Welcome Back COINTELPRO!
Remember the good ole days of Richard Nixon, and our fabulous FBI Czar, J. Edgar Hoover? Remember how wonderful it was to have the FBI spy on Martin Luther King, on the basis that he was a communist? Well you can relive your glory days all over again, with the all new Presidential home game, Welcome Back COINTELPRO!
Watch how fun it is to have the Pentagon engage in its own spying of American citizens! See all the joys and laughs when they are forced to admit that they aren’t looking for terrorists, but for peace activists! And most fun of all, a joy that the whole family is sure to love, watch and see how fun it is for the President of the United States authorize the National Security Agency to spy on American Citizens!
See how fun it is to watch the President explain his actions as Constitutional! Watch him say:
Watch how fun it is to have the Pentagon engage in its own spying of American citizens! See all the joys and laughs when they are forced to admit that they aren’t looking for terrorists, but for peace activists! And most fun of all, a joy that the whole family is sure to love, watch and see how fun it is for the President of the United States authorize the National Security Agency to spy on American Citizens!
See how fun it is to watch the President explain his actions as Constitutional! Watch him say:
"As president and commander in chief, I have the constitutional responsibility and the constitutional authority to protect our country. Article II of the Constitution gives me that responsibility and the authority necessary to fulfill it…We know that a two-minute phone conversation between somebody linked to al Qaeda here and an operative overseas could lead directly to the loss of thousands of lives. To save American lives, we must be able to act fast and to detect these conversations so we can prevent new attacks. So, consistent with U.S. law and the Constitution, I authorize the interception of international communications of people with known links to al Qaeda and related terrorist organizations.”See all the zany hi-jinks that result when the American People frantically read Article II of the US Constitution!
Article. II.See the bewildered reactions of the children when they realize there is no provision in Article II of the US Constitution to permit the President to spy on US citizens! Watch the hilarious reactions of family and friends when reading over the Constitution, they find the little-known Fourth Amendment when reading over the Bill of Rights!
Section. 1.
Clause 1: The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows
Clause 2: Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
Clause 3: The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner chuse the President. But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; A quorum for this Purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President.
Clause 4: The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
Clause 5: No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
Clause 6: In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by Law provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation or Inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what Officer shall then act as President, and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the Disability be removed, or a President shall be elected.
Clause 7: The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.
Clause 8: Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:--"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Section. 2.
Clause 1: The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
Clause 2: He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
Clause 3: The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.
Section. 3.
He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.
Article [IV.]And finally, see the nods of understanding, when the American People finally find the relevant section of the Second Article of the Constitution that President Bush must have been talking about!
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Until next time kids, be careful what you say on the telephone! Someone might be listening!Article II
Section. 4.
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
posted by Alva Goldbook at 3:50 AM
3 Comments:
Miami,
Now you drag out Echelon! Miami, I have been well aware of the Echelon system for the LAST TEN YEARS. It WASN’T Clinton’s plan, but in fact Echelon has been in the works since THE COLD WAR. That “liberal rag” Covert Action Quarterly EXPOSED the program back in 1998, and was then reprinted by another “liberal rag” Project: Censored. Feel free to go your public library Miami and pick up the 1998 Project: Censored Yearbook. Of course, you wouldn’t know anything of the sort, as at the time you were screaming your head off about Clinton getting something on a dress. Remember, Miami…every ejaculation doesn’t deserve a NAME.
Echelon was NOT Clinton’s plan, but in fact, has been in place going back to the Cold War. Furthermore, it is an intelligence intercept device that captures KEY WORDS or phrases into computer data banks (the main data banks are in Australia, Japan, the UK, and the USA) for later research by intelligence officials. From what is publicly known about Echelon, it does NOT capture your entire phone conversation, or e-mail, but instead captures KEY WORDS that the system is designed to pick up, such as words like “pipe bomb” or “nuclear weapon”. What you DON’T KNOW Miami, is that PROGRESSIVES have been enraged by this for THE LAST TEN YEARS. In fact, every April 19th is “Spam Echelon Day”. Hundreds of radical lefty activists send thousands upon thousands of random e-mails to each other with nothing but what we assume is those key words Echelon is picking up. The PURPOSE being that it will bog down the system enough to make it virtually useless.
