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[tiptoe]

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Thus the master tumblers turn, and the lock yields, and the hidden explanations can all be perceived, in their exact proportions, in their exact progressions.

Daniel Levin's eminently practical, eminently logical, eminently patriotic way of testing the legality of waterboarding… has to vanish -- and him, with it.

Thus Alberto Gonzales has to use that brain that sounds like an old car trying to start on a freezing morning, to undo eight centuries of the forward march of law and government.

Thus Dick Cheney, has to ridiculously assert that confirming we do or do not use any particular interrogation technique, would somehow help the terrorists.

Thus Michael Mukasey, on the eve of the vote that will make him the high priest of the law of this land, cannot and must not answer a question, nor even hint that he has thought about a question, which merely concerns the theoretical definition of water-boarding as torture.

Because, Mr. Bush, in the seven years of your nightmare presidency, this whole string of events has been transformed…

From its beginning as the most neglectful protection, ever, of the lives and the safety of the American people
Into the most efficient and cynical exploitation of tragedy for political gain in this country's history...

And then to the giddying prospect that maybe you could do what the military fanatics did in Japan in the 1930s...
And remake a nation into a fascist state so efficient and so self-sustaining
That the fascism itself would be nearly invisible.

But, at last, this frightful plan is ending with an unexpected crash: The shocking reality that

No matter how thoroughly you might try to extinguish them, Mr Bush,
How thoroughly you might try to brand disagreement as disloyalty, Mr. Bush,

There are still people like Daniel Levin who believe in the United States of America as TRUE FREEDOM

Where we are better not because of schemes and wars
But because of dreams and morals.

And, ultimately, sir, these men, these Patriots,
Will defeat you.

And they will return this country to its righteous standards
And to its rightful owners -- the People.

Good night and good luck.

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