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The final installment of a great article by Rocco DiPipo:

“Now the 2008 election is upon us. Whether it is Iraq or Afghanistan, the economy or the overblown dangers of anthropogenic global warming, the Democratic Party and its media shills continue crafting and pounding home messages telling us that our national problems, real and imagined, are caused by Bush and the Republicans, They tell us that due to Bush and his policies, our nation is an evil one, our nation is hated by the world, our nation is fractured into pieces, our nation is murdering innocents, our nation is the world’s biggest polluter, our nation is a den of racism, our nation is stingy, our citizens are impoverished, our economy has been destroyed. Collectively, this endless stream of buckshot propaganda adds up to a single, powerful and demoralizing statement: America has come apart at the seams - and George W. Bush and the Republicans are to blame for it.

Though the Democrats and their media shills are responsible for creating that illusion, Bush and the Republicans are to blame for generally ignoring or responding weakly to the Left’s relentless assault on America’s war-time morale. Instead of using the power of the White House pulpit to broadcast a steady, convincing message on the importance of presenting a unified national front in the face of totalitarian Islam, America is instead often treated to incongruous platitudes like, “Islam is a religion of peace.” Instead of a forceful, direct calling-out of the Democratic Party, the State Department and CIA on their numerous subversions of Bush policies, those subversions are usually referred to by the White House as “disagreements.”

Because of the Administration’s seeming refusal to conduct investigations leading to the indictment of those leaking classified security information to the press, and thereby to the enemy, the Democrat-leftwing press consortium has been given implied consent to inundate America with torrents of articles and highly publicized tell-all books from former government officials, some revealing sensitive war-time information, most of them highly critical of America’s Commander-in-Chief — all published while American soldiers and civilians were, (and are), on the ground in combat areas, directly in harm’s way.

With the exception of the Vietnam War, never before in America’s history have such things happened while hostilities were ongoing. And what happened during Vietnam was tame in comparison. Worst of all, due to the subversive Democrat-media barrage, and crippled by its public relations ineptness, Bush and the Republicans could never quite convince the American people of a simple reality: that they are all in the fight of their lives against an implacable, dedicated, totalitarian death cult, one seeking nothing less than America’s utter destruction, and that the fight demands focus and sacrifice from all Americans. Instead of rousing, convincing, patriotic speeches, the public was usually treated to lame utterances from Bush like, “Its hard work . . . we’re working hard . . . we’re making progress.”

The end result of the inability of Bush and his PR team to own and promote the Big Ideas necessary to have focused America on the prize of victory in Iraq and on a greater victory over the worldwide forces of totalitarian Islam, is best summed up by three, short sentences written on a whiteboard in a US Marines barracks:

America is not at war. The Marine Corp is at war. America is at the mall.

It is no wonder the American electorate has slipped into a foul mood — little wonder why it seems that its heart is not in the fight against the totalitarian theocrats who threaten it. For seven years Americans have been pounded with messages that their country and its leaders are unjust, warmongering, and evil and hated by all — it deserves whatever evil it gets.

America now has serious doubts about itself. Its citizens have been pummeled with those terrible messages for so long now, that many of them believe them to be true. They are vulnerable to the Democratic Party’s sudden mantra of Hope and Change and Progress. In a nutshell, here are the mechanics of the crude, hate-based initiative the Democratic Party and its media wing have forced on America since 2001:

1) Invent, inflate, and over-report bad war news. Tie all bad news to Bush and/or Republicans. At the same time, ignore or downplay good news as it relates to Bush, the Republicans or the war(s).

2) Create the illusion of widespread, honest dissent to Bush policies by giving plenty of airtime to leftwing groups and individuals historically antagonistic toward the projection of US, and only US, power. Fail to report the true agendas of those groups — when covering antiwar, anti-Bush protests and events, make sure to meticulously portray antiwar marches as spontaneous gatherings of mainstream, mom and pop Americans.

3) Downplay, ignore and disparage American success wherever you find it.

4) Exalt in, sympathize with and mythologize America’s enemies, vilify and deconstruct its protectors.

5) Downplay America’s generosity and righteousness. Recast a mission that includes saving a nation from a murdering brute and his rapist, sociopath sons as a brutal occupation in the pursuit of American Empire.

6) Fill the Nation’s airwaves, from sea to shining sea, with questionable and sometimes outright false tales of Bush-related misery, butchery, fraud and waste.

7) Foment as much national anxiety and hatred of the Republican leader as money and can buy. George Soros and other moneyed leftists will fund you. Give airtime and print coverage to leftist radicals and Democrats who call Bush a war criminal. Present those radicals and their crazy plans to try President Bush and Vice President Cheney for “war crimes” as worthy of consideration.

Provide coverage to leftwing intellectuals and scientists making anti-Bush statements. Present them as legitimate, non-partisan experts in their fields. Publicize their specious, politicized findings, present those findings as non-partisan, accurate and objective.

9) Present major news coverage of every antiwar protest you can find, whether it draws 100 people or 10,000 people, ignore all pro-US, pro-Iraq War, pro-troop rallies completely or portray their attendees as violence-prone, fringe-lunatic jingoists.

10) Blame a hurricane’s aftermath on Bush. Give news coverage to racists and Democrat crackpots who say Bush and Cheney actually caused the hurricane and blew up levees to kill African Americans. Keep that Bush-hate buzz alive at all costs.

11) Give airtime and print coverage to groups and individuals accusing George W. Bush of having engineered and directed the 911 attacks. Remember, it is not the credibility of accusations that count in shaping public opinion now, but the seriousness and sheer volume of accusations that do.

12) To sow further strife, anxiety and confusion, continue stoking the fires of racial tension and class warfare.

13) Once the onslaught of lies, moral relativisms and crazy notions have created a self-sustaining, luciferous, widespread unhappiness and confusion, dangle a fat bait of silence and tranquility — of Hope, Change and Progress — crowning your deceptive achievement by hooking the same fish you made hungry.

That is the immoral, destructive strategy used by the Democratic Party, even as our soldier sons and daughters have been fighting and sometimes dying to protect us, in the years since 911 to recapture power it unjustly covets as its Divine right.

Now, a master psychological fisherman, Barack Obama, dangles a bait of salvation. As a highly experienced practitioner of Saul Alinsky’s radical arts, he is perfect for the job. Those who know Obama well, like Mike Kruglik, who helped train him in Alinsky’s methods would agree:

“He [Obama] was a natural, the undisputed master of agitation. . . As with the panhandler, he could be aggressive and confrontational. With probing, sometimes personal questions, he would pinpoint the source of pain in their lives, tearing down their egos just enough before dangling a carrot of hope that they could make things better.”

It is truly audacious of the Democrats to entice us with their slick-tongued messiah, one who appears out of nowhere and graciously offers to scrape clean and sanitize the same plate of defeat he, his party and their assistants in the media served to America for nearly eight years in the middle of a war. Soon we will see if a majority of the American electorate accepts that offer, or if it rejects it, sending the Democratic Party back to confront the same irrelevance it risked the safety and security of our nation to avoid.”

Thanks Rocco. Well done and well written. – HD

The continued outstanding article by Rocco DiPippo:

A Strategy Emboldened

“Buoyed by the 2006 election success of their Vietnam-era strategy, Democrat leaders and other leftists began openly calling Iraq an ‘unjust’ war, an “unwinnable” war and relying on the short memories of most Americans to hide the fact that many prominent Democrats had actually voted to authorize it.

Jesse Macbeth, Jimmy Massey, Scott Beauchamp and other antiwar frauds who admitted faking tales of atrocities committed by US soldiers were praised by the press and the Democrats as heroic dissenters against the evil Bush war machine, their false tales of butchery and bloodlust spread far and wide.

Widespread, positive coverage was given to antiwar, anti-American, pro-terrorist activists like Cindy Sheehan, who was sanctimoniously christened America’s “Peace Mom” by leading Democrats and the leftwing media, while true American heroes, patriots like Paul R. Smith and Jason L. Dunham, both Medal of Honor winners, both killed in the act of protecting America from her enemies, received virtual media silence for their heroism and sacrifice and little public acknowledgment from Democrat politicians.

The press and the Democrats did however publicly acknowledge American soldiers when they were killed, when they spun tales of atrocities, when they groused or when they returned home and fell through the cracks. They wanted Americans to be ashamed of their soldiers, to be ashamed of the Commander-in-Chief, to be ashamed of America itself. They needed America on its knees — disillusioned, angry at its leaders and their policies — hopeless, sick of hearing about the war and demoralized because then, out of desperation, they would naturally look to Democratic politicians for relief.

The technique of creating discontent and “talking all things Bush down” paid big dividends for the Democrats in 2006. Devoid of credible ideas and solutions, they had nevertheless worked a strategy leading to the re-acquisition of at least some of the political power they had lost during their wilderness years after the Reagan Revolution. The 2006 election confirmed the effectiveness of their “destroy Bush” election strategy. And so the Democratic Party’s attacks on Bush and the Republicans increased to a ferocious level, even as Iraq turned a corner towards security and political stability.

When to the Party’s dismay the Bush troop surge took hold and the situation in Iraq began improving, the Democrats’ defeatist rhetoric reached a desperate, farcical crescendo: “The war is lost,” (even though objective measurements indicated that it was being won) crowed many Democrats, including prominent ones like Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, John Murtha, Edward Kennedy, John Kerry and Barack Obama. Prominent Democrat John Murtha publicly tried and convicted US Marines involved in the Haditha incident before those Marines even went to trial. “Bush lied us into war” became the catch-phrase of almost the entire Democratic Party leadership, even though before the war had commenced many of those same Democrats had access to the same information that the Bush Administration used to justify it.

Power at any cost indeed, even at the defeat and humiliation of one’s own country.”

The last line defines the current Democrat Party. Pure and simple. - Hank Dagny

Continuing with a great article by Rocco DiPippo with [Ed. Notes] included:

Shortly after the US invaded Iraq, Party leaders and their friends in the media started kidney-punching America, pounding away at the wartime president, deriding his administrators and his policies, harping on and grossly magnifying each setback in Iraq.

On the home front, every Bush policy designed to protect America from further attacks was framed and presented by Democratic Party leaders and leftwing 527 groups as direct assaults on the US Constitution and as being destructive to the Bill of Rights. The press followed the Party’s antagonistic lead, flooding the news with disproportionate coverage of subjects like Abu Ghraib, Haditha, US so-called torture and rendition; so-called domestic spying; the so-called rights of terrorists in Guantanamo; the so-called evils of the Patriot Act; the so-called lies of George W. Bush; the so-called warmongering of Dick Cheney and the so-called greed and evil of defense-related corporations like Halliburton.

The effect was to frame isolated incidents of US atrocities and other malfeasances that occur in any war as emblematic of the entire Iraq enterprise. A narrative of an administration hell-bent on imperialistic conquest, spying on Americans and shredding the Constitution concretized within most American and international newsrooms. And who can forget the endemic, Left-generated conflation of the Bush Administration with the Nazis and the invention and promotion of theories that Bush and Cheney planned and directed the attacks of 911 to advance a secret desire of turning America into a fascist state. Those theories were boosted by prominent leftists, including respected author Gore Vidal, who wrote a book promoting such a theory. The collective message of the anti-Bush noise machine was clear and diabolical: The President of the United States was a bigger threat to world peace than men like Osama Bin Laden were. Bush was more evil than Adolf Hitler.

Throughout every phase of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts nearly every negative event, every disaster or perceived disaster, exploded across the front pages of the major US papers and was broadcast by Democrats from the halls of Congress as evidence of Bush’s malevolence, stupidity or incompetence and as evidence of impending American defeat Michael Yon best sums up the result of that grinding media assault on the Iraq War and its American leaders:

“Enemy dominance of the media battle space translated quite directly into military setbacks. Terrorists from many countries swarmed into Iraq to be part of the victory they saw happening on the TV screens.”

Deliberately or not, the Democratic Party and the leftwing media, with their endless criticisms of the Iraq conflict, and their endless public comparisons of that war to Vietnam, sent a direct message to the rag-tag army of ultra-violent terrorists in Iraq who were detonating car bombs in crowded marketplaces, beheading and mutilating civilians and killing American and Coalition soldiers: “Keep the violence up just a bit longer. We’ll take care of wearing down America’s will to win from within, just like during Vietnam.”

[Ed. Note: In other words, liberals were killing American soldiers with their words and deeds just the same as if they became suicide bombers themselves. That is fact! The Audacity of Democrats is really the treason of Democrats.]

Even violent, under-equipped sociopaths facing the most powerful military on earth know a gift horse when they see one, and react accordingly.

On the other hand, nearly every bit of positive war news was whispered in quiet sentences or totally ignored. Today, with the Iraq venture steadily closing in on success, the amount of news about Iraq has slowed to barely a drip. That is quite telling.

Under the deliberate, massive media barrage of negative news about the war and hampered by a lack of coherent strategy with which to counter it, Republican prospects for the retention of Congressional majorities in 2006 looked shaky at best. Then the Congressman Mark Foley sex scandal broke and the Republican majorities in the House and Senate were lost.

[Ed. Note: When Republicans get caught doing anything wrong, they resign and the media still pounds on the story for weeks. When it is Democrats, the crook or degenerate stays in office and the media drops the story after one evening of excuses for why it may have happened and how did the Republicans set the guy up. Liberals get away with it because they admit upfront they are immoral.]

In less than five years, the Democratic Party had gone from being an increasingly irrelevant political minority to controlling both houses of Congress.

[Bush at his lowest had an approval rating of 30%. This Democrat led Congress had an approval rating fall to the historic low of 7%. I can’t believe seven percent of our population is completely clueless. – Hank Dagny]

The Audacity of Democrats – Part II

I continue with the great article by Rocco DiPippo, and continue to be amazed that the Democrat Party still exists in the United States. Obviously almost half of the citizenry of this country has gone mad…or are so ignorant they truly don’t know any better.

With the performance of our school systems, it’s probably the latter.

“Since the American electorate historically views Republicans as being more competent and trustworthy than Democrats in matters of war and security, whatever patriotism was stoked within the hearts of Democratic Party leaders by that September Day of Infamy was likely tempered by an unsettling reality: If America stayed united behind George W. Bush and the Republicans during the coming military response to 911, the Democratic Party would be out of power for a long time.

As the wreckage of the Towers was being scoured for the remains of the murdered, the Democratic Party faced an extended stay in the political wilderness. It must have been an extraordinarily bitter pill to swallow, especially on the heels of its having lost the presidency by a tattered handful of contested votes. Americans did not switch horses in the middle of a war — unless they perceived a war to be headed towards defeat. This was especially true after the 911 attacks. The Democratic Party, with its conflict-averse, Vietnam-era mentality would be naturally unattractive to a war-time electorate seeking vengeance for the mass murder of its brothers and sisters.

A Vietnam strategy develops

Soon after 911, as America shifted into a wartime footing, leftists in academia and in the Legal Left began testing the waters of dissent by deconstructing Bush and the Republicans and blaming American foreign policy for the 911 attacks.

Several professors at major Universities openly proclaimed their wishes to see America defeated and disgraced. One of them, Professor Nicholas DeGenova of Columbia University, announced to those attending a ‘peace’ conference at the school shortly after the 911 attacks that he “wished for a million Mogadishus,” a reference to the loss of 18 US serviceman during a mission to capture a warlord in Somalia in 1993.

DeGenova also said, “the only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military,” and referred to patriotism as a form of white supremacism adding that “My rejection of U.S. nationalism is an appeal to liberate our own political imaginations such that we might usher in a radically different world in which we will not remain the prisoners of U.S. global domination.” Since DeGenova is an American collecting an excellent salary at a prestigious American university, it is puzzling who he meant by “we.”

Within months of 911 the Party and its media assistants began manufacturing anti-Bush, antiwar propaganda with impunity.

Prominent leftwing intellectuals spoke openly of America’s culpability in the 911 disaster even as the Towers still smoldered and the Nation wept, sowing seeds of doubt and divisiveness amongst a population that had been traumatized and then unified by the terrorist attacks.

