Maya: September 29 Day of Infamy For the US & other articles

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by Maya del Mar

Sometimes GW Bush doesn’t lie. Very early on in his presidency, he said, “It would be a heck of lot easier being dictator.”

Today Bush signed a bill which gives him the power to capture anyone—citizen or not—anywhere, indefinitely detain them incommunicado, torture them, and refuse them a hearing. Speaking out against the war in Iraq, or against any aspect of the Administration, can now be considered reason for imprisonment and torture. You think that the courts will eventually challenge it? No, for judicial review is not allowed by this sweeping law.

Our judicial system has, with one stroke, been rendered impotent.

An irony is that no one is exempt, not even members of Congress. Any one of them could be “detained” as an “enemy combatant” for saying anything against the Administration. Only the dictator has the final say. Iran, here we come!

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The importance of the coming election is major. The one possible way to change this course of events is to impeach Bush. This may be possible, if enough Democrats are elected to Congress, and if enough people-pressure is put on them to bring impeachment proceedings.

http://www.daykeeperjournal.com/feature4.shtml

Laura Bush - Alex Miller-Mignone

Mars Retrograde and the US

on edit: Maya comments on the above she writes this with a sinking feeling - the only point, I, in a sense, disagree. It is probably a necessary shift, and it is ok.

[BlueIris]

1. I'm actually with you on the "necessary shift/will be okay" part of it.

Then again, I was 100% certain Kerry's election victory would be recognized. I can't help but wonder if I haven't spent too much time focusing on the very distant future instead of the short (and...not so short) term impact of even this diminished version of BushCheney.

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2. Maybe we have to do both

create a sort of livable interim :)

On kerry he was originally trying to challenge
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x451688

must have been all sorts of conflicting manifestations going on.

[BlueIris]

4. Oh, I know all about how Kerry worked to have the fraud exposed.

For various reasons, I know more about that than I'm going to post here. Except to say that he held onto his desire to publicly challenge the election results for much, much longer than is acknowledged anywhere online and didn't abandon us (it was kinda the other way around, unfortunately).

But I wasn't refering to what I know, I was refering to...I kept telling people before the election that I was sure the whole thing would work out "relatively well," and that when I thought about the future, I was filled with a sense of optimism, peace and overall calm. I mean, I knew and know that a very, very large portion of the world is going to have severe economic challenges to deal with by mid-'07 at the latest, and that is...not going to be pretty, but I still felt that Kerry would be working for us literally as our known president the entire time, and that the sense around the world was one of cooperation despite differences--in order to try to build something workable from the chaos. And here we are. So, I think maybe I was off the mark by about four years. Except on the economic stuff, which is just...don't even ask me about that, 'kay? We who may someday be able to manifest within the palms of our hands may be spared, at least in terms of the direct impact the post-Bush economic ruin will have on the globe, but many are going to be hurting very badly for a while.

What was that about October 17th's opportunity again? I know what I'll be praying for.

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5. I see

Well, it seems we have several major collective power days, starting with the 14th with Infinity Affinity
http://archive.mail-list.com/infinityaffinity/msg00064.html

and Cosmic Trigger Event, October 17, 2006, which kentuck posted


we have all learned so much since
I know collectively we will successfully manifest

:)

[rumpel]

3. Maybe we have to do both

create a sort of livable interim :)

On kerry he was originally trying to challenge
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x451688

must have been all sorts of conflicting manifestations going on.


oops double posted again

[crikkett]

6. this law is being challenged, by the way

so it will likely be thrown out in court.

on edit: I think the law will be thrown out, not the challenge.

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7. Even too much for SCOTUS

Has bush signed it yet?

If so, they did that hush hush it seems...