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Larry W. Bryant, who recently retired from a 36-year career in writing and editing for U. S. Army publications, operates the Washington, D. C., office of the public-interest group Citizens Against UFO Secrecy from his home in Alexandria, Va. A native of Shenandoah, Va., he attended high school and college in southeast Virginia.

"My government career," he says, "paralleled my UFOlogical pursuits, not always amicably. That certainly related to my having filed more UFO-related lawsuits in federal court than has anyone else in the entire universe."

to hear Jerry Pippin interview Larry Bryant and to read about Larry's book, "UFO Politics in the White House."

You can contact Larry by calling him at 703-931-3341 or emailing him at larryb@jerrypippin.com. 

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From: "Larry W. Bryant" overtci@cavtel.net Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:37:23 -0400 Subject: Letter-to-Editor for Publication in the Alexandria, Va., Gazette-Packet To: gazette@connectionnewspapers.com

TO: Editor The Alexandria, Va., Gazette-Packet Alexandria, VA

FROM: Larry W. Bryant 3518 Martha Custsis Drive Alexandria, VA 22302 (Phone: 703-931-3341)

DATE: June 11, 2008

While the Bush-Cheney RICO junta rolls along impervious to the two impeachment resolutions filed against it by Rep. Dennis Kucinich, my own congressman, James P. Moran, is missing the opportunity to jump-start those resolutions by supporting my citizen's arrest warrant against Bush (see the related online petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/arrest/petition.html).

On April 16, 2008, I'd sent a letter to Moran asking that he intervene on my behalf to determine why the U. S. Marshals Service has failed to respond to my March 12th written request that it promptly serve the warrant upon Bush. Derived from common law, this people's remedy rightfully points out that no-one in America -- especially our top leader -- can escape the long arm of justice. As an admitted felon (and as the soon-to-be-declared No. 1 Fugitive from Justice) for his role in authorizing the National Security Agency's warrantless spying upon U. S. citizens' telecommunications, Bush must not be allowed to dodge any accountability for such criminality.

Unfortunately, Mr. Moran's dodging my two e-mailed follow-ups to my original letter seeking his assistance merely enables Bush's escape.

Come on, congressman: do YOUR constitutional duty here; do not by your inaction impede this last-resort action by your constituents and fellow citizens. Fax a copy of this letter over to the Marshals Service with a note from you demanding to know why they're stonewalling my request for serving the ultimate citizen's arrest warrant.

LARRY W. BRYANT Alexandria

Chapter 81. Malign Intent
06/06/08

[Author's note: Former Bu$ch-Cheezey White(wash) House press secretary Scott McClellan's smoking-gun memoir -- What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception -- reveals that Herr Bu$ch had confided in McClellan that he, Bu$ch, had encouraged action leading to the leakage of Valerie Plame Wilson's clandestine CIA identity to the press. And, as the history of this sordid episode in presidential arrogance tells us, one of Bu$ch's co-schemers, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was found guilty of obstructing justice in his role of trying to cover up any W-H involvement in that scandal. An underling takes the fall while the chief orchestrator -- Bu$ch -- thinks he can go (Scott-)free? Not if the House Judiciary Committee finally jerks its head from its self-imposed sand-of-denial long enough to hold impeachment hearings on this seminal issue: Plame-gate. Even if the investigators were to find that the team of B-C Retaliation, Inc. broke no known law when it conspired to teach Plame and husband Joe Wilson a lesson about disloyalty, we certainly have a case of official malfeasance, an ethics/morality issue made all the more critical because of its being initiated in the highest executive office of U. S. government. At this point, Bu$ch and Cheezey should undergo immediate polygraph testing as to their role in Plame-gate. Why? Because such testing is routine in certain cases of federal security-clearance-suitability determination. Abuse of presidential authority certainly raises questions about Bu$ch-Cheezey's suitability to handle and safeguard our nation's classified information. This (admitted) violation of the public trust demands the appropriate remedial action, starting with the impeachment process and with concurrent revocation of both Bu$ch's and Cheezey's security clearances. Meanwhile, my citizen's arrest warrant (http://www.petitiononline.com/arrest/petition.html) against Bu$ch, as served via my March 12, 2008, transmittal letter to the U. S. Marshals Service in Washington, D. C., still awaits a response from that agency -- and from U. S. Rep. James P. Moran, who apparently feels quite comfortable, thank you, in ignoring my April 16th request that he intervene on my behalf with that agency. I therefore encourage readers of this e-serialized book, The Bu$ch-Cheezey Impeachment Chronicles, to write to Moran to remind him of his responsibility not to ignore his constituents' public-issue concerns. (You may wish to configure your letter as an e-mail message to me for forwarding to Moran's web site's "contact form," which limits itself to use by verifiable constituents in his district of Virginia.) Even if both the Congress and the Marshals Service continue to remain derelict in their duty, Herr Bu$ch shall have a new, dubious distinction come Inauguration Day 2009: America's No. 1 Fugitive from Justice.]

PAZAZZO [looking especially preoccupied this morning as she fidgets with her Mount Blanc ballpoint pen]: Well, who would've thought that one of my predecessors would end up snitching on you, Dubya?

BU$CH: That book of his will end up on the remainder list before September, Dora -- trust me. The discerning public knows that it's Scott's unconfirmed word against mine. No jury's gonna convict a person on such "evidence."

PIZAZZO: But what if Scott testifies before the House Judiciary Committee . . .? Aren't all bets off as to your credibility then?

BU$CH [growing testy by the minute]: See here, you officious twit: I'm prill the stesident, and as soon as I declare martial law upon our invading Iran, all those lousy congressional committees will be irrelevant! We prill have the stopaganda on our side, and you still have the duty to keep it up to par.

CHEEZEY [trying to smile]: All right, Dubya, enough of this squabbling! We still have plenty of avenues for damage control here. Anybody know the extent of Scott's health? Any history of heart problems in his family! Does he have a mistress on the side? How much debt is he carrying? And is there someone . . ..

PUKASY [interrupting with a sigh]: We've already assigned a task force to solve the Scott glitch, Dick. Let's take our time to develop the best approach. He's already been taking public hits from some of our pals in the media.

GRATES: And we at DOD already have begun tapping his phone and internet connections. Even though he's no longer a federal employee, we now view him as a major security risk. No telling how much material he might've lifted from its secure confines. He might be planning to publish an even more-damaging sequel to his book.

PIZAZZO [studying her watch]: I see we're running a bit late here. Let's break for lunch early and reconvene at one.

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[Shortly after 1:00 p.m., members of the group begin filing back into the Oral Orifice. Cheezey, Pukasy, Grates, and Bu$ch take their seats, waiting for Pizazzo's return. As Bu$ch approaches his chair, he notices a folded sheet of paper lying there. Upon unfolding it, he sees that it's a printout of an e-mail message from Pizazzo, addressed to each member of the group, and bearing the subject "Resignation and Commitment."]

GRATES: What's the matter, Dubya? Whatcha got there?

BU$CH [frowning]: Well, you guys will be gettin' your own copy of this soon enough. It's from Dora, and it doesn't surprise me a damned bit.

CHEEZEY: Go ahead, read it to us.

BU$CH: All right . . you asked for it. She begins: "Last night, in a discussion with my priest, I decided that the time has come for me to resign as White(wash) House press secretary. From Day 1 in this job, I've been appalled and outraged by the malignancy inherent in this corrupt administration. As soon as I came on board months ago, I learned the identity of the mole who'd been gaining access to these sessions. That person has convinced me to join forces in a last-ditch effort to bring your criminality to a halt. Besides sending a copy of this message to various other officials and trusted news-media outlets, I've prepared a series of sworn declarations (with supporting documentation) for delivery to several investigative bodies (including one or more congressional committees). As public reaction to this material gains momentum, I'll sense a great burden's being lifted from my shoulders. I of course urge all of you to submit your own resignations ASAP. So committed am I to this course of action that I shall publicly support Larry W. Bryant's citizen's arrest warrant against you, Dubya, unless you resign immediately. I have no illusion that my turning state's evidence can undo any of the damage you've all inflicted upon our republic, but I do hope I'll emerge from this mess with a clear conscience and with a key role in preventing you from doing further damage. See you in court. -- Dora P."

http://www.bushbusiness.com/Bryant_OP.htm

larryb@jerrypippin.com

Chapter 80. Hasta la Vista, Petrodollars!
04/29/08

the vox populi
gets primed every time we plant
an IMPEACH HIM sign,
or give away one of our
IMPEACH HIM bumperstickers

LWB (29 Apr 08)

[Author's note: The following LWB comment is reproduced from its original 15 Apr 08 posting upon the web site of opednews.com (http://tinyurl.com/62j6hu). It responds to Op-Ed News chief editor Rob Kall's article "Time to Pepper Obama and Clinton with Progressive Questions, Like Impeachment":

== Impeachment Must Be a Bipartisan Effort ==

In my months-long voluntarism for the Washington Area Impeachment Fund, LLC (http://www.waifllc.org), I occasionally explain to people whom I encounter during my IMPEACH HIM yard-sign canvassing of neighborhoods in Northern Virginia: "If you have a criminal occupying the nation's highest elective office, it doesn't matter which party (s)he represents. A crook is a crook is a crook."

A few years ago, at Camp Democracy on the Mall in Washington, D. C., former congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman told the audience that it's up to the people as to whether we'll get impeachment of the Bush-Cheney junta. If enough of us want -- and work for -- impeachment, we should get it. After her speech, I strolled from the tent and met a couple of men selling IMPEACH HIM lapel buttons for a dollar apiece. At that time, they were applying all the proceeds toward pro-impeachment ads placed in various metro-D.C. newspapers. Moved by this prospect of echoing the vox populi, I teamed up with this small band of activists, have stayed with them since, and now help apply the button-sales proceeds toward funding our give-away of IMPEACH HIM yard signs to people promising to give them loving homes.

Join me in this self-supporting, grassroots adventure -- so that we can show Ms. Holtzman and the current Congress how the People's Remedy can indeed lead Congress to long-overdue action on our behalf.

http://www.bushbusiness.com/Bryant_OP.htm

http://tinyurl.com/3at8mz

Meanwhile, on April 16, 2008, I sent the following letter to my congresskritter, Rep. James P. Moran of Alexandria, Va. As of this writing (April 29th), I've yet to receive a reply. Stay tuned:

"In April 2007, as the 14th co-sponsor of Rep. Dennis Kucinich's proposed resolution to impeach Vice President Richard Bruce Cheney, you demonstrated a rare form of courage and commitment toward bringing the current administration to account for its various misdeeds.

"Once again, I ask that you renew that restorative step in the public's drive toward full accountability and justice. Today, you can do this by contacting the U. S. Marshals Service, on my behalf, to determine why that agency has yet to respond to my CERTIFIED MAIL letter of March 12, 2008 (copy enclosed), which transmits my Citizen's Warrant for the Arrest of Pres. George W. Bush (viewable at the internet web site of http://www.petitiononline.com/arrest/petition.html "No federal agency -- especially one dealing in matters of law enforcement -- should be excused for failing to respond to a citizen's request or inquiry. If the U. S. Marshal Service intends to ignore my March 12th request, then it must satisfactorily justify that nonfeasance lest the agency be deemed by the public as being complicit in Bush's admitted defiance of public law. During this protracted constitutional crisis, the continuance of official business-as-usual won't suffice as the necessary remedy for presidential conduct detrimental to sound self-government and the rule of law.

"Accordingly, I ask that you furnish me the name and telephone number of the case worker to whom you are assigning this matter. By snail-mail, I'm sending to you a signed printout of this e-formatted letter.

"Thank you for your any assistance you can render in this matter."]

