http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2006/06/01/war-is-swellfrom Salon--Devastating perspective on the coup and where it leads us. OMG.
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They fervently believe that the Constitution is fatally flawed and must be severely circumscribed. The Bush administration’s “holy grail,” another phrase officials use in private, is to remove suspects’ rights to due process, speedy trial and exculpatory evidence. The war paradigm, which they contrast with a caricatured “law enforcement paradigm,” is to be constantly strengthened to conduct a permanent war against terror, which can never be finally defeated. There is no exit strategy from emergency.
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In the short run, Bush’s defense of his war paradigm could precipitate three potential constitutional crises. In the first, freedom of the press would be at issue. On May 21, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced the “possibility” that the New York Times would be prosecuted under the 1917 Espionage Act for publishing its Pulitzer Prize-winning article on the administration’s warrantless domestic surveillance. “It can’t be the case,” he said, that the First Amendment “trumps” the “right” of the government “to go after criminal activity”—and he then defined the Times’ printing of its story as “criminal activity.”
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Bush does not contemplate the slightest retreat from the war paradigm, which he embraces as his reason for being, regardless of the war’s unpopularity. After his 2004 victory, he claimed he had had his “accountability moment.” But the Constitution is an intricate mechanism of checks and balances that creates constant accountability. The question at the heart of Bush’s politics is whether that can be indefinitely suspended and in the meantime the Constitution radically revised."
YIKES
and thanks to im10ashus for originally posting in GD
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