Democrat Against Susan Zimet

Thanks for the trash you left in my mailbox Susan Zimet. Thanks for the sole piece of negative campaigning I’ve gotten this election you douchebags at the NY State DSCC located on Madison Avenue. The junk mail reminded me I needed to do my research and remember who the hell Zimet and Bonacic are in the race for the 42nd district in the New York state Senate.

The incumbent, Bonacic, would seem to be a strong supporter of the environment, the arts, the College and the village of New Paltz. He has brought home the bacon and brought funds that SUNY New Paltz desperately needed. A win for SUNY New Paltz is a win for education in this state and a win for the village due to the amount of money it brings into the local economy. He would seem from his legislative record to be very liberal Republican. The best slander his opposition can come up with is that he received the same benefits every other legislator did and some rubbish about the evils of casinos in the Catskills.

The challenger, Zimet, would seem to have been the retard who once opened her mouth and advocated the dismantling of the New Paltz Town Police. A plan that was monumentally unpopular with full year residents of the town. Smooth move. The trash in my mailbox reminded me of some literature I had received in previous elections with her name on it which contained the usual whining about the Indian Point nuclear power plant with no mention of specifics. Worse yet it was for political positions where she would have had no power to do anything about it and yet it was one of her main reasons for people to vote for her.

It wouldn’t surprise me if Zimet was part of the rather brain damaged Green contingent plaguing New Paltz politics. From articles I’ve found via Google it seems she supports the contingent in their abuse of executive positions to further activist goals. It is OK for Greens to pull this shit over gay marriage but not Republican presidents for conservative goals? Am I the only one who is annoyed by activists as executives?

The point of this post is that I am generally annoyed that I received this trash via mail from her and the political party I belong to. To top it off I couldn’t even find a list of positive things she has done in previous positions on her own website. I see lots of crap like “so and so has demonstrated…” but no concrete actions.

Before tonight I probably would have voted for her but it annoyed me enough to spend some time doing research on her and frankly I don’t like what I see. Oh well, it just means I’ll have to move my finger up or down a notch in the one column, even if it spoils what is looking so far to be a straight democratic vote for me.

A Zimet win in my opinion would be a reminder of the fact in a political wave less than desirable elements can be swept into power as a side effect.

With that said I should probably get going on researching the rest of the ballot…

Habeas Corpus

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006: Habeas Corpus, the backbone principle of the Bill of Rights, dies at the hands of President George W. Bush. And people are too busy with their bullshit lives to notice or care.

We are in dark times and I can only pray that they don’t get darker. I hope with every fiber of my being that the Democrats take at least the House with a strong majority to start the fight to fix the damage done to our civil rights by this administration. The alternative is to continue down a road that will make McCarthyism look like a warm up and will leave future generations wondering what the hell went so wrong.

If you have not yet make sure to read all of Keith Olbermann’s “Special Comment” (Video Here) about similar things that have occured in the past of our country and how we soon came to regret every single occurance. They are all dark times in our history and there is no doubt that George W. Bush will go down as one of the worst presidents in the history of our country.

We have handed a blank check drawn against our freedom to a man who has insisted again that “the United States does not torture. It’s against our laws and it’s against our values” and who has said it with a straight face while the pictures from Abu Ghraib Prison and the stories of Waterboarding figuratively fade in and out, around him.

We have handed a blank check drawn against our freedom to a man who may now, if he so decides, declare not merely any non-American citizens “Unlawful Enemy Combatants” and ship them somewhere — anywhere — but may now, if he so decides, declare you an “Unlawful Enemy Combatant” and ship you somewhere – anywhere.

And if you think this, hyperbole or hysteria… ask the newspaper editors when John Adams was President, or the pacifists when Woodrow Wilson was President, or the Japanese at Manzanar when Franklin Roosevelt was President.

And if you somehow think Habeas Corpus has not been suspended for American citizens but only for everybody else, ask yourself this: If you are pulled off the street tomorrow, and they call you an alien or an undocumented immigrant or an “unlawful enemy combatant” — exactly how are you going to convince them to give you a court hearing to prove you are not? Do you think this Attorney General is going to help you?

This President now has his blank check.

He lied to get it.

He lied as he received it.

Is there any reason to even hope, he has not lied about how he intends to use it, nor who he intends to use it against?

“These military commissions will provide a fair trial,” you told us yesterday, Mr. Bush. “In which the accused are presumed innocent, have access to an attorney, and can hear all the evidence against them.”

‘Presumed innocent,’ Mr. Bush?

The very piece of paper you signed as you said that, allows for the detainees to be abused up to the point just before they sustain “serious mental and physical trauma” in the hope of getting them to incriminate themselves, and may no longer even invoke The Geneva Conventions in their own defense.

‘Access to an attorney,’ Mr. Bush?

Lieutenant Commander Charles Swift said on this program, Sir, and to the Supreme Court, that he was only granted access to his detainee defendant, on the promise that the detainee would plead guilty.

‘Hearing all the evidence,’ Mr. Bush?

The Military Commissions act specifically permits the introduction of classified evidence not made available to the defense.

Your words are lies, Sir.

They are lies, that imperil us all.