Pope and State: No Separation

Pope Francis, the brand new Pontiff of the billion plus worldwide congregation of the Catholic Church, said last week in an urgent call for reform that politicians need to be bold in tackling the root causes of the current economic crisis.

He declared that the root causes of the economic crisis lay in acceptance of money's power over society, decrying what he deems as unbridled capitalism and the "cult of money" while calling for ethical reform of the financial system to create a more humane society.

"We have created new idols," he insisted during a speech in the Vatican. "The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly humane goal."

Unchecked capitalism, said the Pope, has lead to the growing inequality in society and is caused by "ideologies which uphold the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation, and thus deny the right of control to States, which are themselves charged with providing for the common good… A new, invisible and at times virtual, tyranny is established; one which unilaterally and irremediably imposes its own laws and rules."

Ethics are too often dismissed as a nuisance, he continued: "There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone… Money has to serve, not to rule."

Now, from what I’ve seen and read about Pope Frances, it appears that he is a very nice and generous man, a good priest and a devoted leader of his Church. The humble Cardinal from Buenos Aires Argentina has made the rejection of riches and luxury a major focus of his priesthood and now his two-month long pontificate.

In keeping with that mission, he has recently spoken of his desire for a "poor church." Of course, right now his Church is awash in money and riches and has been for centuries. If he wants to give it all away, more power to him. He has every right to say and do whatever he wants about his religion and his economic philosophy. After all, he is the Pope.

But when he starts calling upon politicians and secular governments to bring about the reform of the entire global economic system in accordance with that philosophy – rejecting free markets, capitalism and the power of money – he is entering the forbidden realm of politics, at least as it is practiced here in the United States of America, where the First Amendment Establishment Clause of the Constitution prohibits the merging between Church and State.

When he declares that the creation of wealth should be entirely under control of the State he is no longer just a humble priest shepherding his flock. He’s become a politician using his high religious status and pontifical office seeking to influence the secular business of government.

Perhaps then it is time that the Catholic Church in America started paying its fair share of taxes now that its leader has become a political force and desires to meddle into the affairs of our secular government. That’s how churches and religious organizations should be dealt with in America when they cross that forbidden boundary line between Church and State.

He should be tending to the souls of his congregation and their spiritual needs; preparing them for the promised afterlife; and getting them ready to meet their maker, which, of course, was the mission of Jesus Christ – not interfering with economic matters in the real world of the here and now. His vocation is to fulfill the former, not to dabble into the latter. Jesus didn’t mess with politics.

With all due respect to Pope Francis, his philosophy regarding money sounds like a typical socialist/communist rant demanding a worldwide redistribution of wealth from the have’s to the have not’s; the producers to the takers; the hard working to the lazy; and the ambitious to the complacent.

It doesn’t work and history has demonstrated again and again that it doesn’t work. He simply doesn’t know squat about free markets, money or how wealth is created. Why should he? He’s a priest; a man of God; a wealth taker; not a producer of wealth.

Without money, free markets and capitalism, there would be no wealth in this world. Human beings would have to live like the rest of the animals, digging around in the dirt for roots and tubers, while enduring similar nasty and brutish lives. It is money, individual liberty and free markets which has civilized men. But few priests would understand that because they are not in the business of creating wealth, but only taking it.

So his “heartless cult of money and worship of golden calves” nonsense is just a bag of socialist rubbish. He should separate his religious office from secular politics before he finds himself in the wrong place and does something to his Church that he will later regret.

My advice to Pope Francis: Pope and State: Separate!

Bill of Rights Trashed by “Justice”

The Attorney General of the United States is the highest ranking federal government attorney in the nation. He’s an executive branch presidential cabinet level official who heads the Department of Justice.

 

If any attorney at law should be familiar with the provisions of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights it is certainly the Attorney General, who, just like every attorney in America, has sworn a solemn oath to preserve, protect, defend and uphold that supreme law of the land.

You might think that the head of Justice would observe justice. But if you thought that in the case of current Attorney General Eric Holder, and his Justice Department, you would be wrong. This man and his underlings display a nasty habit of trashing the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as a matter of course.

The latest scandal in this regard is the disclosure by the Associated Press News Agency (AP) that the Justice Department, in an “unprecedented intrusion,” secretly and without  a court warrant, seized two months worth of outgoing call telephone records for the work and personal phone numbers of AP reporters and various AP offices, altogether records of more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012.

This conduct on the part of “Justice” violates both the First Amendment, which supposedly guarantees freedom of the press, and the Fourth Amendment, which supposedly prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures by the government without a warrant and probable cause.  

The telephone records included the main AP number in the House of Representatives press gallery, which has members of Congress and the Senate up in arms.

“The burden is always on the government when they go after private information -- especially information regarding the press or its confidential sources. I want to know more about this case, but on the face of it, I am concerned that the government may not have met that burden,” declared Democrat Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy.

"I am deeply concerned by numerous reports of misconduct by the [Obama] administration, from (whistle-blower) testimony regarding Benghazi to the Internal Revenue Service targeting groups based on political ideology and now the Department of Justice monitoring journalists with the Associated Press,” said House Republican Whip Kevin McCarthy.

He should be concerned.

This administration, from the Department of Justice, Department of State, IRS and right on down the line, has proved to be a collection of liars, perjurers, criminals and serial violators of the Constitution – the same Constitution they all have sworn an oath to preserve, protect and defend.

In a letter of protest sent to Holder, AP President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt said the government sought and obtained information far beyond anything that could be justified by any specific investigation.

"There can be no possible justification for such an over-broad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters. These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the news gathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to AP's news gathering operations and disclose information about AP's activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know," Pruitt said.

Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole responded to Pruitt in a letter attempting to justify the seizures by claiming the Department was conducting a criminal investigation into government employee unauthorized disclosures of classified information to certain AP reporters, and therefore what it did was necessary.

Clearly however, if a crime was committed in this case, it was committed by a governmental employee disclosing classified information – not AP reporters who have the constitutional right to report the news.

Thus, there was no justification to seize AP telephone records in a situation where there existed no probable cause whatsoever to believe that anyone at AP committed a crime.

This egregious conduct on the part of the D.O.J. amounted to clear violations of AP and its individual reporters and editors First and Fourth Amendment constitutional rights.

Eric Holder and his underlings are the criminals here; they’re the ones who have perverted “Justice” should face justice.

But instead of taking responsibility and his rightful punishment as a man, Holder lashed out at House Republican Rep. Darrell Issa at a congressional hearing on Wednesday, characterizing the congressman’s questioning of his Departments conduct as "shameful," after Issa accused him of purposely and repeatedly keeping information from Congress.

This came after Holder repeatedly rebuffed all pertinent questions by claiming he wasn’t involved in the decision-making process. He maintained that he had nothing to do with it and had no explanation for it. He claimed that he had recused himself from the case because "I am a possessor of information eventually leaked."

Now, that’s a neat trick.

If a government official doesn’t feel like answering questions under oath about violations of the constitution and his oath of office, just recuse himself from the problem.   

He also said he was unable to answer any questions on why the department he oversees failed to negotiate with the AP prior to obtaining subpoenas -- something which is standard practice in these cases.

Then Holder testified that all the decisions made in the case fell on Deputy Attorney General James Cole’s shoulders.

But Cole would be prohibited from discussing any ongoing case so his testimony would be the same as Holder’s – worthless; another neat trick.

"There doesn't appear to be any acceptance of responsibility for things that have gone wrong," said congressman Sensenbrenner in the classic understatement of the century.

The top United States administrator of Justice says he knows nothing while the Bill of Rights is trashed by his “Justice.”

Stomping the First Amendment: When the Shoe’s on the Other Foot

Lawmakers in the state of Mississippi House and Senate have passed versions of a bill dubbed the Schoolchildren's Religious Liberties Act, which supposedly would guarantee religious freedom in Mississippi public schools by ensuring that students can talk about spiritual beliefs and aren't deprived of their rights.

Actually this is just another attempt at putting government sponsored prayer back in the public school classrooms. It’s an end run around the First Amendment Establishment Clause because it would once again unite church and state by legalizing school prayer, a government practice that the United States Supreme Court has held as unconstitutional since the 1940’s.

The bills also declare that school events such as graduations and football games, as well as morning public address announcements, are "limited public forums" in which sectarian prayers would be allowed. That would violate Supreme Court precedent as well which has established that graduation ceremonies, football games and public announcements at school my not involve prayers.

"People ask me if this is a step toward getting prayer back in schools. I think this is THE step to get prayer back in schools," declared religiously oriented Mississippi radio commentator, Paul Ott, an ardent supporter of the new law.

But the ACLU of Mississippi has noted the obvious – this law would force a captive audience of students to listen to someone else's religious expression, a practice which has lead federal judges to strike down a previous Mississippi law allowing student-led prayer. "The courts have never said it's OK to hold a captive audience," it says.

Sam Bounds, current head of the Mississippi Association of School Superintendents, admits that he allowed student-led prayer when he was superintendent in Brookhaven Mississippi. He, just like many other government statists have no qualms about stomping on the First Amendment when it comes to sponsoring their own religion in the public schools. "I'm a good Southern Baptist," he said.

The fact is that organized school prayer still remains widespread in the state of Mississippi, despite opponents' efforts to curtail it. The Mississippi public school authorities routinely stomp on the Establishment Clause while thumbing their noses at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Supporter Ott explained that he believes schools have seen more bad behavior, harassment, bullying and even school shootings because of prayer's exclusion. "Let's get God back in the schools some way," he insisted. "We've been praying in schools for 200 years. Why should we stop?"

Why indeed!

But what do the public school religious proselytizers’ think when the stomping shoe is on the other foot?

They scream bloody hell, that’s what.

It’s OK for them to force their religion on captive audiences at public schools, but all of a sudden, when a government statist hack starts stomping on their religion in a captive audience situation, they just love the First Amendment and its Establishment Clause. They want it enforced.

At Florida Atlantic University a professor of an Intercultural Communications class told the students to write the name “Jesus” on a sheet of paper. Then, they were told to put the paper on the floor.

“He had us all stand up and he said ‘Stomp on it,” said Ryan Rotela, a devout Morman student in the class. “I’m not going to be sitting in a class having my religious rights desecrated,” he explained. “I truly see this as I’m being punished… I picked up the paper from the floor and put it right back on the table.”

The student told the professor that his assignment was insulting and offensive. “I said to the professor, ‘With all due respect to your authority as a professor, I do not believe what you told us to do was appropriate,’” Rotela continued. “I believe it was unprofessional and I was deeply offended by what you told me to do.”

But when he took his concerns to a supervisor, he was promptly suspended from the class.

The university, meanwhile, is defending the assignment as a lesson in debate. “As with any academic lesson, the exercise was meant to encourage students to view issues from many perspectives, in direct relation with the course objectives,” said Noemi Marin, the university’s director of the school of communication and multimedia studies.

“While at times the topics discussed may be sensitive, a university environment is a venue for such dialogue and debate,” she added.

So religious statists aren’t the only ones who violate the First Amendment; non-religious statists have no compunctions about doing it too.

Stomping the First Amendment -- it’s OK with statists of every stripe until the shoe is on the other foot.

 

 

Elementary Pencil Warrior Terrorists

Zero tolerance attitudes are running amok today in the nation’s compulsory public elementary schools. Public school teachers and administrators show zero tolerance for the constitutional rights of the children and parents who are forced to participate in the compulsory education system.  

Compulsory public school education laws violate First Amendment freedom of speech and freedom of association rights as well as Fifth Amendment deprivation of liberty without due process rights. Kids and parents are forced to participate whether they like it or not and in the process are subjected to zero tolerance for any thinking or behavior outside the prescribed standards of statist conformity. 

If compulsory education laws are constitutional then there are absolutely no limits to what the government authority can mandate in violation of the liberty and constitutional rights of every citizen, adult and child alike. If the statists can force children to go to school and subject them to zero tolerance standards then they can force anyone to do or think anything. 

In the wake of a few horrific school shootings the statist government authorities think they have the right to take out their frustrations upon the innocent little children in their classrooms who had nothing whatsoever to do with the crimes. They actually believe that they can prohibit what a child thinks about just because a few whacko’s committed actual violence at a school.  

But the children are the victims – not the perpetrators. The whacko’s who committed the crimes need to be punished, not the little kids who should have the right to be and act like little kids. There should be zero tolerance for the criminals, not their targets. This zero tolerance then is upside down; it’s nonsense; it’s farcical.  

Of course it’s OK not to allow real weapons at school but American kids all over the country are being punished at school today just for being kids. One kid was punished for biting his pop tart into the shape of a gun. Another was punished for talking about shooting an imaginary bubble gun. Others were punished for drawing pictures of guns, making noises like guns, and pointing their fingers like guns.  

In short, all these kids were punished for their thoughts – not any conduct which could possibly be deemed a danger to anyone under any circumstances. They are forced to attend school and while there are punished for their thoughts by overzealous teachers and administrators who believe they have the right to control other people’s minds.

 The latest innocent child victims of zero tolerance attitudes are two Suffolk Virginia 7-year-old second grade boys punished for the “crime” of just being little children thinking about playing soldier and bad guy with guns. These are boys who otherwise get good grades and have no history of being disruptive in class.  But they had the temerity to make shooting noises while pointing pencils at each other.

This “crime” of playacting supposedly violated the Suffolk school system’s zero-tolerance policy on weapons. To a government statist a pencil is benign when being used to write something on a piece of paper but becomes a dangerous weapon when a 7-year-old points it and says “pow.”  

“Well I was being a Marine and the other guy was being a bad guy,” one of the boys explained to his dad, a former Marine. For that the Driver Elementary School statists suspended them for two days, even though the boys stopped playing when a teacher told them to stop.  

A pencil is considered a weapon when it’s pointed at someone in a threatening way and gun noises are made, said a school district spokesman. “Some children would consider it threatening, who are scared about shootings in schools or shootings in the community,” he deadpanned.  “Kids don’t think about ‘Cowboys and Indians’ anymore, they think about drive-by shootings and murders and everything they see on television news every day.” 

So you see, these boys were punished for a thought “crime” and the government statists have no problem admitting it. After all, they actually believe they can do this kind of thing to kids and get away with it. This guy also admitted that drawing a picture of a gun or pointing a finger in a threatening manner are also considered “crimes.” 

“It’s an effort to try to get kids not to bring any form of violence, even if it’s violent play, into the classroom,” he continued. “There has to be a consequence because it’s a rule.”

It’s zero tolerance against kids being kids. And it’s one more unbelievable example of how the citizens of the United States of America are far less free today than at any other time in history.  

This is the new imaginary war on elementary pencil warrior terrorists.

Political Demigod Parasites

When throughout all of world history the great masses of human populations aren’t worshipping Gods they tend to be worshipping demigods or often both. Most people have been deceived in consciousness with a necessity to worship religious and political leaders – Authority!

This systematic process of deception in consciousness allows the worshipped authorities and those who invoke them even after their deaths to become human parasites making their livings by sucking the juices and valuables – sacrifices -- from the lives of the deceived faithful.

In short, the human religious or political parasites create and promote imaginary Gods and demigods for the purpose of deceiving the individual consciousness of the masses into worshipping them and making voluntary sacrifices which the human parasites consume. In Biblical times the priests enjoyed the exclusive right to consume the sacrifices.

The power of the God or demigod depends upon the magnitude and intensity of the underlying belief among the deceived faithful. So, some of them, with the assistance of their human parasite followers have perpetuated their power and authority for years, centuries, and even millennia.

Last month, for one out of many examples, we learned that the embalmed body of recently departed and newly minted demigod, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, will rest in a glass case on public display in that country supposedly forever, according to his deputy (human parasite), Nicolas Maduro.

Why?

Chavez was a brutal communist dictator and criminal thug who generally made the lives of the people of Venezuela far worse under his regime than before his rise to the status of demigod. Yet instead of cursing and reviling this thieving human parasite, his surviving coalition of fellow human parasites are installing him has a revered demigod to be worshipped forever. They intend to perpetuate his power for as long as they can for their own political benefit.

The human benefactors of many other communist criminal demigods have seen fit to embalm and enshrine to this day their remains in glass coffins to be revered and worshipped by the deceived masses, even though it has become clear now that they were all criminals who destroyed their own nations.

These include Russia's first communist leader, Vladimir Lenin, whose body still lies on permanent display in a mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square nearly 90 years after his death; Josef Stalin, the Soviet communist butcher of Russia; China's communist value destroyer and murderer, Mao Zedong, Vietnam's mass murderer, Ho Chi Min, and North Korea's founding communist dictator and murderer, dear leader, Kim Il Sung.

Apparently, Russian Orthodox Christians believe that the body of a true saint does not decay. So they’re fine with putting these godless communist demigods on display in perpetuity even though they tried to wipe out the last vestiges of theism and Christianity in the Soviet Union.

The ancient Egyptian Pharaohs were perhaps the first demigods to be embalmed after death for the purpose of preserving their remains forever and thereby ensuring their successful passing into the imaginary afterlife where they supposedly would become Gods and continue to wield power over their deceived subjects.

Even today, the tomb of King Tut and the monumental stone pyramids at Giza remind us of how the ancient benefactors of human parasite demigods took advantage of the deception in the consciousness of the people to perpetuate their own power and Authority!

All the kings, emperors, sultans, emirs and satraps in history have done exactly the same.

Human parasite politicians of the United States government have been doing it for many decades now. Several U.S. presidents have been elevated to the status of demigod and are now worshipped in temples dedicated to their memory in Washington D.C. and elsewhere. Their faces have been carved into massive monuments at Mt. Rushmore, and special elaborate tombs for their remains have been erected in places like Arlington cemetery.  

All of this is done to perpetuate the deception of the validity of government Authority in the consciousness of the American people. The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, Presidents Day, Uncle Sam, and One Nation Under God are all part of the magnificent deception constantly promoted by our own United States of America political demigod parasites.

 

Forced Allegiance

You can’t force someone to love you. You can’t force someone to be your friend.

Respect and allegiance are not generated in the human heart by force.

Love, friendship, respect, trust and allegiance must be earned.

When force or coercion is applied to those objectives the result is often exactly the opposite of that intended.  

That’s why I find it particularly disgusting and offensive when statist government agents of the United States of America take it upon themselves to force little children in compulsory education public schools to stand and recite in unison on a daily basis the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.  

Of course, federal law and several Supreme Court decisions provide that students may not be compelled to recite the pledge but that is of little value when peer and social pressure is employed by the trampling school house mob to coerce compliance and conformance from everyone upon penalty of ostracize.

A lone child refusing to stand and recite the pledge together with the rest of the class will soon become about as popular as a turd in a picnic basket.

Enidris Siurano Rodríguez, a 15 year-old Puerto Rican sophomore at Damascus High School in Montgomery County in Maryland, was actually chastised and punished by her school for refusing to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

This young lady has protested U.S. policy on Puerto Rico since she was in seventh grade by silently sitting during the daily Pledge of Allegiance. "I do not agree with the way the United States treats Puerto Rico... I think Puerto Rico has an undemocratic situation, I dislike the idea that a government so far [from the island] tells us what we can and cannot do,” she says.

That is her fundamental constitutional right or free speech under the First Amendment.

Last month she was asked to stand for he pledge by a teacher and complied under duress before being called to the principal’s office to discuss the matter. School administrators dismissed her protest and, belittled her ethnic background.

The next day she was told again to stand for the Pledge, but she refused – and was confronted by a different teacher who took issue with her protest, telling her that her actions were an insult to the military and military families.

The United States of America got along just fine without a pledge of allegiance to the flag from its inception in the 1776 Declaration of Independence right up until the mid twentieth century, at least 166 years. Those years mark the halcyon period in America when its inhabitants enjoyed far more freedom and liberty than we enjoy today.

The American government didn’t feel the need to require a coerced loyalty oath from its citizens then. But in 1892, Francis Bellamy, a socialist Baptist minister, came up with a grand idea for a pledge of allegiance which was later published in a popular children’s magazine.

The idea was to instill American nationalism in kids.

His pledge has been changed four times since then. In the year 1942, while WWII raged, the pledge was adopted by the U.S. Congress, and since then has become as ubiquitous in American public schools and other government settings as Hitler’s Nazi Youth forced pledge of allegiance during the Third Reich.

In 1954, during the height of the cold war with “godless” communist Russia, Congress and President Eisenhower took the unconstitutional step of changing the pledge of allegiance to add the words “under God” by federal law in blatant violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause.

The pledge of allegiance – a statist government loyalty oath -- has been forced down the throats of American school children in one form or another now for the last 70 years.

The United States government is not content that children, forced to attend public school within a compulsory education system, be free to make up their own minds and conscience about how to feel about their country. It wants to make that decision for them before they even begin to understand the nature of a pledge or the meaning of the word allegiance.

The pledge of allegiance flies in the face of liberty, freedom of conscience and the First Amendment. It is an odious government inspired ritual of which little kids are forced to recite mindlessly every school day long before they’ve acquired any working knowledge of American history or any reason why they should owe any allegiance to a government which looks upon them as virtual slaves.

If it is not a sham, a hoax, the very antitheses of liberty, and all of the valuable benefits of America that our founding fathers envisioned for us, then why does the present day government see fit to require its recitation every day, day after day during all of the formative years of every child’s life?

It’s a classic text book case of ritualistic brainwashing -- forced allegiance.

George W. Bush: Presidential Criminal, Part 2

In George W. Bush: Presidential Criminal, Part 1, I discussed one of the major reasons why the evidence that this man is a criminal has now been demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt. He knowingly and deliberately presided over a regime of torture against perceived enemies in blatant violation of the United States Constitution, U.S. and international laws.

That fact alone is enough to warrant a lengthy prison term for this criminal.

Can you imagine our first president, George Washington ever authorizing and presiding over the torture of British soldiers, all of whom were definitely in the category of enemy combatants invading American soil, during the Revolutionary war?

It is unimaginable.

That was before the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights even came into existence – there was no Fifth Amendment then; no Bill of Rights – it was a matter of common decency and humanity that our government did not engage in torture even though it might have been expedient to do so.

As far as I know, German and Japanese enemy combatants were not tortured by U.S forces as POW’s during World War II, at least not upon a systematic authorized from the top basis. There is no record of President Franklin Roosevelt or President Harry Truman presiding over a regime of torture. That kind of thing was unthinkable then, not to mention a clear violation of international treaties and the laws of war.

Before George W. Bush’s imaginary “War on Terror,” the U.S. had never engaged in a war or other conflict against enemy combatants in which torture was authorized and encouraged by the President and Commander in Chief of the United States of America. Yet German and Japanese enemy combatants were far more dangerous to our nation then than a ragged ill-equipped band of Muslim terrorists are today.

The Nazis and the Japs did it to our soldiers but the Americans didn’t reciprocate in kind. Enemy prisoners of war were treated well and humanely by our government in those days. That was when the United States of America had some honor and integrity.

George W. Bush and his regime of torture have left an ugly, indelible and irreversible stain upon the honor and integrity of America. Now other lesser nations will use his criminal example to justify their own torture regimes. America does it so why can’t they? We can no longer validly criticize other nations for systematic human rights violations against enemies.

George W. Bush is unrepentant for his crimes right up to this day.

He just gave a speech at the dedication of his new Presidential Center and Library in which he proudly proclaimed that: “Supporters come and go. But in the end leaders are defined by the convictions they hold. And my deepest conviction; the guiding principle of the administration is that the United States of America must strive to expand the reach of freedom: I believe that freedom is a gift from god.” 

So we see that throughout his eight year presidency this criminal fancied himself as on a mission from God who’s deepest conviction and guiding principle in office was to expand the reach of American style government – God’s gift -- into places like Iraq and Afghanistan – a purpose which is not set forth in the Constitution as part of his authorized presidential powers.

This deluded criminal megalomaniac actually thought he was on a mission from God, which in his mind justifies all his crimes.

The foremost guiding principle of any President of the United States is to execute the laws of the United States and preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. That’s his job. That is the purpose and authority granted to him under the Constitution.

That is what the presidential oath of office specifies as his primary duty. It is to execute our laws and preserve our freedoms – not engage in an imperialistic worldwide crusade to force American values upon the citizens of other nations by military means in the name of God.

George W Bush violated his presidential oath in the worst possible way. He initiated two totally unnecessary major military conflicts abroad in which the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent people were slaughtered along with more than 4,000 American soldiers. These people lie dead because of him.

 He forced America on these people and those lucky enough to remain alive are less free than they ever were beforehand. Not only did he fail to expand the reach of freedom, which was beyond his authority in the first place, he actually made matters in those countries worse by his criminal actions.

He almost single handedly caused the great financial meltdown and lingering recession of 2007 and beyond. America still hasn’t recovered from his incompetent and criminal mismanagement of the economy.

Do we Americans enjoy more freedoms today than we did before this criminal torturer George W. Bush took office? Did this man expand the reach of freedom for us Americans now that we have the Patriot Act, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the FISA, and the TSA?

Of course not! He opened a hornets’ nest.

Americans enjoy far less freedoms today than at any other time in history thanks to George W. Bush: Presidential criminal.