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Entry: Taking Back the Constitution--A Case for Impeaching George W. Bush Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/taking_back_the_constitution_a_case_for_impeaching_george_w_bush#21048 Post contents: To not include the President's coercion of Private Telecomm companies into illegal spying on American citizens is to miss the essential point of why this Executive, and potentially his successors are so dangerous. It is obvious now that the President does not respect the civil rights of the populace and that dissenters are considered to be "enemies". In fact, given the recent statements of Vice President Cheney and their befuddled Press Secretary, the entire populace is "the enemy". There is no citizenry, there is only a public and this public dines on a steady diet of contradictory propaganda. The Executive is in charge of a vast bureaucracy that has inbred with the popular media and the think tanks and lobbyists of K Street. A faux debate is staged with an equally hidebound and bureaucratic Congress, one side claiming to have seen a wolf, the other a bear and the final outcome of this debate is a mythological beast. The denouement of this industrialized and highly staged factionalism is a stymied confusion. Signing statements may usurp the power of the Congress or the independence of the Judiciary but the treatment of the population (there is no longer an effective citizenry) as the defacto "enemy" is the true punishing cost of this Administration. Before we impeach the President and many of his helpmates, we need to impeach our own complacence in the face of creeping tyranny. It should be obvious to all that Garet Garrett's "Revolution within the form" is no longer simply a rhetorical flourish. The FDR Administration and the Bush Administration are bookends in a library on how to Obliterate the U.S. Constitution one cut at a time. Defenders of both may cite numerous salutary individual efforts of both administrations but the fact remains that the choices made have created an enemy that is exactly as Pogo asserted: "We have met the enemy and he is us". We have enough challenges roaring down the turnpike of this chaotic world directly at us not to add our own government to the list of aggressors. If we are to sustain ourselves, we need to recognize that this paranoid Republic Of Fear....a lapsed Republic in fact, is our greatest enemy. Any trepidation we may harbor at the prospect of attacking the rot should be tempered by the awareness that we have already lost what we think we still have. Sent at: 2008 05 11