9/11

DO SOMETHING!

Saturday, August 5, 2006
Posted by Jim Hightower

Learn more about these issues. Check out these great groups and websites! If you don't have access to the internet, check your local library -- most have a connection you can use.

American Civil Liberties Union: www.aclu.org

Coalition of Journalists for... [read more]


Public opinion

Cowboy hat By Jim Hightower - Sat., 8/5/06

"Let me put it to you this way. I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it. It is my style."
-- GEORGE W, NOVEMBER 2004

Bush quickly squandered his "capital," and his current... [read more]

WHERE'S OSAMA?

Cowboy hat By Jim Hightower - Sat., 8/5/06

Remember Osama bin Laden? Wasn't he the guy behind the horrific 9/11 attack on America? Isn't he the poster boy of terrorism, which Bush pledged he'd "do whatever it takes" to eradicate? Wasn't he the fellow that George snarled he'd... [read more]

Where Bush's arrogance has taken us

August 2006

DURING HIS GUBERNATORIAL DAYS IN TEXAS, George W let slip a one-sentence thought that unintentionally gave us a peek into his political soul. In hindsight, it should've been loudly broadcast all across our land so people could've absorbed it, contemplated its portent...and roundly rejected the guy's bid for the presidency. On May 21, 1999, reacting to some satirical criticism of him, Bush snapped: "There ought to be limits to freedom."

Gosh, so many freedoms to limit, so little time! Inside: Check out our special editon poster, "Are you safe yet?" [ read more ]

POSTER: Are you safe yet?

Cowboy hat By Jim Hightower - Sat., 8/5/06

Note: this is a text version of a full-sized poster that is available for download as a PDF.

BUSH LAWYERS

Cowboy hat By Jim Hightower - Tue., 7/4/06

Early this year, Representative Maurice Hinchey asked the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility to examine who in the department has actually authorized Bush's domestic spy program and why. We now know that top-ranking officials at Justice had refused the... [read more]

Who's spying on us? Rumsfeld's Pentagon takes the lead

May 2006

In 1928, Justice Louis Brandeis wrote that the real threat to American freedom was not from an outside assault, but from the devious manipulations of our own misguided leaders. "The greatest dangers to liberty," he observed, "lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding."

Nearly 80 years after Brandeis's warning, the zealots have been brought in from the far-right fringe on the golden chariot of George W, and they've shown that they have no understanding of the essence of America, which includes our hard-won liberties, our rule of law and our system of checked-and-balanced governmental power.

Who's spying on us? Rumsfeld's Pentagon takes the lead

But these men of zeal -- Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al. -- are hardly well-meaning. They are deliberately and determinedly striving to impose the AntiAmerica on our own land -- an unrecognizable America of supreme executive authority, constant surveillance of the citizenry, secret government and suppression of dissent. Their chief weapon is fear. They feverishly wave the bloody flag of 9/11, shouting that the citizenry must surrender liberties or be attacked again by The Madmen, that we mustn't question authority for this only encourages The Madmen, that all government operations must be cloaked in a dark veil of secrecy to keep The Madmen off balance, and that executive and police power must drastically expand to protect us from The Madmen.

While claiming that they must "secure" America for a post-9/11 world, the BushCheney zealots are taking us back to a pre-1776 world. They have been astonishingly successful in a remarkably short time, insidiously taking autocratic step after step, which a compliant Congress and the establishment media have mostly missed, ignored, minimalized or applauded. These two "institutions of vigilance" have failed us. So it is up to "We The People" to assert ourselves against this dangerous rise of authoritarianism in Bush's America. [ read more ]

How to spend exxon's billions

Cowboy hat By Jim Hightower - Thu., 9/1/05

I recently told you about the sad saga of Exxon Mobil, which is making so much money from high gasoline prices that CEO Lee Raymond says he doesn't know what to do with it. So, to help, I asked you... [read more]