Buzzflash: We are now a dictatorship, and the media is to blame

[Doctor_J]

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/715

[Benhurst]

1. From the article:

"The majority of Americans are clearly against escalating the war in Iraq; Bush was advised against it by the military generals; the Democrats in the Democratically-controlled Congress are unified against it, and now even Republicans have begun to express their opposition; the troops have already been spent and their morale is low. But despite all these indisputable facts, Bush has gone ahead with his plan to deploy more than twenty-one thousand additional troops to Iraq anyway. The most shocking fact of all, however, is not Bush's arrogant disregard for the will of the American people. It is rather that it could well have been predicted in light of the facts surrounding his administration. These facts paint a dismal, coherent picture of a burgeoning dictatorship in America. Unfortunately, this story (but for a piecemeal, fragmented, censored version) never saw the light of day in the mainstream media." ...

The rest at
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/715

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[mrcheerful]

2. You left out the fact that shub has been consistent By doing something

first then going public after he had already started said action. Wiretaps, deta mining, mail opening,etc etc. He is about to find out that without the rubber stam congress he is digging a bigger and deeper hole for himself. We might be seeing the road to the first prezinut to be charged with high crimes and treason. As well as the first preznut with a number. It went un-noticed that a bill has been passed that takes the life time pensions away if the person was convicted of a criminal act.

[Benhurst]

4. While I don't disagree with your points, my quote was from

Elliot D. Cohen's "How do you spell 'DICTATOR'" as recommended by the creator of this thread and not something of mine.

Let's hope Bush gets the justice he deserves -- and soon.

[Buzz Clik]

3. This is one of the rare times when I get behind media bashing.

Most of the time I find the calls of "leftist media" or "GOP mouthpiece" to be so much bullshit. But this issue is totally different. Every major news outlet from ABC to the New York Times have blindly and willingly repeated the Bush administration nonsense about Iraq and we're seeing again about Iran.

Of course, the importance difference is that we were surprised and frustrated by this in the run up to the invasion of Iraq. We will NOT tolerate this again.

[TomClash]

5. EMPIRE!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

6. We should expect the Iraqis to sit down, shut up and do as

their new leader tells them to cuz that is what we're sellin' by example. The will of the people means crap both here, and it the outer territories.

[Uncle Joe]

7. Thanks for the post TOJ

Kicked and recommended

[exlrrp]

8. one freaking long sentence

"...This alarming story is of a "president" who has made "the facts fit the policy" in cajoling and deceiving his nation into going to war in the first place; who has abused the constitutional authority of Congress by getting it to transfer its war-declaring power to him under false pretenses (the false promise that war would be a last resort while all along the war plans were on his desk); who has dishonored the Fourth Amendment by systematically engaging without a court warrant in wire tapping of American citizens' e-mail and phone messages while at the same time publicly denying that any such warrant-less wiretapping was being done; who has acquired the private phone records of every American citizen from the major telecom companies (which corporations themselves having been in the pocket of the Bush administration); who has successfully backed a move by the FCC to foreclose common carriage over the Internet pipes, portending the potential, future downfall of the free Internet (see Web of Deceit); who has invaded personal and confidential banking records; who has cancelled the right of habeas corpus for "unlawful enemy combatants" while defining the latter as virtually anyone whom he deems "hostile" to the interests of the United States; who keeps an "Enemies List" that includes journalists who oppose his policies; who has threatened journalists who publish leaked information with prosecution for treason; whose high officials (apparently with his permission) have outted covert CIA operative Valerie Plame in order to get even with her husband, Ambassador Joe Wilson, for exposing falsified intelligence that Saddam had attempted to acquire uranium "yellowcake" from Niger in order to build nuclear weapons; who has sanctioned infiltrating peaceful, citizen, anti-war groups and blocking freedom of speech of anti-war demonstrators; who has sanctioned martial law and the doing away with Posse Comitatus (legal prohibition against use of military for domestic law enforcement) in order to deal with natural disasters; who has paid journalists like Armstrong Williams to tout the administration's "no child left behind" policy, and who has hired PR companies to seamlessly inject phony news about the successes of the war effort, among other hot button topics, into network affiliate news; who has disregarded the Geneva Conventions, setting himself up instead as the arbiter of the meaning of torture; who has issued signing statements exempting himself from legislation forbidding cruel and inhumane treatment of prisoners; who has knowingly permitted (and may well have ordered) the abuses at Abu Ghraib; who was installed (not elected) by the Supreme Court in 2000, and, by all indications of exit polling, was never truly elected to office in 2004...."

that is one fucking long sentence, maybe he could break it up a little. I mean all of the Bush scandals take a lot of words but there are such things as periods aand paragraph breaks.
I agree with him but its hard to read.

[Benhurst]

9. I agree it's hard to read; but it does bring home the stultifyingly

numerous crimes against the Republic and mankind Bush has committed. I think it's effective.