The Day America Died
As I watched it happen an altered version of Don McLean's American Pie entered my head: "This will be the day America dies." As I heard the Republican Congressmen applauding the loss of Civil Liberties for the Americans they were elected to represent; the day of August 4th, 2007 burned into my mind in a way no date has since September 11th, 2001.On August 3rd the bill the Bush Administration was pushing (coercing?) the House and Senate to vote on before their monthlong break was passed by the Senate. The Bill allows our own government to spy on its citizens, as long as the government claims the spying "concerns" Al Qaeda.
They can listen to our phone calls. Read our emails. You name it, they can do it. And on August 4th Congress made it official: They can now do it legally.
In the Senate not one Republican voted against the Spy Bill. And, even though we now have a Democratic majority, the majority still aren't democratic. 16 Democrats joined the Republicans and 1 Independent (guess who?) and all of them should be tried for treason.
This is the United States and a vote to spy on the American people goes against the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and is nothing short of treasonous. I won't play with words and I think, at the very least, these Senators should be impeached if not exiled from the United States completely.
In the House 41 Democrats joined the treason party voting for the ironically titled "Protect America Act" and when time to vote came to an end and the bill was passed the Republicans cheered. And they cheered loudly. When I heard this I knew Americans were out of luck and this was the day my country died.
And I started singin', "Bye-bye Miss American ..." But then I stopped, worried Alberto Gonzales may listen.
These are the Democrats you shouldn't vote for ever again in the Senate:
Evan "Try 'em For Treason" Bayh (Indiana)
Tom "Try 'em For Treason" Carper (Delaware)
Bob "Try 'em For Treason" Casey (Pennsylvania)
Kent "Try 'em For Treason" Conrad (North Dakota)
Dianne ""Try 'er For Treason" Feinstein (California)
Daniel "Try 'em For Treason" Inouye (Hawaii)
Amy "Try 'er For Treason"Klobuchar (Minnesota)
Mary "Try 'er For Treason" Landrieu (Louisiana)
Blanche "Try 'er For Treason" Lincoln (Arkansas)
Claire "Try 'er For Treason" McCaskill (Missouri)
Barbara "Try 'er For Treason" Mikulski (Maryland)
Bill "Try 'em For Treason" Nelson (Florida)
Ben "Try 'em For Treason"Nelson (Nebraska)
Mark "Try 'em For Treason" Pryor (Arkansas)
Ken "Try 'em For Treason"Salazar (Colorado)
Jim "Try 'em For Treason" Webb (Virginia)
Even though he hasn't counted as a Democrat pretty much ever and had to run as an "Independent" last time, he must be named:
Joseph "Try 'em For Treason" Lieberman (Connecticut)
And in the House:
Jason "Try 'em For Treason" Altmire (4th Pennsylvania)
John "Try 'em For Treason" Barrow (12th Georgia)
Melissa "Try 'er For Treason" Bean (8th Illinois)
Dan "Try 'em For Treason" Boren (2nd Oklahoma)
Leonard "Try 'em For Treason" Boswell (3rd Iowa)
Allen "Try 'em For Treason" Boyd (2nd Florida)
Christopher "Try 'em For Treason" Carney (10th Pennsylvania)
Ben "Try 'em For Treason" Chandler (6th Kentucky)
Jim "Try 'em For Treason" Cooper (5th Tennessee)
Jim "Try 'em For Treason" Costa (20th California)
Bud "Try 'em For Treason" Cramer (5th Alabama)
Henry "Try 'em For Treason" Cuellar (28th Texas)
Artur "Try 'em For Treason" Davis (7th Alabama)
Lincoln "Try 'em For Treason" Davis (4th Tennessee)
Joe "Try 'em For Treason" Donnelly (2nd Indiana)
Chet "Try 'em For Treason" Edwards (17th Texas)
Brad "Try 'em For Treason" Ellsworth (8th Indiana)
Bob "Try 'em For Treason" Etheridge (North Carolina)
Bart "Try 'em For Treason" Gordon (6th Tennessee)
Stephanie "Try 'er For Treason" Herseth Sandlin (South Dakota)
Brian "Try 'em For Treason" Higgins (27th New York)
Baron "Try 'em For Treason" Hill (9th Indiana)
Nick "Try 'em For Treason" Lampson (23rd Texas)
Daniel "Try 'em For Treason" Lipinski (3rd Illinois)
Jim "Try 'em For Treason" Marshall (8th Georgia)
Jim "Try 'em For Treason" Matheson (2nd Utah)
Mike "Try 'em For Treason" McIntyre (7th North Carolina)
Charlie "Try 'em For Treason" Melancon (3rd Louisiana)
Harry "Try 'em For Treason" Mitchell (5th Arizona)
Colin "Try 'em For Treason" Peterson (7th Minnesota)
Earl "Try 'em For Treason" Pomeroy (North Dakota)
Ciro "Try 'em For Treason" Rodriguez (23rd Texas)
Mike "Try 'em For Treason" Ross (4th Arkansas)
John "Try 'em For Treason" Salazar (3rd Colorado)
Heath "Try 'em For Treason" Shuler (11th North Carolina)
Vic "Try 'em For Treason" Snyder (2nd Arkansas)
Zachary "Try 'em For Treason" Space (18th Ohio)
John "Try 'em For Treason" Tanner (8th Tennessee)
Gene "Try 'em For Treason" Taylor (4th Mississippi)
Timothy "Try 'em For Treason" Walz (1st Minnesota)
Charles A. "Try 'em For Treason" Wilson (6th Ohio)
Why aren't I listing the Republicans? Because only 2 in the entire United States Congress voted against this spy bill. Otherwise, the entire Republican side of Congress should be tried for treason.
