Sir Thomas More: And when we die, and you are sent to heaven for doing your conscience, and I am sent to hell for not doing mine, will you come with me, for fellowship? (A Man For All Seasons.)
Sir Thomas More was executed for refusing to accept King Henry the VIII as the supreme head of the Church of England.
We’ve been told time and time again that George Bush and Dick Cheney are following their conscious, doing what they believe “God” wants them to do. Do we believe that? Do 68 percent of the American people, who say they are against this war, believe God wants George Bush to mire this country in war, with massive murders of the innocent people in Iraq, and thousands of our soldiers marching to war for “his” God? And why do they think God wants them to do such a thing? For oil? For Halliburton? “My God” and the God of billions around the world do not agree. We cannot judge whether George believes “God” is demanding this of him, but if he is indeed following his conscious and we who are not following ours will ultimately take two different paths in what has become the war of religions, ideology, and illusions.
Last week Dick Cheney and his side kick George Bush have declared themselves above the law, above checks and balances, above Congress, above the Constitution, above the people. We are officially living in a dictatorship and we are doing nothing about it. What Cheney and Bush have done is illegal.
However -- and here's where the claim that Cheney is really a legislative official creates problems for the White House -- it seems pretty clear that the President isn't allowed to delegate executive power to a legislative official, as that would be a separation of powers violation. So to the extent that this is what's going on, the "Cheney is a legislative official" argument is one that opens a big can of worms.
http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2Farchives2%2F006543.php
Until this can be sorted out, it would appear Mr. Cheney is not the Vice President after all; therefore, his title and tax payer benefits need to be removed until this all is sorted out. Those benefits would include:
Air Force Two including any other travel expenses for himself or family
Secret Service Protection
His home, office and food expenses
All Salaries for himself and his staff
A review of everyone he’s hired for other departments
Health Care
Denied access to classified information
Denied access to any and all bunkers
Absolutely anything the taxpayers are responsible for in Mr. Cheney’s care and feeding should be removed. If GWB has broken the law (and it looks like he has) he needs to answer for that.
Mr. Cheney’s birth data and aspects that would create this kind of chaos around him due to his insane knee-jerk reaction to answering any question by Congress or oversight committees are as follows:
Birth data – January 30, 1941, 7:30pm, Lincoln, Neb.
Transiting Uranus at 18 degrees Pisces is retrograding back to square his Mars at 17 degrees Sagittarius. Transiting Saturn inconj. His Venus at 21 Capricorn and squaring his Uranus at 22 Taurus (in the 9th house, giving him not a legal leg to stand upon.) T-Saturn will soon oppose his Mercury (look for him to further stick his foot in his mouth and to stubbornly hunker down) T-Pluto inconjunct his Mid-heaven and his Chiron, setting up a yod indicating a huge power struggle for him. T-Pluto also squares his Neptune. He has a grand fire trine between his progressed Sun (17 Aries) progressed Moon (17 Leo) and natal Mars (17 Sagittarius) expect him to act swiftly over the next month to win this power struggle. Fortunately Saturn has passed 17 Leo, there isn’t anything transiting to activate the trine. In October Jupiter reaches 17 Sagittarius and that could be an activation, however Jupiter and his Natal Mars will be dealing with the square to T-Uranus.
All this adds up to physical, emotional and professional stresses for Mr. Cheney with possible ouster. His natal Mars, which is under so much stress, rules his 4th house of endings, his 8th house of death and his 9th house of court cases. From now until this time next year, Mr. Cheney has a great deal to answer for, if not Congress, then to the gods. Right after 9/11 Mr. Cheney revealed on Fox News that in order to “get these terrorists, it would be necessary to go to the dark side.” Dick Cheney went to the “dark side” long before 9/11.
On top of Mr. Cheney’s problems, the Saturn/Neptune opposition falls across Mr. Bush’s Venus, and Pluto inconj. his Saturn, their actions this week has taken away all doubt that we are living under a dictatorship formed in the “shadow government,” George said "a dictatorship would be easier, that is if he is the dictator. Even Brit Hume said Cheney “is in an undisclosed bunker of his mind.”
The 110 Congress (Jan. 4, 2007 @ 10:00am Washington D.C.) is sitting on a powder keg, and unless they light it, the United States in any recognizable form, is gone. They actually have the aspects through the summer and fall to put a match to this mess, we have to wait and see if they do, and if the judicial system is working in any manner what so ever. Are we a nation of laws or not, and if we are they are not “laws of whim.” The big question is “why hasn’t Richard Cheney been impeached by now?” The answer might be that Congress has been instructed they cannot, he is too powerful. The reality is Dick Cheney might in fact be the President of the United States.
There is no doubt that we are a sick nation and a scattered nation without much of a concept of working together to survive, there also isn’t a doubt that at some point we will get tired of being sick and rise up to heal ourselves.
A dear psychic friend, whom I trust, told me years ago that one day Congress would shut its doors for three days and come out with the original Constitution. I couldn’t see that happening then, but I do now. I also believe that we will have to go in there as a people and pull them out of the WH.
I am angry, angry at this cowed Congress and cowed nation, even angry with myself. Believe me, we will get tired of being sick and tired, millions of us are tired of it now.