its liberal teachings and his belief that all liberals should be killed because they were ruining the country, and that he felt that the Democrats had tied his country’s hands in the war on terror and they had ruined every institution in America with the aid of media outlets.”

Adkisson told Still that “he could not get to the leaders of the liberal movement that he would then target those that had voted them in to office.”
…
Inside the house, officers found “Liberalism is a Mental Health Disorder” by radio talk show host Michael Savage, “Let Freedom Ring” by talk show host Sean Hannity, and “The O’Reilly Factor,” by television talk show host Bill O’Reilly.

And there, fellow Americans, you have the whole picture.
Social Conservatism breeds terrorism.
Al Qaida are Social Conservatives, just in a different society.
The mentality and basic values are the same as here. “They’re not like us so kill them".

It was only a matter of time until we had a case of Conservative hate crime that made it to the main stream media. There have been many such terrorist acts that never got the publicity since President Shitbird and his worshipers came to power.

Many Tennesseans were stunned to hear the news that yesterday morning at 10:18am a lone gunman walked into a welcoming congregation in Knoxville and opened fire on the congregants who were gathered in anticipation of watching their children perform a scene from the musical “Annie” as part of the morning services, killing two people and shooting several more in the head before being tackled to the ground. That church, the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, is a beacon of joy and hope in East Tennessee. Its congregation is made up of some of the most loving, kind and gentle people in the fine city of Knoxville, and the horrific tragedy which was visited upon that church is a wakeup call to good people throughout Tennessee to re-examine our approach to gun control in Tennessee and throughout this nation.

Sadly this is not the first nor the last example of guns in churches, schools and public spaces being used to kill innocent men, women and children. In the past decade alone, dozens of people have been killed in our nations schools, churches and public gathering places by people who had obtained guns legally and illegally with the sole intention of killing unarmed civilians. The public school shooting rampage phenomenon started here in the South only a decade ago when two students in Jonesboro, Arkansas opened fire on their fellow middle school students killing five and wounding eleven. Since that time our nation has witnessed school shootings in over a dozen states with victims numbering in the hundreds. There have also been shootings at shopping malls and church shootings in the past year in Texas, Colorado and now Tennessee.

Unfortunately, in many of these cases, the guns that were used in the commission of felony first degree homicides were obtained legally. Either the guns were in possession of parents who were not able to keep the guns from the access of their children, or in some cases rifles were used. In many states there are no laws regarding the use of these weapons by minors. In other cases guns were obtained illegally. No matter how the gun was obtained, it was used in the commission of a crime against men, women and children who lost their parents, children or grandchildren as was the case today in Knoxville.

I cannot imagine the horror of the children yesterday watching as their parents were shot in front of them, but this incident further illustrates to me the need for effective gun control regulations at the federal level. The fact is that guns kill people and in the United States they kill a lot of people. The United States has the highest per capita murder rate in the developed world, with 14 people per 100,000 dying of gun violence each year. This adds up to nearly 10,000 people a year who die at the hands of a gun, not including the additional 16,000 suicides that happen each year with the use of a gun. This is nearly thirty three times the number of Americans who have been killed in Iraq since the beginning of the war.

The recent Supreme Court ruling on the second amendment by the Bush and Reagan stacked court insures that our nation’s cities can continue to live in perpetual fear of similar incidents happening around the nation as what happened in Knoxville on Sunday. Cities are already scrambling to deal with the chilling new reality handed down by the Supreme Court this summer, which seems to mean that it is open season for every crazy person who can get their hands on a gun in our nation’s urban centers.

There is a solution though, and it is up to Congress to exercise the political will to make a decision to pass laws which place strict limits on gun ownership and to hold gun sellers strictly accountable for who they sell their products to. We have a responsibility to protect our children and our nation’s citizens have a right to live free of the fear of being visited with violence as they go about their daily lives of working, shopping and worshiping as they choose. As a candidate for federal office I believe that federal government has the responsibility to place strict limits on gun ownership in this country. Gun rights advocates argue that guns make us safe, but I believe that a heavily armed nation is a dangerous place to live. It is time to make our country safe for our children. Now is the time for comprehensive gun control for a safer America.

What a circus. I wonder how many of them would fit in a Volkswagen.

It’s a sad state of affairs here in Tennessee, TN-1 in particular. This is the greatest state in the disUnion, we just need and enema (or maybe a douche) to wash out all the Stacy Campfield’s, Marsha Blackburn’s, David Davis’ and other such excrement/infection.

We, as a state, have that “not so fresh feeling".

What a bunch of clowns. Just a short expose on the ills and infirmities of Tennessee Republican leadership and it’s staggering incompetence and moral turpitude.

George W. Bush Hypocrisy Award Winner: Congressional Rep. David Davis R-TN1

This man is so foul he should really consider setting up his offices in Hell. He already has a one way ticket on the next Down-Bound express.
If going back to his first campaign and reviewing the way he exploited Jesus Christ for personal and political gain isn’t enough, one can always consider his anti-Troop, anti-Children, anti-Environment, anti- Freedom and anti-Christ voting record.

And if that doesn’t do it, here’s the latest offering to the ways of Baal from Congressman Davis.

Even the Right-Leaning Bristol Herald Courier couldn’t take it…

By Bristol Herald Courier Editorial Board

Published: July 23, 2008

U.S. Rep. David Davis has said he sees nothing wrong with federal earmarks as long as the process is “transparent.”

So why won’t he reveal his 2009 earmark requests? Is he hiding further evidence of his slavish devotion to moneyed special interests? We don’t know.

Davis was one of just 33 House members who refused to disclose their earmark requests for the upcoming budget to the nation’s premier pork-busting group, Citizens Against Government Waste. That’s down from 94 House members who refused disclosure in 2008.

It appears that openness is catching on in the halls of Congress. Davis is just a bit slow to get the message. Perhaps he believes in transparency for others only, not for himself.

Davis, a one-term incumbent, saw his reputation tarnished earlier this year when it was revealed that he scored a $4 million earmark for a private company that donated heavily to his campaign. That chunk of pork went to BAE Systems, the defense contractor that runs the Holston Army Ammunition plant in Kingsport.

Davis defended his actions, noting that the munitions plant provides jobs for many of his constituents. This explanation would have been more convincing if Davis hadn’t pocketed the company’s campaign donations around the same time he was pushing the earmark. Such an arrangement looks like a quid pro quo deal.

The BAE earmark wasn’t the only one that Davis secured in the 2008 budget. Along with an Ohio congressman, he obtained a $1 million earmark for another private corporation, Seaman, to make collapsible urethane storage tanks.

He also brought home another $4.5 million in federal funds for a variety of local projects, including construction of a children’s hospital at Johnson City Medical Center, renovation of a church-affiliated food pantry in Hancock and Hawkins counties and work on the East Tennessee State University College of Pharmacy. On their face, these worthwhile projects will serve the greater good, but because they were funded through earmarks, they were not subjected to congressional debate. There is no way to determine whether they were the highest-priority projects in the region, state or nation.

Citizens Against Government Waste, a taxpayer watchdog group, objects to all earmarks for philosophical reasons. The group describes its mission this way: “to eliminate waste, mismanagement and inefficiency in the federal government.” The group is non-partisan but hews to a fiscally conservative policy.

Why do Tennessee Republicans vote for shit like this?
A tax break? Is that all you people care about?

So sad….

George W. Bush Hypocrisy Award Runner-Up: Ron Ramsey R-TN1 State Legislature

I knew Davis was scum, but Ron Ramsey? Poor, innocent little Ronnie Ramsey?
Just another local hypocrite with nothing productive to say, much less do.

Recently we at TN420 sent a few emails out asking simple, clear questions of candidates and other pols as we always do. That’s what helped us expose Harold Ford Jr. for the lying goof he is.
This time we inquired of Ramsey. Got more than we expected too.
The two questions were simple.

“…Could you please clarify your positions on the following issues? :

1) Medical Marijuana: Should it be legalized as medicine in it’s smoked form?

2) Stem Cell Research: Necessary for the common good, or morally unsound?”

Doesn’t sound too hard, does it?
The reply to the Medi-Pot question was expected. We knew Ron Ramsey was pro-suffering already.
What we didn’t know was that Ramsey is apparently against Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Implementation.
Excerpt from original Ramsey reply via e-mail:

Subject: RE: Research Assistance.
From: “Ron Ramsey” lt.gov.ron.ramsey@legislature.state.tn.us
Date: Mon, July 21, 2008 10:59 am
To: admin@tn420.org
Priority: Normal

Dear Mr. Kona,

Thank you for contacting me! I am against any legalization of marijuana. The ease of abuse and dependency is too great. Stem cell research is a federal issue for the most part. However, hypothetically, I would be opposed to stem cell research if the cells come from aborted fetuses.

I am always interested in hearing from my constituents and listening to their needs. Please feel free to contact my office if I can be of further assistance.

Sincerely,

Ron Ramsey

Heh, of course, the anti-Medical Marijuana excuse was nonsensical as it usually is with politicians, but the response to the Stem Cell question caught us by surprise. Especially since Ron Ramsey takes political donations from a company called Novartis. A pharmaceutical company that is preparing to undertake Embrionic Stem Cell Research…

NOVARTIS PAC
701 PENNSYLVANIA AVE., NW, SUITE 725
WASHINGTON,
DC 20004 P General 12/05/2007 $500.00

Uh huh….
From Reuters:

Tue Nov 7, 2006 12:27pm EST

By Bill Berkrot

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Novartis AG (NOVN.VX: Quote, Profile, Research,
Stock Buzz) has begun testing the waters in the controversial field of
embryonic stem cell research in the hope it will be ahead of its
rivals when marketable therapies begin to emerge, the drug maker’s head of corporate research said on Tuesday.
“A company like ours must follow the field so when the
breakthrough happens and it starts to become commercially usable, we are already
there,” Paul Herrling told the Reuters Health Summit
by telephone from
Shanghai, China.
Herrling cautioned that
the research was still in its infancy and that
Novartis has dedicated
only a dozen or so primary researchers to the
technology.

“We’re still very far from any drug discovery applications. It cannot
be a major research area for Novartis at this point – it’s too early,” Herrling said.

Still, Novartis is one of
the first major pharmaceutical companies to
admit to involvement in
the embryonic stem cell field that has so far
been left to academic
laboratories and small biotechnology companies.

“Many companies are very reluctant to talk about it because of the ethical issues surrounding it, but I’m sure all those companies that have a really strong innovation-based research culture are all doing something similar to what we’re doing,” Herrling said.
Because of fierce opposition to embryonic research from religious and anti-abortion groups, Novartis has established an external ethical advisory board to oversee its research in the field.

But there is also great enthusiasm over the potential that embryonic stem cells can someday be used to regenerate specific tissues that
could be used to treat the likes of heart disease, diabetes, spinal injuries and neurological disorders.

“In Europe, we are
working on specifically trying to differentiate
human embryonic stem cells eventually for use in neuro regeneration for (diseases) like
Parkinson’s and maybe Alzheimer’s,” Herrling said.

In California, Novartis researchers are trying to understand how
undifferentiated human embryonic stem cells can be pushed to become
one kind of tissue and not another.

Did you Tennessee Republican voters know about this?
Doesn’t this fly in the face of all you believe? Do you believe in anything other than tax breaks? Why do you vote for these people?

Tennessee Republicans. Some things never change.
Ramsey Novartis PDF FILE

It has been nearly three years since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the gulf coast region, leaving behind a wake of suffering and human misery unmatched in recent American history. Sadly, the victims of this crisis are still suffering and residents of the Gulf Coast region are still waiting for the government to do the right thing by investing in the region, cleaning up and rebuilding New Orleans and surrounding communities. The scale of this crisis is unimaginable for a modern, developed nation with the industrial strength and collective will we have to remedy the situation. As a country, it is time for us to come together and call for justice for the victims of Katrina and Rita with a comprehensive, public works program designed to address the real needs of people who are still suffering from this natural disaster.

In New Orleans and surrounding regions, people continue to suffer from unhealthy living conditions. Many areas lack basic social services and there always remains the looming threat of Mother Nature once again taking more. We have the means to address this crisis. Recently Congress introduced the Gulf Coast Works Act, which is designed to restore the region. The Gulf Coast Works Act will ensure that real progress is made toward restoring the environment, rebuilding infrastructure, and revitalizing the workforce of the area. The Act will provide 100,000 job opportunities for residents to rebuild their communities and it will create incentives for local and national business to participate in the redevelopment of the Gulf Coast region.

If this bill is introduced into the Senate I will work to support this companion legislation as a candidate and work to ensure that all victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have the opportunity to rebuild their lives and make New Orleans the city it truly deserves to be. Real solutions to the problems of jobs, infrastructure development and environmental restoration are possible with the collective participation of our entire society. Unfortunately, at a time when the people of New Orleans really needed our support our President was too busy waging war halfway around the world. Instead of dealing with the real crisis at home, the Bush administration and FEMA largely neglected the disaster which had struck the gulf region, betraying a fundamental trust that the people have in government that it will be there at times of national crisis.

