Bush Regime Preaches Democracy, Proposes Tyranny
Americans had best rethink the "war on terror" while they still have the liberty to do so. For all of President Bush's blah-blah talk about bringing democracy to the world, the Bush administration has proved that it is no friend of liberty at home.
The Bush administration has violated constitutional principles, U.S. law and the Geneva Conventions as no previous administration has done. Here is a short list of the Bush administration's crimes:
—Spying without court warrants on Americans in violation of both the U.S. Constitution and the FISA statute.
—The denial of habeas corpus, attorney-client privilege, due process and Geneva Conventions protections to those, American or foreign, designated without evidence as terrorists or enemy combatants.
—The justification and use of torture to coerce confessions and the kidnapping of foreign nationals who are sent to be tortured in foreign prisons.
—The initiation of military aggression against states based on intentional deception by the Bush administration of the U.S. public and the United Nations, and the intentional fabrication of "evidence" to justify unprovoked aggression against sovereign states, which is a war crime under the Nuremberg standard established by the United States.
—Violation of the oath of office to defend the U.S. Constitution by practically every member of the Bush administration and Congress.
—Bush has assaulted the separation of powers and the rule of law with "signing statements" and "executive orders" that President Nixon's White House Counsel John Dean says are commands that treat the co-equal branches of government and the electorate as subservient to executive authority. In April 2006, Boston Globe reporter Charlie Savage listed 750 laws "challenged" by the Bush administration. Not even the demonized president of Iran claims to be above the law.
—Genocide against the people of Iraq, where 1 million Iraqis have died as a result of Bush's invasion and several million Iraqis are displaced persons.
—Massive civilian casualties in Afghanistan, which is a form of genocide in which military force is routinely applied to unarmed noncombatants.
—Massive corruption in which no-bid contracts are issued to Republican corporations in exchange for kickbacks to political campaigns.
—The theft of two national elections, as documented in books by Mark Crispin Miller and Greg Palast.
—The Bush administration has even conducted Stalinist show trials against innocent Muslim charities as part of its propaganda to make the American people fearful that they are surrounded by hostile terrorists. In December 2001, President Bush declared the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development to be a "terrorist organization" and seized the charity's assets. Bush put the charities' officials on trial as terrorists. Six years later, on Oct. 22, 2007, after years of investigations and two months of testimony by "Israeli intelligence agents" (according to The New York Times), the U.S. government's case fell apart in the courtroom.
One of the jurors said that the case "was strung together with macaroni noodles. There was so little evidence."
Georgetown University professor of constitutional law David D. Cole said the case "suggests the government is really pushing beyond where the law justifies them going."
While committing these unprecedented crimes, President Bush has claimed the moral high ground despite having lied to the American people and despite devastating two countries in the name of "making the world safe from terrorists." When people in Iraq and Afghanistan are asked who are the terrorists, they answer that it is the Americans.
The Bush administration has not been held accountable for any of its crimes. By failing to hold government accountable to law, the Constitution and the American people, the opposition party and the corporate media have abandoned their responsibility to protect freedom and democracy in the United States.
There can be no democracy where there is no government accountability, and there is no government accountability in the United States—except, of course, to the Israel lobby.
Now, the Bush administration wants to take away the American people's freedom to travel within their own country by airplane. Not content with an 80,000-person "no fly" list and a subset of a 500,000-750,000-person "watch list," the Bush administration's Transport Security Administration has proposed new rules that will require Americans to get government permission 72 hours in advance prior to being allowed to board a domestic flight.
The TSA justifies this extraordinary violation of our constitutional rights on the grounds that 90 percent to 93 percent of all travel reservations are final by then.
So what?!
And what of the 7 percent to 10 percent of flights that the TSA estimates are not on the books 72 hours in advance? These are family emergencies and critical business deals. What does the TSA care if a member of your family dies while you await the government's permission to fly?
Any agency of the government that can propose such a tyrannical regulation should be abolished. The TSA's mentality shows it to be a far greater threat to Americans than are terrorists.
Even without the "permission to fly" rule, the TSA's practices are ridiculous and unjustified. The confiscation of toothpaste and unopened bottles of perfume, the harassment of U.S. military officers in uniform, the harassment of old people struggling with their walkers, of mothers struggling with small children—none of this makes any sense except in terms of getting Americans accustomed to harassment as a citizen's duty to government and to train a cadre to conduct warrantless searches of fellow citizens.
The no-fly list itself is absurd. If a known terrorist were to show up at an airport, he would be arrested, not refused permission to fly. Anyone else who can clear security like other passengers has every right to fly.
Set aside the violation of the Constitution and the Soviet-style tyranny of the loss of the freedom to travel, and consider merely the practical aspect of the proposal. What American wants his travel plans dependent on a government bureaucracy capable of putting U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy on the "no fly" list and of issuing U.S. visas to two of the alleged 9-11 hijackers six months after they allegedly died in the attack?
If we believe the official story, 9-11 itself reveals a government totally devoid of any competence whatsoever.
The "war on terror" is fraudulent. The cruel war and the deceptive vocabulary that protects it are a cover for expanding U.S. and Israeli hegemony in the Middle East and for constructing a functioning police state at home. A country in which people cannot make airline reservations without the government's permission is not a free country.
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This is a very extensive and revealing list. It takes a lot to make the sleazy Clinton Administration look like saints. At least under a Dem controlled White House, Republicans pretended to try to maybe act like conservatives. Hillary '08?
Paul;
Regarding TSA comment, my understanding is that they are implementing one of the 9/11 Recommendations. See attached web site.
http://www.tsa.gov/what_we_do/layers/secureflight/index.shtm
The odious Joe Lieberman is apparently upset that the "watch list" may be too long to be of any practical use, and what a dilemma it must for that great American patriot, Joe Lieberman, and the rest of the Israel lobby, too, insofar as, while a terrorist act here might provide the perfect cover for annilihating Iran, it could also make Americans weary enough to demand a cessation of these wars of extermination. Pretty soon, American politicians will be getting out prayer rugs and publicly prostrating themselves in the direction of Tel Aviv awaiting orders from on high, even if the their Higher Power speaks through the mouth of a creepy weasel from Stamford, Ct.
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."
The only question that remains, I suppose, is that of sincerity.
The quote, by the way, is from C.S. Lewis. Apologies.
It boggles my mind every day that our "Central Government" revokes one liberty after another in the name of fighting Islamofascism, while simultaniously allowing our Southern border open to thousands of invaders a day? The concept that a terrorist can not and will not enter the country as easy as a cucumber picker draging a child is illogical!..........No, a trained and highly motivated middleastern terrorist would never take advantage of the fact that his non anglo appearance is most similar to the hispanic illegal allien? Instead, he dies his hair blonde, jumps on a plane headed for America from Sweden, and in broken english claims that he is a Nordic skier here for some ski action!........................Insane!........Millions of tons of drugs crossing the border every year but Chertoff has the terrorist on a watch list? I don't buy it.......................................Seal the borders!
Mr. Roberts,
First things first. If we have an empire, as I believe we do, then we must have a policy of an empire. Cheap labor(or slaves), absolute control over the masses, bureuacracy, propaganda of all sorts(tv,newspaper,radio,education,etc). But if you live in the 'here and now' than life in the states is pretty darn good.
How do we go back to a republic? How do we become a nation of proud hardworking folk? You seem to be suggesting that we let our guard down and take a few hits to knock some sense into the populace.
I'm not sure what is best: to fall now and rise up again or to continue as empire and postpone the inevitable to the future. There is also a third way but life must get much worse before revolution.
What bothers me about your statement here is that you seem to be suggesting that all is the fault of Bush and/or the Republicans. Rather than the whole sorry state of affairs we find our wonderful country in now. Republican, Democrat and the Greedy have all led us down this god foresaken path we find ourselves on today.
I certainly expect more out of you and this website than what you have written here today. Not so much your basic summary but that all of this you listed should be pinned on Bush/Repuplicans rather than the many that are responsible.
ps- Do not underestimate Islam. It will always be an enemy of the west (until we convert or die!).
