Edgar gives us the background on Holder. Buhdydharma tells us about the petition sent to Holder.
Sorry to break the reality here, but, there will be nothing done.
As an ex-cop, I am fully aware of the mechanics of investigation. For those who remember me as “Motley Patriot”, you know I’m a military-trained bomb tech who went into law enforcement after my military service ended. A motivated investigator can see the writing on the wall. Conversely, an investigator can sense when an investigation is being forced to end, or worse, not even wished by superiors to be started. Leadership starts at the top people, and, investigators aren’t the top of the rung. Buhdydharma lets us know that Holder hears us that we need Bush to be investigated.
Unfortunately, it’s not Holder’s call. Just read his words, “Enough folks. I hear you.” Stop. Please stop. It’s not my call. Quit bugging me about it. That is what I read in that reply. Whether or not he agrees that it should be investigated, it is ultimately Obama’s call whether it will be investigated — and we know how that will go — NOT.
While many of us want justice, just think for a minute what investigations into Bush will reveal.
– Just how corrupt our own government was over 8 years in every aspect from the DoD, CIA, FBI, and White House.
Does Obama really want to open that can of worms when a nation needs to see America as regaining its credibility? To reveal just how brazen the law-breaking became? No. You know why? Because the establishment must remain no matter what.
People want to know why Nixon got pardoned? The establishment must remain. People want to know why Iran-Contra officials got pardoned? The establishment must remain.
If you reveal all the dirty laundry of our government to the citizens, the establishment may simply fail. Face it, people simply wouldn’t believe in it anymore.
With all we know, what we don’t know is even worse.
You think Obama and Biden will let that out? Think again.
The problem here is self-perpetuating — let one crook off and another ultimately takes his place. We saw it with Nixon to Reagan — Reagan to Bush Sr. — Bush Sr. to Bush Jr. — with many of the same actors coming back, time and time again.
Yet, to expose it to the public, you risk the entire establishment falling.
Bush and Cheney know this. They know they will never be brought to justice in the United States. Not because they don’t deserve it, but, simply, because every President who did bad things has walked, lest, the entire establishment falls.
Don’t fear Obama. He should run a good Presidency. Fear what comes AFTER Obama. It can, and will be, worse — or didn’t we see Nixon’s break-in go to Bush Jr.’s torturing people?
Next? All of us are going to be the enemy to the state…
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The problem is that if we don’t try to pressure them into starting investigations and prosecutions,… then you ARE right.
No one ever got anything done by not trying, I suppose. We are starting to make a little progress on moving the overton window in the direction it needs to be moved to get this done. It’s got a ways to move yet before the possibility can become a reality, but it’s at least starting to move in the right direction.
We have about 1600 signatures on the petition. We need millions to guarantee it being done, or we need to get to a point where the petition and the blog coverage of it sparks wave after wave of media coverage and pressure.
Moving The Overton Window: How Ideas Become Political Reality:
And there are also cases, as with the current petition, where a focus on direct policy advocacy is in itself also a focus on educating lawmakers and the public in an attempt to change the political climate.