Harry Belafonte: "...no previous regime tried to subvert the Constitution"

amy goodman captures the fire that still burns in his 80-year old heart...

"The essential difference between then and now is that no previous regime tried to subvert the Constitution. They may have done illegal acts. They may have gone outside the law to do these, but they did them clandestinely. No one stepped to the table as arrogantly as George W. Bush and his friends have done and said, 'We legally want to suspend the rights of citizens, the right to surveil, the right to read your mail, the right to arrest you without charge.'"

he's right, of course... that IS the essential difference between a richard nixon and a george bush... the united states has performed many evil and covert acts over many years, but never in such an in-your-face way as the bush administration, and certainly never with a citizenry so willing to let it happen...

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