Reply #30: Response

[Jack Rabbit]

Your earlier thread was about the Sgrena shooting. This thread is based on my reply there.

Even in the context of the Iraq war, the incident a few weeks ago at the Baghdad airport checkpoint seems of little note. That's saying a lot; it was pretty outrageous, even if one assumes it was just a royal screw up. Nevertheless compare it to the Guernica-like attack on Fallujah, the torture at Abu Ghraib or Bremer's 100 decrees and it almost doesn't count.

I am convinced that history will not be kind to Mr. Bush. I am also convinced that, if his tenure in office were terminated tonight, history will record that of his many abominations the very worst was to launch a colonial invasion of a sovereign state predicated on a pack of deliberate lies. Seldom in human history does one see anything more outrageous than taking one's nation into war based on such falsehoods as those.

Nevertheless, there is a difference between that kind of lawlessness and the kind with which he and his brother are threatening us in Pinellas Park. Invading Iraq as he did or dismissing any concepts of international law as he does are acts of tyranny. As far as this goes, one can apply Plato's definition of a tyrant from The Republic to Mr. Bush. To Plato, a tyrant is one ruled by passion rather than reason, one who will break any bond or oath, no matter how sacred, in order to satisfy his lusts. He had the power to seize Iraq's oil fields and he used it.

What we are seeing now is a willful disregard of two chief executives, both named Bush, to do their duty to enforce the law. They is quite possibly endangering public safety by encouraging the mob outside the hospice and giving them no reason to believe that either of them will lift a finger to stop them from anything that mob might try. Governor Bush even sent state troopers down in what appears to be an attempt to defy the court order. It seems that at the moment the only real law enforcement is the Pinellas Park PD.

There was a thread up earlier today asking members to send an e-mail to Chief Dorene Thomas of the Pinellas Park PD thanking her and her police officers for their efforts in this difficult time.