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The United States long ago ceased to be anything like a living,
thriving republic. But it retained the legal form of a republic,
and that counted for something: As long as the legal form still
existed, even as a gutted shell, there was hope it might be filled
again one day with substance.
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But now the very legal structures of the Republic are being
dismantled. The principle of arbitrary rule by an autocratic leader
is being openly established, through a series of unchallenged
executive orders, perverse Justice Department rulings and court
decisions by sycophantic judges who defer to power -- not law -- in
their determinations. What we are witnessing is the creation of a
"commander-in-chief state," where the form and pressure of law no
longer apply to the president and his designated agents. The rights
of individuals are no longer inalienable, nor are their persons
inviolable; all depends on the good will of the Commander, the
military autocrat.
President George W. Bush has granted himself the power to declare
anyone on earth -- including any U.S. citizen -- an "enemy
combatant," for any reason he sees fit. He can render them up for
torture, he can imprison them for life, he can even have them
killed, all without charges, with no burden of proof, no standards
of evidence, no legislative oversight, no appeal, no judicial
process whatsoever except those that he himself deigns to
construct, with whatever limitations he cares to impose. Nor can he
ever be prosecuted for any order he issues, however criminal; in
the new American system laid out by Bush's legal minions, the
Commander is sacrosanct, beyond the reach of any law or constitution.
This is not hyperbole. It is simply the reality of the United
States today. The principle of unrestricted presidential power is
now being codified into law and incorporated into the institutional
structures of the state, as the web log Deep Blade Journal reports
in a compendium of recent outrages against liberty.
For example, last Friday, a panel of federal judges -- including
John Roberts, nominated for the Supreme Court this week -- upheld
Bush's claim to dispose of "enemy combatants" any way he pleases,
The Washington Post reports. In a chilling decision, the judges
ruled that the Commander's arbitrarily designated "enemies" are
nonpersons: Neither the Geneva Conventions nor American military
and domestic law apply to such garbage. Bush is now free to subject
anyone he likes to his self-concocted "military tribunal" system, a
brutal sham that retired top U.S. military officials have denounced
as a "kangaroo court" that tyrants around the world will cite in
order to hide their oppression under U.S. precedent.
The kowtowing court ruling ignores the fact that the Geneva
Conventions -- which lay down strict guidelines for the handling of
any person detained by military forces, regardless of the captive's
status -- have been incorporated into the U.S. legal code, Deep
Blade points out. They cannot be abrogated by presidential fiat.
And anyone who commits a "grave breach" of the Conventions by
facilitating the killing, torture or inhuman treatment of detainees
(e.g., stripping them of all legal status and subjecting them to
rigged tribunals) is subject to the death penalty under U.S. law.
This is why the Bush Faction labored so mightily to advance the
absurd fiction that the Geneva Conventions are somehow voluntary --
while simultaneously promulgating the sinister Fuhrerprinzip of
unlimited presidential authority. The fiction was a temporary sop
to the crumbling legal form of the Republic, a cynical perversion
of existing law to keep justice at bay until the Fuhrerprinzip
could be firmly established as the new foundation of the state.
It doesn't matter anymore if the president's orders to suspend the
Conventions, construct a worldwide gulag, torture captives, spy on
Americans, fabricate intelligence and wage aggressive war are
illegal under the "quaint" strictures of the old dispensation; the
courts, packed with Bushist cadres, are now affirming the new
order, the "critical authority" of the Commander, beyond law and
morality, on the higher plane of what Bush calls "the path of action."
This phrase -- with its remarkable Mussolinian echoes -- was
incorporated into the official "National Security Strategy of the
United States," promulgated by Bush in September 2002. That
document in turn was drawn largely from a manifesto issued in
September 2000 by a Bush Faction group whose members included Dick
Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Jeb Bush. Their detailed
plan envisioned the transformation of America into a militarized
state: planting "military footprints" throughout Central Asia and
the Middle East, invading Iraq, expanding the nuclear arsenal,
massively increasing the defense budget -- and predicating all
these "revolutionary" changes on the hopes for "a new Pearl Harbor"
that would "catalyze" the lazy American public into supporting
their militarist agenda.
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This agenda is designed, the group said, to establish "full
spectrum dominance" over geopolitical affairs, assuring control of
world energy resources and precluding the rise of "any potential
global rival" that might threaten the unchecked wealth and
privilege of the U.S. elite. The rule of law could only be a
hindrance to such a scheme, hence its replacement by the
Fuhrerprinzip and the "path of action."
