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Upon 911 and claims that he is waging a great "war on terror" in Iraq, Bush cites a principle unheard of since King Charles I dared to place himself above Parliament. Called a 'unitary executive', it is, in fact, an American police state. Briefly, a terrorist is whomever Bush says is a terrorist. Anyone --political opposition, dissidents, advocates of free speech, peaceful demonstrators --is a terrorist if Bush 'deems' them so. You can be arrested and detained indefinitely. You don't get a phone call. You don't get a lawyer. You don't get a trial.
Bush claims powers that had accrued to Hitler in 1933. His Federalist Society apologists and Department of Justice appointees claim that President Bush has the same power to interpret the Constitution as the Supreme Court. An Alito Court is likely to agree with this false claim. This is the great issue that is before the country.
Most often, Bush assumes a power and exercises it. He dares anyone to stop him. Congress is spooked.
In other cases, he calls upon a legion of toadies who will confirm his version of reality. They will tell him that the illegal is legal and that, if he does it, it's legal even though he is sworn to uphold the laws that apply to everyone else. These toadies include former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and California law professor John Yoo. Both men support torture, domestic wiretapping and surveillance; both men have tortured logic itself to come up with their idiotic, cockamamie schemes.
Both men are practitioners of Nixon logic: it's not illegal if the President does it!
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^^^Hmmm, this sounds, oddly enough, quite similar to a lot of the Gov-lovers and apologists on this board! lol
[edit on 2-5-2008 by DimensionalDetective]
Originally posted by jackinthebox
reply to post by mybigunit
You know I hate to disagree with you superunit, but while I don't see Bush as having the nack for public speaking that Hitler had, Hitler certainly did say exactly what he was going to do. No one believed him. This time around no one even bothers to ask.