The True Spirit of Bush Style Freedom: Lawlessness

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The True Spirit Of Bush Style Freedom: Lawlessness

 

By Matthew Hubbard

Created Jul 13 2007 - 9:25am

 

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Thieves have stolen nearly $300 million from a bank in

Baghdad, police and a bank official said Thursday, in what is probably one

of the biggest thefts in Iraq since the 2003 war to topple Saddam Hussein.

 

Probably? This isn't obviously, clearly without question the number one bank

robbery in the world this decade, let alone Iraq? If a quarter of a billion

dollars walked out of a bank anywhere in the world, whether in New York City

or Outer Mongolia, it would be worldwide news.

 

Ah, but the writer of this piece said thefts, and therein lies the rub. The

news from Iraq day after day is about the dead bodies. The general

lawlessness created by our stewardship goes unreported until it hits OhMyGod

proportions. The first major incident was the looting of the museums. That

was an act camera crews could capture, and we saw it over and over again

until Rumsfeld mewled like a baby about how unfair the coverage was. Then

there were the billions of dollars in cash sent to Iraq, literally tons of

greenbacks loaded onto pallettes, 70% of which cannot be accounted for. Who

knows? Maybe there were no crimes here, just bad accounting practices.

 

Yeah, right. And maybe I'll start dating Salman Rushdie's ex-wife once the

divorce is final.

 

Technically, both of those earlier crimes were looting by multiple free

agent criminals, where this week's bank robbery is a single team of

criminals sharing the profit among themselves. Don't be surprised if it

turns out to be Al Qaeda, which we are told is now as operational as it was

in 2001, BEFORE the September 11 attacks, no matter how Our President will

lie about the new report.

 

This is lawlessness at its most primal, the law of People With Guns. Bush

style lawlessness here in our country doesn't create the same dramatic

headlines, but it may be creating opportunities for even greater theft and

corruption on a widespread scale, like a slow motion looting. The pattern is

clear. There are laws and the Bush administration ignores them. Sometimes

it's just bending the law or skirting the law, other times the laws are

clearly broken. But who enforces these laws? The Justice Department under

Alberto Gonzalez. When they don't want to enforce them, who will force them?

The courts, stacked with Bush appointees. Just as the law has now become a

game of How Does Anthony Kennedy Feel This Week?, the laws that hold this

administration in check come down to whether or not this lawless,

unprincipled gang of thugs put enough unpricipled thugs in black robes.

 

Speaker Pelosi, we beg you! Every tool the Constitution gave your branch of

government may not be enough to stop these criminals. But if impeachment is

truly "off the table", we the people can only look forward to eighteen more

months of this ongoing crime spree, with justice, if any, only coming well

after the fact, when these people are out of office and a Democrat is in the

White House. Even that weak justice will only happen if the people

investigating show a lot more spine than you have since you were given your

position of power.

 

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"A little patience and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their

spells dissolve, and the people recovering their true sight, restore their

government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are

suffering deeply in spirit,

and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public

debt. But if the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have

patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning

back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at

stake."

-Thomas Jefferson