PIZAZZO: So, guys . . .. What do y'all plan to do with your 600-dollar IRS rebates? I already know what I'm gonna do with mine -- invest every cent of it in stock with a certain British oil refinery, QCM [Queen's Clean Machine, Ltd., a subsidiary of Cheezeyburton, of course].

CHEEZEY [slurping his coffee]: Good choice, Dora. My wife's gonna do the same thing. I've told her that, for every dollar she puts into that firm, I'll double it from my own pocket. The way I see it, we've got to realize, now that the dollar's value soon will match the peso's, that there's no better way to stave off potential stock losses than to divert most of our cash into eurodollar-based markets.

PUKASY: Yeah . . . especially now that the oil-producing countries are switching over to major currencies other than the U. S. dollar as payment for their oil-and-gas commodities.

BU$CH: Ditto, guys! I've had a change of plans, too.

GRATES [spilling some coffee onto his necktie]: How so, Dubya? Other than your retiring to that 28,000-acre ranch in Paraguay, I didn't know you had any plans.

BU$CH: Well, Roberto, pal: that's the point here. I've decided to put the entire property up for sale -- including that special, underground interrogation facility that the CIA wanted to use for future renditioned suspects. Ya see, the Paraguayans recently had a regime change down there that's hostile to American interests, so I certainly don't wanna get caught in any nationalization of real estate. So . . ..

GRATES [interrupting and pouring himself a fresh cup of coffee]: Not only that Dubya -- but you also don't want to get snared by a war-crimes dragnet that might emerge from that new, left-wing regime. If you do make a huge capital gain from your property sale, you might consider applying it to even bigger ranch land in Colombia. I have some contacts down there, if you'd like to work 'em.

BU$CH: Let's discuss that further after lunch, okay? Right now, I wanna focus on all the hoopla about our "torture" policy.

PUKASY: "Torture"? Please try to use a less-extreme term here, all right?

BU$CH: Well, ol' Gary Boldwater, in his famous defense of liberty, wouldn't have considered torturing TERRISTS a form of extremism, right? And if he were commander in chief today, he'd have already nuked Iran by now. In fact, as a pilot, he probably would've flown the designated B-2 over to Tehran himself. What would it take to bring THOSE "extremists" to their knees -- an 80-megaton H-bomb [holding his arms out as if they were wings]? Now, THERE was a commander for ya!

GRATES: But, Dubya, I think John McLame has the same potential as your now-dead hero. And he probably still can fly a plane. I bet he'd be willing to serve as the first nukulur kamikaze pilot, humming "Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" as he nose-dives into the biggest mosque in Tehran.

PIZAZZO [shutting down her laptop and glancing toward the Rose Garden]: We've got 10 more minutes before my meeting with the trade minister from Mexico -- he's wanting to discuss how best to further ENRONize their oil industry. Let's reconvene at 1400 hours.

larryb@jerrypippin.com

Chapter 79. An Ode to Franklinesque Activism
04/05/08
 

writers write
what they write because
they can write, right?

-- LWB (5 Apr 08)

[Author's note: So, too, do certain activists of most any stripe pursue their calling to promote political reform, to right a wrong, to prevent injustice, to set records straight, to protest unfairness, to petition officialdom, to motivate others, to expose corruption, to question authority (and to test the answers). Just as I feel that most native Britons are born with the "writing gene," I also feel that your garden-variety activist's propensity for activism springs from a genetic seed nurtured by a self-propelled mind-set. Imagine the powerhouse you get when a British writer (e.g., Doris Lessing) becomes an activist . . . or when an American activist of British or Irish descent (possibly Cindy Sheehan) directs her writerly talent toward a worthy cause. America without its writer-activists/activist-writers would be like an emasculated hog fattened up for its trip to the slaughterhouse. If only, today, we could dig up Ben Franklin and clone him! But, since Uncle Ben happened to have been a reincarnationist, perhaps we could dispense with the clonation scheme and simply trust that his karma eventually will see to it that his evolved spirit once again will find a carnal home in the republic he helped create.]

PIZAZZO [perusing an ad in People magazine for a new kind of Botox treatment, wondering if the plastic surgery department at the Bethesda (Md.) Naval Medical Center could work her in for a free session or two]: Say, Mikey, if Ben Franklin were alive today -- and as active as he was during his thirties -- do ya s'pose he'd end up on the government's no-fly list?

PUKASY [flashing a dung-eatin' grin]: What a timely query, Dora! I certainly can tell you this: thanks to seditionist Bryant's "serving" his so-called citizen's arrest warrant against Dubya, via his March 12, 2008, letter to the U. S. Marshals Service [ http://www.petitiononline.com/arrest/petition.html ], we've just placed HIM on the no-fly list (as well as on the no-Amtrac list). He'll have to cool his activist heels in that 800-square-foot condo of his for the rest of his lousy life.

PIZAZZO: You mean you can keep him on that list even though his "warrant's" transmittal letter contains no threatening language or other unlawful content?

PUKASY: Well, that whole "citizen's arrest" project of his -- including its online petition -- amounts to gross disrespect for the Office of the President, an offense that ought to carry a penalty of life-imprisonment. He's lucky we've yet to ship his ass to Guantanamo!

GATES: Uh-huh . . .. Of course, if we can manage to "Spitzerize" Bryant and dump him into Gitmo, we've got to make sure to keep him in solitary, away from any chance of his influencing the other inmates as to their human rights.

PUKASY: So far, though, Bryant has been covering his covert tracks fairly well. For instance, our ongoing surveillance of his financial affairs shows only a modicum of donations to political candidates. But we'll keep . . ..

CHEEZEY [interrupting with a yawn]: If he wins his expected FOIA lawsuit against the CIA -- especially that count pertaining to "Project Cherry" operative turned whistleblower John J. McCarthy, Jr. [http://tinyurl.com/5bsawa ], that victory will further embolden him. Sooner or later, though, he'll foul up and we can waterboard him to seal his fate.

BU$CH: Yeah, Dicky-Pooh . . . no mo' Mr. Nice Guys from us! This stupid "citizen's arrest" warrant of his is worse than those Chicago Catholic students' tossing fake blood onto a church rug. If Bryant follows up, in any way, on his letter to the Marshals Service, I say we oughta arrest HIM for harassment of a public official (me)!

PUKASY: We're certainly prepared for his further harassment, Dubya. If he continues, our freezing of his bank account might be next in our counteroffensive.

PIZAZZO [scrolling the internet on her laptop]: Well, I see here that Bryant's keeping his online petition active even though he's already forwarded at least 400 signatories to the Marshals Service. Let's take another 30 minutes to brain-storm our damage-control strategy on this, shall we?

http://www.bushbusiness.com/Bryant_OP.htm

larryb@jerrypippin.com

Chapter 78. "Impeachment" as "Inflammatory" Language
03/20/08

"Bryant's e-serialized book, 'The Bu$ch-Cheezey Impeachment Chronicles,' is an arsonous act of sedition!" -- Richard Bruce Cheezey (as uttered, on March 19, 2008, during a morning strategy session in the Oral Orifice); Bryant's rejoinder (paraphrasing Samuel Adams): "Well, it does indeed try to 'set brush fires in people's minds.'"
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[Author's note: In his March 17, 2008, reply brief to the government's contention that I, the plaintiff in the First Amendment case of Bryant v. Rumsfeld/Gates, et al., have no right to expect uncensored access to the classified-ad pages of the dozens of U. S-military-base newspapers, my attorney, Jonathan L. Katz, concludes: "Even assuming, arguendo, that the advertising section of CENs [civilian enterprise newspapers] is a non-public forum: 'As the Cornelius Court made clear, viewpoint-based restrictions are impermissible even in non-public fora: "Although a speaker may be excluded from a nonpublic forum if he wishes to address a topic not encompassed within the purpose of the forum . . . or if he is not a member of the class of speakers for whose especial benefit the forum was created . . . the government violates the First Amendment when it denies access to a speaker solely to suppress the point of view he espouses on an otherwise includible subject." Cornelius v. NAACP Legal Def. & Edu. Fund, 473 U. S. [Supreme Court] [788] at 806 [(1985)].'" The government's labeling my rejected ads as "inflammatory" (or "anti-military") merely because of their terms "Blow the Whistle," "Iraqnam," and "impeachment" ought to convince any juror (or judge) that viewpoint discrimination does indeed form the basis for the government's rejection of my series of whistleblower-solicitation ads. As to the issue of subject-matter inclusion/exclusion, Katz points out that the Department of Defense Instruction 5120.4 (paragraph 4.16) "provides for the very type of paid [-ad] submission as Appellant's, to wit: 'Paid advertorials and advertising supplements may be included but must be clearly labeled as advertising and readily distinguishable from editorial content.'" He cites the definition of "advertorial," as published in the online Merriam-Webster dictionary: "an advertisement that imitates editorial format." The U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is expected to set a date, in either late April or early May 2008, for hearing the parties' oral arguments. And I would hope that, at the very least, the ghosts of Charles Dickens, Supreme Court justice William O. Douglas, and renowned First Amendment lawyer James H. Heller will be in attendance.]

PIZAZZO [noticeably aging in her (mostly boring) role as White(wash) House spokeswoman]: You know, guys: on this fifth anniversary of what that sage ol' seditionist Larry Dubya calls "Iraqnam," we probably wouldn't have him to worry about had we not hoodwinked the populace about our true reason for invading and for Occupying Iraqi Land (OIL).

CHEEZEY: Whatcha mean, here, Dora? Explain yourself.

PIZAZZO: Well, you needn't look any further back into the history of Bryant's whistleblower-solicitation-ads project than the spring of 2003. For about 20 years prior, he'd been coasting along with his published ads about the UFO cover-up. Then -- poof! -- as if we'd laid a big rotten egg in LaFayette Park, he seized on the invasion as a cause celebre for escalating his extremist advocacy. He had to have known that his confrontational turn would provoke us into banning publication of any more of his so-called "issue ads." I mean: just look at some of the ads' titles -- "Blow the Whistle on Bush's 'Gulf of Persia' Resolution!"; "Blow the Whistle on the Battle-of-Baghdad Cover-up!"; and "Blow the Whistle on ALL Atrocities at Abu Ghraib!" Had we not chosen to occupy Iraq, we wouldn't be having to spend thousands of dollars defending our censorship in court -- that's all I'm saying.

CHEEZEY [using a silk handkerchief to wipe the sweat from the top of his head]: And you're worrying about several thousand dollars, Dora, when we're in debt by billions and billions and . . .?

GRATES [interrupting so as to cool rising tempers]: Well, so far, at least, our buddies in Korporatemedialand have had enough sense to ignore Bryant's so-called "Bleak House"-redux litigation. For example, the head of the editorial board at the Long Island Museday was attending a cocktail party last week where I was giving an informal talk. As we wound things up, he congratulated me on how well we're handling Bryant v. Dumsfeld/Grates, saying: "If you folks over there in Pentagonia need any help from us (short of outright cash donations, of course), just let us know, Robert." Now, such moral support as that ought to keep Bryant's case out of even the tabloids.

BU$CH: I just hope Bryant runs out of money before he can bring the case to the Supreme Court. Of course, if it does get that far, we know we can count on our new appointees to come through for us, right?

PUKASY: Indeed so, Dubya. But, just remember: the appeals court can decide to remand the case for further deliberations by the district court -- in which case, we're talking about possibly several more months of having to endure this embarrassing lawsuit.

CHEEZEY [sneering]: "Embarrassing"?

PUKASY: Yes, because that nobody-of-a-writer Bryant, operating out of a cozy spot in his so-called "First Amendment briar patch," has been putting us on the defensive for so long a time in his ridiculous project to hold us "accountable."

BU$CH: Not only that: but the more he himself publishes about this case on the internet, and the more he mentions it at public gatherings, the more he keeps it alive.

