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Rove Tried To Kill Lieberman As VP Pick for McCain
Politico reports that Karl Rove tried to pressure Joe Lieberman into withdrawing his name from consideration as John McCain's running mate:
Republican strategist Karl Rove called Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) late last week and urged him to contact Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to withdraw his name from vice presidential consideration, according to three sources familiar with the conversation.
Lieberman dismissed the request, these sources agreed.
Lieberman "laughed at the suggestion and certainly did not call [McCain] on it," said one source familiar with the details.
"Rove called Lieberman," recounted a second source. "Lieberman told him he would not make that call." Politico reports that Karl Rove tried to pressure Joe Lieberman into withdrawing his name from consideration as John McCain's run... more -
Karl Rove Refuses to Testify, Despite Congressional Sepoena
President Bush's longtime political guru, refused to obey an order to testify before a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday. They are wanting to question him on the dismissal of a number of United States' attorneys and other officials, many of which have been viewed as his (and the Bush administration's) political rivals.
Rove's lawyers contest that he is immune from a congressional subpoena, arguing that the committee can not compel him to testify due to "executive privilege."
I must ask you, the American people, where does a political advisor/strategist (not even an executive cabinet member) come under the rules of any form of constitutional executive privilege?
EDITORIAL:
I've had about enough of this administration undermining the Constitution any longer. This is what our State has been founded on and if we're going to preach equality, justice and prosperity across the globe, we should feel obligated to practice that which we profess. It's time for this arrogant elitism to come to an end. I hope we, the American people, are able to make a wise decision come November. I don't care which side you're on, just be sure you believe that it's the correct direction for our nation for the next 4/8 years. Please, I implore you, be well informed and let your conscience reign supreme this fall. May OUR America Be Blessed. President Bush's longtime political guru, refused to obey an order to testify before a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thurs... more -
Iowa citizens attempt to arrest Karl Rove
Iowa citizens attempt to arrest Karl Rove for war crimes and crimes against humanity, but the citzens were arrest instead. Justice is surely blind, when government agents can plan and carry out such war crimes and George Bush and Karl Rove and company. More citizens need to act for the sake of justice. Iowa citizens attempt to arrest Karl Rove for war crimes and crimes against humanity, but the citzens were arrest instead. Justice is ... more
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Is Karl Rove headed to jail?
The House Judiciary Committee has voted to hold Karl Rove in contempt of Congress after repeated efforts to get him to testify under oath. Now the decision to take the matter to the House floor for vote lies with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She says she won't consider the resolution until September but public pressure is mounting. Is Karl Rove headed to jail? Update: After the vote, on Fox News, Rove called the vote "ludicrous." U.S. District Judge John Bates ruled that the President's Chief of Staff, Josh Bolten, and former legal counsel, Harriet Miers, are not immune from congressional subpoenas. The House Judiciary Committee has voted to hold Karl Rove in contempt of Congress after repeated efforts to get him to testify under o... more
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McCain takes in 'The Bullet' against Obama
Yes, your hearing it. MacCain's now so desperate, he's 'learning form Rove and Bush, taking thier mive 'The Bullet' to go against Obama. Yes, your hearing it. MacCain's now so desperate, he's 'learning form Rove and Bush, taking thier mive 'The Bullet... more
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Wizard of Oz: "Come out, come out, wherever you are!" New political rele...
Political sources of Wizard of OZ
Many of the events and characters of the book resemble the actual political personalities, events and ideas of the 1890s.The 1902 stage adaptation mentioned, by name, President Theodore Roosevelt, oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, and other political celebrities.(No real people are mentioned by name in the book.) Even the title has been interpreted as alluding to a political reality: oz. is an abbreviation for ounce, a unit familiar to those who fought for a 16 to 1 ounce ratio of silver to gold in the name of bimetallism, though Baum stated he got the name from a file cabinet labeled A-N and O-Z. It should also be noted, however, that in later books Baum mentions contemporary figures by name and takes blatantly political stances without the benefit of allegory including a condemnation in no uncertain terms of Standard Oil.
The book opens not in an imaginary place but in real life Kansas, which, in the 1890s as well as today, was well known for the hardships of rural life, and for destructive tornadoes. The Panic of 1893 caused widespread distress in rural America. Dorothy is swept away to a colorful land of unlimited resources that nevertheless has serious political problems.This utopia is ruled in part by people designated as wicked. Dorothy and her cyclone kill the Wicked Witch of the East. The Witch had previously controlled the all-powerful silver slippers (which were changed to ruby in the 1939 film). The slippers will in the end liberate Dorothy but first she must walk in them down the golden yellow brick road, i.e. she must take silver down the path of gold, the path of free coinage. Following the road of gold leads eventually only to the Emerald City, which may symbolize the fraudulent world of greenback paper money that only pretends to have value, or may symbolize the greenback value that is placed on gold (and for silver, possibly).
