The Prissy Patriot Honors Martin Luther King...One Great American
UPDATE: You will not see this poll quoted in the Washington Post...
www.impeachpac.org/?q=node/290
Americans Support Impeaching Bush for Wiretapping-
January 16, 2006-
New Zogby Poll Shows Majority of Americans Support Impeaching Bush for Wiretapping
The question: The poll found that 52% agreed with the statement:
"If President Bush wiretapped American citizens without the approval of a judge, do you agree or disagree that Congress should consider holding him accountable through impeachment."
43% disagreed, and 6% said they didn't know or declined to answer. The poll has a +/- 2.9% margin of error.
By a margin of 52% to 43%, Americans want Congress to consider impeaching President Bush if he wiretapped American citizens without a judge's approval, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003. The poll was conducted by Zogby International, the highly-regarded non-partisan polling company. The poll interviewed 1,216 U.S. adults from January 9-12.
Via RAW Story-rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html
Text of Gore speech, January 16, 2006- Al was introduced by former Sen Bob Barr (R-GA) (Prissy's favorite part below)Truly a bipartisan issue, if one is any kind of patriotic American at all!
A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government. Our Founding Fathers were adamant that they had established a government of laws and not men. Indeed, they recognized that the structure of government they had enshrined in our Constitution - our system of checks and balances - was designed with a central purpose of ensuring that it would govern through the rule of law. As John Adams said: "The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men."
Prissy declares in the Gore/Barr effort democracy lives as does the spirit of Martin Luther King.
Thank you Al Gore and Bob Barr-thank you for stepping up to the plate and demanding our government back which has been highjacked by this impractical and inhumane ideology called neoconservatism. It is the worst thing that has ever happened to America. Not to mention anti-democratic.
We shall prevail, Americans can do that-as Al Gore so eloquently noted in his speech. I highly recommend it. Think how much more progressive America would have been with Al in charge. But maybe you shouldn't...it made Prissy cry when she did.
How many more will we allow martyrdom in the name of peace and lasting democracy?
The message and spirit of Americans striving for a genuine democracy will continue to endure for all who demand their birthright or status-that as a free American...
Excerpts of MLK Letters from a Birmingham Jail April 16, 1963 (Excerpts- entire letter www.nobelprizes.com/nobel/peace/MLK-jail.html
You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern. Since we so diligently urge people to obey the Supreme Court's decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public schools, at first glance it may seem rather paradoxical for us consciously to break laws. One may won ask: "How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?" The answer lies in the fact that there fire two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the Brat to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all"
Thus it is that I can urge men to obey the 1954 decision of the Supreme Court, for it is morally right; and I can urge them to disobey segregation ordinances, for they are morally wrong.
Let us consider a more concrete example of just and unjust laws. An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is difference made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal.
Sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in its application. For instance, I have been arrested on a charge of parading without a permit. Now, there is nothing wrong in having an ordinance which requires a permit for a parade. But such an ordinance becomes unjust when it is used to maintain segregation and to deny citizens the First Amendment privilege of peaceful assembly and protest. civil disobedience.
We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If today I lived in a Communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country's anti-religious laws.
Things are different now. So often the contemporary church is a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. So often it is an archdefender of the status quo. Par from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's silent and often even vocal sanction of things as they are.
But the judgment of God is upon the church as never before. If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it vi lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century. Every day I meet young people whose disappointment with the church has turned into outright disgust.
It is true that the police have exercised a degree of discipline in handing the demonstrators. In this sense they have conducted themselves rather "nonviolently" in pubic. But for what purpose? To preserve the evil system of segregation. Over the past few years I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried to make clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends. Perhaps Mr. Connor and his policemen have been rather nonviolent in public, as was Chief Pritchett in Albany, Georgia but they have used the moral means of nonviolence to maintain the immoral end of racial injustice. As T. S. Eliot has said: "The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason."
If I have said anything in this letter that overstates the truth and indicates an unreasonable impatience, I beg you to forgive me. If I have said anything that understates the truth and indicates my having a patience that allows me to settle for anything less than brotherhood, I beg God to forgive me.
Yours for the cause of Peace and Brotherhood,
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
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Now, didn't Prissy already tell you this months ago? Herald Sun- Expert says Bin Laden could be dead 1/16/06www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,17835463%255E1702,00.html
A terrorism expert says he has seen evidence showing al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is either seriously ill or dead.
Dr Clive Williams, director of terrorism studies at the Australian National University, says documents provided by an Indian colleague suggested bin Laden died of massive organ failure in April last year.
Well, they almost told the truth. Prissy thinks he has been dead longer than that...
