As Iraq shows, the empire can destroy, but not create or even control. Article by Richard Drayton.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1674184,00.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

We must defend our position in order to gain congress, we must help fund other states's Senators who have shown themselves proud. We cannot afford to allow the Neo-cons back into congress. Yes, we have some better than others, and some who always votes with this Neo-con organizaton. Those we do not need to fund.

I believe if ever there was a man who speaks up for we the people, all over America, then it would be Senator Byrd, among other statesmen who have been true to their platforms and their issues, never daunting nor wavering, always there with just the right things to say and also following through with their vote, even when it is a hard stand...these are the ones we must preserve to lead our country back into a greater position in this world, and for better moral values all the way round.

We need to also support those who would enter our congress with background and character who really cares about our country and the people in it.

Our constitution has never been so close to going down, without a shot fired at us.

It appears that this leaders and his congress has managed to do more harm to our nation than can be explained to our nation. How can this be, while we sit by, petrified of another nation, and yet the only one who attacked is our own congress...just look at what they already done and tried to do more!!!! Never have we accepted this kind of rule, corrupt, liars, and cheats...this is not the America we know as our own country. A foreign country who was against us could not have done more to our detriment, especially to our constitution.

Isn't it time to take back our own country with our registering and voting these neo-cons out for good! If we have a landslide victory against this regime and its congress, then we can win, and the cheating will not be possible, we really don't need ANOTHER close race.

Please stand behind Senator Robert Byrd, he needs us now, as we need him and others like him.

Regards,

Quechick007@yahoo.com

***********

"Senator Robert C. Byrd"
info@byrd2006.com
Subject: Show them our strength
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 07:00:00 -0800


Dear Theresa J:

As the year draws to an end, we take time to celebrate the joyous gathering of family and friends and reflect on the past year. As one year ends and a new one begins, we have the chance to help set America back on the right track.

The Bush Administration made big promises in 2005. The President has said we will pay whatever price to win in Iraq, no matter the cost in lives or in treasure. Hurricane victims were assured help was on the way, but have received much less help than their President promised. These people don't need more empty words. They need real leadership.

The Republican political machine in Washington has me in their sights because I refuse to sit quietly. One promise they intend to keep is to spend millions of dollars to drag me through the mud and defeat me.

And I need your help to counter this.

December 31st is the closing date for the next FEC report. We need to show my attackers that we are united and stronger than ever.

Please consider making a contribution before midnight Saturday. Any amount - from $25 to $250 and beyond - will make a difference and let their operation know I will keep taking the fight to them as long as they break their promises.

Donate now!

Thank you for allowing me to serve you. Your continued support is greatly appreciated.


Sincerely,

Robert C. Byrd
United States Senator

US-Justizministerium sucht nach technischen Mitteln, um eine Massenüberwachung in Bildungseinrichtungen zu ermöglichen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/21/21546/1.html

Sidney Blumenthal writes that Bush began 2005 celebrating his electoral victory and proclaiming a "turning point" in Iraq. But in every crisis he faced this year - from Terri Schiavo to Hurricane Katrina to Iraq - the tide turned against him.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/122905K.shtml

Former Republican Congressman Mickey Edwards (Okla.), usually a defender of lobbying and Congress, said there have always been members who get caught "stuffing money in their pants." But he said this is different - a "disgusting" and disturbingly broad scandal driven by lobbyists whose attitudes seemed to be "government to the highest bidder."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/122905J.shtml

President Bush says he has the legal authority to authorize the National Security Agency to continue eavesdropping on citizens and monitoring emails without judicial oversight, but many Democratic and Republican lawmakers are questioning whether the president violated the law in doing so.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/122905I.shtml

Philadelphia Inquirer
by staff

12/28/05

Nobody ever said it was a risk-free proposition to stand by the U.S. Constitution. Not the nation's founders, certainly: They risked their very lives in waging the war for independence that led to enshrining the Constitution's democratic ideals in the first place. And now the threat of terrorism sharpens the risk posed by living in an open, democratic society. As long as the nation values and protects by law the rights of everyday Americans to be spared from unwarranted snooping, its enemies could find ways to exploit that openness -- as they assuredly did on Sept. 11, 2001. Citizens have a choice. They can live with that risk, understanding it for the central role it plays in making this a nation worth preserving. Or they can surrender to fear -- out of a misguided sense that no civil liberty is so cherished as to risk another terror attack by its defense...

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/opinion/13496902.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Human Events
by Robert Novak

12/29/05

If there ever was a golden age of Congress, it preceded my time in Washington. More likely, Bismarck's admonition that 'laws are like sausages; it is better not to see them being made' always applied to Congress. Nevertheless, with bipartisan responsibility, Congress functions more poorly today and looks worse doing it...

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=11153


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.fmnn.com/Analysis/67/3302/2005-12-29.asp?wid=67&nid=3302


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

uexpress.com
by Ted Rall

12/28/05

Civil libertarians relaxed when, in September 2003, Republicans bowed to public outcry and cancelled Total Information Awareness. TIA was a covert 'data mining' operation run out of the Pentagon by creepy Iran-Contra figure John Poindexter. Bush Administration marketing mavens had tried to dress up the sinister 'dataveillance' spook squad -- first by changing TIA to Terrorism Information Awareness, then to the Information Awareness Office -- to no avail. 'But,' wondered the Electronic Frontier Foundation watchdog group a month after Congress cut its funding, 'is TIA truly dead?' At the time I bet 'no.' Once a regime has revealed a predilection for spying on its own people, the histories of East Germany and Richard Nixon teach us, they never quit voluntarily...

http://www.uexpress.com/tedrall/?uc_full_date=20051227


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp