Scooter Libby

[captain_slinky]

Sure I'm angry about the whole Scooter Libby thing, ut I'm even MORE upset that the only thing we seem to be willing to do about it is Blog it.

There should be riots! There should be overturned cars! There should be members of the National Guard earning their paychecks in the hardest way!

But instead all we're gonna do is devote a few inches of internets space to the subject and then wait for someone else to do something about it.

At least that's what *I* plan on doing. Anybody else got a better idea?

Comments

[freydis.livejournal.com]

Well, we can all write our Representatives. I'm currently trying to compose a letter that doesn't sound like a screaming banshee demanding justice, but a concerned citizen who doesn't like what the leader of her country is doing.

I think if everyone who blogged about it also wrote their Representative, well, probably nothing would still be done about it, but at least we've done something, you know?

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

I personally think Screaming Banshee letters are the way to go :)

[sasjhwa.livejournal.com]

Well I don't think Scooter Libby is worth anyone getting hurt over. Look on the bright side, at least he didn't get a pardon. At least not yet.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Prety sure Bush is looking for a way to pardon everybody he knows, then resign and have Cheney pardon him. His last few days in ofice are gonna be the best last-week-before-high-school-graduation of Senior year EVAR!

[sasjhwa.livejournal.com]

For that to happen, Bush would have to actually be charged with something. He can't be pardoned for crimes he hasn't been officially charged with.

It would also require him to actually admit he did something wrong, which there is no way on earth he would do. God told him to do everything he did after all. Can't be much more right than that!

I have no doubt the pardons will be coming for others in the next year though.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Wait... didn't Nixon get a blanket pardon even though he quit befor he was impeached? So he was pardoned for basically "Whatever"?

i think THAT'S what Bush is gonna go for. Then he'll reveal that he strangled a hooker just before they signed the pardon and there's NOTHING THEY CAN DO ABOUT IT MWA HA HA HA HAAAA!!!

[nani-ka.livejournal.com]

Okay, maybe i'm doing a little TOO good a job at ignoring everything outside of my personal sphere of attention, but who is Scooter Libby?

And Yeah, I could just google it, but I'm only on my 1st cup of coffee.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Scooter Libby... where to start? Short story version is that he's the Vice-Presidential aid who took the blame for a very bad, very illegal thing that The Repulican Party (and more specifically Dick Cheney) did. See, they kinda-sorta acidentally "outed" an undercover CIA agent because her husband wasn't a "Team Player" supporter of The Bush Administration. Her career in shambles, unemployable, family's life in constant danger now, the "Leak" was traced all the way up through SEVERAL high-ranking Republicans, all the way to Dick "Vice President" Cheney himself. One of his aids, nick-named "Scooter" (and really no one remembers his real first name any more) either was sacrificed or thrown in the way of damage and forced to admit that it was HIS bad for doing it. The Bush-Friendly judge who ruled on the case gave "Scooter" a very light sentance of 30 months (maximum was 10 years) and a $250K fine (could have been up to $1 million).

But that's not the part that pisses everybody off.

See, yesterday George Bush ued a bit of his "Executive Influence" to WAIVE the Jail Time. ALL of it. So not a SINGLE DAY of this guy's life will be spent behind bars. Just pay the $250k and off ya go, Scooter! No hard feelings!

Bush says that th reason he waived all the jail time is because "The incident will have already caused irreparable damage to Scooter's career" and that's punishment enough.

of course, prety much ANYBODY who's in jail could say the same thing. "Jus having been put on trial for murdering my wife and children has been punishment enough!"

[supernovame.livejournal.com]

I think they should make him serve the time in Libby's place. Then try to charge him with all he's done.

Of course, I have always thought since Bush got into the white house that he was going to do all this, I've been doing the "I told you so" on everyone I did tell. The bad part is, I thought at the time I was being a little extreme... What I said way back when would eventually happen, was that he would replace all of the very key positions and especially create military and police liasons, so that when it came time for re-elections, there would conveniently be some sort of terrorist act or war, something with many people lost to cause us all to be upset and want or at least not vehemently stop a retaliation. That he would have changed the laws to make himself sole everything in charge and make it very easy for himself to call an emergency and activate us as a police state under martial law, although they will probably call it a "heightened State of Emergency". After that, conveniently this would happen just before elections, so he will sadly have to postpone elections until the emergency is over. Which should be just after we pull out of Iraq right? So, we could never get rid of him, and if he does call this emergency, he can then say that anyone trying to impeach him or question him at that time are anti-government or terrorists or something and have them jailed or possibly executed. They can do that during times of war if you go against the government. So you could look forward to a dictatorship, and if all that happens, it woud probably be considered the "End Times" by many and you could see all kinds of craziness and bad things happen.

The changing out key people and changing the laws happened a while back. If you remember the Patriot Act and the Homeland Security. Read those to see what they really say and you would be scared. If you doubt that there could be all this, check this stuff out:

Jeb Bush called a "State of Emergency" a couple days before 9/11, how odd... Read section 3 where he says it is in case of terrorists.

http://sun6.dms.state.fl.us/eog_new/eog/orders/2001/september/eo2001-261-09-07-01.html

Check out the Wiki Article that explains Martial Law, and how there could be a death penalty and unlawful imprisonment. (Writ of Habeas Corpus suspended) Also it mentions nicely how some people call it a "State of Emergency" for legal reasons...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law

If you click thru from there it nicely mentions that it is usually illegal to change the laws during the emergency, so you see why he had to change them before it.

Of course just because his brother did this in Florida, just before 9/11 happened, (maybe he is psychic) and his brother also was the first to respond with a State of Emergency due to terrorism even before New York itself according to this site, which is oddly enough trying to convince you that there is no conspiracy, but if you read it, it makes you worry even more, sounds like they are splitting hairs.

http://www.911myths.com/html/jeb_bush_declared_martial_law_.html

But that was only one isolated case right? Jeb just got lucky and maybe jumped the gun. Oh wait, he did declare an emergency state again in 2004 though...

http://www.unknownnews.net/040820a-dn.html

[supernovame.livejournal.com]

Of course. You don't want to know why I guessed all this radical stuff... I mean sure it has been an eerily excellent prediction so far, even up to 8 years later. I am seriously hoping that the emergency doesn't happen. Maybe the election will just be rigged and Jeb will somehow win it next? No conspiracy there right? Ok, I give... I thought of all this after reading a book that had laid out a lot of it, so it is not completely my idea. You can check it out if you like to, it is called the Bible, specifically chapters in Ezekiel, Revelations, Jeremiah, Zachariah, Isaiah and a few others... Yeah, crazy I know, kinda cool though too. If I remember, I predicted the Iraq war from Ezekiel. It mentions something about a country who has a symbol of an eagle making a treaty with Israel and the another country near Egypt has a war with them both and the Eagle country fights the Egypt country and holds the leader of the Egypt country responsible for some bad stuff he did. Did you know that many people in Israel refer to the US as Babylon? Oh, and the cool thing is, when you get into the actual hebrew and such, the word it uses for the leader of Israel that the treaty was made with means something like royalty of roses or soething, and the name of the leader in 2001 was Sharon, and his name means the same thing. Coincidence is often pretty cool I think. :)

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

And don't forget that just a few months before 9/11 they had just wrapped-up a storyline in the pages of Superman comics where Lex Luthor had become president and then arranged a "Terrorist Attack" on Metropolis that caused the country to unite as they never had before, all united behind Lex Luthor.

The man is stealing from Superman Comic Books. AND NO ONE IS NOTICING!

[teegin.livejournal.com]

We could all move to Canada.