Thursday, October 19, 2006

Impeachment? Why Stop There?

BUSH ARRIVES IN EUROPE
Trial Expected to Begin in January
18 Oct , 2010, The Hague, Netherlands:

Disgraced former US President, George W. Bush today was handed over to the International Criminal Court today in advance of his ICC trials on charges of "Crimes against Humanity."

An overflowing crowd delighted at the sight of Mr. Bush in leg irons as he was led into an ICC courtroom for formal arraignment and pretrial proceedings.

The former President's disgrace and fall occurred in a whirlwind fashion beginning with the mid-term elections of 2006 when the Democratic Party was returned to power in the US Congress. Democrats moved quickly on impeachment proceedings against Bush. The election of a Democratic President in 2008 combined with Democratic control of the US House and Senate finally allowed the US to join the International Criminal Court.

The impeachment set in motion an acrimonious whirlwind of events including subsequent Congressional investigations and Justice Department prosecutions of Republican party Officials , members of Congress and ordinary citizens. When partisan bitterness threatened to erupt into all-out civil war, Democrats fashioned and passed the "Patriot Act II" which permitted stronger domestic law-enforcement and surveillance measures and enabled the US President to declare Martial Law. With the new legislation, the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation were able to move aggressively in detaining and prosecuting dozens of domestic rightwing terrorists.

Former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's trials have been on-going in the Hague since last summer. Both men face life sentences if convicted.

69 comments:

Habu1 said...

John Negroponte organizes a resistence movement composed of old Reagan supporters,the NRA, Ducks Unlimited and several state militias. Many FBI and former CIA operatives come out of retirement and organize cells. Civil war breaks out with destruction of high value targets. Chaos ensues inside the DisUnited States.
Negropontes Jacobins stealthily arrive in ones and twos to the Hague where they break out W and Rummey and secret them to Swan island in the Caribbean Sea.
**wait for our next thrilling expisode of US CIvil War part deux

Habu1 said...

Quiz.
In part One of US Civil War part deux.

A. You had to look uo John Negroponte
B. You had to look up Swan Island
C. You had to look up Jacobins
D. "It could never happen here" sets in your mind and you hit another lick of ice cream.

Habu1 said...

Revueltos delantero!!!!

desert rat said...

Figured I'd discover the secret of Swan Island in chapter 2 of Civil War part deux.

No need to research it myself.

Saw a show today a Ron Brown's newest novel
Demons & Angels
The Illuminati vs the Church
for control of the World.

FreeMasons, Knights Templar, US Presidents, Washington DC a "sacred design"

Gonna be great, Skull & Bones revisited.

sharp said...

I'm surprised you picked Negroponte. Is he so assertive? I would have picked Bolton. I don't know Swan Island.

Buddy Larsen said...

guess it's time we succeeded again. oops I mean seceded again. Viva Texaco

Buddy Larsen said...

Isn't Ron Brown one of the screenwriters on the new Eastwood?

Habu1 said...

DR,

It doesn't surprise me one little bit that you and Buddy know all about Swan Island.
Nice place.

Habu1 said...

Sharp,

Negroponte knows all the players and is a man who knows how to run a contra situation. Bolton would be a good second. Get Ollie back and money from Limbaugh and other's with money in the Caymans.
By that time we'd have so many "offers" of help getting it done would be in the "high" probability class.

Habu1 said...

Of course by now this discussion of a screenplay outline has Ft. Meade buzzing and I'll be dragged and gagged about 4AM.

Habu1 said...

Sharp ..just google swan island and cia

Habu1 said...

and if you really want to know where the clandestine training takes place google Harvey Point, NC.

It ain'r yo daddy's CIA at Camp Peary anymore..well some but the big boys go to get their Doctorate at Harvey Point.

Buddy Larsen said...

When Napoleon came back from Elba, the royal soldiers would not shoot.

A few months later, in Belgium, the Brits & Germans changed their minds back again.

Squishy said...

Give er nuther six months and the US of A will be asking if we can send a senator as a bailiff to the ICC

Buddy Larsen said...

Really, what WILL we do, if this whole place slides off into moonbattery?

Buddy Larsen said...

can't go to latin America anymore, hugo'll thow us in de cookpot.

Buddy Larsen said...

rally points, rally points in every county

Buddy Larsen said...

Oops, now they'll get me, too. habu, do you know Morse Code, so we can keep messaging from our cells?

Squishy said...

The gays will be handing out plugs

The mark of the beast

If you aint waddlin as if you was wearin one, then youd get accosted, shamed and roundly criticized by sprites, poofs and fairies

The night of broken accessories

Habu1 said...

there on to the morse code ,but yes..if we need it..i'd need to bone up some ..yeah they got you too...dragged and gagged around 4AM..time of least resisitence...but hell it's just the outline of a screen play that will make us millionaires...multi..peddle it to John Milius
John M

Habu1 said...

Milius is A-OK

desert rat said...

The night of broken accessories

Now we're revisiting the "Wild Wild West"?

Buddy Larsen said...

That's John Milius, who single-handedly broke down Hollywood PC (well, some, for awhile) with "Red Dawn".

desert rat said...

Been kickin' a screen play and novel around for years.
Now with these low end cameras...

Buddy Larsen said...

The Wild Wild West, starring the same guy who played Pappy Boyinton, who habu's dad flew with. never more than a few degrees of separation, in the connected world--

desert rat said...

Robert Conrad
Also had a ski patrol show for a season or two, costarring his own kids.

Habu1 said...

Yeah Buddy,
he's done some good non PC work...did you see where it was his line in Dirty Harry "Make my day"

Buddy Larsen said...

rat, my whole life I've dreamed of being able to have the time to write a screenplay.

Just because so many are so BADly done, it looks like an open market.

Now, just in the last couple years, I could actually DO it.

But, but...that first sentence has me hung up.

desert rat said...

If Quentin Tarantino can write a screen play ...

Habu1 said...

DR,

If you've got a screenplay in your head spend the money on "Scriptware" or another pre formatting software. As you probably know the Hollywood people will not look at something not in the correct format.

I've been hacking away for about six months on and off on some stuff.

Buddy Larsen said...

and I've lost touch with the friggin damn zeitgeist

yeah, habu--I saw him interviewed not long ago, where he told how that line fell into the movie.

"Red Dawn" was a really well-done film--there were so many ways for it to've become a joke with the young folks--camp, sorta--but it didn't--the drama worked. Skill.

Habu1 said...

I'll tell ya Buddy you gotta try..it's always kinda of a dream but what the hell..

when I worked in Beverly Hills I had clients out the ass that that's all they did ...write and try to get a screenplay in front of the write person..they usually had to work a second job but they were liv'in the dream.

desert rat said...

We're all to old, my friends, unless you selfproduce.
We've reached some production basic levels, using Cowboy reenactors and mounted shooters.

May never get it to a final screening, but it makes for fun bar talk and an occasional afternoon adventure.

Buddy Larsen said...

keep at it habu. you actually do have a way wif words, and an imagination. wot a career move, huh?

desert rat said...

Living the Rocky Balboa dream

Habu1 said...

I proudly own Red Dawn on CD. watch it ev'r so often.young patrick swayze and others

Buddy Larsen said...

With Robert Redford running Sundance, coots are not totally outre, rat.

Habu1 said...

DR,
can't argue the age deal but we'll have some Hooters girl w/brains front it for us.

It does make great talk and it's an interesting hobby...I've had friends sell their stuff..didn't get made but they got some $$ and a % if it gets produced and distributed.

Dennis Franz said...

Here

Speaking of all the screenplay business, this is about the spartans at thermopylae, written by Frank Miller.

Habu1 said...

I'm gonna call mine "Gone With The Wind" or "It Happened One Night"

kinda catchy

Buddy Larsen said...

When the Cuban/Soviet paratroops lined up the kids' daddies and gunned 'em down, it could've gone "silly", but the kids pulled it back in.

desert rat said...

Yeah, my True Wast friend, Cowboy Bob sold a comic character, never got produced, he spent the money.

Buddy Larsen said...

if we wait awhile longer we can probably get Tom Cruise.

desert rat said...

At least for a cameo.

Buddy Larsen said...

"300" is gonna be a whale of a flick--

Habu1 said...

that's what money's for.

I'll get 'er done..the screenplay and somehow get it to Milius or not

Habu1 said...

i'll go see the 300

Buddy Larsen said...

"get it to Milius or not" --i have full confidence that you'll come thru on that statement.

Habu1 said...

I liked the talent in BlackHawk Down...the one southern alpha team guy..heck they all did a great job

Habu1 said...

yeah..the "or not" shows the spine of a chocolate eclair

Habu1 said...

well if i'm gett'n rousted at 4AM I better get some other things done..lets see ...got smoke, sensors on,new 6.8mm m-14, .45, granades, zodiac fueled...yeah I'm ready

allen said...

re: Robert Conrad a.k.a. Jacques Pasquinel

"If I were a bigger man, I would rule the world. But, since I am what I am, I rule where I am."

Habu1 said...

P-Tater as camp mascot

Habu1 said...

out

Buddy Larsen said...

Early 70s when I was working construction in Taos, Fred "The Hammer" Williamson came to town to set up filming "Boss Nigger". I went to the casting call, and I got a part, getting shot off a horse. They notified by mail when to reconvene, and I'd used my folk's address in Amarillo since i was living in my camper at the time. I told the folks to be on the lookout for the letter, and that i'd be calling in to check. They lost the letter--i never knew until they started without me--called mom, she said "Oh, HERE it is". by then I was replaced. So much for the career as a Movie Star.

Buddy Larsen said...

that soundtrack on Blackhawk Down was really something--if I'm not getting it mixed up with the Mel Gibson film--"We Were Soldiers". One of the guys in that battle--Ia Drang--died in the WTC. Rick Rescorla. Doesn't seem like that would happen in the right kind of world.

allen said...

Talking about a revolutionary concept, what is wrong with these people?
This is downright un-American.

Counties caught in conundrum: getting Amish to take food stamps

Bureaucrats Try to Cram Food Stamps Down Amish Throats



Link

allen said...

Link didn't take, so H/T to Moonbattery

allen said...

Moonbattery

whit said...

Boudreaux, a Cajun highlander from Rapides Parish in central Louisiana, was an older, single man who was born and raised a Baptist. Each Friday night after work, he would fire up his outdoor grill and cook venison steak.

Now, all of Boudreaux's neighbors were Catholic, and since it was Lent, they were forbidden from eating meat on Fridays. The wonderful aroma from the grilled venison steaks was causing such a problem for the Catholic faithful that they finally talked to their priest.

The priest visited Boudreaux, and suggested that Boudreaux convert to Catholicism. After several classes and much study, Boudreaux attended mass, and as the priest sprinkled holy water over him, he said, "You were born a Baptist and raised a Baptist, but now you are Catholic."

Boudreaux's neighbors were greatly relieved, until Friday night arrived, and the wonderful aroma of grilled venison filled the neighborhood.

The priest was called immediately by the neighbors, and as he rushed into
Boudreaux's yard, clutching a rosary and prepared to scold him, he stopped in amazement and watched.

There stood Boudreaux, clutching a small bottle of water which he carefully sprinkled over the grilling meat, and chanted: "You wuz born a deer, and you wuz raised a deer, but now...you a catfish."

desert rat said...

Signed up to be an extra in the Rambo in Afghanistan. Filming down in Yuma, AZ., back in the day.

At the time we were headquartered in Camp Verde Az. Way down in the bottom. The morning we load the horses for the drive, a freezing rain hit the mountain, making I-17 impassable, southbound, up the hill for 2 wheel drive trucks hauling horse trailers.

Sly Stallone did not wait for us, either.

desert rat said...

Did a Coors commercial when I was a kid, drove a herd of horses down a small hill to a creek crossing.

Could barely see my hat, in the finished product.
Mr Coors paid for a lot Bud.

Buddy Larsen said...

That's a helluva movie career, rat! heh heh--

History ch 269 doing a show on the new eastwood, right now--started a few minutes ago, dangit.

Good one, Whit--LOL

allen said...

Near and dear to my heart is EFFICIENT Defense Department spending, with my personal emphasis on more boots. In this vein, Wretchard has up a thread worth a look.
Sad to say, the Pentagon brass will always sacrifice the boys for the toys.

The Army's Need for Money

Buddy Larsen said...

His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog.

There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.

The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.

"I want to repay you," said the nobleman. "You saved my son's life."

"No, I can't accept payment for what I did," the Scottish farmer replied waving off the offer. At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel.

"Is that your son?" the nobleman asked.

"Yes," the farmer replied proudly.

"I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education my own son will enjoy. If the lad is anything like his father, he'll no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of." And that he did.

Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best schools and in time, graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.

Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia.

What saved his life this time? Penicillin.

The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill. His son's name?

Sir Winston Churchill.

Someone once said: What goes around comes around.

Work like you don't need the money.

Love like you've never been hurt.

Dance like nobody's watching.

Sing like nobody's listening.

Live like it's Heaven on Earth.

sharp said...

allen, anyone who believes it is only the Pentagon brass who favor weapons over troops should be forced to watch the entire budget hearings held by the committees in the Senate and the House. You will find out who likes weapons and why.

allen said...

sharp,

You are of course correct. I emphasize the brass because they are supposed to be on my team.

allen said...

This is long past due from the Wall Street Journal, but welcome all the same.

“Our Small Defense Budget”

“In retrospect, Mr. Bush missed a historic opportunity after 9/11 to ask government to spend less on non-essential programs so it could spend more on security…”

“[O]verall federal spending grew by nearly 50% in Mr. Bush's first five years, as he allowed Congress to spend more on just about everything.”

“Our own judgment is that the U.S. is going to have to increase defense spending to meet these challenges, and that the time to begin such a debate is now.”

Link

allen said...

buddy larsen,

re: Churchill story

As always, marvelous food for humble contemplation. Thanks!