Check-in thread for DUers seeking prosecution of Bush/Cheney administration criminals

[bobthedrummer]

:hi:
:patriot:

[EFerrari]

1. K&R

[LakeSamish706]

2. Absolutely! n/t

[peace frog]

Still here, still standing firm

No amnesty for war criminals.

[spanone]

3. knr

[wtbymark]

4. Off to Jail!!! n/t

[fascisthunter]

5. Ok... I'm in

:patriot:

[Kali]

6. My dream.

Justice, accountability.

[blm]

7. check.....Bush2 expects some powerful Dems to protect him like they did Bush1.

.

[bobthedrummer]

10. Not anymore...although look at Madame "impeachment's off the table" Speaker...

[Gregorian]

8. HEY! How many times do I have to ask?

The answer is yes. Now please get on with it!

There better be a good reason why it's not happening yet.

[laststeamtrain]

9. k & R. There isn't a choice. It's the law. n/t

[Strathos]

11. Jail them forever!

They've killed thousands and should pay.

[grace0418]

12. "Bush/Cheney administration" and "criminals" is redundant.

Just sayin'. ;)

[AndyA]

13. Absolutely. There is no justice until they are held accountable. n/m

[man4allcats]

14. Try them, convict them and lock them up!

Accountability matters. I hope our new President, for whom I have the greatest respect and admiration, remembers that.

[pacalo]

15. Yo!

[hootinholler]

16. What? That time again already?

Haven't changed my opinion.

-Hoot

[jimlup]

17. Now!

Rhw rimw ia eipw.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

18. No matter how long it takes.

Justice delayed is still justice. :hi:

[nc4bo]

19. Right here.

:hi:
:patriot:

[ThomWV]

20. Still here - and not going away.

[Blue_In_AK]

21. Still here, still seeking. n/t

[Hun Joro]

22. Yep.

[Vincardog]

23. check

[FLyellowdog]

24. Can't happen soon enough for me.

[rosesaylavee]

25. Still here.

[Native]

26. Count me in!

[barbtries]

27. always

justice.

[pleah]

28. K&R I'm always ready for this to happen.

:thumbsup: :hi:

[santamargarita]

29. It appears the goddamn Shadow Government got to our President

He won't do anything!

[Politicalboi]

30. The sooner the better

[BlueJac]

31. Jail the criminals!

[Piewhacket]

32. Put me down on PERMANENT check-in. Thanks.

[slipslidingaway]

33. Checking and see this thread as well...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=426239&mesg_id=426239


"...Apparently, though, this is all fine with our political establishment, since none of this is new. Here's what Iran-contra prosecutor (and life-long Republican official) Lawrence Walsh said in 1992 after George H.W. Bush pardoned Casper Weinberger days before his trial was set to begin:

"President Bush's pardon of Caspar Weinberger and other Iran-contra defendants undermines the principle that no man is above the law. It demonstrates that powerful people with powerful allies can commit serious crimes in high office -- deliberately abusing the public trust without consequence...."

<snip>

Does anyone deny that we are exactly the country that Walsh described: one where "powerful people with powerful allies can commit serious crimes in high office -- deliberately abusing the public trust without consequence"? And what rational person could think that's a desirable state of affairs that ought not only be preserved -- but fortified still further-- as we move now to immunize Bush 43 officials for their far more serious and disgraceful crimes? As the Rivkin/Casey oeuvre demonstrates, we've created a zone of lawlessness around our highest political leaders and either refuse to acknowledge that we've done that or, worse, have decided that we don't really mind..."

[Solly Mack]

34. Oh yeah

[sakabatou]

35. Prosecute! Prosecute!

[dweller]

36. anyday

is a good one to begin

:kick:

dp

[webDude]

37. yes.

[Stinky The Clown]

38. Checking in!

[Mnemosyne]

39. You betcha! n/t

:hi:

[trickyguy]

40. K&R. But is this really ever, ever going to happen? Just a little bit? Maybe?

[FarLeftRage]

41. Yeppers...

No rest for the wicked.

[windoe]

42. Put me on autorec

There needs to be a DU prosecution petition sticky post, until justice is served.

[NRaleighLiberal]

43. As the chimp himself said......Bring It On....

[4 t 4]

44. present

[conscious evolution]

45. I'm still in favor of prosecution.

[nyc 4 Biden]

46. Here.

[UpInArms]

47. still here ... still waiting n/t

:hi:

[marauding liberal]

48. That would be me.

[Occam Bandage]

49. Next week's thread will definitely do it. nt

[Phlem]

50. Put me on a lie detector,

if you don't believe me but after the 2000 election I literally told my wife "this guy's going to run the country into the ground".

