How many torture camps are the Bushites operating around the world?

Nobody knows.

How many prisoners do the Bushites have at these torture camps?

Nobody knows.

How many prisoners have they tortured to death?

Nobody knows.

How many American citizens are they holding at these torture camps?

Nobody knows.

How many people have been 'disappeared' by the Bushites?

Nobody knows.

How many children have they had raped in front of their parents in an effort to make them 'talk'?

Nobody knows.

Or rather, nobody is telling.

It's a secret.

It has nothing to do with 'protecting Amerika'. It has everything to do with establishing an Orwellian police state.

The Bush Gestapo is upon you. Not only is this true, but it gets worse the more you look at it.

No matter how well formed, every democracy always contains within itself sufficient numbers of people who not only will stand aside during totalitarian assault from within, but will also actually cheer it along.

We're in Big Trouble, people.

All too true.

Democracy, which has grown up in the last three hundred years, represents, with its emphasis upon individual responsibility and individual actions, the most difficult societal system, requiring a definite human maturity. Totalitarianism and especially fascism can in many ways be regarded as an escape from this difficulty into the irresponsibility of following a leader who deprives the people of their liberty and their maturity but promises them 'security' and 'economic progress'. To that end, personal immaturity and self-gratification are therefore celebrated and promoted by corporate America in particular, and in U.S. culture in general, because it prepares the electorate to give up its responsibility to maintain democracy in favor of totalitarian leadership.

This in turn enables the primary weakness of democracy: the possibility of electing to office persons who are prepared to subvert that democracy. Throughout history, from Athens to Rome to the Weimar Republic, democracies have nearly always succumbed to this weakness and devolved into personal or party dictatorships. Fascism has no such inherent weakness.

Unless the U.S. electorate had been prepared to renounce its political irresponsibility and had been able to assert its authority through the Constitution over its government, the democratic authority of the people would inevitably be supplanted by one that is corporatist and totalitarian.

The U.S. electorate, as we have seen, was in no way so prepared, and now that government of the people, by the people, and for the people has perished from this earth. The U.S. is not a democracy. It is in fact a corporatist oligarchy.

Neoconservative totalitarianism has subverted the greatest democracy in the world, and has the will and the means to make that subversion permanent, and to extend it to other countries by coercion, fraud, and force.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

- John Adams

what it would take to get U.S. lawyers out of their offices and standing up to the Bush administration in any significant way?

How can they?

I know a lot of courageous Justice Department attorneys have quit or been purged over the past

Obliquely, you answer your own question here, Ms. Walsh.

Where the law is weakened, lawyers have less power - particularly when challenging that political dominance the neoconservatives have arranged for in all three branches of government. Neocon Bushites have flouted and weakened the rule of law, in favor of rule by Bush, for this very purpose.

The law is not protecting us from either the government or from corporations because neither wants us to be protected from them.

That should frighten you.

A couple were footage of children being sodomized in the attempt to get their parents to "talk". Others were from the "best of" series of snuff flicks, and not "interrogations", since nobody bothered to ask any actual questions.

What has been covered up is evidence of Bush administration leadership in atrocities and war crimes, but what has also been covered up is that they haven't been destroyed. Cheney has prints because they're his favorites.

What exactly did you think sadists would do when they came to power and would be above the law? Take up macrame? Or go pro?

The content of images which have been made public has been ugly, so consider how much more awful the content must be in materials the powers that be will not release.

If you do not believe this is possible, consider the atrocities the Bush administration has committed that we are already certain of. Lying their way into a war that has killed tens if not hundreds of thousands. Baiting children so they could be massacred. Casual extermination of cities. Millions of refugees. Bushites already have plenty of blood on their hands in the course of their work, so what's a little more in the course of their pleasures? People are, after all, disposable. Mass suffering and death mean nothing to these people. Therefore the suffering and death of individuals mean nothing either.

How many concentration camps do the Bushites have going? Nobody knows. It's a secret.

How many victims have the Bushites tortured to death? Nobody knows. It's a secret.

How extreme can the Bushites get when they can get away with anything they like? They have proven themselves capable of any crime against humanity imaginable.

It gets worse the more you look at it. And if the past is any guide to the future, worse still by far is yet to come.