American Valor

Go Steve Novick!

With a little luck and a lot of support Oregon may get a great new Senator. These are the kind of people who we need to find and support for office. Born without an arm or fibula’s in either leg wasn’t tough enough but at 14 his high school was closed because the school budget didn’t pass. By the time he was 21 he had graduated from Harvard Law. He knows what it means to have to fight the vested interests and to have people underestimate him. As long as candidates like this are willing to go into government we might just have a chance.

The best part is he uses his hook as… wait for it… his hook! (ugh)

The ads are perfect!

On February 12, 2008 the 110th Congress showed the world just the type of people they are – Cowards. Cowards who hope that by allowing eavesdropping it will prove to people that they’re tough. Only cowards have to prove they’re tough. Cowards who are willing to give immunity to the telecommunications industry for their past illegal eavesdropping programs. Cowards who live in such a deep state of fear that they have voted to deny freedom and the protection of law to every man, woman and child living in the United States. They have forgotten that living in a free society comes with risks. They have forgotten the the people of the United States are far braver than they themselves are.

With their passage of the FISA bill they have failed in their duty. I call on them to reconsider this tragic failure. A failure that will join a sad list of similar congressional failures enacted by past fearful congresses. They are to be despised for pitied for living in fear.

These are their names:

Perhaps they should take another look at the oath they swore to the people of the United Staes.

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.

A fantastic episode of Frontline was aired this week. Cheney’s Law

Here’s a breakdown:

• 9/11 created a crisis that everyone wanted to respond to.
• Cheney argues that in order to “protect the country” the president had to be given complete unchecked power.
• Cheney found like minded executive power fundamentalists
• Cheney placed them throughout the beaurecracy to help him push it through.
• Justice department yes-men lawyers made up justifications for the power grab.
• They cowed people by saying, If you try to stop us “American Blood will be on your hands.”
• A president, who wanted to show everybody how tough he was, liked the idea.
• A Republican Congress agreed.
• The President of the United States is now above the law.
• The President of the United States is now able to choose, on his own, which laws he will follow.

There couldn’t be a better Op/Ed to talk about with our first post than this one
“Good Germans Among Us” by Frank Rich.

Frank Rich has called us out and it’s about time. As even more details continue to become public about the Bush administration’s illegal activities to “protect us” Rich is asking – what price are we willing to pay for that protection?

• Being spied on without cause?
• Being denied the right to face our accusers in a court of law?
• Placing some Americans above the law?

All these things have already happened using the excuse of “protecting us from terrorists” – BOO! Are you scared yet? Rich is asking what are you going to do as the rights and laws that make America what it is are given away for the false promise of “protecting us” from the boogeyman. Were you hiding under the bed crying “Please don’t let the terrorists get me!”? Were you afraid to fly on a plane? Afraid to visit a foreign country? Well stop it. Act like a real American. Stop being afraid. The United States of America is The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. If you want to be free you have to be brave. GTFU!

If I have to be a victim of the next mass murder in NYC to protect these rights – so be it. I’d rather die that way than being crushed by a decaying bridge, trapped in a sub-standard mine or from a toothache.

Sow the question is, will you be remembered as a Good American or a coward?