Thankfully, some people still believe that when disaster strikes, we the people will respond. In addition to the numerous private efforts which have accomplished many good works since 2005, the federal government has finally woken up to the reality of the situation and is finally going to do something right. The Gulf Coast Works Act will create a federal authority with the ability to implement and coordinate the necessary federal response in the event of a future natural disaster in the region. It will put people to work rebuilding vital infrastructure and restoring the environment and it will spur sustainable development in the community, giving people a sense of dignity and justice.

By working to rebuild the roads, levees, police stations, schools, firehouses and public utilities in the gulf region we are rebuilding America. By cleaning up the marshes, wetlands and restoring the natural ecology of the region we are protecting the planet. By serving as a national model for disaster recovery and infrastructure development we are protecting the future.

for more information on the Gulf Coast Civic Works Act please visit:
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How long have we been saying it? Now the final act of the drama has begun. We call Bush, Cheney, Rove, Libby, Novak etc “Traitors” because of the fact that they conspired to expose Valerie Plame Wilson, a covert CIA operative, who was monitoring Nuclear activity in Iran. Now, we have what amounts to a bold faced admission of guilt. Straight from the Horse’s Ass….

Read the Wilson’s story HERE.

Bush once before let his lying tongue slip and admitted that those who betrayed Plame and our nation were probably in the White House and insisted we get over it…

WASHINGTON - President Bush on Thursday acknowledged publicly for the first time that someone in his administration likely leaked the name of a CIA operative, although he also said he hopes the controversy over his decision to spare prison for a former White House aide has “run its course.”

“And now we’re going to move on,” Bush said in a White House news conference.

Now, after a fine job by Rep. Henry Waxman, the pressure has mounted and in classic Bush style, President Moron has taken the first course of a desperate man. Subpoenas have issued, and now Bush has claimed “Executive Privilege” for a defense. An admission of guilt.
You don’t need “Executive Privilege” in this case unless you’re guilty. There is no National Security issue concerning the Plame Affair that is not already known.

They’re traitors. Bush has spoken.

Scooter Libby was already convicted for lying to a grand jury during the course of the investigation. Sentenced to prison and pardoned by Bush.

“Executive Privilege". The President’s way of pleading the 5th. The history is interesting, those who claim it are always guilty…

From the LA Times:

Bush claims executive privilege in Valerie Plame Wilson case

The concept of executive privilege rings a special bell with readers of a certain age. It was relied on by the Richard M. Nixon White House seeking to shield documents and personnel from inquiring congressional committees and prosecutors during the Watergate investigations.

President Bush quietly claimed executive privilege on Tuesday, after Atty. Gen. Michael B. Mukasey requested the shield. Mukasey is seeking to avoid delivering to congressional investigators documents dealing with interviews of Vice President Dick Cheney and members of his staff regarding the unmasking of CIA covert agent Valerie Plame Wilson.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has subpoenaed the accounts of the FBI interviews, as well as notes about President Bush’s 2003 State of the Union address in which he said Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was seeking uranium for a nuclear weapon – an assertion that proved wrong.

“The claim of executive privilege is ludicrous,” said the committee’s chairman, Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Beverly Hills).

On Wednesday, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined the fray. He noted that the claim of executive privilege exempts the attorney general “from complying with a subpoena,” and wrote to Mukasey:

This executive privilege claim, and your justification for it, appears to turn the privilege on its head. The purpose of executive privilege is to encourage candid advice to the president, not to cover up what the vice president and White House staff say to investigating authorities when that information is requested in the course of congressional oversight.

– James Gerstenzang

We’re not making it up. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Lewis Libby, Richard Armitage, Robert Novak. All involved in the crime.
Are we sure it’s really “treason"? Hey, read the statutes for yourself…
Intelligence Identities Protection Act.

Even George Bush Sr., former CIA leader, said “I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.” – George Herbert Walker Bush, CIA dedication ceremony, April 26, 1999.

It’s long past time for these treasonous vermin to be held accountable for betraying the secrecy that allows us to defend ourselves from foreign threats. All for the want of revenge.

