I've Got a Little List....

I don't know that the "Occupy Wall Street" movement has come up with a list of demands yet, but if they're stumped for ideas, I've got a couple.
If I were King of the Forest, or at least, President of the United States, these are the things I would do either immediately or within my first 100 days.

1. Cease Fire, Stand Down, Fall back. Cease military ops in all countries. Bring all troops home from Iraq & Afghanistan. Close all foreign bases and bring troops home. Re-direct military budget to humanitarian use at home first, then globally as possible – with no strings attached.

2. End the Federal Reserve Banking system. Return money-coining to Congress as per the Constitution.
   

3. Prosecute GW Bush et al for violations of the law: murder, torture, fraud, civil rights.

4. Prosecute and Impeach B. Obama et al for violations of the law: murder, torture, civil rights.

5. Implement single-payer national healthcare

6. Implement run-off voting system using verifiable paper ballots

7. Impeach the several Supreme Court Justices for high crimes re: Gore v. Bush and People United

8. Dismantle the TSA. Prosecute TSA officials for civil rights violations.

9. Dismantle the Department of Homeland Security. Prosecute DHS officials as appropriate for civil rights violations. Cease and desist all surveillance on any person unless a proper warrant is issued (not a FISA “warrant”) by a judge in accordance with the 4^th amendment.

10. Break the Republican/Democrat monopoly on elections. Open elections to multiple parties and independents.

11. Pare military down to minimum necessary on-call defensive force.

12. Re-tool the weapons industry for peaceful ends. Criminalize the sale of military hardware outside the US.

13. De-militarize the police. Eliminate SWAT teams. Prosecute officers for violations of the law. Establish civilian review boards with subpoena power and authority to suspend, fire and/or send cases to D.A. for prosecution.

14. Stand-down the “Drug War.” Pardon and release all non-violent drug offenders. Cease and desist prosecutions for possession, use and/or sale of drugs and decriminalize drug use.

15. Establish an Ethics Division of the FBI and prosecute government employees for violations where conflicts of interest appear, eliminating the revolving door between government officials and the industries they are employed to oversee.

16. Eliminate corporate welfare and support small-business entrepreneurs with no-interest start-up capital.

17. Establish a fair tax system. Either everybody pays or nobody does. Allow tax-payers to ear-mark how their taxes will be used. Streamline the tax code and eliminate the IRS.

Thoughts?
Suggestions?

I'd love to hear them. None of us is as smart as all of us together.

sj

If Only

...and take their jobs and use up their resources, too.



Too bad the Indians didn't treat the Euros the way the Euros treat everybody else.

sj

Right On the Money

I may disagree on a couple of details regarding the role of the federal government vis-a-vis the role of state government, but what this lad has to say about the Federal Reserve Bank is solidly on point.

sj

"Hippie?????"

Another "dirty" "hippie" at the Wall Street protest.
All the king's horses and all the king's name-calling can't obscure the fact that the protest is a broad-based popular demonstration by the "99%" who, despite their many differences, all definitely have ONE thing in common: getting screwed by the 1%.

sj

Thanks to VVAW for sending along this photo.

Murder is Murder

ACLU Statement on Killing of Anwar Al-Aulaqi

WASHINGTON - September 30 - U.S. airstrikes in Yemen today killed Anwar Al-Aulaqi, an American citizen who has never been charged with any crime.

ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jameel Jaffer said, "The targeted killing program violates both U.S. and international law. As we've seen today, this is a program under which American citizens far from any battlefield can be executed by their own government without judicial process, and on the basis of standards and evidence that are kept secret not just from the public but from the courts. The government's authority to use lethal force against its own citizens should be limited to circumstances in which the threat to life is concrete, specific and imminent. It is a mistake to invest the President – any President – with the unreviewable power to kill any American whom he deems to present a threat to the country."

ACLU National Security Project Litigation Director Ben Wizner said, "Outside the theater of war, the use of lethal force is lawful only as a last resort to counter an imminent threat of deadly attack. Based on the administration's public statements, the program that the President has authorized is far more sweeping. If the Constitution means anything, it surely means that the President does not have unreviewable authority to summarily execute any American whom he concludes is an enemy of the state."

More information on the government's targeted killing policy is available at:
www.aclu.org/targetedkillings

Am I the only one who sees the bitter irony in this?
So much has been made of Obama being the first black (though actually mixed-race) President.
And now Obama espouses the ethos of the lynch mob -- no charges, no trial, just string 'em up on "suspicion" of --- well, suspicion of exactly what is not quite clear.

Surely murder is a sufficient reason to impeach the bastard, don't you think?

sj

King Obama

Truth

Here's a great song from Jordan Page.
It picks up my spirits to hear young guys writing this kind of stuff.
Time to step up, man.

I hope you dig it.

sj