A presidency "above the law" is a DICTATORSHIP.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

No checks, no balances, no limitations, no rule of law as a restraint- a president who claims to be apart from that which he swore an oath to defend cannot any longer lay claim to that office.

Illegal wiretapping? Not a problem. Warrentless searches and secret arrests? Yeppir! Invading innocent nations? Okey dokey. Torturing children in front of their parents as an exercise in brute power? Checkaroonie.

What next? Special police patrols wearing skull symbols upon their collars and hats? Uniformed death squads roaming our streets, shooting innocent people at random? Hell, we're already seeing journalists being beaten half to death on the streets of Washington. It's only a small step to include other people in that elite group of martyrs.

This MUST be stopped. NOW. BEFORE Boy Blunder starts appearing upon the dais in self-designed uniforms. BEFORE his cadre of brown-shirts is taken off the leash.

Fortunately, there are signs and portents of higher-ups beginning to understand what their part in this cavalcade of greed and corruption hath wrought. The spotlight is on THEM now, and we're seeing person after person with that deer-in-the-headlights look on their slack-jawed faces. They're starting to realize we still have the power, and we're serious about using it. The sleeping giant is stirring and will soon fully awake. Washington D. C. is about to feel the wrath of We The People. And it's about damned time.

Remember, Mr. President Dictator: Tyrants fall. Inevitably. Violently. Take a quick look at your brethren: Julius Caesar was knifed in the back. Rafael Trujillo was shot to death in a coup attempt. Adolph Hitler at least had the ball to swallow poison instead of waiting for capture. Mussolini was hung in the city square by the people he tried to crush. Chauchescu was shot on the wall as he cursed his killers.

That's a short list, and one that is by no means complete. It's merely a real-life illustration of the usual fate of tyrants.

And you're a tyrant, George W. Bush. Youbetcherass you are. You're sick. You're insane. You're a drug-soaked, addle-pated, sub moronic chimpanzee with delusions of humanhood. You're a DICTATOR, surrounded by sycophants who whisper into your ear like Wormtongue, egging you on toward the next inevitable steps of your fate- excuse me. Your "destiny".

Such as it is.

Remember the law you scorned when your people arrest you and put you behind bars for the remainder of your miserable life, Mr. Dictator. Please beg for the rule of law to be applied to your case. Please have your lawyers plead according to the laws you tossed aside. As you stand in the dock at the Hague, remember all the laws you ground into the dirt as you maimed, tortured, and ordered killed all those soldiers and innocent people. Remember what is is you threw away, and ask yourself exactly why it should now be applied to you.

Fortunately, it WILL be applied to you. In spite of your efforts, the rule of law DOES still exist here in The Land Of The Free. And I will be the first to stand and insist you be tried according to the law, as is your absolute right. A right you've so viciously denied so many others. Because I was born into and have lived my entire life within a framework of laws, and I'm not ready to cast them aside even for a war criminal. Not even for a tyrant. Not even for a mass murderer. Not even for a dictator. Not even for George W. Bush.

You sonofabitch.

[EstimatedProphet]

1. Kick

[madokie]

2. Bookmarked, recomended and kicked

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, You say it so well.

[alittlelark]

3. The next few years should prove to be..... interesting.

The RW whackos aren't the only ones w/ guns. I hope they figure that out pretty quick - we could erradicate the problem by 2006.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

4. It looks like fascism is an ongoing thing.

My father got a Purple Heart because he and a buddy walked into a minefield in rural Italy during WWII- his buddy stepped on a Bouncing Betty. He didn't make it, but my father was just injured. He carried shrapnel from that mine in his body until he died at the age of 82. It's beginning to look like the blood he shed in that minefield was in vain. The fascists are still alive and strong sixty years later.

WWII was the last necessary war, and it's obvious that it's not over yet. The battlefield has merely changed locations.

[glitch]

19. True words

"WWII was the last necessary war, and it's obvious that it's not over yet. The battlefield has merely changed locations."

[SupplyConcerns]

5. Brave words

Does anyone else feel like, with the NSA watching and political oponents like the "Bush's Brain" author put on no-fly lists, it actually takes some courage today to say such bold words? "Calling for the arrest of Bush on the basis of longstanding American law? Treason! Terrorist!".

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

6. I'll yell it from on top of a mountain if that's what it takes.

Where will YOU be?

[alittlelark]

8. Let them watch. We outnumber them dramatically, and...

We are pissed.

