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are you liberal? conservative? authoritarian? libertarian?

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"President" George W. Bush president@whitehouse.gov

Representative's Name
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1) George Washington , two terms
2) John Adams
3) Thomas Jefferson
4) James Madison, D-R, two terms
5) James Monroe
6) John Quincy Adams
7) Andrew Jackson
8) Martin Van Buren, D, one term
9) William Henry Harrison
10) John Tyler
11) James K. Polk
12) Zachary Taylor, Whig, military hero, died in office, one term
13) Millard Fillmore
14) Franklin Pierce
15) James Buchanan
16) Abraham Lincoln. R,
17) Andrew Johnson
18) Ulysses S. Grant
19) Rutherford B. Hayes
20) James A. Garfield
21) Chester Alan Arthur
22) Grover Cleveland
23) Benjamin Harrison
24) Grover Cleveland (second term)
25) William McKinley
26) Theodore Roosevelt, R, war hero, nobel peace prize, two terms
27) William Howard Taft
28) Woodrow Wilson
29) Warren G. Harding
30) Calvin Coolidge
31) Herbert Hoover
32) Franklin D. Roosevelt
33) Harry S. Truman, D, two terms
34) Dwight D. Eisenhower
35) John F. Kennedy, D, established the Peace Corps, Bay of Pigs
36) Lyndon Baines Johnson, D, tax reduction bill, Vietnam fighting begins,
37) Richard M. Nixon, R, signed ABM Treaty with Russia, Watergate, resigned Presidency in disgrace, two terms
38) Gerald R. Ford, R, took over when Nixon resigned, wasn't re-elected
39) Jimmy Carter., D, created US Department of Education, one term
40) Ronald Reagan, R, VP George Bush, bombed Libya, economic plan causes stock market collapse, two terms
41) George Bush, R, VP Dan Quayle, Iraq War I (1991), one term
42) William Clinton, D, VP Al Gore, two terms, eliminated federal deficit
43) George W. Bush, R, Afghanistan War, Iraq War II, erosion of Constitutional rights and environment, recession

after 4 years of George H.W. Bush:
1992 -$340,000,000,000 ($340 billion deficit)

after 4 more years of Bill Clinton:
2000 +$87,000,000,000 SURPLUS ($87 billion SURPLUS)

John M. Poindexter, Director
Mr. Poindexter was indicted on March 16, 1988 on seven federal felony charges stemming from the Iran-Contra scandal. Poindexter
was convicted of all counts on April 7, 1990. Mr. Poindexter was convicted of criminal conspiracy with Colonel Oliver North,
Air Force Maj. Gen. Richard V. Secord (Ret.) and Albert Hakim (obstruction of congressional inquiries and proceedings, false statements,
falsification, destruction and removal of documents); two counts of obstruction of Congress and two counts of false statements.

On February 14, 2002, John Poindexter was appointed by President George W. Bush to lead the Information Assurance Office
at the Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Despite Mr. Poindexter's criminal record of lying
to Congress, the President thinks he is "an outstanding American and an outstanding citizen who has done
a very good job in what he has done for our country, serving in the military".

The Pentagon assured Congress that its planned antiterror surveillance system will analyze only legally acquired
information, and changed the name of the project to help allay privacy concerns that prompted congressional restrictions.
The "Total Information Awareness" program under development by the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA) will now be known as the "Terrorism Information Awareness" program.
- May. 21, 2003, Associated Press

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

The School of the Americas based at Fort Benning in Georgia, otherwise known at the 'School of the Assassins'
or 'La escuela del golpe' (the coup school). It has been accused of training death squads in Guatemala and Honduras,
e.g. Battalion 3-16 (Walker, 1994). In 1995, the Baltimore Sun obtained Freedom Of Information Act documents on
Battalion 3-16, (which used electroshock and rubber suffocation devices on prisoners in Honduras), that confirmed
that the Unit had been trained in interrogation techniques by the CIA (Baltimore Sun, 11 June 1995). Last year, further
manuals were released under FOIA on Project X, part of the US Foreign Intelligence Assistance Programme which
reveal that until the 1980's, the US military ran an intelligence training programme in Latin America and elsewhere,
that taught foreign officers to offer bounties for captured or killed insurgents, spy on non-violent political opponents,
kidnap rebels' family members, blackmail unwanted informants and the use of drugs to facilitate interrogation.
Project X manuals were distributed by the US Army School of Americas but their use was stopped only in 1991
when the Defense Intelligence Agency raised ethical and legal questions.

Such surveillance systems raise significant issues of accountability particularly when transferred to authoritarian regimes. The cameras in Fig 21 in Tiananmen Square were sold as advanced traffic control systems by Siemens Plessey. Yet after the 1989 massacre of students, there followed a witch hunt when the authorities tortured and interrogated thousands in an effort to ferret out the subversives. The Scoot surveillance system with USA made Pelco camera were used to faithfully record the protests. The images were repeatedly broadcast over Chinese television offering a reward for information, with the result that nearly all the transgressors were identified. Again democratic accountability is only the criterion which distinguishes a modern traffic control system from an advanced dissident capture technology. Foreign companies are exporting traffic control systems to Lhasa in Tibet, yet Lhasa does not as yet have any traffic control problems. The problem here may be a culpable lack of imagination.(Fig.22)

The CIA Human Resource Training Manual discussed above are striking. The CIA manual discusses using intense fear, deep exhaustion, solitary confinement, unbearable anxiety, standing to attention for long periods of time, sleep and food deprivation, stripping suspects naked and keeping them blindfolded in windowless, dark interrogation rooms with no toilet. Only in January of 1997, did the CIA formally renounce and prohibit its agents from using these torture manuals.