In a news article written yesterday, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/29/us/29florida.html?ref=us, the times describes how felons are getting guns because of loopholes, errors and miscommunication the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Sunday.

Make no mistake, felons do not write laws. The legislators in florida write the laws. If there are problems with the laws, do something about it, instead of turning it into a loophole ordeal, get your Representatives to fix the problem.

Just yesterday an article came out in a Virginia paper that shows how adults in Virginia, when they are in their homes, can give children as young as 10 alcohol as long as they are supervised. Sounds like a loophole or double standard? If you feel that way call your Representative.

More than likely the law was put into play for a reason. When the newspaper got some of the names on the concealed-weapons permit list, shortly after lawmakers sealed it from public scrutiny last July. So the Florida government does not want anyone to know the names of the felons that now have concealed weapons permits. Wow, thats a step in the right direction against a global war on terror.

hilary stairs at bush with a dumb look.

john mccain winking to his left

healthcare - everyone stands and claps

private health insurance - is the executive officer this prioritized?

medical liability reform

open boarders for workers from mexico. they clapped. I cant believe they clapped when he said he wanted to open up the boarders. Dear God.

Nacy pelsiy stood up when he said immigration reform. Reform to opening the borders?

This is a joke.

Saving fuel in 10 or 20 years. This has been said before in other presidencies. Is this it, leave it up to bush to figure out how to reduce our dependence on oil?

Global climate changing. I bet he brings up 9/11 before its over.

Dick and bush drink water at the same time.

He brought up 9/11.

Global warming, terrorist, foriegn oil supply, dont forget 9/11, terror.

The world as changed. I feel it in the air. Once that once was is now lost.

Terror speech 9:37.

Hezbolla is mentioned. Hezbolah is compared to al queda. We funded and trained al queda. Hezbola is fighting Isreal who has defined UN law for many years.

9:40 - 9/11 again.

9:42 - john mccain is sleeping

talking about hezbola jepordizing an elected government. uh the iraq war, was just that dumb ass.

9:45 - iraq talk time. more troops. same as the speech he gave the other night.

chaos is our their greatest heaven.

he said 9/11 again, if we dont do the surge there will be another 9/11.

This war is 6 years old.

9:52 more terror talk.

He wasnts 90,000 additional military.

Iran nuclear weapons sanction from the UN.

What about the UN resolutions against Isreal?

What about bin laden?

Oh no another man that wants to go to cuba. Operation Northwoods.

Hunger poverty disease, africa aids. Is there more terror?

Mutumbo is in the house, bush called him son of the congo. Is that racist? 

God help us all.

The United States has dedicated the entire country to spreading democracy and freedom throughout the world. Well, mainly it is mainly Bush's Regime, anyway, we are spending billions of dollars and more important, our soldiers lives to install our way of life on the Iraq people.

Constitution for a reason

The idea behind our country was by the people and for the people. The main job of the president is to uphold the constitution. Also in the constitution it details out that Congress, not the president, is to declare war. Why? Who would you prefer start a war, one single person deciding what is best for a country, or all of the members of the Congress get together and discuss the situation. Being a republic and not a dictatorship, allows a group of individuals with different ideas to come to the decision(congress), should we go to war?

Did congress declare the Iraq war? No, Bush asked congress to create legislation to give him the power to declare war himself. The weapons of mass destruction inspectors were kicked out of Iraq even when they had still not found any weapons of mass destruction. With the republican party congress we recently sent home, it was easy for Bush to get them to pass a bill. Just like reasons for the Vietnam War, the Tonkin Resolution, was a bill of paper that gave LBJ the power to start the Vietnam war. The Tonkin attack was a lie to get the Vietnam war started, just like the imminent threat of weapons of mass destructions.

Could Iraq be free like the USA?

The one big flaw in Bush's idea of peace, by way of complete war, George Bush and his administration with cooperation from our Congress has removed many of our liberties/freedoms guaranteed in our constitution.

