Why is George Bush above the law?

by **reggie501** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 12:34 am

WHY IS GEORGE W. BUSH ABOVE THE LAW? <img src="http://tvnewslies.org/assets/images/scalesjust.jpg"/> No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. Theodore Roosevelt THE BRAVADO Once again, a massive failure of leaderships has been displayed in Washington. And, once again, George Bush has escaped an independent inquiry into his irresponsible actions. For the fourth time in less than five years, the President of the United States and his cohorts been placed above the law. That, in itself, is a major American disaster. When, if ever, could this have happened before? When else could one administration have pulled off four major scandals; four devastating, potentially impeachable screw-ups, and never have to answer for them? When else, in the United States of America, could so many crimes of an elected president and his cadre remain unexplained, unchallenged, and unpunished? When? Probably never. When in history have the media sat silent through criminal scandal at highest levels of government? We’re not talking mistakes, here. We’re not talking poor judgment or failed policies. We’re not talking politics as usual, with its underhanded array of pork and perks. But we are talking about very serious violations of the public trust, and very possibly the law, perpetrated by the elected leader of this nation and his handlers. Even more amazingly, we are talking about the shameful reality that not a single one of these offenses has been investigated by a truly independent, non-political, neutral commission, armed with subpoena powers and adequate funding, and answerable ONLY to the people of the United States of America. Not a single one. In every one of the scandals in question, calls for a nonpartisan, independent commission were thwarted by the very people accused of misdeeds and crimes. Something is really wrong when an American president who is accused of misconduct can determine who will delve into the facts behind his own actions? Something also is really wrong when incriminating evidence can be redacted and withheld from the public by the very people incriminated by that evidence. Something is even more seriously wrong when cover up after cover up goes unreported and unchallenged by the same corporate media that spent eight years in relentless pursuit of scandals related to Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate, Paula Jones and that awful threat to national security, Monica Lewinsky. Of course, the targets of the media, and ultimately a Special Prosecutor, were Bill and Hillary Clinton, not George W. Bush, and accountability was not yet a dirty word. And of course, in that far more innocent time, challenging the president was not considered to be an act of treason. Tragically, today, it is. THE SCANDALS Below are capsulated descriptions of the four most egregious events that took place under the watch of President George W. Bush. Serious questions have been raised about the role of the administration in each of these incidents. The public has a right to hear the answers to these questions and to know the extent to which the president may have been involved. George W. Bush was the man at the helm when each of the following occurred. For that reason alone he is fully accountable to the people of the United States for a clear and rational explanation of the role of his administration in each of the outrages below: 1. The devastating attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. 2. The WMD hoax designed to gain public support for an unprovoked, illegal and ineptly planned invasion and occupation of Iraq. 3. The criminal outing of a CIA operative Valerie Plame by a person or persons in the Bush White House. 4. The profound failure of the US government, FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Every one of these actions resulted in real or potential death and other harm to uncalculated numbers of people. Each action, therefore, raises valid questions of criminal culpability and/or negligence by the President himself or people closely connected to the White House. As a result, the moves by the administration to thwart, postpone, or control investigations into these travesties are highly suspect to say the least. And yet, the moves to do so were successfully maneuvered at each and every turn. For THE STING and THE FACTS BEHIND THE SCANDALS: <a href="http://tvnewslies.org/html/why_is_george_w__bush_above_th.html">tvnewslies.org/html/why_is_george_w__bush_above_th.html</a>

by **Inanna** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 12:45 am

Honestly, I ask myself this question all the time. How has this administration been able to get away with everything it has? The guy is not that bright, but for some reason he's like teflon. Of course, the Rovian maneuvers serve him well, but I am stupified. The only thing I can come up with is that those who were given to the type of activism in the 60s are old and tired, and the ones that followed have had it too easy and have been dumbed down by TeeVee. This still doesn't explain the failure of the MSM, unless they too, are a product of growing up in a too easy time, where fluff was more important than substance, and people don't delve into things too closely. The number one activist in this country is 48 years old. All of the talk shows that rail against Bush are filled with the 40+ crowd. Maybe there was something in the baby formula. I honestly don't get it. Or maybe, maybe, with the advent of the Internet it's enough of an outlet that people don't have to express themselves in the real world to protest. BTW, no offense meant to any people here who are younger. There are plenty of young people out there at the demonstrations and active in politics, but there is no one to cover it, and that must in some way have a dampening effect? I just sometimes wonder what happened. I have several neices and nephews who will be life long republicans, but they will do so in order to please their parents and inject no thought whatsoever into the process.

by **Inanna** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 12:48 am

That must be the difference. Also, I really did not mean to offend anyone in my previous post. I just feel that things have really changed in this country in the past 25 years, so sometimes it makes me wonder. And, of course, I speak with a bias because all of my 20 something nephews and nieces have had it very easy in their lives. I realize not everyone has and that there are very intelligent, thoughtful and committed people in that generation as well. Just no one I know.

by **Watchful Citizen** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:09 am

