In 1933 Chancellor Hitler formed a homeland security department to combat terrorism in response to an arsonist attack on the Reichstag. This department later became the infamous SS. We can see how our own homeland security office is heading down the same path. In order to prevent Republicans from redistricting Texas in an unfair way, Texas Democrats left the state. Texas state law requires one hundred representatives to be present in order for a vote on legislation to be legitimate. With the Democrats missing that threshold could not be reached. Read about this here. The Texas Republicans used the Homeland Security Department to locate the missing Democrats. This is a political use of the department of homeland security. This is an outrage. The Homeland Security Act states that the office shall not be used for political purposes. Here we go, the 4th Reich in America. For a great editorial on this go to Common Dreams.
Posted by Chris at May 14, 2003 05:30 PM | TrackBackAssholes, indeed. Talk about some serious repercussions from this action.
Sieg Bush! doesn't flow trippingly off the tongue, though.
Posted by: Scott on May 15, 2003 05:51 AMI agree that using the Dept of Homeland Defense for political purposes is an outrage. Hopefully we can all work together to get rid of it. It's a bad idea implemented in a horrific way. Let's find out who's responsible for this abuse and post their heads on a pike like a giant shish-ka-bob (figuratively speaking).
That said, I'd like to take some time from my busy conservative schedule of oppressing the poor and marginalizing minorities to condemn the Democrats. Gee whiz! Is this how a democracy is supposed to work? We talk about an issue, hold debates and hearings, but if we're not going to get our way, we leave town? You can be certain that the Republicans wanted to redistrict the zones to give them an advantage -- that's an American tradition as old as dirt. But the original post called the proposal "unfair." That's assuming that the Democrats, in a spirit of love and sharing towards Republicans, already came up with "fair" districts and kept them that way since the Civil War (the last time they didn't control the state House). Now suddenly "fair" means "advantage - Democrats" and "unfair" means "advantage - Republicans."
The Democrats are behaving decidedly undemocratically.
Posted by: Mike Jensen on May 15, 2003 03:33 PMThe tradition of letting those in power redistrict is decidedly undemocratic.
Posted by: Chris Jenson on May 15, 2003 09:49 PMOMFG Whoever posted this is a moron... The SS was created before Hitler was a chancelor... They split off from the "Brown Socialist Party" You idiots need to learn what the hell you are talking about before you post... BTW we aren't a democracy you dolt, we are a republic. Also Homeland Security doesnt have the power or resources to do anything horrible. And before you bash Bush you need to look in the history books. Every president has had scandals and problems; Kennedy (the one you moron liberals revere as a god) sold jet engine technology to Rolls Royce knowing full-well it would reach Russia. Dont forget about Robert Kennedy and his mob ties. Now that you have some perspective and truth you can stop being puppets and going along with this anti-bush sentiment. Then again knowledge Isn't what you base your rants on. You base it on radical left-wing media.
Posted by: Nathan Zimmerman on February 2, 2004 07:12 PMNathan: We aren't a democracy, but a republic? You sound like the right wing of the 1950s, who felt sour because the Commies started calling themselves a democracy as well, and figured they'd revise history and call us a republic (but definitely *not* a democracy) instead. In doing so, they contradicted such "dolts" as Jefferson, A. Jackson, Lincoln, Wilson and FDR who called the American regime (which has its republican elements, admittedly) a democracy explicitly.
Of course a lot of people grab onto "republic" after reading the Federalist. But the strangest thing about that is that Madison equates "republic" with "representative, large scale democracy"--a very strange use of the term indeed, then and now. Besides that, his argument in Fed. 10 explicitly assumes the need to dampen public spiritedness--a very _unrepublican_ idea.
Go tell that to your history teacher who made you think that you'd learned all the "facts" about everything.
Posted by: dende blogger on February 2, 2004 07:58 PMBoo, hoo.
Democracy isin't perfect, and will never be.
Quit wining about the government, the PEOPLE will always be heard. The PEOPLE will always be victorious. BTW, Any soveregn country that creates a "Homeland Security" office will be branded Nazi's! HA, I scoff at the moronic brains of the uneducated. Oooh, GWB and his cronies made a new bureau, they must be nazi's! Gee, Mr. Liberal Conspyracy Guy, it's all coming true! WTF? Those people must be smoking crack! SCOFF!
anal orgy free anal sex trailer big old tits male anal sex anal licking hardcore interracial sex big tits clip anal oral sex blonde with huge tits big tits bitch anal videos anal sex pic hardcore teen anal double anal sex interracial cum shot interracial comic anal sex xxx free big tits clip free interracial sex anal penetration interracial cum anal sex porn anal sex site her first anal sex big tits fuck anal xxx anal babes anal sex story big tits woman blonde anal sex hot anal sex
Posted by: Pete on November 5, 2004 01:52 PM