While civilians and US soldiers die for Iraq freedom/democracy, here is what our President is doing for our democracy and freedom in our own country:

After 9/11 rather than seek the truth, Bush: (1) reversed the presumptions governing Freedom of Information Act requests; (2) pushed through the USA Patriot Act allowing secret "sneak and peek" search warrants, secret "national security letters," and electronic search warrants without probable cause;" (3) authorized eavesdropping on American's international telephone and e-mail communications; (4) authorized military surveillance of American citizens; (5) signed secret directives allowing prisoners, including American citizens, to be held without trial or access to attorneys and to be tortured; (6) commenced building secret "detention" centers in the U.S.; (7) secretly kidnapped foreign nationals and confined them in secret prisons around the world; and (8) defied the will of Congress by making more than a hundred "signing statements," which nullified legislation without a veto.

What is freedom/democracy?

Is freedom a word used when instigating a fight or war? Will there be a never ending battle until the world accepts Americas terms for freedom and democracy? How can a nation, who takes its own peoples freedom away, wage war on nations who do not grant or adhere to the same cultures or laws we are custom to?

Is it fare to the USA to say, "Hey since you are not like America, you should be invaded and straightened out?"

Do you want to talk about reality? Do you want to talk about a New World Order? A global police state? Does everything seem like it is getting worse? Our politicians are more corrupt and complacent with crimes and cover ups. Even our own president defies the laws of the country in which he swore and oath to protect. Treason. That is punishable by death.

The truth is that our government was created to keep rich people rich. The game is being played on a fixed board.

George Bush is Hitler. To figure this out replace Hitler with George Bush and replace the Jews with Muslims. Over 650,000 Iraq's have been killed since the war started. Think about that.

This Sunday on 60 Minutes, George Bush gives his first interview after the troop surge crap speech. When asked if he has the authority to send these troops without the approval of congress, he says that he does and that he has already made his decision and he is going forward. Click here to watch the clip from the interview.

If our congress does not do something with George Bush, he will single handedly start a war with Iran and Syria and Iraq. I will not go to war and fight for this asshole. George Bush knows nothing, nothing, about fighting a war, nor does he know how to surround himself with intelligent people. George Bush is the worst person to not be elected and sit in the oval office.

The 2000 election was fixed in a state where his brother and campaign manger made the calls on the recount. He did not win the popular vote from Americans in 2000.

There never was a link with 9/11 and Iraq and yet 6 years after, the biggest inside job since Kennedy's assassination, Bush prick face throws 9/11 around like a winning card hand to get support to go to world war 3.

Fuck you George Bush, this country hates you. Do you think killing 654,965 Iraq's since the invasion compares to the number of people Saddam was hung for? You dumb shit.

Three years ago, during Iraq's six-month occupation of Kuwait, there had been an outcry when a teen-age Kuwaiti girl testified eloquently and effectively before Congress about Iraqi atrocities involving newborn infants. The girl turned out to be the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to Washington, Sheikh Saud Nasir al-Sabah, and her account of Iraqi soldiers flinging babies out of incubators was challenged as exaggerated both by journalists and by human-rights groups. (Sheikh Saud was subsequently named Minister of Information in Kuwait, and he was the government official in charge of briefing the international press on the alleged assassination attempt against George Bush.) In a second incident, in August of 1991, Kuwait provoked a special session of the United Nations Security Council by claiming that twelve Iraqi vessels, including a speedboat, had been involved in an attempt to assault Bubiyan Island, long-disputed territory that was then under Kuwaiti control. The Security Council eventually concluded that, while the Iraqis had been provocative, there had been no Iraqi military raid, and that the Kuwaiti government knew there hadn't. What did take place was nothing more than a smuggler-versus-smuggler dispute over war booty in a nearby demilitarized zone that had emerged, after the Gulf War, as an illegal marketplace for alcohol, ammunition, and livestock.