It's called The Origins of the Overclass, by Steve Kangas <a href="http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-overclass.html">www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-overclass.html</a> The last 100 years are well explained. In short, big money organized its own secret police to take over the media and the government which acts out the media scripts and hides its crimes against humanity so We the People don't know what they are really doing. Secrecy is the enemy.. Big money financed fascism in Hitler to keep workers down.. When Hitler lost, Nazis jumped over to the USA and helped form the CIA. The CIA took over the US government and media by the early 1950s under Allen Dulles who was like the secret president. This is what Eisenhower was trying to tell us. The CIA works now for the Council on Foreign Relations, a group of money elite formed right after WWI which determines who gets in office and what they do. An alliance between war-profiteers and those who believe that war is the only reliable way to organize society have been running this country for decades. General Smedley Butler wrote 'War is a Racket' shortly after he single-handedly stopped a corporate coup against FDR in 1934. Corporations are like warlords who want bigger pieces of the federal treasury as loot.. Now the corporations have won and taken over. So those with all the money on Wall Street and those with all the weapons in the Pentagon have allied to keep We the People out of our own government. This is the definition of fascism. It is as American as slavery, the KKK, and Japanese internment camps. Now that the Nazis have won and occupied the USA, we have to figure out how to be the Greatest Generation that thought they stopped the Nazis in WWII but didn't. Our job is harder because FDR had the whole country and Pentagon plus other countries to help fight Hitler. We have none of that. We are like an insurgency of guerilla freedom fighters. Non-violent, of course. We use information to get people to stop helping the Nazis on Wall Street and in the White House. It's 280 million vs. a few thousand if we can convince all Americans of the truth. We must alert other Americans to what has happened like Paul Revere because many don't even know that we are occupied by Nazis! This country is like an airplane that was hijacked 60 years ago and most people think that is still the real pilot up in the cockpit of Washington DC. Hope this offers some perspective. It sucks but there's lots more of us than there are of them! Research, learn, pass it on.

by **glubglubglub** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:17 am

MSM is owned by 'the enemy' so its failures are understandable... I'll speak for the younger crowd here (certainly sub40ish) a bit: i) 60s-style protests are perceived as basically worthless...the MSM refuses to cover them and the protests seem to have little effect...look what the 60s got you: (continued imperialism, a decadeish involvement in vietnam, drug criminalization)....outside of the civils rights there aren't that many real success stories unless you want to make the 'things would have turned out worse' argument. ii) even if you assume that the elections are not rigged the choices offered with reasonable likelihood of actually being elected are not sufficiently different to motivate taking the trouble to vote: the issues on which particular candidates disagree usually tot up to a total wash between the candidates, and on the important issues no electable candidate differs from the parties' common line. iii) the impotence of the current gov. is basically taken as granted; this breeds both a lack of confidence that goverment--at least this government--is incapable of being the solution to real problems, and also encourages kind of casual disregard for minor laws. iv) Times are hard for the under-40 crowd: the difficulty of finding upward security or mobility in your career path has largely vanished, and for all the boomer bluster about having had to work hard the difficult now in getting your feet on the ground is much, much harder. Without spare time and secure incoming becoming politically active -- particular in time-consuming ways perceived as mostly worthless -- but for the most part not enough are poor enough to have no other option. --- As for me, I tend to think the US ship of state's basically unrightable and would need to be rebuilt from the ground up...and that current efforts are better spent on designing and then acquiring the resources needed to impement institutions/communities/etc that will survive what seems like an oncoming crash....so I guess I'm basically in agreement with the younger set about the facts of the situation, if not necessarily the possible solution(s).

by **Inanna** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 2:07 am

I can't argue with you. I feel for the younger crowd, which is why I am somewhat perplexed than more rabble rousing isn't being done. I am not that old, but I guess having two parents now, who are 84 and 90, sorta puts me into a different bracket, a different perspective. After all, your future is at stake. I totally appreciate we're in a different era. 10 years even makes a heckuva lot of difference. Maybe it's something that cannot be stopped, maybe it's inevitable. Things were sure different a long time ago, and even I wish I'd been born 15 years earlier than what I was. I don't know what the solution is. We have corruption and no way to expose it. What is it going to take? I think there is some truth, however, that the loudest mouths are coming from those who knew America before, and that makes me afraid. It makes me very afraid. I don't know what the answer is.

by **Inanna** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 2:19 am

Yes, watchful citizen. I agree that your job (or the job of everyone right now) is much more difficult than previously, and that information is key. We have to find a way to get this out to the masses, which is what I try to do. Only problem is, they are very hypnotized. I shudder to think that when something like Katrina (and the Feds' response to it) doesn't imprint on the American psyche, well, I just think we are really screwed. And I don't know what it's going to take. Even Cindy Sheehan cannot make a dent. I could never hope to attain her stature. It's one thing to intellectually understand how this has all come about, it's another to change it. What we need is for everyone to say NO to this. And I've heard Alex Jones call for this, and I believe in his message, and then I post this stuff on other sites and people say things like...I don't see what the problem with the chip is, it's ok if they have all my information. It's very frustrating.

by **Watchful Citizen** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 12:49 pm