The majority of Americans are too busy with their materialistic lives to do anything to stop their government from such tyranny. As long as there is beer in the refrigerator, a toilet that works, a TV with the NFL on it, a remote for the TV, and a nice couch to sit on, Americans are content. Nothing else matters. "Bush sent another 1000 people to their deaths today? Oh thats sad. Well Im off to the golf course." And why shouldn't they say this? When a country indoctrinates people to think that the only thing that matters is me, myself, and I, and truth is what I say it is then why should they care if its not happening to them? Sad to say thats how most Americans are these days. Like I've said before, when people actually start to do something to stop the tyranny instead just talking about it then maybe we will get somewhere. Vote Ron Paul
I agree with post #8. The neocon faction of the Demopublican = Repocrat establishment is sending the place to the dogs perhaps a bit faster, but, though at the moment in charge, they are neither better nor worse than the rest, having with them merely an internecine argument. (BTW, you have to look no further than "18th Annual Meeting of the John Randolph Club" - Hawkings and his ilk suffice to send you chill down the spine - or even some posters at this very site.) As for the author of the above article ... yes, all that he says here is correct and true, but something "puzzles" me (not): wasn't he, just like Buchanan, a part of the ... Ronald Reagan's (!!!...) entourage? Had they both had a sudden "spiritual conversion"
Speaking of torture - [seriously] - considering or having to consider the bush administration since they 'exist' is torture enough... Check out the new film RENDITION (the fancy name for snatchig you, throwing a hood on your head, and flying you to another country to be tortured - under U.S. orders i.e. some bureaucrat's orders, covering their own ass.) And how fruitless it is...until the innocent party, befuddled - finally gets what his captors need him to tell them - and does so because the next round of electricity will no doubt end his life. Good film, and this all began with the Clinton administration, by the way. When the American victim's American wife asks Meryl Streep playing the female bureaucrat in Washington D.C. responsible for ORDERING the snatch & torture: where is her husband and why is SHE (meryl) torturing him - Meryl repies the U.S. does not engage in torture. Good flick. Wonder what hillary would do - since her husband started it. - except we KNOW rudy the bald guy from n.y.c. who turned the other way to allow 9/11 would be WORSE, probably. It's all so sad. It's NOT Christian. It's another ideology in power and operational... gee is it 'judaism' ... [yes] of course it is. But they have the MEDIA... so they're the 'good' guys.
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It is quite possible to both protect this great nation and protect personal freedoms for the lawful citizens that live within it's boundaries.
Ending illegal immigration and putting a monatorium on legal immigration until we can sort it all out though is a requirement imho.
Lets see; the Federal Reserve is a fraud, the Income Tax is a fraud, the Lusitania incident was a contrived fraud, Wallstreet financed both Lenin, Trotsky, and Hitler, the Great Depression was contrived, Pearl Harbor was a contrived fraud, "Israel" is a fraud, and "The Holocaust"(tm) is a fraud, Korea and the
Cold-War were contrived along with the Tonkin Gulf, Saddam's move on Kuwait was contrived, the 1st WTC bombing was contrived, Waco was contrived, OKC was contrived, the African bombings were contrived, 9-11 was (blatantly)contrived-- and an Iran war is in the process of being contrived, and most likely a new and improved 9-11 is in the process of being contrived("not if, but when").
Have a nice day pretending the virtual-reality presented by the (complicit)media is true.
It turns out Lockerbie was a contrived faud as well. The list goes on...
Kerry and Bush are blood related... and both are related to the Queen of England(what a coincidence!). Of course also via Skull and Bones. "Good Christian" Bush, member of two dark occult societies including "Bohemiam Grove".
"Terrorism" and "Islamo-facism" is provoked and supported as a means of blackmail. See "The Copycat Effect".
The police-state is a necessity. Resistance to it will necessitate a new catastrophic attack. They "warned" us, but we wouldn't listen.... so they can claim "innocence"(because of "incompetence" and underfunding, and excessive freedom) again...
What a nutjob of an article. Refuting such claptrap is so easy that my 8-year old niece could do it, but it would be like trying to teach my dog calculus. People mocked Clinton-haters in the 90s, and many certainly did go to an extreme, but no lie said against Clinton even compares with the lies said against Bush.
I agree with you Michael McCullough. But today's politically correct modern liberal facists certainly don't let truth or logic get in their way.