The President was not alone in his caution. Janet Reno, the Attorney General, also had her doubts. "The A.G. remains skeptical of certain aspects of the case," a senior Justice Department official told me in late July, a month after the bombs were dropped on Baghdad...Two weeks later, what amounted to open warfare broke out among various factions in the government on the issue of who had done what in Kuwait. Someone gave a Boston Globe reporter access to a classified C.I.A. study that was highly skeptical of the Kuwaiti claims of an Iraqi assassination attempt. The study, prepared by the C.I.A.'s Counter Terrorism Center, suggested that Kuwait might have "cooked the books" on the alleged plot in an effort to play up the "continuing Iraqi threat" to Western interests in the Persian Gulf. Neither the Times nor the Post made any significant mention of the Globe dispatch, which had been written by a Washington correspondent named Paul Quinn-Judge, although the story cited specific paragraphs from the C.I.A. assessment. The two major American newspapers had been driven by their sources to the other side of the debate.

In September 1988, however – a month after the war (between Iran and Iraq) had ended – the State Department abruptly, and in what many viewed as a sensational manner, condemned Iraq for allegedly using chemicals against its Kurdish population. The incident cannot be understood without some background of Iraq's relations with the Kurds...throughout the war Iraq effectively faced two enemies – Iran and elements of its own Kurdish minority. Significant numbers of the Kurds had launched a revolt against Baghdad and in the process teamed up with Tehran. As soon as the war with Iran ended, Iraq announced its determination to crush the Kurdish insurrection. It sent Republican Guards to the Kurdish area, and in the course of the operation – according to the U.S. State Department – gas was used, with the result that numerous Kurdish civilians were killed. The Iraqi government denied that any such gassing had occurred. Nonetheless, Secretary of State Schultz stood by U.S. accusations, and the U.S. Congress, acting on its own, sought to impose economic sanctions on Baghdad as a violator of the Kurds' human rights.

Having looked at all the evidence that was available to us, we find it impossible to confirm the State Department's claim that gas was used in this instance. To begin with, there were never any victims produced. International relief organizations who examined the Kurds – in Turkey where they had gone for asylum – failed to discover any. Nor were there ever any found inside Iraq. The claim rests solely on testimony of the Kurds who had crossed the border into Turkey, where they were interviewed by staffers of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...

It appears that in seeking to punish Iraq, the Congress was influenced by another incident that occurred five months earlier in another Iraqi-Kurdish city, Halabjah. In March 1988, the Kurds at Halabjah were bombarded with chemical weapons, producing many deaths. Photographs of the Kurdish victims were widely disseminated in the international media. Iraq was blamed for the Halabjah attack, even though it was subsequently brought out that Iran too had used chemicals in this operation and it seemed likely that it was the Iranian bombardment that had actually killed the Kurds.

Thus, in our view, the Congress acted more on the basis of emotionalism than factual information, and without sufficient thought for the adverse diplomatic effects of its action.

One 1986 shipment from the Virginia-based American Type Culture Collection included three strains of anthrax, six strains of the bacteria that make botulinum toxin and three strains of the bacteria that cause gas gangrene. Iraq later admitted to the United Nations that it had made weapons out of all three...

The way that the United States prints money is important. The very privilege granted to our government by the Constitution states clearly that any form of currency must be backed by gold or silver. Seeing that neither of those is the case, it is worth any amount of time to take a look at how money is created in the USA.

We have all heard the name Federal Reserve Bank. Growing up and until recent years, just the name sounded like it was related to our government and that our government was in control of it.

In reality the Federal Reserve Bank is a private company of bankers. They are not part of the US government and yes it gets worse. There are no Reserves at the Federal Reserve Bank, the money has no backing. The Federal Reserve Bank is not the first privately owned Federal Bank in US history.

"I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies." - Thomas Jefferson

In 1789 Alexander Hamilton lobbied for the first privately own bank and Congress chartered that bank. In 1811, under President James Madison, Vice President George Clinton broke the tied vote in congress to cast the bankers out, refusing to renew the charter for the bankers. James Madison purposed a second united states privately owned central bank and it came into existence in 1816.

In 1863 President Andrew Jackson, overriding Congress, closed the bank saying, "The bold effort the present bank had made to control the government are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it." Andrew Jackson also said to the bankers, "You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out and by the eternal God i will rout you out."

Henry Ford  once said, "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."

Why do founding figures in American history talk bad about a private banking system that prints the governments money? Because money controls the world, it controls everything.

The kick in the balls is this, Article 1, section 8, of the Constitution reads:
The Congress shall have the power to coin money, regulate the value thereof. Nowhere in the constitution does it give Congress the authority to delegate this responsibility to anyone, much less a group of private bankers.

The Federal Reserve has no silver or gold to back the bills it prints. So one could ask, what is it backed by? It is backed by nothing. The federal reserve creates money out of thin air, thin air, and then loans it to our government with an interest fee. That is like you or me printing up money and then loaning it to people and then make them pay interest on money that cost nothing to create. This is not something that a private company with no oversight should be able to do when it affects everything in our country.

What does the Federal Reserve Bank interest rate effect? Your house loan, your car loan, any kind of loan from any bank trickles down to the interest rate set by the Federal Reserve. Why should private banks control our country? The simple answer is they should not, it goes against what our founding fathers warned us against.

When the federal reserve act was passed by Woodrow Wilson, it created the IRS. The IRS collects taxes. The creation of the Federal Reserve Bank and the IRS is what started the income tax. Before the Federal Reserve Act there was no income tax. What do our income taxes have to do with the Federal Reserve Bank?

Our federal income tax dollars go to pay the interest on the money our government borrows from the Federal Reserve Bank.

Of all the things our government should controls or regulate, the printing of our money is not, and that is a direct contradiction to our Constitution. There is no oversight at the Federal Reserve Bank there are no checks and balances.

I urge you to find out more about the Federal Reserve. Money is the root of almost all evil.

Mayer Amchel Rothchild once said, "Let me issue and control a nations money, and I care not who writes its laws."

By Mike Blair
While President George Bush is trying to hoodwink Americans about taking a firm position to halt the large numbers of aliens illegally entering the nation, the truth is, according to American Free Press sources, the flow of undocumented immigrants is worsening.

In addition, the crossover of illegals who are classified as “other than Mexicans” (OTMs) has worsened, which is particularly embarrassing for the post 9-11 Bush administration.

Although the establishment media is giving it little attention, last year there were 88,000 OTMs who were caught in the United States by customs and immigration authorities.

No one knows how many remain in the United States. Of the 88,000 who were caught, about 72 percent were released from custody with a notice to appear in court later for a deportation hearing. Of that 72 percent, 75 percent of them did not show up for their court date, making a mockery of the proceedings.

Ninety-four foreign-born nationals have been arrested or convicted on terror-related charges. Of these, 22 were in the United States legally with student visas, 17 had visitor visas and 13 simply overstayed their visas and no one bothered to look for them.

Along the border, the situation grows worse daily. The Bush administration doesn’t seem to care that assaults on U.S. Border Patrol agents have increased in 12 months from 354 to 687 last year. There have been reports that either the illegal aliens or the guides who are paid to take them across the border have been attacking agents with a variety of weapons—everything from slingshots propelling marbles to Molotov cocktails and semiautomatic weapons.a

In some cases, drug smugglers are more heavily armed than Border Patrol officers and have been known to carry machineguns, hand grenades and rocket-propelled grenades—weapons usually reserved for the military.

But the Bushites insist placing U.S. troops on the border would be overreacting to the problem. While guarding the borders of countless other countries, the president refuses to use troops to guard the U.S. border.

