USA media today seem abuzz with news that the U.S. Attorney has arrested Illinois Rod Blagojevich (D) on charges of attempting to sell the Obama vacancy and refusing to use State money to bail out the Chicago Tribune (which, until its recent endorsement of Obama, was known for decades as THE Midwestern Republican paper); Illinois GOP Chair Andy McKenna was shown locally insisting the Governor should resign immediately due to being charged; CNN legal analyst Jeff Toobin this morning said the Senate WILL refuse to seat any Senator Blagojevich names, if any, to the Obama vacancy.

Well, there certainly has been a lot of claptrap about Rod, yet to date not even the Illinois GOP would say there was reason to use the State Constitution’s paragraphs about easy impeachment…at ANY prior time…against him.

Next, Andy McKenna back in the Summer of 2005 was cited in the Tribune and central Illinois Pantograph, inter alia, as offering $10,000 to anybody who would say Mayor Daley was a corrupt crook AND had legal proof of it…no known takers, ever, so McKenna could be taken now as just doing what comes naturally in his type of position.

Then there’s the fact that U.S. Attorney Fitzgerald himself has said Blagojevich’s arrest does NOT stem from a grand jury indictment, just some apparent “ex rel” upon third party complaint(s); surely, Fitzgerald WILL seek to back up his case by seeking an indictment on those charges, won’t he? I mean, as if the Governor had ever been a flight risk in the first place.

Looking at this, and I doubt the US Attorney would be grabbing camera time if he didn’t want us to, I find it so far that Mr. Fitzgerald dittos the ILGOP in finding nothing else of which Blagojevich could properly be accused of initiating, nor any other party(ies) then benefiting from all prior past alleged corruptions; in that the DOJ hasn’t denied it will fire U.S. Attorneys who aren’t GOP-partisan friendly, one has to assume what otherwise has passed in Rod’s tenure has been to the absolute satisfaction of the White House. Thus, there’s no true “Blago baggage” clinging to today’s histrionics…nor to Obama, now that it’s kosher to say he IS a USA national by birth.

The Tribune non-bailout is easy…why SHOULD any government bail out anything nobody can afford to buy (or cares to), without counting in the bailout of customers, employees, or both? THAT would be “offensive” to the moral character of USA government?

Now let’s say the Governor, obviously fully cognizant of Bush eyes from at least the time Obama announced candidacy, wanted to test the ease with which some Senatorial or other appointee(s) would succumb to pressure or temptations, only with eye toward crossing off the list any name(s) even coyly open to same? Um, even BUSH would try to fish out such data from his own as Governor and later President…wouldn’t he? One hopes more than “word-against-word” at the flat level will surface, the kind of necessary meat that SHOULD be present in a charge which…if heard unanswered by a grand jury…would leave little doubt as to guilt; after all, the White House wouldn’t just say hold someone indefinitely without trial or release after a flashy news grab, would it?

As to the CNN comment the Senate will not seat anybody Rod might appoint, why? Isn’t it a staple of USA law and Constitutional practice that absolutely every person charged for absolutely any crime(s), via indictment or ex rel, is absolutely innocent until proven guilty?

So no, I’m still not an un-American…IF Rod or anyone else appears to truly have done anything, follow procedures of a relevant prosecutorial office, allow them discovery, schedule them for a reasonably swift trial, and do not say they are guilty until they admit it or a Court or jury finds them guilty…and yes, even Rod Blagojevich is entitled to Constitutional handling, as those words must apply to everyone or they mean nothing for anyone.

Let’s hope it’s more than Fitzgerald hoping to keep his job despite DOJ partisanship problems already existent and over which Attorney General Gonzales resigned, or just another sop to neocons in reassurance change from the present socio-economic management protocols will be fought hard.

The barrage of Conservative and non-RNC GOP email PSAs continues: today, I'm told Obama will be challenged on citizenship by still more front Neocon groups, these groups (e.g., Family Research Council)also say Obama's Cabinet is "Mosaic of colors but not ideas", Townhall Spotlight running ads for folks hawking "Comrade Obama/USSA" bumper stickers, on and on and on it goes; and to think, "ferrener Comrade Obama" voted with Bush on most voting occasions, but Kommisar Bush does not exist except as a rodomontade of the LEFT!