Yes, I do want Justice, no one is above the law and this country will never heal unless we prosecute to the FULLEST extent of the LAW.

Remember the LAW Mr. Obama? The thing we need to make right, with no beating around the friggin BUSH!

Please quit with the nicey, nicey and get things straight. It's been overdue since 2000.

You will only be seen as the new boss, same as the old if you don't quit F(*kin around!

A voting citizen, AKA your boss.

[Canuckistanian]

51. Jeeze, where has the time gone?

I'm in. Again.

Is this series of posts leading anywhere? Some action items, maybe?

[Initech]

52. YOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

[Sparkly]

53. Absolutely!!

:patriot:

[Greyhound]

54. Still here, although at this point I'm leaning toward going straight to the executions. n/t

[mod mom]

55. If we are a land of laws, then those who break a law MUST be charged.

[mckara]

56. Hang the Bastards!

n/t

[MrMickeysMom]

57. How about DEATH BY BOFO?

What else could I insist for the worst set of criminals who ruined this country and so much more, but that really bad joke from high school.

[Peace_Sells]

58. hell yes!

[Lil Missy]

59. Think that might be why Dicky is so furious with George for no Libby pardon?

:)

[flvegan]

60. I'm still here.

[BluePatriot21]

61. Yes

Still here, still waiting patiently

[Hissyspit]

62. Yes.

[chknltl]

63. Yeppers. KnR

[veganlush]

64. K&R

:patriot:

[Raster]

65. Oh Hell Yes!

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

66. Here

[Lugnut]

67. I'm still here.

:hi:

[dlfuller]

68. K&R

[earth mom]

69. Still waiting....

:grr:

[me b zola]

70. :waving arms wildly:

Here I am!

[Octafish]

71. KR72

Hope all goes well.

[opihimoimoi]

72. Lemme add some support.......:o)

:kick:

[NBachers]

73. Mass murder, planetary destruction, trillions stolen

All members of the Law'n'Order Party.

[Jeroen]

74. K&R

[DUlover2909]

75. String them up in the town square.

:bounce: :toast: :kick:

[Baikonour]

76. Won't happen. Certainly not anytime soon.

I'd love to optimistic about it, but how can I be? Look at what they got away with for 8 straight years.

[Yes We Did]

77. K&R

fuck them fuckers!

[Nostradammit]

78. Sign me up

Nostradammit the drummer

[anitar1]

79. K@R

[orleans]

80. oh, hello bob. (k&r n/t)

[cyclezealot]

81. count me in

The Rove thing with Obama needs be challenged. This is pushing non partisanship( as if it exists.) tooo far. Rove/ Gov. Siegelman event equals political prosecution in the US.. It must be stopped.

[caseymoz]

82. Investigate, prosecute.

[deacon]

83. The Obama administration will have failed America if they allow bush to have set such precedent.

Period. He will have failed us.

[lxlxlxl]

84. check please...

xxxx

[Hubert Flottz]

85. K&R

They turned the USA into The USSA!

[TheUnspeakable]

86. here

[timtom]

87. Ever since 2001!!!

From my lips to God's ears!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

88. Other murderers are prosecuted...

Why not these?

[MrsBrady]

89. .

here's hoping that the rule of law will be restored to our country.

[datasuspect]

90. money looks out for its own kind

there will never be any prosecutions.

[BeGoodDoGood]

91. I sent a Note to the White House Yesterday

Through Whitehouse.gov on this subject.

This country is just a husk unless they act.

Walt

[rambler_american]

92. Still here

until justice is done.
:kick:

[Roland99]

93. Only 100 recs???

[SouthernLiberal]

94. We MUST prosecute!

The treaties we have signed into law say that every nation has an obligation to prosecute war crimes. Failure to do so is a war crime!

[harun]

95. Bait them with a free plane trip to a huge new oil field find and fly them to the Hague.

[FailureToCommunicate]

122. Yes! And offer in flight donuts & brochures on voter district gerrymandering..

flights provided by Sir Rich Guy Access.

[LWolf]

96. Yes. Still. nt

[Generic Other]

97. bush/cheney and the word "criminal" are synonymous

and redundant. I am waiting for indictments.

[pam4water]

98. K&R

[MissDeeds]

99. Yes

But I'm not holding my breath. In years to come, after both have died quietly and peacefully in their beds, someone will initiate an investigation. I'd like to be more hopeful, but my idealism has taken one too many hits over the past eight and a half years (including the 2000 "election").

[AllyCat]

100. Yup

[galloglas]

101. Drop the hammer on them !

If there is a case, they should prosecute. But there is NO reason not to investigate. When we are too fearful to look, we are too fearful to persevere as a people and as a nation.