Labels: Alberto Gonzales, Alex Sandell, don mclean, eavesdropping, exile, exiled, George Bush, senate, spy bill, The Juicy Cerebellum, treason, wiretapping
posted by juicycerebellum at
4:47 AM
34 Comments:
Yeah. Was hoping to hear your thoughts on this.
Now I'm just waiting for censor programs for email, websites, and other forms of communication that filter out UnAmerican Ideals.
"Dictatorships are okay, as long as I'm the Dictator." (paraphrased)
~G.W. Bush (President Inept)
I haven't heard anything about this anywhere. Link (reliable sources only please no crazy far left or far right conspiracy sites)?
Can you imagine if they sell the information they get to the big corporations who are wealthy enough to pay for such things?
Is it posible for a "humanitarian" huge corporation such as say microsoft, even wal-mart to resist such a temptation?
If people can indeed find useful these data they can get now, people who can get benefited by it, is it posible for them not to pay big money for it? even bribe some senators for it?
Maybe you will say this is bullshit
but I have seen enough of this stuff happen in Mexico to dont believe there is a chance.
Who would cheer for such gross action if not a) a stupid animal who "think" will be benefited by it. b) a stupid animal who "think" he will be benefited above the rest by it.
P.D. I want to apologise to the animals for comparing them to humans.
To the poster above asking for a link,
Find one yourself!
It was all over the news. How hard would it be for you to do a search if you really think Alex made up all these politicians and who voted for what? Since you don't live in reality hopefully your Google does.
@richard lust
You're scaring me. The Govt. selling info. they attained in "the war on terra" to corporations that will, in turn, try to sell us refrigerators? The corporate/Government circle will be complete. "It is a dark time for the Rebellion."
@jfargo
Are you going to say anything about it on your site? You could work it in there with the updates on your weight. ;-p
At least link to mine. If not mine, somebody's. A lot of people seem completely unaware that this even happened.
Great to see neither of my senators are on that list. 1 from the house though.
Both of my senators did. Haven't went through the house list yet.
Well, yeah, this sucks. But, it's not over yet. The bill allows wiretapping without court oversight for six months...bad, yes, but there is a chance that at that time, a bill requiring acceptable judicial scrunity will be worked out. It's encouraging that Democrats originally only wanted to allow Bush to wiretap unilaterally for 10 days, but were blocked by threat of veto and were short of the votes needed to override it. Was it stupid on their part to vote for the sixth month "compromise?" Yeah...but, at least the legality of spying without warrant hasn't been given PERMANENT status...yet.
@pleb,
You sound like you may be a glass half full type. I'm more of a, "the glass isn't just half empty, it's cracked down the middle and about to self-destruct" type. The 6 month thing was merely a way to give the Dems an excuse to vote on it, when they knew they shouldn't. Bush starts everything out as "temporary." The USA PATRIOT ACT (still there). Tax cuts for the rich (still there). Etc. etc. etc.
I wouldn't be too sure about this bill being revised or going away. Bush now has 6 months to coerce, kiss up or kick out Dems and make the thing permanent. In the meantime, the hit to civil liberties in the next 6 months will be huge. And it's shown the rest of the world that America doesn't really believe in this thing called the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. And that's scary and sad.
Are you seeing the cracks yet? Or maybe they're tears. The beginnings of the United States Constitution being torn to shreds by cowardly Democrats and fascist Republicans (who vote for crap like the Spy Bill while claiming they want to keep "Big Government" out of our lives).
I have news for you. This has been going on already. Why should this be worrying you now? Because it's official? I have nothing to worry about so it doesn't worry me. Let them listen to my phone calls or read my emails.
I have nothing to worry about so it doesn't worry me.
Ah, the typical American thinking. This is why we're losing our freedoms left and right.
Sure, it doesn't affect you. Fine. What happens if President Bush et. al. decide (for example) they don't want a black man in the Oval Office? They decide to use a wiretap to listen in when Barack makes calls, check his email, whatever, and dig up some dirt on him. Then they use it to blackmail him.
Or they use it to keep powerful war protesters quiet?
Or they use it to bribe a SC Judge to make a ruling go their way?
I said this over at my blog, and I'll say it again: I don't believe everyone in power is corrupt, but the easier we make it for them, the more that will be.
That sounds scary enough when you consider all the things people say that they don't really mean.
*LOL* Dropped calls...I was listening in to an evil plot & their phone company dropped the call! I'm sure they discovered that their line was tapped and are now trying to cover their tracks.
Anonymous wrote:
"I have news for you. This has been going on already. Why should this be worrying you now? Because it's official? I have nothing to worry about so it doesn't worry me."
Ever heard this one, anonymous?:
First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left
to speak up for me.
Why are we even pretending to live in a Democracy anymore? We're in a dictatorship and the government could care less about what's best for the people it's all about what's best for them.
Quote from movie "V"
"And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror."
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The new Star Wars movies had some of the shittiest dialogue ever. That disclaimer having been made, I quote Padme:
"This is how democracy dies--to the sound of thunderous applause."
@David
V for Vendetta should be mandatory viewing for everyone in the world. The movie was a fucking masterpiece and the message was/is incredible. It isn't a "pro-terrorism" film (as some accuse it of being), it's a pro-Democracy film and it's merely pointing out that people need to get out from in front of the fucking TV and take part in their Government (even if it's doing as little as voting or informing themselves beyond the sound bite), or their Government will take over completely (what reason would it have not to?).
Actually, "mandatory viewing" wouldn't be very democratic, either. Change the above to "recommended" viewing, not "mandatory." Otherwise it drips with irony. A sad sort of irony that arouses me in a sexual manner. Like Pop-Tarts.
pop-tarts are pretty arousing.
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