...does not equal a "program" compared to the unholy trinity of (in order of descending importance with relative weights):
--> His role as King Log as the upper class loots the country's financial system (60) --> Embracing Bush's "invincible executive" governing theory (as manifested in his insistence not to prosecute war crimes done by Bush) (30) --> Continuing Bush's "War on Terror" (10, because the world is used to the US acting badly at this point)
plus
don't feel like getting the footnotes exhaustively set up but: -->miscellaneous authoritarian gestures including (??? since sources not cited in detail yet) (1) ban on hand loading ammunition (pending legislation but its past the draft stage) (2) declaration on record and in front of reputable witnesses (two newspaper reporters among them)that he wanted a 2 million man "civilian security force" for "America's security goals" (3) failure to over-ride Bush's executive martial law order that put FEMA in charge of the country, SPD 51. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_and_Homeland_Security_Presidential_Directive) (this one is scary. Its like a Sword of Damocles. There's no definition of how the "state of emergency starts; nor how it ends; nor why the previous legislation was inadequate; nor why no one in the House or Senate can look at the actual operations plan for the marital law measures; nor why it calls for the illegal suspension of all branches of the gov't save the executive.(previous acts did NOT do this)) (4) His push to eventually have all people ages 18-42 donate two years of their labor to the gov't and to accept the gov't decision as to what type of labor to carry out.
to me, that's his real program, and the scattering of significant things he did are not a "program" compared to it.
For the record, I hate Anakin McCain and the Republican party passionately. I am not taking sides in a partisan dispute. I'm calling it like I see it because he is just behaving that badly, especially after extravagant promises to the contrary.
...because I get the uncomfortable feeling from two commentators that I am drawing ire for having committed some type of "lese- majeste" against Mister Obama. I have not. I have struggled for clarity and accuracy my whole life in all things...most of all in ruminations about what's going on in the world and what we as individuals have to do. This is not some sort of petty "their man won" garbage.
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Date: 2009-04-29 07:47 am (UTC)--> His role as King Log as the upper class loots the country's financial system (60)
--> Embracing Bush's "invincible executive" governing theory (as manifested in his insistence not to prosecute war crimes done by Bush) (30)
--> Continuing Bush's "War on Terror" (10, because the world is used to the US acting badly at this point)
plus
don't feel like getting the footnotes exhaustively set up but:
-->miscellaneous authoritarian gestures including (??? since sources not cited in detail yet)
(1) ban on hand loading ammunition (pending legislation but its past the draft stage)
(2) declaration on record and in front of reputable witnesses (two newspaper reporters among them)that he wanted a 2 million man "civilian security force" for "America's security goals"
(3) failure to over-ride Bush's executive martial law order that put FEMA in charge of the country, SPD 51. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_and_Homeland_Security_Presidential_Directive)
(this one is scary. Its like a Sword of Damocles. There's no definition of how the "state of emergency starts; nor how it ends; nor why the previous legislation was inadequate; nor why no one in the House or Senate can look at the actual operations plan for the marital law measures; nor why it calls for the illegal suspension of all branches of the gov't save the executive.(previous acts did NOT do this))
(4) His push to eventually have all people ages 18-42 donate two years of their labor to the gov't and to accept the gov't decision as to what type of labor to carry out.
to me, that's his real program, and the scattering of significant things he did are not a "program" compared to it.
For the record, I hate Anakin McCain and the Republican party passionately. I am not taking sides in a partisan dispute. I'm calling it like I see it because he is just behaving that badly, especially after extravagant promises to the contrary.
For a closing statement, read:
http://koogrr.livejournal.com/433037.html?thread=2045325#t2045325
...because I get the uncomfortable feeling from two commentators that I am drawing ire for having committed some type of "lese- majeste" against Mister Obama. I have not. I have struggled for clarity and accuracy my whole life in all things...most of all in ruminations about what's going on in the world and what we as individuals have to do. This is not some sort of petty "their man won" garbage.