Bush's War on Terrorism is a treasonous fraud, a war on US citizens waged by the people's own government. "Terrorism", moreover, continues to be fraudulently cited in support of a war of naked aggression in which well over one million civilians have died. It is a clear violation of US Codes which bind the US to international conventions.
Now --high treason is a serious charge, in most societies, a capital offense. On June 19th in 1953, the US executed Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. They had been accused of spying for the Russians. Though there is little doubt that Julius Rosenberg spied for the Russians, the charges against his wife were most certainly specious. In any case, neither Rosenberg had done anything remotely resembling the heinous crimes for which there is probable cause now to try the person of George W. Bush, traitor to the US Constitution and the people of the United States against whom he has waged war with the apparatus of state, specifically the CIA, et al. Recently, The Guardian's Jason Burke reported from the Middle East a truth that Bush doesn't want you to know: al Qaeda is a creation of the US CIA. The Bush administration has said that al Qaeda is responsible for the 911 attacks. Burke's story is about the Hezb-i-Islami group of mujahideen, a group whose training and weaponry are supplied by the CIA. The CIA maintains this fiction so that US government can exploit a perpetual "war on terrorism", a treasonous war waged upon US citizens in violation of US Constitution, Article III, having to do with the issue of high treason.
Section 3.Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.--US Constitution: Article IIIThe Bush administration has found terrorism especially useful. It is necessarily vague and open-ended. It does not require a formal Declaration of War by Congress. Terrorism, moreover, can be anything Bush says it is; there is, therefore, no accountability, no benchmarks by which success is determined or measured. "Terrorism" need never end. New "threats" are easily fabricated and exploited just as Hermann Goring himself recommended following the Reichstag Fire for which he, himself, took credit.The charges against Bush will not stop there. Bush is commander-in-chief. He cannot claim to have been following orders when, under his orders, the US military embarked upon a program of torture and other violations of the Geneva Conventions. There is material evidence (that should be subpoenaed now) that people were murdered at Abu Ghraib. Why have not charges pursuant to the following US Codes been brought against George W. Bush?
TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 118 > § 2441; § 2441. War crimes(a) Offense.— Whoever, whether inside or outside the United States, commits a war crime, in any of the circumstances described in subsection (b), shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for life or any term of years, or both, and if death results to the victim, shall also be subject to the penalty of death.Bush is, therefore, subject to prosecution for capital crimes, though he has made unconstitutional attempts --ex post facto --to exempt himself from the provision cited above. Al Qaeda --literally, "the Base" --is a cruel fiction that keeps not only Bush but the GOP in business. J'accuse! This exploitation of terrorism by this GOP administration is an ongoing treason, responsible for the deaths of more than 3000 people in New York City alone. There is probable cause to bring those charges against Bush now! A Federal Judge may convene a Grand Jury upon his/her own motion. I appeal to a Federal Judge to convene that panel while there is still hope that what remains of American democracy might be saved.
Voltaire said that if God had not existed, it would have been necessary to invent him! If al Qaeda had not existed, the CIA would have found it necessary to create them, arm them and train them. In fact, it did! If al Qaeda does not exist, then 911 said to have been perpetrated by them, must be re-examined.
If "al Qaeda" is simply a creation of the CIA, then the CIA must be investigated for its own treasonous, murderous connections to 911 and the series of Anthrax attacks with US Govt Grade anthrax, attacks targeting media and Democrats. How transparent! One wonders how the word "intelligence" managed to insinuate itself between the words "central" and "agency". Briefly: there is enough evidence, enough "probable cause" to begin a federal grand jury investigation of the Bush Administration and the CIA right now! Based upon that investigation, charges of sedition and/or treason should be drafted consistent with several articles under US Codes, Title 18.
It follows that if Bush's official conspiracy theory of 911 is untrue, then so too every lie told to begin the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Because both wars resulted in death, the orders to begin those wars are, likewise, violations of Nuremberg and other treaties to which the US is bound. If death has resulted from those orders, the said orders are capital crimes. The person issuing those orders is George W. Bush. Bush himself is, therefore, in violation of US Codes, Title 18, Section 2441 which he tried to change ex post facto. It is understandable that he would try to do so. Those US Codes make Bush himself subject to the death penalty.
