I'm voting this year and there is no way I could ever support someone who supports George Bush or his ideas for leadership in Iraq. George Bush has failed us all. By lying to the American people on issues like reasons for the Iraq war, shitting on the constitution with the claim of terror as the excuse.

The majority of Americans are fed up with Bush and his slack ass ideas of how to run this country has ran its course. The reason it is important to change the Congress to a Democratic party is to bring back over site to an administration that has taken away our constitutional rights. George Bush swore to protect the constitution, instead he avoids it, because it does not give him the power to hide programs from congress.

Create laws because he broke the old ones.

On October 17, George W. Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006. This new law gives Bush power similar to that possessed by Stalin or Hitler, and grants agencies within the Executive Branch powers similar to those of the KGB or Gestapo.

Except for MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, few television news reporters have bothered to mention that the Military Commissions Act has changed the U.S. justice system and our approach to human rights. As Olbermann said of the new law on his October 17 Countdown program, the new act "does away with habeas corpus, the right of suspected terrorists or anybody else to know why they have been imprisoned."

How does the rest of the world respect the united states as a country of free people when the government and the bush administration repeatedly make laws that restrict our basic freedoms, freedoms to our constitution? And then we treat people we grab up around the world just like convinced criminals or worse. Believe it or not, like it or not, people are innocent until someone proves otherwise in a court of law. Where the accused meets his or her accuser and details out why and what charges are being brought against them. But not in American, not anymore.

Jonathan Turley, George Washington University Constitutional Law Professor, was Olbermann's guest. Olbermann asked him, "Does this mean that under this law, ultimately the only thing keeping you, I, or the viewer out of Gitmo is the sanity and honesty of the president of the United States?"

Turley responded, "It does. And it's a huge sea change for our democracy. The framers created a system where we did not have to rely on the good graces or good mood of the president…People have no idea how significant this is. What, really a time of shame this is for the American system. What the Congress did and what the president signed today essentially revokes over 200 years of American principles and values."

Although we have a free press, rather than follow Olbermann's good example, most television news reporters have responded to this nullification of America's fundamental principles by avoiding the subject. News networks which voluntarily relinquish their right and duty to challenge government officials function more as the Soviet Union's Pravda or Hitler's Nazi press program than as a genuinely free press.

Just as the mainstream media failed to adequately question the Bush administration's many shifting rationales for invading Iraq in the lead-up to the war, they're now failing to challenge Bush's logic and motives as he justifies eviscerating the Constitution in the name of his ever-expanding "war on terror." How realistic is this so-called war, and is the Bush administration conducting it effectively?

When tax expert Phil Hart from Idaho looked through the statutes for a law that requires the average person to pay an income tax, he could find no law that describes such. Every American should watch this video. Send it to everyone you know.

The Constitution allows for two types of taxes. A direct and indirect tax.

A direct tax must be apportioned. To Davide equally amongst the people.

An indirect tax are taxes that are gasoline and tobacco. These taxes can be avoided to those who choose not to use their car or use tobacco products. An indirect tax must be the same (uniform) throughout all states.

The income tax of now does not fit the criteria of either of these taxes allowed by the constitution.

The IRS claims that, in 1913, the 16th Amendment allowed the government a third type of tax. The Supreme Court ruled, in the case of Stanton Vs Baltic Mining Co, the following:

The contention is that as the tax here imposed is not on the net product, but in a sense somewhat equivalent to a tax on the gross product of the working of the mine by the corporation, therefore the tax is not within the purview of the 16th Amendment, and consequently it must be treated as a direct tax on property because of its ownership, and as such void for want of apportionment. But, aside from the obvious error of the proposition, intrinsically considered, it manifestly disregards the fact that by the previous ruling it was settled that the provisions of the 16th Amendment conferred no new power of taxation, but simply prohibited the previous complete and plenary power of income taxation possessed by Congress from the beginning from being taken out of the category of indirect taxation to which it inherently belonged, and being placed [240 U.S. 103, 113]   in the category of direct taxation subject to apportionment by a consideration of the sources from which the income was derived,-that is, by testing the tax not by what it was, a tax on income, but by a mistaken theory deduced from the origin or source of the income taxed. Complete case Stanton Vs. Baltic Mining Co.

Prior to 1913, there was no federal income tax. The IRS tried to use the 16th amendment to justify income tax and the Supreme court said that the government even with the 16th amendment had no right to tax personal income.

When the supreme court says something is unconstitutional, its unconstitutional. And that is what they said in both 1894 and 1913. So since they didn't have the right in 1894 to tax personal income, and they didn't have it when the 16th amendment passed in 1913, then they do not have the power now.

The IRS can not show a law that requires American citizens to pay a federal income tax or an income tax at all. Former IRS agents have come out and said they were fired because they found information that shows that the income tax in the United States is illegal. America, you do not have to pay an income tax.

It is unconstitutional to force the people of the United States to pay an income tax as wells as many other taxes.

Zeitgeist: The Movie - 2007 by Peter Joseph from ZeitgeistMovie.com on Vimeo.

There will come a day when Americans will wake up. If it is not soon, all of our freedoms will be lost, forever.

It surprises me none. What is the best way to fund the defense department? Have them create their enemies.

In the year 2000, Dunald Rumsfeld as the director of a company, won a $200m contract to sell nuclear reactors to North Korea. In 2002 he declares North Korea as a terrorist state and par of the axis of evil.

Mr Rumsfeld was a non-executive director of ABB, a European engineering giant based in Zurich, when it won a $200m (£125m) contract to provide the design and key components for the reactors. The current defence secretary sat on the board from 1990 to 2001, earning $190,000 a year. He left to join the Bush administration.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/korea/article/0,2763,952289,00.html

Rush Limbaugh, as everyone knows, has been popping pain killers for some time now. He wanted everyone to forgive him and support him. I support him to quit his job and go away from the public eye and ear.

For a man who was buying thousands of prescription drugs illegally, he made some comments about a Michael J. Fox ad that showed his real character. A complete jack ass. Limbaugh mocked Fox on his radio program by imitating the rocking movement that Fox suffers through from his disease. Said Limbaugh on his radio show: "He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's clearly an act." Limbaugh also suggested Fox probably went off his medication before filming the ad.

It turns out that once again Rush Limbaugh was very very wrong. Limbaugh issued an apology because Fox did take his medication and once again Limbaugh makes comments on subjects he knows nothing about.

Limbaugh admits addiction to pain medication - Rush Limbaugh announced on his radio program that he is addicted to pain medication and that he is checking himself into a treatment center immediately.

You can watch the Fox ad here.

The easy way to break this down is that the majortiy of republicans are with George Bush on giving rich people tax breaks and continuing the war in Iraq. Watch the google video here. Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction.

Saying that, if you are rich and you want the war in Iraq to continue vote for Republicans. If you are one one the 75% of Americans who want change in America and do not like how congress fails to check and balance the executive office, vote democratic.

Republicans argue that democrats are weak on security and terrorist. All republicans can use to excuse their lack of ideas for creating a better world is to declare everything related to anything terrorism.

Terrorism is like beanie babies. They are a fad. An excuse to create a military complex and deply US troops all over the world to police for terrrorist. It is not right. The founding fathers never, under any curcomstance, wanted our military to pre emptivley attack another country.

America. The war in Iraq is a lie. Republicans say that democrats only idea for that situation is to exit as soon as possible. Republicans use that and say democrats are weak. However some republicans do not agree with the war. So unless America is ready for 56,000+ american soldier  deaths in Iraq, like we had in Vietnam, pulling out now is the right decision.

What is the right decision in Iraq? Whatever it is, the current policies are not working. And I do not think anything will work. Why? Because America, Iraq is very similar to Vietnam as to the reason for starting the war.

