KC Star: Founders Foresaw Arrogance of Power

You'll love the pic with this op-ed..

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We are in another constitutional crisis. The founders could not have predicted the when or the who — first Richard Nixon, now George W. Bush — but they knew of the what.

The founders expected that some day America would have its Nero, its Caligula, its Caesar. They were correct.

The founders anticipated the arrogance of power, underscored by the USA Patriot Act. This law, recently reaffirmed by Congress, violates the Fourth Amendment. So does President Bush’s authorization of domestic spying by the National Security Agency and FBI.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/opinion/15048061.htm

Including my deluded parents.

I'm passing this one around. The problem with Bush isn't just Iraq. Or tax cuts for the rich or sweetheat contracts or a sick economy.

It's the arrogance.

lokeman@kcstar.com

Congratulations to a truly patriotic op-ed writer.

thank you for the reminder. One sentence is all it takes.

It's also very disturbing that the man who is now trying to be the sole law in the U.S. is one of the least intelligent, and most inept leaders in our country's history. We, the people, have been betrayed by the Republican Party, and huge corporations. They need us for only two things, one is to provide an endless supply of bodies to fight their wars, and the other is to be little more than slave labor, whose meager salaries are taxed to fund those wars, and to keep wealth in the hands of a select elite.

The money the country must borrow to supply more and more tax breaks to the wealthy will be repaid by our children, and grandchildren.

Just pay attention to all the lobbyist activity to see the vast importance of corporate power in DC.

the KCStar says it plain and true.

Bless 'em.

Edit: Thank you Ms. Lokeman.

NYT also had a forward looking editorial...looking forward to getting rid of Bush. I think W and Pugs may rue the day they took on the NYT. At least I hope so.

Is this the same NYT that deliberately printed Hillary Clinton's "Democrats not doing enough" comment out of context?

Not picking a fight with you, but it seems to me that the NYT has been rather schizophrenic in its reporting lately. For the life of me, I can't tell whose side their on.

Come to think of it, though, you shouldn't be able to tell whose side they're on.

nothing better illustrates that than Johnson County, KS. Not sure if the writer of this OpEd lives on the KS side or the MO side, but the KS side doesn't have a democracy. They vote on all Diebold, without audits or recounts, without even the paper that would allow audits and recounts to take place. Like GA, Johnson County is not even a democracy anymore so it's not possible to vote monarchs out anymore. Sooner or later people will realize that the only way to prevent leaders like the present one is to return to democratic rule. The Constitution is meaningless without a democratic system of governance. Once we figure that out, we can do what's necessary to restore democracy.