So Rep. Jerry Lewis is embarrassed by free speech (read: 1st ammendment). I'm embarrassed that he's an elected representative.

Thank you, Representative Lowey, for upholding their first amendment right to protest.

Lewis should be "embarrassed for the entire committee." Not from protestors, but for Congress' ineptitude to hold rice or anyone in the administration responsible for anything. Poor condi to have to put up with freedom in the US.

It is true...Rice is a murderer with 1.2 million dead Iraqi's and countless Palestinians and many others. Go Code Pink!

The woman is a witch.

She deserves such treatment while in office and, I sincerely hope she will get the same when she demits office soon.

We all reap what we sow.

Remember how her actions resulted in little Ali being left without hands?

She has caused a lot of bloodletting in Iraq and therefore has a lot to answer for.

I'm embarrassed by a man named Jerry Lewis! What a fool, or rather what a criminal.

Code Pink, again, the conscience of a people colonized by corporations.

when an opportunity presents itself, these are good questions to ask of all those who profess deep faith, and are instrumental to bringing misery, maiming and death to many civilians-
did God ask you to do this? will he forgive you for this?
did this toddler bring this upon herself?

GO CODE PINK!

Very approbriate from Code Pink. Rep. Lewis you and Condiliesa lot, not only have the blood of the approximately 4000 patriotic soldiers and some estimate as many as 1 million Iraqi's; but also the blood of the Constitution on your hands.These people are just acolytes of the Bush crime family!

It's her last appearance there because she's got to get ready to be John McCain's running mate. The Dems are running a black man and a woman, the Repubs will have both in one vice-presidential candidate. And she isn't afraid to blow up people. Oh, wait...neither are the Dems.

DAB - Hey! Witches are more ethical that SS Condoleeza Rice. Actually, witches HAVE ethics ... not sure Ms. Rice does ...

Chanting "War Criminal!" They know her name!

condo stupid. What a fool. Only someone as "intellectually challenged" as littl ole W. would have such an incompetent working in the State of War Department. What stupid fools all.

What U.S. Constitution?

The U.S. Congresses of the past 7 years have decided that a Tyrannical Democracy is better than a Constitutional Democracy.

The latest U.S. Congress has allowed the list of unknown terrorists to grow from 23,000 known Al Qaeda Members in 2001 to now over 900,000 on a list of suspected terrorists. Of course,those terrorists could be "Code Pink" demonstrators or anyone who questions the policies of Cheney/Bush.....

KBR, a subcontractor of Halliburton and accused of "Fraud" by the GAO, has been granted the contract to build "Detention Centers" (Over 350 million dollars) throughout the U.S. Watch out "Common Dreams and Code Pink"!!!!

That one may smile and smile and be a villain.....

Effective, creative- ohyah, a picture says a thousand words, and the image of those blood-red hands held above Rice's contrived, sinister demeanor will become super-famous- in 10,20, 50- 100 years from now, they'll be showing THAT pic when they mention Condoleeza Rice, because that's the part of history she helped create, it's WHO SHE IS!

No matter how many are killed Bush and Rice keep those stupid smiles on their faces.Bet impeachment and tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity would wipe the smile off--if only congress had the gut's to do their duty.

But Congress will apparently never do their job, which is to protect the Nation from such a blatant power imbalance- our country is bankrupt, our military strength diminished to such a degree that we will be in sorry shape should we be approached by any REAL threats. That's the Bush/Cheney/Rice legacy. They are smiling still because they are so very rich and powerful and feel immune to the bitter realities they helped create.
And I also sense in their creepy smiles their hideous thoughts: "We actually got away with it".

Condyloma Rice is a wart, a useless piece of flesh hanging off this earth.

Hasn't josephmorton learned by now that nobody in the Bush regime is incompetent and they have made no mistakes.

In 2001 they planned to turn the US into a third world nation and their plan has succeeded. Wealth in the US continues to be transferred from the 99% to the 1% at an ever incresing rate. They have succeeded despite low popularity ratings, so why would they care about future popularity ratings?

The neocons continue to be financially enriched beyond their wildest dreams and they don't care if they leave the US and most of its citizens bankrupt.

We as a people need to take back what has been taken from us. Its time to kindly escort the folks who have grown fat from ego and greed from there illisionary edifices of power. We start with the K Street Corridor which seethes with a glutinous stench of corporate fascists who have enslaved humanity since time immemorial. The next is the Federal Reserve-the bankers who have started many wars to increase profit and who have also enslaved us. The next are the finger puppets of the Whitehouse and Congress. They do the bidding of the puppet masters which I have already mentioned. Its time to be free. Its time for us to take charge of our inalienble rights. Its time to wake up.
I have abbroggated my parental rights to the state by sending my children to an institution that has taught them not to think but to not question authority and to be good consumers/wage slaves. I'm trying to repair what's been done. Its not easy.

We were also given a docuemnt that tells us what to do when unbridled power, ego and greed goes unchecked.
Its time to use it.

Declaration of Independence
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident:

That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

And she just sits there smiling...I wonder how much she'll be smiling in the jail cell (or place in Hell) that awaits her? Shame, shame, shame, Ms. Con-the-people Rice!