Vietnam Historians.

The peice of paper that made the American involvment in Vietnam legal and put our troops there was a document called the Tonkin Resolution. That resoution is named after an inccident that has now been confirmed to never of happend(1)(2). It is known by Tonkin researchers that the incident never happen, and LBJ also on a recording admitted he doubted the attack ever took place.

This means the reason for the war in Vietnam that cost 56,000+ lives was a lie, a hoax to get us in a war.

Iraq War and Lies.

After 9/11 and leading up to the Iraq war, Bush, Cheney and their war drumming buddies tricked, lied to americans, making false statments that Bin Laden was linked to Iraq and that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. All of these things have come out to be lies. Who published these reports? Committess wthin our own government are reporting that we have all been decieved to beleive that terrorist are related to the Iraq war. Bush and others are feeding off of the 9/11 hoax to brute force false information into the minds of Americans.

Look it up america. Iraq did not have weapons of mass destructions

Vice President Cheney has said repeatly that Saddam Hussein "had long-established ties with al Qaeda." The Sept. 11 panel said in a report that it has found no "collaborative relationship" between Iraq and al Qaeda.

George Allen knew that the person he was addressing was from the opposing political party and he also knew that the camera was on and recording. And yet he addresses the man as "Macaca" because he had an Indian look to him. That is out right slander and racist. And for George Allen to make those comments in that context in front of all his supports is shameful. The man he called macaca, George Allen also made the comment, "Welcome to America". The man recording was not foreign as though that mattered anyway. He just happened to be born and raised in Virginia.

So then why does Allen make this comment out in the open? Because he is in, he is one of the elite with the mentality that he is above the rest of us. It is a common trait of many people in power. The believe they are above the law. And with all that, we the citizens have seen,  the congressmen and government officials go unchecked.

George Allen supports the war. George Allen supports a war made up of false hoods. He supports the war to be ongoing until the end of terrorism. Which anyone knows will be until the end of time. Allen supports our troops even if there is no value in the victory of the war in Iraq. Iraq is the 21st century Vietnam war. A war created out of lies to justify the occupation of another country.

If you support Allen you support a never ending war that has made America less safe. This was has turned global support for America down the drain. Other countries do not understand why it is we are policing the world. We are told that it is about terror and terrorism, reminds me of the cold war days when the big enemy was communism. What has happen since the cold war? We changed the enemies name to terrorist instead of communist, and now our enemies are more abundant.

If you support Allen you support tax cuts for the rich. Why any middle class person would support a party such as the current Republican party is beyond me. Right now republicans want to kill our serving men in a war based on lies and they want to give tax breaks to the rich.

Is George Allen a racist?

Only a decade ago, as governor of Virginia, Allen personally initiated an association with the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), the successor organization to the segregationist White Citizens Council and among the largest white supremacist groups.

In 1996, when Governor Allen entered the Washington Hilton Hotel to attend the Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual gathering of conservative movement organizations, he strode to a booth at the entrance of the exhibition hall festooned with two large Confederate flags--a booth operated by the CCC, at the time a co-sponsor of CPAC. After speaking with CCC founder and former White Citizens Council organizer Gordon Lee Baum and two of his cohorts, Allen suggested that they pose for a photograph with then-National Rifle Association spokesman and actor Charlton Heston. The photo appeared in the Summer 1996 issue of the CCC's newsletter, the Citizens Informer.

According to Baum, Allen had not naively stumbled into a chance meeting with unfamiliar people. He knew exactly who and what the CCC was about and, from Baum's point of view, was engaged in a straightforward political transaction. "It helped us as much as it helped him," Baum told me. "We got our bona fides." And so did Allen.

Descended from the White Citizens' Councils that battled integration in the Jim Crow South, the CCC is designated a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center. In its "Statement of Principles," the CCC declares, "We also oppose all efforts to mix the races of mankind, to promote non-white races over the European-American people through so-called "affirmative action" and similar measures, to destroy or denigrate the European-American heritage, including the heritage of the Southern people, and to force the integration of the races."

