http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2006/03/17/120.htmlHardened cynics often accuse President George W. Bush of ruthlessly exploiting the tragedy of 9/11 to advance his preset agenda of killing a whole heap of foreigners. This is, of course, a calumnious slander against the Dear Leader's noble ambitions. For as he demonstrated last week, Bush is also exploiting the tragedy of 9/11 to advance his preset agenda of killing a whole heap of Americans as well.
In yet another one of those momentous degradations of public morality that go unremarked by the ever-vigilant watchdogs of the U.S. media, Bush slipped a measure into the revamped "Patriot
Act" he signed last week that will allow him to expedite the death penalty process across the land, the Austin American-Statesman reports.
Prisoners just aren't being killed fast enough for ol' George, you see. They hang on for years and years, using all them lawyer tricks and court procedures, that DNA hocus-pocus and habeas corpus junk, or even new testimony showing they're innocent -- as if that mattered. No, you got to strap 'em down and shoot 'em up with that poison juice lickety-split, churn those convict corpses out like so much prime pork sausage, the way ol' George did it when he was head honcho down in Texas.