The myth of "al Qaida" is built on an expansive foundation of many half-truths and hidden facts. It is a CIA creation. It was shaped by the agency to serve as a substitute "enemy" for America, replacing the Soviets whom the Islamist forces had driven from Afghanistan. Unknown American officials, at an indeterminate point in time, made the decision to fabricate the tale of a mythical worldwide network of Islamic terrorists from the exploits of the Afghan Mujahedeen. The CIA already had their own network of Islamic militant "freedom fighters," all that was needed were a few scattered terrorist attacks against US targets and a credible heroic figurehead, to serve as the "great leader."
The really tricky part of creating a mythical terrorist monster out of an incomplete truth is laying-out the facts behind your mythical story without revealing the whole truth about your part in its creation. In order to explain away the billions of dollars worth of weapons and training that went into the operation, they chose a rich jihadi, a Saudi millionaire named Osama bin Laden, who had been a faithful recruiter and business agent of the Mujahedeen. He was painted as the sole financier of the entire enormous operation that was centered in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Bin Laden may not even have known that he was playing a part in a deceitful CIA global drama until after the fact. It is more likely that his history was chosen many years later to serve as the legacy of "al Qaida," than it is that he was a brainwashed tool of the spy agency all along.
The story of bin Laden is the story of the secret CIA/ISI insurgent camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan. According to Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, Osama was 22 years old in 1979, when he was trained in a CIA sponsored guerilla training camp near Peshawar, Pakistan.
"Bin Laden family was put in charge of raising money for the Islamic brigades. Numerous charities and foundations were created. The operation was coordinated by Saudi intelligence, headed by Prince Turki al-Faisal, in close liaison with the CIA. The money derived from the various charities was used to finance the recruitment of Mujahedeen volunteers. Al Qaeda, the base in Arabic was a data bank of volunteers who had enlisted to fight in the Afghan jihad. That data base was initially held by Osama bin Laden." http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7746
Researcher Kurt Nimmo writes:
"The database of Islamic fighters that was collected by the program was labeled n Arabic, 'Q eidat ilmu'ti'aat', which is the exact translation of the English word database. But the Arabs commonly used the short word 'Al Qaida" which is the Arabic word for 'base.'" http://www.lookingglassnews.org/viewstory.php?storyid=3569
In 1989, the US, under George Bush Sr. moved to abandon Afghanistan, making preparations to attack Saddam Hussein long before he had ever moved against Kuwait in 1991. As far as Bush knew, the spy agency had obeyed his orders to abandon the Afghan tribal bloodbath and civil war, but the CIA knew better than the Commander-In-Chief. This fit in well with a deceitful Secretary of Defense, who had also believed that he knew better than his boss, (as evidenced by Cheney ordering his underling Paul Wolfowitz to draw-up an alternative foreign policy, known as the "Defense Planning Guidance"). The covert foreign policy of Reagan and Carter had became even more secret, as control of the camp network was submerged even deeper into the bowels of the secret world of the CIA.-- Unraveling the Myth of Al Qaida, Global Research, January 13, 2008
Bushco Lies About 911.
There is a prescription by which the people may reclaim it's rogue and treasonous government. The people simply must unite to bring this junta to justice, insisting upon trials for Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Tenet et al. Concurrently, a new administration must renew a promise made by JFK --a promise that most certainly cost him his life: the CIA must be "smashed into a thousand pieces".
A saying is often attributed to the Chinese: may you live in interesting times! It is not a fond wish; it is a curse! ADDENDUM:
The Rosenberg case mentioned above says a lot about the US. Societal elements that would later make possible the ascendency of someone like Bush --a would-be dictator who disdains the instrument of our founding, the US Constitution, are present throughout our history. Zinn identified them in the Rosenberg case.
