Hopefully, you’re right that I’m in Chicken Little territory. But from where I sit, this is the mother of all Constitutional crises. As for the chicken motif, no need to apologize: it practically proclaimed itself.

Best to you and yours in the New Year as well.

And here’s a nice link that says, very eloquently, what I’ve been saying here for a while now.

http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=369&Itemid=1

Couldn’t resist, CF. Have a Happy New Year!

Ever heard the phrase ‘good Germans’? Those were the folks who chose to ignore the signs–obvious in retrospect–that their government was moving toward authoritarianism, and eventually toward full-fledged, genocidal totalitarianism. There’s your 50% of the population, if that is an accurate number. Given that Bush’s latest approval numbers are 41%, I’d say I’m closer to the mainstream than you are.

Furthermore, my position on the Left side of the political spectrum actually is an asset rather than a liability, since I’m in the group that is more likely to be the object of political surveillance and persecution. Folks like me serve as the canary in the ideological coal mine.

From where I sit, you’re the one whose Right-Wing ideological commitment to this President has blinded your ability to grasp the motives behind his initiatives and obvious power grab.

I would contend that you stand so far left that it is hard for you to have any clear perspective.

Neofascists are like racists: nobody who is one thinks they are one.

Judging from the contents of your posts, your strident advocacy of expanding Executive power, and your attacks upon those who dissent from Bush’s claims of extra-Constitutional privilege, I’m quite comfortable with calling you out as a neofascist.

And no offense, but I honestly don’t think that you would recognize a neo-fascist if one bit you in the ass.

Dream on. The NYT has done NOTHING that should make any Liberal want to defend them. They’ve whored themselves out to your fascist Jesus freak from Texas as egregiously as has any other media entity.

As a result, the NYT has done to itself what Brownshirts like you have been unable to do for decades: discredited itself.

But you know the real score. The best defense is a good offense, right?

Sincerely ~(:

(W)(UU)Dubya

There is no end to this “terrorism.. War on terror.. thing” because it can’t end. There’s no place to stop, unless we’re all dead. And it’s too good for shredding the G-d piece of paper formally known as the US constitution { Bush doesn’t need to abide by the constitution if there is no constitution }.

http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2005/12/why_didnt_bush_.html#c12391498

Outandoutliar wrote: “I seem to recall that we have been told from the beginning that al-qaeda and their supporters were being hunted down wherevever they were. That didn’t seem to be controversial.”

Uhh . . . it’s not controversial. If Osama M. H. Nasr is suspected of some crime, then by all means, get a warrant and arrest him.

What you, and codie, and Joe Blow, et al. do is to ASSUME that because he was arrested by our gov’t, he was GUILTY.

Our gov’t has to have evidence of a crime. If they don’t, they can’t arrest people, even if that person has the same name as the leader of Al Qaeda.

But I’ll give you credit: you’ve been listening to your conservative leaders. It’s like little Scottie McClellen getting grilled on prisoners held at Gitmo.

Reporter: Why do you hold prisoners without evidence at Gitmo?

Scottie: Because they’re terrorists.

Reporter: How do you know they’re terrorists?

Scottie: Because they’ve been imprisoned at Gitmo.

Ah, good, well, that clears that up.

As far as alienating our allies, an Italian judge is along ways from speaking for the Italian government. And of course Nasr said that he was tortured. That claim is standard procedure. Evidence?

And finally, the source quoted is the NY Times. Sad to say, but they have sold their journalistic integrity and have become partisan.

9-11 changed “everything.” It gave Bush the power to do whatever he wants, whenever he wants with no oversight from anything or any governing body.

It’s part of the Orwell “ignorance is strength” campaign.