BUH-BYE CIVIL LIBERTIES...

So now Bush is breaking not merely international law (i.e., pre-emptive, non-self-defense war in Iraq, secret prisons, torture, etc.) but now he's breaking our laws. And defiantly admitting to it today in his live Saturday radio address. And promises to keep doing it?

Holy shit, is our democracy ever going down the tubes...

I saw Feingold on CNN right after the speech and he was stellar, putting this latest crime into context with all of the other extralegal stuff Bush has done--again, pre-emptive war, torture at Abu Ghraib, secret prisons, holding people without charge or trial at Guantanamo, holding American citizens without charge or trial, ordering secret wiretaps on American citizens...

This guy Bush steals two elections and then suddenly he thinks he's a dictator...we gotta show him it ain't like that, right?

And then I switched over to MSNBC and saw Julian what's-his-name, a "Democratic strategist" falling all over himself to agree with Pat Buchanan about how we have to "go after terrorists" and that he's all for curtailing civil liberties because of terrorism...

And I'm like, what the fuck? Even the opposition guys are for curtailing civil liberties (Feingold excluded)? No wonder Bush can get away with this kind of crime! The Democrats are in cahoots with him!

Let me straighten this out for you--TERRORISM STOPS WHEN WE STOP ANTAGONIZING OTHER PEOPLE--END OF STORY. The civil liberties that we apparently used to have are the only thing that separates us from--Afghanistan, or North Korea. Other than the high infant mortality rate and the gap between rich and poor and that kind of thing.

Curbing our civil liberties does not end terrorism. Putting an end to our strong-arm tactics will end terrorism.