The CCC has hosted several conservative Republican legislators at its conferences, including former Representative Bob Barr of Georgia and Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi. But mostly it has been a source of embarrassment to Republicans hoping to move their party beyond its race-baiting image. Former Reagan speech writer and conservative pundit Peggy Noonan pithily declared that anyone involved with the CCC "does not deserve to be in a leadership position in America."

Asked whether Allen supports or deplores the CCC, John Reid, his communications director, pleaded ignorance. "I am unaware of the group you mention or their agenda and because we have no record of the Senator having involvement with them I cannot offer you any opinion on them," Reid told me in an e-mail response.

In posing for a picture that he knew the CCC would use to promote itself and him, and would be circulated to true believers, Allen joined a tradition of conservative Southern politicians seeking to burnish their neo-Confederate credentials. In 2003, former Republican National Committee chairman and Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour took a photograph with revelers at the CCC's "Blackhawk Rally," a fund raising event for white "private academies." In the subsequent hailstorm of media criticism, after reporters discovered that the CCC had posted photos of Barbour on its website, Barbour pointedly refused to demand that the group remove them. Though Barbour came from an old and influential Mississippi family in Yazoo, he had spent a long time as a lobbyist in Washington. "In Mississippi, one of the biggest problems he had was they thought he [Barbour] was a scalawag. So it didn't hurt him in Mississippi," Baum said of the photos. "Nobody said, 'Oh my golly!'" Despite the CCC photos becoming a campaign issue, or partly perhaps because of it, Barbour handily won re-election in 2003.

But George Allen's relationship with the CCC is different; it went beyond poses and portraits. In 1995, he appointed a CCC sympathizer, Virginia lawyer R. Jackson Garnett, to head the Virginia Council on Day Care and serve on the Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism. According to the CCC's Citizens Informer, Garnett delivered a speech before a CCC gathering saying that the Federalism Commission was "created to study abuses by the Federal government of constitutional powers that rightfully belong to the states."

Later that year, Garnett closed the Virginia Council on Day Care after accusing it, as he wrote in a letter to Governor Allen, of attempting to "form the minds of our young children with a radical ideology before they enter public schools." The Virginia Council had aroused Garnett's ire, according to the Virginian-Pilot newspaper, for preparing an "anti-bias" curriculum for daycare teachers. Allen approved the shut-down.

Allen's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism bore an eerie resemblance to the Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government, a state agency that engaged in lobbying and propaganda in support of "massive resistance" to integration. One typical pamphlet published by the Commission declared, "We do not propose to defend racial discrimination. We do defend, with all the power at our command, the citizen's right to discriminate."

A year after the trashing of the Virginia Council on Day Care, Allen expressed his fervent belief in states' rights in a letter to the largest neo-Confederate group, the Sons of Confederate Veterans. On the occasion of the group's centennial, in 1996, Allen wrote, "Your efforts are especially worthy of recognition as across our country, Americans are charting a new direction--away from the failed approach of centralized power in Washington, and back to the founders' design of a true federal system of shared powers and dual sovereignty." Then Allen appropriated Lincoln's language in the Gettysburg Address about "a new birth of freedom": "By doing so," wrote Allen, "our country is helping to foster a rebirth of freedom for all Americans and will allow the states to chart their own course and control their own destinies as intended by the Constitution."

Allen was not alone in sending congratulations to the SCV; twelve other governors and Mississippi Senator Trent Lott--an SCV member--joined him. However, according to Ed Sebesta, a Dallas, Texas-based researcher of the neo-Confederate movement, Allen's letter was unique. "The other governors wrote mostly sentimental blather to the SCV," Sebesta said. "But Allen's letter really expressed the neo-Confederate view of the Southern tradition and showed him to be a neo-Confederate in his thinking."