Again for the record, every State in the Union for years has been issuing abstracts of vital records including birth and marriage certificates; if Obama's abstract from Hawaii cannot be shown to have probable cause for incorrectness it is as valid as anyone else's such abstract from any State or County, and of course those unable to show cause an abstract may be false cannot have standing to compel further records or details from Obama or anyone else.

As to 'Comrade Obama/USSA', we don't even know what he or his Cabinet or the next Congress will produce, and it's the public opinion of RESULTS in futuro which would seem to matter the most...not horse hockey from Neocons on auto-attack, after losing two big elections in a row for producing nothing which seemed to please most people.

Gays will not eat our children, a significant majority of LSBT people ARE born that way, Neocons and faith-funded, interfaith Calvinists and others cannot scientifically demonstrate their claim NOBODY is born that way, gays will not be seeking out our children as if more perverse themselves than any other collective(s) in which molesters have been found (gays not more dangerous than anyone else), and kids cannot be "educated or trained" into being LSBT.

As for faith funding, no...there AREN'T people God damns from birth and that governments "He places" to run us can best discern, so let officials who's worthy, who has to get permanently brushed aside even if circumstances equal to parties "discerned", whether nationals over immigrants, immigrants over nationals, Neocons over homeless due to mortgages/disasters/job losses or vice versa, this race(s) over that race(s), what have you; I certainly haven't yet heard "Comrade Obama" use that kind of talk, or like the GOP of Louisana who offer sterilization to economic losers, offer wholesale abortion as major pre-natal care. It seems more Neocons and, but for Neocon funding, extinct CALVINIST clergy and lay members (as opposed to traditional worshippers, sort of how Qaedans are tiny numbers of mass Muslims)are the "Comrades" in terms of social engineering and PSYOPS.

Lastly, again, Neocon PSAs are today again blasting that the economy is really good except for "liberal media" and unions distorting facts to "allow a Communist Revolution led by China to overtake prosperous Americans and thereto immigrants" while Obama continues the "Crusade against all Islam".

Now, most of us realize our problem is with an Iranian government solid with France, which as always blows between the USA, China, and Russia about doing ANYTHING productive for the Mid East and world; France aspires to be the fly in the UN Security Council ointment while pals like Iran's leaders keep a Mission to the UN in Pakistan's Embassy, and France says anyone who doesn't believe Iran's President isn't good for his own democracy (despite his laws against women in business or politics) or won't fight terrorists especially Sunni Qaeda (who hide out in Pakistan, home of Iran's ambassadors) is a racist xenophobe who needs to go green and turn down their military-industrial empire of wealth instead of abuse Latinos in a Crusade against all Islam with Iran the great protector of peace....and even China, per France, should remember to know its place against the European Union lest France shout "j'accuse!" their way, too...just like France has ALWAYS done since the start of the Cold War, taking money from all sides while doing nothing except threatening to scold no-pays.

It is intriguing that Neocons wish to take the side of the very things they say are keeping America from proceeding; and why falsify Obama's Cabinet and Mid East purposes on behalf of those least likely to want to see USA population success?

For these reason, and in hopes it would lead to all good Muslims, Asian leaders, and everyone else coming together to truly improve humanity and upward opportunities in all cultures, I again reiterate my support for a return to the Fairness Doctrine...in fact, Neocons have SO much spin at their disposal, I would even support using their own prior tactic and actually suspend filibusters if needed, where the only money Neocons will "invest" is in making scenes trying to convince the public the only way to screw up IS to change.

Maybe there's not so much a "new" face of Islamic terror as "new desperate ways plied" enabling plain sight of how it links to certain leaders...the ones who imply China or the USA or whoever are "racist Crusaders", sit on their own folks including Muslim sects, and further imply China or whoever will protect them as they boldly admit using Qaeda et al from within to "destabilize" whatever nation(s) they take notions against.

Next time Iran says it's just a protector of democracy interested in just Iraq's autonomy and not say helping Qaeda types, consider "The Campaign for Equality", an Iranian women’s rights initiative launched in 2006 that is committed to ending discrimination against women in Iranian law. I am deeply concerned to hear that several activists have been arrested or tried for activities which are entirely legal, such as organizing peaceful gatherings and educational workshops, and petitioning for legislative change.

