Look up the Declaration of Independence. It is amazing how close it resembles where we are in todays society to where the founders of our great nation were at the begining of this nation.

” He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the publis good.”

“He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.”

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the consent of our legislatures.”

” He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.”

“For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent.”

I especially like this last statement here because it is exactly what just happened in congress. They just spent 700 billion tax dollars without the consent of the American People. I know we elect people to represent us in Washington but come on. In a matter of 700 billion dollars dont you think we should have been able to decide? Is that not what this Declaration was about?

Honestly, if you replace He with They we are pretty close to rewriting this Declaration, because that is exactly what is happening. I wonder if this 700 billion dollar bill had been put on the National Ticket in November and voted on how many people would have actually voted for it? Over 400 pages loaded up with payback money.

We have a crisis on our hands to be sure. I wish there was a web site dedicated to the votes of our elected officials showing what they voted for. Do we really have a way to track how they are representing us? Do they not work for us?

I got a great email today that really sums it up for everyone. Its not about party here. One is no different from the other imo. You read this and decide for yourself how you feel.

545 PEOPLE
By Charlie Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The president does.

You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations.

The House of Representatives does.

You and I don’t write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don’t set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don’t control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don’t care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator’s responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted — by present facts — of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can’t think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it’s because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it’s because they want it in the red.

If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ , it’s because they want them in IRAQ .

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people,

it’s because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems!!!

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like ‘the economy,’ ‘inflation,’ or ‘politics’ that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.

They, and they alone, have the power.

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.

What you do with this article now that you have read it is up to you, though you appear to have several choices.

1. You can send this to everyone in your address book, and hope ‘they’ do something about it.

2. You can agree to ‘vote against’ everyone that is currently in office, knowing that the process will take several years.

3. You can decide to ‘run for office’ yourself and agree to do the job properly.

4. Lastly, you can sit back and do nothing, or re-elect the current bunch.

YOU DECIDE, BUT AT LEAST SEND IT TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK,

MAYBE SOMEONE IN THERE WILL DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!

Look around you. The government would already be rounding up our guns. At least the House of Representaives would be trying to enact laws to prize our fingers off those triggers post haste.

I know you’re probably turning over a rock in the orchard looking for conspiracy. Sad to say, but this is still America. It may not be in the best place… but it’s still far and above the kinda of poison you are spewing.

I looked at what had been previously been posted on the web several times and attempted to go through each and every allegation, one by one. Even if the alleged statements were never real, the allegations hold a certain amount of credibility from factual evidence we already have.

Today, Bush’s real reasons for attacking Iraq were made known, and it indicates an even wider pattern of lying to the public. Yes, I want him and Cheney impeached, and if we could ever get in real impeachment hearings and the general public became acutely aware of his many crimes, just as it was with Nixon, the calls for impeachment begin to reverberate throughout the nation from an awakened population.

The dollar would almost immediately gain in value, gas prices would go down, and we could begin to help this nation which has been sorely neglected. It’s funny in a sad sort of way, but this is one Blog that has always been against violence, am adamant that I don’t want to see a civil war start because of the potential damage to our infrastructure – and you threaten me with an internment camp. Bravo! Typical Neo-con behavior when a more civil comment could have opened up a dialogue.

I will never agree with the right-wing take-over of America, Internment Camp or not, and believe me, I’m no hero. I believe in my country and have hopes that one day there will be a mass-awakening among the American people. I seek change through legal means, and if that gets me thrown in an Internment Camp – then so be it. To many of our Congressmen who are cowering in fear from blackmail and threats, and to allow it to affect our writing in a time when we believe we are attempting to save America, to pull-punches and speak with words that are extremely deceptive goes against everything I believe in.

For some of us, our destiny is already sealed, but at least we attempted to decimate the truth as honestly as we can, and for someone that’s disabled, that’s about the best I can do for my country. DHS and FEMA have somehow mixed-up patriotism and terrorism, so if you support you country but disagree with its policies, and are verbal about it, winding-up on the terrorist watch list is as easy as pie.

You may not agree with what I write, but at least read the entire article, and then if you note discrepancies, let’s start a dialogue.

In regard impeachment, this is a comment I just posted on a thread on Op-Ed News:

Impeachment Hearings Would Bring More Dems Into Congress

Pelosi’s statement, in short terms, was pure B.S. During the non-impeachment hearing(s), there were several crimes articulated that easily would qualify as impeachable offenses, and Pelosi and Conyers’ are perfectly aware of this fact.

The bottom-line is that Nancy Pelosi was part of the “Gang of Eight” and she was briefed on our illegal torture procedures, and because the President stated it was “classified”, she chose to remain silent and therefore became a criminal enabler of their policies. Pelosi won’t allow impeachment because the hearings would likely implicate her and several other members of Congress. This is simply a matter of CYA and adhering to AIPAC’s will and has nothing to do whether or not Bush committed “high crimes and misdemeanors – plus treason.”

