JABbering Stooge

So Sen. John E. Sununu (R - NH) came out today calling for the Torture Czar’s removal from office. Mind you, he’s up for re-election in ‘08, and directly benefitted from the New Hampshire phone-jamming scandal, so color me skeptical if I don’t seem overly enthusiastic about this display of “bipartisanship.”

Torture-Czar Alberto Gonzales issued a non-apology apology yesterday for various unethical, if not outright illegal activities occuring in the Justice Department on his watch. Do I believe he sincerely regrets what happened? Well, just read the post title if you really need to know. He’s only sorry he got caught, same as always for these mamzerim.

You don’t say?! Okay, hands up. Who here is unsurprised by this? Yeah, I thought not…

Holy cow. There is something seriously wrong going on in Tacoma, Washington. Check out this article for the details.

Ain’t that a fine how-do-you-do? These people engaged in a week of peaceful protests that, admittedly, included some civil disobedience, and what is the response of police? Using their bicycles as cudgels and wantonly spraying tear gas and rubber bullets into the crowd. No Miranda Warning, no Riot Act - just calculated brutaility. And when the outraged protesters rightly demand to see some badge numbers - silence. Cold, condescending, contemptuous silence. Hell, one man was tasered almost half a dozen times before being arrested on trumpted-up charges of “assaulting a police officer.” Never mind the fact that all he was doing, by his own account, was milling around with other protesters. According to the twisted logic the police were using that night, exercising your First Amendment rights is the same as striking a police officer - a third-degree felony. Wonder if they learned that from the UCLA campus police that repeatedly tasered an Iranian-American student for the crime of being a Muslim in a place of higher education.

Incidentally,this is what a “mob scene” looks like to domestic terrorist Michelle MalKKKin:

And it gets worse. I’ll let fellow Bartcopper picosecond fill you in on the details (emphasis mine):

A friend who was there said that the second video doesn’t catch the “best” part. The horn you hear at the end is from a truck trying to pass through the crowd - apparently a dockworker coming in to work. The cops supposedly pulled him out of his truck, shot him POINT BLANK with rubber rounds, then shot tear gas into his cab.

Sidebar: For those who are interested, and have a strong constitution, there is a veritable shooting gallery (no pun intended) of photos showcasing wounds from rubber bullets available via this Google search.

Question for Michelle: if this was a “librul-driven mob scene,” then what, pray tell, was Kristallnacht?

Good Jesus. What’s next? Are they going to arm the riot police with mustard gas and flechette rounds instead of tear gas and rubber bullets? Or maybe the police will just order the military convoys to open fire on the protesters. It’s not like the thugs in charge ever cared about piddling little (objectively pro-terrorist) details like chain-of-command rules, anyway.

Unfortunately, police brutality isn’t the only issue at stake here. At a City Council meeting the following day, Walter Cuddeford, the man who was auto-tasered, was arrested again for running over his allotted time to speak. The trumped-up charges this time were - get this - tresspassing and disrupting a city council meeting.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. TRESSPASSING?!

Now, I’m no lawyer, but isn’t the purpose of declaring certain places “public property” so that anyone can access them, without regard to their political or financial station? That would be like me being arrested for tresspassing if I farted in a public library!

And as for “disrupting a city council meeting,” he was invited to speak, was he not? You can’t just arbitrarily revoke his invitation just because he’s relating inconvenient facts. And so what if he ran over his allotted time, doesn’t Robert’s Rules of Order allow someone to request more time to speak if they have more to say on a given subject? Geeze, public officials these days seem to have no use for democracy.

Well, that does it. The First Amendment has been cancelled, at least in Tacoma, Washington. I can only hope that it remains intact in the rest of the country. If not, I may have to invest in a surplus HAZMAT suit before attending any protests in the future.

So it’s come down to this. Back when the renewal of the Orwellian PATRIOT Act was being debated, proponents claimed that it hadn’t been abused - indeed, couldn’t be abused. The Heritage Foundation even went so far as to publish an editorial claiming, disingenuously, that civil liberties had actually been enhanced by the law. The Most Holy George W. Christ issued one of his infamous signing statements saying that because there had never been a single solitary abuse of the law that he didn’t need to inform Congress whenever it was used. Rep. Bill Lumbergh James Sensenbrenner was so obsessed with keeping the notorious law alive that he illegally shut down a hearing on the abuse back in June of 2005. To these people I ask: How would you like your crow served to you?

Another question: can we force the NSA to do an internal audit to see if the extent to which the warrantless wiretapping has been abused?

According to insultmonger.com, schtarker is Yiddish for “thug”.

I’m sure he’ll claim that the ex-girlfriend was a threat to his manhood, and thus he was justified under Florida’s “shoot first, shoot later, shoot some more and then when everybody’s dead try to ask a question or two” law.

Hey conservatives, remember all the (manufactured) outrage you directed at Clinton’s Almighty Schlong for “Travelgate,” which turned out to be based on a whistleblower’s letter written during Poppy Bush’s administration?

Well, now’s the time to put up or shut up: what say you to the rampant firings of U.S. Attorneys by the Bushies so that they can put their cronies in place to ignore any crimes committed by Republicans and attempt to give Democrats the death penalty for jaywalking?

This is just what a cat-lover like me needs. Over at USBgeek.com, they’re selling a “USB Kitty” - a robot cat that plugs into any USB port on your computer that meows, hisses at intruders and purrs when you scratch it under the chin. It’s the best of both worlds - satisfies the nerd within, and the cat-lover within - all at the same time!

Oh, you just know this will set off the more unhinged right-wing bloggers. MSRNC is reporting, under the unfortunate headline “Death to ‘America’: Comic-book hero killed off,” that Marvel Comics is killing off the character Captain America in its newest, and possibly final issue of the spandex-and-shield-toting hero’s adventures.

As the article notes, this is not the first time that a major comic book character has been killed off. The most famous offing of a superhero was, perhaps, Superman’s “death” at the hands of Doomsday. However, none have had the close association with the American mythos that Captain America (who, incidentally, is the inspiration for the City of Heroes NPC Statesman) has. Therefore, I would not be surprised to see right-wingers look at this story and, just from the headline alone, declare MSRNC an “enemy of the State.” I’m sure Our Lady of the Internment Camps will exhort her unglued readers to go do that voodoo that they do so well, and within days, MSRNC’s Secaucus, NJ headquarters will get firebombed or sent fake anthrax.

Looks like United American Technologies is at it again. When I last discussed this hate-mongering telephone company, they had just had their asses handed to them by comedian Eugene Mirman back in 2005. Well, they’re up to their old tricks again. For the last month or so, I personally received one of these automated calls at least once a week. Finally fed up with the constant harassment, I managed to find the phone number for the Nazi thugs responsible, and demanded politely asked to be removed from their system.

Unfortunately, I can’t guarantee that it’ll stop the harassing calls. But if it happens again, I’ll threaten to complain to the Better Business Bureau and maybe even file a harassment suit…