'The Truth Will Emerge...'
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by searchfothetruth 63 Replies latest members adult
'The Truth Will Emerge...'
5-23-3
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great letter!
with this bush admin. the US is only a inch away from a dictatorship.
If an American Senator is saying these things then we can't all be looneys can we.?
I wonder how long Senator Byrd will be allowed to speak like this before he too suffers a fatal plane crash...just a thought.
Searthforthetruth:
Without getting into the politics of what senator Byrd said, I would like to point something out that you are likely unaware of. This particular chap is, well, how should I put it nicely, a bit of a nut-job and not exactly well respected here in the States. He is best known for his hours-long meandering diatribes that at times embarrasses even his most ardent supporters.
Members of his own political party have been know to refer to him as “sheets” behind his back. He got that nickname some years back because that was the attire he dressed in when he was a full-fledged member of the infamous Klu Klux Klan. Again not wanting to get into the substance of what this man said (as that is irrelevant to me anyway), I just wanted you to be aware of these facts, as you may not necessarily want to point to him as a good example of someone sharing your own political viewpoint.
Regards
Freeman
A Robert Byrd in Hand Is Worth Two Bushes Going Like 90 Against the War James Ridgeway | Mondo Washington The Village Voice Wednesday 14 May 2003
Robert Byrd is more than just a lone voice in Congress speaking out against the war. He is one of a number of people in Washington who have had enough.
And Bush will be hard put to get the 85-year-old Byrd. The senator has nothing to lose. Not only has he been in the Senate for decades (since 1958), but as a head of the Appropriations Committee for years, he's at the heart of the legislative process. More to the point, he has been an ally of Republican business interests through his longtime defense of the West Virginia coal industry. Byrd has led the fight against pollution controls that would hurt coal sales.
Byrd began as a supporter of then majority leader Lyndon Johnson, and during the 1960s won plaudits for successfully plotting to overthrow Teddy Kennedy as whip. Kennedy at the time was immersed in the Chappaquiddick affair.
Always taking care of business, Byrd has brought home to West Virginia such plums as FBI and IRS offices, as well as a Fish and Wildlife training camp. He tried but lost a drive to settle the CIA in West Virginia. The senator has been pushing a huge highway corridor from the Virginia border deep into the central part of his state.
From his post as ranking minority member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Byrd is fighting White House efforts to privatize, on a piecemeal basis, functions of government, such as the coast guard. Privatizing removes congressional control over jobs and adds to the conservatives' campaign to reduce Congress's influence.
Byrd is not exactly the sort of figure that has come to typify politicians in latter-day Washington. He doesn't go to parties, and he's formal almost to the point of caricature. He carries a copy of the U.S. Constitution around with him.
Peter King, the Long Island conservative Republican, made a feeble attempt to launch a campaign against Byrd by resurrecting the senator's long-ago ties to the Ku Klux Klan. On MSNBC, King declared, "Let me tell you, as a Republican, I almost welcome [Byrd's attack on Bush]. This is handing us an issue, because the Democrats make themselves look so small and petty. And if they're going to rely on someone like Senator Byrd as their spokesman, a man who, years ago, with his racist background gave up any right to be a moral arbiter of anything, then bring it on."
Others in Congress have questioned the war in the mildest of terms, but Byrd has spoken plainly from the beginning, saying at one point, "I truly must question the judgment of any president who can say that a massive unprovoked military attack on a nation which is over 50 percent children is 'in the highest moral traditions of our country.' "
And Byrd has kept on speaking out. After watching Bush's Top Gun act last week, the elderly senator delivered this scathing assessment of the president's landing on the aircraft carrier: "As I watched the president's speech, before the great banner proclaiming 'Mission Accomplished,' I could not help but be reminded of the tobacco barns of my youth, which served as country road advertising backdrops for the slogans of chewing-tobacco purveyors. I am loath to think of an aircraft carrier being used as an advertising backdrop for a presidential political slogan, and yet that is what I saw."
Tom Gavin, a spokesman in Byrd's office, said calls were running heavy and about even. Gavin said he doubts Bush would try to hurt Byrd because "President Bush relied on West Virginia to carry him through the last election."
© Copyright 2003 by TruthOut.org
YAWN....Where is Sword of Jah?
Who cares what an Ex KKK member thinks! High Wizard Byrd's predications were wrong about the Iraq war, and he continues to be wrong.
Search, I am suprised you would rely on an ex KKK member for your views...given your human rights/war crimes agenda.....
Robert KKK Byrd is an IDIOT!
As far as the US being close to a Dictatorship with Bush, SHOW THE PROOF. Roosevelts was the Imperial presidency, not Bush's
Byrd's record:
The ex-Klansman showed his true colors when asked by Fox News Sunday morning talk show host Tony Snow about the state of race relations in America. Sen. Byrd warned: "There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I'm going to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I'd just as soon quit talking about it so much."
The ex-Klansman's admirers praise his historical knowledge, mastery of procedural rules, and outspokenness. They refer to the Senate's senior Democrat as the "conscience of the Senate." They downplay his white-sheet-wearing days as a "brief mistake" - as if joining the Klan were like knocking over a glass of water. Oopsy.
This ex-Klansman wasn't just a passive member of the nation's most notorious hate group. According to news accounts and biographical information, Sen. Byrd was a "Kleagle" - an official recruiter who signed up members for $10 a head. He said he joined because it "offered excitement" and because the Klan was an "effective force" in "promoting traditional American values."
The ex-Klansman allegedly ended his ties with the group in 1943. He may have stopped paying dues, but he continued to pay homage to the KKK. Republicans in West Virginia discovered a letter Sen. Byrd had written to the Imperial Wizard of the KKK three years after he says he abandoned the group. He wrote: "The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia" and "in every state in the Union."
The ex-Klansman later filibustered the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act - supported by a majority of those "mean-spirited" Republicans - for more than 14 hours. He also opposed the nominations of the Supreme Court's two black justices, liberal Thurgood Marshall and conservative Clarence Thomas. In fact, the ex-Klansman had the gall to accuse Justice Thomas of "injecting racism" into the Senate hearings.
The ex-Klansman vowed never to fight "with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."
Here we go again................