Too late to wake up?
Reporters and columnists in the bigger media have in the last 48 hours blurted out one story after another commentary telling us how shocked, shocked they are at the extent to which Bush & Cronies so much of the present executive have seized total power and signal.The now growing signals that Bush is sending out that he has no intention of letting go of any of the powers he has grabbed seem to scare the main media the most.
Perhaps it was the process of composing the year-end wrap-ups their editors asked for that got them thinking. Finally.
That fine Village Voice is not one of the later-comers to this terrible realization. He’s been writing waring pieces about the disappearing democracy all along, but his recent summary of the sorry situation we’ve sunk to is so right on the money that it behooves us to quote a few opening ‘graphs of his most recent story.
Washington - The 9-11 attacks provided the rationale for what amounts to a Bush family coup against the Constitution.Most worrisome about all this is: Can we, the citizenry, ever recover what we had that was good, or is it too late?
From the outset, President George Bush used 9-11 to reorganize and increase the federal government's reach far beyond any existing law to delve into the lives of innocent, ordinary people. The new powers allowed the government to arrest them at will and to subject them to endless incarceration without judicial review. Some people were sent abroad to be tortured for crimes they had nothing to do with. Who knows how many people have been tortured in American jails? When government employees within the intelligence community sought to protest, the government fired them and made sure they could never get another job in their areas of expertise.
This extraordinary program of spying on Americans, much of which was carried out in fishing expeditions under the Patriot Act, has the makings of a consistent and long-range policy to wreck constitutional government.
It is little wonder both left and right have come together to fight Bush and may yet jettison the Patriot Act. Revelations of the domestic spy operation, with its secret wiretaps, ought to supply sufficient evidence to impeach Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney and launch criminal prosecutions of the top federal officials involved in carrying out the program. After all, these people are directly engaged in overthrowing constitutional government.Village Voice/Truthout
Son revisits sins of the father on America
December 30, 2005
The year 2006, as I’ve written elsewehere, may provide the answer. Like it, or not.
posted by Tom Nadeau at 10:48 PM
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