With a flash of his pen and an inane signing statement, Herr Bush has now become Supreme Leader with powers as sweeping as Kim Jong IL, Idi Amin, and Josef Stalin. You and I no longer have habeus corpus standing if this dictator determines that we are unlawful enemy combatants. He or his designate can decide if you and I can be disappeared forever with no possibility of redemption, i.e. a judicial review. Bush has now attained far-reaching despotic powers while the media,with few exceptions, remains silent. Americans, in general, go on blythly watching their vapid television programs with no bang of shock and awe, rather a whimper of indifference, a tacit approval of the death of 200 years of civil rights protections. This is a very black day for the Republic from which we may never recover.
Then there's torture. The Supreme Court ruled against the Bush regime so our Fearless Leader called upon his boot-licking whores in Congress to change the law. You and I have no legal challenges should Bush come for us. This is tantamount to the enactment of the Enabling Act in Nazi Germany which allowed Hitler to mount the throne. The rest is ugly history. We have become a totalitarian state and our disinterested citizenry permitted it to occur. It is painfully clear that too many Americans do not deserve the precious freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. We appear unworthy of the great experiment that our founding fathers purchased with their blood and the blood of all who strove to secure a nation with civil liberties and assurances of protection from despotic kings and tyrants.
Rest in peace, if you can, America. The torch of the Statue of Liberty has been extinguished and the "Shining City on the Hill" is now merely a tawdry shopping mall. Ribet.....ribet