Last Chance to Save America: Stop Alito!!!

Friends, the vote on the Filibuster and final Alito vote are taking place today and tomorrow.

Please contact your senator and voice your opinion.

There are many grass roots organizations in addition to prominent leaders like John Kerry whom believe we have a chance to prevent Alito from being seated on the U.S. Supreme Court.

It only takes a minute to send an e-mail or call your senators office.

Thanks,

Find your Senator:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

People for the American Way
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/

Culture of Corruption

Since the Republicans took control of the White House and Congress there has been a dramatic decrease in the integrity of our government creating a culture of corruption never seen before.

The United States of America is a nation founded upon slavery and extortion of the Indians all through deceptive agreements, frankly by certain elements within our society.

Do you believe that these elements of people have shed the wealth of their lineage and that the character of those in charge of the Grand Old Republican Party is any better?

It is not, they are now simply executing a 21 Century form of extortion. A corrupt War on the middle class, working class, and the poor. For now in in 2006 the color of power is not black and white, but it is green. The GOP subvertly represents the worst of American greed, arrogance, and ambition. President G.W. Bush the leader of this new neo con so called conservative agenda is nothing more than the Deceiver-in- Chief.

These elements of people have deceived the American people, whom by large have no knowledge of the truth. Knowledge that can be easily found by taking 5 minutes to read a paper or by reading actual bills.

Laws such as the Patriot Act, Clean Skies, Bankruptcy reforms, proposed Reforms to Social Security, Medicare Reforms, Prescription drug benefits, changes in the Tax Code all have fooled too many Americans that put their trust in their government.

My fellow young people, college students, and professionals, please don’t believe these laws don’t effect you. We are the ones working our butts off making the rich richer. We are the ones fighting wars, potentially becoming crippled and dying in Iraq. For a war about oil and money not about democracy nor WMD’s.

Politicians dirtier than mud like Tom Delay, Karl Rove, and Jack Abramoff lead the GOP.

And with all do respect to a man I believe to be a Christian unfortunately being advised by evil influences, President G.W. Bush. He and his ‘ adviser’ Dick Cheney have interest in big business. Under their watch the price of gas has nearly increased 200%. This is not capitalism. It is corruption, they not the economic markets have cause the rise in gas prices for the purpose of giving your money to their friends. Just like Bush attempted to appoint his friend and personal secretary Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. These people have no integrity nor do they seek to benefit anyone outside of their element.

Don’t dare tell me this is simply capitalism, when under the leadership of President Bill Clinton the price of gas was stable.

We must also not ignore the facts in regards to the War in Iraq. We the American people are being told different justifications for this War everyday by the GOP! Lairs and deceivers.

It is time for action by the American people.

Is corruption enough reason to Impeach President G.W. Bush and overturn the Congress. I think so.

Comments welcome.

Would you still vote for G.W. Bush?

Knowing what you know now, would you still vote for G.W. Bush?

Midterm elections are months away, but it's starting to feel like an election year already. President Bush's 2004 rival John Kerry has jumped in, calling the administration "incompetent." Meanwhile, Bush is waging a campaign of his own, defending domestic spying in the week leading up to his State of the Union address. And scandalous Bush adviser Karl Rove is back in the game, too, making it clear national security will play a key role in this year's elections.

Your comments are welcome.

Alito: Its not over, till its over.

Let me first say that Alito has not been confirm to the Supreme Court, he is still only a nominee.

This week during the questioning of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito I heard U.S. Senators say things that there were saying the complete opposite a year ago.

Senator Lindsay Graham, one of the strongest proponents for measures strengthening protecting national security while putting concerns of rights of privacy and civil liberties aside. Sen. Graham said Alito should not be guilty by association, specifically the association of being a member of a highly questionable racist & sexist group called CAP. This is contrary to previous comments by Graham, in addition to being contrary to the Bush Administration’s stance and the position of the U.S. Justice Department on the matter of united states citizens and their alleged links to terrorist. I know first hand, that us citizen have and are being deemed guilty by association. As a Former Student Leader at the University of South FL I know of Professor Sami Al-arain, a u.s. citizen who was arrested, lost his job, and was jailed for years before he was acquitted of all charges of links to terrorism. I know this case specifically because Al-Airna is now a former professor of the University I attend and the City of Tampa which I reside. Comments by Bush Administration officials and supporters that these things do not happen to U.S. citizens is simply false. Just recently Jose Pedlli, a U.S. citizen accused of being linked to terrorist has been moved from military to civilian custody in Miami, FL.

