George W. Bush is following His teaching or example? |
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{ Isaiah 32: 5-6 } prophesied that someday " Wealthy cheaters will not be spoken of as generous, outstanding men! Everyone will recognize an evil man when he sees him, and hypocrites will fool no one at all. Their lies about God and their cheating of the hungry will be plain for all to see. The smooth tricks of evil men will be exposed, as will all the lies they use to oppress the poor in the courts. But good men will be generous to others and will be blessed of God for all they do."
The following exchange was witnessed by a tour group at the Governor's Mansion and has been recounted by multiple sources, including Lucius Lomas of The Texas Observer. John M. Swamley, a professor of social ethics at St. Paul School of Theology and a writer for The Humanist, is the source of this version : An aide abruptly appeared with papers he held out to then-Governor Dubya. "It's the death warrants to sign, Governor. There are two executions scheduled for tonight." Absent-mindedly, the Governor took the offered pen. But in mid-signature he lifted his hand. He looked hard at his aide. "They're not white are they?" The aide flashed a nervous smile. "Governor, would we do that to you?" he asked. "It's not a woman either, is it? I'm not executing any more damn women. That last one"I was getting telegrams from as far away as Bolivia," Bush complained. "What the damn Bolivians or anyone else in Europe know about law and order in Texas I can't imagine." The aide reassured him, "Both prisoners are male, Governor. One's black and one's Hispanic. Nothing out of the ordinary." Pacified, Bush nodded. "That's okay then," he said. In an instant the aide retrieved the signed warrants and was gone. United Methodist Bishop Joe A. Wilson of Fort Worth, Texas, who along with other clergy in the region made a public stand against the death penalty in the Lone Star State after Dubya refused to call off the execution of that "woman""Karla Faye Tucker"issued a public letter to his fellow Methodist in February of last year, pleading with the Texas governor for a moratorium on capital punishment. (Because of the significant number of wrongful prosecutions, Illinois Gov. George Ryan had recently taken the unprecedented step of putting all executions on hold pending a review of the death-penalty system, which he said was "fraught with error.") "I continue to be dismayed by the number of executions being performed in the state of Texas," Bishop Wilson wrote to Dubya. "As a United Methodist, I hope you will consider seriously the stand of your church on the death penalty. Since 1972, the United Methodist Church has been opposed to capital punishment and has urged its elimination from all criminal codes. "My intent as an episcopal leader of your church, is to appeal to your sense of fair justice and Christian conscience ." With that, Wilson urged Dubya to "please put a moratorium on the executions in the state of Texas. Something much more is at stake than political positioning. Human life, which only God has created and has the right to end, is the primary issue. I believe that the use of the death penalty by the state will increase the acceptance of revenge in our society and will give official sanction to a climate of violence." Bishop Wilson didn't even receive the courtesy of a response from Dubya. "The attitude in Texas is 'kill 'em,' " the Methodist leader reluctantly admitted. "That attitude is hard to overcome." is so obvious that many have written about it, notably :
"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to know that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers." - President John Adams "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free . . . it expects what never was and never will be." -- Thomas Jefferson "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.". . . "Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country." -- Republican President Theodore Roosevelt, 1908 A most profound and prophetic Supreme Court pronouncement : ( in ruling that Abraham Lincoln had violated the Constitution by subjecting Confederate sympathizers to military tribunals :) ". . . [Our constitution] foresaw that troublous times would arise, when rulers and people would become restive under restraint and seek by sharp and decisive measures to accomplish ends deemed just and proper; and that the principles of constitutional liberty would be in peril, unless established by irrepealable law" . . . "This nation . . . has no right to expect that it always will have wise and humane rulers, sincerely attached to the principles of the Constitution. Wicked men, ambitious of power, with hatred of liberty and contempt of law, may fill the place once occupied by Washington and Lincoln; and if this right [to suspend provisions of the Constitution during the great exigencies of government] is conceded, and the calamities of war again befall us, the dangers to human liberty are frightful to contemplate. " For the complete article, written by Alan Dershowitz, "Assault on Liberty", go to: http://www.truthout.com/11.24 C. Dershowitz.VV.htm
![]() [ used with permission of www.HilltopDesign.com ] Albert Einstein
"Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended. Its influence in dealing out offices, honors and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war and in the degeneracy of manners and morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."- James Madison, 4th president of the United States - 1795 By distorting the truth about the records of Gore on the one hand, and Bush on the other, the media played a large part in persuading honesty-seeking, but mis-informed Americans to throw their vote away on a lying looser for President !
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Here's the story of decades of
After weaseling out of the guard, Bush drifted without a job and without a life -- drunk and high -- for decades. He married Laura Bush just to run for Congress, and was beaten in a right wing area of Texas. Bush kept on drinking. He claims he's sobered up, but he still acts like a drunk. He bankrupted every organization he ever ran, including Texas and now the US, but keeps getting promoted. He's a poster boy for the Peter Principle. After winning the part time job as Governor, Bush proved he wasn't up to that small job. He abused his authority and undermined quality of life in Texas. He blocked health care for kids and vetoed a patient's bill of rights. He protected hate criminals, and let corporate criminals poison the air and water. Texas education is a disaster, and the surplus Bush found is gone. Bush messed up Texas, and was already well on his way to messing up the USA on 9/11. Bush should never have been sworn in, just sworn at. He lost the election to Al Gore nationwide. Bush cheated and broke laws in the state where his brother was governor, and still lost by 10,000s of votes. Bush lost, and ran to the federal courts to throw out States' Rights. He said he trusted the people, but when the people elected Gore, Bush sued the people. After stealing office, Bush ordered the FBI to "back off" bin Laden's brothers and other Saudi terrorists to protect his dad's big money deals with the Carlyle Group. He stuck his thumb in the eyes of friends and foes alike with his ludicrous and childish repudiation of our responsibilities as the most powerful nation in history. On 9/11, he hid in a hole and made up lies for why he hid while Hillary and others stepped up at Ground Zero. Since then, he's abused the terror attacks for narrow partisan political gains, huge gifts for his friends and benefactors, and a war on our freedoms. He bungled every menial PR task assigned to him, and clearly is not in charge. He did all this because he has no morals, no ethics, no class, no brains, no skills, and no love for America. That says it all." the great www.mikehersh.com web site See what happened to a National Guard officer who refused to falsify the Guard service records to protect George W. Bush's reputation : onlinejournal.com/Commentary/031903Burkett/031903burkett.html When is the mainstream media going to ask publicly why George W. Bush had his "wings" removed and was grounded along with a close friend of his..
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" Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country." -- President Theodore Roosevelt, 1908
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Apparently the following has been falsely attributed to Josef Stalin. |
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1300 History Professors urge Congress to insist that it alone has the power to declare war for the people of this country: http://hnn.us/articles/905.html#signers
This is what (now 673) of those who know election laws BEST think of the legitimacy of Dubya's Presidency :
Also, read Vincent Bugliosi eloquent article: and check out this great flash video "Dubya, Dubya, Dubya" |
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![]() [ used with permission of www.HilltopDesign.com ] In addition, check out George W.'s many scary foreign policy blunders in the Oct. 11 Presidential debate! | |
| The media didn't talk about what really matters, so we have to work hard to get these facts into the discussion by writing letters to the Editor, calling talk shows, posting on bulletin boards, and in e-mails, over and over and over again, until the public gets the message that Republicans were so desperate to elect one of their own that they didn't care how incompetent or immoral a president George W. Bush would be. | |
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