There has been virtually no institutional resistance to this open
coup d'etat. It's now clear that the American Establishment -- and
a significant portion of the American people -- have given up on
the democratic experiment. They no longer wish to govern
themselves; they want to be ruled by "strong leaders" who will "do
whatever it takes" to protect them from harm and keep them in
clover. They have sold their golden birthright of American liberty
for a mess of coward's pottage.
Annotations
Court Rules Military Panels to Try Detainees
Washington Post, July 16, 2005
Domination by Detention
Deep Blade Journaly, July 16, 2005
Dark Passage: The Bush Faction's Blueprint for Empire
Excerpt from the book, Empire Burlesque
Ruling Lets U.S. Restart Trials at Guantanamo
New York Times, July 16, 2005
Alberto Gonzales' Tortured Arguments for Reigning Above the Law
LA Weekly, Jan. 14-20, 2005
Torture Treaty Doesn't Bar `Cruel, Inhuman' Tactics, Gonzales Says
Knight-Ridder, Jan. 26, 2005
Bush Has Widened Authority of CIA to Kill Terrorists
New York Times, Dec. 15, 2002
Special Ops Get OK to Initiate Its Own Missions
Washington Times, Jan. 8, 2003
Coward's War in Yemen
Spiked, Nov. 11, 2002
Drones of Death
The Guardian, Nov. 6, 2002
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<P align=justify><BR><BR> The United States long ago ceased to
be anything like a living, thriving republic. But it retained the
legal form of a republic, and that counted for something: As long
as the legal form still existed, even as a gutted shell, there was
hope it might be filled again one day with substance.<BR></P>
<P align=justify><A href="http://www.uruknet.info/?
p=13988&hd=0&size=1&l=x">http://www.uruknet.info/?
p=13988&hd=0&size=1&l=x</A></P>
<P align=justify><BR>But now the very legal structures of the
Republic are being dismantled. The principle of arbitrary rule by
an autocratic leader is being openly established, through a series
of unchallenged executive orders, perverse Justice Department
rulings and court decisions by sycophantic judges who defer to
power -- not law -- in their determinations. What we are witnessing
is the creation of a "commander-in-chief state," where the form and
pressure of law no longer apply to the president and his designated
agents. The rights of individuals are no longer inalienable, nor
are their persons inviolable; all depends on the good will of the
Commander, the military autocrat.</P>
<P align=justify><BR><BR>President George W. Bush has granted
himself the power to declare anyone on earth -- including any U.S.
citizen -- an "enemy combatant," for any reason he sees fit. He can
render them up for torture, he can imprison them for life, he can
even have them killed, all without charges, with no burden of
proof, no standards of evidence, no legislative oversight, no
appeal, no judicial process whatsoever except those that he himself
deigns to construct, with whatever limitations he cares to impose.
Nor can he ever be prosecuted for any order he issues, however
criminal; in the new American system laid out by Bush's legal
minions, the Commander is sacrosanct, beyond the reach of any law
or constitution.<BR></P>
<P align=justify><BR>This is not hyperbole. It is simply the
reality of the United States today. The principle of unrestricted
presidential power is now being codified into law and incorporated
into the institutional structures of the state, as the web log Deep
Blade Journal reports in a compendium of recent outrages against
liberty.</P>
<P align=justify><BR><BR>For example, last Friday, a panel of
federal judges -- including John Roberts, nominated for the Supreme
Court this week -- upheld Bush's claim to dispose of "enemy
combatants" any way he pleases, The Washington Post reports. In a
chilling decision, the judges ruled that the Commander's
arbitrarily designated "enemies" are nonpersons: Neither the Geneva
Conventions nor American military and domestic law apply to such
garbage. Bush is now free to subject anyone he likes to his self-
concocted "military tribunal" system, a brutal sham that retired
top U.S. military officials have denounced as a "kangaroo court"
that tyrants around the world will cite in order to hide their
oppression under U.S. precedent.</P>
<P align=justify><BR><BR>The kowtowing court ruling ignores the
fact that the Geneva Conventions -- which lay down strict
guidelines for the handling of any person detained by military
forces, regardless of the captive's status -- have been
incorporated into the U.S. legal code, Deep Blade points out. They
cannot be abrogated by presidential fiat. And anyone who commits a
"grave breach" of the Conventions by facilitating the killing,
torture or inhuman treatment of detainees (e.g., stripping them of
all legal status and subjecting them to rigged tribunals) is
subject to the death penalty under U.S. law.<BR></P>
