Up Against the Wall, Bushie!

Various voices on the right are raised in anger, attacking the New York Times for publishing a story about the government snooping on international financial transactions. These include rabid Congressmen, and also the VP and President themselves.

Mr Bush said the disclosure had made it "harder to win this war on terror".

"We're at war with a bunch of people who want to hurt the United States of America. And for people to leak that programme and for a newspaper to publish it, does great harm to the United States of America," he said.

On the Hill,

The Republican chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security said earlier that the New York Times should be prosecuted for the publication.

"The New York Times is putting its own arrogant, elitist, left-wing agenda before the interests of the American people,", Peter King told Fox News television.

I would like to call for a criminal investigation and imprisonment. It has been proven that a high government official leaked such information as long ago as October 2001. Before we get to the New York Times, let's put that man up against the wall.

As you may remember, I made it clear that part of winning the war against terror would be to cut off these evil people's money; it would be to trace their assets and freeze them, cut off their cash flows, hold people accountable who fund them, who allow the funds to go through their institutions; and not only do that at home, but to convince others around the world to join us in doing so.

Thus far, we've frozen $6 million in bank accounts linked to terrorist activity. We've frozen 30 al Qaeda accounts in the United States and 20 overseas. And we're just beginning.

Talk about giving aid to the enemy! Now the terrorists know that we are tracing their finances, and trying to cut off their cash flows! What kind of loathsome scum puts his own interests ahead of the nation's?

I guess it's just the sort of thing one might expect from a serial flag desecrator.



As this photo shows, he has a record of appearing in public in this country and abroad scribbling on the flag with a black Sharpie, favorite tool of many grafiti artists. He should be brought to justice for violating US Code Title 4, Chapter 1, §8(g):

The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.

Until this criminal is in jail, none of us will be safe.

Update: For a far more serious, detailed and thoughtful piece on the subject of the assault on the Times (and Bush-critical media in general), I direct you to this (as usual) excellent post by Glenn Greenwald.