Defending the Tyrant

[Octafish]

Like most good DUers, Robert Parry wonders how Addington,
Yoo or anyone can possibly justify supporting America's dictator,
George W Bush? It's a good question.

Defending the President as Tyrant

By Robert Parry
June 27, 2008

All over the world down through history, political leaders who have engaged in torture and other grotesque crimes of state have justified their actions as necessary to protect their governments or their people or themselves.

It was true when England’s King Edward I had William Wallace – “Braveheart” – drawn and quartered in 1305 for resisting the crown’s rule in Scotland, and a gruesome death was what King George III foresaw for America’s Founding Fathers in 1776 when they stood up to his abuses in the Colonies.

Kings and tyrants often inflicted special pain on people they viewed as challenging their authority and – at such times – they wiped away the rules of justice. But the United States was supposed to be different.

Indeed, reaction to tyrannical monarchs was what compelled the Founders to establish a government of laws, not men, based on “unalienable rights” for all mankind, including protection against arbitrary detention and prohibition of “cruel and unusual punishment.”

Which is why it was stunning to watch the June 26 hearing before the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution as two representatives of George W. Bush’s presidency responded with disdain when pressed on the administration’s extraordinary vision of an all-powerful Executive operating without legal limits.

While Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff David Addington treated the committee Democrats with haughty contempt, former State Department lawyer John Yoo expressed the ultimate arrogance of power with his muddled responses and evasions of direct questions.

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/062608.html

Why does it seem that so few in Congress, let alone America, give a damn?

Perhaps if, say, 77-percent of Americans disapproved of the guy, maybe we could get an investigation of how George Walker Bush lied America into an illegal and immoral war; used the Department of Justice to punish political enemies and reward friends, looted the Treasury to benefit his richest friends, etc. etc. etc....

[screembloodymurder]

1. Because people can't think for themselves.

The good news is once they find they're out of step, the final 33% will turn as one. Bush will face trial.

http://www.cracked.com/article_16239_5-psychological-experiments-that-prove-humanity-doomed.html

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3. Former Irish Justice Minister Alarmed by 'Illegal' US War on Terror...

Among those still thinking are good people in Ireland:

McDowell Alarmed by ‘Illegal’ US War on Terror

by Dearbhail McDonald
Published on Monday, June 30, 2008 by The Irish Independent

DUBLIN - Former Justice Minister Michael McDowell has criticised aspects of the US-led invasion of Iraq, claiming the Bush administration carefully selected Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to circumvent legal procedures and deny human rights to detainees.

The former PD leader, who warned governments not to confuse the fight against terror with counter-terrorism and described State terrorism by proxy as “pernicious”, made his observations during an address at the World Bar Conference in Dublin at the weekend.

Mr McDowell, who said he was alarmed by how poorly international legal instruments had defined terror during his time as justice minister, described Guantanamo Bay as an “horrific Alice in Wonderland world”.

Justification

The former tanaiste insisted there was no moral or ethical justification for the 9/11 attacks, but said he had huge problems with the term “War on Terror”, a phrase coined in America in the aftermath of the destruction of the Twin Towers.

“The war on terror is at best counter-productive and at worst a fig leaf for using counter terrorism,” Mr McDowell told delegates at the World Bar Conference, being held for the first time in Ireland and jointly hosted by the Bar Councils of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/30/9999/

Perhaps the day will come when Bush and his cronies won't dare set foot out of Crawford.

[Echo In Light]

2. "Why does it seem that so few in Congress, let alone America, give a damn?"

Because plenty are of the same mind, by design.

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4. Don't give your consent to slavery, fight fascism

Mehr licht on the current monstrous reality:

Don't give your consent to slavery, fight fascism

By Peter Chamberlin
Online Journal Contributing Writer
June 30, 2008, 00:10

Normal folks do not want to believe that the human race is dominated by dark forces. But, there is a small group of people who know that it is true, the human race is considered to be livestock, cattle for the real owners of this world, the elite.

Since the day of our creation, mankind has been dominated and shaped by inhuman entities, to behave more like cattle. The shapers themselves know this to be true. They also know that if we are not kept ignorant many of us will one day learn to ask the proper questions, until we finally locate the evidence that proves it is all true. Through diligent research, various people have discovered proof of the machinery that controls America's economy, its political system, its military, its educational system, its medical system, every facet of life. This knowledge is a direct threat to the elite.

The elite power game is designed to wear the people down, as they move the nation slowly toward a predicted outcome, where the majority becomes exhausted from fighting a losing struggle and completely submits to total elite domination of all resources. When the American masses freely surrender their free will to the dark overlords, in the name of security, the fate of the world will be sealed by this lawless tyranny. Destruction and suffering, such as has never been witnessed by the eyes of man, will be unleashed upon the helpless victims.

Very few people can see this future (no one wants to see it) outside of the elite, who gladly accept it as the price of saving whatever is left of the world for themselves. The masters of humanity count on our blindness and willful ignorance, in order to carry out their conspiratorial plans. They join in secret organizations, where they are free to openly discuss their schemes amongst their own kind.

The documentation of their plotting is kept locked away from the public in corporate vaults and private libraries. Occasionally, someone on the inside discovers their conscience and leaks word of the devilish plans to the outside world, or maybe they simply slip up and lose track or control of sequestered documents. In order to deceive us and to stall the day of our realization of the multitude of their crimes against humanity, intensive disinformation is introduced into the webstream, discrediting the truth by impersonating it. We have to be diligent in our research to ascertain the veracity of any documents that we might come across. If their revelations cannot be confirmed by multiple sources, then they must be suspect. The Pentagon Papers and Operation Northwoods come quickly to mind. Both of these major leaks were later partially corroborated by reports of past deceptive military PSYOPS and CIA covert wars.

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http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3430.shtml

That Tavistock Institute is really something.

Thanks for giving a damn and seeing through their scam, Echo In Light.