I'd rather be talking about Harry Potter.

[rabidsamfan]

Bush has just given himself the power to seize the assets of anyone who disagrees with him about the war in Iraq, to do it without warning or judicial or congressional oversight, and to prohibit anyone from helping a person whose assets have been seized.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072207A.shtml

Look at clause B. Then read the rest of it.

This is not my country.

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[elendiari22.livejournal.com]

Not my country, either. How many more months do we have to deal with this?

Sheesh, seriously, it's like Republicans for Voldemort.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Scream to your congresscritters. Scream now. Whether they're Democrats or Republicans. Impeach him. Now. Before it's too late.

[telperion1.livejournal.com]

*shivers*

This is scary. Really scary.

Suddenly, emigration sounds more and more appealing....

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Got a passport?

[telperion1.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. And I'll have my M.A. in May, and am seriously considering doing my Ph.D. work abroad.

[telperion1.livejournal.com]

P.S.- I already wrote one congresswoman. I'll write the others tomorrow, but I'm feeling a tad loopy at the moment so I'll let it wait.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Yep. And I'll bet they've got those plans for dissident concentration camps all dusted off and ready for implementation. This is truly some disgusting shit.

We can only hope the next President will have the balls to completely repeal all this un-American crap.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I can only hope that Congress can realize that they've already got a Constitutional Crisis and it's time to impeach the bastard.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Cheney first, though. Luckily, recent polls show that a majority of Americans want Darth impeached before Bush.

[surgicalsteel.livejournal.com]

So glad I'm now a dual Irish/US citizen. Which gives me the ability to live and work anywhere in the European Union as things are now.

*shivers*

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Wish I had those kind of options.

[cara-chapel.livejournal.com]

I, for one, welcome our new Republican overlords.

</sarcasm>

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I don't need this. I've got a job interview for a job I don't actually want on Tuesday morning, I've just read the Deathly Hallows, and my reasons for wanting medical insurance appear to be proliferating.

Can't Bush wait to be an asshole until September?

[lame-pegasus.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

He is an asshole already. Erh... maybe I'm a little addlebrained thanks to a serious lack of sleep, but what exactly did he do this time? I simply don't understand what the text means.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

It's all done up in legalese, but essentially first he gives himself the power to seize assets in the US, then he describes the people he can seize assets from and under what circumstances, including a very vague clause about "undermining efforts" which he can interpret (without anyone countering him) to mean anything from actual sabotage to complaining about his methods. Then he justifies not giving warning because electronic transfers are so fast, and for gravy he says that it would be illegal to donate money to anyone he's taken all the property away from. Just because with a little money they might, you know, be able to argue back...

[lame-pegasus.livejournal.com]

What a great tool to suppress different opinions - taking away one of the most valuable means people need to oppose him. That's like a charter for theft.

[mariole.livejournal.com]

The thing is, this yabbo will not be able to get away with this abuse of power unless our government permits it. We outnumber the little runt! If Congress would show some backbone, we wouldn't have a problem. But of course, our entire system is now corrupt.

I think we you throw the stinkers out and start over. Lordy, Lordy. Fascism is fun!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I keep hoping that there's a real patriot somewhere in the Secret Service...

[mariole.livejournal.com]

Ugh. There would have to be a whole lot of them. Man, we're getting to be as bad as Saudi Arabia...

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

Anyone in Canada or Europe want to sponser me? Ugh...

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

You know the worst thing about it? The people who really are a threat to the world will simply take their transactions to cash or gold or something and keep them hidden from the system. This doesn't even target the right thing.

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

Yep. So true.

[tuskel.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me a joke from the blessed soviet time. :P ;)

Brezhnev and Reagan are walking together and Reagan sais:
"You know, we have total democracy and speech freedom. For example, everyone can come White House and yell 'Reagan is fool' on the grass in front of it and noone even blinks the eye!"
Brezhnev answers: "No problem. Everyone here can go to the Red Square and say the same thing!"

Iris,
sincerely

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Oh, man... Love it!

[melilot-hill.livejournal.com]

Looks like Bush is getting some dictator tendencies.