Reply #2: I don't think tha there is any good face to put on this. The rule of law has NOT been restored.

[Peace Patriot]

And we can only wonder why. Personally, I think it's "The Deal" that I have posited, whereby Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and perhaps other principles of the Bush Junta, and a few "made men" (Rove?), were given immunity from impeachment (which is where Nancy Pelosi's strange statement--"Impeach is off the table"--came from) and from future prosecution, probably in exchange for no nuking of Iran, and for Bush/Cheney leaving peacefully when the time came (and likely included ousting Rumsfeld from power).

Thus, the Obama administration's hands are, in a sense, tied, on the restoration of the rule of law. If they do anything to violate The Deal--such as acting to establish that the law was broken--there may be consequences, and we don't know what they are, and/or, the group that brokered The Deal is such that they cannot be defied. I think Obama being permitted to be elected may have been contingent on his agreement to The Deal. I don't think that Leon Panetta is a civilian--I think he is deep CIA, of the kind you never hear about because he doesn't want you to--and was one of the brokers of The Deal. I think Daddy Bush was part of it, too. (Panetta was a member of his Iraq Study Group). And I don't know who else, Pelosi, possibly. Certainly members of the military and the intelligence community, and maybe a few other big, insider politicos and corpos. I think we almost suffered an outright fascist putsch and a nazi state (circa late 2006). This group acted to prevent it. If true--and I think it makes a lot of sense--I'm glad that the Middle East and our planet didn't suffer the nuclear end-game. And I'm glad that we are not under martial law now--at least not directly. But we are in a very perilous situation--especially with the voting system the way it is (virtually every voting machine in the country run on 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled by rightwing Bushite corporations, with virtually no audit-recount controls), so that the Bushwhacks can easily--EASILY!--be re-installed.

And all these extrajudicial powers will be waiting for them, to be used again, in massive violation of our Constitution and international law, and quite possibly against us--if a planned scenario of civil disorder via this induced Depression is carried out.

All I can say is...

THROW DIEBOLD, ES&S AND ALL 'TRADE SECRET' CODE VOTING MACHINES INTO 'BOSTON HARBOR' NOW!