Friday, January 5, 2007
Bush's Most Insidious Legacy
Bush claims power to open Americans' mail without warrants, explains the title of an article by the CS Monitor. So far in six years President Bush has appended "signing statements" to 750 bills which claim that if he so desires, he has the authority to disregard the very bill that he is signing! I believe this will be his most insidious legacy because every President after him will do the same thing based on Bush's precedent, thus making Rex Lex (the King is Law) rather than classic Lex Rex (Law is King), the characteristic upon which Western democracy is based. I cannot help but think that this will lay the foundation for the eventual end of every democracy (as Plato said): tyranny. It may not happen in 10 or 20 years, but it will happen, and history will look back on Bush's presidency as the watershed.
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This is absolutely ridiculous. I'm glad someone else agrees with me. This is another of our many steps toward the United States becoming nothing more than a dictatorship. I really feel bad for my son who will have to deal with these horendous mistakes.
Yep. We will see this used again, and in a way we do not anticipate. I did hear some discussion of this issue on NPR, but most of the commentators were quite dismissive of the whole issue. Doofuses!
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