David Van Os: As Inauguration Approaches ( Crosspost)

[Horse with no Name]

January 12, 2009


Just over a week from now our nation and the world will exult in the end of eight nightmare years of government by hustlers, liars, thieves, and traitors to our Constitution.

A message from John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address of January 20, 1961 calls just as clearly to us today:

"Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need - not as a call to battle, though embattled we are - but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself."

Now here is my top 25 "wish list" for 2009. What's on your wish list?

1. Usury laws are restored, making it illegal to charge over 10% interest.

2. The old antitrust laws are replaced by strong new laws to break up the robber baron corporate monopolies and oligopolies, especially in agriculture, banking, financial services, insurance, oil and energy, media, health care, and pharmaceutical drugs. Laws that deregulated utilities are repealed.

3. The Employee Free Choice Act is enacted into law to restore workers rights to organize unions and to bargain collectively, and restart the economy from the bottom up.

4. The new bankruptcy law passed in 2002, which turned the courts into bill collectors for the banks and finance companies, is repealed.

5. All businesses receiving government bailout money are required to immediately reduce their executive compensation rates including all stock options and benefits to no more than 5 times the average wage and benefit packages of their hourly-wage workers.

6. A single-payer national health insurance plan is enacted into law, as President Harry Truman proposed over 60 years ago.

7. Legislation is enacted requiring that all public elections be conducted by paper ballot (optical scan permitted).

8. In order to fight back against the system of politicians and their benefactors buying elections, all television stations are required as a condition of their licenses to devote specified minimum and maximum amounts of free time for electioneering to political candidates and parties during primary and general election campaign seasons. Television stations would be prohibited from selling any time for electioneering, so that the free time would be the only television time for all candidates equally.

9. To return the federal courts to their historic duty of protecting the Constitution for the people, President Barack Obama fills federal judgeships with proven civil rights lawyers.

10. President Barack Obama closes the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, abolishes the "military commission tribunals", and puts the real criminals on trial in regular criminal prosecutions; revokes all Bushite executive orders and authorizations permitting torture and other deprivations of Due Process of Law; and in all other respects restores the world leadership of the United States of America in promoting Due Process of Law and Human Rights.

11. President Barack Obama forbids all wiretapping of American residents and American citizens by all United States government agencies, departments, officers, agents, employees, and contractors unless pursuant to a warrant issued by a judge based on probable cause.

12. All United States military personnel and security contractors are withdrawn from Iraq as soon as possible, to begin immediately.

13. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Condoleeza Rice are prosecuted for the murder of American soldiers killed in Iraq.

14. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Alberto Gonzales are prosecuted for willful felony crimes in authorizing illegal warrantless surveillance of wire and electronic communications. In addition Alberto Gonzales is prosecuted for committing perjury in his testimony to Congress.

15. Alberto Gonzales and any co-conspirators are prosecuted for willful felony violations of the civil rights of former Alabama Governor Donald Siegelman and other individuals through the pursuit of trumped-up prosecutions and other illegitimate actions to use the Department of Justice for partisan political purposes.

16. All persons responsible for fraudulent vote counts and/or voter disenfranchisement in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004 are prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

17. Antonin Scalia is impeached from the United States Supreme Court for issuing the fraudulent temporary restraining order that stopped the statewide Florida ballot count in 2000.

18. Karl Rove is prosecuted to the maximum extent of the law for any and all crimes he has committed in his sinister drive to wipe out the checks and balances of our Constitutional democracy.

19. Effective legislation is enacted to counteract global warming climate change.

20. The First Ten Amendments, the Bill of Rights, of the United States Constitution and Article 1, the Bill of Rights, of the Texas Constitution are made into a mandatory semester-long course of study in the Texas public school curriculum.

21. The Texas Constitutional provisions prohibiting the use of public money for private gain are fully enforced.

22. The Texas Constitutional provisions guaranteeing the separation of church and state are fully enforced.

23. The 2003 amendment of Article 1, Section 13 of the Texas Constitution (Open Courts Clause) to restrict non-pecuniary damages in civil lawsuits and thus diminish Texans' right of jury trial is repealed.

24. All legislation authorizing the Trans-Texas Corridor by whatever name is repealed; and a law is passed requiring that no toll road or part of a toll road can be established in any county commissioners precinct in Texas unless the voters residing in such precinct approve in a precinct-wide referendum. .

25. A law is passed prohibiting government at all levels from taking private property through forcible eminent domain for reasons of economic promotion or development, aesthetics, comfort, sports, or private gain (except for indirect private gain that is an unavoidable consequence of the exercise of eminent domain for genuine public necessity, such as construction contractors).

Sincerely,

David Van Os