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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: paret who wrote (59021)	4/22/2006 10:52:05 PM
From: JBTFD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

False logic of the right: 1. We have the right to preemptively attack the nation or region of our choice simply based on our belief that they may be a threat to the Empire. No evidence necessary. 2. We have established and will maintain the right to murder an unlimited number of innocent civilians so long as our military machine does the killing and we label the victims as collateral damage. 3. We have the right to label whomever we choose as terrorists or enemy combatants and to hold them indefinitely without a trial. 4. We are exempt from the Geneva Conventions and have the right to commit acts of torture or to rendition our unconvicted prisoners to other countries which will torture them. 5. We have the right to continue glorifying and justifying the land theft and genocide we committed against Native Americans. 6. We have the right to continue to claiming we are the leader of the free world when slavery was a legal institution in our nation until the Civil War, women were not able to vote until the twentieth century, institutionalized segregation existed until the 1960s, and we deny 5-10 percent of our population (Gays and Lesbians) equal rights and protection under the Constitution. 7. We have the right to sell ourselves as a democracy despite the fact that we are a constitutional republic, and despite the fact that corporate interests, lobbyists, wealthy campaign donors, and Israel shape most of our foreign and domestic policy. 8. We have the right to bill ourselves as a bastion of human rights (and thus justify our imperial interventions) despite the fact that we have the highest prison population in the world; we have a government which tortures on a wide scale; and we are one of the few developed nations which metes out the death penalty. 9. We have the right to hoard the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction in the history of humankind while prohibiting other nations from possessing such weapons. We also are the only nation with the right to use WMD on a wide scale, as evidenced by our annihilation of over 100,000 Japanese civilians. 10. We have the right to plunder 25 percent of the worlds resources to provide for a scant 5 percent of the worlds population, while blustering that if the rest of the world embraced laissez-faire capitalism, they could reap the same bountiful harvest. (Forget the mathematical impossibilities involved. Those just get in the way of the propaganda!) 11. We have the right to continue to empower multi-national corporations with the rights of personhood, limit their exposure to criminal prosecution and civil suits, and to enable them to exploit human beings in other nations. As long as our corporate friends are showing a profit, they can operate sweat-shops, facilitate the murder of labor agitators, maintain monopolies, off-shore American jobs while exploiting the foreign workers who take them, avoid paying taxes by setting up shell headquarters in places like Bermuda, destroy the environment, and continue the race to the bottom in wages and benefits, here and abroad. 12. We have the right to maintain and enhance a socio-economic system that places a significant portion of the worlds wealth in the hands of about 3 million people (approximately one percent of the US population). Tax cuts and an end to estate taxes will ensure that the Empires plutocracy perpetuates its reign. We have the right to foster a malevolent world economic order which results in 3 billion human beings living on less than $2 per day. 13. We have the right to account for half of the worlds military expenditures to provide for the common defense of 5 percent of the worlds population while 46 million of our people have no health insurance, 13 percent of the overall American population lives in poverty, over a million are homeless, an alarmingly high percentage of black Americans suffer poverty and receive a pathetic education, and crises like New Orleans result in passive mass murder and diasporas of undesirables. 14. We have the right to send military recruiters into public schools. Our recruiters have access to student addresses and phone numbers and we pay them to use propaganda and financial incentives to entice our youth into sacrificing themselves for the latest imperial crusade. 15. We have the right to accrue as much public and personal debt as we deem necessary to perpetuate the American Dream for our nation and to satiate our personal obsessions with acquiring material possessions. 16. We have the right to impose our hollow, shallow, and violent cultural values on a world cowed into acceptance by the raw military and economic power of the American Empire. 17. We have the right to spy on our citizens, eliminate habeas corpus, and contract private companies like Blackwater to avoid the constraints of the Posse Comitatus Act. It is of no concern to us that our actions seriously conflict with the US Constitution. 18. We have the right to produce 25 percent of greenhouse gasses, ignore and discount mounting evidence of global warming, and refuse to sign the Kyoto Treaty. 19. We have the right to malign, threaten, intimidate, or kill those within the Empire who have the audacity to question or oppose our agenda. 20. We have the right to maintain a corrupt duopoly consisting of the Republican and Democratic parties, which consistently present American voters with candidates whose goals are to perpetuate the Empire and the agendas of its corporate and plutocratic leaders. 21. We have the right to use the IMF and World Bank to impose our economic will on developing nations, which we help by burdening them with crushing debt. 22. We have the right to ignore and violate international law while demanding that the rest of the world (excepting Great Britain and Israel) adhere to it stringently. 23. We have the right to subsidize and support Israels ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. 24. We have the right to concentrate the power of the United States government in the hands of the Executive Branch under the pretext that it is necessitated by the War on Terror. 25. We have the right to label those who dare to oppose our invasions or genocides as savages or terrorists and strip them of their human rights. onlinejournal.com