Darker Purpose, by Chris Floyd

http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/07/29/120.html

Last week, we wrote of the Bush Faction's increasingly successful drive to establish the principle of unlimited presidential authority -- beyond the reach of any law or constitutional restriction -- as the new foundation of a militarist American state. This relentless push toward autocracy gained even more strength in recent days, in two cases centering on what has emerged as the very core of President George W. Bush's authoritarian philosophy: torture.

With each new atrocity on every side in the hydra-headed "war on terror," you think that now, perhaps, we've reached the bottom. But never believe that comforting notion. The evil that has opened up beneath our feet is bottomless, and we are falling deeper, fathom by fathom, into the pit. The worst, far worse, is yet to come.

I wish more people could read the writing on the wall.




"Likewise, the idea of judicial oversight of the executive must also be refuted. Even as Cheney was chastising Congress, the Bushists were blatantly defying a federal court order to release 87 photographs and four videos of last year's Abu Ghraib mayhem. These depict barbarities that even Pentagon warlord Don Rumsfeld once described as "blatantly sadistic, cruel and inhumane," Editor & Publisher reports. A Republican senator who saw the material spoke of "rape and murder." Bush simply refused to obey the federal court, saying he would provide an explanation for his actions -- in secret -- at some later date."

I agree.

http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/waiting-for-worms-wall-lyrics.html

"Would you like to see Britannia
Rule again, my friend?
All you have to do is follow the worms.
Would you like to send our colored cousins
Home again, my friend?

All you need to do is follow the worms."

can the people catch up with them quickly enough, and stop them, by rejecting the Bushite-control electronic voting systems (mostly Diebold and ES&S), at the state/local level, where the power over election systems still resides, and where ordinary people still have some influence?

Answer? I'm not sure. But a whole lot of people are sure trying. See the DU "2004 Election Results and Discussion Forum" for information and action ideas:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=203http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=203

However, this is America, and I'm counting on patriotic Americans to rise up and take it back before it gets too far out of hand, and it sure looks like it's at that point - enough already.

:yoiks:

do the American people want to give Bush this kind of power?

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So why put the kibosh on this gutless, toothless bill? It's simple. The autocratic principle cannot accept any institutional infringement on the Leader's arbitrary power -- not even a craven accommodation like McCain's measure. Yes, Congress may rubber-stamp the gulag ("a buy-in to Guantanamo"); that's allowed. And Congress may approve funding for the gulag. But the people's representatives must have no say whatsoever in the gulag's operations. To give way on this point would reintroduce the rule of law and genuine democracy to U.S. government. And the Bush militarists have gone too far, waded through too much blood, to return to such "quaint" notions now.

Likewise, the idea of judicial oversight of the executive must also be refuted. Even as Cheney was chastising Congress, the Bushists were blatantly defying a federal court order to release 87 photographs and four videos of last year's Abu Ghraib mayhem. These depict barbarities that even Pentagon warlord Don Rumsfeld once described as "blatantly sadistic, cruel and inhumane," Editor & Publisher reports. A Republican senator who saw the material spoke of "rape and murder." Bush simply refused to obey the federal court, saying he would provide an explanation for his actions -- in secret -- at some later date.

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This is the power that Bush declares cannot be restricted by courts or Congress or any law on earth: the power to torture, to murder, to terrorize -- and to rape children. This is the dark, filthy heart of his militarist state.

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is my favorite writter on Bush.
Thanks

be released?

edit: To remark that I know that this article ISN'T ABOUT THE PHOTOS. But that the photos are the proof of what moral degererate these people are. And proof of what this article is about.