George Bush can do just about whatever he wants

never one to miss small ironies, i am posting this from a gate area at george bush intercontinental airport in houston, proudly named after george's "poppy"... as we were on descent and final approach, i was looking at the freeway system below, already choked with cars at 5:30 in the morning, full of people heading in to work, and thinking how thoroughly manipulated we are... to afford those cars and the insurance, maintenance and gas it takes to keep them running, we have to have jobs, and to have jobs we have to have a car, and to have a car usually means to incur debt, and aw-a-a-a-a-y we go, locking ourselves in to the credit and debt cycle that won't release its grip on most of us until death... what makes it all the worse, is that it's getting worse... we're losing even our little freedoms that, while mostly illusory anyway, were still things that could give us a little consolation... now they've taken those away too...

The government is monitoring your phone calls and can read your e-mails and open your snail mail.

The government can access records of your large financial transactions, such as buying a house.

Law enforcement officers can bust into your home when you're not there, riffle through your belongings, plant a recording device on your computer, and leave without notifying you for at least thirty days -- and maybe a lot more.

You no longer have the right to protest where the president or vice president can see you, or at major public events when they aren't even present.

Law enforcement officers can now monitor you in public if you are merely exercising your political rights.

They can infiltrate your political organizations.

And they can keep track of you at your place of worship. The government can find out from bookstores and libraries the material you've been reading, and the bookstore owner and the librarian can't talk about it, except to their lawyers, for a whole year -- or more.

The government can hold you in preventive detention for months on end as a "material witness."

If you're not a citizen the government can deport you on a technicality or for mere political association.

If you're not a citizen the government can label you an "enemy combatant" and send you to secret prisons around the world, where you may never see the light of day again -- much less a lawyer or a judge. And even if you are a citizen, the government can label you an enemy combatant and hold you in solitary confinement here in the United States.

Under George W. Bush's interpretation of the president's powers during the so-called war on terror he can do just about whatever he wants.

we are clearly at a turning point in the united states, and our choices are clear... we either continue to pretend that all is fine, that our government and our leaders couldn't possibly be up to such dastardly business, and, like the frog, stay in the water until it finally boils, or we take matters into our own hands and reclaim the country our founders bequeathed to us... time is running out...

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