AFP has learned that in patrol areas in Tucson and San Diego, Border Patrol agents were shot at 43 times last year. Twenty agents were hospitalized for wounds. Military magazine has reported that Mexican troops, who are supporting narcoterrorists, frequently fire across the border at American agents.

AFP reported in 2005 that Mexican troops operating American-made Humvees actually crossed the border and engaged U.S. Border Patrol agents in a gunfight. The Mexican soldiers were captured and briefly held.

However, local agents received orders from Washington to release them and they returned to Mexico.

As far as anyone knows, the State Department did not complain to Mexico about the incident, which constituted an armed invasion of U.S. territory by foreign troops.

(Issue #4, January 23, 2006)

Many people like to say that they live in the greatest country in the world, and though that is a good way to keep your mind mentally intact with your country, it is not as a true statement as I once believed.

If we lived in the greatest country in the world, more than 27% of the population should agree with what our executive and legislative branches are doing. Instead the American people dislike greatly the fact that our current president Bush is the worst person to ever hold the office period.

Greatest country in the world? It is easy for almost 75% of the people to agree that George Bush has failed in his duties to uphold the constitution. If anything, he has done the complete opposite. Bush aside, congress for a long time has been a waste land of corruption and scandals.

Have you read the emails or aol instant messages Foley was sending around? Congress even investigated, showing some oversight. After concluding in their report that people were negligent in not protecting the House pages from Mark Foley, they did not do anything to anyone. So the people who did not warn others who acted "negeligent" get off without a slap on the wrist. This is congress, this is what congress has become, a place for rich people to make deals and get away with whatever they do. 

And these same people are the same ones that are supposed to keep the president George bush in check. Instead Bush walks over congress and congress could care less about the people of this country.

Congress does not work a five day work week even though they are paid 100,000's of thousands of dollars a year to work for and by the people. In 2001 congress spent 151 days in session. If you worked every week, five days a week with no vacation, you would work 260 days. If you worked 3 days a week for a year it would work out to be 156 days a year. On average congress works less than 3 days a week.

What the hell do they get paid so much money for being sick old people who do not help protect america and who do not stop a dictator like dumb ass bush.

Do you know why people went to the polls this past Nov. 2? It was not to smack Bush on the hand or get Donald Rumsfeld fired, it was to send a clear message to Bush that he could not read from the polls. America does not support any war based on a bunch of lies. Leave policing the world up to the world police, or is the United States new function in the world to police it and turn the entire world into one big map of the USA.

George Bush seems all to eager to work together with congress since having six years of his way with just about anything he could make up.

The democrats elected and head swelling that has consumed most of them pisses me off more than George Bush still being elected. It is not about democrats, its not about republicans, its about calling out an unchecked government that has no end to disgrace, scandal with illegal behavior.

It is the duty of the people to criticize the government, especially the president in times of peace and war. That is why it works, because it is under the watchful eye of the powerful people. We the people dammit. Not we the people we elect to screw us over in Capitol hill, so they can drool on each other over majority, or use it as a string to run for president. Is that what congress has come to be? The training ground and advertising ground for the setup of presidential elections?

It is the job of the American people to be active and to speak out and use those freedoms that our founding fathers created so that a country as great as ours could stand the test of time.

The greatest threat to America is not the people our government labels enemies, instead those who create the labels are far more dangerous, they tell us who to kill.

Congress and the people need to set the standard for presidents. Just because you are president does not mean you can screw up everything, hide information from the people and congress and get away with it because of some new post 9/11 word, terror.

George Bush failed as commander and cheif. Does America want to set its standards any lower than that of George Bush?

The constitution is there for a reason, it is there to be used by and for the people. Not for the interest of lobbyist, corporations, or anything other than the people of the united states.

The CEO of DieBold,  a voting machine vendor, wrote a fund raising letter on August 14th, 2003. In that memo he stated, "committed to helping Ohio deliver its votes to the president next year."

This HBO Special exposes the fraud electronic voting happening in the USA.