The Rosenbergs were charged with espionage. The major evidence was supplied by a few people who had already confessed to being spies, and were either in prison or under indictment. David Greenglass, the brother of Ethel Rosenberg, was the key witness [in the case against the Rosenbergs]. He had been a machinist at the Manhattan Project laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico, in 1944-1945 when the atomic bomb was being made there and testified that Julius Rosenberg had asked him to get information for the Russians. Greenglass said he had made sketches from memory for his brother-in-law of experiments with lenses to be used to detonate atomic bombs. He said Rosenberg had given him half of the cardboard top to a box of Jell-o, and told him a man would show up in New Mexico with the other half, and that, in June 1945, Harry Gold appeared with the other half of the box top, and Greenglass gave him information he had memorized.It's hard to read this without concluding that "justice" in America depends upon your political beliefs. And, if that is, indeed, the case, then there is no justice in America.Gold, already serving a thirty-year sentence in another espionage case, came out of jail to corroborate Greenglass's testimony. He had never met the Rosenbergs, but said a Soviet embassy official gave him half of a Jello box top and told him to contact Greenglass, saying, "I come from Julius." Gold said he took the sketches Greenglass had drawn from memory and gave them to the Russian official.
There were troubling aspects to all this. Did Gold cooperate in return for early release from prison? After serving fifteen years of his thirty-year sentence, he was paroled. Did Greenglass-under indictment at the time he testified-also know that his life depended on his cooperation? He was given fifteen years, served half of it, and was released. How reliable a memorizer of atomic information was David Greenglass, an ordinary-level machinist, not a scientist, who had taken six courses at Brooklyn Polytechnical Institute and flunked five of them? Gold's and Greenglass's stories had first not been in accord. But they were both placed on the same floor of the Tombs prison in New York before the trial, giving them a chance to coordinate their testimony.
How reliable was Gold's testimony? It turned out that he had been prepared for the Rosenberg case by four hundred hours of interviews with the FBI. It also turned out that Gold was a frequent and highly imaginative liar. He was a witness in a later trial where defense counsel asked Gold about his invention of a fictional wife and fictional children. The attorney asked: ". . . you lied for a period of six years?" Gold responded: "I lied for a period of sixteen years, not alone six years." Gold was the only witness at the trial to connect Julius Rosenberg and David Greenglass to the Russians. The FBI agent who had questioned Gold was interviewed twenty years after the case by a journalist. He was asked about the password Gold was supposed to have used - "Julius sent me." The FBI man said:
Gold couldn't remember the name he had given. He thought he had said: I come from - or something like that. I suggested, "Might it have been Julius?" That refreshed his memory.When the Rosenbergs were found guilty, and Judge Irving Kaufman pronounced sentence, he said:I believe your conduct in putting into the hands of the Russians the A-bomb years before our best scientists predicted Russia would perfect the bomb as already caused the Communist aggression in Korea with the resultant casualties exceeding 50,000 Americans and who knows but that millions more of innocent people may pay the price of your treason. . . .He sentenced them both to die in the electric chair.Morton Sobell was also on trial as a co-conspirator with the Rosenbergs. The chief witness against him was an old friend, the best man at his wedding, a man who was facing possible perjury charges by the federal government for lying about his political past. This was Max Elitcher, who testified that he had once driven Sobell to a Manhattan housing project where the Rosenbergs lived, and that Sobell got out of the car, took from the glove compartment what appeared to be a film can, went off, and then returned without the can. There was no evidence about what was in the film can. The case against Sobell seemed so weak that Sobell's lawyer decided there was no need to present a defense. But the jury found Sobell guilty, and Kaufman sentenced him to thirty years in prison. He was sent to Alcatraz, parole was repeatedly denied, and he spent nineteen years in various prisons before he was released.
FBI documents subpoenaed in the 1970s showed that Judge Kaufman had conferred with the prosecutors secretly about the sentences he would give in the case. Another document shows that after three years of appeal a meeting took place between Attorney General Herbert Brownell and Chief Justice Fred Vinson of the Supreme Court, and the chief justice assured the Attorney General that if any Supreme Court justice gave a stay of execution, he would immediately call a full court session and override it.