Brain science can save us. MRI and brain scan technology has proven that we are hard-wired for compassion. TRUE! When we see another human face in stress, our own brain's stress receptors fire sympathetically. This is the result of millions of years as social animals. If people around us are in danger, we are in danger. If people around us are happy, we are happy. SO: This is why the fascists have to hide the dead and injured from us because if we see it, we don't stand for it. SO: Photos of war victims is KRYPTONITE to fascism. Remember that photo of Kim Phuc, the little girl running down the road in Vietnam with her clothers napalmed off her burnt body? That photo was iconic and the Pentagon learned after Vietnam to hide the evidence of war. SO: Print out the most awful photos of war victims and load every newspaper in every newspaper box with the news they won't show Americans and that can stop American tolerance of war. People said 'never again' after WWI and Vietnam. We are near that point yet AGAIN. Time to make it stick with personal printing and web publishing.

by **Inanna** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 12:55 pm

Where does one find these photos? I agree that one photo of the little girl in Vietnam is iconic. That is what they learned, as you say. They learned that to not show the coffins and to not show the horrors would keep the masses subdued and willing to go along with things.

by **thrulookingglass** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 2:13 pm

One thing we should add to the decline of civilization is the assasination, "suicided", defamation of anyone with character, a sense of altruism, or opposition to the "ptb's". Malcolm X, JFK, RFK, MLK, Wellstone, are some of the more famous, and I'm sure the list is much longer. Imagine the world had these people been around to work towards a greater and more just society. It's not just inactivity on the part of the populace, it's planned decapitation of those that uppose the entrenched elites. Those that can't be ignored by the media/masses are slain.

by **mingman** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:12 pm

perspective is truth - we need truth - we need perspective - a classical education gave this - from the distance of time it is possible to see the big picture realities - it enables you to see the big picture even in history-happening - the paradigms offered by gibbons' decline and fall of the roman empire are perfect for seeing what is happening - and for seeing what will happen - seeing patterns of history is scientific prophecy themistocles laughed at solon for making laws - he laughed because the laws are like spiders' webs, they catch the little things, but the big things break thru - this is your big picture explanation of why bush is above the law - the plutocracy have been making the laws - almost since jefferson - our education has failed us in not teaching that money is everything - money is power - overpay is overpower is corruption is tyranny is control of the laws and the lawmaking - our education has failed us in not teaching that the american dream was based on limitation of individual fortunes to the maximum that an individual can contribute to society by his work we have failed our education by not learning the lesson of history: that the society based on injustice cannot stand - justice is good, it produces the goods - happiness, security, the freedoms, lightness of heart - everything we want love of overpay is the root of all evils - conquer overpay in your mind, and you conquer 99.9% of problems money is like manure - best when spread [francis bacon] - we have the most unspread money possible - pay for 100 hours' work from $1 to $1,000,000,000 - $1000 pay from per lifetime to per second [THAT should have been on ripley's believe it or not] get your ideas clear from 1000s of years of illiteracy, 100s of years of economic misinformation by the establishment - www.globalhappiness.org [not an org] is the only place i know of you can get clear - check it out - doubt it, query it, suspect it, test it, try it, sound it 'test everything and hold to what is good' - 'do not subscribe to the teachings out of respect for the teacher; test it yourself and prove it to be true for yourself' buddha 'there are 1000s [1,000,000s] striking at the branches of the tree of problems for every one who is striking at the root' thoreau - [he got perspective-truth by 'sitting out' from society] - find out that you, and everyone else, already agrees that overpay is the root of all evils - resurrect the american dream from 200 years of lack of vigilance! money [and therefore power] drifts ceaselessly, automatically from underpaid to overpaid - 'the poor man [woman] pays for all' - you need an antidotal contrary drift for a sustainable nonviolent society there is not one of us that is strong enough to be uncorrupted by big money, unlimited fortunes - even the church was totally corrupted by overpay - one pope was tried for murder, incest, rape and piracy - and that was just the nontheological crimes - the papacy was the 'evil empire' of medieval times - lord acton's famous saying 'power corrupts' was written in a study of the medieval church dont just have a revolution and get rid of the current batch of plutocrats - get a sanity revolution and get rid of plutocracy permanently - for the happiness of plutocrats as much as others

by **Starman** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:45 pm

Inanna wrote: "Where does one find these photos?" Heyia; Here's just one good site with links for photos on the unspeakable horrors and suffering caused by America's warmongering aggression: <a href="http://www.robert-fisk.com/iraqwarvictims_mar2003.htm">www.robert-fisk.com/iraqw...ar2003.htm</a> Remember that truly heart-breaking photo of the young boy with both arms blown-off? That image has burned itself into my mind. Probably, most Americans have never even seen it. Such unconcern with what their 'government' is doing in their name is just one sign of how badly America is out of balance. There's simply no excuse for killing via 'business as usual'. Starman

by **Col Quisp** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 12:27 am

There are tons of them. Thanks for the links. So nauseating. This one is especially haunting: <a href="http://www.thenausea.com/elements/usa/iraq2005/january/family/3.jpg">www.thenausea.com/element...mily/3.jpg</a>

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