I have heard that the Iranian authorities have blocked access to the Campaign’s main website from inside Iran at least 12 times. Campaign for Equality activist Parvin Ardalan was prevented from traveling abroad to receive a Human Rights Prize, and Ronak Safarzadeh and Hana Abdi are currently detained as prisoners of conscience solely because of their human rights work.

As for the "would not help Sunni Qaedans what with Mahmoud being Shiite and all", well, the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations...for some time...has been housed within the Embassy of Pakistan in NYC; we all know how hard Pakistan has been wrestling with "controlling" terrorists, if Mumbai is any indicator.

Still, I hope Iran WILL become a better democracy AND true partner in anti-terrorism as well as global good citizenship, and the same hopes are there for Pakistan; at the same time, again, I would ask those who voted for Obama to not be too hard on him for not waving a magic wand and evacuating USA and other troops upon his Inauguration...compelling as 911s and Mumbais and so many other tragedies have been for the world, it seems same are too remote for some Mid East leaders to "risk pushing terrorists in own backyards".

For the first time this December, I’ll be joining Amnesty International’s annual Write-A-Thon, an effort of everyday through first professional people of all walks and nations, which effort asks various Eastern and Western hemisphere nations to abide by their Constitutions re those jailed either without trials or for simply showing interest in peaceful democracy-advocating movements.

Have I become an arch-hippie or some such? Not at all…I’m not advocating any nation on earth do or not do anything else, and point out in each letter that Constitutional adherences may more easily isolate which government(s) would or would not be cause(s) of terrorist codlings or other unpopular issues.

The recent bombings in Mumbai point out how when all nations, even all UN Security Council ones, are afraid or unwilling to act against a single rather small nation which (regardless of named leaders) admits terrorist use, not only are innocent lives lost as collateral damage to global hamstringings, big powers look like the anti-democracy acts of terrorists are the tacit warnings of big nations themselves.

An example: in the same year Chinese President Hu Jintao is shown in USA media bypassing officials and meeting with USA corporate heads, China imprisons a man for 10 years for the “crime” of using “Yahoo!” to contact a pro-democracy website. Instantly, some media and pundits accuse China of masterminding global economic woes; they throw in “clinchers” that China then provided so much global credit, including to Iran and Pakistan, it HAS to be THE nation blocking progress (later, “unless it’s Putin or how about…”).

Yet truth is, China doesn’t set USA or other non-Chinese protocols; in the Eastern hemisphere, even Iran…providing scads of oil to China…there accused China of backing the USA in the Mid East! A number of Mid East nations, led by those of opinion oil for leaders and sand for their people works for them, discourage involvement in democratic processes…and most use terror tactics or threats to ensure alternative fuels will languish while competing between themselves via their own “by from us or else!” quest for profits. Some Mid East nations will even do their own 180 turn on Saddam Hussein and say “the USA just grabbed for oil”; with the USA across an ocean as its troops disrupt westward terror movement, but China and Russia much closer to loose terror players, is it any wonder they sit on their hands re Pakistan, jab at the USA and democracy movements, and such, out of self-protection? Or ask Doudou Diene to paint the USA as racist to Muslims, racists to Latinos, or both, so more “has” to be spent avoiding such charges to break funds re Mid East troop presence/defense (as well as bankrupt Latinos, USA nationals, and all thereto immigrants, by coincidence), to shield against the rodomontades of their own hemispheric pundits and European Union critics?

Well, I don’t believe ANY nation on earth should be held hostage to an otherwise impotent blowhard simply issuing one press release for this hemisphere, another for that one…and playing all ends to a comfortable middle. Recently, as Pakistan with or without Mushareff admits using Qaeda to destabilize(?) Afghani Pashtun tribal leaders, Pakistani-based terrorists hit USA and UK targets (and Hindus!) in Mumbai; Mushareff in 1999 introduced the “Islam as race” article conflating Pakistani State Islam into a new “race” to extort from India, and it appears post-Mushareff that the beat goes on with added twist India’s trade/martial allies better back off “or else!”…no wonder a year ago China said its State Bank would concentrate on China alone, what with so many nations it lends to accruing sour images! But that may only make Pakistan MORE terror-exporting in its thirst for easy money for its leaders’ use…which doesn’t even seem to include their own people.

