If this David Swanson diary is indeed true, that Bush intends to
arrest Cindy Sheehan on Thursday as a risk to national security, I hereby quote what one American bully stated roughly two years ago: "Bring it on!"
Some of us may be worried about this move as the opening salvo towards a police state. I see this as potentially the biggest political blunder in Bush's presidency. Does Bush really think that by arresting the mother of an American soldier slained in a war that he started because she is a threat to national security is going to make this thing go away?
Has Rove really gone AWOL thanks to the Plame Investigation?
For many of us, this is too good to pass up. We should be joyful that this is what the Bush Administration has come to. Their entire platform, with the exception of Homeland Security at a split 50 percentile, is in the negative with the American public; the majority of Americans view this Administration has having something to hide in regards to the CIA Leak; most view this administration as arrogant, cocky, and worst, dishonest. Whatever political capital left was spent on a Social Security Privatization debacle that has made Bush even more unpopular with this issue. And recently, the MSM just finally woke up to the fact that the Bush Administration had played them for patsies all along, and are now starting to do more critical stories about them.
And what does Bush intend to do to improve his standing with the American people?
He thumbs the nose at the world by appointing John Bolton to dismantle reform the UN, before taking a five-week vacation at a time when most Americans are unable to do so, and ironically at a time when a TRUE issue of national security (the infamous PDB) was ignored.
He proceeds to sign a piss-poor energy bill into law, that makes this country more dependant on foreign oil at the same time oil barrel prices rise to a brand new high of $64.
And to hit the trifecta, rather than meet with a grieving mother of a son lost in his war of choice, he's going to have her arrested.
I think there is nothing that this woman would love more (other than spitting in Bush's face) than to be publicly arrested from the Bush Ranch grounds as a national security threat. What is the Administration even thinking about going forward with something like this? Do they think this veiled threat will somehow put enough fear into Cindy's heart that she'll finally leave? This woman has already lost her son well before his time. What else has this woman left to lose? Her freedom? The very freedom that Bush says the terrorists hate? You mean to tell me...
There's no point in further elaborating. The bottom line is if Bush wants to go ahead and arrest Cindy Sheehan as a national security threat, he is well within his current ranks of power to do so. But, if he does, he better anticipate a political fallout that will make him rue the day he ever crossed that woman.