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It would be a paradise for Trump, if only one half of the country could be silenced. One half of the country insists on truth, justice, and the Constitution.
"I don't give a goddamn," (George W.) Bush retorted. "I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way."
"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face," Bush screamed back. "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"
Doug Thompson
Dec 9, 2005
Trump speech to his Trump trolls-
They're (the media outlets that insist on reporting the truth) very smart, they're very cunning and they're very dishonest.
So just to conclude, I mean, it's a very sensitive topic and they get upset when we expose their false stories. They say that we can't criticize their dishonest coverage because of the First Amendment, you know, they always bring up the First Amendment.
(LAUGHTER)
And I love the First Amendment; nobody loves it better than me. Nobody.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...cpac-speech-annotated/?utm_term=.58f915006b11
The Consitution is not for losers, that lost the election
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...st-amendment-calls-for-media-suppression.html
Jeff Sessions is a lawyer. He is the nation's top law enforcement officer. He has been a state attorney general and United States attorney, too.
All of which makes his now-contradicted denials of contact with the Russians completely inexplicable. How could a man who is supposed to be so studied at the law take the stand ... under oath ... at a confirmation hearing ... and not be precise with his words?
Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., asked Sessions: "If there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the Russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do?"
That was the question that elicited the denial that now haunts Sessions. And in response, he issued a blanket statement — with no qualifier that he was referring only to campaign business, as Sessions' denials today suggest.
"Senator Franken, I'm not aware of any of those activities," Sessions said. "I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign, and I didn't have — did not have communications with the Russians, and I'm unable to comment on it."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...s-russia-ambassador-trump-20170302-story.html
October 08, 2016
A journalist who was killed for standing up to Putin
Politkovskaya repeatedly received death threats as a result of her reporting. She was threatened with rape and was subjected to a mock execution after being arrested by the Russian military.
2004, while traveling to the North Ossetian town of Beslan in the hope of trying to mediate the school hostage crisis, she was poisoned - and nearly died.After the Beslan poisoning, Politkovskaya wrote, "We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance.
When she interviewed Kadyrov in 2004, he angrily said, "You have come between Chechens. You are an enemy." Being called an enemy of Kadyrov was the equivalent of a death sentence, but she didn't back down. On Oct. 5, 2006, she gave an interview to Radio Liberty in which she said that Kadyrov was a "coward armed to the teeth" and the "Stalin of our days."
The article she was working on at the time - which turned out to be her last investigative report - documented the torture and killing of two people by a law-enforcement body controlled by Kadyrov.
Politkovskaya was murdered two days later in a contract-style killing. It was Oct. 7, which just happened to be Putin's 54th birthday.
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/10/a_journalist_who_was_killed_fo.html
"I don't give a goddamn," (George W.) Bush retorted. "I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way."
"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face," Bush screamed back. "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"
Doug Thompson
Dec 9, 2005
Trump speech to his Trump trolls-
They're (the media outlets that insist on reporting the truth) very smart, they're very cunning and they're very dishonest.
So just to conclude, I mean, it's a very sensitive topic and they get upset when we expose their false stories. They say that we can't criticize their dishonest coverage because of the First Amendment, you know, they always bring up the First Amendment.
(LAUGHTER)
And I love the First Amendment; nobody loves it better than me. Nobody.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...cpac-speech-annotated/?utm_term=.58f915006b11
The Consitution is not for losers, that lost the election
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...st-amendment-calls-for-media-suppression.html
Jeff Sessions is a lawyer. He is the nation's top law enforcement officer. He has been a state attorney general and United States attorney, too.
All of which makes his now-contradicted denials of contact with the Russians completely inexplicable. How could a man who is supposed to be so studied at the law take the stand ... under oath ... at a confirmation hearing ... and not be precise with his words?
Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., asked Sessions: "If there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the Russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do?"
That was the question that elicited the denial that now haunts Sessions. And in response, he issued a blanket statement — with no qualifier that he was referring only to campaign business, as Sessions' denials today suggest.
"Senator Franken, I'm not aware of any of those activities," Sessions said. "I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign, and I didn't have — did not have communications with the Russians, and I'm unable to comment on it."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...s-russia-ambassador-trump-20170302-story.html
October 08, 2016
A journalist who was killed for standing up to Putin
Politkovskaya repeatedly received death threats as a result of her reporting. She was threatened with rape and was subjected to a mock execution after being arrested by the Russian military.
2004, while traveling to the North Ossetian town of Beslan in the hope of trying to mediate the school hostage crisis, she was poisoned - and nearly died.After the Beslan poisoning, Politkovskaya wrote, "We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance.
When she interviewed Kadyrov in 2004, he angrily said, "You have come between Chechens. You are an enemy." Being called an enemy of Kadyrov was the equivalent of a death sentence, but she didn't back down. On Oct. 5, 2006, she gave an interview to Radio Liberty in which she said that Kadyrov was a "coward armed to the teeth" and the "Stalin of our days."
The article she was working on at the time - which turned out to be her last investigative report - documented the torture and killing of two people by a law-enforcement body controlled by Kadyrov.
Politkovskaya was murdered two days later in a contract-style killing. It was Oct. 7, which just happened to be Putin's 54th birthday.
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/10/a_journalist_who_was_killed_fo.html