A Totally Lawless Regime

[G_j]

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts06212008.html
Weekend Edition
June 21 / 22, 2008
No One in America is Safe--From the Government

A Totally Lawless Regime

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

Think about this question: In the 21st century what regime is more lawless than the Bush Regime?

Everyone is entitled to his own answer. The only answer I can come up with is the Zimbabwe regime of Robert Mugabe. Voted out of power in the last election, the great man hasn’t left. Zimbabweans are going to have to vote again, and the great man has said that any vote that is not for him will be cancelled by a bullet.

Does anyone remember how determined the British and the Americans and everyone else was to turn Rhodesia over to Mugabe in order to save Rhodesia from the evil Ian Smith? What a fool everyone was.

But before we laugh at those fools, we had best laugh at ourselves, or cry.

It is now an incontrovertible fact, known all over the world, that George W. Bush and his regime lied through their teeth in order to launch wars of aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq, and that the Bush regime is doing the same thing again in hopes of launching an attack on Iran.

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The total collapse of the Democratic Party and the House of Representatives signals the end of liberty and democracy in America. Henceforth, led by the Republican Federalist Society, we will gravitate toward the beautiful regime of “energy in the executive” that has been achieved in Zimbabwe by Robert Mugabe.



~Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be reached at: [e-mail]

[spanone]

1. bu$h* must see a kindred spirit in mugabe, that's why he's done nothing to stop him

[Canuckistanian]

2. Good analogy to Mugabe

Although it hasn't gotten that bad yet, all legal impediments are about to be removed which PREVENT an American Mugabe.

And the only thing remaining to make fascism complete is a McCain presidency and the addition of two more RW nutjobs on the USSC.

Then the judicial branch will have become a rubber stamp for the administrative branch.

[G_j]

3. ==

[trusty elf]

4. Way to go shrub, you're doing a....