Because He Hates Us For Our Freedoms.

[David Zephyr]

1. Why has George W. Bush, as President, stacked the federal courts with judges who have histories of ruling against small, entrepreneurial businesses in favor of large, monopolistic corporations? Why has his administration consistently prevented free market and Laissez Faire competitive bids for government contracts in Iraq and even at home in New Orleans? Because he hates us for our freedoms.

2. Why has George W. Bush, as President, waged a relentless attack on a woman's personal liberty to control her own reproductive organs, her very own body? Because he hates us for our freedoms.

3.) Why has George W. Bush, as President, sought to punish homosexual American citizens by limiting their civil rights in employment, housing and their constitutional right to equal protection under the law guaranteed in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? Because he hates us for our freedoms.

4.) Why has George W. Bush, as President, thumbed his nose at American legal tradition, cavalierly denying Habeas Corpus rights to those he has illegally rounded up and detained? Because he hates us for our freedoms.

5. Why has George W. Bush, as President, used the federal government and the full powers of the Executive Branch to abusively pressure the free press within the United States of America, to squelch news stories that expose government lies and corruption, to punish news organizations and the journalists who report on high crimes and misdemeanors at the White House? Because he hates us for our freedoms.

6. Why has George W. Bush, as President, illegally spied on Americans from coast to coast in their libraries, their work places, and in their telephone conversations? Because he hates us for our freedoms.

7. Why has George W. Bush, as President, approved the practice of sadistic torture in blatant violation of a human being's most fundamental liberty, the right to live free from cruel and unusual punishment from his/her own government? Because he hates us for our freedoms.

8. Why has George W. Bush, as President, willfully assaulted our nation’s time-honored precedent for a “wall of separation” between church and state by violating the Bill of Rights in establishing state-sanctioned religions by providing federal funds to some churches and not to others? Why has George Bush ordered the Executive Branch to ignore the wishes of our founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison who risked their very lives so that liberty might prosper in our land? Because he hates our freedoms.

9. Why has George W. Bush, as President, ordered federal officials to violate the Fourth Amendment and to illegally enter our fellow-citizens’ homes, seize their properties without warrants? Because he hates our freedoms.

10. Why has George W. Bush, as President, not upheld and/or protected the Constitution of the United States of America? Why has he abused the powers of his office in continued criminal activity against We, the People of the United States? Because he hates us for our freedoms.

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." --- President-Elect George W. Bush on December 18, 2000.

[cal04]

1. good message for the democrats to use

it's not the terrorists that hate us for our freedoms it's Bush and the republicans

[blm]

2. I am DEFINITELY sending this around - if I may have permission, of course

This post belongs on DU's homepage, in its entirety.

[David Zephyr]

4. Of course, you can, blm.

Thanks.:)

[rkc3]

3. K&R

To be printed and passed around.

BTW - it's Laissez faire.

[David Zephyr]

5. Thanks for the spelling correction.

I've revised the original post. Thanks.

[cal04]

6. can I send it to Mike Malloy to see if he reads it on his show

this is terrific! Thanks for posting

[David Zephyr]

7. Yes.

I would be honored by your doing so, cal04.

[cal04]

12. thank you . sent it to Peter Werbe also since he is substituting

for Mike I hope he reads it

[RobertSeattle]

8. Almost sounds like the Declaration of Independence...

http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html

When in the Course of human events...

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected...

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people...

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny...

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive...

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us...

[rkc3]

10. Isn't the He in this document a George also?

Sounds not unlike our own King George.

[Sequoia]

36. Whoa....so true.

I'm copying this out on good paper. Thanks David!

[CrispyQ]

9. Very nice!

Thank you for the permission to share with others.

:yourock:

[David Zephyr]

22. You got it.

I enjoy reading your posts, by the way.

[Caoimhe]

11. Good job! n/t

[David Zephyr]

23. Thanx.

[Twist_U_Up]

13. 1 more

Why has George W. Bush allowed Republican owned voting machine vendors control over our elections ? Because he hates us for our freedoms.

Rec/Nom

great post

[spanone]

14. K & R good work.

:toast:

[Mossadeq]

15. Lets see...

If Osama attacked us for our freedoms, and Bush is stripping us of our freedoms. This would mean Bush is aiding the enemy in a time of war. This is treason

[schmuls]

16. Excellent point! He is in violation of his own Patriot Act! Welcome

to the Twilight Zone and the land of doublespeak.