The press began chipping, then hammering away at the Administration’s war policies and its domestic policies regarding security. When the debate on whether or not to invade Iraq came, there was no doubt which side of the discussion the press — and most of the Democrats — would be on.

Predictably, the historically anti-US, European socialist Left closed ranks with the Democrats and the academic Left. It also fell in line with the neo-communist organized antiwar movement in America that was taking shape. With the first wave of antiwar street protests, the Democratic Party’s mission to reacquire power lurched into high gear. That mission would be accomplished at the risk of weakening America’s security and at the expense of her standing in the world.”

Call it what it is Rocco - treason! A Democrats first love is power – not family, and certainly not country. A liberal is a liberal before they are anything else. – Hank Dagny

Back on the road, so I have my faithful source of all that is liberal - the USA Al-Jareera Today – to review each morning. Do I know how to spoil a breakfast, or what?

1. On the front page is the obligatory picture of a crying woman holding a child outside a bombed out building. The story is about the new conflict in the world between Georgia and Russia over some province of Georgia.

Now the province seems to want to be Russian. Georgia wants them to stay part of Georgia.

Solution: Let them be Russian. We are talking 70,000 people, most of whom want to be Russian. Georgia is a friend to the United States, but sometimes friends make mistakes. I side with Russia on this one. So far.

2. On page 3A, the liberalism just is over the top. Former Chillicothe, OH law director Ed Bunstine is on trial today for tampering with evidenced and obstructing justice. Absolutely no mention of what political party Bunstine belongs to.

You know if he was a Republican that is how the sentence would have started.

3. There is a picture of a liberal couple in Watkinsville, Georgia (what is with all the troublemakers in Georgia all of a sudden?) getting props from the USA Al-Jareera Today for beating back capitalism.

Five states are vying for a bio-tech lab in their state and these two don’t want it in their town. Health and safety concerns, don’t you know.

So they are putting the brakes on 350 jobs, 350 home sales, 350 property tax collections and not to mention all the spending 350 families do in their home town. The USA Al-Jareera Today is a proud of them as they can be.

I got news for the United States citizens. China has 300 bio-tech firms, all working around the clock – and without a single environmental, animal rights or regulatory restriction. Most of their college grads are men have engineering and science degrees – not women with liberal arts, journalism, social science or law degrees, like we have.

Oh, and their graduating high school students can read and find the United States on a map, unlike some of ours in Detroit.

Keep shutting down commerce and science technology in your own country USA Al-Jareera Today. It’s noble work you are doing. For those of you in Ann Arbor, MI – that was sarcasm.

4. On page 9A, the headline screams, “Iraq wants ‘clear timeline’ for U.S. pullout”. Well we want a clear timeline as to when you can keep terrorists out of your country. You will not like it if we have to come back in.
The USA Al-Jareera Today made the headline sound like Iraq was ordering us out, when the real story is that discussions are taking place to set up goals for withdraw. That is a good thing.

Why do these liberal traitors at the USA Al-Jareea Times have to always write everything so negative?

You know why. Negative is the natural born mental state of a liberal. – Hank Dagny

While working on a campaign, you get many emails from liberal groups that spit these letters out like sunflower seeds out of the mouth of an unused relief pitcher in the bullpen. Some of the names are real, some are not and most are computer generated.

Real liberals don’t work or don’t have very demanding jobs, so they have time for this nonsense. Anyway, here is the latest idiocy being sent to candidates:

[ Dear Hank Dagny,

Sixty-three years ago this week, the United States dropped nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The United States still has an arsenal of more than 6,000 nuclear weapons that could produce this kind of destruction and horror again.

More and more people, including former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George Shultz, former Sen. Sam Nunn (GA), and former Defense Secretary William Perry, are calling on the United States to work toward total nuclear disarmament.

I hope that your candidate would support this call and would, if elected, advocate cutting the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal by at least 50 percent. I look forward to hearing from you how you would advance a world free of nuclear weapons in Congress.