The year after his letter to the SCV, Allen issued a proclamation, drafted by the local SCV, declaring April as Confederate History and Heritage Month--the month Fort Sumter was attacked and Lincoln assassinated. Once again, Allen's proclamation was laced with neo-Confederate ideology, describing the Civil War as "a four-year struggle for independence and sovereign rights." He avoided any mention of slavery.

Days after Allen's proclamation, the SCV celebrated at the US Capitol. The featured speaker was Richard T. Hines, an influential Republican lobbyist and neo-Confederate financier who, a year earlier, had protested the erection of a memorial to black tennis star Arthur Ashe in downtown Richmond, Virginia as "an attempt to debunk our heritage." The NAACP condemned Allen's SCV-inspired proclamation, while Confederate Memorial Association President John Edward Hurley called the SCV's celebration at the Capitol one of "the worst capitulations to white supremacy" since the Ku Klux Klan marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in 1920.

At the same time Allen also cultivated support from the SCV's sister organization, the United Daughters of the Confederacy. He was a frequent guest at their conventions and in March, 1997, in his second letter of commendation to the group, praised its members for "promoting historical accuracy and a clear understanding of the War Between the States," employing a euphemism for the Civil War popularized by neo-Confederate groups. (An article in a 1989 issue of the UDC magazine asserted that "the worse suffering group among those engaged in the [slave] trade" was "the crews of slave ships.")

When asked whether Allen supports or deplores the SCV, his communications director Reid replied in an e-mail, "Governors routinely send greetings to individuals and organizations and that is what the constituent service office did in this case. I am certain you will note the inclusive language in the letter advocating 'a rebirth of freedom for all Americans.'" As with the CCC, Reid did not offer any condemnation of the SCV.

At the height of Allen's governorship, in Spring 1995, the CCC's Citizens Informer praised him: "Residents of the Old Dominion are rejoicing." But the CCC's invisible support became a potentially controversial matter after a 1998 Washington Post article by Thomas Edsall disclosed the CCC's links to Bob Barr. CPAC head David Keene ousted them from his conference, bluntly telling the Post of his sudden discovery: "They are racists."

Baum, for his part, maintains that Keene and CPAC's attendees were well aware of his group's racial views. "David Keene, he knew who we were," Baum told me. "I mean, you have Confederate flags on each sides of your booth--like, duh. But after the proverbial you-know-what hit the fan, he didn't want us there." (Baum said he "finagled" tickets for the 2006 CPAC convention and promoted the CCC from behind the National Rifle Association's booth.)

In 2001, Governor Allen became Senator Allen. Almost as soon as he was inaugurated, he was forced to choose between the Lost Cause and his own ambition. Trent Lott set in motion Allen's supposed reconstruction. At a 2002 birthday party for Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, Lott praised Thurmond's segregationist 1948 presidential campaign. At first, Allen rushed to Lott's defense, calling him "a decent and honorable man." Lott, however, soon became radioactive. The Washington Post reported Lott's links to the CCC; his tenure as Senate Majority Leader became wobbly. Karl Rove, Bush's chief political strategist and a White House aide, pressured Republican senators to remove Lott from his leadership position. (Rove preferred the more compliant Bill Frist in the Senate's top post.) Allen saw his own opportunity in Lott's disgrace. Overnight, he went from being staunch Lott supporter to outspoken Lott critic. Calling for Lott's resignation, Allen dubbed his remarks "offensive...to those touched by the viciousness of segregation."

In the wake of Lott's fall, Allen dramatically pronounced the end of institutional racism. "This is a day that the United States Senate, with Trent Lott's resignation, has buried, graveyard-dead-and-gone, the days of discrimination and segregation," he proclaimed. With discrimination "graveyard-dead," Allen clearly hoped questions about his own past would be buried as well.

In 2000, he had hung a noose at his law office. When that fact was reported, he claimed it had "nothing to do with lynching." When it was reported that he also hung large Confederate flags in his house, he explained they were part of his flag collection. Allen had also opposed the 1991 Civil Rights Act and making Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a holiday.

Using the Lott incident, Allen stepped forward as a champion the legacy of the civil rights movement. He boasted to Ryan Lizza of The New Republic of his "civil rights" pilgrimage to Selma, Alabama in 2002 with Democratic Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, a former Freedom Rider. In 2005, together with Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Allen co-sponsored a formal apology for slavery. He was carrying the banner of a new brand of Republicanism that compensated for its opposition to affirmative action and social spending with symbolic condemnations of what President George W. Bush deemed "the baggage of bigotry."

But the goodwill Allen may have earned with his image makeover evaporated on August 11 in Breaks, Virginia, a rural town deep in the heart of Appalachia. Before an all-white crowd, he called S.R. Sidarth "Macaca, or whatever his name is." When Allen asked the crowd to "welcome Macaca here" to "America and the real world of Virginia," his audience hooted and hollered. Below the media's radar--and away from every camera except the one in Sidarth's palm--Allen was raising a supposedly buried but still vibrant racially charge populism.

Now Allen finds himself in a quandary. While he atones for his racist gaffe in order to succeed in the 2008 Republican primaries, he cannot afford to alienate the neo-Confederate movement that helped propelled his career during the 1990s. As Allen begs forgiveness for his "mistake," his spokesman avoids criticizing groups like the SCV and CCC. "The neo-Confederates could break a Republican candidate, especially in South Carolina, where they're extremely organized," Sebesta observes.

Senator John McCain's misadventure with the neo-Confederate movement in the 2000 South Carolina primary provides a cautionary tale that must not be lost on Allen. Facing George W. Bush in South Carolina, McCain hired Richard Quinn as his state field manager. Quinn was an editor of the neo-Confederate magazine Southern Partisan, and a frequent critic of Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela, who he once dubbed a "terrorist." Before the primary, Quinn organized a rally of 6,000 people in support of flying the Confederate flag over the statehouse. Quinn dressed up McCain volunteers in Confederate Army uniforms as they passed fliers to the demonstrators assuring them that McCain supported the Confederate flag.

As soon as news spread that McCain had called for removal of the Dixie flag from the statehouse, the SCV's Richard T. Hines funded the distribution of 250,000 fliers accusing McCain of "changing his tune" and describing Bush as "the [only] major candidate who refused to call the Confederate flag a racist symbol." Bush surged ahead of McCain and took South Carolina, dooming McCain's presidential hopes.

"People didn't buy it," Baum told me about McCain's gambit. "When he thought the flag issue would help him, he was for it. When he thought it wouldn't help him, going North, he denounced it. And you still have all these gullible liberals who think McCain's a saint."

Now, Allen is trying to lay the groundwork for his own Southern Strategy in 2008. On August 9, he took time out of his re-election campaign to keynote the South Carolina GOP's state convention. If he can overcome the controversies over his past in his Senate race, Allen may yet get to play his old game once again.

What do you have when government officials are not held to the same laws and standards as the rest of Americans? It is the same thing you have when there is no oversight in a government that claims to be a democracy.

Even if Foley was molested when he was younger, that gives him no grounds to molest other kids or try to have sex with pages in congress.

The people of the united states need to have a revolution. The country is not right, the President is a crook and has been for many years and congress seems to be full of over paid, vacation taking idiots who can abuse the laws they pass.

Bush's detainee bill pardons him from war crimes committed. To sneak this into a bill before the November election leads me to believe he doesn't think the republicans will hold the congress and he soon will be in big trouble.

Not to long ago I believe we credited Pakistan for helping find the patsy I mean terrorist in Britain. When the president of Pakistan meet with Condoleezza Rice then George Bush. He was told by Richard Armitage(United States Deputy Secretary of State), "Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age".

[http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1878618,00.html]