<P align=justify><BR>This is why the Bush Faction labored so
mightily to advance the absurd fiction that the Geneva Conventions
are somehow voluntary -- while simultaneously promulgating the
sinister Fuhrerprinzip of unlimited presidential authority. The
fiction was a temporary sop to the crumbling legal form of the
Republic, a cynical perversion of existing law to keep justice at
bay until the Fuhrerprinzip could be firmly established as the new
foundation of the state.</P>
<P align=justify><BR><BR>It doesn't matter anymore if the
president's orders to suspend the Conventions, construct a
worldwide gulag, torture captives, spy on Americans, fabricate
intelligence and wage aggressive war are illegal under the "quaint"
strictures of the old dispensation; the courts, packed with Bushist
cadres, are now affirming the new order, the "critical authority"
of the Commander, beyond law and morality, on the higher plane of
what Bush calls "the path of action."</P>
<P align=justify><BR><BR>This phrase -- with its remarkable
Mussolinian echoes -- was incorporated into the official "National
Security Strategy of the United States," promulgated by Bush in
September 2002. That document in turn was drawn largely from a
manifesto issued in September 2000 by a Bush Faction group whose
members included Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Jeb
Bush. Their detailed plan envisioned the transformation of America
into a militarized state: planting "military footprints" throughout
Central Asia and the Middle East, invading Iraq, expanding the
nuclear arsenal, massively increasing the defense budget -- and
predicating all these "revolutionary" changes on the hopes for "a
new Pearl Harbor" that would "catalyze" the lazy American public
into supporting their militarist agenda.</P>
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<P align=justify><BR><BR>This agenda is designed, the group said,
to establish "full spectrum dominance" over geopolitical affairs,
assuring control of world energy resources and precluding the rise
of "any potential global rival" that might threaten the unchecked
wealth and privilege of the U.S. elite. The rule of law could only
be a hindrance to such a scheme,
hence its replacement by the Fuhrerprinzip and
the "path of action." </P>
<P align=justify><BR><BR>There has been virtually no institutional
resistance to this open coup d'etat. It's now clear that the
American Establishment -- and a significant portion of the American
people -- have given up on the democratic experiment. They no
longer wish to govern themselves; they <I>want</I> to be ruled by
"strong leaders" who will "do whatever it takes" to protect them
from harm and keep them in clover. They have sold their golden
birthright of American liberty for a mess of coward's
pottage.<BR><BR></P>
<H2>Annotations</H2><BR><BR><A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/15/AR2005071500757_pf.html"
target=new>Court Rules Military Panels to Try Detainees</
A><BR><FONT class=bl>Washington Post, July 16, 2005</FONT>
<BR><BR><A href="http://deepblade.net/journal/2005/07/domination-by-
detention.html" target=new>Domination by Detention</A><BR><FONT
class=bl>Deep Blade Journaly, July 16, 2005</FONT> <BR><BR><A
href="http://empireburlesquenow.blogspot.com/2005/03/dark-passage-
pnacs-blueprint-for.html" target=new>Dark Passage: The Bush
Faction's Blueprint for Empire</A><BR><FONT class=bl>Excerpt from
the book, Empire Burlesque</FONT> <BR><BR><A href="http://
nytimes.com/2005/07/16/politics/16gitmo.html?pagewanted=print"
target=new>Ruling Lets U.S. Restart Trials at Guantanamo</
A><BR><FONT class=bl>New York Times, July 16, 2005</FONT>
<BR><BR><A href="http://www.laweekly.com/ink/printme.php?eid=60020"
target=new>Alberto Gonzales' Tortured Arguments for Reigning
Above the Law</A><BR><FONT class=bl>LA Weekly, Jan. 14-20, 2005</
FONT> <BR><BR><A href="http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/
10732654.htm" target=new>Torture Treaty Doesn't Bar `Cruel,
Inhuman' Tactics, Gonzales Says</A><BR><FONT class=bl>Knight-
Ridder, Jan. 26, 2005</FONT> <BR><BR><A href="http://
foi.missouri.edu/terrorintelligence/bushwidened.html"
target=new>Bush Has Widened Authority of CIA to Kill Terrorists</
A><BR><FONT class=bl>New York Times, Dec. 15, 2002</FONT>
<BR><BR><A href="http://dynamic.washtimes.com/twt-print.cfm?
ArticleID=20030108-12935202" target=new>Special Ops Get OK to
Initiate Its Own Missions</A><BR><FONT class=bl>Washington Times,
Jan. 8, 2003</FONT> <BR><BR><A href="http://www.spiked-online.com/"
target=new>Coward's War in Yemen</A><BR><FONT class=bl>Spiked, Nov.
11, 2002</FONT> <BR><BR><A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/
story/0,3604,834290,00.html" target=new>Drones of Death</
A><BR><FONT class=bl>The Guardian, Nov. 6, 2002</FONT>
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