IT SIMPLY WON’T GO AWAY!

IT SIMPLY WON’T GO AWAY!

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Impunity is one mighty word, and unlike many words in the English language, its meaning leaves little to interpretation. Simply put, if you have impunity, no matter what the circumstances, you have freedom from unpleasant consequences for…..well here’s the thousand pound gorilla in the bathroom, are you, or some organization that you belong to exempt.

It’s like a get out of jail free card, no matter the crime, or the act, if you have one of these cards, no matter what you do…..nobody can touch you, so you’re free to do whatever you want without fear of retribution. Man I don’t know where I can get one of these cards, but I gotta get my hands on one…..I’ve got a lot of sinning to do, and a short time to do it in.

When the Defense Department, the Central Intelligence Agency, and all of those other agencies that are supposed to protect the United States, heard that President Bush was going to make special rules for gaining information with regards to terrorist’s activities, all of these agencies suddenly became obsessed with protection of the HOMELAND!

Some organizations as well as individuals want former President Bush to be brought up on homicide charges. This is a tired old ploy that is hauled out of the closet and run up the flag pole to see how many might support such nonsense. It is, you know, talking about legal action towards a public official for what is considered a grievous misdeed. While I do agree with some of what these people accuse Bush and his cronies of, taking them to task, legally, would be just too much…..anyway, that’s how I feel.

I would say this though, whatever organizations want to prosecute Bush, or any of his either elected or appointed officials, continue the research and investigation and do so until you run out of either evidence, or money. And at the end of the day, whatever facts you have found need to be transparently shared with the public in general…..let public opinion resolve this question once and for all.

FOR MY TWO CENTS WORTH

I personally wouldn’t waste my time digging for evidence, and the missing link to the president’s office, or Vice President Dick Chaney’s man cave. With little exception, with regard to why the U.S. invaded Iraq, the proof has always been right there in front of our noses…..OIL, BABY. No matter what anybody in the Bush administration said about why the U.S. launched a massive attack…..everybody in his/her right mind knew it was petroleum.

Every single person from Capitol Hill who talked to the public or the press all talked about the dangers that the Taliban, al-Qaeda or some other group within the Islamic world do to the United States, and her citizens. The terrorists hated our life, our capitalistic ways…..and, well, trust me, according to George W. Bush, those terrorists just hated us.

The result of that phrase, those terrorists just hate us, by the Bush administration has resulted in the United States officially designating 59 organizations as threats to the U.S. And the top developed nations of the world have followed the United States lead, listing an additional 251 world-wide organizations, as terrorists groups, and a threat to their countries.

It seems almost incomprehensible to me that there could be that much hate in the world directed at just a handful of countries. According to the list that I used, each of these organizations, more than 400, aren’t connected, and work independently.

The list was measured and established by several developed nations, the criteria used to identify these groups was based on information supplied by Secretary of State of the United States, in accordance with section of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, to be involved in what U.S. authorities define as terrorist activity. Most names that appear on the list are Islamist extremist groups, with the remainder being mainly communist, followed by nationalist/separatist groups.

For my two cents worth, I’d like to further examine one simple question that I’d put to those authority figures that established the criteria for terrorists groups, what is a terrorist group? It’s a simple and straight forward question, how does a person…..a young person qualify as a foreign terrorist?

The answers lie in the legal criteria designation;

• Must be a foreign organization
• The organization must engage in terrorist activity
• The organization’s terrorist activity must threaten the security of the United States

This seems like a kind of simple ABC’s of terrorist activity, you gotta be foreign, well duh, yup that would seem to be necessary…..unless you’re like that guy that blew up that government building in Oklahoma City back in 1996, and that would be called…..a domestic terrorist…..right?

I NOW WANT A QUARTER’S WORTH

This is my blog, and I’m taking liberties here, unless you live on Mars, underneath a boulder, you’ve heard of the United States Military Industrial Complex. Those people who supply all manner of material in support of U.S. military, and its activities.

I’m not getting on my soap box to preach the perils of warfare; I’ve already done that, illustrating the numbers of deaths, of fractured countries, and societies, the numbers are self explanatory. I will however reiterate that the numbers, of and by themselves are proof positive that war has little place in the 21^st century…..and yet, in any situation that might call for some sort of armed encounter…..conservatives seem to want to jump the gun as it were, and arm everybody.

Under the Bush administration, during the armed confrontation with our enemies it would appear that U.S. interrogation, and the methods that were used caused in excess of 100 deaths through clearly torture practices. In the final analysis, if this is true, I suppose that I’d have to reevaluate my assessment of war crimes trials for some in the Bush White House.

As a nation, we were told that Saddam Hussein was cultivating weapons of mass destruction, and that he had the makings for atomic bombs. We were told that he, had stockpiles of all sorts of rocketry with the capabilities to bomb our allies in the region. And we were told that it was imperative that we invade Iraq to protect not only the United States, but the Arab world.

Mushroom clouds over Washington, yup, that’s right, in the world, according to Condoleezza Rice, it’s how old dead eye saw things. In July 2002, Rice personally conveyed to C.I.A. Director George Tenet of the White House approval of torture tactics, and the fact that she approved of whatever methods were needed to glean as much information from captives as possible. At that point, as they say, “the die was cast.”

AND SO NOW…..WHERE DO WE GO

It’s a tough world out there, full of many enemies, and people with really bad intentions for the United States of America…..of that I have no doubt. What we have allowed our leaders to do in the name of freedom, and the spread of democratic societies is…..well, criminal, and if we haul one into the courthouse for a trial, can we, as a nation be too far behind?

You see…..after everything is taken into account, we allowed Bush and his bully-boys the opportunity to flex what they perceived as their patriotic muscle in the Far Eastern part of the world. And even though a fool would know that you can’t legally, or logistically bring an entire nation to task, we can volunteer to never allow our elected or appointed leaders to operate with impunity…..they’ll always be answerable to their bosses…..the electorate!

 

HAVE A NICE DAY!