[KoKo]

102. Yes....

:patriot:

[Wizard777]

103. If there is no prosecution should Americans shut down the courts in protest?

Our constitution demands equal protection of law. If they aren't going to prosecute Bush & Cheney for their heinous crimes. Then we really can't prosecute anyone. If the government isn't going enact this equal protection of law. Americans should shut down the courts to compel that equal protection. If they can't prosecute Bush for a body count in the thousands and by some sources in excess of 1 million. Who are we to prosecute someone that has ONLY killed, oh say, 100 people? If we can't prosecute Bush. Then he must have been doing the right thing. We should follow his initial example at Abu Ghraib. No not the torture. Throwing the gates of our prisons wide open and setting everyone inside free. Happy Liberation! America will have finally liberated ourselves from our own oppressive laws. Why not?

[Soylent Brice]

104. K&R

[keepthemhonest]

105. uh hu nt

[bluesmail]

106. Here

:hi:

[BlancheSplanchnik]

107. check-in thread for DUers seeking hot coffee in the morning.

sorry, I just think these mega-recommended "check-in" threads are dopey.

How about, CHECK IN if you've DONE SOMETHING substantive? Like write an LTTE, called a congressperson, had a discussion with someone that helped change their perspective.....

[bobthedrummer]

135. Accountability is not a popularity contest, I've done all of the "suggestions" for decades, Blanche.

:nopity:

[BlancheSplanchnik]

154. OK. that's good to know. and bandwagon threads can help stir up the pot

which can be good. Or not. I guess it depends on the individual reader.

It's really all subjective. Pity and tiny violins have nothing to do with it.

I was just posting my personal response to bandwagons.

[bobthedrummer]

161. I have no pity left when it comes to prosecution-there are lots of other drummers with US.

The Constitution of The United States of America and our Bill of Rights aren't a bandwagon-as you well know, BlancheSplanchnik.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

174. bob, breathe and count to ten

before you jump into hairtriggered insults and hostility, just because someone has a criticism.

I said, GOOD ON YOU for actively doing. How much fawning do you require?

Action is useful and is what I would want to be encouraged/inspired/helped towards. A thread that cheerled action--like providing grassroots resources, contact addresses, organizations, template letters, mutual support and ideas--would be very very useful for all. You can see for yourself in threads that come from this point of view---it fills everyone with ideas and appreciation, and maybe even confidence. THAT is keeping the issue front and center.

More useful than a venue for repeating again for the 75 millionth time how much we hate these pricks and how much they deserve a flaming dogshit bag on their front step and how we want whoever needs to move the impeach/indict gears forward to get moving on this. I know and everybody knows we hate them. I hate them. But after awhile, check-in threads that ask for nothing more than angry venting feel stagnant to me. At that point, venting has led me to want examples and resources for constructive actions.

Go ahead, continue to insult me from your higher moral ground. Label me "not one of us". Put me in my place. That's a divisive tactic that I can hear from hate-radio or Palin rallies on YouTube.

[blm]

163. That's what this thread has ALWAYS been about - keeping ACCOUNTABILITY in the forefront

of Dems' to-do lists.

It's a weekly reminder to demand our right to an OPEN GOVERNMENT accountable to the people.

[The Wizard]

108. Extraordinary rendition (NT)

:kick:

[Sarah Ibarruri]

109. If these things are not punished, they will be repeated, so K&R! nt

[ProgrezivIndie]

111. mebbe obama should claim some extra-constitutional powers for

himself, and just LOCK 'EM ALL UP at gitmo (with no access to lawyers, family or friends)?! K&R

[Sarah Ibarruri]

Oooh I like that! Use Gitmo for these a-hs! nt

[Sarah Ibarruri]

125. Oooh I like that! Use Gitmo for these a-hs! nt

[KalicoKitty]

110. Most definitely!

:kick:

[fasttense]

112. It's for their own good.

If we don't prosecute the war criminals, another country might use them as their scape goat for the destruction of the world economy. A savvy foreign leader might think it a good idea to grab the bush and dick and prosecute them to focus their poor and unhappy citizens on something else besides their newly found poverty.

Punishment for war crimes might be more severe in a foreign country than if the US prosecuted the bush and dick.