There had been a worldwide campaign of protest. Albert Einstein, whose letter to Roosevelt early in the war had initiated work on the atomic bomb, appealed for the Rosenbergs, as did Jean-Paul Sartre, Pablo Picasso, and the sister of Bartolomeo Vanzetti. There was an appeal to President Truman, just before he left office in the spring of 1953. It was turned down. Then, another appeal to the new President, Dwight Eisenhower, was also turned down.
At the last moment, Justice William 0. Douglas granted a stay of execution. Chief Justice Vinson sent out special jets to bring the vacationing justices back to Washington from various parts of the country. They canceled Douglas's stay in time for the Rosenbergs to be executed June 19, 1953. It was a demonstration to the people of the country, though very few could identify with the Rosenbergs, of what lay at the end of the line for those the government decided were traitors.
In that same period of the early fifties, the House Un-American Activities Committee was at its heyday, interrogating Americans about their Communist connections, holding them in contempt if they refused to answer, distributing millions of pamphlets to the American public: "One Hundred Things You Should Know About Communism" ("Where can Communists be found? Everywhere"). Liberals often criticized the Committee, but in Congress, liberals and conservatives alike voted to fund it year after year. By 1958, only one member of the House of Representatives (James Roosevelt) voted against giving it money. Although Truman criticized the Committee, his own Attorney General had expressed, in 1950, the same idea that motivated its investigations: "There are today many Communists in America. They are everywhere--in factories, offices, butcher shops, on street comers, in private business--and each carries in himself the germs of death for society."
--Chapter Sixteen: "A People's War?", A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn
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I still get sick to my stomach when I see those pictures that prove that our government took these young people who wanted to be honorable soldiers and turned them into monsters willing to torture other human beings.
Fuzzflash sez...
"It's hard to read this without concluding that "justice" in America depends upon your political beliefs. And, if that is, indeed, the case, then there is no justice in America." Len Hart.
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations
has been two hundred years.
These nations have progressed through this sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;
from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to complacency;
from complaceny to apathy;
from apathy to dependence;
from dependency back again into bondage.*
Sir Alex Fraser Tyler: (1742-1813) Scottish jurist and historian
*None of the above progressions apply, of course, if you’re a participant in American civilization.
The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent:
Charles Eliot Norton
How you can win the population for war: At first, the statesman will invent cheap lying, that impute the guilt of the attacked nation, and each person will be happy over this deceit, that calm the conscience. It will study it detailed and refuse to test arguments of the other opinion. So he will convince step for step even therefrom that the war is just and thank God, that he, after this process of grotesque even deceit, can sleep better:
Mark Twain
Throughout history it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph:
Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing:
The Thinking Frog.
That's why we're here monitoring The Dark Side, I guess, witnessing Oedipus Erectus, waist deep in Moloch's putresence, slay Mother Earth.
And yet we human beings few, we motley crazy crew who love truth and justice with passion, continue to appreciate that there is nothing so powereful as an IDEA, you know, demo(of the people)/cracy(rule), whose time is well and truly past. Constrictor Corporatalis is bracing to squeeze then snuff the last and the greatest of human dreams.
Be sure 'n' all have a swell day now, y'hear!
Actually, comrades, especially you, Sad, might I presume to suggest that the quotes on the page from the link below are all so prescient. Matter of fact, takin' liberties is what we're all supposed to be about, ain't it? We're not the first to find ourselves on this part of The Trail. It's what we do about it that determines our childrens' future and that of all critters, great and small.
http://www.ursulastange.com/QuotationsfromICH.htm
Make that a ten-four, copy, roger, over and out, good buddies.
Thanks for the al Qaeda link, Len, I missed that one. And thanks for the quotes, Fuzz. One of the most persistent popular misconceptions is that our democratic institutions are inviolate, that we are not bound by history or subject to the moral failures that have beset other empires. Like a supertanker the SS USA plows on through crony capitalism, expensive foreign wars and domestic abuse towards a perfect storm of economic melt down and WW3. And just like a supertanker it takes a hell of a lot to slow it down or change direction. Frankly, I think it's unstoppable. Popular ignorance doesn't help. Here's a quote from an aussie today on the Iran speedboats topic:
I think it is difficult to accuse a nation with as in depth and well publicised election process as America, with three developed tiers of government, an independant judiciary, a sharp delineation between Church and state and an independant defence and intelligence community as a fascist one.
What can you do with this level of public ignorance? I'm coming round to Yossarian's view that we will just have to wait until a few more of these innocents get killed (or at least have their bubbly, ignorant innocence unmasked). Unfortunately, that means a lot of needlessly dead Iranians. Let's hope for some positive news along the way.
Thanks for the link on the database, I had heard this once but was unable to find it anywhere. Of course the CIA created the global bogeymen, the CIA is nothing other than a gestapo for global empire and has been tainted since it's inception and mingling with the Nazi war criminals that it saved ostensibly to fight the pre-'Islamofascist' phantom menace that was communism.
Keep up the great work, the more truth that can be thrown at the bastards now the more that will stick.
EE
"What can you do with this level of public ignorance?"
fuzz, donning his soutane as lay priest, responds.
1. 3/5 of 5/8 of SFA.
2. box-on in msm blogs as kenj.
3. out of exasperation, hang yourself in a public dunny. (very dramatic, but existentially redundant)
4. play more chess.
5. resolve never to waste your time arguing the toss with idiots.
6. keep popping by the porch here where you are much appreciated.
7. Ava gander at "The History Boys". What do you understand by the term "pass the parcel"?
8. Any of the above, depending on how you feel when you get up each morning.
Go in peace, my son, despair no more. Set a coulpa coldies up at the rubberty, and we'll drink to the memory of the Unknown Soldier and the enlightenment of the Universal Ungulate.
If Clinton hadn't consolidated the media, Bush would have been impeached long ago. If anyone is The Base, it is Clinton.
As for Bush, the ties between the Bush family and the Bin Laden family go way back. The Al Queda cover stinks.
3. out of exasperation, hang yourself in a public dunny.
That one looks the best. I have a recent problem here, Fuzz, and I'm seeking your advice. I've got this maths brain and I've figured out how to beat the stock market. But psychological guilt (over something) is holding me back. Should I grab the $10,000 a day or just move on to something else? Leave the soutane and give me your best Sigmund. Should I flagellate or invest?
workshop, I am no fan of Clinton --especially Hilary (a good Republican) --but let's give "credit" where "credit" is due. The wave of media consolidation, indeed the de-regulation of media in general to include the dismantling of the Fairness Doctrine, began with Ronald Reagan. I witnessed the effects of that as it happened.
I favor the restoration of the Fairness Doctrine (my articles about it are in the archives). Try searching "Wires and Lights in a Box". I've written reams about RR. He fucked the nation over royally. Clinton was actually, by contrast, a brief respite --though it hardly recommends him. The 'less bad' is, I suppose, "good" when nothing else is. A trend begun with RR's tax cut of 1982 actually reversed briefly under Clinton. But --alas --it was too little too late. Bush policies are those of RR to the nTH power.
Fuzz, as alway, inspired! Thanks
Damien wrote
I'm coming round to Yossarian's view
We are all Yossarian now!
ed wrote
the more truth that can be thrown at the bastards now the more that will stick.
I haven't found the silver bullet yet! In theory, even Mt. Rushmore could have been carved with a pen knife. Just keep hackin' away at the beast!
Fuzz, against a soundtrack by Mancinci:
Go in peace, my son, despair no more. Set a coulpa coldies up at the rubberty, and we'll drink to the memory of the Unknown Soldier and the enlightenment of the Universal Ungulate.
A toast is as good an excuse to drink as another, I suppose, but always better among comrades united in a common cause. But it never hurts to have some "letters of transit" squirreled away.
Me too, Liberality! Me too!
Now they want to start a war with Iran. And there are some subversive groups supporting just such a senario...I found out after reading about the Christian Zionists. Have a great week!
