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IF THERE IS ONE OVEERRIDING REASON ABOVE ALL ELSE WHICH MATTERS IN CALLING FOR THE COMPLETE AND FINAL IMPEACHMENT AND TRIAL, AND REMOVAL FROM OFFICE, of no less a person of power and authority than His Fraudulency, it would have to be this:
The clear and present danger that His Fraudulency could cross the line into an act of misguided "national safety" which only risks undermining our traditional, antient and pecuilar soverignty and soverign identity even more than what "patriot" groups contend the so-called "New World Order" is secretly "conspiring" towards.
One as could be on the same level as the Nazi regime's display of fanatical paranoia code-named "Operation Valkyrie," unleashed all the more in the wake of the unsuccessful July 20, 1944 plot against Hitler @ the Wolf's Lair compound in what was then East Prussia (and, after World War II, was awarded to Poland), descending all the more into madness as the "Thousand-Year Reich" which Hitler's Nazis hoped would carry Germany into a New Golden Age was collapsing all around by way of not only Anglo-American bombing raids on German cities, but also "scorched earth" moves by the Nazi regime itself and the Soviets marching on Berlin from the east.
That, and the Propaganda Ministry ordering the diversion of some 220,000 Wehrmacht troops from the front lines to appear as battle-scene extras in the last-ditch cinematic epic Kolberg; Herr Goebbels' hope was that the reenactment of the Germans' defence of the Baltic port against vastly larger numbers of Napoleon's troops in retreat from Moscow would inspire a weakened German people in the hour of desperation (or so the official line went) Germany was facing. (In the end, it would be too late; the final prints were ready just days before Germany surrendered, and soon afterwards, the Allied Occupation Authorities banned its release out of fear that such might arouse sympathies for the Nazi regime among audiences.)
In any event, even direct blood relatives of the ringleaders as had no direct involvement in the plot whatsoever would wind up being prosecuted and sentenced, for the most part, to death by hanging from piano wire strung from abattoirs' hooks in sham trials as were laced with obscenities and generally poor taste.
Clearly not the hallmarks of a sane man, true.
In any case, the only way America can be spared the clear and present danger of Operation Valkyrie being repeated by a madman of a President, acting solely out of his own paranoid delusions rather than clear and compelling factual intelligence, is for Congress to exercise its Constitutional duty to impeach President Bush all the sooner--especially before the "New World Order" seeks to exploit chaos and disorder whose blame will fall squarely upon His Fraudulency's hands.
One way to go about it: Sign this petition to pray beseech Congress to open immediate proceedings for impeachment and trial, and removal from office, of His Fraudulency.
In any case, may we be reminded of the immortal words of George Santayana: "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Or, as they'd say in Bloemfontein, "Daardie wie nie onthou die verlede is veroordeel om te herhaal dit."
Think of it, in effect, as a "preemptive impeachment."
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IT SEEMS RATHER IRONIC THAT, AS FORD MOTOR COMPANY MARKS THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ICONIC MODEL T, which made automobiles all the more accessible to the millions, it announced substantial second-quarter losses put down to declining sales of pickup trucks and larger, fuel-inefficent automobiles in response to growing public interest in smaller, fuel-efficent vehicles for which Ford is now retooling itself.
But then again, you have to wonder if there are those @ Ford headquaters on The American Road in Dearborn who are in league with such specimens of Zealotry and True Belief vis-a-vis energy self-sufficency seeing in Abundant American Coal a cheap and cheerful ersatz gasoline, South African stylee.
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A NEW BLACK MARK AGAINST MR. "FAIR AND BALANCED" JOURNALISM HIMSELF, BY NAME OF KEITH RUPERT MURDOCH, FROM ENGLAND'S GREEN AND PLEASANT LAND, courtesy of the "elitist" BBC:
World motorsport boss Max Mosley has won a legal action against a Sunday newspaper over claims an orgy he took part in had Nazi overtones.
The High Court ruled the News of the World did breach Mr Mosley's privacy, awarding him £60,000 (about US$120,000) in damages.
Mr Justice Eady said he could expect privacy for consensual "sexual activities (albeit unconventional)".
Mr Mosley admitted a sado-masochistic sex session with five prostitutes, but denied that it had a Nazi theme.
His father was the 1930s fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley.
The paper's story was based on a secret video from one of the women who took part in the sex session at a London flat in March.
