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Bush Draws Line In Sand , Dares Country to Not Support His Dictatorial Powers

by Open-Publishing - Sunday 18 December 2005
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Extreme right Governments USA

by Bob Nichols
Project Censored Award Winner
Correspondent, San Francisco Bay View newspaper

(Berkeley, California) - December 18, 2005 - Well, what do you know about that?

Bush’s radio speech Saturday, December 17, 2005, of course. It will be proclaimed as the same thing of one of the moves Hitler made in Germany to strengthen corporatist Nazi Germany. Yes, it is that big of a deal.

We [Leftists] have all said, time and time again, that "someone" has to tell the people, or we will be doomed by the fascists right wingers.

"Someone" just has. Wrong "someone," eh?

Seems like to me that the appointed manager of the American Empire has just drawn a line in the sand at the Alamo House of White in Washington in an eight minute speech. Bush dared us to have the guts to join him in the glorious struggle for American Christian Fascist Domination of the world.

We got exactly the reverse of what we wanted.

Now, I ask you, what decision do you think normal, brainwashed, fascist Americans, the "good Americans," the Majority are going to make?

Why, they are going to decide to follow Dictator George, of course!

Everything just got infinitely worse. The old Republic is long dead.

This is the moral equivalent of War.

Forum posts

  • "Everything just got infinitely worse."

    that’s crazy- another few cards just got pulled and the house is teetering like never before- even Republicans are calling for impeachment.

  • I’ve said time and time again that this bozo we have in the ’House right now is nothing less than Hitler personified; and he’s proven that by spying on his own people; and now, he’s calling for his minions to follow him to some glorious future full of Gestapo-like tatics that wil render a already raped and bloodied American reputation to a total pile of sh*t......the world at large is not worried about the "Axis of Evil" so touted by the republicanazi; they are worried that these self same bastards will in time try to force their twisted and perveted viewpoints on other lands.........

    the America we all knew and loved has become the street prostitutte of the world.

    • Amen, brother. I am starting to believe the masses have been brain washed, or they are under mind control. What is up with people sitting back, not asking question, not getting pissed off. Not standing up and saying "I want my country back".

    • “Faced with a de facto revolt in Congress, Bush caved in the McCain plan to ban maltreatment of prisoners of war in American hands. Mark this, Bush was mad as hell and will do everything in his power to sabotage any such agreement. The President is a small minded, mean and vindictive man whose word means nothing and who has the character of a snapping turtle. The idea for torturing the Iraqi, and other, captives originated with Bush himself, not the obvious choice, Cheney the Sadist. Bush actually enjoys the suffering of others. Now, torture has been going on, especially in the CIA, for decades. What these assholes did in Vietnam is as bad as anything Stalin or Hitler did but, of course, no one will dare talk about it and frankly, the CIA has nothing but contempt for the American people and their leaders. We know here that the MI6 in England was fully aware that CIA flights carrying their prisoners to a safe place outside the US to torture them were using Britain as a transit point to Hell. The Brits are reasonably civilized, certainly far more so than the giggling perverts at Langley, and their public is becoming increasingly restive over the torture and other issues. It would not surprise anyone on Embassy Row here if Bush’s lap dog, Blair, got booted out, leaving Bush with only the butt sucking Poles who would let him open up Auschwitz for the torture of Arabs. There is a story, no doubt untrue, that when the Polish Ambassador was visiting the White House, he heard the foul-mouthed Bush shout, “shit!” at the top of his lungs. True to form, the Ambassador dropped his pants and fawningly said, “Where, Sir? In the corner?” Bush will promise anything to anyone…and then never produce. This is partially because his memory is totally shot for medical reasons but also because George W. Bush is a lying, treacherous creature who surrounds himself with similar low-lifes, dead-beats and moral lepers and thinks the world owes him a living. What he is owed by the rest of the normal world cannot be repeated in print. “

    • We need a catalyst and just maybe this BoB Nichols is the one to get it started, there are many out here, not me of course, just waiting for a "leader", someone to get a nucleus involved and then watch a lot to jump on board.

