lil'Bush, Cheney et al, less popular than salmonella!
Fantastic post by Dave Chandler over at Earthside:
http://www.earthside.com/earthside/2007/10/bushism-and-rep.html
A Dallas jury, a week ago, caused a mistrial in the government case against this country’s largest Islamic charity. The action raises a defiant fist on the sinking ship of American democracy.
If we lived in a state where due process and the rule of law could curb the despotism of the Bush administration, this mistrial might be counted a victory. But we do not. The jury may have rejected the federal government’s claim that the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development funneled millions of dollars to Middle Eastern terrorists. It may have acquitted Mohammad el-Mezain, the former chairman of the foundation, of virtually all criminal charges related to funding terrorism (the jury deadlocked on one of the 32 charges against el-Mezain), and it may have deadlocked on the charges that had been lodged against four other former leaders of the charity, but don’t be fooled. This mistrial will do nothing to impede the administration’s ongoing contempt for the rule of law. It will do nothing to stop the curtailment of our civil liberties and rights. The grim march toward a police state continues.
Constitutional rights are minor inconveniences, noisome chatter, flies to be batted away on the steady road to despotism. And no one, not the courts, not the press, not the gutless Democratic opposition, not a compliant and passive citizenry hypnotized by tawdry television spectacles and celebrity gossip, seems capable of stopping the process. Those in power know this. We, too, might as well know it.
This historic veto override this past week has seen a few more D.C. Republicans abandon the sinking ship of Cheney/Bush. Many of them just couldn't possibly bring themselves to vote against major infrastructure repairs in their home state. Yet my feeling is that at least a few of them have also correctly gauged the national mood-- the people aren't merely opposed to particular Bush policies. Some lifelong Republicans I've met have told me that they bitterly resent the Bushie junta's open disdain for the rule of law. Some folks-- who applauded when the Rethugs turned the regrettable Bill/Monica tryst into a national trauma-- now are truly sorry for the hypocritical behavior of Bush and his minions: destroying rights and liberties everywhere in the name of keeping us Americans' free!.
http://www.earthside.com/earthside/2007/10/bushism-and-rep.html
A Dallas jury, a week ago, caused a mistrial in the government case against this country’s largest Islamic charity. The action raises a defiant fist on the sinking ship of American democracy.
If we lived in a state where due process and the rule of law could curb the despotism of the Bush administration, this mistrial might be counted a victory. But we do not. The jury may have rejected the federal government’s claim that the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development funneled millions of dollars to Middle Eastern terrorists. It may have acquitted Mohammad el-Mezain, the former chairman of the foundation, of virtually all criminal charges related to funding terrorism (the jury deadlocked on one of the 32 charges against el-Mezain), and it may have deadlocked on the charges that had been lodged against four other former leaders of the charity, but don’t be fooled. This mistrial will do nothing to impede the administration’s ongoing contempt for the rule of law. It will do nothing to stop the curtailment of our civil liberties and rights. The grim march toward a police state continues.
Constitutional rights are minor inconveniences, noisome chatter, flies to be batted away on the steady road to despotism. And no one, not the courts, not the press, not the gutless Democratic opposition, not a compliant and passive citizenry hypnotized by tawdry television spectacles and celebrity gossip, seems capable of stopping the process. Those in power know this. We, too, might as well know it.
This historic veto override this past week has seen a few more D.C. Republicans abandon the sinking ship of Cheney/Bush. Many of them just couldn't possibly bring themselves to vote against major infrastructure repairs in their home state. Yet my feeling is that at least a few of them have also correctly gauged the national mood-- the people aren't merely opposed to particular Bush policies. Some lifelong Republicans I've met have told me that they bitterly resent the Bushie junta's open disdain for the rule of law. Some folks-- who applauded when the Rethugs turned the regrettable Bill/Monica tryst into a national trauma-- now are truly sorry for the hypocritical behavior of Bush and his minions: destroying rights and liberties everywhere in the name of keeping us Americans' free!.
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