Mission Accomplished: check-offs on the to-do list of the king

jim hightower's got the big picture of the terrorist attack that's been waged for the past six years on the united states by its own president and his criminal cronies... he opens fire with this...

Forget about such niceties as separation of powers, checks and balances (crucial to the practice of democracy), the First Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, and open government-these guys are on an autocratic tear. Whenever they've been challenged (all too rarely), they simply shout "war on terror," "commander-in-chief," "support our troops," "executive privilege," "I'm the decider," or some other slam-the-door political phrase designed to silence any opposition. Indeed, opponents are branded "enemies" who must be demonized, personally attacked, and, if possible, destroyed. Bush's find-the-loopholes lawyers assert that a president has the right to lie (even about going to war), to imprison people indefinitely (without charges, lawyers, hearings, courts, or hope), to torture people, to spy on Americans without court or congressional review, to prosecute reporters who dare to report, to rewrite laws on executive whim?and on and on.

he goes on to chronicle the tragic series of abuses and outright crimes perpetrated by our own leaders on our country... among them...

The War President
The Imperial Presidency
National Security Letters
Watch Lists
Regime of Secrecy
Halliburton

(thanks to alternet...)

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