Bush's statement of dictatorship

[undergroundpanther]

Bush’s Signing Statement Dictatorship
by James Bovard, October 9, 2006

President Bush has once again decreed that his personal pen is the highest law of the land. In a statement issued on October 4, 2006, he announced that he would ignore many provisions of the Homeland Security appropriations act he signed earlier in the day. His action vivifies that the rule of law now means little more than the enforcement of the secret thoughts of the commander in chief.

Bush’s postsigning statement declared that he would interpret many sections of the new law “in a manner consistent with the president’s constitutional authority to supervise the unitary executive branch.” In plain English, this means that many of the limits that Congress imposed on Bush’s power — and that he accepted when he took the money Congress appropriated — are null and void. Why? Because the president says so


http://www.fff.org/comment/com0610c.asp

[goforit]

1. Yipppy yi yay!!! Will the military jump off the bridge for him?

[undergroundpanther]

7. I hope not

But authoritarian personalities are such cowards,in tuffguy suits they just might jump off a bridge if told to. Especially if Boosh gives them permission to torture the kind of people they've envied all thier lives first..Obedience is one of humanity's biggest flaws,next to apathy.

Read this..Back and forth Over and Article I wrote, Military Morals.
http://www.unknownnews.net/031126a-up.html

If you wanna see how godamn obedient people can get..read some of the replies..

I'm a reservist on duty in Kuwait, where we've been mostly for five crappy months, with occasional incursions into Iraq. I have just discovered your website and specifically an article by one "Underground Panther in the Sky" called "Military Morals."

The soldiers I respect most and the soldiers I want beside me in battle are those that resisted that blasting, or took it only on the surface level without letting it seep to the gut. The ones that let it take root, even if they were perfectly normal civilians, a lot are stupid, killing machines now like "Underground Panther in the Sky" said. Point them at something you want killed and give the order and they will try to kill it. These guys not only haven't thought about WHY. they refuse to. It's easier not to, and more efficient, they're encouraged not to think and they don't. WHY is not in the job description. Without thinking they will kill Iraqis this year and Iranians next year and win medals for it and be called heroes, and if anything about this fucked up war made sense I wouldn't even complain becuz you bet your ass I'm not thinking about WHY when we're out there. but I haven't stopped thinking entirely. When we get back to camp I think, but some of these guys don't. and if someone in rank ordered these blank slates to kill your sister they would kill your sister. I have heard some of them brag about that in those exact words, and others laugh.
http://www.unknownnews.net/031230d-up.html

Other responses
http://www.unknownnews.net/d1205.html#tm30
http://www.unknownnews.net/d1212.html

[NotGivingUp]

12. fantastic article! i agree with you 100%. great site, too! thanks.

[jokerman93]

2. Nope

Didn't see this one coming. How about you? :sarcasm:

[nam78_two]

3. sigh....recommended

x(

I really need to stop checking this site first thing in the morning x(....

[Richard Steele]

4. "The Fuhrer's word has the power of law."

Where have we heard that before?

[Marr]

5. I wonder what Freepers would've done if Clinton had done this?

I wonder if they would've been so into the idea of a "Unitary Executive"?

[RobertSeattle]

10. Freeps are going to do the great Flip Flop EVER when a (D) is Prez in 2009

"We need more oversight of the Executive branch"
"the Executive branch has too much power"
"the Executive branch must testify under oath when they speak to congress"

etc.

GOPocrites

[kurth]

6. Somebody ought to get the courts to rule on that phrase "unitary executive

What bullshit.

[cascadiance]

8. Should rename it The "Urinary Executive"...

Which is what he's doing to our country and it's constitution! *'ing all over it!

[alfredo]

9. People thought he was joking when he said on Dec 18 2000

that he wanted to be "the dictator."


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[bdamomma]

13. Yup, I guess that was the only time when he spoke the truth.

what an a$$hole he is.

[alfredo]

14. I have been putting this poster around town.

[Nothing Without Hope]

11. One more SCOTUS judge like Alito and it will be a "LEGAL" DICTATORSHIP

One more bushie judge and it will be a 5-4 majority on the Supreme Court and the constitutional challenges will be ruled in favor of the Bush dictatorship.

Never was it more important to take control of the Senate. And remember that some DEMOCRATS (in name only) also voted for Alito, who was quite open about his belief in the "unitary executive." They must go - and some, like Lieberman, are up for re-election now. Here's the role call vote on Alito:
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00001

[badgerpup]

15. Hello, bigwigs at the Pentagon?

Your job is to protect and defend the Constitution...
right there in the oath you took. That means you don't let whoever happens to be occupying the Oval Office dismantle it with 'signing statements' or otherwise declare himself
Dictator-for-life Unitary Executive...or Emperor-in-all-but-title.
You're falling down on the job badly, people.
Doesn't give a good impression to the rank and file...or the civilians, either.
:argh: :banghead:

Goddamn it, I am so disgusted. :grr:

[Nikki Stone 1]

16. k & R

:kick: