I'm posting the following response to this thread's OP, and to will's comments, because, just as 74 year old Joan MacIntyre's 41 arrests for protesting since 2003 are.....posting the following is the "reasonable" thing to do, in reaction to Mr. Bush's crimes against the constitution. What is not reasonable, or, to my mind....even tolerable, is not posting and voicing....earnestly, and often, objections to the offenses of Mr. Bush and his regime.....objections like will's, above, and what follows, from me:
I'm not a lawyer, but I did the best that I could....given my limitations, to cite the violations of US and international law, that Mr. Bush has committed by his willful acts against his sworn oath of office:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showpos...0&postcount=21
....and as willravel said at the end of his post....it is a "damned shame", and...it is much more than that, IMO. I'm in my third year here, of making a thorough and precise effort to inform you that, if you have supported Mr. Bush and his regime, you have supported a war criminal, reasonably accused of crimes against the people of the United States and it's constitution, and of crimes against humanity. I've spelled it out for you, over and over, and....even if you've covered your eyes, at every opportunity to see, you've been given that opportunity, again and again.
So, if you have or do support Mr. Bush and his actions, or even if you have observed, without objecting to what he has done, said, ordered...... you are complicit in his crimes. His crimes, and your complicity, are too consequential to allow for consideration of ways to seek a "common ground", a "middle way".
You cannot say, you "didn't know", you had to make a choice to refuse to know.
What about you....or you.....can you "hold your head up and say that you "tried"? If you cannot, you OWN this, and I cannot see you as a fellow countryman....of mine.....
Strong words? Unreasonable.....how dare you defend Bush....defend what has happened on Guantanamo, and to our constitution, and to our country, and to our troops, and to the people of Iraq....how dare you silently accept what Bush has done...?