Bush Spied Well Before 911-But Who Was He Spying On? www.billstclair.com/911timeline/main/timelinebefore911.html
Complete Timeline Jan 2001-Sept 11,2001 by Paul Thompson (This is a well researched article-all citations listed. Great service to your country, Mr. Thompson-PP)
June 28, 2001: CIA Director Tenet writes an intelligence summary for National Security Adviser Rice: "It is highly likely that a significant al-Qaeda attack is in the near future, within several weeks." Rice will later claim that everyone was taken by complete surprise by the 9/11 attack (see May 16, 2002 (B)). [Washington Post, 5/17/02] This comes several days after a reporter visits bin Laden, and is given the impression that an attack will occur in the next two weeks. He isn't actually told that by anyone, but he is told by at least one bin Laden follower that "a severe blow is expected against USA and Israeli interests worldwide." [Pravda, 6/26/01]
Late June 2001: White House National Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Richard Clarke, gives a direct warning to the FAA to increase security measures in light of an impending terrorist attack. The FAA refuses to take such measures. [New Yorker, 1/14/02]
Summer 2001: Around this time, the NSA intercepts telephone conversations between 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Mohamed Atta, but apparently does not share the information with any other agencies. The FBI has a $2 million reward for Mohammed at the time (see Mid-1996-September 11, 2001), while Atta is in charge of operations inside the US. [Knight Ridder, 6/6/02, Independent, 6/6/02] US intelligence learned in June 2001 that Mohammed was interested in sending terrorists to the US and supporting them there (see June 2001 (I)).
Yet supposedly, the NSA either fails to translate these messages in a timely fashion or fails to understand the significance of what was translated. [Knight Ridder Newspapers, 6/6/02] FTW While the contents of these discussions have never been released, doesn't it seem highly likely they were discussing 9/11 plans? Would the NSA fail to translate or properly analyze messages from one of the most wanted terrorists?
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American Prospect www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=10816
"“Duke"” of Deception-From our February 2006 issue: The overlooked security implications of the Cunningham scandal.
Among the pols of potential interest to investigators is Representative Tom DeLay, whose Texans for a Republican Majority fund-raising committee received a $15,000 donation in September 2002 from Perfect Wave Technologies, a subsidiary of Wilkes' corporate umbrella, the Wilkes Corporation. Through another Wilkes' subsidiary, Perfect Wave also hired a lobbying firm, Alexander Strategy Group, set up by DeLay'’s former Chief of Staff Ed Buckham, and which employed DeLay's wife Christine, to lobby successfully for Perfect Wave to receive a Navy contract.
In December, the Austin, Texas, District Attorney Ronnie Earle -- already pursuing a campaign-finance case against DeLay -- subpoenaed documents from Wilkes, Perfect Wave Technologies, ADCS, and associated companies. Popping up again on the radar as well is Congressman Bob Ney, the Ohio Republican who, like DeLay, is simultaneously under investigation in the rapidly expanding Indian gaming case that has led to guilty pleas by lobbyist Jack Abramoff and PR Executive Michael Scanlon.
On October 1, 2002, Ney inexplicably entered praise of a San Diego-based charity headed by Wilkes, the Tribute to Heroes Foundation, into the Congressional Record -- the same kind of service Ney performed for his benefactor Abramoff on more than one occasion.
From The Nation (Jan 2, 2006 subscription article)
The Scanlon plea likely marked the beginning of the end for Ney, but only the start of the Abramoff aftershocks in Washington. When instances of corruption swirled around the House leadership in the past few years, Congressional watchdogs warned that the scandals reached "beyond DeLay." Now, as three dozen Justice Department officials pursue Abramoff's cash flow, that phrase applies equally to Ney. "I think this could be the biggest corruption scandal in one hundred years," Brand says. "By 2006 you're going to see anywhere from one to six individual sitting members and half a dozen or more staff people indicted. It's beyond Ney. He's the first of many."
Today from The Nation www.thenation.com/doc/20060130/holtzman The Impeachment of George W. Bush by Elizabeth Holtzman
Finally, it has started. People have begun to speak of impeaching President George W. Bush--not in hushed whispers but openly, in newspapers, on the Internet, in ordinary conversations and even in Congress. As a former member of Congress who sat on the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment proceedings against President Richard Nixon, I believe they are right to do so.
Noam Chomsky- Alternet www.alternet.org/story/30487
Chomsky: 'There Is No War On Terror' By Geov Parrish, AlterNet. Posted January 14, 2006.
You've been tracking U.S. wars of foreign aggression since Vietnam, and now we're in Iraq. Do you think there's any chance in the aftermath, given the fiasco that it's been, that there will be any fundamental changes in U.S. foreign policy? And if so, how would it come about?
