McTag wrote: This regime is the most repressive and censorious in the history of the USA, and seems to be becoming more so. This is the regime which has withdrawn from public record over 6000 documents.
Your post is a fiction. In fact it is a stupid fiction. I infer this fiction of yours is inspired by a virtual explosion of false information since 1/20/2001 about the Bush Administration that is instigated by a plethora of lying but skilled propagandists.
Withholding the content of administrative documents, meetings, and conversations from the public is a privilege (called in the US
Executive Privilege) lawfully and responsibly exercised many many times by each and every President of these United States of America. Such privilege has proven essential to the preservation of the security of the United States and the ability of the President to effectively and efficiently perform the functions delegated to the President by the Constitution of the United States.
Quote:The Constitution of the United States of America
Effective as of March 4, 1789
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Article II
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Section 1.
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The President shall ... efore he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath or affirmation:--"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Section 2. The President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices, and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.
He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law: but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session.
Section 3. He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in case of disagreement between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper; he shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers; he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and shall commission all the officers of the United States.
Section 4. The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
The part played by this or that person or their motivations in persuading the President to adopt this or that policy is of little interest to those who lack intense hatred of Bush. What most are interested in is what are the adopted policies and what are their probable consequences.
McTag wrote: If you want to quote Kurt Vonnegut in support of your arguments (who would be amused, I'm sure, to be grouped together with Wolfowitz and Cheyney) I think you're on quite thin ice.
Both my feet continue to be healthy. How about yours?
I did not quote Kurt. I merely recommended that people see his movie "Farenheit 451" after seeing "Fahrenheit 9/11" to learn the probable consequences of allowing oneself to be influenced by "Fahrenheit 9/11" = F9/11.
F9/11 is an admittedly entertaining yet flagrant lying propaganda work (i.e., the author knows his movie's falsities are falsities). Lying propaganda has historically proven to be a prelude to book burning (e.g., The National Socialist Party of Germany circa 1935). That in turn has likewise proven to be a prelude to mass murder. So, I recommend that people see where allowing themselves to become victims of lying propaganda will ultimately lead them. I have also recommended that after seeing "Fahreneit 451", they see "1984" to understand the ultimate consequences to the dissemination of truth of organizing government to pacify the perniciously envious instead of organizing government to promote individual accomplishment.
Let's see, 10/19 x 3000 = 1578.9
If Bush wasn't so compulsively involved with the Osama war against America and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, he would have easily prevented Burger's larcenous behavior. Bush could have used some of that military budget he is so freely spending to hire a competent psychiatrist to help relieve poor Sandy of his emotional but well intended proclivities. Where's some of that conservative compassion for Sandy that Bush talks about? Do we need another commission to determine for Bush what and how to reduce such administrative failures?
