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- SwordOfShannara, on 07/18/2008, -3/+83Hold congress accountable for the FISA compromise at http://www.AccountabilityNowPAC.com
- richardwb1, on 07/18/2008, -2/+62Bloody War Criminals Must Be Held Accountable!
- jimsander, on 07/18/2008, -2/+62Enough of this clown and right hand man of the most odious Administration probably in our history.
- waverleo, on 07/18/2008, -1/+60Roves sees politics as a simple matter of costs and benefits. He is trying to raise the cost of having himself go before the committee, in the hope that they'll eventually cave to his pressure, or that the committee will look rabid and extreme by having him locked up.
He knows exactly the talking points that right-wing bloggers, pundits, and show-hosts will use if and when he's arrested, and he knows that the media coverage of this is more likely to be positive than negative for the Republican party (and probably also for himself -- if the committee buckles under popular pressure, then the proceedings might be effectively aborted).
The committee needs to call him on his bluff and compel him to testify. And _we_ need to see this as a necessary action for a country that purports to believe in and govern itself by the rule of law.
This is similar to the neo-con attitude toward privacy and surveillance: if you've got nothing to hide, then why are you worried? If Rove has nothing to hide, why not come out and say so? - bizarrojack, on 07/18/2008, -1/+54If we can't even put a creep like Rove into jail or even keep him far from the executive offices, there are no checks and balances in this country. Bush and Cheney should go there with him.
- Cadenzah, on 07/18/2008, -1/+42"All people are equal but some are more equal than others."
Welcome to feudalism, america. We had it here in Europe for centuries, now it's seems to be your turn... - macdoodle, on 07/18/2008, -1/+35im homeless and mulit disabled- i managed to sign the petition
and said:
let's ask our govt to BEGIN to work for the people and the strength of all America again
let's start to Take America Back Now
What WILL you do?
http://sendkarlrovetojail.com/?utm_source=rgemail - inactive, on 07/18/2008, -0/+32no....
send Rove to Gitmo - mbh3, on 07/18/2008, -0/+25Are we still an open society? Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_society and judge.
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop (620-560 BC)
"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato (427-347 BC)
"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts." - Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
"(Corporations have) neither body to jail nor soul to damn." - Lord Edward Thurlow (1731-1806)
"(Reliable) information (not money) is the currency of (true) democracy." - Thomas Jefferson - "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." - Albert Einstein
"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." - John F Kennedy
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." - Thomas Pynchon
"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre." - Frank Zappa, 1977
"The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy." - Alex Carey, Australian social scientist, 1995
"The corporation is an externalizing machine (moving its operating costs to external organizations and people), in the same way that a shark is a killing machine." - Robert Monks (2003) Republican candidate for Senate from Maine and corporate governance adviser in the film "The Corporation"
"We have long since made clear that a state of war is not a blank check for the President when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens." - Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, HAMDI et al. v. RUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, et al., on writ of certiorari to the US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, 6/28/04
Something must be done, and this is a good start. - magicmarker44, on 07/18/2008, -1/+26vinnyvenus - Your inability to form a real sentence illuminates your ignorance. The courts have made clear that NO ONE, not even the president, is immune from compulsory process. Any person who scoffs at the law and who has committed an offense that is punishable by jail time should be put in jail. This includes Karl Rove.
- ironyspeaks, on 07/18/2008, -1/+20Congress needs to assert the rights afforded to them by our Constitution so that Democracy can stand strong.
- sjolliff, on 07/18/2008, -6/+22Let's just castrate him live via satellite. With no anesthesia of course.
- vtbarrera, on 02/03/2009, -0/+16Why isn't this on the fp yet?
- ghsfr33d0m, on 07/18/2008, -0/+14@magicmarker44
Bush doesn't have to deal with the courts, he can get the Senate to pass laws granting him immunity : (FISA)
This is an opportunity to show that the rule of law applies to everyone, regardless of power or wealth. FISA let rich telacom companies off the hook and covered up Bush's illegal wiretapping program. Lets make this hearing a start towards reversing that trend. - thirdcoastborn, on 07/18/2008, -2/+14Send his fat ass to jail.
- inactive, on 07/19/2008, -0/+11this is *****....nowhere to be found in upcoming!...The Rove bury brigade has knocked this right off of digg...
- ZHMMY, on 07/18/2008, -0/+11I could not find where to join the Digg petition. This is an email I sent to my congressman, Mike Rogers:
Mike,
Thank you for your concerned (and correct) action in helping override the Bush Veto of H.R. 6331.