Sincerely,
Asick Liberal ]

My reply was the usual two by four of truth between the eyes:

{ Dear Every real sick liberal sending this email,

If you are an enemy of the United States, please quit sending idiotic emails to candidates and crawl back to the cesspool country you came from. Your propaganda will not work with real Americans.

If you are actually an American…GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR BUTT!

What is wrong with you? There are nations that want us destroyed and there are religious fanatics that want us dead - and you want to cut our nuclear arsenal by 50%?

Using your logic, eliminate locks, doors and security systems and you will eliminate stealing.

And if you wish to eliminate rape, you would walk thru a prison yard in a bikini (yes, men too) and tell the guards to leave.

And if you take guns away from all citizens, no one will be murdered and violent crime will stop. Yes, I know you actually believe this one. It’s the same insanity on another issue.

Your logic section of your brain is defective and a sure sign of the mental illness known as liberalism.

If I were you, I would read LQ every day and get a subscription to Rush Limbaugh’s website - and do it quickly.

The mental illness of liberalism can be cured, but only if you drown yourself in the truth - and let it sink in!

Do it right now! God bless you on a speedy recovery.

Sincerely,
Hank Dagny

I am positive they will vote for my guy now. It only makes logical sense.

Uh-oh! - HD

On the Clinton News Network (CNN) Nancy Pelosi stated that President Bush was a “total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy. You name the subject, and we are trying to sweep up after his mess, over and over and over again.”

Pelosi needs to be in an insane asylum, and not in the Senate as Speaker of the House.

The economy is not anymore the fault of Bush than it is the fault of Congress.

Timing would show that the real downturn of the economy started right after the Democrats took control of Congress. But you don’t hear me trumpeting that – since I know the American economy has many issues facing it – and it is not a political party or a person per se.

But then again, I am a rational, analytical, honest person who is not trying to re-infect a bunch of mentally ill liberals with Bush Derangement Syndrome.

The ‘war’ and the ‘energy’ problem is all the fault of the Democrats – and she knows it.

The war would be over now if not for the treasonous behavior of the Democrat Party and their propaganda arm known as the MSPAM (main stream press and media). In the Senate, Democrat Harry Reid proclaimed to the world that “the war was lost.” Talk about aiding and abetting our enemies. Harry wanted the USA home, defeated and humiliated.

After all, he is a Democrat.

Besides, Pelosi should listen to her own presidential candidate. Barack Hussein just announced that ‘the surge has worked better than anyone thought’ – but he still would not have voted for it. Real American there – panning a policy that he just said was successful in defending this country.

So if Pelosi wants to see who the reason American troops are still at risk, she needs to find a mirror.

The energy problem is directly tied to the environmental policies trumpeted by the Democrat Party. Al Gore, the Global Warming Snake Oil Salesman himself stated $5 a gallon gasoline was the goal to force conservation. Barack the Magic Negro said that he wanted $5 a gallon gasoline prices too, “but just not so quickly.”

Truth be told, energy prices greatly affect the American economy. High prices for energy, means a slowed economy. Prices go up and people can’t afford the gas to go to the store in the first place.

Liberals have a mental block of economics. Democrats don’t. They know they are ushering in communism to their mentally challenged voters.

Democrats want Americans to ‘conserve, slow down, back up, don’t consume, don’t live so well, embrace declining standards of living, be happy with less.’

Public education, immigration, Social Security, high taxes, government housing, government loan programs, etc – whatever Democrats touch – fails.

There is one political party that owns misery lock, stock and barrel and it is the Democrat Party – and they are proud of it - as are their mentally ill voters. – Hank Dagny

A friend of LQ’s, Mentor Jim, sends this along.

It is Pat Condell, from the UK, explaining where his nation is at, and ironically, where our nation is heading.

He makes the point that every time you criticize the preverted actions and beliefs of the radical Muslims, they get insulted.
Sounds exactly like what happens when you point out the idiotic ideas of your standard American liberal.

Dictators and dictator lovers are all the same. Great six minute video. Enjoy and thanks Jim! - Hank Dagny

Ann Coulter nails the left again – this time The Supreme Court with their collection of four Americans and five treasonous pieces of garbage.

