It's Even Wider Than You Think
In other legal news, the US Justice Department is enforcing an 1872 law used "when brothels sent prostitute laden with booze onto ships as they made their way to harbor. The idea was to get the sailors so drunk they could be whisked to shore and held in bondage,..." Only, the Justice Department is using the law against the environmental group Greenpeace:
The environmental group is accused of sailor mongering because it boarded a freighter in April 2002 that was carrying illegally felled Amazon mahogany to Miami. It says the prosecution is revenge for its criticism of the environmental policies of President Bush, whom it calls the "Toxic Texan.""
What did the group do when it boarded the ship? They hung up a sign saying, "President Bush: Stop Illegal Logging."
All I can say is when a government no longer represents the People, it is incumbent upon said People to vote them out of office.
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. From the US Declaration of Independence - July 4, 1776
You have a choice America. Yes, we were told that even if President Bush wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer that he would surround himself by people who were. Like Donald Rumsfeld. Like Dick Cheney. Well, do you want four more years of this? Vote in November.
Aloha!