Can democracy survive three more years of George W. Bush?

If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.

–President George W. Bush, Dec. 18, 2000

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air–however slight–lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.

–Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas

What is it going to take for the American people to wake up to the presidential coup d’etat that is now underway, a takeover that is occurring in broad daylight by a president who has declared that as commander-in-chief he has unfettered power to fight an undeclared and never-ending war on terrorism, even if that means ignoring the courts, disregarding laws passed by Congress and circumventing the Bill of Rights in the process? (more…)

Thursday, January 19th, 2006