Obama and Justice Department Release Secret Bush Memos

Looks like Mr.’s Cheney and Bush have an exercise in temper control now that the Obama administration has chosen to release some very damaging documents!

Memos written for or by the previous administration and president.

What is here is totally revealing for the way the abuse of American civil rights are seen as totally acceptable, as well as the deliberate flouting of virtually all international laws regarding war, those captured, and any possible “terrorist” activities. This is totally sickening when you realize just how much abuse the government and some of the agencies used, could use, and that every single person living in the U.S. was under threat from being arrested WITHOUT any warrant!

The so-called “legal” opinions are outrageous! More to come later.

New Orleans

It is long overdue that someone in the US realizes that there are still huge parts of New Orleans and the surrounding areas that have yet to even see the beginning of restoration. There are hundreds of people who are STILL waiting for the funding for such basic things as trades to come in and put the electrical, plumbing, heating and walls into some semblance of repair.

The Ninth Ward basically looks much the same as it did about a month after the water receded. There is a woman who just wants what she was promised, help to get back into her own home.

When the hurricane hit, she graciously agreed to take care of a neighbour’s pet, but when she found no help coming after 2 weeks, she had to make the decision to shoot not only the neighbour’s pet, but her own two.

All this woman wants is for the utility company to get the power back to her street, find someone who can help her get the drywall and other rotting material out and get things going again.

Where the hell are those who promised help?

There are still kids living with their families on the street because they are still waiting for the help they were promised. Remember all the outpouring of good feelings and offers?

Apparently these people don’t deserve any of the promises.

I know some of the Canadians have gone down to Saint Bernard Parish just after Christmas to put back the services and structure for those who have perhaps the hardest jobs. Firefighters, police officers, ambulance attendants, even hospital workers are still living in homes that are literally falling apart around them?

What the hell? How can anyone expect these people to work, sleep, and keep their calm in situations when they have a home that is still a mess more than 2 bloody years after Hurricane Katrina left?

Canadian wood workers and carvers took down a huge load of carved wooden toys to the kids who went through hell in the Dome, perhaps were raped in the washrooms, and yet are still living on the street!

If you really want to help, either write the congressman/woman or Senator in your area, or better yet, go to your local home renovation supply store and buy a gift certificate for Habitat for Humanity. They are in that area, getting those who need homes built, and the people who get the homes must work on the houses.

I find it hard to see any credibility in the US Adminstration telling the world they are “restoring” places like Iraq and Afghanistan, when they apparently cannot even restore their own country areas. There are no insurgents shooting in New Orleans, Saint Bernard Parish, the Ninth Ward, so what the hell is their excuse now?