Admissions of an addict

[tech3149]

I can't and won't hide who I am. I knew in the 60's that I couldn't trust the government. Even then,they served their own self interest and we the people were only considered an inconvenience or consumers that could be bought with the right message.

My awakening and addiction began on March 19,2003. I didn't know facts to support my point of view,but I knew that there was no moral authority to engage in preemptive military action.

Since that time, I've been addicted to any source of information that I could verify. I found that progressive radio voices were the most honest and reliable. I stared with Thom Hartmann, Randi Rhodes, and Mike Malloy. I found other voices out there like Bernie Ward, Ray Taliafero, Mike Webb, Doug Basham, Peter B Collins, Sam Greenfield, Tony Trupiano, Enid Goldstien, Meria Heller, and Mark Levine.

I thank all those voices that help support my addiction. I hope I will never be cured.

[BuyingThyme]

1. kcik

[cornermouse]

2. kcik?

Did you hiccup? :)

[slaveplanet]

3. What about Byrd's speech?

Why didn't that wake you up.....what about the 2000 selection...surely that should have been a clue as well

Lot's of people weren't paying attention to Byrd...

Shame on the Dem Senators who refused him...Shame forever will be their legacy....

The Senate suppresses debate



Perhaps the most significant vote in the Senate took place more than a week before the final passage of the war resolution. It was the vote to shut down the one-man filibuster launched by Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia against any consideration of the measure.

Byrd, the longest-serving Democrat in the Senate and its president pro-tem, pointed out the war resolution was unconstitutional on its face because it shifts the power to declare war from the Congress, where it is vested in Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution, to the president.

The resolution was “a product of presidential hubris,” Byrd said. “This resolution is breathtaking in its scope. It redefines the nature of defense. It reinterprets the Constitution to suit the will of the executive branch.”

Byrd cited a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln while he served in Congress, opposing US aggression in the war against Mexico of 1846-48. Those who wrote the US Constitution had regarded the power to declare war as the most oppressive power of the British king, Lincoln argued, and therefore decided to place that power in the legislature rather than give it to one man, the president. Giving the chief executive power to wage war on his own decision “destroys the whole matter and places our president where kings have always stood,” Lincoln concluded.

But not a single senator, Democratic or Republican, would support an effort to invoke the Constitution against the drive to war. Byrd’s filibuster was shut down by a vote of 95 to 1.