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The following is from Common Dreams, and asks a question that must be
asked over and over of the Speaker: Why will you not impeach this
administration for its abuses of power?<br><br>
Don Eichelberger<br>
San Francisco<br><br>
<h2><b>What Did Pelosi Know About NSA, and When Did She Know
It?</b></h2>by Ray McGovern<br><br>
Published on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 by
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org">CommonDreams.org</a><br><br>
It is time to fish or cut bait. If the Bush administration did not inform
you regarding eavesdropping on Americans before 9/11, you need to reflect
now on what such disregard for the laws and Constitution on matters of
this importance means for future of our Republic, and cease covering up
for the White House. Familiarize yourself with the orderly process the
Founders wrote into the Constitution to address this kind of abuse of
power. It is called impeachment; there is no reason to be afraid. You may
wish to locate a copy of the Constitution and read Article II, Section
4:<br><br>
<i>“The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United
States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction
of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”<br><br>
</i>I cannot believe that, with your pedigree and schooling, you now
forget the difference between the indicative and the subjunctive mood.
The Founders did not. The Constitution does not say the president “may
be” impeached, unless the speaker of the House decides for some reason to
keep impeachment off the table. Given the long train of abuses and
usurpations of this administration, you have no choice but to begin
impeachment proceedings, Madame Speaker, if protecting our rights under
constitutional government means anything to you.<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:06:40
-0700<br>
From: "Richard A. Knee" <rak0408@earthlink.net><br>
Subject: Our 'liberal' House speaker<br>
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Published on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 by CommonDreams.org<br><br>
What Did Pelosi Know About NSA, and When Did She Know It?<br><br>
by Ray McGovern<br><br>
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has admitted knowing for several years
about <br>
the Bush administration’s eavesdropping on Americans without a
court <br>
warrant. She was briefed on it when she was ranking Democrat the
House <br>
Intelligence Committee when Bush and Cheney took office. But was she
told <br>
that within days of their taking office, the National Security
Agency’s <br>
electronic vacuum cleaner had already begun to suck up information
on <br>
Americans-criminal law and the Constitution be damned?<br><br>
In a Washington Post op-ed of Jan. 15, 2006, Pelosi, with a uniquely
long <br>
tenure on the Intelligence Committee, acknowledged that she was one of
the <br>
privileged handful of lawmakers who were briefed. Referring to her
<br>
seniority as ranking member, she wrote in her Post apologia sans
apology, <br>
“This is how I came to be informed of President Bush’s authorization
for <br>
the NSA to conduct certain types of surveillance.” She then proceeded
to <br>
demonstrate her remarkably-one might say
unconstitutionally-subservient <br>
attitude toward the Executive Branch:<br><br>
“But when the administration notifies Congress in this manner, it is
not <br>
seeking approval. There is a clear expectation that the information
will <br>
be shared by no one, including other members of the intelligence
<br>
committees. As a result, only a few members of Congress were aware of
the <br>
president’s surveillance program, and they were constrained from
<br>
discussing it more widely.”<br><br>
[. . .]<br><br>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/16/4561/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/16/4561/</a><br>
</blockquote>
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Don Eichelberger<br>
DJ Fix Independent Productions<br><br>
Green Uprising Blog<br>
<a href="http://www.greenuprising.blogspot.com/" eudora="autourl">
www.greenuprising.blogspot.com<br><br>
</a>My You Tube<br><br>
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctRp5rGJoUc<br>
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</a>The Hegelian/Marxist goal is emancipation. Marx said it best in
1843:<br><br>
"Human emancipation wll only be complete when the real, individual
man (sic) is absorbed into himself the abstract citizen; when as an
individual man, in his every day life, in his work and in his
relationships, he has become a <i>species-being</i> (<b>politically
accountabe to the whole</b>); and when he recognizes and realizes his own
power as <i>social</i> powers, so that he no longer separates this
<i>socia</i>l power from himself as <i>political </i>power."<br>
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