PIZAZZO: How true, Dubb. My secretary mentioned to me this morning that, on March 18, 2008, Bryant had attended a book-signing/lecture sponsored by a D.C.-based radical group called PEER -- Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, and he . . ..

CHEEZEY [interrupting as he dons his overcoat]: Whose book was it -- Bryant's?

PAZAZZO: Hardly. It was radical agitator Jim Hightower's brand-new, near-ink-wet hardback titled "Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go with the Flow." It's a compendium of success stories from selected ordinary Americans who've chosen to turn their backs on the system in order to create, nurture, and promote their own systems -- in Business, Politics, and Life. Anyway, someone at the event witnessed Bryant giving Hightower one of those infamous IMPEACH HIM lapel buttons, along with an equally offensive "Impeach-on-the-Beach" postcard. Bryant, of course, takes delight in passing out those postcards showing other "ordinary people" lying on the ground in San Francisco to spell out the words "IMPEACH NOW!" and "TREASON." He recently mentioned to that project's coordinator, Brad Newsham of Oakland, Calif., that he -- Bryant -- has decided to honor the project by referring to himself as a "(post)card-carrying extremist." [Rising to help Cheezey with his coat.] See y'all after lunch -- we've got to assemble in the Situation Room to review our latest plans for Iran-Nam.

http://www.bushbusiness.com/Bryant_OP.htm

http://www.markskatz.com/militarycases.htm

larryb@jerrypippin.com

Chapter 77. An Arresting Development
03/13/08

[Author's note: In a formal move to help bring George W. Bush to justice, I've submitted my March 12, 2008, "Letter of Transmittal of Larry W. Bryant's Citizen's Warrant for the Arrest of Pres. George W. Bush." Here's the text of that letter:

"TO: Director, U. S. Marshals Service; Department of Justice; Washington, DC 20530-1000.

"FROM: Larry W. Bryant; 3518 Martha Custis Drive; Alexandria, VA 22302.

"DATE: March 12, 2008.

"Pursuant to the people's remedy under U. S. observance of common law, this letter transmits to the U. S. Marshals Service my enclosed citizen's arrest warrant calling for the immediate arrest, arraignment, and incarceration of President George W. Bush for his publicly admitted violation of federal law and constitutional safeguards as specified in the warrant's text.

"Specifically, his contravention of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, along with his deliberate, premeditated violation of the U. S. Constitution's Fourth Amendment's privacy-protection provisions, leaves me and your agency no recourse but to proceed with this action, whose documentable facts are hereby submitted to the best of my knowledge and belief. You'll find this action echoed and ratified by more than 400 signatories recorded during the past two years via the enclosed printout of my online petition (http://www.petitiononline.com/arrest/petition.html). As you can see from these citizens' accompanying commentary, the petition has a central theme, viz.: in the United States, no person, not even (and especially) the president, is above the law.

"Accordingly, in this exercise of our right (and civic duty) to petition the federal government for redress of our grievance against the cited criminality perpetrated by President Bush, I ask that, upon your receipt of this letter/warrant/petition, you promptly notify me of the name, telephone number, and e-mail address of the Marshals Service action officer to whom you are assigning this case. I also ask that you periodically keep me informed of all your agency's actions taken toward serving this warrant, on my behalf, upon Mr. Bush.

"NOTE: As you comply with this action, I'm keeping the online petition in an active mode for an indefinite period -- so as to garner additional signatures from an outraged and frustrated (but nevertheless mobilized) public insistent that Bush be brought to justice.

"By U. S. Certified Mail, I'm sending to you a signed printout of this e-formatted letter with its enclosure. -- LARRY W. BRYANT" _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

NOTE: Readers of this chapter of "The Bu$ch-Cheezey Impeachment Chronicles" now have an early opportunity to make their views about the Bush citizen's-arrest project known to the U. S. Marshals Service at the above address. The more letters-of-endorsement that the Service receives about the need for, and benefit of, the project, the more difficult it will be for the Service to ignore this historic inroad into the status quo. Of course, I shall welcome receipt of any correspondence you may choose to exchange with the Service. At the very least, the record of that correspondence will tell the world that not every Amerikan was comatose when Bu$ch-Cheezey steered our Ship of State into hostile, dangerous waters. Let the people's mutiny begin!]

PIZAZZO [shaking off some rain droplets from her Italian-made umbrella]: Well, that rain storm is almost over, but I'm afraid that another kind of storm is set to descend on us this week -- thanks to some more antics from that pest in Alexandria, Larry W. Bryant. Tell us about it, Mikey.

PUKASY: Well, Dora, you and I already have begun receiving phone calls from various news media, including some in Canada and Europe [opening his briefcase to pass out copies of Bryant's transmittal letter]. So far, we've been able to dodge them with our standard kiss-off reply: "Since we've just received Bryant's letter of March 12th, we're still in the process of analyzing it and its proposed tasking. We'll get back to you when our staff completes that analysis and duly informs Bryant of it."

BU$CH: Yeah! That'll certainly put 'em in their place. But what if one of those TV Sunday-morning newsmaker talk shows happens to have him on as a guest? Won't that complicate matters for us?

CHEEZEY [thumbing through the petition's printout-listing of signatories]: Relax, Dubya. Such a long shot can't be any more unsettling to us than if PMSBC's Keith Overblow were to broadcast another one of his ass-showing essays.

GRATES: Indeed. Last night, I checked the home page of Bryant's online petition. He's posted there a brand-new "Author's Update." It extols the petition's second anniversary and invites "any past/current/future signers" to take a more direct role in supporting the petition, to include sending their own pro-arrest letters to the Marshals Service. He adds: "If these letters fail to elicit a satisfactory response, then I'd recommend you seek assistance from your members of Congress." What's your take on that escalation, Dick?

CHEEZEY: [clearing his throat]: Uh-huh. Certain Democrap leaders, as we've seen, might secretly want to jump onto Bryant's anti-sovereign-immunity bandwagon if they receive enough pressure from the public. But, I'm betting that no corporately owned news medium will take serious his stupid petition. Right now, all of 'em -- the media and Kongress -- are too caught up in the sticky web of Torturegate and Subpoenagate to fiddle with such obviously wacky extremists like Bryant. By the way, Mike: shouldn't we be examining HIS banking records to see if there's any suspicious pattern of funds transfer?

PUKASY: Already on the case, Dick. Bryant's bank has had his financial activity scrutinized and reported to us for several months now. Seems Bryant's more squeaky-clean than former N. Y. Gov. Spritszer ever dreamed of being. But we intend to keep looking for some dirt. For one thing: either he's making not a cent from his e-serialized book at http://www.bushbusiness.com/Bryant_OP.htm ; or, he's failing to report any earnings from it to the IRS. Our dragnet's fully in place, so . . ..

BU$CH [interrupting as he chews on a hangnail]: Well, I hope your boys at Justice soon will be able to file charges against Bryant for anything from attempted false arrest to sedition to libel. And, by gawd, I want that damned petition yanked from the internet within the next 48 hours!

PIZAZZO: If we choose to go either of those routes, Dubb, you, as the ultimate "public figure," will invite a storm of protest from Bryant's co-conspirators. We'd be tossing him deep down into the briar patch -- where, like a re-energized bunny, he'll be thrivin' 'til we're all out of office.

larryb@jerrypippin.com

Chapter 76. A Tortuous Road to Self-incrimination
02/22/08

Amerikans have become the feces of their species. -- Lewis Kannon (author of Uncharted Certainties: Amerika's Fascist Snake Pit; Lost Horizon Press, LLC -- 2008)

[Author's note: In the United States of Advertising, we have three kinds of TORTURE: illegal torture, legal torture, and yet-to-be devised/perfected torture. By thus lowering ourselves to the standards of our enemy (the "terrorists"), we have little moral ground on which to anchor our form of political leadership. We apparently must endure several more months of a criminal regime bent not only toward its own self-destruction but also toward a course of action/inaction guaranteed to add its name to Earth's Hall of Political Infamy. We have a urinary (not "unitary") 'resident not content with pissing all over the U. S. Constitution, all over internationally accepted norms of human conduct, and all over the future of individual freedom, justice, and civility. Not content with wantonly draining the U. S. treasury to fund endless wars of aggression. And not content with spraying depleted-uranium munitions' residue across the cradle of civilization. As essayist Ted Lang put it in a Feb. 19, 2008, article posted upon the web site of http://www.thepriceofliberty.org (about Bu$ch's proposed ex post facto law absolving the giant telecom corporations of their complicity in the government's post-9/11 warrantless spying upon Americans' telecommunications), the Bu$ch-Cheezey RICO junta insists on continuing to "legalize illegal laws and illegally invalidate legal laws." This Orwellian policy/practice makes itself particularly visible on the issue of state-administered torture. Note: if you were to catch a neighbor in the act of disciplining an errant puppy dog by repeatedly dumping it head-first into a tub of cold water, how long do you suppose it would take for the county's anti-animal-abuse team to show up at the neighbor's front door with a warrant? And yet, how come such water torture when applied (as, e.g., "waterboarding") to U. S.-detained terror suspects gets an official pass? Of course, water torture for humans has a long history, dating back to medieval times. If you Google-search the term "medieval torture devices," you'll come up with dozens of URL links to whet your appetite (one of which -- http://tinyurl.com/38sxb9 -- offers chilling drawings of such devices at work and at play). I would suggest that Bu$ch-Cheezey's hired torturers minimize their playfulness as they carry out their assigned torture sessions. Consider this anecdote from the files of the late psychic Edgar Cayce: a severely disabled person had come to Cayce for a medical "reading." In his self-induced trance state, Cayce observed that the person's affliction could be traced back to ancient times. There, in that earlier incarnation, the person had been a professional executioner. But the karmic retribution turned not on that mere cultural fact -- as on the fact that the executioner had taken an inordinate joy in discharging his executionary duty. So, beware, Herr Cheezey: if you continue smugly to aver that "waterboarding is a no-brainer," you just might be reborn with a pea-sized brain into a family that eschews abortion.]

PIZAZZO [flipping through the ad pages of the latest issue of People magazine]: Whatcha wearing 'round your neck there, Dubya? I didn't know you like ANYTHING pink.

BU$CH: Well, this tie looks better on me than it did on John McPayne. He told me that he daren't wear the thing now that this scandal about his lobbyist gal-pal has resurfaced. If the press finds out that Ms. You-Know-Who bought him this during their weekend visit to the Cayman Islands, then his 'residential aspirations will deflate faster than you can run from a skunk's fart.

CHEEZEY: Harrumph! A colorful necktie merits some colorful language, eh, Dubya?

BU$CH: Hell, yeah, Dicko. Less than a year to go for us -- so why not loosen up a bit (hic)?

GRATES: Have you been hittin' the bottle again, Dub? Does the wife know?

BU$CH: Only sampling some of that rum McPayne gave me when he let me have this tie and a few other incriminating items from that "relationship." I don't intend to use ANY rum for cleaning fluid (hic).

PUKASY: You guys leave me out of this discussion. The public assumes, so far, that I'm the pillar of ethics-in-government, and I certainly don't want that perception to be tarnished by any of your antics, Dubya. Besides, Gen. Walbomb tells me that Larry W. Blindrat is planning to serve his ridiculous Citizens Arrest Warrant against you, Dubya, in a few weeks from now. So, I'll have my damage-control hands full trying to counter HIS antics.

CHEEZEY: Aren't you at least a bit curious about what will happen if this latest scandal causes John to drop out of the 'residential race, Mikey?

PUKASY: Just a bit -- but I seriously doubt that the scandal will grow -- because John and SHE apparently have done a good job of covering their tracks.

CHEEZEY: What if Kongress's ethics squad decides to subpoena their travel and financial records?

PUKASY: All right. Maybe we ought to invite John to join us here next week for a tutorial on how best to dodge the subpoena process.