And perhaps you have not been actually PAYING ENOUGH ATTENTION to the news, but the problem is that Bush DIDN’T use the FISA court to spy on phone calls, despite the fact that FISA has turned down a grand total of FOUR requests out of 15,000 since 1979. The law even permits Bush to spy on someone for 72 hours and then retroactively seek FISA approval, when emergency cases are involved.
You are correct that on 9/12, people were wondering why we weren’t monitoring phone calls of known terrorists in our nation (there’s no evidence that they had called overseas to Al Qaeda at home). If you had been paying attention, Miami, Sibel Edmunds, a former translator for our nation’s intelligence services swore to an affidavit that the FBI was COMPLETELY AWARE of a terrorist plot planned for the summer of 2001, using hijacked airplanes to fly into buildings. What you should be wondering is WHY DIDN’T BUSH DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT, AND WHY HE INSTEAD CHOOSE TO SPEND THE SUMMER OF 2001 HIDING ON HIS RANCH IN TEXAS.
Try Jose Padilla, or Mamdouh Habib, or Benyam Mohammed, or a host of others. Now tell me ONE TERRORIST ATTACK that has been prevented by this?
Repeating the inept ponderings of John Cornyn will get you nowhere. A far BRIGHTER man once famously said:
“They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.” - Benjamin Franklin
Nicely done Alva.
I reviewed my copy of the Constitution to read up on the presidents claims regarding Article 2. Re-reading the information here only confirmed what I already read.
I did learn that in 2004 Bush stated publicly that Secondly, there are such things as roving wiretaps. Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so. It's important for our fellow citizens to understand, when you think Patriot Act, constitutional guarantees are in place when it comes to doing what is necessary to protect our homeland, because we value the Constitution.
This is another example of what a Bush lie looks like.
Thanks for the read.
Miami,
Again…I don’t need you to tell me what I’ve already written. No, progressives were hopping mad when they heard about Echelon…TEN YEARS AGO. Why didn’t the MSM report on it? Because the MSM ISN’T LIBERAL. If the FISA law permits spying on Americans without a court order for a year, then you might want to inform this to Republicans Chuck Hagel and Olympia Snowe. They seem to think differently. Even your favorite Dem, Joe Lieberman seems to think differently. What makes you think that progressives or any other civil libertarian would think it’s was ok for Clinton to spy on Americans…ten years ago?
Bush has acknowledged publicly that he has violated the 4th amendment to the Constitution. He has committed a felony, that is punishable by up to 5 years in prison. If you murder someone and get away with it, does that mean that if I murder someone, I should get a pass? Perhaps if you Reich wing nutcases were paying attention to your FREEDOMS instead of a stain on a dress, you could have removed Clinton from office. For that crime, I would have fully supported it. Now that Bush has committed this FELONY it is time for IMPEACHMENT.
Furthermore, I would suggest Miami, that you read Mill’s ON LIBERTY before quoting him. You might come to understand what LIBERTY actually is. As Mill defines it, Liberty is the LIMITS OF POWER we put on our leaders.
And if you think that I would not fight an ACTUAL foreign threat to my country, then you’re simply dead wrong. The biggest threat our nation faces today isn’t a group of Afghans living in caves, calling themselves al Qaeda. It is the FASCIST THREAT squatting in the White House.
Finally, if you’re going to post 11 responses to a single piece, then I think it is long over due for you to get your own blog. I have no issue with people who disagree with me posting whatever they wish, but unfortunately Miami, you seem to behave as if the comment section is YOUR blog. At least have the decency to post links that actually work for Christ’s sake.
In short…if you have something to say, do it in 1 or 2 posts….not 11. And don’t tell us what we have already written, us lefties were blessed with this thing called “memory”. If you cannot be courteous to the rest of us, then you will not be permitted to post any longer.
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