It's now irrefutably clear we're living in a dictatorship

[lancdem]

Josh Marshall has just posted on the Bushies' attempts to bar the press from NOLA.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com

:scared:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Hey... they're just trying to apply the constitution in the way

they see fit..... they want to apply it as little as possible. Scary sh*t huh?

[Straight Shooter]

2. It's now irrefutably clear that the press is going to go ballistic.

It's one thing to have to wipe the emperor's a** every day with journalistic toilet paper; it's another thing to have to lick it clean with your tongue. I don't think the press will stand still for this. The Picayune reporter, if I'm understanding what I've read, is almost apoplectic with anger.

[skooooo]

3. .

:popcorn:

[lancdem]

5. I really hope you're right

[metisnation]

4. facista

Nazi storm troops of the second Bush guard. DAMMIT THE PEOPLE DESERVE THE TRUTH!

[elehhhhna]

6. "...these are the marks of repressive government ...

...which mixes inefficiency with authoritarianism."

[H2O Man]

7. Gandhi on democracy:

"Democracy can only be saved through nonviolence, because democracy, so long as it is sustained by violence, cannot provide for or protect the weak. My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest should have the same opportunity as the strongest. This can never happen, except through non-violence. Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted nazism or fascism."