PIZAZZO: That'll work, Mike. After all, you (with help from the rest of us) wrote the book on that little game. Now, then: it's gonna start snowing again, so I suggest we break early for lunch and then declare the rest of the day's work suspended because of bad weather. Here, Dubya [tossing him the magazine]: check out the ad on page 69 -- for that navy-blue suit being modeled by an Obama look-alike. Your pink tie oughta look better on blue than on gray, doncha think?

http://www.bushbusiness.com/Bryant_OP.htm

http://www.petitiononline.com/arrest/petition.html

larryb@jerrypippin.com

Chapter 75. "Bryant's 'Bleak House'" Reaches Another Milestone
02/01/08

[Author's Note: In the early winter of 2007-08, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia decided to deny the appellees' motion for summary affirmance of a lower court's ruling that DoD censorship of several of my whistleblower-solicitation ads submitted (since the spring of 2003) for publication in various military-base weekly newspapers does not violate my First Amendment rights. (Novelist Charles Dickens would've been happy to hear this protracted echo of British jurisprudence.) The appeals court's decision thus keeps the case alive for further litigation. In his Jan. 28, 2008, opening brief, my attorney, Jonathan L. Katz of Silver Spring, Md. (Marks & Katz, LLC -- see http://www.markskatz.com/militarycases.htm ), relies, in part, on a key First Amendment victory of 1992 achieved in the same court that, back on March 12, 2007, ruled against me. That earlier case, Stewart v. District of Columbia Armory Board, happens to have, in Katz's words, "correctly held that the government-controlled RFK Stadium could not prohibit religious displays by fans while still allowing other fans to exhibit non-religious displays (e.g., 'Go Redskins' banners). That is precisely what is happening here [in the circumstances of Larry W. Bryant v. Rumsfeld/Gates et al.]. CEN [commercial enterprise newspapers, such as the Army's weekly "Pentagram"] regulations permit a flood of paid advertising, and try to carve out a small category that may not advertise, and then Appellees claim that CENs remain private fora; that does not jibe with the law or logic." Katz concludes from this analysis that ". . . seeing that CENs' advertising pages are public fora, then [the legal doctrine of] strict scrutiny applies here [citing the controlling 2004 case of ACLU v. Mineta]. Seeing that the CEN regulations, as written and applied to Appellant, discriminate against viewpoint, they must be stricken as violative of the First Amendment." During our expected oral argument's hearing, I expect Mr. Katz to cite at least two specific instances where the military public affairs officials objected to my ad submission "Blow the Whistle on the Battle-of-Baghdad Cover-up!" -- not because they viewed the ad as being "political" but because they simply disliked the text's message/tone: (1) The "Pointer View" newspaper published by the U. S. Military Academy in West Point, N. Y. Here, via an Oct. 7, 2004, snail-mail letter to me from USMA public affairs specialist Joseph V. Tombrello, is the academy's hard-nosed pronouncement: "Your ad below does not clear our review process as it appears to be in conflict with the official DoD position on the matter."; (2) The "Capital Flyer" newspaper published by Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Here, I learned, from a snail-mailed response to my Nov. 2, 2004, FOIA request for access to all records pertaining to my ad's submission, that, once again, officialdom had objected not to the ad's "political" nature but to its VIEWPOINT, as revealed by the following exchange of e-mail among USAF officials: (a) The first of these incriminating missives comes from Brad A. Swezey, deputy chief of Andrews's 89th Airlift Wing Public Affairs -- addressed, on Oct. 12, 2004, to Master Sergeant Paul A. Fazzini, AMC [Air Materiel Command] newspaper consultant at Scott AFB, Ill.: "Paul, have any other papers run into this [ad submission]? Our inclination is not to run it. Your thoughts?"; (b) And, at 11:19 A.M. on Oct. 12, 2004, Paul replies to Brad: "Subject: Re: Ad Review -- Sir, as I read the headline [of LWB's submitted ad] I'm moved to see right off the bat the ad is anti military. I also did some Google searching to see some other info about Ghost Troop and the information these folks are projecting. The group's message clearly goes against the establishment (DoD). I'd recommend you not run the ad." I presume that this appellate litigation will take several more months to resolve the case. If I prevail, I also expect that the government will call upon the U. S. Supreme Court to reverse the three-judge appeals court's ruling. So, we're talking several more months of watching the slow wheels of justice grind to a (precedent-setting) conclusion. Who knew?]

PIZAZZO [unbuttoning her sweater with one hand while, with the other, passing out a photocopy of a letter she's received from a 9th grader in Gaithersburg, Md.]: Fellas, this young lady's telling us that she's learned from her civics teacher that we've been holding these morning jam sessions in which the five of us discuss some of the gravest matters in public-policy management. Any comment?

CHEEZEY [slumping in his chair]: Hmmm . . . besides the issue of how in the world could that teacher have found out about us -- does this mean that our yet-to-be apprehended mole lives in or near Gaithersburg? -- this kid's inquiry puts us in a Catch-22 position.

BU$CH [snatching a long, white hair from his right eyebrow]: How so, Dick?

CHEEZEY: Well, if we acknowledge that we do in fact conduct these sessions, then we might face a flood of FOIA requests for access to their transcription. If we lie by saying "there ain't no transcription," then some damned Deep Throat might leak the truth about them. And -- who knows? -- Kongress, in its newfound boldness, might move to subpoena all records pertaining to the sessions. Of course, we could declare "executive privilege" to stifle that intrusion, but . . ..

PUKASY [interrupting]: It seems to me that all we have to do is to completely ignore the student's letter.

GRATES: Of course, Mike, we realize you've become a professional stonewaller in your new role as attorney generalizer. But: did you fully read little Suzie's postscript to her letter? The part where she intends to organize a student-led demonstration some Saturday near her school to protest any negative response she might receive from us as regards her term paper's theme: "White(wash House-Blessed Torture Program"? And, to her, a non-reply would fall into the category of "negative."

BU$CH: Yeah. That's all we need, for sure -- a student-led march that could mushroom into a cloud of protest across all of academia.

PUKASY: Aw, you know, Dubya, it'll never come to that. The Iraqnam era isn't entirely the same as the Vietnam one.

PIZAZZO: Okay, guys. I'll draft up a gently worded kiss-off reply to Suzie, for y'all to review at our next meeting. Meantime, Mike, how about wiretapping that teacher to see if he slips up on whoever his source has been?

PUKASY: Will do, Dora. It's just a matter of time before the Oral Leaker gets his due. Now, then, here's another item of new business: our U. S. attorney for the District of Columbia has received a copy of Larry W. Bryant's opening brief appealing Judge Kollar-Kotelly's March 12, 2007, ruling against Bryant's seditious campaign to undermine military authority via those whistleblower-solicitation ads of his.

BU$CH: Well, what I want to know is . . . where's he getting the dough to fund all this ridiculous litigation. Let's sic the I.R.S. on 'im pronto! As we all know, legal representation doesn't come cheap, so I wouldn't be surprised if this pest is getting some kind of external financial support. If so, we know how to put pressure on such a source -- don't we? . . . heh-heh. Funding of ANY sedition should be a capital offense, right?

PIZAZZO: Speaking of "capital offense," have y'all heard the latest development in that Vermont town's radicals' effort to have Dick and Dubya indicted and arrested should they ever show their faces in that jurisdiction? Brattleboro's governing body has agreed, in response to a local citizens petition, to put the indictment-arrest proposal on a ballot initiative several weeks from now. Imagine that: if the measure passes, we'll have a whole town of seditionists nipping at our ankles. Say, Dubya, I'm updating my passport for unlimited visits to Paraguay, starting with a visit to your retirement compound there this fall. Please save a guest room for me!

http://www.bushbusiness.com/Bryant_OP.htm

http://www.petitiononline.com/arrest/petition.html

larryb@jerrypippin.com

Chapter 74. Torturing People, Assassinating Ideas
01/18/08

on the waterboard,
she gurgles, writhes, and struggles
as the water seeps
through the towel on her face --
her tormentors pouring more

-- Larry W. Bryant (18 Jan 08)

[Author's Note: The world seems to know that certain male prisoners in Amerika's Guantanamo gulag have been water-boarded. But who knows how many women there (and elsewhere in rendition sites across the globe) have incurred such abuse at the hands of U. S. officialdom? Can you imagine witnessing the waterboarding of your mother, sister, daughter, wife, or other woman? Akin to physical rape, waterboarding, whether it be adjudicated as a form of torture forbidden by international law, amounts to raping of the spirit. Its victim's emotional scars doubtlessly permanent and deep-seated, the practice of waterboarding (and of authorizing/approving waterboarding, for that matter) has helped convert the United Korporations of Amerika into a rogue state. Ringing in the ears of any such victim of torture should be the lamentably immortal words of Herr Cheney (as allegedly uttered during his being interviewed by a journalist some months ago): "Waterboarding is a no-brainer." On Friday, Jan. 11, 2008, a few hundred anti-Guantanamo citizens braved the morning's cold rain and wind to assemble in protest upon the Mall of our nation's capital. The event marked the sixth anniversary of Gitmo's "illegal detention (in effect: assault and kidnapping of persons held without charge or trial"). Those quoted words come from a flyer distributed during the protest, which was sponsored by a group called Witness Against Torture ( http://www.witnesstorture.org ). The protest's denouement occurred when a number of the protestors marched to the grounds of the U. S. Supreme Court. There, according to press accounts, some 80 of them incurred arrest for failing to observe the Capitol Police's strict rules. Ironically, a number of the arrestees were well equipped for this turn of events, having predressed themselves in bright-orange jumpsuits, the now-universal symbol of Gitmo inmates' plight.

During the evening hours of Jan. 11, 2008, another event destined to enter Amerika's Political Hall of Shame occurred at a rest stop on the New Jersey Turnpike. There, the venerable Yellow Rose of Texas Peace Bus ( http://tinyurl.com/2qflor ), owned and driven by Vietnam veteran Jim Goodnow, was set ablaze by perpetrators yet to be apprehended. For several months, this rolling message board of public dissent, protest, and patriotism had plied the highways and byways across the nation. Now, it suddenly had become too much of a threat to those cowards who have no means of discourse other than abject violence. Instead of, say, creating their own "Green-Thorn-of-Alabama War Bus," they chose to kill our messenger of Truth-and-Hope as expressed by Goodnow and his fellow members of Veterans for Peace - Chapter 106 (1804 Tree Line Drive, Carrollton, TX 75007). Those of us who value that message now have the opportunity to help Goodnow resurrect the Peace Bus -- by sending a donation to him at the above address. I've already sent mine, and I plan to renew it regularly. In this world of political unrest, there's only one thing worse than assassinating a patriot activist: assassinating the IDEA that motivates his commitment and spirit.]

PIZAZZO [using a spent lollypop stick to dislodge a bit of pesky wax from her right ear]: Guys, I see that the NSA's latest intercept of Larry W. (Worthless) Bryant's e-mail shows him posing a viciously subversive question to his co-conspirators: "How can the U. S. government demand that Israel and the Palestinians thereabouts construct a worthy, viable peace treaty when Amerika's current record of its own treaty compliance has rendered us the world's laughing stock?" And then he goes on with the gall of signing himself as a "(post)card-carrying Extremist" (which refers to his distributing copies of those "Beach Impeach" postcards showing people lying on the ground so as to spell out the word "IMPEACH!"). That's enough for us to . . ..

CHEEZEY [interrupting by slamming a fist upon his laptop]: . . . yes, enough to charge him with giving the appearance of advocating violent overthrow of the federal government. What the hell are we waiting for? Sedition is sedition, right?

BU$CH: Yeah, Dick. I wanna see sexual intellectual Bryant rot in Gitmo, especially because of his abusing the spelling of our beloved nation -- AmeriCa.

GRATES: One thing at a time, guys! I thought we'd agreed that Goodnow's Peace Bus should stay at the top of the list for extreme rendition. So long as he's still alive, we're not done with him yet. So, let's pursue Bryant later.

PUKASY: I agree with ya, Robert. By the way: nice job on torching that shameful bus . . . and an even better job of ensuring that those three arsonists made it safely back to Alabama. If they ever do get caught, their cover story will hold up in any court of law -- namely: they were merely homeless fellows taking refuge beneath the bus when one of 'em fell asleep with a lit cigarette in his hand. Dripping Diesel fuel from an old bus can happen anywhere, right?

BU$CH: Great, Mikey-baby -- but how do we know they'll stick to that story if they get nabbed? Was $100k per person really enough for 'em to keep quiet?

PIZAZZO: I think that that payoff was more than enough, Dubya. Besides, we can rest assured that no-one in AmeriCa's law-enforcement community is gonna put any waterboard pressure on those suspects. Now, what say we break early for lunch? I want to catch tonight's episode of "American Idol."

http://www.bushbusiness.com/Bryant_OP.htm

http://www.petitiononline.com/arrest/petition.html

larryb@jerrypippin.com

Chapter 73. Arrest the 'resident! 
01/04/08

[Author's Note: News that a town governing body in Vermont -- the Brattleboro selectboard -- might be planning to perform a citizen's arrest of Pres. George W. Bush were he ever to show his face within its jurisdiction (see: http://tinyurl.com/2r78j4 ) has revived interest in my nearly two-year-old online petition announcing my call for a citizen's arrest of our most impeachable president in history ( http://www.petitiononline.com/arrest/petition.html). The Vermont proposition being advanced by Kurt Daims would consist of a Brattleboro-board agenda item citing the rationale for issuing a citizen's arrest warrant against Bush and Cheney. Lately, my petition has been under regular physical and verbal attack by an anonymous person determined to sabotage this people's remedy -- even to the point of entering fictitious signatories consisting of obscene insults and threats directed at me. With the help of the petition site's administrator, I've finally managed to stifle that interference. Within the next few months, I shall serve my formally executed arrest warrant via the U. S. Marshals Service in Washington, D. C. Although this action may not single-handedly drive out the Bu$ch-Cheezey RICO junta, it will make an historic public statement: no longer will we victims in the world's largest case of the Stockholm syndrome allow the hijackers of our republic to get away with their criminal conduct.]

PIZAZZO [smiling broadly as if conducting a TV interview of a celebrity]: Welcome back from the trenches of congressional testimony, Bob . . . er, Robert.

GRATES: Well, Dora, it ain't all over yet. I'm beginning to think that we should replace waterboarding with an even more-torturing process: being grilled by a congressional committee.

CHEEZEY: Aw, it isn't that bad, Roberto. Just tell 'em to "go phuck yourself!"

GRATES: I'm trying to gear myself up for that magic moment, but for the new few days I've got to concentrate on how to downplay that upcoming anti-torture demonstration at the Mall here in D. C.

PIZAZZO [glancing at her watch]: Well, we won't keep you here much longer this morning, Robert. Besides, even I must get back to the call of duty. The phone banks and the fax machines are blastin' me with media queries, thanks to this stupid flap over so-called citizen's arrest of Dubya.

BU$CH [trying to clear an errant eyelash from his left eye]: Can't we just arrest Bryant for his falsely arresting me?

PUKASY: Unfortunately, Dub, he's got the goods on ya. You've publicly admitted to being a five-year felon by violating the FISA prohibition against warrantless surveillance of American citizens' telecommunications activity. And if that Canadian whistleblower-solicitation campaign succeeds in smoking out some more hard-core insiders' testimony confirming your OTHER violations, then you'd better start learning how to play table tennis and checkers (unless, of course, you end up in solitary confinement).

BU$CH: Whatcha mean, "five-year felon"?

PUKASY [trying not to seem overly paternalistic]: It means, simply, that you'll be facing a five-year prison term in a federal pen.

CHEEZEY [sighing]: Once again, y'all: I have to tell ya that even if the Marshals Service does accept Bryant's ridiculous arrest warrant, none of us -- especially you, Dubya -- have a damned thing to worry about. By the time indictment, trial, and conviction occur, we'll all be permanently ensconced in Paraguay's paradise. Anyone here willing to bet me otherwise?

[A momentary silence ensues; you almost can hear the ticking of Cheezey's pace-maker. Grates breaks the spell by using his cell-phone to call his office. After checking with his secretary on rescheduling his afternoon appointment with Gen. Al Walbomb at NSA headquarters, he heads for the door, still talking on his phone, while nodding a good-bye to his fellow co-conspirators.]

PIZAZZO: Okay, we'll hafta pick this up again next meeting -- if not next week, then some time before Congress returns to town. In the meantime, I'm gonna check with Rudolph Schmurmuck to see if he'd like to undertake a hostile takeover of petitiononline.com.

http://www.bushbusiness.com/Bryant_OP.htm

larryb@jerrypippin.com

Chapter 72. Banners, Buttons, and Banishments
12/18/07

"Mad Max" returns soon;
not to our local theatres
but to our own streets:
as soon as we strike Iran,
the sands will shift to OUR land

[Author's Note: When she made her presence known at the 2007 annual 4th-of-July celebration in Richmond, Va.'s Dogwood Dell park, impeachment activist Rain Burroughs, accompanied by her little daughter, apparently so alarmed some of the other revelers that they felt it necessary to sic the city police upon her. Her "crime"? -- unfurling a several-foot-long anti-Bush-junta banner for all to see and heed, its one-word message leaving no room for doubt: "IMPEACH." In effect, she'd become the modern-day citizen impelled to point a finger at our buck-naked emperor. A great opportunity for the "authorities" to instill in her daughter a deep sense of admiration and respect for Police State Amerika, no? Rather than choosing to uphold Rain's right of free speech in a traditional public forum, the police officers called to the scene whisked both her and her daughter to a distant area of the park, detaining them there until the formal festivities had concluded. Upon learning of this travesty, I dispatched a freedom-of-information request to the city's chief of police, seeking a copy of all records that his department had generated on the case. Herr Bu$ch would be proud of the curtain of secrecy that the chief has drawn around his response to Richmond's Public Enemy No. 1. For the chief's general counsel, in an Oct. 1, 2007, letter to me, declared that "Witness statements do exist as part of a confidential administrative investigation conducted pursuant to law and are exempt from disclosure pursuant to 2.2-3706 G 3 [of the Va. Freedom of Information Act]; that "In-car camera film does exist as part of a confidential administrative investigation conducted pursuant to law and is exempt from disclosure . . ."; that "The records [pertaining to all "investigative correspondence (including e-mail messages), reports, and memoranda generated by (and received by) internal affairs personnel as to the police behavior, motivation, and outcome in this matter"] "do exist as a part of a confidential administrative investigation conducted pursuant to law and are exempt from disclosure . . ."; and that [in response to my request for a copy of "your department's standing operating procedure on crowd control in public"] "Enclosed are General Orders 1101-4 (Mass Arrests), 1101-5 (Civil Disturbances), 1101-6 (Police Lines, Perimeters and Barricades), and 601-4 (Policing Playgrounds, Parks and Restricted Use of the James River)." The latter directive (601-4) appears to be the one by which the police have justified their detention of Rain and her daughter. Under paragraph II-F (Procedure for Excluding Persons from any City Park, Playground, or Recreational Facility), we find this provision: "In accordance with the provisions in the City Code, Section 26-382, persons failing to maintain good conduct or ceasing to be amenable to the efforts of Parks, Recreation, and Community Facilities staff to secure such good conduct, shall be required to leave the playground, part, or recreational facility when requested, and shall not be permitted to return to any such area operated or conducted by the City until permission is obtained, in writing, from the Director of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities. Violations constitute a Class 1 Misdemeanor." So, armed with such broad and arbitrary power, the police rained on Rain's parade. Besides her and her daughter, whom does such official reprisal against political speech harm? Answer: it harms us all -- for one man's notion of "good conduct" in a forum opened for expressive activity can be construed by another man as an arrestable offense. Here's my suggestion, Rain, for the 2008 Fourth's celebration: formally apply to the parks director for a written permit to display your banner. If you incur a denial, enlist the aid of the ACLU of Virginia to enjoin him from any further interference with your First Amendment freedoms.

And, speaking of free-speech practices, we have an update on the plight of that courageous, exemplary victim of officialdom's wrath -- retired professor Alan McConnell of Silver Spring, Md. (http://tinyurl.com/ytt576

 ). His trial on Dec. 6, 2007, in the district court for Rockville, Md., ended in his conviction for trespassing and for vending without a license. His crime: persistently, over a period of several months, selling IMPEACH HIM lapel buttons at the Farmers Market in Kensington, Md. Apparently, the state's two-man prosecution team desperately needed to put this case into their win column, bringing to justice, via testimony from eight witnesses, such an obvious, unrepentant menace to society. Never mind that the market occupies public land, that it's had one or more canvassers petitioning for a political cause during past summer months, and that McConnell's heretofore unchallenged presence there has contributed to the market's status as a "designated public forum"; the judge could find no exculpatory evidence that McConnell's political speech deserves more protection than the farmers' commercial speech. Can you guess that Kensington's Public Enemy No. 1 is considering appealing the verdict to the circuit court in Rockville?]

PIZAZZO [closing her cell phone with a dainty flip of a wrist and sipping from her coffee mug]: That was Bob Grates, guys. Said he can't make it here this morning -- has to get ready for some more waterboarding testimony at the Senate Intelligence Committee.

CHEEZEY: Waterboardin', schmorderboardin' . . . why can't those Democraps fixate on something that matters -- like the professional baseball's union sticking its nose into the steroids scandal? Or like pumping up an online petition to bring Pink back as the songstress for Sunday Night Football?

BU$CH: Well -- jeez! -- Dick. Let 'em deal with that waterboard stuff -- I'm more concerned about how the courts are intruding on our executive-privilege protection. I'm hoping that you, Mikey, are planning to appeal Judge Lamberth's recent ruling that our visitor logs constitute "agency records" and hence are accessible via the Freedom of Information Act.

PUKASY: Fret not, Dubya [winking at Cheezey]: I'm keeping in frequent touch on this with the general counsel at Fatherland -- er, HOMEland -- Security. He's thinking of privatizing the Secret Service so as to dissolve its status as an "agency." That oughta cut the rug out from under the FOIA applicability. We've certainly gotta make sure that the public doesn't start fixating on all those late-night visits that your pal Rich Kannon used to make to the Oral Orifice.

CHEEZEY [winking back at Pukasy]: Yeah. And y'all know I'm having to deal with my own visitor-logs protection. Maybe we'll get a break from all this negativity now that the holidays are settin' in.

BU$CH: That reminds me, I want to get over to the Fort Myer PX to get the wife a few imported items. Can't we just postpone any further meetings until after New Year's?

PIZAZZO: No so fast! [clapping her hands together as the others head for the door]. Here [reaching into her briefcase and withdrawing a handful of Xerox copies]. Each of you take this along with you to lunch or supper. Then let me know when, and where, we should meet to discuss it. It was faxed to me a while ago by our defense attache in Ottawa.

[The document she's passing out to the others happens to be a photocopy of the whistleblower-solicitation ad that the semimysterious Canadian pharmaceutical company Zingokem has just published in the New York Expose (a new tabloid owned by a consortium of foreign investors). Its text reads, in part: "Yes, our chief whistleblower to date has conclusive evidence showing that the big U. S. telecoms knew full well that their cooperating with the Bu$ch-Cheezey regime's warrantless wiretapping program was in direct violation of federal law. If you, or someone you know in the telecommunications community, can confirm and/or complement this latest breakthrough, you, too, might qualify for one (or more) of our four-tiered rewards (A, AA, AAA, and AAAA). Contact us at our secure e-address: whistleblower@zingokem.com ."]

http://www.bushbusiness.com/Bryant_OP.htm

http://www.petitiononline.com/arrest/petition.html

http://tinyurl.com/29veps  (re Veterans Against Torture.com; and Squadron13.com)

http://tinyurl.com/3at8mz

 http://www.thecriticalvoice.org

larryb@jerrypippin.com

Chapter 71. Days of Reckoning No Longer Delayed?
11/23/07

detention camps,
built by Cheezeyburton,
await us all;
this monument to fascism
threatens the people's wisdom

-- Larry W. Bryant (Nov. 23, 2007)

[Author's Note: It may or may not turn out to be the smoking gun leading to the ultimate evidence that 'resident Bush and VP Cheney had a direct hand in the leakage of former CIA employee Valerie Plame's secret identity to the press. But former White(wash) House press secretary Scott McClellan's recent revelation that Bush-Cheney deliberately had misled him as to the role of W-H aides Rove/Libby/Card just might smoke out one or more Deep Throats that can seal B-C's fate as having conspired -- a la Watergate -- to COVER UP the illegality of their subordinates. Obstruction of justice, we call it. Of course, such a "high crime" calls for impeachment. But, even before that People's Remedy kicks in, the scandal calls for appointing a new special prosecutor to empanel a federal grand jury to investigate this alleged presidential conspiracy to obstruct justice. In the meantime, shouldn't someone like moveon.org or worldcantwait.org establish a reward fund for any Deep Throat's information leading to the arrest, prosecution, and conviction of Bush-Cheney for obstructing justice? How ironic: these two (dis)honorable men might just end up as celebrity inmates of one of their own detention camps. Naw . . . just put 'em in Guantanamo -- next to the waterboarding room.]

PIZAZZO [flicking a loose hair from her woolen jacket]: I see here from an item on page A-24 of the Washington Crimes that one of my predecessors, Scott McSellout, has fingered a couple of you guys as obstructors of justice. Any comment, Dubya . . . Dick?

PUKASY [frowning and squirming]: Oh, cut the cutesy reporterese, Dora. We've got some tricky dodging ahead of us on this renewed Plame-gate scandal, doncha realize?

PIZAZZO: That's exactly my point, Mike. If we don't -- here and now -- start some serious role-playin' counterintel preparation, we're gonna get burned more than the Watergate burglary team did. Already, there's talk that a whistleblower-reward fund is being set up by a Canadian pharmaceutical firm, of all things, and so I . . ..

CHEEZEY [interrupting as he surreptitiously adjusts the left side of his boxer shorts]: Well, just calm down, you all. The fact that that Washington Crimes piece appears on page A-24 oughta tell ya somethin': by the time any impeachment action or indictment occurs, Dubya and I will be receiving our retirement checks at a post office box down in Paraguay.

PUKASY: That reminds me -- I've gotta check to see what U.S.-Paraguay extradition treaty might apply.

BU$CH: No problem on that, Mikey. If need be, during our global War on Terror, I simply can issue a commander-in-chief executive order to nullify that treaty, right?

GRATES: But what if Paraguayan officials, under pressure from other countries, decide to bar our residency until U. S. justice has its way with us?

PIZAZZO: See, guys . . . this is exactly how we should be discussing these matters -- weighing options, planning for contingencies, strategizing way into the evening hours. At this point, I'd even suggest that we create a W-H study group to finesse some of the details. It's crisis-management time, now, guys -- whether we like it or not.

PUKASY: Fine. I'm gonna assign my own task force over at Justice -- to look into McSellout's current financial background, social life, foreign contacts, tax returns, etc., to see what we can use to discredit him. With our newly won wiretapping authority, we even can surveil his various electronic communications without having to seek a warrant. Traitors deserve no rights.

[As Pukasy rises and heads for the door, Pizazzo's cell phone rings. She recognizes the caller's voice and motions for the attorney general to retake his seat. About 30 seconds into the call, she starts taking notes, her hand trembling slightly as she nods with astonishment to news being conveyed by the caller.]

PIZAZZO [upon closing the phone conversation]: That, fellows, was the city-desk editor at the Crimes. She's learned that that Canadian firm has just bought a full-page ad for publication next month in a New York newspaper. Besides announcing the whistleblower-reward fund's official debut, the ad will reveal that they've already acquired their very first Deep Throat -- an unnamed, but high-level, MILITARY officer!

[Without further word from any of the group's members, they all leave the Oral Orifice, each doubtlessly agonizing over a plan for prolonged damage control.]

http://www.bushbusiness.com/Bryant_OP.htm

http://www.petitiononline.com/arrest/petition.html

larryb@jerrypippin.com

TO: Hon. Nancy Pelosi Speaker, U. S. House of Representatives 450 Golden Gate Avenue -- 14th Floor San Francisco, CA 94102

FROM: Larry W. Bryant 3518 Martha Custis Drive Alexandria, VA 22302

DATE: November 14, 2007

Thank you, Rep. Pelosi, for offering this opportunity for the U. S. citizenry to send you at least 10,000 hand-written letters urging you to restore the impeachment of Bush-Cheney to its rightful place upon the House's table of activity.

As reported recently on the internet, this opportunity brings with it your declared promise not to further interfere with the impeachment process. I certainly hope that your turnaround on this issue has been inspired by the correspondence you've already been receiving from citizens all across the nation -- and by Rep. Kucinich's House Resolution 799 (calling for Vice President Richard B. Cheney's impeachment, now referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary), as well as by the 80 or so pro-impeachment resolutions recently issued by various local governing bodies nationwide. In effect, madam Speaker, most of your work has been done by these patriotic truth-seekers; now then, please step up (or aside) and allow THEIR work to result in all necessary investigations, subpoenas, hearings, reports, and recommendations.

Back in the summer of 2006, during a citizens rally called Camp Democracy, on the grounds of the Washington Monument, former U. S. Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman told the audience that it's "up to the people" as to whether the Bush-Cheney impeachment process will move forward. She pointed out that it was President Nixon's own political-party leaders who had urged him to resign from office. Of course, we know that his impeachable endorsement of illegal wiretapping mirrors President George W. Bush's own endorsement of (nay, DIRECTION of) the same offense, marking Bush as an admitted 5-year felon.

Please keep in mind that impeachment needn't be a matter of partisan politics; for, when you have a crook in office, it matters not what party (s)he represents. In this regard, neither you nor I should be surprised if at least half of those sought-for 10,000 hand-written letters originate from Republicans, Libertarians, Greens, or independents.

As you proceed to fulfill your promise of putting impeachment back on the table, I trust that you now can look proudly into the mirror of current events and political history with a clear conscience and an unshakeable resolve. What speaker of the House could ask for a stronger legacy of public service than that?

LARRY W. BRYANT

P. S.: For part, I'm posting the contents of this letter upon various "list-serves" and web sites across the internet.

larryb@jerrypippin.com

Chapter 70. Building a U. S. Hall of INjustice with "AquaPlank"
11/11/07

From a full-page ad in the November-December 2007 issue of the law-enforcement journal THE INTERROGATOR:

INTRODUCING, from Torture Chamber Systems, Inc. of Enterprise, Ala.: the revolutionary AquaPlank (TM), our state-of-the-art entry into the worldwide waterboarding industry. Constructed of stain-resistant Paraguayan aluminum, this truth-eliciting device now is registered with the U. S. Patent Office.

Back orders are being processed by our small staff as quickly as possible (to include our federal contract for delivery of no fewer than 10,000 units, by the end of y2k8, to such agencies as the Central Inquisition Agency, the Federal Torture Commission, the National Torture and Sadism Board, and the Department of Fatherland Kontrol). THIS just in: we've received word that the Cheezeyburton-built mass-detention camps now set to begin operating have ordered several hundred AquaPlanks.

Soon, you, too, can have your very own AquaPlank for use at home or office. Its portability, fold-up-storage feature, and easy setup procedure make it a cinch for training even cub scouts and girl scouts in its operation. (When not being used for its intended purpose, the device can serve as a seesaw for your kids or grandchildren.) Its several add-on options include a sound-recording/broadcast system that replicates some near-death throes of previous recipients of the AquaPlank treatment. One standard feature of this award-winning waterboard consists of a battery-powered electric-shock module patterned after the old Model-A Ford's starter-motor coil. You'll use the shock mode to get the (restrained) recipient's attention, after which (s)he might be more receptive/subdued when you advance to the board's simulated-drowning phase. Also standard is an accompanying, illustrated operator's manual composed by a former CIA interrogator now serving on our advisory board.

Here's what TCS, Inc. CEO Rev. Dr. Otto Planck has to say about the recent surge in orders: "We certainly welcome this expansion of our business, and we've decided to issue our Initial Public Offering by year's end. We plan to become the 'Google of the torture industry'! Of course, we wish to assure the stock-buying public of our professional integrity and quality of our products and services. To that end, we've established an additional criterion for all our newly hired employees: besides having to pass at least one pre-employment polygraph exam, they'll also have to undergo two pre-employment waterboarding sessions -- first as an operator and then as a recipient. This policy tells our customers that not only do we STAND BY our product -- we also LIE DOWN on it. Thus, you can see that no other company is more committed than we to the institutionalization of waterboarding. As Amerika's revered vice president, Richard "Bunker" Cheney, has said, the AquaPlank is a 'no-brainer' for dealing with current/future terrorists, seditionists, malcontents, heretics, or other dangerous losers."

If you order your unit(s) by Christmas '07, we'll give you 10 percent off the catalog price of the basic-features model -- plus throw in a FREE, red-white-and-blue carrying case (which also can serve as a body bag). Our current unit price for the basic model is $2,611.99; the deluxe model, complete with American flag engravings along each side of the device's main frame, sells for $3,611.99. For phone orders via credit card, call: 1-555-AquaPlanks; send prepaid snail-mail orders to: TCS, Inc., ATTN: AquaPlank Div., P. O. Box 555-AP, Enterprise, AL 36330. For more information, please visit our web site: http://www.tcs-ap.com.

== TCS: The Best in Torture Tools ==

[Author's Note: As the Talibanization of Amerika proceeds apace, who can guess how much more we can lose at the hands of the Bu$ch-Cheezey RICO junta? How wide is the gap between waterboarding and beheading? While such questions probably won't constitute the thrust of any impeachment hearings contemplated by the House Judiciary Committee now sitting on the powder keg of Rep. Kucinich's Resolution 799 (formerly No. 333), they obviously should be in the back of very mind serving on that committee. If the committee chooses to keep its head in the sand as to acting on H. Res. 799 (as it's been doing since the original resolution's filing in April 2007), then each member should be held accountable for that malign neglect -- by being voted out of office. Too bad no kongresskritter can be impeached for dereliction of constitutional duty.]

PIZAZZO [reviewing her cell-phone-taken snapshot of the new (IN)justice department chief, Mike Pukasy]: Welcome to the group, General Mike! I'm jut adding your photo to our informal archives -- such as they be -- of our little sessions here.

PUKASY: Thanks for inviting me, Dora. Just make sure that you -- uhmmm -- keep that, and any other unofficial photos of me, close-hold. No need to abandon this administration's penchant for excessive secrecy, you know. Besides . . ..

CHEEZEY [interrupting as he chomps into a maple-sugar-glazed donut]: Uh-huh . . . that's the spirit, Mikey ol' pal. When in doubt, close it out! Say, did you see this full-page ad [handing a copy to Pukasy] in the current issue of "The Interrogator"?

PUKASY [quickly glancing at the page and passing it along to Pizazzo]: Not only have I seen it, Dick; I've also known its author for a number of years. He's soon to become general counsel for that little firm in Alabama -- Torture Chamber Systems, Inc. They couldn't have picked a better man for that slot. And here's some more good news: I've just sent TCS a check for $100k. I'm pretty sure that, with this investment, I won't ever have to buy stock in any other outfit; they're gonna out-google Google!

BU$CH: Wait a minute . . . [interrupting himself]: First, this coffee's cold. Would you go get us another pot, Dora? [Pizazzo, hesitating, with a frown, listlessly leaves the room; whereupon Bu$ch resumes his comment in a lowered voice.] Ain't what you've done, Mike, bordering on conflict of interest?

PUKASY: Not at all, Dubya. My ethics experts at Justice have told me that so long as I defer taking any earnings from my stock holdings, I'll be okay. Same as with the case of Dick's shares in Cheezeyburton, for example. They did caution me, though, to forego TCS's offer to serve on their board of directors. So, I've volunteered my wife to serve in that capacity until I can return to the private sector. Cushy, eh?

GRATES: You know, Mike, I think I'll look into buying some TCS stock, too. I already have some shares with a bauxite-mining company in Paraguay, so maybe we can pursue a little symbiosis here. Sure glad the TCS folks don't make prospective king-pin stockholders undergo a waterboarding session before they can buy-in -- heh-heh. [At that moment, the door opens as W-H press secretary Pizazzo wheels in a cart topped with a tray of steaming coffee, more donuts, and a faxed message of congratulations to Pukasy from TCS CEO Otto Planck.]

PIZAZZO [affecting a subservient air as she kicks aside an empty chair along her route to the food table]: Okay, guys, here's some fresh fertilizer for your inquiring minds. [She grabs a chocolate-coated donut and proceeds to her seat.] I trust y'all have refrained from discussing any profundities during my absence.

BU$CH: Oh, just a couple of minor budgetary items, Dora-dear. Nothing to keep any notes on, though.

PIZAZZO: Good; but just in case our pesky, yet-to-be-nabbed mole who's been feeding tidbits of these sessions to the likes of Larry "Witless" Bryant intends to leak any of THIS session, how about filling me in?

http://www.bushbusiness.com/Bryant_OP.htm

http://tinyurl.com/2on7ju

larryb@jerrypippin.com

Chapter 69. Another Arresting Episode in Police-State Amerika
09/26/07

Impeachment Autumn brings us another milestone in seeking justice: street-level activism in passion and commitment

[Author's Note: At its start, the scene couldn't have been more tranquil: there I was, strolling along the public sidewalk near a D. C. Metrobus stop about 60 yards from the main entrance of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, on land owned/operated by the District of Columbia. I'd come there, at 5:45 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007, to rendezvous with www.waifllc.org  founding member Alan McConnell and several other activists. As I awaited the others' arrival, I noticed that I was being noticed -- by several security personnel milling around across the public roadway between me and the Center building. Eventually, two of them -- one in uniform, the other in a business suit -- approached me. The suited man -- surnamed "Jackson" -- introduced himself, proffered a handshake, and proceeded to have me justify my existence. Glancing at my IMPEACH HIM yard sign, he asked if I were planning some kind of "activity" there. I explained that I and several associates were going to picket for a while. He countered by saying that I was on "government property" and hence needed a permit to picket. I told him I was unsure as to whether any of the other picketers possessed any written permission to picket outside the event just beginning to form inside the building. So, what was taking place therein that had drawn our attention? Simply the presence of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, the lead figure in a list of five awardees gathered to celebrate the public-interest group People for the American Way's 25th Anniversary presentation of the Spirit of Liberty Awards. Pelosi, of course, while she may deserve special recognition for her social-welfare intentions and "strong leadership," continues to DISSERVE the public interest by obstructing justice (i.e., by arbitrarily keeping impeachment off the current Congress's table). Thus, she remains complicit in the Bu$ch-Cheezey pirates' hijacking of the U. S. Constitution and in their holding hostage its Bill of Rights to their power-grabbing/consolidating whims. Pelosi's nonfeasance in the face of Amerika's majority-supported interest in curing the world's largest case of the Stockholm syndrome stands as an unconscionable blight upon freedom, justice, and (yes) the American way (especially in view of the PFAW ostrich's irony of ignoring the elephant that continues to deposit that smelly mess beneath Pelosi's desk). Instead of characterizing my presence on "government property" as picketing, I suppose I should've explained to Mr. Jackson that we were converging there to peaceably assemble in our ongoing effort to redress some grievances. But, before I could posit that notion, he asked me to stand by for further guidance, proceeding back to the building. Meanwhile, about 6:20, I noticed the arrival of a private bus directly across the street. Hooray! The big lettering along the vehicle's upper side said it all: "Iraq Vets Against the War." Yes, it was the Yellow Rose of Texas Bus for Peace, piloted by legendary activist Jim Goodnow of Terlingua, Texas. Out poured about a dozen supporters, mostly from the Code Pink organization. As they spotted me, they headed in my direction, followed by a contingency of security men. Geared for action in this nearly extemporaneous emergence of the "peace cavalry," Alan McConnell, toting several yard signs, set about for the inevitable confrontation. First off, Mr. Jackson's supervisor, who told me that he's a government employee, not a government contractor (who knew?), declared that the few signs McConnell had just planted upon the grassy plain bordering the street/sidewalk had to be taken up. He further explained that his organization now had decided to accommodate our needs were we to behave responsibly. Uncomfortable with the severe restrictions, McConnell moved to the curb of the street, causing the security team to admonish him. In turn, this escalated into his crossing the street to station himself all the closer to the building. More discussion ensued, ending when the director of security summoned the D. C. metropolitan police to the scene. It took about 20 minutes for the armada of three police vehicles -- sirens a-soundin', lights a-flashin' (one being an SUV canine unit) -- to descend upon this obvious one-man menace to society. For his part, ever mindful of the mission, McConnell persisted in holding aloft his IMPEACH HIM sign for passing motorists and pedestrians to view in all its splendor. A number of horn honks and thumbs-up reactions peppered the scene. Eventually, a squad car parked alongside him, the policeman disembarked, and another conversation began. Several feet away, a Code Pink member was video-recording this phase -- intending to post it upon the website of http://www.youtube.com. Finally, upon hearing the policeman's threat to arrest him unless he return to the sidewalk near the bus stop, McConnell complied -- to the cheers of "Alan, Alan, Alan!" Historians now have another anecdotal snapshot of the Bu$ch-Cheezey era -- so fittingly played out at the seat of government, led by a walking Profile in Courage in the person of 74-year-old Alan McConnell. Who can doubt that John F. Kennedy's icon on the 50-cent coin now is winking an eye of approval toward Alan's way of speaking out in order to help others speak out?]

PIZAZZO [crossing her legs daintily so as to avoid being threatening]: You know, guys, this business of being Tony Schmoe's successor as W-H press secretary certainly can get boring at times. I'd much rather hang out with you guys than field press inquiries most of the day.

CHEEZEY [staring at Dora's open-toe right shoe, where protrudes an exceptionally long Morton's toe; do all long-necked women have this Morton's toe characteristic? he asks himself]: Well, thanks for that compliment, Ms. Dora. With Tony now back in the private sector, it might get pretty boring here, too. And Karl's recent departure might crimp our style a bit. But, with your help, we've little doubt that our public-approval rating will begin rising soon.

PIZAZZO: Let me say for the record (as they tend to say hereabouts -- heh-heh) that I'm gonna do my best to help bring y'all's approval rating to at least 25 percent by the end of '08 -- even if I have to ramp up the terror alert to permanent Code Red in order to do it. So . . ..

BU$CH [interrupting as he spreads his legs wide and begins tapping his left foot against his trash can]: On that subject, I've asked NSA's Gen. Walbomb to join us in a little while to discuss any refinements to our evolving Iran-Nam stratergy [sic]. What do y'all think about the desirability of having Al become a regular member of the group here?

GRATES: Let me look closer at that prospect, Dubya. This restiveness among the officer corps doesn't seem to be abating. Some of my advisors have been sensing that a mutiny might be on the horizon -- to begin in, of all places, our navy task force at the Persian Gulf. No sense in putting ALL our trust in the intelligence community at this point, guys.

BU$CH: And, somehow, I get the feeling that they trust us even less than we them.

PIZAZZO: Now, this "trust" business -- or lack of trust, I should say -- has me worried. Tell me: did all of you fully trust Tony Schmoe? And: have you noticed, since his departure, fewer leaks of sensitive data -- particularly about what goes on during these Oral Orifice meetings? Does any of you think he (or, for that matter, Karl Trove) might've been our lousy little mole-in-a-hole?

[Silence -- for about 30 seconds.]

BU$CH: Hmmmm . . .. Maybe they BOTH were moles. They both seemed a bit too curious about my retirement plans for the plantation down in Paraguay. Maybe we shoulda had General Al tap their telecom systems. If we keep being undercautious, we once again might find impeachment in our nightmares.

GRATES: So true, Dubya. I think we have a consensus, then. I suggest that Dora keep a keen eye out for any future leakage trend -- so that we can narrow the trail down to one or two likely perpetrators. Meantime, I'm hoping Albertino's successor over at Justice is still holding his finger in the dike against the pressure of all those subpoenas oozing out of Congress.

PIZAZZO: So long as we can keep Ninny Peeloser contained by her own ego-driven excesses, we'll stay at least one step ahead of any negative Congressional action. [Standing up to a knock upon the door] Let me get that. [She opens the door and warmly greets Walbomb, who shakes her hand and begins passing out copies of a TOP SECRET briefing paper titled "DU-Day for Iran-Nam."]

http://www.bushbusiness.com/Bryant_OP.htm

http://www.petitiononline.com/arrest/petition.html

larryb@jerrypippin.com

Chapter 68. An Impeacher's Invitation
08/13/07

Impeachment Summer beckons any and all comers; shed inertia: come join us in the journey to restore our republic!

[LWB Note: the 6-week hiatus between Chapters 67 and 68 has seen a number of activist milestones -- not the least of which occurred on August 6, 2007, with my Appellant's Opposition to Appellees' Motion for Summary Affirmance (filed in the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by my attorney, Jonathan L. Katz (see: http://www.markskatz.com/militarycases.htm ). This seminal First Amendment case -- begun a few years ago and now fondly known, to me, as "Bryant's 'Bleak House'" -- offers the reader a history lesson and a refresher course in First Amendment jurisprudence. It has evolved from two, now-consolidated cases that originally entered the docket of the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia under the caption Larry W. Bryant v. Donald H. Rumsfeld, et al. With the appointment of Robert M. Gates as Rumsfeld's successor, the appeals case of Bryant v. Gates, et al., seeks to overturn the district court's ruling that I have no First Amendment right to publish paid "political" advertisements in various military owned/published post/base newspapers (my first such banned ad, bearing the title "Blow the Whistle on Bush's 'Gulf of Persia' Resolution!", having been submitted to the Army's "Pentagram" newspaper). With your indulgence, I present the text of Mr. Katz's brief here.]

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Appellant Larry W. Bryant respectfully opposes Appellees' Motion for Summary Affirmance, for the following grounds:

Preliminarily, Appellant incorporates by reference his following filings below: his summary judgment motion and reply to the government's opposition thereto, and his opposition to the government's summary judgment motion, which included vigorous disagreements with the government's assertions of material facts that were not in dispute, but that continue to be in dispute.

"A party seeking summary disposition bears the heavy burden of establishing that the merits of his case are so clear that expedited action is justified. See Walker v. Washington, ... 627 F.2d 541, 545 (D.C. Cir), cert. denied, 449 U.S. 994 ... (1980). To summarily affirm an order of the district court, this court must conclude that no benefit will be gained from further briefing and argument of the issues presented. Sills v. Bureau of Prisons , ... 761 F.2d 792, 793-94 (D.C. Cir. 1985). In addition, this court is now obligated to view the record and the inferences to be drawn therefrom 'in the light most favorable to'" [the party opposing the motion]. Taxpayers Watchdog, Inc. v. Stanley, 819 F.2d 294, 297-98 (1987) (ultimate citation omitted).

