Ridgeway: The Bush Family Coup

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0601,mondo1,71442,6.html

The 9-11 attacks provided the rationale for what amounts to a Bush family coup against the Constitution.

From the outset, President George Bush used 9-11 to reorganize the federal government and increase its reach far beyond any existing law to delve into the lives of innocent, ordinary people. The new powers allowed the government to arrest them at will and to subject them to endless incarceration without judicial review. Some people were sent abroad to be tortured for crimes they had nothing to do with. Who knows how many people have been tortured in American jails? When government employees within the intelligence community sought to protest, the government fired them and made sure they could never get another job in their areas of expertise. This extraordinary program of spying on Americans, much of which was carried out in fishing expeditions under the Patriot Act, has the makings of a consistent and long-range policy to wreck constitutional government.

It is little wonder both left and right have come together to fight Bush and may yet jettison the Patriot Act. Revelations of the domestic spy operation, with its secret wiretaps, ought to supply sufficient evidence to impeach Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney and launch criminal prosecutions of the top federal officials involved in carrying out the program. After all, these people are directly engaged in overthrowing constitutional government. How did this all come about?

[AverageJoe]

1. K & R

:kick:

[Jim Sagle]

2. K & R again.

[Nostradammit]

3. And again...

Fuck Bush.

[stevedeshazer]

4. K & R

[Beam Me Up]

5. Rec #10: Happy New Year! Let's go get those BUSH BASTARDS!!

[mirandapriestly]

6. How did this happen?

I just can't believe that this is happening to this country. The only good thing is that hopefully there will be a reaction against the current situation and laws will be enacted to make sure it never gets this bad again . If we get rid of election fraud, then we will have that to look forward to.

[Lerkfish]

7. television.

when so-called "reality" television garners large audiences, you begin to see how large segments of the population have been repeatedly conditioned to accept as plausible the most implausible things.

[No Exit]

8. Excellent article! And

let's not forget to use this information when we wish to smack down some arrogant wingnut who defends government warrantless wiretapping, etc. Just remind 'em of "Ruby Ridge" and "Waco". Those are favorite rallying cries of theirs anyway. How come they haven't been expressing their "outrage" about those travesties lately?

And I remember G. Gordon Liddy on the radio some 5 years ago, and all he talked about was "ATF jackbooted thugs". On and on and on, about government "thugs" who burst into people's homes (at the wrong address, usually) and did things like kick the family kitten to death. Where is he now and where is his "outrage"????? HUH??????

[mom cat]

9. Excelent.

The closing paragraph:
Given all that’s happened, the only explanation for the Bush domestic spying is that it’s political. There are no crimes involved here. But there is an overweaning desire by this so-called conservative government to establish and institutionalize a Big Brother regime that tolerates no dissent and wrecks constitutional government.

[annabanana]

10. K&R. . . . .n/t

[fooj]

11. K and R!

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