A Treasure Under Torture (Mary Lyon -- From The Left) [View All]

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Mary Lyon, From The Left -- World News Trust

The irony is literally gob-smacking. Sept. 17th is the anniversary of the formal acceptance of the Constitution of the United States of America at the Federal Convention in Philadelphia. The paperwork that our Founders labored over, agonized about, argued through, which ultimately defined us as a country, determined such matters of statecraft as the rule of law our new nation would respect and follow, who had how much power, and who checked that power. It put down in black and beige (parchment, after all), in writing, what we’re all about as Americans. And this year, it falls on the weekend immediately after a latter-day would-be King George has roared about his right to defile it in the worst way imaginable. Instead of reaffirming a more perfect union, establishing justice, insuring domestic tranquility, providing for the common defense, promoting the general welfare, and securing the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, he’s aggressively pushing torture and other extra-constitutional ideas.

A more perfect union? Um -- where? Here? Our country hasn’t been this deeply divided since the Civil War era. George and his henchmen have us all very nearly at each other’s throats. Our onetime union, which was as close to perfect as we’ve ever reached in the immediate wake of 9/11, is by now more imperfect than ever. And now, it even reaches into Bush’s own party -- among those who’ll still swallow just about anything he wants to shove down their throats -- except torture.

Justice? For whom? Osama bin Laden -- whom he once targeted for bringing to justice, but now casually shrugs the guy off? George denies he’s disbanded the one entity charged specifically with tracking Osama down, but he has. And it’s only now that he feels the hot breath of a losing mid-term election that he’s even started mentioning the guy’s name in speeches again. Meanwhile, George Washington University constitutional law scholar Jonathan Turley counts approximately 30 felonies Bush has already committed just in the NSA wiretapping scandal, all of which sure seem a lot more like high crimes and misdemeanors than does lying under oath about cheating on your wife.

Domestic tranquility? Here? When the discourse on most, if not all, of the news/information channels on radio and TV is full of hatred and divisiveness, and republi-CONS everywhere are trying to scare the voters stupid? Hell, if they have their way, you won’t even be able to sleep at night, for fear of all the brown-skinned, bearded Boogie Men running amok out there unless you support the GOP. They all but say we’re all going to die if we don’t vote republi-CON.

The common defense? Ah yes, here George claims supremacy, even though his abysmal foreign policy has earned us nothing but new enemies, scorn, distrust, and hatred across the globe. Yeah, we’re safer, alright. Yeah, SURE. We’ve squandered, literally, a WORLD of good will after 9/11, not to mention close to 3,000 American lives, many multitudes more of innocent Iraqi civilians, the viability of our armed forces, and how many hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars by now? Last time I checked, we were losing money in Iraq to the tune of approximately 100-thousand dollars a minute.

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