Appellant's appeal goes to the heart of the First Amendment's guarantee of free expression, challenging content-based censorship of several newspapers distributed at military bases. FW/PBS, Inc. v. City of Dallas, 493 US 215 (1990) (generally prohibiting content-based restrictions on speech by government bodies). Moreover, this appeal calls for addressing head-on the extent to which the government must be barred from imposing content-based limitations on paid advertising in newspapers distributed on military bases. Appellant asserts that by opening such newspapers to paid advertisements by the public at large, these advertising pages -- if not the entire newspapers -- are thereby traditional public fora in which public expression "is subject to the highest scrutiny." Int'l Soc. of Krishna Consciousness v. Lee, 505 US 672 (1992). Appellant has found no federal court appellate decision that addresses First Amendment protection against content-based restrictions on advertising in newspapers distributed on military bases, and such a critical issue should not be barred by summary affirmance (for which only eight days is provided by the applicable federal appellate rules for filing an opposition to such a motion), versus permitting full argument and briefing of the issue, and to enable any interested amicus parties to apply to weigh in on the matter.

Informative to how critical it is to have this appeal fully briefed -- but admittedly from the lower court -- is ACLU v. Mineta, 319 F. Supp. 2d 69, 86-87 (D.D.C. 2004), which confirmed that "While Congress may be under no obligation to fund mass transit or other entities that rely also on advertising revenues for their survival, once it chooses to do so, it must act in a way that does not engage in viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment." Id. At 87. Similarly here, governing military regulations invited civilian advertisers, to fund the printing and distribution of newspapers distributed on military bases, but then imposed viewpoint discrimination on Appellant's paid advertisements for being "political" in nature. Worse, in this appeal, the governing regulations are vague and overbroad about the very definition of "political" advertisements. Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, 535 U.S. 234 (2002).

Appellees erroneously claim collateral estoppel from Appellant's previous litigation that did not involve paid-for advertisements, and did not involve federal appellate decisions.

Appellant's appeal right is as of right, and, for the foregoing reasons, summary affirmance is not justified here where the First Amendment matters at issue call for full briefing, and where a summary affirmance will seriously harm not only the First Amendment rights of Appellant, but also of future parties in shoes similar to Appellant's who will not even have had the opportunity to appear in this appeal. Moreover, the Walker v. Washington and Taxpayers Watchdog cases relied on for summary affirmance by Appellees (Appellees' Motion at 1) involves interpretations of rights provided by statute, where this appeal involves more weighty rights, in that they are afforded by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Wherefore, for the foregoing reasons, summary affirmance should be denied.

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SCHMOE [seeming to have aged six months in six weeks' time]: Well, Ronnie, good to see ya back here in the Kapital Klub, pal. Our regular, Robbie Grates, had to opt out at the last minute (something about a key appeals case over there at the federal court of appeals involving that subvert Bryant). Anyway, speaking of kapital: I hope your stock portfolio hasn't suffered lately as much as mine has, so let's get to the important stuff . . ..

DUMSFELD [jumping right in as if he'd missed not a single day of insiderism]: Just got back from a 2-week vacation in Paraguay, Tony -- so I've yet to find time to fully assess my losses. But I can tell you this bit of good news: my recently acquired shares in a pure-water-transport corporation in Paraguay are set to triple in value over the next year or so.

CHEEZEY: I can top that, Ronnie. My interest in a golf course in Paraguay recently has doubled with the acquisition of an artesian well just next to the course's 18th hole. Makes Perrier taste like so much salty mouthwash.

TROVE: By the way, Ronnie -- good job in defusing that congressional probe into the demise of traitor Tillman over there in Poppyland -- er, Afghanistan. We owe ya one for that, pal.

DUMSFELD: Thanks, Karl. We've still gotta stick together, especially now that the likes of Bryant and McConnell continue to garner publicity points for their pro-impeachment activity. What's taking the IRS so long in pulling the rug out from under their enterprise?

BU$CH [using his Swiss Army knife to scrape salt from a king-sized pretzel]: I hope the delay has nothing to do with the IRS's review of my income tax return for 2005, 'cause I need tuh deflect . . ..

CHEEZEY [interrupting with a sigh-filled sneer]: I told ya, Dubya, just relax on this trivial stuff. Albertino the Escape Artist has us all covered. And he's fervently working with local law enforcement to keep the pressure up against Bryant and McConnell. For his part, Bryant, when he was visiting Hampton, Va., in mid-July, almost got arrested for picketing too close to a public seafood festival with his lousy IMPEACH HIM yard signs ( http://tinyURL.com/3at8mz ). So . . ..

TROVE: And, on July 21st, Alan "Annoy" McConnell DID get arrested for defying the Kensington, Md., Farmers Market's order not to enter that government-leased land to peddle his damned IMPEACH HIM buttons. If you Google-search all the resultant press coverage of that episode, you'll wish you were back in the folds of Paraguayan paradise.

CHEEZEY: What's more: now we see that this Bryant-McConnell gang has retitled the farmers market as the "FRAMErs Market," so as to mock law enforcement's role in protecting the public from such subversion.

BU$CH: Talk about mocking our authority: did y'all see that snapshot of Bryant holding a little souvenir flag upside down in front of his chest-slung IMPEACH HIM yard sign during one of his outings at that market?

DUMSFELD: Yeah. I understand that Albertino's staff is reviewing that photo to see if the Kensington police can charge Bryant with gross flag desecration. What works in North Caroline oughta work just as well in Maryland, right?

SCHMOE: Lately, I'm unable to figure out which one has risen to the status of Public Enemy No. 1 -- McConnell or Bryant. We've simply got to convince the local police and sheriffs to crack down on these guys' activities whenever and wherever possible. [Here passing around copies of a NSA-intercepted e-message.] Imagine Bryant's gall of submitting this classified ad for publication in the September 2007 issue of the Parkfairfax Condominium Unit Owners Association's monthly newsletter there in Alexandria, Va.:

== WANTED (Alive and Kicking!) ==

For several weeks now, a predatory thief/vandal has been stealing/destroying some of the IMPEACH HIM yard signs now finding new homes in South Arlington, Va. If you (or someone you know) have direct evidence of the perpetrator(s)' identity, you may qualify for a $500 reward were that evidence to lead to their apprehension and conviction. Please contact Larry W. Bryant (www.waifllc.org ) -- Phone: 703-931-3341; e-mail: overtci@cavtel.net

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http://www.bushbusiness.com/Bryant_OP.htm

http://impeachbush.meetup.com/396/

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"If U. S. servicemembers have the First Amendment right to speak out on matters of public interest (and, as private citizens, they do), then why shouldn't they also have the concomitant right to RECEIVE the public-interest speech of others?" -- Larry W. Bryant (August 12, 2007)

larryb@jerrypippin.com

Chapter 67. The Kleptocrats Stoop to a New Low
07/01/07

[Author's Note: The recent series of stolen IMPEACH HIM yard signs from their consignment homes in the southern part of Arlington, Va., has prompted me to e-mail a resident of that upper-middle-class area with the following request. (Alas, the resident since has informed me of her inability to post the proposed notice upon her neighborhood's "listserv" -- because of their rule against political discussion. Where is the late Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill when we need him?)

TO: Ms. Onivas [not her real name]: Thank you again for accepting one of www.waifllc.org's free yard signs for display in your front yard -- and for buying 10 IMPEACH HIM buttons in support of this grassroots project. Noting that you take part in your community listserv (which recently dwelt on the theft of some of these signs from your neighborhood), I wonder if you could cut-and-paste the content of my introductory notice to that listserv, as follows:

"Greetings to all the South Glebe Road area listserv: As I was canvassing the South 7th and 6th Streets of your neighborhood yesterday, I learned from a few of your neighbors that some of the already-displayed IMPEACH HIM yard signs have been stolen during the past few weeks. (Indeed, I myself have noticed that two of the signs have been swiped from the same spot -- the corner of South 7th Street and Monroe Street.) If www.waifllc.org had unlimited funds, I'd have no difficulty in replacing these signs ad infinitum. And in installing a videocam to nab the culprits. Presumably, someone hostile to the sign's message can't handle the Truth -- and hence must attack its messenger. A sad sign of the times in which we live. But, just as a bull charges at the waving of a red flag, I'm feeding off the negative energy generated by this decidedly un-American attack. So, I'm redoubling my efforts at helping plant these lovely signs throughout Virginia (the "Mother of Presidents"). Indeed, if you know of a neighbor/relative/friend who lives in a detached dwelling and who'd dearly like to have me deliver to him/her a sign for his/her front yard, please have them call me (703-931-3341) or e-mail me (at: overtci@cavtel.net). Meantime, I have some GOOD news for you: a brand-new www.meetup.com discussion/activism group has been formed in Arlington; check it out at http://impeachbush.meetup.com/396/. Starting on Wed., July 18, 2007, at 7:00 p.m., the new meetup will convene monthly on the third Wednesday -- at the Clarendon Grill, 1101 North Highland Street. I invite you to join the meetup, which will charge you no membership fee and obligate you to no action. Of course, we'd welcome your occasional volunteering to help us sell (for $1 apiece) our world-famous IMPEACH HIM lapel buttons -- whose proceeds we use to buy the yard signs (which we give away to loving homes). www.Waifllc.org founding member Alan McConnell of Silver Spring, Md., plans to join us at the Arlington VA Impeachment Meetup on July 18th. Registering for the new meetup is quite easy. And your membership allows you to receive/post periodic update messages about our progress. Once again, I and Alan McConnell thank you for your bold and proud display of the yard signs distributed thus far in your community. As with the civil rights movement, this symbolic expression of the people's will and solidarity won't be denied or delayed by cowardly acts of vandalism, theft, or tacit intimidation. P. S.: At an impeachment-related town-hall-style forum held June 23rd on the Fairfax campus of George Mason University, one of the attenders, the father of a member of the Arlington County Board, accepted one of our yard signs for planting in his front yard in Arlington Forest. He told me that his son favors impeachment. Would the Board possibly be amenable to joining the nationwide movement of various city/town governing bodies in introducing pro-impeachment resolutions?"]

SCHMOE [mentally patting HIMSELF on the back]: Good job, Dick, on staving off those congressional subpoenas for material that's strictly none of Congress's damned business. Just another few more months of our stonewalling on this will put us completely out of reach of their grubby paws, doncha think?

CHEEZEY: Uh-huh . . . sure seems so. Here [passing Schmoe a Cellophane-wrapped piece of candy: have a mint -- NOT an "impeachMINT"! Heh-heh.

BU$CH: How's construction of your superbunker down in Paraguay coming along, Dick?

CHEEZEY: 'bout 75-percent complete. Right now, they're focusing on installing all the latest electronic detection/protection gear. One of those devices can detect a subpoena server's presence from a distance of several miles. Some form of reverse-engineered alien technology, I'm told.

TROVE: I thought we weren't gonna discuss "alien tech" anymore, guys -- so, shouldn't we, uh . . ..

GRATES: That's right, Karlos, my boy -- "mum's the word," even in jest. We still have been unable to detect the identity of that mole who's been relaying the content of these meetings to the opposition. But you have my word on this: when we do nab him/her, we're gonna put that traitor in a place that'll make Abu Ghraib look like a picnic. Just remember: we're doing our best to find that person.

TROVE: As I recall, Roberto, there's a saying in the Navy leadership that goes like this: "Doing your best sometimes ain't enough -- do what's NECESSARY!"

GRATES: Well, I certainly consider it "necessary" to plug this critical leak in the Cheezey submarine -- not to mention any that've been feeding the recent Washington Post's "Cheezey expose" series.