While previous Presidents and government officials have overstepped their Constitutional powers; Lincoln in suspending habeas corpus during the Civil War; Roosevelt's Japanese internment in WWII or J. Edgar Hoover and his illegal COINTELPRO operation during the Vietnam era protests, none could have dreamed of the powers amassed by the Bush administration.
Henry Kissinger, Nixon's Secretary of State, set the bar high for blunders that would return to bite us. Concerning the political situation in Chile, he felt that democracy was too important to leave up to the vote of the people. Likewise, the current Administration seems to think we either can't handle it or don't deserve it.
How sad, a willing press to carry the message that we are “at war” and “need to be protected”. A population distracted by the shopping we are supposed to do and the “stuff” we are supposed to need and a Congress and Judicial branch too complacent and timid to protest their loss of status as a co-equal branch of government.
Are we on our way to a dictatorship? As president Bush said, “it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator," Former NC Senator Jesse Helms supposedly once said “ democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands”. Wrong hands Senator? democracy is supposed to be in the hands of the people, but the Bush administration can't seem to wrap it's head around that idea either.
Condoleezza Rice either cannot see, or does not want to see the hypocrisy of insisting that the United States holds the moral high ground of democracy. While the Bush administration's foreign policy actions have cost us our reputation as a humanitarian nation, their hijacking of our democracy has made statements like Rice's truly ludicrous.
So, again, we have listened to the lies and believed them. Again the administration tries to take the moral high ground when it has no right to do so. Their world vision is not democracy, but an empire based on capitalistic corporate domination. They create the big lie, the media dispenses it and we believe it.
Could we please get our own house in order before we tell the rest of the world how to run theirs? Democracy IS too important, too important to be left to anyone but the people.
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