[hvn_nbr_2]

17. Bumpersticker idea: Bill of Rights: W hates us for our freedoms. n/t

[David Zephyr]

45. Not a bad idea, nvn_nbr_2

:)

[TNOE]

18. Another Keeper

hey - didn't you do the one on you might be a freeper if? something like that - if so, could you post it again so I can save it? don't think I got to before. Thanks.

[David Zephyr]

21. My pleasure.

It was, "You Might Just be an Asshole." Here it is:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5487697

[Saphire]

19. I will be e-mailing this to a few people I know...thanks.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

20. Excellent!!!

[blm]

24. Not letting this excellent post slip down.

I want the Dem PARTY to get on this page.

[KoKo]

25. I'll take on #1....because Free Markets RULE in Repug Philosophy...

and as a Virgo (if one gives notice to Myers-Briggs for Human Resources in our Age of enlightened psychology or astrology.

Americans always VOTE with their "pocket books or the 'percection' of what a President can do for them. Obviously...many Americans voted with Repugs over Dems in 2000 or there was VOTER FRAUD.. Because Clinton gave us the best economy in DECADES...yet either Americans felt it wasn't enough...or the voting machines were corrupt.

Who didn't do well under Clinton that wouldn't have voted for Gore??? Maybe all the Welfare Recipients who were cut off with Clinton's Cave in to the Right? :shrug:

What WAS the Bush Promise that caused folks to come out for him? I still don't get it..if it wasn't Voting Machine Corruption....

[David Zephyr]

40. Ironic, huh? Bush actually opposes free-market competition.

How bizarre the language of the Republican's chatter-class has now become where they must defend "central planning of commerce by the national government". Ha!

[PegDAC]

26. Send this

to Denis Leary!

("I'm an a**hole!")

:evilgrin:

[sweetm2475]

27. K&R

:yourock:

[mom cat]

28. You really nailed it. Kudos!

[RazzleDazzle]

29. All fascists hate freedoms -- except their own, of course

[blm]

38. Their freedom to pollute, to destroy, to abuse, to lie, to force, to cheat

etcetera

[Up2Late]

30. All good points.

Well done.

[AuntiBush]

31. This is *Exactly* What Everyone (I hear) Says...

"He/They hate us for our freedoms!" Or "He,They hate us."

Sad, huh.

[progressoid]

32. Good. Very Good.

[PinkyisBlue]

33. President-Elect?

Great post!! The only recommendation I have is that Bush is not the President-Elect (Al Gore is), he's the President-Appoint.

[enough]

34. Excellent!

[sybylla]

35. That's a fabulous piece!

Nice job. Hope you don't mind if I share it. I'll certainly give you credit.

[democraticinsurgent]

37. Kicked and recommended again

Reprinted in full on my blog, which is primarily designed to share with friends and associates who don't fully partake in the wonderful DU fountain of knowledge...

Very well put. Thanks!

[negativenihil]

39. recommended! n/t

[holboz]

41. I get it now! They hate us for our freedoms so if we take them away...

maybe the terrorists will stop hating us and just leave us alone!

Ah geez, thanks Georgie. Now I see where you're going with this whole "erosion of our civil liberties" thing.


:scared: and might I add :banghead:


on edit...added :banghead:

[David Zephyr]

42. That's the Bushthink: "In order to save freedom, we must kill it."

However, my favorite of the nation's founders, Benjamin Franklin, said: "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security."

Of course, I agree with Ben. :)

[Just Me]

43. Powerful,....and pitiful that it has been allowed to get this bad.

x(

[PegDAC]

44. Hey, DZ

YOU SO ROCK!!

:toast: :bounce: :beer: :loveya: :headbang: :yourock:

[Just Me]

46. Is a tyrant like this a domestic enemy?

Just wondering. :shrug:

[KoKo]

47. He hates us for our "freedoms to Criticize him" and because he's RUN

by the Cold War Philosophy that had a couple of generations living in fear. the first with "duck and cover" after WWII and the second with parents who were raised under "FEAR and WAR" and therefore were suseptible to it coming round again. Short and not erudite answer...but what came off the top of "me head"...