[xyouth]

113. Get Em

[rhymeandreason]

114. Supermax for all of them

[bobthedrummer]

121. Nice picture, rhymeandreason!

:fistbump:

[L. Coyote]

115. Why aren't all my "Ignored" friends (LOL) checking in here?

On most threads, there are several ignored posters. Where are they now?? :rofl:

[lsewpershad]

116. I agree

If this Govt does not prosecute it becomes an accomplice

[proud2BlibKansan]

117. I'm here, Bob

:patriot:

[LovableScamp]

118. Couldn't happen fast enough for me

[catrose]

119. Yes. eom

[Ticonderoga]

120. Stop

Denying and Delaying Justice for the American People. Hang em'

[NBachers]

123. Second check-in

[Deep13]

124. If a grand jury finds probable cause that any of them committed crimes...

...then the adage that no one is above the law should control.

[Phlem]

126. I have a dream

That this will come true.

please please

[oedura]

127. It'll never happen...

...but K & R.

[arthritisR_US]

128. still in and still hoping. n/t

[Uncle Joe]

129. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, bobthedrummer.

[duhneece]

130. Still and always nt

[Dennis Donovan]

131. Agreed & recommended.

:thumbsup:

[peacock]

132. I´m in!

[vanboggie]

133. Desperately Seeking Prosecution

Still waiting....

[waiting for hope]

134. Fry the bastards ...

I'm in.

[Raksha]

136. Count me IN!!!

[debbierlus]

137. It is sad we even have to check in...

[bobthedrummer]

139. Since we are talking about war criminals, war profiteers and TRAITORS in high office-yep, it's kinda

sad--yet there must be prosecution of these Bush/Cheney criminals, even if it sets off another Civil War.

[DKRC]

138. Here!

:hi:

[femrap]

140. So why is the Prez

working a deal with Rove???? If anyone should face jail time, it's this pos. I just spoke to Conyers' Office and they said it's the Prez doing a deal w/ Rove.

So write/call Obama.

[katty]

141. here!!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

142. I've been saying that for years

Check my sig line.

[Wapsie B]

143. Yo! Time for the firing squad to start warming up.

[earcandle]

144. Please do! We sorely need to trust again, and gain some confidence in our principles

and rule of law.

PS: I hear we might take on nationalizing the banks! Yea! 14% savings interest (to get us to save so that the banks can use our money to lend). And 5% loan interest, for taking on our toxic debt without killing us off! That is my formula, OBAMA!

[dmr]

145. Yes, including the war profiteers

and for those who cannot be prosecuted - disbar, if applicable.

I'd also like to see these people banned from doing any future business with the Federal government (much like they banned Blago from holding public office in Illinois).

There has to be a way to keep these people from coming back and doing this all over again.

How terrible it has been that the asshats returned from the Nixon & Bush 41's admins to continue their old destructive agendas.

[underseasurveyor]

146. Checking in

Because prosecuting those murderous thieves is the right thing to do

[Melissa G]

147. Hello

:hi: :patriot:

[florida08]

148. my first check in

let's hope it's the only one :applause:

[robertpaulsen]

149. Hells yeah! Stand up for justice, President Obama!

Starting with Rove!

:patriot:

[Glorfindel]

150. Investigate, indict, try, and sentence

B*shit should have pardoned all their sorry asses when he had the chance.

[Usrename]

151. To the Hague!

:patriot:

[SeaLyons]

152. ABSOLUTELY!!! n/t

[MsLeopard]

153. Not just yes

but HELL YES!! Put them under the prison!!! K&R

[Chisox08]

155. K & R

These guys needs to be prosecuted for their war crimes

[abirdinthehand]

156. Did you see that USA Today / Gallup poll on Keith the other night?

Something like 63 percent of Americans that they polled felt that they should be tried - how is it that this is not underway yet!?!?!? How much louder do we have to scream?

[WillieW]

159. Hang 'em high!

[catzies]

157. Here, and hear hear!

:hi:

:patriot:

[proud patriot]

158. hi

:hi: checking in

[DS1]

160. Wow. that's really going out on a limb

I also like Oxygen

[WhichTruth]

162. Let the trials begin

I've been waiting for justice for years now.

[Union Yes]

164. K&R... Prosecute Bushco for warcrimes,torture,const crimes

[wildbilln864]

165. Damn I almost missed this thread. K&R! nt

[emmadoggy]

166. Still here. Still waiting. nt

[Kurovski]

167. Howdy!

:kick:

[Vext]

168. Add me to the count

It must be done above board though. Convictions through juries of Americans. Too bad that there are few repubs around now.

[tomg]

169. knr nt

[Capt13]

170. Hang em all for treasen and defrauding the American public

[JDPriestly]

171. I'm still seeking prosecution -- more fervently than ever.

[Best_man23]

172. Yea

[swilton]

173. Take them all out behind the barn and spank them!

Count me in!
:applause:

[MrsBrady]

175. thursday 2-19 11:10central kicken' for prosecution

:thumbsup: