1. 05 August 2007

    Dear Klobuchar

    472 days ago

    One of Minnesota’s senators voted for the hack surveillance bill. I was pissed.

    How dare you capitulate to Bush in his demands that the 1978 FISA laws be rewritten to legalize the current administrations illegal unrestricted spying programs. The 4th amendment? Have you ever fucking read the thing?

    There you go.

    There comes a time when giving in to the demolition of constitutional protections can no longer be considered a matter of being weak or unthinking. Rather it must be considered complicity. Enough Already

    By making the crimes of Bush legal at his own behest, under his threats – to refuse your summer recess, and to ‘hold you responsible for whatever terrorist attacks may take place in the future – you’ve done little better than incriminate yourself. I’m pretty sure that at his inauguration he swore to uphold the constitution of the united states of america, and you the same. I don’t see how you can sleep at night, much less how you can sit in the chambers of the senate and pretend to be doing your job.

    But hey, maybe it’s a good thing. Who knows how many catastrophic bridge collapses this administration will be able to prevent through their unadvised and unsupervised surveillance programs. Who knows how many structural engineers they’ll be able to send to Azkaban\d\d\d I mean Guantanamo.

    The Azkaban reference is a bit much, but I thought it was funny.

  2. 11 January 2006

    My dear senators

    1043 days ago

    Dear Mr. Dayton/Mr. Coleman:

    I’m a sophomore in college at the University of Minnesota Morris and attended minneapolis public schools K-12. I worked for both the 2000 Dayton senate campaign and Wellstone’s 2002, and I called myself a democrat until I recently got fed up with the democrats spineless concession to Bush’s tyrannical reign.

    I don’t want to seem over-dramatic, but I’m really fed up with the actions of my government over the past five years, and deeply want for government to right itself and purge its radical corruption. We’re going the complete opposite direction that any democracy should be, and frankly, I’m a bit scared.

    I want to make absolutely sure that you will not vote to confirm Alito as a Supreme court justice. Why? Because Alito considers his ‘gospel’ to be that of the Unitary Executive Theory, otherwise known as “President or King (what’s the difference?).”

    I don’t think that our congress should be a puppet body, just as our judicial system shouldn’t be full of judges who praise the absolute power of the executive branch.

    Bush officials say that “there is no way to say how [alito] would rule” regarding unchecked presidential power. I’d say the fact that he helped pioneer the theory as an aide in the Reagan Justice Dept (a theory that goes against every principle our country was founded on and many of us hold dear), and exclaimed it in numerous speeches make for damn good testimony.

    Don’t let the worthless spectacle that has become of senate confirmation hearings inform you on Alito’s judicial philosophy. The fact that he lends any credence to the idea of unitary executive abolishes any article of faith you could have in him.

    I was embarrassed to see what our government is coming to yesterday, when Alito said “It

  3. 27 November 2005

    1087 days ago

    Kjell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    My name is being proposed as a letter in the norwegian alphabet… along with a pretty neat looking glyph. I need to be careful or I’ll be the kid formerly known as pretty soon.

    via Kjell Olsen1087 days ago

  4. 12 November 2004

    1468 days ago

    Letter from Fallujah

    A letter from a stunned army medic. God, what would it be like to be sent off to Iraq?

    via Kjell Olsen1468 days ago

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