i’m with saul....so much for bush!

mr. reynolds:

thank you for taking the time to reply.

i have not yet read mr.saul’s book, but after your endorsing comments pointing out the ‘strengths’ of the book i will certainly obtain the book " on equilibrium " . i always support free speech and free enterprise. freedom of speech either it exists or it doesn’t....as for some law professor who says it doesn’t mix with an appointed role...too bad! i bet i could find several who might agree with the book. probably more if i bothered. i propose we get rid of the costly, redundant and antiquated monarchy and government house so that this type of circumstance doesn’t rear it’s ugly head again. better than a tax cut.

as for this ‘selected president’ of the united states, perhaps you might reflect on several unilateral items that have not edeared him to thinking
people of the world

• rejecting the world crimminal court of justice.
• rejecting kyoto
• stating the economy trumps the environment and seraching for mor energy instead of alternate forms.
• rejecting the nuclear arms treaty for a system that nato leaders were advised on october 6, in ottawa , canada,(by a world renowned scientist, invitedby nato) that the system cannot work. cannot discriminate between decoys andweapons. is too costly and will not protect americans. the last test a conducted, included feeding the missile with the incoming missile’s intended location at acquisition and a sound resonator to attact the defensive test missile.  he further stated that if a rogue has the delivery system, the rouge also has the overload capability and the cost is preclusive. and he spoke to nato delgates right there where you work! the scientist further said, if you can find scientist who can show me it will work, i will change mymind. if your scientistswant to see my scientific defence, i will come to your country. shown on cpac.. and still canada supports this absolute nonsense.

• rejecting durban
• absolutely rejecting any invovlement in the palestinian / israeli peace talks upon taking office and... now look..an international boodbath and disgrace.
• insulting the president of south korea almost upon taking office.
• mishandling the spy plane incident.
• rejecting funding for women’s choice as his first act as a president. that really helps women trapped in abject poverty in this world!
• rejecting law and reverting to texas gunslinging justice with his inappropriate smirk and bellicose...’dead or alive " to give an evil man a shot at martyrdom instead of international humiliation
• his arrogant cry of " with us or with terroists " dibilitated common sense and legitimate debate throughout the world. thank god for barbara lee and british mp marsden. when democracy runs and hides and attacks civil rights within the very halls of power which should be defending democracy, democracy loses.
• his secret military tribunal contravenes his shaky coalition nation’s laws and retards the search and bringing to justice of terroists through his arrogant and shortsighted and unilateral threat of use of tribunals automatically excluding extradition from the european union who have all condemned capital punishment. and to boot, the first terorist goes to court.

mr. sauls criticism of this " death row man " from texas is probably not far off the mark. this texas governor who executed mentally challenged people.  this man in whose term he executed more people than communist china. the man who denied an appeal of the death penalty and smirked " please don’t kill me " when discussing the plea. he also withheld the appeal verdict until the intended victim was strapped on the gurney, not the week before when he made the decision to deny the appeal. a bit of texas teasing so to speak.......this man of real " compassionate conservatism! "

as leader of the western world, mr bush displays arrogance and a war mongering attitude that permitted his secretary of defence to utter the
" we are in no position to take prisoners " and " we hope the foreign taliban are not permitted to go home " rhetoric. that lead directly to the incompetent cia handling of prisoners of war in the Qalai Janghi massacre when a cia operative was over powered while in the process of cold bloodledly executing prisoners of war with shots to the head in front of five hundred hostile prisoners. these covert executions and violations of intenational law led directly to the overpowering revolt and subsequent air strikes on prisoners who were improperly secured and guarded by incompetent people acting under the authority of the president’s war on terrorism. humanity need not sink so low. scott peck describes such people in his book " people of the lie ".. and we all thought mai lai was a thing of the past. this actual event reeks of the now famous/infamous " drenched with human blood " speech. anyone who knows u.s. foreign policy knows that comment was bang on. poor timing, but content bang on. one only has to look at palestsine, israel, angola, east timor, pol pot, iraqi children....medicinal drug factories.....the list is endless....training and funding bin laden into getting russia into their " viet nam ", afghanistan , and then abandoning a tribal society. a society that knows but ‘loyalty and revenge’.

...and , because i dissent from being " lock step with bush ", certainly doesn’t mean i am with the terrorists....i dislike all forms of evil.. brutality, slavery, genital mutilation, beheading..beating teenage girls in muslim countries (nigeria), corruption, and " dead or alive " statesmenship (?) and i feel strongly about working for a better world by attacking the roots of terrorism: religious fundamentalism of all types, abject poverty, the propping up corrupt dictatorships, unethical and unprincipled alliances with violent regime e.g. the northern alliance, corporate greed in developing countries, trampling the environment for mere ecomnomic growth and profit... and so it goes.

most canadians feel they are completely ignored and disenfranchised by ottawa. i know the ‘electoral sytsem completely and incompetently disenfrachised’ me last time around. thank goodness for joe clark! but at least i take the time to inform myself and write. and i do write when i feel the need to express my freedoms. i am not apathetic or disinterested. and i am not satisfied with a half inch of lead pencil on a piece of paper every 3^rd year (as in chretien’s timing) elections.

you might not have viewed the skull and bones society part of mr. bush’s dubious university career at yale, but you might view skull and bones on the net in your spare time. you might see that this man thinks ‘honour and prestige’ comes through the ‘warrior class of elite’. this man who as commander in chief of the armed forces, hid for four days while trying to collect himself after 9-11. on learning how " to get these folks! "  - actual terrorists that inflicted horrific damage on his country. a real quick study. he was not at ground zero with his citizens as was the mayor and governor or new york. certainly not george vi and his queen’s walk through blitzed out east end london in wwii...and that’s a great deal of the aura that maintains the hold on the royal family’s position today. certainly not that type of courageous leader, this man who went awol for nearly two years from the air national guard while his country was at war in viet nam. a man, whose grandfather, prescott bush, lost his financing institution in america, in 1942, for financing hitler and the nazi’s. that’s the joy and wonder of the internet. freedom of information is available that is so closely shielded by those in power. i’m with saul....so much for bush!

there are much more important things in parliament than this. it is unfortunate that parliament recesses so much when there is so much to do and so many canadians feeling the anti-free trade stance of dubbya.

maybe parliament could get on with:
 

• the softwood negotiations to help thousands of now unemployed canadians.
• ensuring the security of transportation.
• funding the armed forces,
• protecting the environment....
• getting a credible opposition before the next election.
• an elected senate
• oppose more armed american fbi agents in canada
• oppose more armed american customs officers in canada
• oppose american grabs on power and energy in canada.

til next time

r. price