All we ask is that we retain our Constitutional rights, and that the p*ez respects our Constitution.

Not much to ask for.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

9. I don't ask it.

I DEMAND it.

[FreedomAngel82]

7. You got that right

"It'd be a heck of a lot easier if it was a dictatorship as long as I'm the dictator." ~ George W. Bush

[stickdog]

10. Yep.

[EC]

11. Ditto..n/t

[foreverdem]

12. Love your post

You are right on.

It's as scary as it is infuriating what is happening to this country.

[Cobalt Violet]

13. ........

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[mopaul]

14. ditto

[in_cog_ni_to]

15. GREAT POST!

Absolutely PERFECT! :thumbsup:

K & R!

[texpatriot2004]

16. So true. n.t

[BlueEyedSon]

17. I will repeat this quote to at least one person everyday:

"a presidency above the law is a DICTATORSHIP."

Be seeing you, No. 6!

[bloom]

18. well said... n/t

[ninkasi]

20. Bush's desire to be a dictator is no secret

Anybody who thought he was joking with his two comments about it being easier for the U.S. to be a dictatorship, as long as he's the dictator is not facing reality. He craves unlimited power, and his desire is obvious. I am so disappointed and ashamed of the Republicans who are willing to turn over their civil rights to this moron, just because of party loyalty. Loyalty should be to country and the Constitution, not to some unintelligent, spoiled, corrupt rich boy who thinks America is his own toy, and he can play with it however he wishes.

Getting Alito confirmed as Supreme Court justice is the thing he needs most right now, so that there will be no bar to any outrageous act he chooses to commit. Americans who are too lazy to pay attention, and fight for our democracy, will deserve what the future brings. Sadly, it's the rest of us who will suffer along with them.

[QuettaKid]

21. I have heard/read that quote before.

Does anyone know where/when bush first uttered those words about wanting to be the dictator? and were there 2 of them?

[Pacifist Patriot]

23. I only know about the one in December 2000

"If this were a dictatorship, it would be alot easier--just so long as I'm the dictator."
Georgw W. Bush

Bush apologists frame it this way:

Similarly, Bush's "dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier" quote was made in jest on December 18, 2000, after Bush had been declared the winner of the 2000 election and as he prepared to take office. Bush made the statement in regards to his first meeting that day on Capitol Hill with the majority and minority leaders of the Senate and House, when he told the four that he would continue with proposals such as his tax-cut proposal.

[ninkasi]

25. This is the other one I was thinking of...

"You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier."
George Bush Describing what it's like to be governor of Texas.

(Governing Magazine 7/98)

-- From Paul Begala's

http://www.buzzflash.com/premiums/Is_Our_Children_Learning.html

[yodermon]

22. Last paragraph gave me chills.

(well technically the next to last paragraph. "You sonofabitch" is very satisfying but not exactly chill-worthy.)

[Generator]

24. Exactly

And I feel so hopeless, I feel like we are watching the beginning of the end of almost great country. A country that was a beacon to the world and was a refuge to the world that in the future will be seen as a place devoid of morality-torturing children in foreign lands just for starters. Shudder to think they will do it here.

That our leaders are not as alarmed as we, and fighting this is what scares me most. This is how the banality of evil happens. One little step over the line at a time. "Signing statement." Does everybody get that? That's where Bush has a statement during signing a law by congress that says-I don't have to obey this law if I think I don't need to. Alito has no problem with this. This is the rubicon. It's all downhill if the courts are stacked for the neo-cons, neo-fascists. I'm watching it happen.

[Duncan Grant]

26. I could kiss you.

Bookmarked, kicked and recommended! :applause: :yourock: :applause:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

27. I feel a little overwhelmed

I usually restrict my comments to the occasional snide remark, but last night it felt right to put some real words down. Scrambled thoughts and bad jokes aside (not ONE person got my Hitler "ball" joke!!!), it looks like this time my ramblings struck a chord. You people should be careful- next thing you know I'll be having delusions of Will Pittdom. :rofl:

It's up to everybody here to speak out. The members of the DU seem to be the rear guard of our Democracy- our nation must be protected from the likes of Monkeyboy at any cost. So, as the old saying goes: "If not you, who? If not now, when?" WE are the ones, and NOW is the time.

Let freedom ring.

[madmadmad]

28. THANK YOU! the title says it all- the rest is just gravy! n/t