Reply #47: If Bush gets away with this, then it's simple:

[sattahipdeep]

Harvey Wasserman
Are you ready to be bugged and tortured by George W. Bush?
January 19, 2006

This isn't about war: It's about dictatorship.

It’s about making power permanent by using private information
against you, and by terrifying you with torture.

Team Bush believes it rules by Divine right.
It has already re-defined "terrorist" to mean anyone who questions its power.
It will use "anti-terrorist" wiretapping as a tool against anyone who dares oppose it.

So ask yourself: if granted the power to torture, do you trust the Bush
Administration---or any regime- - to refrain from torturing its political opponents?
If granted the power to record private phone conversations, do you trust Karl Rove
to not use this material against his political opponents?

If Bush gets away with this, then it's simple: if you are too outspoken in opposing
this regime's destruction of social security, or the natural environment, or the
economy, you will sooner or later be subject to torture.

http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7/2006/1303