Dr. Fuzzmund Freud sits at his desk in his consulting rooms in historic downtown Vienna. Bored with the vapidity of his professional staple, a nifty manual technique involving beaver-bouncing neurotic bourgeois hausfraus, he reaches for and opens a “letter of transit” stored under lock and key in a purpose-built squirrel hole in his bureau. The contents of the missive please him .
( Flicks intercom): Mizz Himmelbusch, pleeze zend in zee nice gendleman from zee Antipodes, sankew veddy much…….
Frazzled, flummoxed, fangin’ for a beer, yet essentially friendly, the tall tutor enters.
Ah, Herr Damien, all zis vey to schlep your conscience, take a load off your feet, zit on zis couch and make yourself comfortable, ya? So….. my collicks tell me zat you can dotch zee bullets from Alekhine’s gun but you can’t sleep nights because you are burdened by scruples that do not seem to trouble ahzzer…how you say…. ahzzer cockroach capitalists?
That’s right, Doc.
Zen ve must tek care zat you do not succumb to Faustian Syndrome.
A high plains drifter once said that to some extent we are all compromised by the society in which we live, and that each of us is responsible for his or her actions. Only you can decide, but because your integrity is at stake here, as well as your money, perhaps zis pamphlet will be of some help.
http://www.austethical.com.au/
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"Should I flagellate or invest?"
The Russian lady who runs the House of Correction, near the Rainbow Hotel (just off Brunswick St.) in Bleak City, does both.
Fuzz...
A high plains drifter once said that to some extent we are all compromised by the society in which we live, and that each of us is responsible for his or her actions
Eastwood at his most surrealistic. Painting the whole town red might not have been subtle but, as cinematic device, it remains unsurpassed for impact. Among those who have seen this film, it is seared into every synapse. Essay assignment: compare and contrast the drifter with Yossarian.
Great post, fuzz. BTW --I now have the latest version of my favorite screenwriting software. Stand back! I was warned not to try this at home.
I should be paying you by the line, Fuzzflash. You are bloody awesome mate! I'll try for the profits but steer clear of Haliburton (nobody can be this broke). And yes, I think I've met that specialist in Brunswick Street. She was a hoot, too. The beer's are all on me mate when I do catch up with you -- which I will one day soon. Cheers :) :) :)
damo, I'm good for a round if you'll make room for me as well. Warning, I love snooker but am not worth a damn at it. As Clint E would have put it: "A man has got to know his limitations!"
I believe a citizen grand jury should be convened to investigate 9/11.
I believe a citizen grand jury should be convened to prosecute GWB and Cheney.
We don't NEED to wait for our government to take action. We ARE the government in the USA.
We have the right to form and convene citizen grand juries.
I'm not made of money - or I'd be on it. :)
Just a thought.
Laura Lee said...
I believe a citizen grand jury should be convened to investigate 9/11.
I believe a citizen grand jury should be convened to prosecute GWB and Cheney.
That's been my position for a quite some time now. See:
Indict George Bush, Marvin Bush, Dick Cheney, Larry Silverstein for Mass Murder
That's one of several articles I wrote in addition to letters and petitions.
See also:
Using a Grand Jury to Investigate 911
A former federal prosecutor had made heroic efforts to 'create' such a grand jury. I took up the banner with several articles, letters, lobby efforts of my own etc.
Historic Result From San Diego Citizens' Grand Jury
On The Crimes Of September 11, 2001
In New York City
At the time, however, just enough so-called 'liberals' in this country wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole!
Apparently!
The efforts of many people were all but ignored even by the so-called 'liberal' or 'progressive' media.
Moreover, ANY Federal Judge can, upon his/her own motion, convene a grand jury upon his motion. He can instruct them and/or appoint a special prosecutor to bring cases and/or evidence before them. The panel itself has the power of the subpoena. It's an almost unlimited power. They can order anyone they chose to give testimoney or surrender evidence.
It's a thorn in my side. What can I say, what CAN be said about a 'people' who simply will not get up off their asses and back sides to organize in the defense of Democracy???
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