Bush has gutted Constitution, Bill of Rights, Geneva Conv & Media Ignores

[kpete]

The gravest indictment of the American news media is that George W. Bush has gutted the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Geneva Conventions and the United Nations Charter – yet this extraordinary story does not lead the nation’s newspapers and the evening news every day.

Nor does the press corps tie Bush’s remarkable abrogation of both U.S. and international law together in any coherent way for the American people. At best, disparate elements of Bush’s authoritarian powers are dealt with individually as if they are not part of some larger, more frightening whole.

What’s even odder is that the facts of this historic power grab are no longer in serious dispute. The Bush administration virtually spelled out its grandiose vision of Bush’s powers during the debates over such issues as Jose Padilla’s detention, Samuel Alito’s Supreme Court nomination and the disclosure of warrantless wiretaps.

For instance, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has defended the wiretapping program in part by citing the inherent powers of the President to override laws during war time, an argument that the administration also has applied to detentions without trial, abuse of prisoners, launching foreign military operations and committing extra-judicial assassinations.

All Bush has to do, it seems, is deem someone an “enemy combatant” or an “affiliate” of some terrorist group and that person’s life and liberty are delivered into Bush’s hands, without any impartial evaluation of the evidence.

lots more at:
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/021806.html

[havocmom]

1. But the Clenis got blown

and somebody drove off some bridge some where back east several decades ago! :sarcasm:

Laws allowing for media ownership consolidation started changing during Reagan when Bush the Grizzled was pulling a lot of strings. It is no accident that the media today is complicit in the destruction of America.

GE = NBC + a whole lotta swell toys sold for waging war. It's the corporations.

[Swede]

2. It's scary how many Americans are okay with this.

Fear and greed I suspect.