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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Cheney admits to warcrimes on television

The waterboarding technique illustrated by former Tuol Sleng inmate Vann Nath.




I hope you have watched this video.  If you love this country you must contact your Senators and Representatives and let them know it is OK to prosecute the outgoing administration for crimes.  Dick Cheney has blatantly shown his complicity in authorizing torture and other crimes against humanity.   Our elected leaders in Congress and the White House swear an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States when they take office.  It is obvious from the past eight years that the Bush administration thought the Constitution made a nice door mat for the White House and have been wiping their feet on it ever since.  Congress has neglected its duties to defend and protect the Constitution.  

The current Congress is afraid of the political fall out and only wants a commission to find the "truth."  This borders on treason and complicity.  We the people have spoken overwhelmingly for change.  We have many things to do to set this country right and moving forward into the twenty first century.  We must not forget to protect our beloved Constitution along the way.  If we fail to prosecute and punish the actions of this administration then we set a bad precedent for future presidents.   

We impeached Bill Clinton for getting a blow job outside of marriage and lying about it, yet we continue to let the Bush administration commit atrocious war crimes that undermine American credibility in the world.  Cheney has admitted to committing war crimes and yet we let him walk the streets.  

The administrations justification for all of their crimes is that water boarding is not torture.  Excuse me.  We are using a technique that stimulates drowning to get information.  It was first used by the Spanish Inquisition to get supposed witches and heretics to confess that they were in league with the devil.  It was used in colonial times by the Dutch East India Trading company during a revolt on the Island of Amboyna in 1623.  After the Spanish American war, President Theodore Roosevelt ordered the court martial of an American general for using this form of torture.  The United States prosecuted Japanese officers after World War II for using similar techniques on American troops.  In Vietnam, American generals designated this technique as illegal and off limits.  The Khmer Rouge used water boarding techniques between 1975 and 1979 during their mass genocide of their people.   At the top of this article is a painting of the technique of waterboarding by the Khmer Rouge.  This painting is on display at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum.

The United States has signed most of the international treaties banning torture, and yet we have a president and vice president who insist that it is OK.  It is time for us to help the president-elect Obama and the new congress clean up this mess.  Please contact you elected leaders and ask them to ensure that two wrongs don't make a right.  You can also speak to the incoming administration by visiting Change.gov.
 


Tuesday, December 16, 2008

We Need a Sane Energy Policy

Today Barak Obama is introducing us to his energy advisers.  I thought this would be a good time to talk about energy and where we need to go from here.  We are in a dire financial crisis right now.  We are spending hundreds of billions on foreign oil.  We are borrowing this money from countries such as China that do not necessarily have our best interest in mind.   We are buying our oil from countries that definitely do not have our best interest in mind.  In fact some of them would rather we not exist at all.

Where do we go from here.  The first step is to take responsibility and pass a sane and comprehensive energy plan.  Such a plan will have to address many issues.  We must continue to push our leaders to move forward with funding and loans for new clean energy technology.  We must get the best of the new technologies implemented.  We must fund and build a new power generation grid.  We must have a plan to retool our automobile manufacturing process so that we can build alternative energy vehicles.  

When we fund the way forward to a new economy based on clean energy production and manufacturing we can create millions of new jobs.  Put this together with plans to fund community projects such as roads and bridges, and we can be on the path the economic viability once again.  We have the greatest military might in the world, but in building this organization, we forgot about infrastructure.  Our society is crumbling.  It is time for us to rebuild it.  It will take time, and it will be rough road for awhile, but when we emerge from this trial, we will be the better for it.  

Please join me in keeping the needs of the people in front of our leaders.  Please visit contact elected leaders.  Also visit Change.gov to stay involved in the process with President-elect Barak Obama.

Sunday, December 14, 2008

The Power Of Change.

Quite often we here about bringing change when discussing politics.   Many a politician has staked an election on it.  What tends to get lost is that change is inevitable.  The world is always changing from one moment to the next.  This is true of nature and of all things human.  So we must always ask ourselves is this the change we really want.

Barak Obama has come to office on a huge wave of change promises.  It is up to us to help shape his change.  He took his message to the average American and we financed his campaign and brought him to power.  Now we must support him in his efforts to clean up Washington, and rebuild this country.  It is time for we the people to kick the lobbyist out of Washington, and require that our elected officials do their jobs.

Decisions and actions create consequences that then require new choices and actions.  As we stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before us and their decisions and actions, we now at this very moment have the ability to shape the future for later generations.  How do we consider the consequences of change that will ripple through generations.  

We are at a fork in the path of human evolution right at this moment.  We started this journey by using rocks as tools.  Our tools have gotten bigger and insanely more complex.  Gutenberg with his printing press revolutionized the world.  Al Gore, with his Internet* has given us the opportunity to talk loudly to our government.  We can direct our future.  It is time to require our "leaders," to lead.

Barak Obama has already brought some transparency to his administration and asked the American people to participate in his policy discussions at Change.Gov.  Please get involved.  It leads to a brighter future for this country.  



*Al Gore Didn't actually invent the Internet

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