Obama Supporters In D.C.: Arrest Bush

   The arrest Bush movement in this country is growing by leaps and bounds and the desire to see Bush prosecuted will be on display in Washington,D.C. from now till Tuesday.

Obama Supporters in DC Want Bush Arrested     Original

by David Swanson  Mon Jan 19, 2009

Sunday evening I spoke on a panel in Washington, D.C., about war crimes, and in walked a group of spirited activists led by Laurie Arbeiter wearing "Arrest Bush" sweatshirts and carrying "Arrest Bush" signs, and they were absolutely dumfounded by what they had just experienced.  They'd spent the day at the train station in D.C. and on the streets of D.C. as excited Obama celebrators poured in by the tens of thousands, and they'd been unable to walk a dozen steps without people stopping them to have their photo taken with an "Arrest Bush" sign.

It's worth remembering that Bush is approved by 22 percent of Americans and a smaller percentage of non-Americans.  It's hard to get under 20 percent in any poll in this country.  More people believe in UFOs than approve of Bush.  The media meme that prosecuting Bush would cost Obama political capital has not been proven false, but it is absolutely baseless until someone produces something to base it on.

So we had a little strategy meeting Sunday night and produced hard copies of an already running petition asking Eric Holder to appoint a Special Prosecutor.  We got clipboards and pens and identified teams.  As I write this Monday morning we are preparing to gather at Dupont Circle for a rally at 11 a.m. followed by a march to the White House where we will throw shoes at the outgoing war criminal.  On Tuesday we have a permit for the whole sidewalk in front of the FBI Building along the parade, and we'll let you in if you have a sign that says "Arrest Bush."  No other ticket required.  At these and many other events and all over the city in the next two days, we hope to add many thousands of new people to the petition and collect their contact information to integrate them into the movement to get tough on (the biggest) crime.

If you're not in DC, you can sign the petition yourself or print out a PDF to collect signatures in the real world at http://convictbushcheney.org

This is not a fantasy, boys and girls.  The New York Times' Scott Shane and Attorney General Mukasey agree with me that prosecution is now going to be hard to avoid.  When even Nancy Pelosi has figured out where we're going, you know the winds of change are blowing strong.  That's the dangerous thing about telling people that anything is possible: they'll end up insisting on what they really want.  And they want lots of new laws, but they very dearly want us to start enforcing the old ones too.

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Nancy Pelosi: Prosecution of Bush Administration Not Off The Table?

   House Speaker Pelosi was on FoxNewsSunday and she had some interesting comments to make.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is receptive to the idea of prosecuting some Bush administration officials, while letting others who are accused of misdeeds leave office without prosecution, she told Chris Wallace in an interview on "FOX News Sunday."

"I think you look at each item and see what is a violation of the law and do we even have a right to ignore it," the California Democrat said. "And other things that are maybe time that is spent better looking to the future rather than to the past."

She hinted that the law might compel Democrats to press forth on some prosecutions, even if they are politically unpopular, adding: "That's not up to us to say that doesn't matter anymore."

"We cannot let the politicizing of, for example, the Justice Department to go unreviewed," she added. "I want to see the truth come forth."

  A look at the bullshit done by Alberto and the Justice Department is a good start, but you'd think that those war crimes and other matters would be looked into.

  I think that those war crimes are one of the other matters that Pelosi is referring to when she says " ...looking to the future rather than to the past." Pelosi and the rest of our House and Senate would still rather have major crime by Bush and his top thugs swept under the carpet. Guess that they hit to close for Pelosi's comfort.

In recent weeks the passion of the public for holding the Bush administration accountable has taken the party by surprise, as the question on Obama's Change.gov website which had the most votes as a priority involved the appointment of a special prosecutor.  DKos

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Financial Stocks Cut Dividends...

  and in fact, no financial stock should even have a dividend if the company got any of the bailout cash. But as we all know, that ain't how it is going.

    Those cutting their dividend are Bank of America (BAC), Marshall & Ilsley (MI) and XL Capital (XL).

   BofA is cutting theirs some 96.88%, Marshall & IIsley will be 96.88% less, and XL Capital will be 50% smaller.       Source

   There is a bit if good news as a few companies are increasing their dividends a little bit. None are in finance though. No surprise there.

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Bush Served His Masters Well

  You know that there is an ongoing rash of Bush bashing going on in the United States and in most other parts of the world. Maybe " bashing " is the wrong word, since most of what is being said about Bush is right on target.

   I am now going to make my annual stroll through Russia to see how they feel about George Bush.

  Pravda

Now George it is over. Your Faustian deal gave you eight years of illegal and undeserved power.

And did you make the most of it! You stole elections without hesitation, you lied without compunction, you started illegal wars without any consideration for international law, you shredded the Constitution without any respect for the check-and-balance system, you opened up concentration camps without any concern for the rule of law, and you maimed, tortured, and murdered without any regard for fundamental human rights.

You fiddled while New Orleans floundered, while your cronies in the oil industry drove prices through the roof, while war profiteers ruthlessly plundered Iraq, and while the economy suffered its worst decline in decades.

Yes George, you served your master well.

And he served you. The suffering you inflicted upon others never touched you—aside from a pair of poorly aimed shoes. You were never impeached, prosecuted or even censured as a war criminal. And the fact that you intend—as you stated in your final press briefing—to spend your days lounging on the beach, when you should be spending them in a prison cell, adds just another name to the historical list of evildoers who have been rewarded for their crimes.

Many critics claim that your arrogance, your ineptitude, and your self-serving distortions of the Christian faith are to blame for the eight-year nightmare you thrust upon the world. They say that history will recognize this, and perhaps not judge you so harshly.

If that be so then history will be a lie, because it will fail to recognize what millions of Americans also failed to recognize before you stole your first election: that you and your cronies are pure and simply evil.

One can vilify Hugo Chavez and the Mayan Indians all they want for openly recognizing this evil. The truth is that those Americans who refused to recognize your evil only confirmed that classic line from the movie THE USUAL SUSPECTS: “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”

Many Americans shared your arrogance, and it blinded them to your hypocrisy. “America,” they claimed, “was better than those petty dictatorships in third-world countries that loathe democracy, freedom and human rights.” And thus they allowed you to turn America into the very beast they claimed to abhor.

You condemned the tyranny of Saddam Hussein. Yes, he was an evil man. Yes, he placed people in illegal detention, used torture, rigged elections, and killed for political reasons. Yet, at the end of the day, his legacy is not much different from yours. So can it truly be called justice when he paid for his crimes with his life, while you “pay” for yours lounging about in a beachside mansion?     Read More...

David R. Hoffman
Legal Editor of Pravda.Ru

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