The penalty for treason is severe. The infraction even worse. If there is any justice left in this country these people will rot beside Susan Atkins and the rest of their soulless kind where they belong.

Yep, another example of just how depraved, just how filthy, just how soulless and most of all, just how cowardly the typical Republican activist really is.

Some piece of shit named Mike Meehan in Florida has erected a billboard that not only is an essay in delusional viewpoint, but a grotesque example of exploitation for profit of the 9/11 tragedy.

This scumbag son of whore, Meehan, is actually using the billboard, along with his website, to sell CDs. Seems to be some sort of musician but I doubt that anyone so full of fucking shit could play a note.

The billboard attempts to suggest that voting for Democrats could bring about another 9/11 type attack. Problem with that logic is, it was Meehan’s kind that committed the attack in the first place and his political party of choice that has caved to the Right-Wing Terrorist’s demands.
We no longer have a fourth Amendment because cowards like Meehan were eager to bow (bend over) to those who hate our freedom.

A sign for cowards, by a coward.

That my friends is so disgusting even we are hard pressed to find words to describe our outrage.

Mike Meehan, you are a yellow-bellied little bitch. You and your kind have committed treason against the American People, murdered 4117 of our finest and bravest citizens, destroyed our economy, slaughtered nearly a million Iraqis, and embrace the people who are really responsible for the Attacks on New York and the Pentagon.

Now, Meehan. Go crawl your traitor ass back into the Jackal’s crack you crawled out of and take your coward’s billboard with you.

People like you should be locked up, or worse.

I’m captainkona, and I approve this post.

John McCain and the GOP…they’re just the typical, filthy, Republican liars and warmongers we’ve been suffering since 2000.
The “SURGE” is not working. Embedded journalists are just being censored. The pictures of reality and the stories of truth are not making it back home.
Journalists like Zoriah Miller, who had the courage to post the truth against the wishes of those who would try to hide the true nature of the war for political gain, are being made to look like they somehow betrayed the soldiers. Fact is, the only thing Zoriah has betrayed is the calculated lie that is the Iraq war.

“Surge” this

It ain’t pretty. Pictures of one of our own Marines, torn to pieces by a suicide bomber. Why is this Marine dead? Because of the greed laden, paranoid cowards that comprise both the US and Israeli governments.

As embedded journalist and blogger Zoriah Miller sees it, it’s important to reveal the daily carnage of the war on Iraq.

“I just feel this war has become so sanitized that it was important to show,” said Zoriah, who prefers to go by his first name. “My only discomfort is the idea that the family could accidentally stumble on it.” …

The Marine hierarchy viewed the images and insisted it violated some sort of “trust” between the military and embedded journalists. Zoriah was subsequently shut down and dismissed from a Marine unit in Anbar Province.

Here’s Zoriah’s blog. It’s not for the squeamish or the delusional. The photos are real and they depict the grave truth about the Satanic nature of this war and of war in general.
If you care anything at all about our troops and/or the Iraqi people, take a look. Suffer through the blood that George Bush, the PNAC, the Evangelical, the Zionist and every other kind of Pig have spilled in the name of Israel, Oil and Monumental Ignorance.

Thanx, Zoriah. Courage to be truthful and oppose this insanity is hard to come by these days. We can only hope that others like yourself will have the guts to be half as real.

July 4th marks the anniversary of the birth of this nation. On that day, the Declaration of Independence was signed by a cadre of men, who wrote the words ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’ That declaration was a living promise to future generations of certain fundamental, inalienable rights such as the right to privacy.

On this fourth of July let us never forget that the rights we have secured were won by the hard fought efforts of generations of tireless activists and that the Constitution of the United States is a living document, shaped and formed by the collective participation of millions of people in a constant dialogue.

Our country is not perfect. Far from it, our history is one of terrible oppression and thoughtless, inconsiderate discrimination. Too many a man has been sent unnecessarily to die in war. Too many died without freedom, without rights. The stain of our neglect and terror scars the Constitution and the legers of history.

In spite of this truth, the human spirit has prevailed more often than not in this country and people have continued to believe in the fundamental goodness of the national project we call our Constitution. That belief in the security and equality of the individual and the guarantee of rights is perhaps the greatest contributor to the slow victory of justice in America.

That guarantee of our rights ensures that no man or woman, no matter how powerful and influential, is permitted to permanently or decisively interfere with the fundamental rights and freedoms of any other. These are the rights we celebrate on Independence Day and the freedoms that have been won in the generations since our nation’s birth.

