Orwell’s Hell
Jesus Christ, it's getting harder and harder to hold out any hope for the human race. What kind of sick Orwellian minds can tout a "Clear Skies" bill that cuts pollution regulation and a "Healthy Forests" initiative that expands logging (to prevent wildfires, obviously)? Who are these shysters that appoint oil and coal industry lobbyists to EPA advisory posts, timber lobbyists to the forest protection services and a Pentagon official who supports circumventing torture bans and incarcerating US citizens without trial or announcement of charges? By the way, this last psychopath (William Haynes II) has also issued statements that destroying endangered bird habitats would
benefit nature lovers because "bird watchers get more enjoyment spotting a rare bird than they do spotting a common one.
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These same Orwellian minds revealed themselves quite starkly in June. An amendment to the Defense Authorization Act sought to make it criminal (and punishable) for a defense contractor to engage in "war profiteering". We've all heard the reports of the huge contractors, awarded no-bid contracts in sweetheart deals with Cheney and his ilk, running up huge invoices with little or no connection to services actually rendered; this amendment would allow the US to defend it's taxpayers' money against such horrendously dishonest practices. However, all 55 of the Senate's Republicans voted against the amendment, while 43 of 45 Democratic senators voted in favor.
Senator Leahy states that current US law does not specifically ban war profiteering.
55 out of 55 Republicans believe it should stay this way.