Other allegorical devices of the book include:
DOROTHY:
naïve, young and simple, represents the American people. She is Everyman, led astray and who seeks the way back home.She resembles the young hero of Coin's financial school, a very popular political pamphlet of 1893. Another interpretation holds that she is a representation of Theodore Roosevelt: note that the syllables "Dor-o-thy" are the reverse of the syllables "The-o-dore."
THE CYCLONE:
was used in the 1890s as a metaphor for a political revolution that would transform the drab country into a land of color and unlimited prosperity. The cyclone was used by editorial cartoonists of the 1890s to represent political upheaval.
Historians and economists who read the original 1900 book as a political allegory interpret the
TIN WOODSMAN:
as the dehumanized industrial worker, badly mistreated by the
WICKED WITCH OF THE EAST
who rules
MUNCHKIN COUNTRY
before the cyclone creates a political revolution and kills her. The Woodman is rusted and helpless—ineffective until he starts to work together with
THE SCARECROW
(the farmer), in a Farmer-Labor coalition that was much discussed in the 1890s, which culminated in the successful Farmer-Labor Party in Minnesota and its eventual merger with the Minnesota Democratic Party to form the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party in 1944.
THE MUNCHKINS
are the little people—ordinary citizens. This 1897 Judge cartoon shows famous politicians as little people after they were on the losing side in the election. However, in Oz the Munchkins are all dressed similarly in blue, unlike these caricatures. Political sources of Wizard of OZ ... more -
Is Karl Rove headed to jail?
ANP: Rove could be held in contempt of Congress.
The House Judiciary Committee has voted to hold Karl Rove in contempt of Congress after repeated efforts to get him to testify under oath. Now the decision to take the matter to the House floor for vote lies with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She says she won't consider the resolution until September but public pressure is mounting. Is Karl Rove headed to jail? ANP: Rove could be held in contempt of Congress. ... more -
Where is Karl Rove? Part 3
The House Judiciary Committee has voted to hold Karl Rove in contempt of Congress after repeated efforts to get him to testify under oath. Now the decision to take the matter to the House floor for vote lies with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She says she won't consider the resolution until September but public pressure is mounting. Is Karl Rove headed to jail? The House Judiciary Committee has voted to hold Karl Rove in contempt of Congress after repeated efforts to get him to testify under o... more
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Karl Rove held in contempt by House Judiciary Committee
A House panel Wednesday voted to cite former top White House aide Karl Rove for contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena to answer questions about the dismissals of several federal prosecutors as its Senate counterpart explored punishments for an array of alleged past and present Bush administration misdeeds.
Voting 20-14 along party lines, the House Judiciary Committee said that Rove had broke the law by failing to appear at a July 10 hearing on allegations of White House influence over the Justice Department, including whether Rove encouraged prosecutions against Democrats such as former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman.
The committee decision is only a recommendation, and it was unclear whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., would allow a final vote. Rove has denied any involvement with Justice decisions, and the White House has said Congress has no authority to compel testimony from current and former advisers. A House panel Wednesday voted to cite former top White House aide Karl Rove for contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena to answer ... more -
Four arrested in Iowa after attempted citizens arrest of Karl Rove
The local police seem to have arrested the wrong ones. Iowa legal code requires that it's citizens make an arrest and turn the individual over to authorities when it is reasonable to believe the individual has committed a felony. Rove ignored a congressional subpeona to testify in the outing of an undercover CIA opperative.
Undercover agents working for the US gov. use a front co. to hide their identity and give them reason to be in a foriegn country. Several agents use one dummy corporation as a cover. Therefore, when Plame was outed by Rove and Cheney, how many more operatives had to be relocated to protect their safety? And even moreso , how much information was lost do to this relocation and betrayal by the people charged with National Security? Treason is not a political agenda and is punishable by death. The local police seem to have arrested the wrong ones. Iowa legal code requires that it's citizens make an arrest and turn the in... more -
Bush urged to issue ‘Pre-emptive pardons’ for illegal programs officials
The New York Times reported this weekend that “[f]elons are asking President Bush for pardons and commutations at historic levels as he nears his final months in office, a time when many other presidents have granted a flurry of clemency requests.” However the Times noted that despite commuting Scooter Libby’s prison sentence, applicants “should expect to be disappointed” because Bush “has made little use of his clemency power” compared to past presidents.
Except perhaps if you participated in any illegal activity involving the Bush administration’s controversial counterterrorism programs. According to the Times, “several members of the conservative legal community” in Washington D.C. are urging Bush to issue “pre-emptive pardons” to those involved so as to “not be exposed even to the risk of an investigation and expensive legal bills”:
Such a pardon would reduce the risk that a future administration might undertake a criminal investigation of operatives or policy makers involved in programs that administration lawyers have said were legal but that critics say violated laws regarding torture and surveillance.
Some legal analysts said Mr. Bush might be reluctant to issue such pardons because they could be construed as an implicit admission of guilt. […]
“The president should pre-empt any long-term investigations,” said Victoria Toensing, who was a Justice Department counterterrorism official in the Reagan administration. “If we don’t protect these people who are proceeding in good faith, no one will ever take chances.”
Stuart Taylor, Jr., a constitutional law fellow at Brookings, agrees, saying in a recent Newsweek column that investigations into the Bush administration’s “high level ‘war crimes’” are a “bad idea” and instead called for a “truth commission“:
A criminal investigation would only hinder efforts to determine the truth, and preclude any apologies. It would spur those who know the most to take the Fifth. Any prosecutions would also touch off years of partisan warfare. […]
Absent pardons, pressure to go after GOP “war criminals” would make it very hard to unite Americans of all stripes behind solutions to the many economic and social challenges facing the country.
In fact, the conservative D.C. lawyer circuit may just get its wish. The White House “would not say whether the administration was considering pre-emptive pardons, nor whether it would rule them out.” (HT: Dan Froomkin) The New York Times reported this weekend that “[f]elons are asking President Bush for pardons and commutations at historic levels as h... more -
Second Arrest Attempt On Karl Rove In Iowa Leads To 4 Arrests
Four Iowans were arrested today while attempting to make a Citizens’ Arrest of Karl Rove in Des Moines, Iowa. Citing Iowa Code provisions for making Citizen’s Arrests as well as citing Federal Statute violations they claimed Rove had violated, the four were stopped at the gate of the Wakonda Country Club in Des Moines where Rove was scheduled to speak at a Republican Fundraiser.
The four arrested were retired Methodist minister and Peace and Justice Advocate, Rev. Chet Guinn, 80, as well as three Des Moines Catholic Workers, Edward Bloomer, 61, Kirk Brown, 25, and Mona Shaw, 57. All four were cited for trespassing and released.
The four maintained that they were acting within the guidelines of Iowa Code that obligate private citizens to make such an arrest if they believe a felony has been committed and turn Rove over to police officials to bring Rove before a judge for formal indictment. By law, a federal judge should consider the charges and determine if an indictment should be made.
Brown and Shaw made a similar attempt last March when Rove spoke at the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Brown and Shaw were arrested and released without charges following that attempt. Deaths in the Middle East since the March attempt number in the thousands including, 151 more US troops have been killed in Iraq, and 284 killed in Afghanistan as well as far more citizens of those two nations.
Rove remains unindicted and recently refused to cooperate with a Congressional subpoena in the Valerie Plame leak investigation. Despite mounting evidence of Rove’s wrongdoing concerning leading the U.S. to war as well as other actions, Congress and the U.S. judicial system remain reluctant to bring charges against either Rove or the Bush administration. Recent evidence includes Articles of Impeachment that will again be presented by Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich tomorrow. Vincent Bugliosi’s new book “The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder” carefully lays out a case against Bush and his administration for war crimes and felony murder. Bugliosi was prosecutor for the Charles Manson Family murders and author of the book “Helter Skelter,” which dealt with that crime. Four Iowans were arrested today while attempting to make a Citizens’ Arrest of Karl Rove in Des Moines, Iowa. Citing Iowa Code provisi... more -
Four arrested in protest of Karl Rove
Former Bush advisor Karl Rove was invited to speak at a GOP fundraiser in Des Moines, Iowa, but he did not get the warmest of welcomes from four residents who pledged to arrest him.
Law enforcement officers arrested Rev. Chet Guinn, 80, and three members of the Catholic Worker peace movement, Edward Bloomer, 61, Kirk Brown, 25, and Mona Shaw, 57, on Friday for their attempt to make a citizen’s arrest, according to the Cedar Rapids Gazette. They were cited for trespassing and released.