The biggest 20^th Century Cold War tactic was that some nations played big guys against each other, wagged their fingers at all of them, did nothing themselves, and took foreign aid from all sides to shut up. In the spirit of respectfully submitting that lawful treatment of political prisoners and peaceful democracy proponents is a step toward credibility that a nation isn’t a Cold War rekindler, or isn’t a proper recipient of certain criticisms, or both, or hoping to make cash as a “nag”, again, this is why as a Conservative I’m joining Amnesty International’s annual appeal for clemency and Constitutional conducts.

By the way, it’s also why I’m asking Obama voters to not be hard on him for not just zooming out of Iraq, and am asking election-losing Conservatives how it sounds to say “let things globally and USA rights-wise lie, even if not tethered to war on terror, and don’t worry…we can still do what we always do economically: force out X amount employees so they quit and get no unemployment insurance, then hire same X of even unqualifieds to same positions and claim we also created jobs…repeat as needed”.

As Congress.org shows at its webpage linking to messaging what readers want to tell their officials to make priorities, many pols Left and Right know what THE priorities of Congress MUST be, paramount to all other things or America will be dead in the water, no change possible.

Bill Frist wants the same socialized healthcare the Left does, his only twist appearing to be he and close-helds could own any stock the government doesn't glom on to.

Colin Powell knows the priority is NOT defense, NOT jobs, NOT worries over credit and mortgages, NOT Constitutional functionings, but "the children"...most of whom for years are being taught, essentially, that the world of internet device/movie/television screens is the real world, all else they can see being the false one; most young folks today "know" that life is all about people in managed jobless, equity-free, credit-only "habitrail" New Urban communities, and that we're all like on "Survivor" where anyone on earth can enter and those who don't fit are cast out, the point being to become annointed like an Oprah, American Idol, or other icon du jour on the aforesaid sacred screens.  

And so it goes with most pundits and personalities. We have a government who increasingly owns credit companies, credit reporters, property, healthcare...sure sounds like Socialism, not convincingly overcome that in totalist style some ownership stock is given to "those out of government" yet curiously on "retirement" pay thereof and in sitting officials' inner circles. Worse, government is leaning toward letting us have for worship (for those who choose Deism) only religious groups funded by government, and which too often tend to have a Calvinist or Puritan vision of "some people are vessels of wrath no matter good they do, so don't worry what happens to THEM".

All this year, it's been open season on ol' Jesus Christ again, from marine biology professors in Minnesota grabbing eucharists and slapping trhem around later to show there's nothing in them, to PBS' "Nova" and others saying the Bible is not based on Divinity; oh, man...what a hot, heated super-duper turmoil for our illustrious bureaucrats to focus on in the new year! Think of it! All the poor Holiday sales due to "creeped-out" feelings by most everyone in the USA in regard to being thought of as celebrating or even shopping for anything associated with this ephemeral character...certainly, we all have plenty of cash on hand plus easy mega-credit, somehow brought to us through artificially low-cost (nationalized?) gasoline, so what else COULD be the reason retailers are still glum before the season officially starts?

Now, as for the auto industry bailout proposal, CLTV and other media around here have tried to sell it from the Democrat perspective: representing that only .3% of our GNP is the auto industry, and that 1 out of 10 jobs use a vehicle so we better act to cut further unemployment...and the $6 billion for unemployment extensions generally to be tacked on in fine print to the bailout is to cover but a few well-paid types with degrees who earned enough to get top UI dollars but who will be the last to benefit in an otherwise opulent job and small business national environment; see, mostly white racists and nationalists are STILL keeping out plenty of immigrants (and those abroad looking for work) and non-whites, and believe our pols, faith-funded Churches who couldn't survive on their own, and select media: there is plenty of work and opportunity at present in the USA, and bailouts will only perfect it...cheaply made housing at sky-high prices, by the way, like Obama said is NOT the same as crummy housing during the Great Depression so who needs an FDR mentality...a few bitter, stupid, untrainable, likely "of interest" sociopaths who can best be identified on or more at a time as they deny or question bureaucratic excellence?

