Thursday, May 11, 2006

They Bear The Mark of Fascism’ Creeping Shadow

I wondered as a sat in front of my computer screen reading this article, steam and anger rising from my freshly shaved head, if Congress has had enough yet! Loyalty to Party is one thing, but how far do you take it? Isn't time for the Republican majority in the House of Representatives to start doing their jobs and call for Impeachment hearings and stop being the lap dogs for our law breaking President?

From the CNN article:
AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth telephone companies began turning over records of tens of millions of their customers' phone calls to the National Security Agency program shortly after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, USA Today reported, citing anonymous sources it said had direct knowledge of the arrangement

"It is our government, it's not one party's government. It's America's government. Those entrusted with great power have a duty to answer to Americans what they are doing," said Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee.


I know I, and many, many, of my friends have had enough of this Administration and its secrets and its unlawful, deceitful, and un-American behavior. The Bush Administration is continually and habitually breaking the law! And what has Congress done? Nothing! Less than nothing really, since it has ceded its authority to Bush and his horde of arrogant, smirking, law-breaking neo-conservatives who would burn the constitution on the bonfire built of Fascist logs if they through they could get a way with it.

What next? Where does this lawlessness end? What else is the Bush Administration doing? What other laws are they breaking in our name? What is happening to our Republic at the hands of these diabolical unethical immoral people? I have said it more than once and it bears repeating now more tan ever: the Nazi’s did not take power by force, they were elected by the German people and corrupted the system from within. The Bush Administration is cancer eating away at the very principles that made (I said made) this country the envy of the world. Shame on those who through short-sided ignorance and self-serving arrogance, voted for this man and his court spawned from the pages of George Orwell’ prescient 1984. War is Peace! We have to take away your constitutional rights in order to preserve them! And we have to break the law I order to preserve democracy and the rule of law!

We deserve much, much, much better! Or do we? Do we now have the government we deserve? Are those who voted for this (simple minded) man proud of their handiwork? How can you defend the indefeasible? Oh Benjamin Franklin was so right: those who give up liberty for security deserve neither.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I agree with Sam. I search for "critical thinking" and come up with this very uncritical list of radical diatribes. While you're entitled to your opinions, you certainly don't do much to back them up, which is something someone with critical thinking skills would probably want to do. Is Bush breaking the law? Why don't you tell the reader how Bush broke the law? I certainly don't know that he is breaking the law, but your essay assumes it to be the truth. Why? Because that is evidently simply what you believe. And by stating this as an absolute truth, you put yourself among the billions of people who think they are correct in their opinions but have no concept as to why.

Anonymous said...

I agree with you totally about George Bush. You have said it all!!

That being said, Mr. Martin, I actually came to this page from your review of the HP Officejet D135, for which I am looking for drivers for Windows 98 - not for myself but for a friend. The drivers are no longer available, NOHOW!! Although I don't want to post my email address here, I would greatly appreciate info or the drivers themselves, and you can email me through my own website, www.valkyriepub.com, contact and orders page. I have no other way to contact you, and would greatly appreciate your patience with me.

Keep up the good work, and blessings!