Unlimited Power

Well Bush had his colonoscopy today and temporarily transferred power to Dick Cheney, making Cheney the President for a couple of hours. Scary thought. Things are back to normal now and as MSNBC reported, "Bush takes back power after colonoscopy". It's actually humorous to think this guy would ever give any power up.

In fact the past 7 years he's been giving America a colonoscopy of it's own. The mainstream media works as the sedative while he uses invasive procedures to probe our most private parts of our lives. From executive orders to illegally wiretap us, get our phone records, read our email, open our mail, get our search engine requests, find out what we were reading at the library, hell they even have a list of everyone who ever took anti-depressants! This Administration has done more probing into our lives than all Administrations before it combined.

So it's only natural that Bush feels himself to be King. After all he's gone 6+ years completely unchecked and been allowed to pass any legislation he wants, sign record amounts of signing statements that allow him to ignore any laws that are passed, refuse subpoenas (see other posts below) at will and generally do what he wants, when he wants.

It's a nice existence for a totalitarian regime.

Except we're supposed to be a democracy. Our voices are supposed to be heard and Congress is supposed to have the right to provide oversights... checks and balances, remember?

Up until this year, Republicans refused any form of disagreement or oversight while in the majority of both the House and Senate. They felt they needed to provide political cover to Bush and Karl Rove who were both huge fundraisers for them and who had gamed the system in such a way that their re-election was assured. Last year the American people finally swamped the polling booths to where even Rove's magical numbers couldn't cheat the system. It was a beautiful thing.

The problem is Democrats, while winning the majority, didn't get enough of one to override the Boy King. And now with Republicans publicly coming out against him but as usual some (Lugar, Voinovich and Domenici) are too chicken shit to vote against him on something as popular as troop redeployment, you can see how he feels confident that he still runs the show unchallenged.

So it was no surprise this past week when he issued a couple more executive orders increasing his power. The first one went under the radar. The media didn't even report it. Remember they are the sedative as we all sleep through his procedures.

The executive order allowed the Administration to seize property of anybody who "threatens stabilization in Iraq".

From the document:

(c) the term "United States person" means any United States citizen, permanent resident alien, entity organized under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within the United States (including foreign branches), or any person in the United States.

(B) undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people;

Sec. 5. For those persons whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order who might have a constitutional presence in the United States, I find that, because of the ability to transfer funds or other assets instantaneously, prior notice to such persons of measures to be taken pursuant to this order would render these measures ineffectual. I therefore determine that for these measures to be effective in addressing the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 and expanded in Executive Order 13315, there need be no prior notice of a listing or determination made pursuant to section 1(a) of this order.

As we know from the Bush playbook, they consider protesters as anti-patriotic threats to democracy. They go on talk show after talk show declaring such.

What makes anyone think this isn't another way to quell the voices of dissent and opposition?

And per the Bush usual, there are no ways to file a grievance, no courts are involved and there is no legislation to control this.

There have been signs on many of the far left sites who have investigated this that Bush is moving towards martial law. I will provide the links and you make the determination yourself. I do have to say there is compelling evidence that Bush has been trying to find ways to silence his critics as this new executive order asserts.

What concerns most really conspiratorial websites are texts within laws that are passed that seem to slip by (as I said, these sources are not all that reputable so take this for what you will).

So when they freak about martial law, maybe they have something to gripe about. After all, did you know martial law was actually addressed and approved in the "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" that Bush signed into law last October?

Following that theme, another site complains about a purported DOD document that is 900 pages long and again remember the source. The supposed document states that there are plans in the works to use soldiers to quell dissent at any civil insurrection and this includes detainment centers. It also outlines the exact troops that will be involved, their locations and tactics they can use.

Now that all sounds terrifying and knowing the trust Americans have had instilled in them since grade school in their goverment, quite improbable to most people. But this is an Adminstration that stole two elections already, breaks the law at will and has no use for the constitution in place.

That's why people are scared.

So I suppose it's up to Congress to finish their oversight and impeach them right? Well the right wingers in Congress would never buckle to their morals and impeach a known criminal because he's one of them.

And Bush, well he keeps plugging along claiming powers the White House never had before. The latest is the Administration-issued "legal opinion" that the Congress can not force Department of Justice officials to prosecute Contempt of Congress charges. So he can ignore subpoenas, refuse his officials to attend or speak at hearings and break the law at will and Congress can't do anything about it.

Maybe the above sites and their claims are conspiratorial in nature, but Bush just keeps giving us reason to worry and keeps giving credibility to the idea that he wants to rule us the way Hitler and the Nazis did.

Facism is back, aren't you excited?

-Rp

UPDATE: Apparently a former Reagan official has now come out saying there's a good chance we could become a police state. Just feeding into everyone's concerns that much more I suppose.

There was a time when Right Wing Neo-Cons (kind of like Eric Edelman in the Department of Defense) tried to run America into constant war and while they didn't run the Presidency or Congress, they made sure to use the CIA to pull stunts to get wars with Cuba, the Soviets, Vietnam and Korea up and running.

Part of what they did was go to Korea and Vietnam right after WWII. While they were building enemies there they tried to instigate war with the Cubans and Soviets here. This brought about the wonderful Operation Northwoods that advocated killing Americans and blaming it on the Cubans to help jumpstart the efforts.

When the President stopped their plans, they murdered him. That's the same sort of cabal that is in office now, and yes there is a Bush-JFK Assassination connection as well. The family has been involved in every evil situation from the beginning of the 20th Century (including dealing with the Nazis during WWII).

-Rp