Abuse of Power
Sarah Palin broke the law by abusing her executive power
Seems rather convenient for the governor to have had our Alaskan friends release the abuse of power investigation way past 5pm EST on a Friday. And it's a 263-page report at that!
It looks like a mixed bag of findings. Palin didn't break labor laws when she decided to reassign the then Public Safety Commissioner, Walt Monegan, as retaliation for his insubordination. Of course, her camp is spinning it as a decisive victory for her.
Yet the report does say she broke ethics laws by abusing her executive power. In her case though was her inability to reign in her husband's "inappropriate efforts" in trying to get their ex-brother in-law fired
2008 Presidential Campaign | Abuse of Power | Crime | Sarah Palin
Upsetting thought of the day

So let me get this straight : The US had 750 billion dollars to bail out Wall Street; a sector of the US economy which has been historically controlled by "white" or US Americans of European ascendancy. The US Congress found 750 billion dollars for them and their European and Asian investors. A bailout, by the way, that now said banks are pooh-poohing, lest the US Treasury and tax-payers find out the depths of their accounting infamies. Yet there's no money to pay back reparations to African Americans for the evils of slavery and Jim Crow laws?
Discuss.
[A scene from the movie Birth of a Nation (1915). Image found in Wikipedia under "Lynching in America")
Abuse of Power | Africa | Banking | Business | Capitalism | Economics | Money | Race Relations | Racial Bias | Racism | Wall Street Bailout | White Supremacy | World Economy
Republicans short of votes, point fingers, have their feelings hurt by Nancy Pelosi
And allegedly, out of spite, voted against the bail out. Of course, Barney Frank offers them a hug and a kiss :
Give me those twelve people's names, and I will go talk uncharacteristically nicely to them, and tell them what wonderful people they are, and maybe they'll think about the country.
LOL!
That said, I still think this bill was a crock of horse effleurage. We the people of the United States deserve to be better informed about this fiasco. George Bush's 14 minutes on TV didn't do it. Paulson's screaming "the markets are falling" didn't do it. Certainly the non-answers I got from my Senators and US Congresswoman didn't help either --they seem to have been characteristic of most of Congress communication skills.
Abuse of Power | Business | Humor | Wall Street Bailout | Barney Frank | Treasury Deparment
Secret DNCC detention cages discovered in Denver
The freedom loving sheriff of Denver aided and abetted by the city's major, has created a detention pen full of cages just in time for the DNCC. The place is not even a correctional facility --it's is cages inside an abandoned warehouse with no visible water, bathrooms, ventilation or access to phones and lawyers.
Oh, did I mention this detention place full of human cages was supposed to be a secret?
Abuse of Power | jail | Law | 2008 Presidential Elections
The business of detention
Denying due process to people without US citizenship, residency papers, green cards or a visa is becoming a business racket for private prisons and private security (aka paramilitary) companies.
The more people are thrown into those jails, the more money the concentration camps make.
Welcome to the new American economy.
Abuse of Power | Business | Corruption | Economics | Homeland Security | Human Rights | ICE | Immigrants | Immigration | jail | Law | Prisons | Violence
Homeland Security's ICE is killing immigrants and New Americans through brutal neglect
I just wrote a post about López Lomong for Awearness blog over at Kenneth Cole's. I am waiting for it to be published. It's a bit of a recap of his life as a Lost Boy from Sudán and now, not only an Olympic athlete, but an American citizen and the flag bearer for the US Olympic team in China.
While writing his Cinderella story I couldn't help but think of Hiu Lui Ng's horror story.
Hiu Lui Ng died in the custody of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs' Enforcement agency. Actually, he was documented : He had a job as a computer programmer. He had a wife and children and a home in Queens.
His crime? His visa had expired.
Abuse of Power | American Facism | Health Care | Homeland Security | Human Rights Violations | ICE | Immigrants | Immigration | Violence
Eating at the trough of Karl Rove
Karl Rove never met a man or a constituent group he didn’t seek to exploit for political gain…and as best I can tell, his scorched earth approach rarely, if ever, left him wondering about the welfare of the many innocent individuals that may have been consumed in the carnage he created with calloused and cunning calculations.
Mr. Wehner makes the mistake of many who live with the promise of privilege…those who have neither built the trough at which they feed nor done the hard work to harvest the feast that fills it…they stand shoulder to shoulder with other gluttonous and greedy purveyors of pain…sopping up the spoils while pushing the powerless under the proverbial bus. Pardon my disgust, but fine men aren’t made by driving on and over others.
While Karl Rove and his cronies see themselves as king makers, they climbed the pole of power on the backs of those they sought to sacrifice. His legacy of unleashing hatred upon homosexuals in order to herd the holier than thou hoards into the ballot box may be his hallmark…but calling him an honorable human being is simply another symbol of the corrupted Christian cacophony he sought to coerce.
Abuse of Power | Campaign Strategy | Empire | Political Strategy | Karl Rove
Senator Specter Fights for Constitution and Against Bush
[Nota Bene : Revised and promoted by liza]
On the Friday before July 4 Republican Senator Arlen Specter showed his respect for the U.S. Constitution and his anger about President Bush’s repeated pissing on it by introducing the "Presidential Signing Statements Act of 2007". What happens to this crucial bill will test both congressional integrity and courage.
Specter had the honesty to call President Bush's abuse of signing statements an "unconstitutional attempt to usurp legislative authority." "The president cannot use a signing statement to rewrite the words of a statute nor can he use a signing statement to selectively nullify those provisions he does not like," said Specter.
“Presidential signing statements can render the legislative process a virtual nullity, making it completely unpredictable how certain laws will be enforced. This legislation reinforces the system of checks and balances and separation of powers set out in our Constitution,†said Specter.
Commenting on the legislative process, Specter noted: “This is a finely structured constitutional procedure that goes straight to the heart of our system of check and balances. Any action by the president that circumvents this finely structured procedure is an unconstitutional attempt to usurp legislative authority. If the president is permitted to rewrite the bills that Congress passes and cherry-pick which provisions he likes and does not like, he subverts the constitutional process designed by our framers.†Subversion of our Constitution – pissing on it: that’s what Bush has gotten away with. Bush-the-ruler has made a mockery of our sacred rule of law.
Abuse of Power | Executive vs. Legislative | Politics | Arlen Specter | Presidential Signing Statements Act of 2007 | US Constitution






