There is now another issue that is extremely important for you and all members of Congress to act in a bi-partisan fashion. That is the bringing to task Karl Rove, Dick Cheney and George W. Bush for years of abuse of power, lying in order to invade a Sovereign Nation without cause and conspiring to illegally convict the Governor of Alabama of false charges.
Congressman John Conyers has within his power to allow indictments to go forward. However, he needs support. Karl Rove, as everyone has seen, is 'flipping the bird' to Congress. He and Bush are wrongly asserting that Rove has 'Executive Privilege'. The majority of Americans are shocked that Congress is allowing this to continue. We want to hear Rove testify to any question put to him, whether he answers 'yes' or 'no' or pleads the Fifth.
We, as a Nation, deserve better from people we choose to populate our government. We also deserve to be able to have any of our politicians held accountable for crimes. The current Administration has brought upon America a black cloud that will take a long time to erase. We need to start that long process by impeaching the people who are responsible. To NOT do so would be a crime in itself.
Thank you for any help in this matter. Please respond to this email because I want to know your opinion. (Not the opinion of one of your staff, please.)
Jim Harper
Auburn, Alabama - bepart, on 07/19/2008, -0/+11471 diggs in less than 12 hours and no FP? not even found in upcoming and hot news? could someone write the digg team about this error please?
- JKap, on 07/18/2008, -1/+11While they're at it, send all of the rest of the traitors to the Constitution who voted for the "Patriot" Act without first reading it and the "FISA Amendments Act" which axed the Fourth Amendment. O-bomb-a would look great in a pair of handcuffs standing there next to Karl "The Gravekeeper" Rove.
- allowners, on 07/19/2008, -0/+9In shackles, please!
- jonojai, on 07/20/2008, -0/+91000+ diggs, no front page, whats going on here?
- bleuwolfe, on 07/18/2008, -0/+9If Congress has any moral fiber at all, they will hold Rove in contempt of Congress, the US Constitution, and all American citizens who voted for the rule of law. But with a couple of exceptions, Congress is as corrupt and cowardly as Mr. Turd Blossom. It is a tragic time for our country, and I wish I had not lived to see it. Shame on Congress. Shame on us, because We the People are 'the government'. When I think that my father fought a war to protect America, only to have our country turned over to a bunch of greedy spineless politicians I could just scream. When even Sen. Obama votes against our Constitution, turn out the lights, the party's way over.
- ohmercy, on 07/18/2008, -0/+8It is time. No, It is far past time. These people MUST be held accountable. I saw a video with Rep Nibbler talking about Impeachment saying its too late but he full expects criminal charges to be brought against these people after the new President is in office.
What if it isn't Obama though?
Or if he doesn't wish to create an atmosphere of partisan fighting the fights of the past.
The idea that these criminals will skate sickens me, and after what they did to Clinton with investigation after investigation, the years of harassment you would think that there would be a spine for justice.
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As Dan Abrams (I think) said last night what George is doing is invoking Executive Privilege for anyone working in the administration any time and any where no matter what the situation may be.
Let's throw Karl Rove in jail. Lets through the mad king George in jail as well.
Darth? How about international charges.
As I was watching this I had this odd feeling wash over me aand lodge itself in the pit of my stomach. Could Rove somehow have also been involved in the persecution of the Clinton administration as well?
"investigation after investigation." is what put the thought in my head.
hmmm, Think about it a minute. He started out in the Nixon White House (and coincidently a young Hillary Rodham sat on the Impeachment investigation committee) I assume he has been involved with every Republican administration since in one capacity or another. He was attached to the first Bush- Isn't it possible?
Time to get my tinfoil hat out.
;-) - MorgaineSwann, on 07/19/2008, -0/+8On behalf of Valerie Plame, whose life was endangered, and the rest of us whose security was threatened when this Mayberry Machiavelli decided to commit treason and expose the identity of a covert operative, I say it's time to get on with making this criminal pay for the harm he has done to this nation.
- kemp34, on 07/18/2008, -1/+9If I get subpoenaed, can I testify in writing?
- Kikokun, on 07/18/2008, -0/+7send the pig to jail
- mystryman, on 07/19/2008, -0/+7What absolute nerve!
"I'm protected by executive privilege". Oh, and I'm out of the country on vacation. Sorry, Congress. You can't touch me!
LOCK. HIM. UP. Then go after the rest of this criminal administration. - Ralphdraw3, on 07/19/2008, -0/+7The petition count is at:
47,626 signers - tog2476, on 07/19/2008, -0/+6Ron Paul is still in it to win it. If you want an honest man in the White House and you are a delegate or know one, make sure you show up at the Convention and tell the person you know who is a delegate to show up also. We can do this!! Ron Paul 2008!!! www.campaignforliberty.com- check it out if you want our country back.