If Barrack Obama has been going along with the crowd, so to speak, to make sure he is elected, and then follows-up as he has promised to do in regard the alleged crimes of the Bush Administration, Pelosi and several other Democrats will go down as well – and if they deserve it, then I am in favor of prosecuting anyone, regardless of their political affiliation, for crimes perpetrated against the American people.

She fired off another lame excuse a couple of weeks ago and stated that she was against impeachment because she was “Bipartisan…” WTF? What does being bipartisan have to do with prosecuting an individual for crimes they committed against the American people and the global community? If the President and Vice-President of the United States refuse to uphold our laws, and if you believe in leadership by example, then why should the average American obey our laws when the Commander in Chief refuses to do so himself? This is the most ridiculous set of circumstances I have ever witnessed in my entire lifetime, and it’s more than obvious that Bush and Cheney cannot be impeached because they would take-down so many Congressmen/women along with them that none dare to impeach for fear of their own careers.

I have always maintained that if the people themselves could sponsor a Bill that gives most of Congress immunity and refuse to release information that was illegally gathered through wiretaps and spying on our own Congress, Bush and Cheney would be history in a matter of weeks. If we look at the “big picture”, it is far better for the country to grant immunity to the multitude of Congress that have been ensnared by illegal surveillance methods than it is to leave a criminal President and VP in power. I’ll admit it makes me sick to think that so many who are culpable in this conspiracy would walk, but for the greater good, it would pay-off in spades and help to save liberty and freedom in our nation.

Justice Department attorneys have actually developed a code when they speak on the phone because they know they are being illegally wiretapped, and some actually fear for their lives – and this is a police-state that has to be broken, no matter what the consequences are. There are certain players that could never get immunity, such as Rove, Bolton, and the high-flying architects of this coup, but lets face it, if we lose a few to get rid of Bush and Cheney before they can damage us even more, it would be well worth allowing some of them to escape prosecution for the betterment of the whole – meaning the bulk of the U.S. and the global community.

This entire fiasco falls under the RICO statutes, and all that is needed is a secret prosecutor, which Congress has the ability to appoint, and then it can be prosecuted under our rule of law, and RICO is made in heaven to bring this house of cards down, and in a manner where the public will be well-informed of “why” impeachment is a necessity rather than something they may or may not want to do. The law is the law, and under RICO, the amount of corrupt Congressmen and members of the Executive branch would fall, and their fall would be monumental and breathe new life into a nation that has done nothing except to enable criminals who are hell-bent on destroying the American way of life.

Please Congress, wake-up and the people will protect you if you protect us from Bush and Cheney. It’s easy to see the benefits of following our own law, and no matter who the next President is, “the people” will come out ahead, and might even stave off war with Iran, among other things. We know the Bush administration is blackmailing Congress, so immunity for all but the key players would make sense and break the deadlock in regard impeachment.

Most people are unaware that Dick Cheney’s “shadow government” is operating because we are still under a state of emergency after 911; it is imperative that we break this deadlock and bring the rule of law and sanity back into our Congress and restore our system of checks and balances; if we fail, we will be electing another King and not a President, and in order to maintain what our constitution embodies, it’s necessary to use the full spectrum of our laws and procedures to get the United States back on a course of democracy and freedom.

So far Obama has made many of the right moves, but if he is elected to what is an “imperial Presidency”, we will again be dealing with an executive that can ignore the rule of law, and even worse, could legitimately ignore our constitution and international law, much as Bush has done for the past seven and a half years, Enough is enough! Our economy is close to utter collapse, but Impeaching Bush and Cheney would breathe new life into the value of the dollar, gas and food costs would be reduced significantly, and with a little luck and an enormous amount of work, impeachment is the best bet on saving an economy that right now, is destined to fail. We have the ability to save America, and that can only be accomplished by impeaching Bush, Cheney, and prosecuting those who have blatantly ignored our constitution and the rule of law. Imagine how fast the United States would; again be respected and viewed as the premier democracy in the world instead of becoming a target for several nations that now look upon us as an aggressor and are rapidly making plans to usher in the downfall of what used to be the strongest and most respected superpower in the world. Our future hinges on impeachment, and Americans had better wake-up to that fact unless they are ready to lose everything we have fought and died for over the past 200 years. Yes, it’s that serious.

William Cormier

Maybe you consider that comment “over the top”, but it’s what I believe and to post anything else would be lying to myself and deceiving my readership./ No. I’m old and don’t want to wind-up in an Internment Camp, but the alternative is to remain quiet as I watch the United Sates imploding, and it’s an issue that I must attempt to deal with.

Regards,

William Cormier

So the whole “The world wants us to impeach Bush and Cheney – those spawn of Satan!” is a bit over the top. See you in an internment camp!