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“When fascism comes to America it will come wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross” - Sinclair Lewis

"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier......just so long as I'm the dictator." -George W. Bush (that’s me) December 18 2000 a few weeks before taking office.

Actually I’ve expressed my inner yearnings to estabish a dictatorship publicly on a number of occasions. My friends however, the dark forces in the shadows who truly control America, long ago discovered that by convincing the people they were free and they lived in a great democracy it was possible to gain a much more stable and lasting dominance than could be achieved by installing a barefaced out and out dictatorship. Nonetheless I like to think I’ve done what I can to making things just a little bit more like Nazi Germany and a little bit less like some other place.

I have already succeeded in:

REMOVING THE RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL
The right of habeas corpus goes back 700 years to England in the middle ages. When the founding fathers were drafting the constitution they put it in there because they thought it was a good idea. As a matter of fact, every civilised democracy on earth feels the same way.

In simple English habeas corpus is the right of a prisoner to have it determined by a court, if he has been wrongly imprisoned. Habeas corpus is the law which says the government can’t just throw a person in jail without trial and throw away the key.

Personally I don’t care for it much, never have. On 17 October 2006 I signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006. This act suspends the right of habeas corpus for any
“alien detained by the United States who has been determined by the United States to have been properly detained or is awaiting such determination” The law sets no time limit on how long the government has to make it’s determination.

Now you might feel that since you are neither an alien nor an enemy combatant this law doesn’t affect you sitting cosy and warm at home with your P.C. But here’s the sting in the tail. Let’s say I decide tomorrow that in my opinion you ARE an alien, masquerading as an American citizen, and you are an enemy combatant because, perhaps you’ve criticized me in a newspaper, what exactly are you going to do about it? But I’m not an alien I hear you scream, I can prove it. Guess what? It doesn’t matter. You are now officially “waiting for the United States to determine whether you have been properly detained”, and legally we can take as long as we like to do it. We just put you in a dungeon and threw away the key. Welcome to America.

LEGALISING TORTURE
Of course we didn’t actually throw away the key. After all we might want to come in there and torture you from time to time. We like torture. When all the pictures of tortured prisoners came out of Abu Ghraib, we naturally tried to pass the abuse off as a few isolated incidents. Actually it was standard procedure, except taking the pictures of course. Even I thought that was stupid. We do same thing in Guantanamo Bay. Personally I don’t see the point in taking prisoners if you can’t torture them. Otherwise you might as well kill ‘em right there and then.

I do have some problems with torture, legal problems. That’s where extraordinary rendition comes in. That’s where the C.I.A. grabs you in the middle of the night and bundles you into a small light aircraft destined for some place where the law doesn’t have a problem with us shooting electricity up your ass. Since 2001 we’ve rendered about 150 people. The Military Commissions Act of 2006 made it legal.

Of course flying people half way round the world just to torture them can still be more trouble than it’s worth. We felt things would be a lot simpler if we could do some of it right here at home. That’s why the Military Commissions Act deliberately permits the use of any form of torture that does not actually lead to actual bodily harm. That means things like forcing prisoners to stand up without sleep, shackled and handcuffed for a couple of days will be just fine, along with other favourite C.IA. techniques such as The Cold Cell and Water Boarding

In the Senate Ted Kennedy introduced an amendment to the bill which would prohibit these forms of torture, but fortunately it was voted down by the good people of the house. God Bless America

RIGGING 2 ELECTIONS
For those of you who don’t follow things too closely (that would be most of you) 2004 was an even bigger stitch up than the first one.

AND ALSO. . . .
. . . .making it legal for the government to secretly monitor your email, your phone calls, your medical records, or if they prefer, conduct a secret search of your house, all this without any evidence whatsoever that you may have committed a crime. Hallelujah!