My point was that the administration screams bloody murder about leaks, while ignoring their own use of the technique. If Coca Cola can keep their formula secret, why can't the United States Government keep secrets? I find it incredible that The New York Times could break the law with impunity, but then I find it incredible that the President can, too.
I fully and completely agree with you. You may miss my point; Treason is Treason and is the only crime that is defined by the constitution with both the crime and the punishment. Now I am not in anyway defending the Bush administration, on the contrary I think that they and the entire Republican Party needs to step up and make this and Kelo real issues just like closing off the borders. I would not expect Pelosi and others to even go along with real investigations, they benefit from all of this and I believe that they will never stand for anything that would help us as a whole.
I'm not familiar with the case you cite, I only know that when we treat some humans as less deserving of "human rights", we are on our way down a very slippery slope. "Terrorist" is a label that can be applied to a lot of people, depending on the definition, and allowing the current administration to define it is a scary thought for me.
The case is about bin ladin’s driver suing Rumsfeld, which I thought the courts could not allow because of separations of powers and past supreme court decisions. Now mind you that this guy is not repentive of what he has been part of, has said if he could he would kill more Americans and a whole bunch of other things. The human rights issue I find somewhat as a double edge sword, I mean that these people who were captured with weapons and in some cases trying to kill us and our allies, are no more than animals and don’t deserve any protection. They were not part of an army or anything like that, they were just like the rest of the terrorist. I think that the few who were captured, like the 15 year old kid who was going home with food or the old many who was sleeping does deserve something out of the mess. But over all the people who are at Gitmo are treated better than our children here. They have free everything and more legal assistance than any one here – that is not right regaurdless who they are.
Cindy Sheehan is a certifiable nutcase, granted, but I don't get your venom towards Micheal Moore - I've read some of his stuff, and it is very well documented. He backs up his assertions with facts, and he urges people to vote - neither Democratic nor Republican, but for whomever they believe will fight for their principles, not "take the money & run". I don't agree with his position on gun control, but that doesn't make everything he says wrong. I also read the right wing side, too, because neither side is all right, or all wrong - I have to make up my own mind, in the end. A process that's easier if I hear both sides of the story.
I have no doubt you are well informed but as for mr. moore, there is a lot more to his story. I think I posted a bunch of stuff here already but he is just like anyone else in his crowd, an opportunist – nothing more. The sad thing is he built a reputation on being screwed over at GM, what a lie and he said that he would help others in that situation, another lie. His politics are very left and he has said in the past several times that the only thing good for this country is a change in government like China (or some other communist country)
The others are just as bad. I guess my point is when you have someone that goes to another country and stand with leaders who are enemies of ours or say things negative about our country; it shows hatred for this country.
You also complain about "the liberal media", which I don't understand. Granted, I don't get my news from tv, but I know there are conservative newspapers, like the Wall Street Journal, so how is the media always "liberal" in your opinion? And if you truly believe the places you get the news are biased, maybe you should just balance it with places that are biased in the opposite direction, instead of dismissing them all with a label.
Read the journalist creed. Tell me that being a journalist comes before one’s country? It should not be this way and if it does, than they don’t deserve any protection under the law. See it is simple that since the 1960’s we have had a press that has been against anything against conservatives. In addition, I find that a majority of brainwashed journalist students can’t figure out for themselves what unbiased and objective point of view is because of the indoctrination at the institutes of higher learning.
Oh sorry about that.
The press is liberal, read things carefully. A good example is the Lieberman situation. The press practically shut him out when it came to his speeches and campaign. Also as Highway mentioned the list is far longer on the left leaning. Outside of the blogs, there are very few true sources of right leaning media – yea blame fox for being on the right side of the isle but they are number four in the ratings game.