The NSA is investigating U.S. citizens who receive communications from foreigners supposedly with links to terrorist. Consequently the Bush Administration is being sued by ACLU and other groups.Through thier acions the Bush Administration is acting without oversight of the courts or Congress. The White House has also have failed to present a clear & legal definition of “links to terrorism”.

I strongly disagree with graham and these practices. It is vividly clear that Samuel Alito is guilty by his political associations rendering him unfit to serve as a Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

In the case of Rep. Tom Delay, the initial judge assigned to his case was dismissed for his political affiliations.Is there a separate standard of ethics for Republicans? Is there a separate litmus test for Republicans?

Is this corrupt hypocrisy within a Justice Department under the watch of Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez?

We must also discuss established law. Opposition to Alito's nomination is rationally in context of the President appointing him, G.W. Bush. You see Bush has a clear stance that in light of 9/11 established laws like utilizing FISA Courts to obtain warrants to secretly investigate U.S. citizens does not have to be followed. Bush also believes that during War times the president has far reaching powers that do not need oversight by the courts or Congress giving the president authority to circumvent established laws. How is this arrangement even conceivable within the Unites States of America, a land of laws?

G.W. Bush is attempting to rebuild the nation of Iraq based upon law while simultaneously pissing on U.S. Constitution.

A Constitution that does not give the president the power to create law or policy that circumvent establish laws even during war times. We cannot tolerate a Supreme Court Justice that supports such unaccountible presidential powers. If Congress will not keep the President in check then this responsibility falls with the Supreme Court. The founders of our country created checks and balances within our government, a 3 branch system to prevent the rise of such a powerful president, to prevent a king. It would be in teh interest of the American people to honor this historic heritage and stop any such agenda.

Some have argued that Samuel Alito supports such views and possesses an ideology that aspires to create a ‘unilateral presidency’. He believes that law stems from the one man, thePresident and not the People. I have read the Constitution, it is clear the power to create law lies solely with the People via Congress. The President is to execute such laws, faithfully.

In light of this current culture of corruption within Washington D.C. what can we as American expect from our leaders? Unlike term limited Congressmen, Judges serve for life. This is why these nomination to the Supreme Court is so crucial. There is also the reality that other Justices may retire during G.W. Bush's term. Therefore this is a seat that should be forfeited so easily.

Alito by his affiliations is unfit to serve. Furthermore his inability to remember being a member of this racist/sexist organization (credentials he placed on an application to work within the United States government years ago) shows he simply does not possess the honesty nor integrity to be a judge on the U.S. Supreme Court.

We, as citizens of the United States of America cannot tolerate the pollution our highest court with Justices appointed by a corrupt President and Justices like Samuel Alito whom possessed poor judgment 20 years ago in joining CAP. An error in judgement which is indicative of poor judgments he will render for you, your, your job, your children, and our nation for decades to come.

I pray our Senators will brush aside their partisanship and outright reject Alito, and demand nomination of a Justice of temperance, moderation and integrity.

Opposition to Alito:
http://www.alitosamerica.org/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5064320
http://www.aclu.org/scotus/2005/23387res20060109.html
http://www.now.org/press/11-05/11-14.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/01/AR2006010100788.html
http://www.forward.com/articles/7084
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/16/MNGDHG8VTK1.DTL
http://www.savethecourt.org/site/c.mwK0JbNTJrF/b.849267/k.CC39/Home.htm

Alito Pushes for Stronger Presidential Powers/Unitary President:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/01/AR2006010100788.html
http://csmonitor.com/2006/0109/p01s02-usju.html