These victories include the extension of the right to vote and the rights of citizenship to all members of our society. The articulation of individual rights and freedoms is the fruit of their efforts. These freedoms offer proof that our Constitution is a living document and that the will of the people can be expressed in the language of the nation, articulated as law and common practice.

These freedoms, which we hold so dear, were brought to realization through the spirit of individual liberty and collective responsibility. Through an acknowledgement of the humanity of each person, the fundamental value of humankind is acknowledged. By recognizing this value in the individual we have crafted a body of law to protect the rights of everyone.

The threats to the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and our fundamental rights and liberties is always present, both from without and from within. On this day of celebration of collective freedom, let us never hand over our rights and responsibilities to any executive or any legislator who will seek to compromise those rights in the name of security.

The generations before us have worked too hard and labored too long to hand over the right to privacy and the responsibility of the national defense to rogue administrators and legislators who would betray our trust as a country. We must ensure that the freedoms and rights that have been secured for us remain so for future generations.

So on this Independence Day let us remember that the articulation of rights does not secure those rights. Only a vigilant citizenry can ensure the security of those rights guaranteed on paper. Our Constitution is a living document, which is given meaning through our participation. Through our direct engagement in the experiment of democracy we truly give meaning to the freedoms we celebrate.

George W Bush is perhaps the worst American president who has ever served. To this day it is a mystery to me how the man was able to gain the Republican nomination, steal the election, start two wars, get re-elected and then drag on a failed war for five years and drive the economy into the ground without getting impeached. Although the light is fading on the Presidency of Bush, it is not too late to impeach the man who lied to us about weapons of mass destruction. As of result of the President’s deception, over four thousand American soldiers have died in Iraq and tens of thousands have been wounded, not to mention the one million or so Iraqis who have died directly or indirectly due to Bush’s interference in their country.

The case for impeachment is strong, so strong that it has been supported by numerous Congressional representatives, most notably by Representative Dennis Kucinich of Ohio who introduced articles of impeachment in early June. Kucinich had the courage and the tenacity to say what needs to be said and to do what needs to be done. President Bush has violated the will of the people, but more importantly, he has violated the Constitution of the United States of America, a document that he was sworn to uphold and defend, and for this indiscretion President Bush deserves to be impeached.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made it clear when she was elected Speaker of the House that impeachment was not on the table, and she has been true to her word since that date, betraying the trust of the American people and showing her true colors as well as those of the Democratic party generally, except for a few brave individuals such as Kucinich. The irony is that the Democratic Party and the left would be stronger if they called the President to account for his actions. In any event, there are numerous candidates outside of the two party duopoly who support impeachment because we believe this should be a campaign issue. We feel strongly about our rights as Americans and do not believe that a corrupt administration can compromise those rights. When they try, we believe that it is time to call them to account.

Bush must be called to account for the lies he has made in order to manipulate the general public. Bush claimed that Saddam Hussein was an immediate threat to America but the truth is that we were a real threat to Iraq. His administration lied about the issue of significant quantities of uranium being brought into Iraq from Africa. He lied about the connections between 9/11 and Iraq, continuously misleading the American people into believing there was a relationship. Bush lied about Iraq and Al Qaeda, misleading the American people into believing there was a collaborative relationship between the two. The President lied about weapons of mass destruction, insisting that there was evidence which consisted mostly of forged documents. The United Nations found no evidence of weapons of mass destruction and intelligence services produced no credible information to support Bush’s claim. As a result of these lies and misleading statements the United States was led into a war it could not win, spending hundreds of billions of dollars and causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.

By supporting impeachment Kucinich has set in motion a process which calls to public light the terrible misdeeds of this administration. The tide of public opinion has turned against Bush and across the nation people are calling for impeachment. President Bush has condoned the use of torture on men, women and even boys in Iraq and at secret prisons around the world in the name of national security. He violated the constitution by denying habeas corpus and has called for domestic spying on Americans.

We can wait for the elections to remove Bush from office, but why wait until November? Indeed, although it is not a crime to be the worst President in the history of the United States, it is a crime to lie, mislead, deny constitutional rights, torture, spy and violate international law. There has never been a better case to impeach a sitting President than now. The people of Iraq, our soldiers abroad and ordinary Americans everywhere will all be better off once this criminal has been removed from office, and I say the sooner the better.