At the High Court, Mr Justice Eady said there was "no evidence that the gathering on 28 March 2008 was intended to be an enactment of Nazi behaviour or adoption of any of its attitudes. Nor was it in fact.
"I see no genuine basis at all for the suggestion that the participants mocked the victims of the Holocaust."
The "bondage, beating and domination" that did take place was "typical of S&M behaviour", he said.
"But there was no public interest or other justification for the clandestine recording, for the publication of the resulting information and still photographs, or for the placing of the video extracts on the News of the World website - all of this on a massive scale."
However, the judge did not make the unprecedented award of punitive - rather than compensatory - damages that had been sought by Mr Mosley.
He said: "It is perhaps worth adding that there is nothing 'landmark' about this decision.
"It is simply the application to rather unusual facts of recently developed but established principles."
The newspaper also faces a bill of around £850,000 (about US$1.7 millon) for legal costs.
'No-one's business'
Outside the High Court, Mr Mosley said he was "delighted with that judgement, which is devastating for the News of the World".
"It demonstrates that their Nazi lie was completely invented and had no justification," he said.
Colin Myler says the freedom of the press is damaged. "It also shows that that they had no right to go into private premises and take pictures and film of adults engaged in activities which are no-one's business but those of the people concerned."
The 68-year-old says his life has been devastated by the News of the World story and the posting of the video footage on its website.
He told the court that the publicity had been "totally devastating" for his wife of 48 years, and he could think of "nothing more undignified or humiliating" for his two sons to experience.
News of the World editor Colin Myler said the paper was pleased at the lack of punitive damages, but added that "our press is less free today after another judgement based on privacy laws emanating from Europe".
As the head of the richest sport in the world, with almost 125 million members, Mr Mosley "had an obligation to honour the standards which its vast membership had every right to expect of him", Mr Myler said.
"Taking part in depraved and brutal S&M orgies on a regular basis does not, in our opinion, constitute the fit and proper behaviour to be expected of someone in his hugely influential position."
Mr Myler maintained that the paper believed its reports were "legitimate and lawful and, moreover, that publication was justified by the public interest in exposing Mr Mosley's serious impropriety".
Legal analyst Joshua Rozenberg said the court ruling was a "warning" to journalists.
Cf. what ConWebBlog has to say about WorldNetDaily's supposed mindset towards "investigative journalism" serving the Greater Conservative Agenda ultimately backfiring on them:
On the 2000 page of its "Scoops" section, WorldNetDaily claims the following:
Between early September and election day, Nov. 7, 2000, WorldNetDaily published an exhaustive series of investigative reports by native Tennessee reporters Charles Thompson and Tony Hays on Vice President Al Gore and his Tennessee past—including his vast connections to Soviet operative Armand Hammer, his alleged interference with various criminal investigations involving family and friends, and even documented reports of the environmental champion being a notorious polluter in his home state. As a result of these reports, claim radio, newspaper and law enforcement representatives in Tennessee, Gore lost his home state—and its 11 electoral votes—and lost the presidency.
In fact, WND settled a libel and defamation lawsuit by one person named in those stories, Clark Jones, by admitting that "no witness verifies the truth of what the witnesses are reported by authors to have stated" about Jones and that "the sources named in the publications have stated under oath that statements attributed to them in the articles were either not made by them, were misquoted by the authors, were misconstrued, or the statements were taken out of context." WND, it can be presumed, also paid a cash award to Jones to settle the matter (the settlement terms have not been made public).
If claims about just one person named in the articles can be so egregiously wrong, it's not unreasonable to assume that other sections, if not the entirety, of these articles--written by Tony Hays and Charles Thompson II--also contain falsehoods. WND has made no statement either standing by the remainder of the claims in the Hays and Thompson's articles or indicating that it would check the veracity of those claims.
As it stands, the entire series is discredited, and WND discredited itself by printing them out of political animosity without bothering to do even rudimentary verification of what Hays and Thompson had written (as we detailed). WND discredits itself further by continuing to list these articles as "scoops" when they have little apparent basis in fact.
So much for conservatives' claims of their being entitled the sole and exclusive right--not to mention Government-Protected Monopoly--to "responsible journalism." Remember the South African apartheid regime's using public funds to subsidise the pro-regime Daily Citizen in the mid-1970's in the name of "journalistic fairness and balance" with what was seen as a "dangerous" liberal-leaning Establishment Media?
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