Alito Opposes Right to Privacy & Affirmative Action:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usalit154513475nov15,0,6756107.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines
http://judicialnetwork.com/cgi-data/press_releases/files/47.shtml

G.W. Bush & Cheney Seek to Expand Power through the Courts:
http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/2006/01/two_inquiries_i.html

Alito and CAP:
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/11/22/opinion/13901.shtml?type=printable

My Opinion: Let me say I call them like I see them and I believe in intuition. From hearing the Alito hearings he place a lot of emphasis on cases where he sided with minorities (African Americans) in discrimination and employment cases. This immediately threw up red flags with me. If someone is innocent they don’t even contemplate saying things to cover their ass. Alito made numerous statements about such rulings. No wonder Civil Rights groups are opposing him so vehemently. If you’re black or Hispanic you better write your Congressman and oppose Alito today before they vote!. Don’t forget Katrina & New Orleans. If Alito was a biggot 20years ago, he still is. His wife ran out of the Senate chambers crying because her husbands true colors were shown. Opposed this man. All of these pundits on TV saying the confirmation is over are the same pundits that called elections wrong in 2000 & 2004, and messed up reporting about those dead miners in W. Virginia. They don’t know what the hell they’re talking about. The Alito confirmation is not over. This man cannot be allowed to serve on the Supreme Court.

Sarasota: Mike LaFevers Launches Website

SARASOTA, FL – Mike LaFevers, Democratic candidate for United States Congress in Florida’s 13th District, announced today that the Mike LaFevers for U.S. Congress campaign has launched its new website at www.MikeLaFevers.com

The new website includes a biography of Mike Mike LaFevers, a Statement of Why Mike LaFevers is running for Congress, where Mike LaFevers stands on the issues and information about Why Mike LaFevers Can Win. Individuals can also sign up for campaign updates, sign up to volunteer, sign up to endorse Mike LaFevers and supporters can contribute on-line.
Mike LaFevers welcomes individuals to visit his new website to learn about why he is running for Congress and where he stands on the issues.

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www.MikeLaFevers.com

Great American: Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Man Who Would be President

I Have a Dream - Address at March on Washington
August 28, 1963. Washington, D.C.

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. [Applause]
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.
But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.
In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.
And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

Celebrating King:
http://www.bushflash.com/mlk.html

Irresponsible Debate versus the 1st Amendment

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. “

President George W. Bush calls debate by free American citizens that oppose his agenda as irresponsible.

What would not be responsible is debate encouraging violence such as dragging G.W Bush down Pennsylvania Avenue by his boots straps. What is irresponsible is a President taking action contrary to the very principals he was elected to preserve. Principles he swore an oath to uphold. Freedom of speech, unadulterated.

Through his comments G.W. Bush is discouraging, and even more extreme, the White House seeks direct action against individuals such as Ambassador Joe Wilson whom disagree with his policy.

This is the United States of America, not Nazi Germany. It is regretful that our President has resorted to outright discouraging private citizens from disagreeing with his agenda by deeming them irresponsible and obstructionist. In America, citizens say whatever the hell they please. A politician not able to handle such criticism certainly is not fit to serve as President.

Reuters Reports:
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-01-10T203804Z_01_WRI057905_RTRUKOC_0_UK-IRAQ-BUSH.xml&archived=False

Political Screen Toys

http://www.screentoys.com/

Local/Tampa Bay: Coach Tony Dungy

James Dungy, the 18-year-old son of Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy, was found dead of an apparent suicide in his Tampa-area apartment early December 22.

Tony Dungy, the former Head Coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers is a great American and devout Christian. Thoughts and prayers for his family in this time of lost. All hope that he will return to the game and bring home a Super Bowl win.

James Dungy, another fallen brother, may his soul be at peace.

Report:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2268593

Suicide Support:
http://www.befrienders.org/

Support Congressman Conyers, Jr.

Demand Censure for Bush-Cheney Misconduct & Investigate Impeachable Offenses

I am taking steps against the Bush Administration’s handling of the Iraq War and its collection of intelligence. I am going to need you to stand with me in fighting for accountability.

http://www.johnconyers.com/