Posted on 09/30/2009 10:39:44 PM PDT by Talkradio03
Alan Grayson, a high profile trial lawyer who has been suing defense contractors ...
Grayson is completely uninterested and unintimidated by ridiculous arguments about secrecy and national security. He thinks that war crimes have been committed, that people need to be put in prison, and that we absolutely cannot let bygones be bygones with the 2000-2008 era.
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Alan Grayson: I’m Alan Grayson, and I’m the Democratic candidate for Congress in Florida’s district eight. And I’m the attorney of record in every single case now pending in Federal court involving war profiteers in Iraq. These are cases in which I represent whistleblowers. The Florida civil rights association named me Humanitarian of the Year for my work in this regard, taxpayers against fraud named me lawyer of the year, and I’ve been featured in Vanity Fair magazine, in media like CBS evening news, 60 minutes, and even Dailykos, imagine that.
I’m running because I’m fed up with the government mismanagement, the Bush administration’s shameless pandering to war profiteers. I think they set out on a deliberate course to make this war good for the people who were their friends. And I want to try to hold them accountable when I’m in Congress. When I’m in Congress... the Bush administration’s worst nightmare is going to be me with subpoena power because I know everything that they’ve done, and I’m going to hold them accountable for it.
We don’t need truth and reconciliation, we need punishment. We need people to be held accountable for all the mistakes that they made that have screwed us up in this war and screwed us up in this economy. The economy is falling apart, the chickens are coming home to roost. You cannot spend $10,000 for every man, woman, and child in America for a war that never should have taken place in the first place.
We’ll put people in prison. We’ll take away the thing that they care about the most, their money. They stole, they hurt the troops, they killed people, they hurt the taxpayers year after year and they’ve destroyed this economy. They’re not going to get off scot-free.
Who’s ‘they’?
The people who have been running this government and their assistants who have been running companies like Halliburton. Think about it, we have a Vice President who was the head of Hallburton, who got a $23 million parting gift from them when he became Vice President. And he was the one who instigated this war and made Halliburton the largest army contractor in existence.
We need to hold people accountable, no more corporate welfare. No more people who think they can benefit from other people’s sadness, their disabilities, their problems. That’s not going to be feasible any more in the new America. In a new America, all boats will rise, and we’ll judge things, as Darcy Burner just said a few minutes ago, by what is good for everybody, not what’s good for the friends of George Bush.
Recently, Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson held a town-hall meeting in Orlando. The event, in a too-small union hall and pre-loaded with members of the local Democratic Party committee, was stacked against regular citizens. Grayson’s desire to speak to a friendly audience meant his constituents were shortchanged.
The Grayson town hall was just one example where the “new kind of politics” that was promised was never delivered.
Still better then being an asshat..
another certifiable imbecile.
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