Letters to the Editor
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Re: On the politicization of justice
What's going on has been called -- for good reason -- a radical revolution, or a counter-revolution, in that its perpetrators seem intent on undoing the historic American Revolution altogether. And they are doing it through secrecy, main force power grabs -- most of which they get away with -- and by subversion of long-standing institutions, which they are also mostly getting away with.
They are getting away with it because there is very little real opposition among the opinion leaders and power centers in this country, regardless of Party. They may (or may not) have concluded that Bush is a bust (it would seem that the dozen or so Rs who counseled with the Busheviks on Tuesday, and told them they have no credibility, have had it with the Regime), but the Bushevik principles of government, what I call an Autocracy, are intended to live on, no matter who occupies the Throne, er, White House.
Yes, eventually habeus may be (partially) restored, and the Justice Department may regain some measure of independence from the Politburo. But when and if that ever happens, the nature of our government will have changed so radically and profoundly, there will be no going back.
The kinds of changes that have been going on are not what The People signed up for, but The People are easily led according to the brightest lights of our neo-totalitarian overlords. These elites may be having a hard time of it at the moment, but that's only because they're not trying hard enough. As long as they have the stomach for the fight, they'll prevail eventually. At least according to them.
The People have been trying to call a halt to this madness from the outset, and they have gotten almost nowhere (despite the election of 2006), in part because the Mass Media misreports (or doesn't report at all) The Peoples' anger and demands. Congress listens to that Media and to its corporate backers; it long ago stopped listening to The People themselves, except when it is expedient for election purposes. We can do all the political work (as I have) that you recommend, and still we will be disappointed in elected officials.
We didn't sign on for an Autocracy, but that's what we're getting. Is that something we want? Nobody asked, and they didn't because they don't think they need to. The People are relatively passive, and as long as they can be kept that way, it doesn't matter what we think. Every now and then a bone may have to be thrown to the masses, but over all, nothing need intervene in the onrush to Imperial Greatness...
If only our Overseas Acquisitions would stop misbehaving. Everything would be fine.