national catholic reporter editorial, "The latest Bush threat to democracy

[flordehinojos]

Enough.

Little else is left to say to an administration that:

Led a country into war on false premises;
Continues to link the war against terrorism with the war in Iraq when the two had no relationship at the outset;
Dismisses the Geneva Conventions and holds prisoners incognito for years, without charges or access to legal representation;
Places detainees on planes bound for foreign countries known for torture and abuse of prisoners;
Maintains secret CIA prisons on foreign soil;
Subverts laws guarding the civil liberties of U.S. citizens, including searches of personal records and infiltration of religious and peace groups by the FBI;
Defers to a vice president who argues for legal exceptions so that U.S. personnel can engage in torture;
And has, at various times, created mechanisms to plant false news reports domestically and overseas and most recently paid to have stories planted in the Iraqi press.
(snip)

At what point do we begin to call what’s happening a dangerous abuse of power and demand accountability?

(snip)

Full editorial here:
http://natcath.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2006a/010606/010606r.htm

hey antonin scalia...are you reading this?

[Chipper Chat]

1. I wonder if the Missouri bishop that declared

he wouldn't give communion to Kerry if he campaigned there....is reading this?

[flordehinojos]

2. he ought to ...

}( it just might shut him up for a while, or lead him to apologize to john kerry and the rest of murricah!

[Raster]

5. I hope he's hanging his head in shame for the part he played in returning

the bush* cabal to power and using the Holy Communion as a political tactic.

[flordehinojos]

13. Amen.

[zbdent]

9. More likely, he's being a cheerleader for

the IRS "investigating" this . . .

[YOY]

11. He and the rest of conservative Catholics in America

Need to realize what a bunch of goddamn tools they are for peopel who don't even consider us to be Christians.

Idiot that he is, he probably wouldn't realize it even if explained slowely. He'd probably give some "end justifies the means" machevelian BS for his stance on Abortion.

[napi21]

3. I wonder if they will conceed that Shrub's actions have trumped

their opposition to abortion? I understand Catholics will never agree that abortion is not a sin. That's OK. No law states that anyone has to have an abortion! I know they remember God gave man a free will!!!!

I'm just wondering if they will be able to preach every Sunday that the actions Shrub has taken while in office are soooo bad, they cannot support him any longer as a fellow Christian?

It's true, you know. He campaigned as a Christian who would promote the Christian values, but he has done nothing like that!

[flordehinojos]

4. i know ...

and it is a shame that they pay heed and nearly cult devotion to such a vacuous empty headed, ass holed arrogant man. (pardon my french. i got carried away)! i've a cousin who supported bush because she, "doesn't believe in abortion", but when i said something about the thousands of people killed in iraq on account of the srub's greed, she said "respect my opinions. i respect yours." it is all she could say. aaaaagggggggghhhhh!
she ought to be reading this editorial, however, with her "respect my opinions, i respect yours," bit she has pre-empted any possibilities of my sharing this editorial with her... she, like laura bush wants to remain blissfully blind to the destructions caused by bush.

[ShockediSay]

6. Quick! Send this to Rick Santorum

and whatever he says in response is guaranteed to be one big joke.

[rox63]

7. So many Catholics Rethuglicans need to read this

They think they are supporting God and their religion by voting for Bush. They need to read the truth for once.

[CatholicEdHead]

15. Most Catholic Republicans reject the Reporter

They fawn over the National Catholic Register which has a narrow abortion/anti-gay rights repeating platform.

[flordehinojos]

16. they are narrow minded -- just like the national catholic register.

:)

[TexasProgresive]

8. There.s not a chance in Hell that

the National Catholic Reporter will influence a right wing ideologue like the bishop or any of the rest of them. NCR is a liberal paper. If the Wonderer ever publishes something like this then you can begin to hope.

[mopinko]

10. .

[Arkansas Granny]

12. So, if Bush gets his policies rubberstamped under the guise

of keeping us safe from terrorists, who is going to keep us safe from Bush?

[greiner3]

14. The sheeple have been notified;

Are they taking enough notice between sorties to wallymart and watching o'lliely on faux? Time will tell. So will the elections in about 10 months.

[Octafish]

17. Catholic Reporter has absolutely pegged the Bush Mafia.

Thanks for the article, flordehinojos!

[flordehinojos]

18. you are welcome.

:patriot: