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The people who control our government at this moment in time are elitests. These people believe that they have superior intellect, and information and divine guidance that puts them in a better position to see the world as it really is and that we the people are ignorant of what they know. This is not new, dictators and empires have used this justification all through world history. Lennin, Mussolini, Pinochet, Hitler, The Roman Empire, The Ottoman Empire, The English Empire all have believed that they were above the people. Such beliefs by the ruling classes inevitably lead to facism.
America is on the road to facism, we are not totally there yet, but we have journeyed a great distance down that road. An example of American Facism is the NSA wiretap issue. The issue is misrepresented by the right wing. The issue is not shouldn't the President use his authority to track terrorists by tapping their phones.
The issue is shouldn't the President obey the rule of law in obtaining a warrant to tap the phones of terrorists. In 1978 the congress passed The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. That law was passed for a very Constitutional reason. The NSA needed to go after our enemies and we needed to have our rights protected, so the Congress set up a secret court, where the administration could go to obtain a warrant in secret, to protect intelligence sources.
The law further stated that if you need to tap a line right now and don't have time to go to court, go ahead and do it just so you advise the court afterwards that you've done it. But George W. Bush does not want permission from any court. George W. Bush is above all that mundane, democracy stuff, George W. Bush is a power unto himself and so, George W. Bush under his own percieved authority decides to ignore the law and to ignore the Constitution and tap any phone he damn well wants to and to take any other action he wants and in so doing creates a Constitutional crisis.
Well I'm sorry, Mr. Bush but we ARE a Democracy. Several years ago in a moment of candid lucidity George said it himself "I wish I were a dictator, it would make things a lot easier" or words to that effect, I don't have the quote in front of me just now. This is the road to Facism.
Who is ultimately responsible for this lawlessness by George W. Bush? I would submit that it is the men and women who make up our current Congress. The Republican majority in the House and Senate who refuse to hold this President accountable to the Constitution and the rule of law. Who is ultimately responsible for them? We the People are responsible for them.
On Nov. 7th we have a chance to excercise our Constitutional duty. On Nov 7th we can hold George W. Bush accountable. We can return OUR government to the rule of law. We just have to do it. We must register and vote to throw the men and women who refuse to do their duty out of office and replace them with people who will use the power that we give them to prosecute, impeach , remove from office and encarcerate those elected officials, including Bush, Cheney, Rove and the rest who refuse to obey the law. |
