OpenGov - Open Government Brainstorm

There is no reason why this will divide America. The vast majority of Americans would agree with this agenda because they have already repudiated neocon politics with the election of President Obama. I voted for Obama in the primary and the election.

Do we not investigate and prosecute marijuana dealers, just because a large amount of people in their communities really like them?

If we allow people to be above the law what good is having laws. Like Eddie Lepp an old man that was just given a ten year sentence for growing a weed. We did not ignore the law for this man! How can we ignore the law for so many others that feel they are above the law. Chaney in particular should be prosecuted. He is arrogant about being beyond the arm of the law.

If the feds can send Eddie to jail for 10 years then Chaney should get life for his crimes. But they know Americans it will die down nothing will be done and it will be forgotten about. But Eddie will still be in jail and the 10 years is a federal mandatory he could have gotten life.

The core values of our country are at stake here. Either we enforce laws for all or enforce laws for none. It

We can't sweep this under the rug or ignore the consequences. These are serious crimes, war crimes and the world is watching, If we do not we will be a rogue nation and with our economy in trouble etc. could become a failed nation, a failed state in the eyes of the world. I know we never think of this happening to a country other than in the third world but we are currently at moderate risk for failing and this is before everything that has happened in the last 24 months and everything that has come out. We MUST investigate, prosecute and punish, not just Cheney but everyone in positions of authority who were parties to the torture and lying us into war or we all, each and every one of us are complicit in these crimes.

In Empire America, as with all empires, it is only War Crimes when the other side does it. And the winners of wars only prosecute crimes on the losing side. I believe this is why John Mc Cain was so adamant that we win in Iraq. He didn't want Empire America exposed for what it is: a country whose foreign policy is driven by Corporate interests abroad: be it carving out new consumer markets and cheap labor markets for the West, establishing new military bases to protect corporate interests and contracts abroad, or installing new regimes in natural resource nations who are happy to let Big Oil have a piece of every barrel of oil lifted out of the ground. Democracy and freedom are only incidental to this policy, and have to be cancelled whenever it interferes with corporate American interests mentioned earlier, as is the case when sovereign democratic nations wish to nationalize their nations natural treasures to improve more rapidly their own development as opposed to the more rapid development of profits for the multi-national oil corps. and their share-holders. Of course giant infrastructure construction corps. and international banking are always licking their chops when a new market has been conquered and opened to their services. This is the ugly side of international capitalism that too many of our leaders are okay with from both sides of the aisle. War crimes trials would lead back to the architects of these wars in the private sector, elite Corporations, and their motives and influence on our foreign policy and militarism.

I don't disagree with you, still needs to be done. We have a leader in Obama who isn't afraid to take the high road in so may instances. Sort of ff subject, but getting food security for the third world supported by the countries at the G20 is huge. Nearly 3 billion people, almost half the worlds population goes hungry. It is the clearest statement in recent memory that all the world's people are human beings of equal in value. Hopefully this will also change our views regarding the plundering of the third world.

we are supposed to be a nation of laws, not men. we are a broken nation when we when let men get away with breaking the law.

“Consider the situation. Never has there been an administration so disciplined in secrecy, so precisely in lockstep in keeping information from the people at large and -- in defiance of the Constitution -- from their representatives in Congress. Never has the powerful media oligopoly ... been so unabashed in reaching like Caesar for still more wealth and power. Never have hand and glove fitted together so comfortably to manipulate free political debate, sow contempt for the idea of government itself, and trivialize the peoples' need to know.” --Bill Moyers written during George W. Bush administration (still true)

The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpation’s, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

----The current President and his Administration do not have our consent to illegally occupy other sovereign nations, strip the native people of their dignity and rights, or steal their resources.

----The current President and his Administration do not have our consent to illegally capture, kidnap, and torture fellow human beings in order to extract false confessions to uphold illegal wars and parasitic occupation.

----The current President and his Administration do not have our consent to illegally detain fellow Americans in ‘detention camps’ in order to subdue their voices and their inherent right to rebel.

----The current President and his Administration do not have our consent to give Israel any amount of money or items of monetary value in order to promote the continuous illegal occupation of Palestinian land. Nor can they donate, trade, or sell arms to Israel in order to promote the growth of the Israeli Defense Forces or any Israeli standing army.