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May 14, 2006
WB: Main Course?
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I’ll believe it when I see it. I long ago quit believeing in
Santa-Christ.
Posted by: Uncle $cam | May 14 2006 19:08 utc | 1
i too, uncle
& there appears to be some form of confirmation of leopold on npr & truthout seem to be standing behind leopold & have called his evidence ‘bulletproof’
leopold has promised to burn his ‘sources’ if it is not the case
i eagerly await the fatboy’s frogmarch
Posted by: remembereringgiap | May 14 2006 19:16 utc | 2
all the criminal functionaries should put there money where there mouth is & offer themselves to be judges & magistrates in the new & flowering iraq & suffer the consequences
Posted by: remembereringgiap | May 14 2006 19:21 utc | 4
Fitzpatrick is a believer. So am I. One needs only look at what Fitz has accomplished in the last few years in Chicago to believe what is yet to come with Rove. Also, remove any tinfoil hat when it comes to Fitzpatrick.
Currently, Wayne Madsen has a good post dated May 13 about what happened with the Grand Jury on Friday May 12. Very similar to circumstances before the Libby Indictment:
“Last October, Gonzales made a similar trip in an identical motorcade to the courthouse on a Friday to hear the decision of the grand jury investigating Vice President Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby. The Attorney General’s appearance at the grand jury is a formality and there is an opportunity for him to pose questions to the jury. After last October’s visit to the grand jury, Gonzales informed the White House that Libby was to be indicted. One week later, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald delivered a five count indictment against Libby.”
– Wayne Madsen Reports
About time.
But I’m worried about one thing: is Rove the one man who might be preventing Caligula minor from starting another war?
Posted by: hopping madbunny | May 14 2006 22:55 utc | 6
Rove is the antipasto; Cheney is the main course, with Hadley and others as contorni. Impeaching Bush will be the desert.
Posted by: Brian Boru | May 14 2006 23:34 utc | 7
@Brian,
If Cheney is the main course, I hope he is served to us “well done” and not “medium rare”. I believe Spiro Agnew was the last VP to leave because of criminal charges. Agnew did not serve jail time and went on to make big bucks being a trade executive using many of the contacts he had made with governments on travels abroad as vice president. Cheney will probably continue to make the big bucks if he resigns also. Could be a total rerun of the 70’s if Bush, like Nixon, also resigns someday.
I’ll smile if rove’s indicted. a soldati pushed off the dock to sleep w/ the fishes, sure. but, nice.
Posted by: slothrop | May 15 2006 1:57 utc | 9
Give ‘Em a Fair Hanging
Thursday June 29 2006
API – Nogales
Every since he was a kid in Kansas, US Deputy Marshal Kelly Thompson
dreamed of being the next Dodge City Judge Roy Bean. He and the other kids
dressed up as gunmen out in the cornfields behind their farmhouse, and played
at shoot ’em out’s. The loser always got hung by Judge Kelly, ‘after a fair trial’.
Marshall Thompson never expected to see their kids’ game become reality.
By June 1st, ever since President Bush announced in mid-May a change in the
US immigration policy, and deployed the National Guard along the southern
border with Mexico, Thompson had an uneasy feeling.
“It was just something from my childhood, being re-enacted for real this time.
Only instead of cap guns and paint balls, these militia were using live ammo.”
Thompson’s unease came full blown as reality this Monday, when a young
itinerant Mexican, Jesus Sangres, was apprehended by the National Guard
just outside of Nogales. Federal officials aren’t releasing any information,
but they claim Sangres did or said something which upset his captors, and
then escaped and ran for the border … before allegedly being shot down.
The identity of the National Guardsmen involved are being withheld by the
Pentagon, pending a full investigation. But that doesn’t make Marshall
Thompson feel any easier.
“It’s just not good, ” he shrugged. “The National Guard is prohibited by the
US Constitution from undertaking domestic police activities for a reason.
They are trained in combat, trained to kill, not trained to arrest and detain.”
Thompson himself is a long veteran of the Border Patrol, having caught
and returned, “at least a thousand migras” he laughs. Yet for all this, he
still holds a childish reverence for his work. “They’re just people like you
and me, just looking for work. This killing should have never happened.
Deploying the National Guard domestically is just another war crime.”
I asked Marshall Thompson if he wasn’t being a little hyperbolic there.
“If by that you mean I’m too old for this s–t,” he shrugged, “I guess you’re right.”
He scuffs the dirt with his boot, and adjusts his sun glasses. “When my friends
and I were kids, we did this kind of stuff, you know, ‘Hang ‘Em High’, because
we were just stupid kids. These National Guard have no idea why they’re here,
they’re bored and they want to fight. A killing was bound to happen. It’s sad.”
Relatives of Jesus Sangres have claimed the body, but have been unable
to return it to Mexico, pending the hearing on the shooting, and possible
criminal charges against the National Guard. They seem to be bearing up,
accepting death as a part of the migra life, but the local immigrant community
promises continued strikes and demonstrations until the Guard are removed.
“If we have to,” a ski-masked man whispered, “we will bring Hell to Nogales.”
Governor Arnold Scwartzenegger has announced a press conference for
this coming Monday evening, to address the issue and attempt to calm the
growing unrest in the Central Valley farm operations, which threaten $10B
in domestic US farm products, just in California alone.
President Bush’s press secretary says the President will have no comment.
“The President generally avoid making comments until there’s been a fair trial.”
His lapel microphone remained on, however, and press reporters were shocked
to hear the press secretary’s high-pitched voice whispering, “Please don’t kill me!”,
then laughter coming from behind the blue screen.
Posted by: Perry Winkel | May 15 2006 6:11 utc | 11
Perry, you forgot to give us a link to the article. I’d love to quote your final paragraph.
Posted by: jonku | May 15 2006 9:23 utc | 12
DM, my point is that Perry seems to quote the press sec’y, currently Tony Snow, saying that. So I asked Perry for a citation or reference because it seems like BS.
press reporters were shocked
to hear the press secretary’s high-pitched voice whispering, “Please don’t kill me!”,
We both know that GWB was quoted as mocking an executed person. That isn’t what Perry said at all. Precision not generalities please.
Posted by: jonku | May 15 2006 10:46 utc | 14
Once again, Perry, where are you quoting this “API” report from.
It’s interesting but where did your quote originate?
Posted by: jonku | May 15 2006 10:47 utc | 15
@jonku
surely you know Perry Winkel’s post is satire right? However the quote in the last paragraph is an actual event refering to our Kings –disease be upon his name–callousness and mercilessness mocking of deathrow inmate Karla Faye Tucker. Everytime I’m reminded of it I want to…well, I can’t say it. And my blood boils for days…
Posted by: Uncle $cam | May 15 2006 10:50 utc | 16
– you may want to have a look at the date on that article
just a thought…..
Posted by: Anonymous | May 15 2006 18:03 utc | 17
it would seem as if jason leopold is insistant in his claims despite the obvious or apparent ‘inaction’ inculpation of himmler of the white house reichsfuhrer rove
Posted by: remembereringgiap | May 16 2006 0:32 utc | 18