Posted by Cockney Robin | Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Paul Craig Roberts warned the nation (on Thursday, but I notice that no one else here mentioned it) that it's only a matter of time until the Bush Administration implements a police state. He said:
When Bush exercises this authority [under the new Executive Order] ... there's no check to it. It doesn't have to be ratified by Congress. The people who bear the brunt of these dictatorial police state actions have no recourse to the judiciary. So it really is a form of total, absolute, one-man rule. ... The American people don't really understand the danger that they face."
Roberts said that because of Bush's unpopularity, the Republicans face a total wipeout in 2008, and this may be why "the Democrats have not brought a halt to Bush's follies or the war, because they expect his unpopular policies to provide them with a landslide victory in next year's election."
However, Roberts emphasized, "the problem with this reasoning is that it assumes that Cheney and Rove and the Republicans are ignorant of these facts, or it assumes that they are content for the Republican Party to be destroyed after Bush has his fling." Roberts believes instead that Cheney and Rove intend to use a renewal of the War on Terror to rally the American people around the Republican Party. "Something's in the works," he said, adding that the Executive Orders need to create a police state are already in place.
"The administration figures themselves and prominent Republican propagandists ... are preparing us for another 9/11 event or series of events," Roberts continued. "Chertoff has predicted them. ... The National Intelligence Estimate is saying that al Qaeda has regrouped. ... You have to count on the fact that if al Qaeda's not going to do it, it's going to be orchestrated. ... The Republicans are praying for another 9/11." (The Raw Story)
And, as Republicans all know, prayer works!
Wonkette (which is where I found the story in the first place):
"Oddly, the former Reagan official is pretty sure the problem is with all the Republicans who came after his boss, whom all of them worship. Roberts is pretty sure Bush will invade Iran and declare himself President-for-life and send bloggers to gulags that don’t even have wifi.....This is why Congress has to impeach President Cheney immediately, before he takes away our habeas corpus. All the common man can do is keep posting blog comments. Help us Ron Paul, you’re our only hope."(Wonkette)
....Who is "Ron Paul"? Okay, never mind.
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