Above the Law -- or Below the Belt?

THE PRESIDENT DOES NOT KNOW BEST
Elizabeth de la Vega, Tomdispatch.com
Using his wholly fabricated 'Unitary Theory of the Executive,' Bush has decreed his administration to be entirely above the rule of law.
http://www.alternet.org/story/31008/

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As a legal philosopher by training, I and any connected with the law, domestic or international, am appalled by Bush's violations of both. Such violations in a few short years have discredited the U.S. as a national leader in the international sphere where we are feared and increasingly despised, as are all bullies.

The corruption of the Republican Party along with Bush's discrediting should act as a traumatic shock for all Americans as the implications of our national gansterism begin to soak in. I would imagine that the shock will also begin to affect our economy as well, as nations around the globe begin to withdraw their previous cordial economic exchanges with us. It looks increasingly as though we have blown it in the Middle East -- and China and Russia bode well to be the new forces influencing the control and distribution of energy therefrom. Needless to say the distractions there have had some positive effects, liberating Latin America from self-interested U.S. domination. However, the angers having been stored up there for more than a century from our brutal incursions will most likely not bode well for us there either.

Perhaps Antarctica will become our new domain of influence -- all those flat footed penguins meandering around while the ice melts at the edges of their world?

And so it went.
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