A forced smile cannot mask a dark heart. War crimes will stalk her the rest of her days.

Chevronlizza isn't the only Sanfordized jingo that's a war criminal.

One wonders that if she were convicted crimes, would she still have that same s_____ e_____ing smile on her face as the trap door opens and the noose tightens.

It is well past time that scum like Condisleaza Rice are put out of their comfort zone.

Unfortunately, Lewis is my representative. Ugh.

Maybe we all should be putting red dye (food coloring, maybe) on our hands as a gesture of what we think of this corrupt bunch of fascist thugs. And to think that so many Americans (and other freedom-loving peoples around the world) sacrificed so much during WWII to stop such heinous monsters.

A red hand would be a good reminder of what really goes on in 'our' goverment - maybe we should start using such a symbolic gesture so other people will know that they have friends who disagree with fascism.

As a traditional conservative, I am outraged that these neo-fascists have smeared our good name with their evil. They would have hung at Nuremberg - but today they just smirk at us, just as Hitler's henchmen once did. And petty political thugs are brought up on charges at the Hague - what a joke.

I'm going to look for that red dye today - the make-up people can tell us which ones are safe to use continuously - which is what we should do until freedom and democracy are restored in this battered world. After all, if we don't all hang together, we will surely all hang separately. We need a symbol of solidarity - anyone else have a better idea?

Imagine that, a republican that doesn't believe Americans should speak out against Bush's war crimes. All I can say is I hope we as a nation never have to endure the likes of Rice, Bush, Cheney, or for that matter, Jerry Lewis ever again!

How about a red ribbon armband? I've got one and I'm going to start wearing it today. I don't care what those thugs do to me - my life is over anyway, and it's the least I can do to give hope to others. Our children deserve better - our parents tried to make the world safe for us, but somewhere along the way, we dropped the ball. Maybe it's time to start taking responsiblity - and risks - because doing nothing hasn't worked. And we know elections here are a farce - as in any other dictatorship. What are they going to do - ban wearing an armband?

I'm with Rep. Lewis; I hope we never do anything so civil to the likes of C. Rice again too.

Lewis is my representative, and I use the term very loosely. This guy should be in jail. His very dear friend and campaign donor, defense contractor Brent Wilkes, just got sentenced to prison for bribing former Cal rep Duke Cunningham. Wilkes secured millions in federal defense contracts when Lewis chaired the Appropriations Committee. A few years ago, his chief of staff left his employ to become a lobbyist for people he came to know because they had business before the App Committee. After making mega millions as a lobbyist, he decides to return to Lewis' staff, turning over all his clients to his replacement in the lobbying firm, who happens to be HIS WIFE, so now his spouse can lobby him on behalf of his old clients. How sweet a deal is that? Lewis never met an earmark he didn't like, especially if there was a hefty campaign or PAC contribution attached. He is as crooked as the day is long, and his staff has turned lobbying his office into a very profitable cottage industry.

Write the US Attorney in Los Angeles and tell him to move the investigation of Lewis to the front burner...

Just because he's well liked in his district (because he brings it a fair share of earmarks, too,especially after wildfires) doesn't make him any less amoral, or criminal. He's an opportunist who has used his role on appropriations committees to enrich himself and his donors. I realize that this is peanuts compared to the travesties of BushChenCo, but we have to start somewhere. Duke Cunningham's case led us to Lewis...we can't let them drop the investigation or slow it because it's an election year. Lewis ought to be in an orange jumpsuit, not standing for re-election.

He may have been embarrassed for the committee, but it's Californians in his district who should be truly embarrased...for giving that man over 30 years to build his personal fortune at the expense of the people he's supposed to serve.

I had a dear friend who wore a black arm band every day for years after the Mai Lai massacre to protest the atrocity. He had no problem explaining to anyone who asked what it meant to him. He died with it on. I think a red arm band to protest the atrocities committed by the USA would be a potent symbol, or a red bracelet.

Look at her, she's happy to be considered a war criminal; she's got a big smile on her face. She's proud of it. A woman with no conscience.

Bush! Rice! CIA! How many kids did you kill today??

Lewis: "I hope we never do this to the likes of you again," he told Rice.

I hope the WORLD never has to endure the likes of Condi again. Ever. We have all endured the likes of her more than any beings deserve. Let her slink off and make her additional millions among her own kind in the corporate world. And may all that money bring her exactly as much contentment in the remainder of her life as she deserves. Bush sycophant!

DAB, please do not insult witches.

deejwade, you saved me the trouble of dishing the dirt on Lewis. Some of his Repub colleagues in the area also have their dirty laundry, including Gary Miller and Ken Calvert with some shady real estate stuff.

Condi's smile does it for me. I thought that maybe she had smarts but was a fool, but I am now further into the psychopath hypothesis.

gde, Condi is smiling because she is thinking of what is most important in her life: those tens of thousands of dollars that she's going to drop at the Ferragamo shoe boutique she's visiting, right after this meeting!

condi is heading for a bright happy future. and you that comment here are not heading for a bright happy future. now, who is the fool?
you people sat around and complained on cd while the murderous thugs did the tough hard work needed to get their jobs done. now, who are the fools?
sacrifice and hardship are needed to effect real lasting change and all you guys can do is complain on the internet. well, your time to act is over. you will sacrifice and feel the hardship but you will not reap the rewards because condi got them all. you blew it. seems you are the fools.

"Code Pink, like IVAW, are among the truest patriots": John Hancock and Samuel Adams from their graves.

Bright future, with red bloody hands over your head...I wonder how Ms Rice likes her picture, she could apply for a job with any despot outfit in the world and just attach that picture.

Incompetent, dysfunctional, corporate-oil dilettante for the Bush Doctrine. As National Security Advisor, she and the other Vulcan/neoconservatives seemed to allow 9/11 to happen.
Humanity chooses the religion of violence, without fail, with genetic reliability. For the indoctrinated brutalists, violence is a comfortable weapon of choice, as it always had been; cheered on by the masses. With business-like precision, a successful leader won't have any feelings of remorse or apathy for decisions that have resulted in the deaths of perhaps more then 1 million people. to do so would then fit our definition of pathology.

Like the rest of this administration, this woman is a sociopath. To the Hague with her.

What's horrific to let settle in your stomach is that:

Many of the sociopaths who've brought our once-half-way-noble nation to shame, decline, and increasingly-likely Ruin, are not of Low IQ's: They are social primitives with PhD's:

Morally/spiritually corrupted creatures, who, because of severe Ego deficits [easily conpensated for with the intellectual help of certifiably-mad Ego-based political theorists like Ayn Rand], have used their ill-gotten public power to pound our decent-but-naive populace, and the institutions of our nation, back-into Pre-Enlightenment perceptions of Truth and Justice. In a phrase: Back to the Law of the Jungle/Back to Rule by Arguments From Unquestionable Authority.

You must read Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged,' to really comprehend what internally-empowers/romanticizes these otherwise, seemingly-smart people to become moral and political monsters. The entire normative basis of the neocon movement {aside from its consciously cynical co-option of the mentally-ill, anti individual-freedom American Evangelical Movement], comes not from wisdom of emotionally balanced lovers of freedom/Reason like John Locke, but from an hystericalized, fetidly-frothing kernal of mindless psychological outrage about the [grantedly, real] horrors of the 1917 Russian Revolution.

It was Rand's writerly 'gift' to be able to 'credibly' compact and absolutize non-absoltizeable Enlightenment moral arguments about individual Freedom into an un-yielding, personal Ego creed which she, in turn, illicitly linked to the alleged intentions of the USA's founding thinkers.

How this perceptual/epistemoplogical 'virus' of Rand and her fawning, neo-libertarian compatriots managed to infect the intellectual ground of the neo-con movement and the nation's Reagan-era think tanks, is another matter.

It remains for now, that average, tolerant, instinctually-progressive USA'ers, understand who and what they are up against, as they try to rescue their Republic from mass-perceptual hypnosis and political fascism-in-the-name-of-freedom.

Behind the idiot puppet Bush, are hundreds of intellectual/normative Think Tanks (happily and vastly funded by conscience-less mega corporations], who hold enormous perceptual sway over what a now fully-mega-corporatized news media [mis]shape as both politcal and moral Reality.

Oh my God! A Democrat (Rep. Nita Lowey) that actually stood up for once! We must be in an election cycle.

CODE PINK ROCKS!

namaste March 13th, 2008 9:17 pm
Awesome post!

blueapples26 March 13th, 2008 1:44 pm

You posted something very disturbing about throwing off our government. That is very subversive and I just wanted to let you know that you are in violation of the Homeland Security Regulation 01984 and the Patriot Act. You could be thrown in jail forever without even the right to see an attorney. You could end up being sent to Gitmo for posing a threat to the established order. Be careful when posting such treasonous material!

~Paper cut~

I completely agree, come on CD'ers ??? Enough complaining already, Yes it is important to have a forum of discussion but when does this turn into action?
I am not in the US and not a US citizen, so apart from the internet I can't protest the abhorant things your current administration has done and will do.
Americans, all of you that have a brain or havent been brainwashed by you F**king bias media, ACT. THE WORLD IS WATCHING CLOSELY.

Please remember this at election time.
It's time to clean the house.

...heard a homeless lady talking 'bout
condi was a reptilian... then i looked
closer.... condi is a reptilian!!!!
condi is a reptile. take a look
at that furrowed asp brow
condi-bride-of-chucky bobble head
murderer rice. may she rot in hell.

Gestalt March: "Behind the idiot puppet Bush, are hundreds of intellectual/normative Think Tanks..."

Think Tanks? You mean, "Sensory Deprivation Tanks", no?

I'm sorry to say it because she is such a hapless twit, but Condi belongs in prison.

I love Code Pink!

If you want a jolt to remind you how correct Code Pink is about the horrors that Bush, Rice and company have wrought in Iraq, watch my short YouTube video. It's aimed at my Senator, Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) but applies to the entire war criminal community in DC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmRaKLilM2Q