Well, there are significant changes. Compare, for example, the war in Iraq with 40 years ago, the war in Vietnam. There's quite significant change. Opposition to the war in Iraq is far greater than the much worse war in Vietnam. Iraq is the first war I think in the history of European imperialism, including the U.S., where there was massive protest before the war was officially launched. In Vietnam it took four or five years before there was any visible protest. Protest was so slight that nobody even remembers or knows that Kennedy attacked South Vietnam in 1962. It was a serious attack. It was years later before protest finally developed.
Dearest Readers, do you think the media is beginning to realize they have a credibility problem? Lately, the Post has been printing real news. Will the trend continue? Or will corporations win over democracy? More about Abramoff Scandal and the not so Christian Coalition's Ralph Reed... www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/15/AR2006011500915.html
In Ga., Abramoff Scandal Threatens a Political Ascendancy-By Thomas B. Edsall
Monday, January 16, 2006
Similarly damaging has been a torrent of e-mails revealed during the investigation that shows a side of (Ralph)Reed that some former supporters say cannot be reconciled with his professed Christian values.
"After reading the e-mail, it became pretty obvious he was putting money before God," said Phil Dacosta, a Georgia Christian Coalition member who had initially backed Reed. "We are righteously casting him out."
Among those e-mails was one from Reed to Abramoff in late 1998: "I need to start humping in corporate accounts! . . . I'm counting on you to help me with some contacts." Within months, Abramoff hired him to lobby on behalf of the Mississippi Band of Choctaws, who were seeking to prevent competitors from setting up facilities in nearby Alabama.
NeoRepublicans never know when to quit...Smearing yet another hero. To see more heroes smeared by the cabal: Dodge Ball With George, You're Always It... prissypatriot.blogspot.com/2005/07/dodge-ball-with-george-youre-always-it.html
The latest from Zogby. This is the only major poll taker Prissy considers to be credible. zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1056 January 15, 2006-Bush job approval dips again to 39%-New Zogby Survey shows Iraq a Partisan War
In the face of rising gas prices, partisan sniping over Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, and a resumption of insurgent violence in Iraq, President BushÂ’s job approval rating has slipped into a post-holiday funk, again dipping below 40%, a new telephone poll by Zogby International shows.
His approval rating almost mirrors the percentage of respondents (40%) who said the nation overall is headed in the right direction.
The deterioration in the President’s numbers appears to be the result of eroding support among the investor class and others who supported him in his 2004 re-election bid, said Pollster John Zogby, President and CEO of Zogby International. And the problem is the Iraq war – just 34% of respondents said Mr. Bush was doing a good or excellent job managing the war, down from 38% approval in a Zogby poll taken in mid-October.
Whether one likes the tone of the message or not, Cytations has a high degree of accuracy. (Some reader comments may be offensive)
cytations.blogspot.com/ Are Ethnic-Iranian Shiites also Involved in the Hostage-Taking?
Four Christian human rights workers, Tom Fox, Norman Kember, James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden, have been kidnapped in Baghdad weeks ago. They had just met with Sunni Muslim scholars. The kidnappers claim to be Muslims, but the scholars doubt that very much. The kidnappers threaten to execute the hostages unless all "prisoners held by the enemy" are released.
The hostages belong to Christian Peacemaker Teams. They are lodged in Iraqi homes. They collect reports of human rights violations from Iraqis, to tell to the whole world. They do what Rachel Corrie did.
Let's not forget this gem...Rod Parsley can say he is a man of God all he wants. Prissy will only agree he is one of God's (wayward) children...
In Columbus Dispatch. Is the paper realizing readers are tired of yellow journalism? Allows two of the four truth tellers on their team to tell some honest news... (We shall see how long that will last) www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/01/16/20060116-A1-00.html
Churches could face IRS probe-Pastors Parsley, Johnson exploited pulpits to play politics, ministersÂ’ complaint alleges Monday, January 16, 2006 By Mike Harden and Joe Hallett
More than 30 local pastors last night officially accused two evangelical megachurches of illegal political activities.
In a rare and potentially explosive action, the moderate ministers signed a complaint asking the Internal Revenue Service to investigate World Harvest Church of Columbus and Fairfield Christian Church of Lancaster and determine if their tax-exempt status should be revoked.
The grievance claims that the Rev. Rod Parsley of World Harvest Church and the Rev. Russell Johnson of Fairfield Christian Church improperly used their churches and affiliated entities — the Center for Moral Clarity, Ohio Restoration Project and Reformation Ohio — for partisan politics, including supporting the Republican gubernatorial candidacy of Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell. 
Will Dubya attack Iran? More this week...
Quotes of the Day
Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten....America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness--justice. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967)
Something for the neoRepublicans to consider...Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. ~ Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary
Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them. ~Alvin Toffler, American business futurist
I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. ~ WC Fields.
The Prissy Patriot will be blogging Howard Dean's Columbus, Ohio visit in the Wednesday Evening Edition! If he screams again, Prissy will play in podcast for your listening pleasure.
