http://dailydoubt.blogspot.com/2008/02/road-to-hell.html

From First Democracy by Paul Woodruff

In our frustration with law, we forget too easily that law is all we have between us and tyranny. Aesop has a fable to illustrate the point. Long ago, the frogs lived without any form of government. Feeling the need for some sort of authority, they prayed to Zeus and asked for a king. He sent them a piece of wood. To understand the story, you need to know that ancient Greek laws were written on wooden tablets, set up for all to see. The frogs were illiterate, of course, and missed the point:

The frogs were unhappy with the anarchy in which they lived, so they sent representatives to Zeus asking him to provide them with a king. He saw how simple they were and set up a piece of wood in their pond. At first the frogs were frightened by the noise Zeus had made, and they hid themselves in the depths of the pond; but later, since the wood did not move, they came up and were so contemptous of it that they climbed up on it and sat there. Feeling that they did not deserve such a king, they went to Zeus a second time and insisted that he give them a different ruler, as the first one was too lazy. This made Zeus angry, and he sent them a water-snake who caught and ate them up.

And so it was - and still is - when people are frustrated with the law's stupidities or delays or inconveniences. If they wish for a ruler who will rise above the law, they are offering themselves to be devoured.

In Philippe Sands superb investigation of the develop of the United States torture regime Torture Team, he notes that Nazi legal theorists used similar reasoning to that offered by this administration's lawyers, e.g. new circumstances have created a new paradigm and have rendered existing law obsolete.

Sands goes out of his way to make clear he isn't comparing the crimes of the Nazis to those of the Bush administration, as their is no such comparison. But what he is interested in is the underlying principle. And that should be enough.

I've been trying to tell people for years now that you could make a case for the need to remove Bush from office by virtue of his environmental policy alone, simply because if you look at his approach to the issue it is so corrupt, so antithetical to democracy, so obviously an attempt to subvert, circumvent, and erode the laws of this nation's people.

Wonk Room noticed the other day that administration used the same reasoning it gave for violating FISA and creating a torture regime for failing to regulate greenhouse gas emissions despite the Supreme Court decision last year that effectively mandated the necessity to do so.

She came from Pat Robertson's Regent University (where John Ashcroft now teaches.) "Regent" as in a Lordly ruler. The Bush administration has filled our government with people from Regent ... a university run by people who do not believe in democracy, but in authoritarian rule by a "regent" of the Lord.

Hagee said Hitler was doing the Lord's work, which had to happen because the Jews who aren't "spirtually alive" wouldn't go to Israel like God wanted. Hagee also apparently believes that all Jews living today have dead souls.

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/5/15/141520/281

Hagee fits well into the tradition of anti-Semitic zionism. Some of the earliest proponents of a Jewish state were evangelical preachers who were also proponents of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

http://dailydoubt.blogspot.com/2007/12/anti-semitic-zionism.html

Means you criticized a Republican, someone in the media, or you're in favor of the rule of law and America's constitutional traditions.

Last night Bill O'Reilly said that Congressman Robert Wexler is a far leftist because he endorsed MoveOn's anti-Fox News racism petition.

I don't know how much more of this before I have to go live on a deserted island somewhere. The bit about the ACLU being the equivalent of Jesse Helms is just beyond description...

Anyone who has read Chait's The Big Con can tell you the ultimate irony is that Chait is fully aware of the GOPs dependence on character based attacks. A significant portion of the book is dedicated to pointing this out!

someday, for the sake of the rule of law and democracy, we are going to need another Church commission to investigate and bring to light the full extent of this administration's lawless efforts to subvert our system of government.

In State of Denial, Bob Woodward revealed that Bush had tried to manipulate the 9/11 Commission becuase he didn't want another Church committee. Which is a pretty good indication that we need another Church committee.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/08/05/ron-suskind-white-house-ordered-forgery-to-link-al-qaedasaddam-to-911-attacks/

In October ‘03, CIA paid Habbush $5 million as part of his resettlement. By then, the White House had finally thought of a way to use Habbush. … The White House had concocted a fake letter from Habbush to Saddam, backdated to July 1, 2001. It said that 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta had actually trained for his mission in Iraq — thus showing, finally that there was an operational link between Saddam and al Qaeda… The letter also mentioned suspicious shipments to Iraq from Niger set up with al Qaeda’s assistance. The idea was to take the letter to Habbush and have him transcribe it in his own neat handwriting on a piece of Iraqi government stationery, to make it look legitimate. CIA would then take the finished product to Baghdad and have someone release it to the media.

Ron Suskind is a top notch journalist ... if this story checks out there should be no option but impeachment. Impeachment should be what's the "slam dunk".

I link this 1. because it's flabbergasting 2. because it further implies the absolute imperative need to investigate and get a full accounting of what the hell happened with these antrax letters.