Reuters reported that the arrest was prearranged and happened when the group stepped past a gate. The protesters accused Rove of, among other things, conspiracy to defraud the United States ahead of the Iraq War, leading to the deaths of United States military and Iraqi civilians, the Gazette reported.
Two of the protesters, Brown and Shaw, were previously arrested and released without charges when they tried to arrest Rove in March at the University of Iowa.
A group of netroots activists is also pushing for the prosecution of Rove for his refusal to testify before the House Judiciary Committee in Washington.
Earlier this month, the former White House deputy chief of staff, refused an order to testify about the firing of federal prosecutors and allegations of selective prosecution of Democrats seen as political opponents.
The committee asked Rove to testify about whether he influenced the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman on corruption charges. While he refused to testify, Rove wrote a letter to ranking committee member Lamar Smith (R-Texas) that he did not try to influence the prosecution in any way.
Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) have threatened to hold Rove in contempt. The White House has argued executive privilege allows immunity for Rove from testifying.
The committee has also subpoenaed Attorney General Michael Mukasey to turn over documents relating to the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame’s identity, including complete FBI interview reports with Rove and others. Former Bush advisor Karl Rove was invited to speak at a GOP fundraiser in Des Moines, Iowa, but he did not get the warmest of welcomes... more -
How to Perform a Citizen's Arrest - on Karl Rove
This is brilliant, and a great guideline. I just wish I lived in a state where these guys have been indicted.
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4 Arrested for attempting citizen's arrest of Rove
DES MOINES - Police here arrested four Iowans Friday after they attempted a citizen's arrest of former White House adviser Karl Rove, who was in Des Moines to speak at a fundraiser.
Retired Methodist minister Rev. Chet Guinn, 80, and three Des Moines Catholic Workers, Edward Bloomer, 61, Kirk Brown, 25 and Mona Shaw, 57, who lives in Iowa City, were cited for trespassing and released, according to a news release.
Citing the Iowa Code, which allows citizen's arrests, the four accused Rove of election fraud; conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud the United States in the time before the Iraq war; and treason, sedition and subversive activities for fraudulent acts leading to the deaths of 300,000 Iraqi civilians and 4,000 U.S. Military personnel, according to their arrest complaint.
Brown and Shaw attempted a similar arrest last March when Rove spoke at the University of Iowa. They were arrested and released without charges. DES MOINES - Police here arrested four Iowans Friday after they attempted a citizen's arrest of former White House adviser Karl R... more -
Karl Rove protesters arrested
"Four peace activists were arrested on Friday as they attempted to make a "citizens arrest" of Karl Rove, who was one of President George W. Bush's top aides before leaving the administration last year.
"It should be Karl Rove in that van. War criminal!" one of a dozen protesters shouted as the four were put into a police van outside a Des Moines country club where Rove spoke at a private state Republican party fundraiser.
Chet Guinn, a retired Methodist Minister, was among those led away.
"To be silent when major crimes are being committed against all humanity makes us accomplices," Gwinn told reporters just before his prearranged arrest, which took place when protesters stepped past a gate." "Four peace activists were arrested on Friday as they attempted to make a "citizens arrest" of Karl Rove, who was one o... more -
Iowa protest aimed at Karl Rove leads to arrests
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Four peace activists were arrested on Friday as they attempted to make a "citizens arrest" of Karl Rove, who was one of President George W. Bush's top aides before leaving the administration last year. DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Four peace activists were arrested on Friday as they attempted to make a "citizens arrest" of K... more
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Meet the Bloggers: Liliana Segura Talks Impeachment and Sending Karl Rove to Jail
On the premiere of Meet the Bloggers, Liliana Segura discussed whether Karl Rove should be sent to jail. She said, "The very people who are supposed to be supporting the law are instead protecting the Bush administration."
And you can pressure the House Judiciary Committee to Send Rove to Jail:
http://sendkarlrovetojail.com/ On the premiere of Meet the Bloggers, Liliana Segura discussed whether Karl Rove should be sent to jail. She said, "The very peop... more -
Hey Congress! Karl Rove’s back and ready for pickup at the Fox studios
Time to explain to Congress yet again, if not to Linda Sanchez who knows the concept of inherent contempt and asked for it to be used, how to handle Rove. Time to explain to Congress yet again, if not to Linda Sanchez who knows the concept of inherent contempt and asked for it to be used,... more
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YES! August 2nd, Rove is to appear before Senate
May we see the truth and rule of law prevail, PLEASE.
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