Truth to Power

Get ‘em Chris

…In the past, this has usually been sufficient; there’s been no need for recourse to sterner measures. You don’t arrest Dan Rather, you simply drive him out of his job. You don’t imprison John Kerry; you just Swift Boat him. But these are increasingly desperate times for the Bush Regime. It is vastly unpopular with the American people. Its war in Iraq is an unmitigated disaster. And the sheer bulk of its high crimes and misdemeanors has grown so large it can longer be hidden; rotten chunks of this mammoth slagheap are spilling out almost every day. They know that should the tide ever turn completely against them – if anything even faintly resembling a constitutional republic is ever established again – they face not just political oblivion but actual prosecution.

Continue reading Bringing It All Back Home: The Bush War on Liberty Intensifies from Chris Floyd


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