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2007-10-01 05:25:13 · 21 answers · asked by Page 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are their own Axis of Evil.
2007-10-01 05:29:20 · update #1
This is scary as hell! I know that some will think that this comparison is extreme, but I've been reading a bit about German history recently, and I've noticed some similarities between the Bush administration and the Nazis. When the Reichstag was burned in 1933, the Nazis took advantage of the situation to suppress civil liberties in Germany, supposedly in order to protect the "Fatherland; after the 9/11 attacks took place, the Bush administration passed measures to suppress civil liberties in the US, ostensibly to protect the "Homeland". Scary as hell!
2007-10-01 05:45:48 · answer #1 · answered by tangerine 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
John_mcd has it nailed.
However, I would push it back to at least Lincoln. When he decided that it was ok for a US president to rule by force, suspend habeus corpus, suspend free speech, start a draft, use the military against US citizens fighting his tyranny, and to negate the 10th amendment the Constitution started being ignored.
Bush has signed numerous executive orders that go against the rights of the people. Bush championed the Patriot Act which severly violates the rights of the US people.
He's far from the first to do it, he wont be the last. The Constitution requires constant defense and we've failed in that. We've failed to protect it from either side, so both sides have more power than was ever intended.
2007-10-01 06:12:12 · answer #2 · answered by Showtunes 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the constitution of the US is constantly in peril. The worst times, imho, were the Civil War and shortly afterward and the establishment of the Welfare system. Both significantly eroded states rights in favor of greater federal control (over $$, over legalisms, over the populace as a whole).
the president (especially the current president) has very little to do with it. It is congress and even state gov't that go along w/it that are mostly to blame.
2007-10-01 05:51:10 · answer #3 · answered by Act D 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The U.S. Constitution has been in peril since it's inception. It's the nature of the thing to balance several powerful forces, bound only on the idea that those forces want what's good for the Nation. It's a fragile experiment in self-governance, and I'm glad to see it's still functioning after an abusive presidency.
2007-10-01 05:34:51 · answer #4 · answered by Beardog 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I think the president IS damaging the constitution in a few ways.
1st, the patriot act was a clear violation of the constitution, wildly adjusting the balance of power.
2nd, he legislates based on he personal religious views. If laws reflect christianity, than it lessens my freedom not to worship Christ.
3rd, Warrentless wire taps are without question unreasonable searches.
Those are only some of the reasons I think he is shredding the constitution. And most of America agrees with me. If they didn't he wouldn't have a sub 30's approval rating.
2007-10-01 05:52:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Bush already called the Constitution a GD piece of paper and also said his job would be easier if this were a dictatorship and he was the dictator. It was written over 200 years ago and is still relevant. Why would Bush want to throw it away?
2007-10-01 05:56:24 · answer #6 · answered by outsider_27 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This has been happening for years....I was squawking about it when Clinton was doing the same thing with EO 12919, putting technology sales with Dept. of Commerce, instead of the State Dept. He started the contract with KBR back in '96!!!!......This has been going on since Wilson passed the Federal Reserve Act.....Welcome aboard the conspiracy train...But I'll bet you were one of the one's castigating me during the Clinton years...Clinton, with 12919 secured the infrastructure through FEMA, and Bushes NPSD 51 does the same for logistics....It's not about Dem vs. Rep. or Lib vs. Con....It's about power brokers and their serfdom....It just so happens that you're a lib and it's Bush doing it. What were you saying when Clinton was doing the same thing? Chances are you weren't in the political process then and now you are. I'm not saying I agree with Bush, or that I even support him, but to concentrate solely on one administration, when this has been going on for years seems partisan, trite and ignorant. When you get the blinders off and quit looking at this as "The Evil Cons or Rep." and realize that the upper echelon, Right, Left, whatever, isn't out for your best interests...Let me know...
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
-- H.L. Mencken
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
2007-10-01 05:40:16 · answer #7 · answered by Cookies Anyone? 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The constitution hasn't been relevant in legal decision making for at least 70 years, when F.D.R. threatened to pack the Supreme Court because the constitution was standing in the way of his plans for a socialist nanny state.
In the last 50 years, every president has signed various executive orders planning a continuance government, "in case the regularly schedule democratic process is interrupted."
They got elected, they got the money, they got the guns - they do whatever they want, and we let them.
2007-10-01 05:39:50 · answer #8 · answered by freedom first 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
What are people like you going to do when Bush and Cheney step down? When the war on terror ends, and our rights are restored? Why are you so convinced that valuable tools to fight a capable enemy will be turned against Americans? What does our government have to gain by going against its citizens? Do you not think the entire world would come to our aid if they did?
2007-10-01 05:45:39 · answer #9 · answered by Pfo 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
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