Boosh, Law, Middle Finger, & Time to Act

As George Boosh runs around the world telling others about the advantages of living in Democratic societies, he has apparently forgotten to maintain the same ideals for his home country, the United States of America. I think it is fair to say that we are now living under a Dictatorship. No matter how I try to look at his actions and justifications for giving the middle finger to the American people, Congress and the American court system, I can come to no other conclusion.

Mirroring the Boosh approach of claiming legal authority to the wiretapping of American citizens and stealing email correspondence of the same people, Boosh has publicly declared that he has no intentions of following the new law that forbids the torture of anybody he personally deems to be a threat to the "security of America." He is the self declared judge, jury and executioner, and no law or Congressional mandate or Constitution is going to get in his way. And he has no problem with stating this in public.

John McCain worked hard to gain the overwhelming support of the House and Senate to get this anti-torture legislation passed. McCain refused to back down, even in the face of Cheney using every strong armed tactic known to man to sell a package that no one would buy. Boosh and Condi Rice stated for months that we don't torture people, yet fought the legislation that specifically forbade the CIA from conducting torture. Did they believe that they were fooling anyone? McCain knows about this stuff, after all, he was a tortured prisoner of war himself. He knows that torture doesn't work. When it became obvious that Boosh could not win this one, he sat proudly next to McCain and said that together they had worked out legislation that they both could live with. And signed the bill. But, at the same time, he signed the same type of letter that he signed allowing him to bypass the FISA Court whenever he wanted to, this time allowing for using torture when he deems necessary. Until Booshco came along, I had never heard of these inherent powers given to a President. In short, Boosh can pick and choose which laws he wants to follow without checks and balances. All he has to do is call Alberto Gonzales, get Al to say he's following the law, and then do whatever the hell he wants. That, my friends, is a Dictatorship.

When Boosh claimed that he "now had political capital and planned to spend it" immediatedly after the 2004 election, he apparently decided that he had been given an unlimited overdraft protection fund as well. He has spent more political capital than he would have earned had he received a unanimous vote for a trip back for a second term. While he stated that he had been given a mandate, I'm not so sure that stealing an election by buying off someone in the state of Ohio necessarily gives him that self declared mandate.

The leadership in this country is a joke. I can't figure out if they are all in this with him, if they are afraid of him, or if they are simply dumbstruck and don't know what to do about him. Probably a combination of the three. One thing is clear, however. Boosh thinks that he can write a letter to himself that gives him the right to ignore any law that he chooses as long as we are "at war." I've stated many times that I have no idea what the "war on terror" really is, and Boosh certainly can't articulate it with his mid-70's IQ. To his credit, he has no problem getting every newspaper, media outlet, and virtually every member of Congress to parrot the phrase. However, I doubt that anyone else has any more of an idea of what he is talking about than I do. He can simply say that the "war on terror" is ongoing, will take a long time, and do whatever the hell he wants in the meantime. And that's okay with our leaders, I guess.

Oh, they say they'll have some hearings when they re-convene at the end of January. After several months of that, then, should Congress summon the courage to fight this lunacy, the courts will get involved. So, by about 2012, we will have some resolution as to whether or not what he did was legal. Well, we don't have until 2012 to rid ourselves of this Dictator. In fact, we don't have until 2007.

Regardless of how his sick, twisted mind chooses to attempt to justify his actions, it is now time for the American people to take back that mandate and send his ass back to Crawford, or wherever anyone might accept him as a neighbor. He might have trouble finding acceptance, outside of a dorm room at Liberty University or on the set of the 700 Club. The American people must stand up and demand that this man and his entire cabal be removed from office, should Congress refuse to take necessary action on their own. And they must take action the day they return from their holiday. Otherwise, it is time for real action, time for millions upon millions of worn out Americans to march on Washington D.C. Time to block the streets, shut down the Congress in acts of civil disobediance, and refuse to leave until Boosh is dealt with. A non-violent preventative action before he sends us into oblivion. We cannot survive any longer with a moron for a President, who gives himself the power to do whatever he wants, whenever he wants to do it, to whoever he wants to do it to. Our very existence depends upon our forcing Congress to deal with Booshco once and for all. And, if that takes 50 million people missing work for a week and sitting in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue to get someone's attention, so be it.

There is one other issue to which I can come to only one conclusion. This man is certifiably nuts. There is no connection to reality left inside his head. He honestly believes that God has put him on this mission. He is rubber room material, and if anyone doesn't believe it, sit back and let this go on for another year. No election is going to fix this, it's up to the American people to DEMAND CHANGE. We are beyond the point of being the laughingstock of the world, we are now in the danger zone. Boosh is a science experiment gone bad.

What law will he decide to ignore next? The right of American citizens to move freely about the country? The right of free speech? The right to protest an out of control government? Are we willing to wait to see how far this clown and his merry band of loonies will go? I think it is clear that he will go to any extreme to fulfill his fanatical dreams, whatever they may be. He proves to be more and more bold every day.

While I don't pretend to really know what these people have in store for this world, I do know that I don't want to find out. So, beginning tomorrow, I will be screaming at members of Congress. My hope is that everyone joins me, but it won't be enough, not nearly enough. Collectively we need to start planning a mass march on Washington. We did it in the 60's, it had some effect, and it was kind of fun. This is much more serious. We are dealing with desparate, irrational people, so we need massive numbers. But, the alternative is unacceptable. If we decide to sit back and wait for things to take care of themselves, we deserve whatever happens to us.

Cyclone