Another Break-In at Democratic Headquarters! (Watergate Anybody?)

Ok. We've got Karl Rove unlawfully revealing the names of undercover CIA agents. We've got a president who knowingly "fixed facts" in order get the people and Congress to go along with the war plans of Dick Cheney ( for profit) and his neocon advisors who want to dominate the world (PNAC). He did this against the advise of his own generals, men who were subsequently removed from their command (Shalikashvilli) for daring to voice opposition. They were replaced by men from the Bolton school of intelligence, that being that you only reveal information that is supportive of government policy, the dangers thereof be damned. Now this.....

Isn't it long overdue to start impeachment proceedings? At least ones that are taking place upstairs where they get to use the good china? This is after all, very much in the best interests of the United States Of America. It is patriotism to proceed against this administration before they drain the treasury and kill more sons and daughters of good Americans (note that none of their own kin are in combat)

Mycos
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Watergate Again? Another Break-in, More Computers Stolen at Democratic Headquarters in Ohio
Bella Ciao
Saturday 2nd July 2005 (17h07)

COLUMBUS - Thieves targeted the Ohio Democratic Party Headquarters this week, stealing a computer and a high-tech communications gadget belonging to party chairman Denny White.

Police said yesterday one or more burglars appeared to have climbed a wall Monday and crawled through an unlocked second-story window overnight at the party headquarters about three blocks from the Statehouse.

The break-in occurs at a time when the Ohio Republican Party is threatened by one of the largest scandals to hit the states government in decades.

Some Democrats also say the break-in is eerily similar to a burglary at the Lucas County Democratic Party Headquarters last fall, in which three computers were stolen.

Police, though, said it is unclear if the theft had anything to do with politics, or the investigations into investments at the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation.

Until we find the person, there's no way of knowing that, said Sherry Mercurio, a police spokesman, who said investigators lifted fingerprints at the scene.



The complete article may be read at the here

The break-in occurred a week after the Ohio Democratic Party began airing a 30-second TV ad that links Republican office-holders with the states failed $50 million rare-coin investment with Tom Noe.

Lawyers for Mr. Noe, a Republican fund-raiser, have told authorities that about $13 million in assets are missing from the coin fund.

Jason Mauk, a spokesman for the Ohio Republican Party, said the state GOP had nothing to do with the break-in.
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Rove Lawyer as much as admits that his client exposed Plame

Rove's 'I Did Not Inhale' Defense: 07.04.2005 Lawrence O'Donnell

Karl Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, had his holiday weekend ruined on Friday when I broke the story that the e-mails that Time delivered to the special prosecutor that afternoon reveal that Karl Rove is the source Matt Cooper has been protecting for two years. The next day, Luskin was forced to open the first hole in the Rove two-year wall of silence about the case. In a huge admission to Newsweek and the Los Angeles Times, Luskin confessed that, well, yes, Rove did talk to Cooper. It is a huge admission in a case where Rove and Luskin have never, before Friday, felt compelled to say a word about Rove's contact with Cooper or anyone else involved in the case.

Luskin then launched what sounds like an I-did-not-inhale defense. He told Newsweek that his client 'never knowingly disclosed classified information.' Knowingly. That is the most important word Luskin said in what has now become his public version of the Rove defense.

Not coincidentally, the word 'knowing' is the most important word in the controlling statute ( U.S. Code: Title 50: Section 421). To violate the law, Rove had to tell Cooper about a covert agent 'knowing that the information disclosed so identifies such covert agent and that the United States is taking affirmative measures to conceal such covert agent's intelligence relationship to the United States.'

So, Rove's defense now hangs on one word—he 'never knowingly disclosed classified information.' Does that mean Rove simply didn't know Valerie Plame was a covert agent? Or does it just mean that Rove did not know that the CIA was 'taking affirmative measures' to hide her identity?

In Luskin's next damage control session with the press, let's see if any reporter can get him to drop the word 'knowingly' from the never-disclosed-classified-information bit."

Rove (finally) going down?

Lawrence O'Donnel on McLaughlin Group: 'I'm probably gonna get pulled into the grand jury for saying this, but it will be revealed in Cooper's notes that it is Karl Rove who leaked Plame's identity'... Developing...

First thing I thought was GREAT!! But then I started thinking about the way this might play out regarding an impeachment of 'Bush and crew'. If an impeachment hearing is initiated, then Rove will of course be central to all kinds of information that will be necessary for the process. But with Rove indicted, he can claim all kinds of procedural issues allowing his non-compliance with giving evidence. The impeachment would possibly have to go on hold until the trial of Rove was over, and you know how long that could be. Fat little f**k will be dead of old age, nevertheless a heart-attack or something a little more excruciating.

Speaking of, what if.....what if the man developed a conscience?!!! Ohhh, the skeletons he must have in his closet. I think that could possibly be the most horrifying, the slowest and possibly the most agonizing death possible for him. Yeah....yeah. As unlikely a it is to happen, the very thought gives me enough pleasure to carry on....

Mycos

The Priesthood and Celibacy: A "Sin"

Pope obstructed' sex abuse inquiry

It asserted the church's right to hold its inquiries behind closed doors and keep the evidence confidential for up to 10 years after the victims reached adulthood. The letter was signed by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who was elected as John Paul II's successor last week.

A contributor noted that "Many Catholic priests here in Italy have girl friends (and go to discos, without dog collars), and as a result, child molestation seems to be less frequent here."

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Yes, that brings up something that I saw from a Catholic that struck me as a little odd. It was stated that molestation was no more prevalent among the Catholic Church than others, and perhaps not even as bad. Well, I'll go along with that if the list being compared to is a list of churches that require celibacy.

C'mon. Celibacy is not a normal way to behave. It flies in the face of every socio-biological drive that we have. It is a perfect recipe for trouble. Look around. I see over and over again that people respond to having a natural bodily functions perverted or demeaned, by developing another perversion or abnormality of behaviour in response.

Just as the pressure to remain skinny in a culture where food is everywhere is expressed as anorexia/bulimia, to abstain from the sex-drive results in suicide, pedophilia or outright madness. If you taught someone that they were a bad person for taking going to the bathroom (I'm serious!)you'd get one f***ed up adult. And if you beat them I bet you'd get a whole range of various bizarre behaviours.... and not just the ones you'd expect from somebody who was beaten for "acting up". I mean, is any of us surprised when we hear that a mass murderer was brought up by parents who were very religious and strict? Certainly not me. I expect it.

As well, when you make celibacy a prerequisite to the priesthood, what kind of young men do you think will be coming through that door? How about a young man who is having a sexual identity crisis. He's scared that he might be gay, but he thinks that it is wrong and shameful. Where to go to be delivered from that conflict? The priesthood of course! So now you have people who not only deny their own sexuality, but someone who reads daily, who speaks out daily in front of a congregation that the person he is on the inside... is evil. Add to that he hasn't been laid yet, and you got trouble.

Or what about someone who does have feelings of pedophilia right from a young age? How to live an acceptable life is going to be a big problem unless he sublimates that behaviour. Presto! The priesthood......and a life of daily reminders of his evil nature.

C'mon. It's a no brainer. Celibacy only aggravates any existing problems and will almost certainly lead to the development of some if you don't already have them.

Gary Williams

US Torture of Jailed Iraqi Children

US Torture of Jailed Iraqi Children
Thomas Reutter
(July 5, 2004) -- Moderation Fritz Frey:REPORT has come across a totally unbelievable suspicion.

In Abu Gharib and elsewhere, children and youth have been incarcerated and mistreated.
Thomas Reutter reports.

REPORT:With tanks coming through the gate, US soldiers storm an apartment building looking for terrorists. Sometimes during such roundups the soldiers also arrest children. What happens to the children? About that the military gives no information. We investigate, as it happens, through informants.

One of them, who is knowledgeable about these things, is Sergeant Samuel Provance from US Army Intelligence. For half a year, he was stationed in the notorious Abu Ghraib torture-prison. Today, five months later, we meet with Sergeant Provance in Heidelberg.

His superiors have strictly forbidden him from reporting to journalists about what he experienced in Abu Ghraib. Yet Provance wants to talk about it nonetheless. Pangs of conscience plague him. He tells us about one 16-year-old, whom he himself had to lead away. "
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