Year end is a good time to look back and reflect on what's ahead. If past is prologue, however, the outlook isn't good, and nothing on the horizon suggests otherwise. Voters last November wanted change but got betrayal from the bipartisan criminal class in Washington. Their attitude shows in an October Reuters/Zogby (RZ) opinion poll with George Bush at 24% that tops Richard Nixon's worst showing of 25% at his lowest 1974 Watergate point. And if that looks bad, consider Congress with "The Hill" reporting from the same RZ Index that our legislators scored a "staggering 11%, the lowest (congressional) rating in history," but there's room yet to hit bottom and a year left to do it. Why not with lawmakers' consistent voter sellout and failure record that keeps getting worse.
It's been that way ever since 9/11 with both sides of the aisle complicit with the administration. This article looks back at the record, and year end is a good time to review it. It's hard imagining another as bad with a President defiling the law and once telling Republican colleagues the Constitution is "just a goddamned piece of paper."
He didn't just say it. He governs by it, gets away with it, and former Defense Department analyst Daniel Ellsberg, of Pentagon Papers fame, says "a coup has occurred (with another to come from) the next 9/11....that completes the first (that's) seen a steady assault on every fundamental (aspect) of our Constitution (to create) an executive government (to) rule by decree" no different from a police state.
These are just the opening paragraphs of this long article.
The article contains sections on the following:
- Use of National Security ((NSPDs) and Homeland Security Presidential Directives (HSPDs)
- Congressional Legislation After 9/11
- The Detainee Treatment Act of 2005
- The Military Commissions Act
- Revising the 1807 Insurrection Act and Ending 1878 Posse Comitatus Protection
- The Real ID Act of 2005
- Pervasive Spying on Americans
- Executive Orders Issued by George Bush
- Secrecy As Policy under George Bush
- The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA)
- The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 (HR 1955)
- Sections 1615 and 1622 of the 2008 Defense Authorization Act
- Operation FALCON - Police State America in Real Time
- Muslim and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) Sweeps
- Police State America Preparations
- The Role of Blackwater USA in Police State America
The contents of these paragraphs are the details of the assaults on human and American rights. The assault on our Constitution.
Emperor Bush is using fear of terrorism, like dictators of the past, to convince Americans to allow a Fascist Police State. Regrettably voters have let Bush and his GOP supporters get away with it.
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