An indictment of the current administration (rant).

1After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven. He had great authority, and the earth was illuminated by his splendor. 2With a mighty voice he shouted:
"Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!
She has become a home for demons
and a haunt for every evil<1> spirit,
a haunt for every unclean and detestable bird.
3For all the nations have drunk
the maddening wine of her adulteries.
The kings of the earth committed adultery with her,
and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries."
4Then I heard another voice from heaven say:
"Come out of her, my people,
so that you will not share in her sins,
so that you will not receive any of her plagues;
5for her sins are piled up to heaven,
and God has remembered her crimes.
6Give back to her as she has given;
pay her back double for what she has done.
Mix her a double portion from her own cup.
7Give her as much torture and grief
as the glory and luxury she gave herself.
- Revelation 18:1-7

When Saint John the Mad wrote those words, he was referring to Rome...but are we not the modern-day equivelent? Regardless of whether you worship a hairy freak like Jehovah, or Eris, or the Cosmic Muffin, some things are just plain WRONG. It is becoming more and more obvious that the fruitcakes running America have gone irretrievably mad, and (like all mad dogs) must be put down. In this rant, I will attempt to make the case against these criminals that have corrupted America, and anyone who chooses may attempt to defend the rotten bastards.


Peoples' exhibit #1: The US Constitution, failure to adhere to;
In the last 207 years, the American government has shown an INCREASING trend to ignore or flout its own constitution. EVERY single amendment in the Bill of Rights(save #3) has been violated at least once during this administration alone, as follows:

Amendment I: Faith based funding, "free-speech zones", just to name two.

Amendment II: Contrary to the GOP's usual stance, Bush has signed no less than four laws controlling guns. Regardless of how you may feel about firearms, this is a clear violation of the language of the second amendment.

Amendment IV: The PATRIOT Act has effectively gutted the 4th amendment, by allowing warrantless searches of records/papers, and warrantless wiretaps.

Amendment V: In the cases of Hamdje and Padillo alone, both were denied liberty without du process of law...they were neither arraigned, nor released.

Amendment VI: Again, Hamdje and Padillo were denied counsel (Padillo FINALLY was allowed to speak to a lawyer recently, after nearly 2 years of confinement.

Amendment VII: The RICO Act allows the federal government to sieze assetts by suit, without trial.

Amendment VIII: "cruel and unusual punishments" have been documented at GITMO, to include various tortures (sleep deprivation, enforced standing for 20 hours, sensory deprivation, etc).

Amendment IX: Gay marriage, for example, is a right inclusive in amendment IX. Needless to say, the government HATES this amendment (strangely enough, many Americans themselves do, as well) almost as much as the next one.

Amendment X: Resolution 114 (the unconstitutional resolution to allow the president to wage war on Iraw w/o a declaration of war violates this amendment. All three branches of the government overstepped their bounds.

Other violations include amendments XI, XIV, XV, XX, and no less than 12 violations of the main body, but you get the point.


Peoples' exhibit #2: Corporate scum, an infestation of:

I will assume that the evils of Halliburton is a given. I will also assume that most people know that, for the last 5 elections, the top ten contributors have contributed to BOTH partys' campaigns. Should these NOT be self evident, I will be more than willing to discuss them.

I will also assume, under the same conditions, that most people understand that Wackenhutt and the other private prison corporations are up to these days.

I will further assume that most people understand that if you or I stole a car, we'd go to jail for ten years...yet Ken Lay walks free.

I will make one last assumption; that most of you are fully aware of the impoverishment of Americans via corporate "offshoring"...may Carly Fiona fry in hell.


The prosecution rests.

Especially the evidence that the Constitution has been gutted, for all intents and purposes. I don't see how anyone can argue that the 4th and 6th Amendments, particularly, have been utterly subverted and undermined by the Patriot Act and the Hamdi and Padilla cases.

"I don't see how anyone can argue that the 4th and 6th Amendments, particularly, have been utterly subverted and undermined by the Patriot Act and the Hamdi and Padilla cases."

You wouldn't BELIEVE the rationalizations that I get for that crap from neocons (and other cowards) on non-partisan forums.

or so he/she claimed.

This person decided to attack my argument based on the fact that the quotes of the Constitution that I pasted from this site:

http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Amend.html

used the words "Article" 4 and "Article" 6, which this person somehow tried to argue was inaccurate wording. Even after I posted an image of the original 18th century document, the nutcase wouldn't debate the issues.

Because he couldn't, of course.