If socialists are so bad, why do they make so much more sense than the lackeys in the corporate media who seem to have no problem with the ongoing destruction of everything that's good about the United States? This article covers the Bush attack on democracy, the Democratic decision to go missing in action (or write letters!?), the conspiracy against the Clinton administration, and the "unexplained events" of 9/11. Well worth reading all the way through.
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By deciding, after the secret NSA program was revealed in Friday’s New York Times, to not only acknowledge it, but declare that it would continue so long as he remained president, Bush has escalated his administration’s attack on congressional oversight and the entire Constitutional setup in the US. His defiance of laws passed by Congress amounts to a bid to establish a form of presidential dictatorship.
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In keeping with the basic modus operandi of the Bush administration, its response to the political crisis over the Patriot Act, itself fueled by growing mass opposition to the war in Iraq, is to up the ante. Bush and his key advisers, such as Vice President Dick Cheney, do so in the confidence that their critics in the media and the Democratic Party are themselves too cowardly and too compromised by their own complicity to mount any serious opposition.
They calculate that by going on the offensive, they can once again expose the impotence of the Democrats and further undermine any Congressional oversight of the actions of the White House.
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Bush, however, has advanced the position that the “war on terror” gives him the power, as the commander in chief, to take virtually any measures unilaterally, without having to obtain congressional authorization. From a constitutional standpoint, this assertion of unchecked war-time powers is an Orwellian distortion of the powers actually granted the president by the Constitution. That founding document declared the president to be the commander in chief of the military so as to assert the supremacy of the civilian, elected authorities over the military. The Bush administration has sought to turn this democratic principle into its opposite, portraying the president as an imperial commander in chief of the nation as a whole.
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The war on terror is, and always has been, a propaganda façade for launching military actions abroad and attacking democratic rights at home. It is a mantra behind which American imperialism carries out its drive to establish global hegemony. That it has little to do with defending the American people against catastrophes was established conclusively by the incompetence and indifference of the government to the plight of New Orleans and the other Gulf Coast regions devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
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