A call responseAfter this description of my intent and feelings, we'll take a nice long look at what WAX and Conyers have in COMMON.
Or you can add it to the comments, cuz in fact I find this exercise of confronting the symptomology of Mssr. Conyers overwhelming.
It is a statement that either covertly or purposely designed to trigger cognitive dissonance. What we are being TOLD is happening, what we THINK is happening and what is ACTUALLY happening are all at odds. Thus the truly alert are going to be OVERWHELMED during the reading "process". I felt bullied and betrayed as a United States native citizen as I read it.
These are not mere words, these are the rationalizations and delusions of a man with stupendous power and prestige.
This man is subverting and distorting the good and decent intentions of the majority of an entire planet's and one nation's citizenry who are dependent on a nuclear powerhouse's stable of administrators to compel order, stability and justice throughout the world - a very sick world. But this responsibility he has to ensure Congressional oversight to the rule of law is totally ignored.
Which is not about the COMMON GOOD, is it?
Here is another spelling lesson, can you spell this phrase ...P R E S T I G E, A R R O G A N C E, P A R T I S A N P O L I T I C S
to maintain POWER and control.
I am not trying to appear superior in my comments below, and I do not presume anyone will even read this. I just hope it will inspire YOU to write YOUR arguments of catalogue them on a video you post to youtube, google or some other videolibrary thus serving as an example. I am just showing you how someone even partially (only partially informed) informed on the law, could interpret his remarks.
As I recall, ignorance of the law is NO excuse.
This man has many, many lawyers and Constitutional experts at his beck and call. There is NO excuse whatsoever for what is written in this letter. Absolutely, positively none.
It literally brings tears to my eyes to read it. In my opinion, it is that BAD. Knowing that having seemingly different feelings at once is perfectly okay doesn't mitigate my feelings that range from disgust, to anger, to sadness, to outrage to total astonishment. That someone could write this knowing how much damage and destruction has been done to one of the world's oldest civilizations (Irak - Mesopotamia - and merely mentioning those of Afghanistan, Syria, Pakistan, Lebanon and Palestine amongst others, ) and to the beacon of hope that was once the world's once most respected and loved republic (the United States of America) is just TRAGIC.
This letter set the stage for further abuse, physical displacement, death, torture, arms escalation, and even the use of nuclear weapons that have destroyed the health of America's own troops and the resultant damage of their offspring via the use of depleted nuclear weapons. Yet the cover ups continue on a massive scale. Investigation would have started the healing process.
The results of the thoughts behind this very letter are too perilous to even contemplate in one sitting.
I would pity this man if weren't for the power he has now and possessed when he wrote this - the power of life and death over millions of people. His lack of the legal exercise of power that his Chairmanship confers on him continues to leave the American people feeling helpless and hopeless and further traumatized by a lack of leadership and moral commitment.
This letter demonstrates how words have come to be manipulated to justify childish actions of the most selfish nature. instead, we are left with a nation nation wracked by a suffering they cannot even understand.
Would that he used the power invested in him wisely and showed healthy leadership.His thinking expressed below is a most distressing example of
POWER GONE WAY WRONG.
And it ranks right up there with the most contemptuous acts of all time.
For shame, Mssr. Conyers, For eternal shame!!
May I be excused for looking like the fool. But I speak anyway and although I do not show my evidence, as
The record speaks for itself.
And you and other members of CONgress
are stonewalling.
If that proves to be a conspiracy,
may God or a higher force save us all.
I don't have the luxury of place in the entry to
House of Representatives which is now
smoke free, but polluted with same
moral hypocrasy that has dominated
these many years of ruin, so I stand on my soapbox here.
Your friend, Ms. Thomasina Trulee Pained
No Rush to Impeachment
By John Conyers Jr.
Washington Post
Thursday, May 18, 2006; A23As Republicans have become increasingly nervous about whether they will be able to maintain control of the House in the midterm elections, they have resorted to the straw-man strategy of identifying a parade of horrors to come if Democrats gain the majority. (Like the average MURKAN is going to sit through that sentence to get at what is being said and to find out what is coming!! Oh, yeah SURE. I understand you are writing in the irrepressible WaPo - but forgive me for seeing you as a public servant in this MESS that's been created.) Among these is the assertion that I, as the new chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, would immediately begin impeachment proceedings against President Bush. ( Gee, is THAT too much to ask, oh spineless one!!)
I will not do that. (Ah - the easy thing to do is just to put it in BOLD, as I reformat the letter. But I resist. I need to say this, as a representative of sane, humane thinking - this world is all about CHANGE. Things rapidly become socially unacceptable and so we ADAPT. And you, sir are NOT adaptable nor responsive. Kinda unhealthy that, not just Congressionally or Constitutionally irresponsible, but just plain playing SICK PARENTAL figure when you do that. You have not adapted and your ears and eyes have become deafen and blind to those who would try to help you and the nation mend. Only continually shaming you just might accomplish some sort of rectification of your attitude. That rectification of attitude is quite nearly impossible considering the IMPERIAL bubble that has encompassed the American landscape for seven long long years.) I readily admit that I have been quite vigorous, if not relentless, in questioning the administration. The allegations I have raised are grave, serious, well known, and based on reliable media reports and the accounts of former administration officials. (And ... this leads to to the conclusion you know what's best for everybody? MURKANS, the globe, everybody? in your inflexibility? and WHICH precise"former" officials - State Department officials? Diplomats? CIA operatives? and .. WHICH media? Specificity might be of great use here in future "arguments" with ya. I could list more objections. However, these legal omissions of yours will be judged for future generations. As for the "allegations", the evidence is overwhelming day after gruesome day after gruesome day. Nothing is alleged. It is clear. That some people excuse, rationalize, justify, pardon and purify the horrendous crimes and suffering does not in any way absolve it nor mean that we are to continue on this way.)
But none of these allegations can be proved or disproved until the administration answers questions. (LOL. As Ron Paul said: who would trust THEM?? and then there is also that a thorough investigation would certainly turn up some MORE stuff to be answered, understood, and would further move to towards averting more killing, more subversion of the process, a general decline in morale, and just might have stopped the heists of money, spirit and general commonsense not to mention other valuable virtues. Under the law, spiritual robbery is also a crime, a hate crime.) For example, to know whether intelligence was mistaken or manipulated in the run-up to the Iraq war, we need to know what information was made available to -- and actually read by -- decision makers and how views contradicting the case for war were treated. (And your point is ....? Ah! how quickly we devolve into nonsense, Mssr. Conyers. What they READ is not the problem, how they govern is our problem, one that the judiciary needs to address, is it NOT? If what you are inferring is exactly what certain alphabet soup intelligence agencies dug up that directly contradicted the "spin" and bald faced lies, openly distorted time and time again and now rationalized by BLAMING THE CONGRESS for a disastrous decision to conduct a war which that apparently has no end, starting with the invasion of Irak . .. well, that is one aspect of the matter at hand .. but the bald truth is we are talking about FRAUD here, not the usual "war games" played. This is ceaseless war of genocide, of ending nuclear conflict which no matter how the decision makers reached their verdict is neither "here" nor "there". It was and remains criminal in its intent. This is about the breakdown of an entire Republic by an administration's deceptions and outrageous lies, based on the establishment of an entire network of terror, used both internationally and domestically. WE have been frightened week after week - BLACKMAILED into paying for a total breakdown in public confidence. We are talking about crimes against HUMANITY that defrauded the American public from being a beacon of hope and decency. It brought America to its KNEES, while forever tarnishing it's reputation. And it was your job, sir, to see that CONGRESS was to see that no judicial injury was done to the republic. Were that this tragic history could be solved by determining which or which not literature was involved is a pure nonsense. What intelligence was available, which was made available, what was read is of no legal concern. What matters and what your purview is - actually is - is to determine what judicial course of action Congress is to take. STRICTLY THAT.)
We need to know the extent to which high-ranking officials approved of the use of torture and other cruel and inhumane treatment inflicted upon detainees. (which why we NEED impeachment; to draw up a ledger of wrongs, including the grave wrong done the Cuban people and who knows who else has been forced to submit to the brutal power of an administration clearly operating outside international legal norms; by its own admissions. What the administration feared the most was having these cases actually brought into United States courts and the truth revealed. They have hidden under the cover of a "military justice" tribunal system of their own devising. As a leader, we might have expected that you, you, John Conyers, the head of the House Judiciary Committee, would move swiftly and decisively to bring to light any and all abuses as they related to the Congressional imperative to find legal remedies to such injustices. And further, these same injustices have been meted out unfairly, indiscriminately and without socially redeeming value on all those who would question such policies of torture, detention without end in a vast archipelago of torture facilities including mental hospitals which do not presume to understand human rights on the domestic population. With wilful and continued malfeasance, the current American administration and its minions have threatened and actually funded vast detention facilities, including the use of the stadium in New Orleans, in which US citizens were detained by cruel and inhumane jailers in the form of mercenaries. Such mercenaries were in fact funded by a United States state department so profoundly out of touch with the American people, that it did not care. Millions of people have been detained, relocated and given to the winds of fortune to survive unbelievable poverty, traumatization, and relocation; literally millions of people. This rhetorical distraction from the cold, hard facts of the criminal case put to you, is unworthy the power bestowed upon you when you took the oath of office.) We need to know whether the leaking of the name of a covert CIA operative was deliberate or accidental, as well as the identity of those responsible. (At the point this was written, the CIA officials had signed their names to a letter indicating that they were outraged by an attack on one of their own. Why not ask their support at discovering the hard cold truth about the outting of Valerie Plame-Wilson's position and putting her entire network of operatives -- those whose entire professional lives were committed to protecting the American public from the scourge of weapons of mass destruction -- at further risk? The damage that has been done may never be fully understood; the results of this arrogant act was far beyond just that of lives of United States' agents and their allies being put at risk. The cause of universal stability may have been put into jeopardy by this fateful action.
Instead, we awaited the book of Scott McClellan to bring to light the actual perpetrator of this unprecedented outrageous attack. Yet, here, in November of 2007, we are still waiting for your sense of responsibility to develop.
McClellan has spoken out. Whether we are being deceived yet again is open to question. And you have left us in this position of not knowing. SHAME!)
The administration's stonewalling, and the lack of oversight by Congress, have left us to guess whether we are dealing with isolated wrongdoing, or mistakes, or something worse. (Again, this is called dereliction of duty. This is your JOB. To make this determination. Who else is going to do it?? The presumption is that they must hanged before a determination can be made, and that they will some how find some ethics and come clean. You clearly do not understand the criminal mind or HOW TO MOVE FORWARD. In Constitutional terms you are to be the agency of discovery; a form of governmental grand jury. Clearly you do not take that responsibility.) In my view, the American people deserve answers, not guesses. (Allelujah, brother. BINGO! And we had waited to long by then, we are waiting NOW. Scores of legal experts, scores of "Interested Parties" have already been forced to find the answers from outside the halls of Congress concerning high crimes and misdemeanors perptuated by the current US administration and no longer "guess". We see a clear pattern of deception, a clear will to deceive and distort. A pattern of crimes against all of humanity that will take perhaps generations to recover from -- and as a result, Congress has less support than the 'suspected' administration criminals. Can we talk LAW here? Were you put on that committee to claim judicial authority and lead as Chair, or did you take that chairmanship precisely to obstruct justice? I am asking you that last question in all sincerity as I should like to know. That question may come to torture future historians looking into this shameful, shameful period of history. I would like for my children and grandchildren to know the answer. Is obstruction your primary goal, sir? or do you suffer from "mere" dereliction of duty? Enquiring minds want to know.) I have proposed that we obtain these answers in a responsible and bipartisan manner. (but we are talking about global crimes! It takes sovereignty to establish the rule of law, this is true but no one in CONgress or the Department of Justice seems to care one whit about seeing that it is followed. What is a thinking, moral person who is a citizen of the United States of America in 2007 to do ...? In the end, Mssr. Conyers, history may judge you to be the worst criminal of them all. And at this time in history, one can only be guided by a sense of decency and expose, as they can, the crimes of this age. And those are too large to be endured.)
I hope you will begin to listen to the citizens of your
country, as Nancy Pelosi does not no matter how often
or how urgently one appeals. I've asked my friends to
write you . .. I hope you can HEAR and begin to SEE the
truth of our moment in history and what your decisions
have wraught on our morale. Please, act now with utter
urgency before another life is lost.
Contact Information
Washington, D.C. Email:
john.conyers@mail.house.gov
Washington, D.C. Website:
http://www.house.gov/conyers/
Washington, D.C. Webmail:
http://www.house.gov/writerep
Washington, D.C. Address
2426 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-5126
Fax: 202-225-0072District Address
669 Federal Building, 231 West Lafayette Boulevard
Detroit, MI 48226-2766
Phone: 313-961-5670
Fax: 313-226-2085District Address
2615 West Jefferson
Trenton, MI 48183
Phone: 734-675-4084
Fax: 734-675-4218
November 29, 2007
Another exhibit, Conyers letter .. can you spell I M P E A C H ???
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2 comments:
There is an alternative reading of the letter: that he really is doing the meat and potatoes (thanks Dan Quayle) investigating with others in Congress, but that it's submerged. This is generally the case, especially in ethics investigations, but I personally believe that they are on a wrongheaded approach of getting the Bush administration through other investigations, such as the attorney firing scandal, the issue of torture and illegal confinement at Guantanamo, the Libby trial, etc. .
I didn't mean to say I thought it was a 'good' strategy, but you have to realize that some of the political war going on is going to be submerged. I could easily be wrong.
Nonetheless, they should attempt to impeach the vice president first, then hit the prez. That should have started earlier this year. We'll see, but we should keep hammering them to do it.
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