Who will Save America?

[JohnnyRingo]

Another Republican sees the light, and he doesn't like what he sees:

Who Will Save America?
My Epiphany
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS


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We have reached a point where the Bush administration is determined to totally eclipse the people. Bewitched by neoconservatives and lustful for power, the Bush administration and the Republican Party are aligning themselves firmly against the American people. Their first victims, of course, were the true conservatives. Having eliminated internal opposition, the Bush administration is now using blackmail obtained through illegal spying on American citizens to silence the media and the opposition party.

Before flinching at my assertion of blackmail, ask yourself why President Bush refuses to obey the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The purpose of the FISA court is to ensure that administrations do not spy for partisan political reasons. The warrant requirement is to ensure that a panel of independent federal judges hears a legitimate reason for the spying, thus protecting a president from the temptation to abuse the powers of government. The only reason for the Bush administration to evade the court is that the Bush administration had no legitimate reasons for its spying. This should be obvious even to a naif.

The United States is undergoing a coup against the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, civil liberties, and democracy itself. The "liberal press" has been co-opted. As everyone must know by now, the New York Times has totally failed its First Amendment obligations, allowing Judith Miller to make war propaganda for the Bush administration, suppressing for an entire year the news that the Bush administration was illegally spying on American citizens, and denying coverage to Al Gore's speech that challenged the criminal deeds of the Bush administration.

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http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts02062006.html


Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be reached at: [email protected]

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. It's gonna take a lot to turn this ship around carrying such a load

of appointed inepts.

[liberal N proud]

2. We need an FDR type to do it.

Someone with enough guts that can say, what needs to be done and strong enough to make it happen

Bill Clinton?

[ClayZ]

3. K and R

:kick:

[Skeptor]

4. I spy with my naked eye...

something bigger (and potentially a whole lot nastier) than Watergate. Monica, even!

[area51]

7. Welcome to DU, Skeptor. (n/t)

[newyawker99]

11. Hi Skeptor!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[fasttense]

5. He certainly brings up information and question I've been

asking myself.

Why is the media so afraid to have a real debate?

Roberts writes:
"The years of illegal spying have given the Bush administration power over the media and the opposition. Journalists and Democratic politicians don't want to have their adulterous affairs broadcast over television or to see their favorite online porn sites revealed in headlines in the local press with their names attached. Only people willing to risk such disclosures can stand up for the country."

Of what use is the no-fly list when all we do is turn away people?

Roberts writes:
"Consider the no-fly list. This list has no purpose whatsoever but to harass and disrupt the livelihoods of Bush's critics. If a known terrorist were to show up at check-in, he would be arrested and taken into custody, not told that he could not fly. What sense does it make to tell someone who is not subject to arrest and who has cleared screening that he or she cannot fly? How is this person any more dangerous than any other passenger?

If Senator Ted Kennedy, a famous senator with two martyred brothers, can be put on a no-fly list, as he was for several weeks, anyone can be put on the list. The list has no accountability. People on the list cannot even find out why they are on the list. There is no recourse, no procedure for correcting mistakes."

He hits the nail on the head.

[FreedomAngel82]

6. Remember James Moore was put on a no fly list

He's the author of "Bush's Brain" and has been following Rove/Bush for a couple of years. He was put on the no-fly list too and from my understanding it was just pure political reasons. He couldn't even go from Texas to New York. I also remember a report of a four year old toddler on the list! This was reported I believe shortly after Christmas.

[leftchick]

8. no one person can save ameriKa

it will take a revolution and I don't see that happening at all. I have given up all hope for a change in the disastrous direction this country is in.

[annabanana]

10. The front troops in a (not blboody) revolution will have to be

Republicans who are beginning to wonder "what th'?!"

The fax numbers of the Republicans on the Committee investigating the wiretaps are:

Specter [phone]
Hatch [phone]
Kyl [phone]
DeWine [phone]
Sessions [phone]
Graham [phone]
Cornyn [phone]
Brownback [phone]
Coburn [phone]

(I sent them notes asking them to save the Senate)

[Kahuna]

9. A lot of us figured out that we were undergoing a "coup" during the 2000

election. Don't know why others couldn't figure out that a man that would steal an election in broad daylight is capable of anything. I've learned with team bush, assume the worst and you will never be disappointed.