I have not been able to get over the fact that the last of our three branches of government have now gone over to the enemy. The citizens of this country and our Constitution are now defenseless – except for our 2nd Amendment.

Ann’s article Justice Kennedy: American Idle, over at Human Events.com lets them have it in her usual witty style. Since I am literally too mad to speak or type, I will let her take over.

“Until last week, the law had been that there were some places in the world where American courts had no jurisdiction. For example, U.S. courts had no jurisdiction over non-citizens who have never set foot in the United States.”

But now, even aliens get special constitutional privileges merely for being caught on a battlefield trying to kill Americans. I think I prefer Canada’s system of giving preference to non-citizens who have skills and assets.

If Justice Kennedy can review the procedures for detaining enemy combatants trying to kill Americans in the middle of a war, no place is safe. It’s only a matter of time before the Supreme Court steps in to overrule Randy, Paula and Simon.”

[That is a reference to American I….what am I doing? Of course all of Ann Arbor, MI is glued to the television for that show. Sorry for the interruption Ann.]

“And the judiciary simply has no power over enemy combatants in wartime. Such power is committed to the executive as part of the commander in chief’s power, and thus implicitly denied to the judiciary, just as is the power to declare war is unilaterally committed to Congress. As one law professor said to me, this is what happens when the swing justice is the dumb justice.

We’ve been through this before: Should the military run the war or should the courts run the war?

I think the evidence is in.

The patriotic party says we are at war, and the Guantanamo detainees are enemy combatants. Approximately 10,000 prisoners were taken on the battlefield in Afghanistan. Of those, only about 800 ended up in Guantanamo, where their cases have been reviewed by military tribunals and hundreds have been released.

The detainees are not held because they are guilty; they’re held to prevent them from returning to the battlefield against the U.S. Since being released, at least 30 Guantanamo detainees have returned to the battlefield, despite their promise to try not to kill any more Americans. I guess you can’t trust anybody these days.

The treason party [Democrats] says the detainees are mostly charity workers who happened to be distributing cheese to the poor in Afghanistan when the war broke out, and it was their bad luck to be caught near the fighting.

The New York Times article on the decision in Boumediene notes that some people “have asserted that those held at Guantanamo have fewer rights than people accused of crimes under American civilian and military law.”

In the universal language of children: Duh.”

Liberals will never ‘get it’ Ann. They are by definition, mentally ill. And the liberal leaders know exactly where they are taking us – to a dictatorship. What liberals cannot do at the ballot box, they force thru the courts, with the acceptance by the MSPAM (main stream press and media) to keep the citizens calm as the chains are applied.

The ramifications of this decision will be seen soon. Lawyers will have free access to the treasury as all of these detainees now need lawyers. And if any detainee is found innocent, tax payers will pay for the civil law suit. The detainee can then take his settlement and use the money to kill Americans.

This nation is on the verge of collapse. I know I am. – Hank Dagny

The left continues to amaze me with their ignorance and treason.

I get an email with some liberal survey link to the site “Grassroots Netroots Alliance”. Obviously a communist or Al-Qaeda organization, backed by Americans who vote Democrat. Check out this question:

1E: Would you support an immediate 50% reduction of US military spending and a transfer of funds to pressing domestic needs? On the local and state level, do you support Bring the Money Home Now Resolution?

I think they could have been honest and wrote their question with their real agenda. Like this:

1E: Do you support us in surrendering to our enemies we are currently fighting, abandoning all of our allies and basically sitting back and waiting to get attacked on our soil? And since we wish to ignore the Constitution completely, would you support using the money that was being spent for constitutional reasons, and moving it to unconstitutional and communist spending - while allowing states to get involved with constitutionally mandated federal matters that are none of the state’s constitutional issues?

To answer both the question they sent me - and the question they really meant, I would say:

“No, you lousy traitors; and no again, you stinking communists.”

This is your current Democrat Party in action. Learn it, live it, understand it…and fight it - now at the ballot box, or later in a civil war - or enjoy your time in the collective labor camps. - Hank Dagny