Wait...it's so simple to decode that malarkey, really: okay, so Jesus, his early followers, or both, in a worst-case scenario came up wih a way to peaceably worship and serve God, like every other faith has done...every nation that signed the UN religion charter and itself has a Constitutional mandamus to protect religious freedom is asking us to tear at each other over faith just to maintain their own social relevance in a crummy low-money supply economy, to divert attention from a crummy economy, or both...this great debate is of no demonstrable moment to secular, earthly life.

As for the auto industry, so everything already bailed out makes up the remaining 99.7% of GNP in the USA, and only 9 out 10 folks don't need a vehicle for a job, small business operation, or both, nor do they use a vehicle to get to any work...only 1 out of 10 has a need at all for inbound/outbound products, e.g. . So how are there all these jobs and opportunities in the USA, such that no FDR mentality or anything in its near nature need even be contemplated? And, just what expectations IS the $6 billion UI extension tethered to...TEUC has never produced a job yet! If TEUCs 2001 to date had, who'd need bailouts based on fact nobody has cash customers?

For these reasons, it seems that like mortgages and banks, the government now wants to own who gets a car, based off nothing more than a static money supply configuration in a climate where no official, high or low, seriously even entertains long-range planning or opportunity for anything but a conflation thereof. 

It would be one thing if it were a lock that Bush, Obama, inter alia wanted USA traditional Constitutional guarantees to be operative in Mexico; sadly, as even just the Ramos-Compean matter and 'Dog" Chapman issue illustrate (Mexico handles even repeat drug lords with Matricula Consular cards, decides if even violent post-judgment rapists of USA nationality may still spend cash in Mexico, and oh...if Mexican troops or police grab or kill USA nationals around borders in all the excitement, what SHOULD USA officials do about it?), it is TO Mexico's policies most USA officials seem to defer with eye toward similar governance on thin premise "it's what other countries are doing".
 
In that spirit, I would like to share with you my email the other day to Mexican officials in respectfully asking them to pursue human rights violations against female Latino detainees in their jurisdiction, with hopes readers thereof will also ask Mexico's co-operation :
 
"Dra. Guadalupe Morfín Otero
FEVIMTRA
Procuraduría General de la República
Rio Elba, No. 17
Col. Cuauhtemoc, Del. Cuauhtemoc
México D.F, C.P. 06300
MÉXICO
 
Dear Special Prosecutor:
 
Both President Bush and President-Elect Obama appear to be enthusiastic for a oneness of mind and government with Mexico in nature of a North American Union, so as an active member of Amnesty International, Conservative politics, and universal religious philosophy (not to mention being a USA national and voter who also lives in a community of omni-ethnic diversity including Latinos and Mexicans in particular), I am herewith endorsing and respectfully submitting for your consideration an Amnesty International matter and position which I am further passing throughout my community, State, and civic organizations for their own endorsement thereof, said matter and policy being, to-wit: 

I must express my deep concern about the rape, sexual assault and torture of  Bárbara Italia Méndez and other women during their detention on May 3 and 4, 2006 in San Salvador Atenco. I understand your government's obligation to guarantee public order, but these duties must be carried out in strict accordance with international human rights standards, including the UN Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials. The rights of Bárbara Italia Méndez and the other women to be free from torture and degrading treatment were violated when they were detained.

It is extremely important to ensure that all those involved in the assaults on Bárbara Italia Méndez and the other detainees are brought to justice, including senior officials who failed to prevent these human rights violations or ensure timely investigations. I urge federal authorities to actively claim full jurisdiction in the cases of the women of Atenco, including those currently under investigation in state jurisdiction, assuring that the accused are charged in federal court and that evidence gathered in line with international human rights standards is incorporated into the investigation.

I respectfully urge you to enforce the effective implementation of the recommendations issued by the National Human Rights Commission in October 2006 regarding these cases. I further call on you to ensure that full reparation be made to Bárbara Italia Méndez and all the victims of human rights violations committed in San Salvador Atenco.

Thank you for your attention to this urgent matter.

Copy to:
Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan Casamitjana
Embassy of Mexico
1911 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20006" [End Of Letter Text]
 
Thank you for your review, and for your own hopefully forthcoming joining in making within entreaty.