Dictatorship in America?

   On more than one occasion I have mentioned the fact that the United States of America is heading towards a dictatorship under the Bush Crime Family. Many of you think that it could never happen in this country.

   Try reading this from AlterNet.

 

It Can Happen Here

   By Joe Conason, Thomas Dunne Books.        February 23, 2007.

Can it happen here? Is it happening here already? That depends, as a recent president might have said, on what the meaning of "it" is.

For the first time since the resignation of Richard M. Nixon more than three decades ago, Americans have had reason to doubt the future of democracy and the rule of law in our own country. Today we live in a state of tension between the enjoyment of traditional freedoms, including the protections afforded to speech and person by the Bill of Rights, and the disturbing realization that those freedoms have been undermined and may be abrogated at any moment.

Such foreboding, which would have been dismissed as paranoia not so long ago, has been intensified by the unfolding crisis of political legitimacy in the capital. George W. Bush has repeatedly asserted and exercised authority that he does not possess under the Constitution he swore to uphold. He has announced that he intends to continue exercising power according to his claim of a mandate that erases the separation and balancing of power among the branches of government, frees him from any real obligation to obey laws passed by Congress, and permits him to ignore any provisions of the Bill of Rights that may prove inconvenient.

 

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