Speechless in Bonners Ferry

Well...I'm not really speechless, but almost. The White House is now attempting something so absurd it does render one virtually speechless. You remember that the Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that what the Bush Administration was doing in Guantanamo (and by implication elsewhere as well) is unconstitutional and violates both U.S. and International law. This involves holding prisoners indefinately, without charge, and without the right to see a lawyer, and etc. So what is the Bush/Cheney administration doing about this? They want to have legislation that will extend this illegal and unconstitutional procedure to non-terrorist ordinary American citizens. That's right. They want to be able to hold American citizens (and others) on suspicion of wrongdoing. They want to be able to hold (virtually anyone they single out I gather) indefinitely, try them by military commissions in which they would not be allowed to be present at their trials, could have hearsay evidence and evidence obtained by torture used against them, and not even be allowed to see the evidence presented against them. I confess I don't understand all of the details involved but I believe this is pretty much the gist of it. Can you believe this? The very fact they would even suggest such a totally un-American thing reveals their total contempt for American and Internatinal law, to say nothing of the rights of American citizens. These people are sick beyond belief. No doubt there will be those (mindless Bush supporters) who will say, "I'm not doing anything wrong so why should I worry." But this legislation is so broadly defined, so nebulous, so utterly criminal in its intent, most anyone could be charged. Let's say your old aunt Mabel wrote a check to an organization she thought was a bona fide charity, but the administration believed it to be a terrorist organization, or even a sympathizer. Aunt Mabel could end up in the slammer indefinitely with no legal recourse whatsoever. This legislation, if approved, would rival anything that occurred in Stalin's Russia. So welcome to "Darkness at Noon," morning, afternoon and night.If you thought Hitler and Stalin were evil, meet Dick the Slimy and his dummy, George.

Does Condi Rice actually have a brain? Does she think? Is she fully conscious? Or is she by nature simply evil? I saw a clip of her on tv today in which she actually said the U.S. was neutral in the "war" between Israel and Palestine/Lebanon (those were not her precise words but that is what she meant to say). How could she dare to say such an absolutely ridiculous false statement? Has the U.S. not provided Israel with billions upon billions of dollars worth of military hardware (how much have they given the Palestinians and Lebanese?). Did we not actually "rush" more bombs and missiles to Israel just in the last few weeks? Have we not virtually unanimously claimed that Hezbollah is the "root cause" of the problem, with no recognition whatsoever of Palestinian and Lebanese rights? Have we not refused a cease-fire, giving Israel free reign to kill more and more innocent civilians, including large numbers of children? Does the entire world not know we are totally on the side of Israel? Rice's claim is so completely ludicrous you have to believe she is probably insane (just like Bush/Cheney and all the rest of the neocons).

Trying to make sense of this administration is like trying to understand and deal with a room full of schizophrenics. As they don't share the same reality others do there is no reasoning with them, no common communication, no actual human contact, no way to understand their behavior (other than to realize it is somehow crazy).

Of all the crazies, Donald Rumsfeld has to be the craziest of all. This most incompetent of incompetents continues to pretend he knows what he (we) are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan. He should have been replaced years ago. But, then, Bush, who is also crazy, would have to admit he was wrong. How could anyone who communicates directly with god be wrong? Things are so bad I may actually look forward to the Rapture. After all, hell can't be much worse than this, and I won't have to put up with these rotten evil bastards much longer.