- Lukester38, on 07/19/2008, -0/+6Send Turdblossom away for good.
- drew720, on 07/19/2008, -0/+6Hi ya'll.
Here's my feeling on this.... send that SOB to jail. How did one person single highhandedly destroy AMERICA and the constitution?
I will NEVER forgive him !!
That's all I have to say about that - FG :-)
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- Digg Support Team" - humptyz, on 07/18/2008, -0/+5This is going to become the line in the sand for the Bush administration. If Karl Rove is allowed to walk away scot-free from a Congressional subpoena then the rule of law in the land is going to be majorly destroyed. And in its place will be an aristocracy. I don't care how well connected Karl Rove may be he is not above the law. If Democrats don't arrest him then they'll have to answer the question as to why they allowed Karl Rove to ignore their subpoena. There's no middle ground here.
- bigmammoth, on 07/20/2008, -0/+5prison is too kind for Rove...Send him to Iraq, strip him of any privilege, put him on the front line alone (without any other soldiers that have already paid so much for his crimes of deceit). Have him execute his grand neocon strategy from a street corner in Baghdad.
- overtoke, on 07/19/2008, -2/+7Rove is not a member of the executive branch.
- Cowicide, on 07/20/2008, -0/+5Does digg sometimes censor stuff like this? I've been hearing of more and more political stuff not getting first page. I wonder whats going on myself here.
- jayinem, on 07/19/2008, -0/+5Just like with FISA, this government believes that it is above the law. With the illegal eavesdropping this Ministry of Truth says "If you've done nothing wrong then you have nothing to worry about." Time to take your medicine, Karl.
- justice2008, on 07/18/2008, -0/+5ASIDE from prison-time for Rove they should throw in a little "bonus" for this ball-buster by performing the same surgical procedure on him which Jesse Jackson recently wanted to perform on Barack Obama.
- mecanofan, on 07/19/2008, -0/+5This seems to be not as popular as the last video on Michella Obama, but it's still an important video to watch. I highly recommend it. Also you guys who like Brave New Films, you can add me as your friend. Peace.
- erthmohr, on 07/19/2008, -0/+4We need to bring Bush to task as well. We have chosen to not do anything about these guys for too many years.
What does this say about us? Do we care enough to seek out and demand the truth and action against our government?
I hope so.
Donna - DJBALL, on 07/18/2008, -0/+4Vancouver hates this piece of *****. Rove=Filth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i9eIj5p2b4 - budeone, on 07/20/2008, -0/+4It is time for people to pay for what they have done
- gyllensvard, on 07/18/2008, -0/+4Karl Rove has a nice mansion at a swank place called Rosemary Beach, in Panama City Beach, FL, 32413. This is down the road from Destin. Advise all holiday-makers to the panhandle of Florida to make a detour to Rosemary Beach. Lucky tourists might just see the Great Man for themselves. What a thing to tell your grandchildren!
- SatoriSeeker, on 07/19/2008, -0/+4We all know how guilty these criminals are but why does Nancy Pelosi still keep protecting them by keeping impeachment off the table? There's still hope.... (from wikipedia)
"Since becoming Speaker of the House in January 2007, Pelosi has held firm against impeachment, notwithstanding strong support for that course of action among constituents in her home district. In early July 2007, antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan announced that unless Pelosi moved to impeach Bush by July 23, Sheehan would run against Pelosi as an independent candidate in the 2008 election."
Now you may think Sheehan has a snowball's chance in hell of taking Nancy's seat but do remember which district rich little Nancy is from, District 8 of California, which happens to be the progressive city of San Francisco. So if all the activists get off their asses and remove Pelosi or if that threat seems real enough to her, then maybe we will still see some justice. - inactive, on 07/18/2008, -1/+5no...just ignore it...
- miamidolfan13, on 07/18/2008, -0/+3Turd Blossom will probably get a pardon in Jan. Can they give a pardon for charges you might get in the future? I guess if you can crap on the 4th amendment why not. http://www.bluetidalwave.com/2008/07/fisa-hit-list ...
- seks03, on 07/19/2008, -0/+3if he gets convicted now cant bush just pardon him? why not wait til bush is out of office then get him so he cant get out oif it like scooter did
- greatmessage, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3Is Americans and Congress so afraid of this Administration they wont do anything that could provoke the neo cons into another false flag terror attack? What a bunch of chicken S??ts. Lets hang them all even Congress.
- ironyspeaks, on 07/18/2008, -1/+4http://ironyspeaks.wordpress.com/
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