      Most progressives, liberals, whatever, even some of the good Republicans are just waiting for that leader.

  • Spurred by paranoia and aided by the USA Patriot Act, the Bush Administration has compiled dossiers on more than 10,000 Americans it considers political enemies and uses those files to wage war on those who disagree with its policies.

    The “enemies list” dates back to Bush’s days as governor of Texas and can be accessed by senior administration officials in an instant for use in campaigns to discredit those who speak out against administration policies or acts of the President.

    The computerized files include intimate personal details on members of Congress; high-ranking local, state and federal officials; prominent media figures and ordinary citizens who may, at one time or another, have spoken out against the President or Administration.

    Capitol Hill Blue has spoken with a number of current and former administration officials who acknowledge existence of the enemies list only under a guarantee of confidentiality. Those who have seen the list say it is far more extensive than Richard Nixon’s famous “enemies list” of Watergate fame or Bill Clinton’s dossiers on political enemies.

    “How is that you think Karl (Rove) and Scooter (Libby) were able to disseminate so much information on Joe Wilson and his wife,” says one White House aide. “They didn’t have that information by accident. They had it because they have files on those who might hurt them.”

    White House insiders tell disturbing tales of invasion of privacy, abuse of government power and use of expanded authority under the USA Patriot Act to dig into the personal lives of anyone the administration deems an enemy of the state.

    Those on the list include former Ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife, former covert CIA operative Valarie Plame, along with filmmaker and administration critic Michael Moore, Senators like California’s Barbara Boxer, media figures like liberal writer Joe Conason and left-wing bloggers like Markos Moulitsas Zúniga (the Daily Kos) and Ana Marie Cox (Wonkette).

    “If you want to know who’s sleeping with whom, who drinks too much or has a fondness for nose candy, this is the place to find it,” says another White House aide. “Karl (Rove) operates under the rule that if you fuck with us, we’ll fuck you over.”

    Rove started the list while Bush served as governor of Texas, compiling information on various political enemies in the state and leaking damaging information on opponents to friends in the press. The list grew during Bush’s first run for President in 2000 but the names multiplied rapidly after the terrorist attacks of 2001 and passage of the USA Patriot Act. Using the powers under the act, Rove expanded the list to more than 10,000 names, utilizing the FBI’s “national security letters” to gather private and intimate details on American citizens.

    National security letters, which can be issued by an FBI supervisor without a judge’s review or approval, allows the bureau to examine the telephone calls, correspondence and financial lives of any Americans.

    The FBI issues some 30,000 national security letters a year to employers, credit bureaus, banks, travel agencies and other sources of information on American citizens. The Patriot Act also forbids anyone receiving such a letter to reveal they have passed on information to the federal government.

    “Those letters helped us build files quickly on those we needed to know more about,” says a former White House aide.

    The database of political enemies of the Bush administration is not maintained on White House computers and is located on a privately-owned computer offsite, but can be accessed remotely by a select list of senior aides, including Rove. The offsite location allowed the database to escape detection by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald during his investigation of the Valerie Plame leak. The database is funded by private donations from Bush political backers and does not appear on the White House budget or Federal Election Commission campaign reports.

    Bush is not the first President to use the FBI to keep track of his enemies. Richard M. Nixon used FBI files to try and discredit his opponents, including Daniel Ellsberg, the Department of Defense employee who leaked the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times. Bill Clinton used the FBI to compile dossiers on critics like Conservative Congressman Bob Barr and legal gadfly Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch.

    But worried White House insiders say the intelligence gathered by the Bush administration is far larger, more extensive and potentially more damaging than the excesses of previous occupants of the White House. Even worse, it dovetails into a pattern of spying on Americans that has become commonplace since Bush took office.

    “We’re talking about Big Brother at its most extreme,” says one White House staffer. “We know things about people that their spouses don’t know and, if it becomes politically expedient, we will make sure the rest of the world knows.”

    The White House press office did not respond to a request for an interview on this story and did not return phone calls seeking comment.