CommonDreams: On the Verge of Democracy Collapse Disorder

Published on Sunday, November 18, 2007 by CommonDreams.org
On the Verge of Democracy Collapse Disorder
by Roberto Rodriguez


Colony Collapse Disorder: this is the name given to the dying off of the world’s bees, which spells an impending global crisis. It’s not that I want to make light of this diagnosis. Quite the reverse; it’s that the name could just as easily be applied to the state of the nation. Though Democracy Collapse Disorder is what comes to mind.

When historians look back to examine the origins of this latter disorder, it will be determined that it began in 2000, compliments of the U.S. Supreme Court when its intervention resulted in the ascension of George W. Bush to the presidency of the United States.

Lacking the tradition of contesting government, the opposition meekly accepted the results. Yet, by governing from the middle, the highly contested presidential election might have simply resulted in an asterisk next to the president’s name. Instead, he began to govern as if he had received an overwhelming mandate from both, the electorate and God, helping to usher in the most greedy, corrupt, anti-science, secretive and unaccountable administration in the nation’s history. Under the guise of Christianity, POTUS or the President Of The United States single-handedly helped to usher back in The Dark Ages.

Just as plans for the Iraq invasion were in place long before, 9-11, the designs for Democracy Collapse Disorder were also in place, long before the president’s installation. Yet, President Bush, a blue-blood son of a former president, was not an innocent bystander; to carry out the neoconservative agenda of world dominance simply required the notion of a unitary executive in which all power resides in POTUS. Given 9-11, the attack gave him an opportunity to accelerate that agenda, which included the de-Constitutionalization of the United States..

The seven primary components of Democracy Collapse Disorder include assertions by the president that he has the right to:

1) wage preemptive permanent war against any potential enemy, while coddling tyrannical blood-thirsty dictators who support the U.S. agenda of world domination.

2) declare that the United States is in fact in a permanent state of worldwide war against “Islamo-fascism.”

3) disregard the rights of anyone, including the right to secretly detain anyone indefinitely, without due process and without the right to legal representation, including the right to torture.

4) disregard any law, create any law, or interpret any law to his favor, to be able to operate outside of the U.S. Constitution, while also asserting the right to interpret his illegal actions as lawful.

5) operate outside of the Constitution during this time of permanent war, without being subject to any checks and balances.

6) operate outside of international law and in disregard of international treaties and conventions.

7) pardon, grant amnesty and grant retroactive immunity to anyone under his control who violates the Constitution or any international law. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/18/5303/