George Bush Is the Law
By Peter Fredson
December 17, 2005
For several years when I looked at the daily news I was shocked by the arrogance and egomaniacal activity of George W. Bush. Almost daily he would commit some outrage against American values, democracy, freedom, civil rights, or Constitutional protections. All this was done under the guise of protecting Americans from Terrorists. All this was done under constant references to 9/11 which supposedly give GWB some extra-constitutional authority to commit outrages against Americans.
Revelations concerning his attacks on civil rights show his anti-constitutional stance. He is tremendously paranoid concerning his personal safety, so he has the greatest security force of any president. It would be difficult for a fly to land on him without some agent clubbing it to death. He thinks that criticism of his methods are treason, so all critics must be censored, manipulated, vandalized or disposed of.
He believes that Muslims hate democracy, freedom, liberty and repeats this belief at every opportunity although he seems to have very vague ideas of what democracy, freedom, and liberty mean. Although he has no idea how to protect this country nevertheless he has spent billions of dollars on crony bureaucrats who set up color schemes to tell citizens when to hide under their beds and when to go shopping. He evidently believes that, above all people, he was chosen by the Christian Old Testament Jahweh to fight EVIL, embodied in Saddam Hussein.
He has probably created more terror among his own citizens than any outside terrorist could.
From all the information we have gathered on his activity, it seems clear that he holds two major political beliefs: 1. He believes he is above the law. 2. He sometimes believes he IS the law.
I'm not sure if Bush believes he IS the law in the Biblical sense.
From The Essene Gospel of Peace, Book Two
"I am the Law, thy God, which hath brought thee out from the depths of the bondage of darkness. Thou shalt have no other Laws before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any image of the Law in heaven above or in the earth beneath. I am the invisible Law, without beginning and without end. Thou shalt not make unto thee false laws, for I am the Law, and the whole Law of all laws. If thou forsake me, thou shalt be visited by disasters for generation upon generation. If thou keepest my commandments, thou shalt enter the Infinite Garden where stands the Tree of Life in the midst of the Eternal Sea. Thou shalt not violate the Law. The Law is thy God, who shall not hold thee guiltless."
The boundless egomania of Bush will probably not attempt to equate his lust for power with the Laws of His God, but who knows? I think the Bush idea is more like that of French King Louis XIV "I am the state." Of course, everyone knows what happened to him.
Or, as Napoleon supposedly said to the Senate in 1814: "What is a throne? -- a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state-- I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public--people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France."
The difference is that we do not need GWB. He could stay on his ranch at Crawford and life would go on smoothly without him or his unholy crew of neocon thugs.
Our Founding Fathers got rid of King George II, but now we have the equivalent of a George I as our President, a restoration of a 1700 conservative empire.
"Our country is at war, and our government has the obligation to protect the American people," said President Bush when in Panama concerning allegations the CIA was using KGB facilities in eastern Europe as torture chambers. "We are finding terrorists and bringing them to justice.... Anything we do ... to that end in this effort, any activity we conduct, is within the law. We do not torture."
In other words, anything I do as war president is legal, because I am the law, and if I authorize torture then it must be lawful."
Both he and VP Cheney fought hard to keep torture in approved democratic and constitutional methods of our wonderful democracy. They said if they were kept from torturing that it would "tie the president's hands", disregarding the fact that they said they didn't practice torture.
Little Condi Rice made a special trip to Europe, sporting new shoes and wardrobe and in her tiny seductive voice insisted that nobody tortured, nobody spied, nobody kidnapped, there were no surreptitious overflights as the administration hurried and scurried to empty the gulags and send the kidnapped people to safer countries.
Where are they now? Does any politician care to investigate or is it too much trouble?
Fortunately a few Republicans finally have had enough of deceit and lies and recently struck down the worst examples of torture, abuse, and violations of civil rights. But the imperial pretensions of the Bush cabinet persist.
Now we learn that the President himself secretly issued orders to bug the telephones of Americans. Anytime, anyplace, whenever his little heart so desired. This is definitely a violation of our constitution but his Republican friends will stick to the established practice of 1. Ignore it 2. Deny it 3. Change the wording 4. Trivialize it 5. Obfuscate it 6. Punish or Swiftboat the critics.
I wonder if there is anything the President might attempt, short of shooting some little orphan in the head on TV or kicking his dog on TV, that will not be vigorously defended by his loyal sycophants? But even then the FOX "reporters" could make it seem like a noble act.
Finally, for several days it has been reported that the President in his office, discussing Harriet Miers and the Patriot Act with top Republicans, and told he was violating the Constitution, replied angrily to the effect that "Don't wave the Constitution at me. It's just a goddam piece of paper."
Somehow no major news media have reported this incident. No major reporter has investigated. No Republican politician has even mentioned it. That either shows tremendous fear, tremendous partisanship which would put party above country, or tremendous bribery of the media.
The President has twice stood in front of Congress, put his hand on the Bible, and before the Supreme Court Chief Justice sworn to uphold the Constitution with his life. If he has indeed disrespected and violated the Constitution then he must be given a "regime change."
The problem is: can we trust anyone in the administration to speak the truth? Is anyone free of the seductive and evil Bush rhetoric? Is there anyone who does not believe the deceit, lies, misinformation, exaggerations, and tap dances around democratic legal obstacles? If there is, please stand up and expose all of the illegalities and violations that Bush has committed for the past 5 years.
Oh, and take little Condi Rice. Dick Cheney, and Karl Rove along to sworn testimony of an impartial investigating committee with subpoena power which will disregard all claims of secrecy and executive privilege behind which Bush has hidden for so long.
Who actually holds the power in a democracy, the people or a petulant irresponsible egomaniac? Is Bush exempt from legalities. Can he say legitimately: "I can do no wrong, because whatever I do is legal and right?" Is Bush exempt from any court for war crimes for killing 30,000 or more Muslims in starting a war based on lies?
If Bush said the equivalent of "L'etat c'est moi." then perhaps we should sharpen up the blade of some guillotine in some museum. We know that Tom DeLay considers himself as equivalent to "the state." Perhaps he can accompany GWB to the chopping block?
No, we do not torture, we do not spy on our own citizens, we do not kidnap, we do not fly surreptitiously captives into and out of sovereign countries, there are no gulags, we do not detain indefinitely without warrant or papers, we do not break into citizen's homes without warrants, we do not look up librarians to see who is reading material we deem evil, we do not prohibit citizens from talking about FBI interrogations or searches, we do not wire tap anyone anyplace without due judicial survey, we do not handcuff and rough up people who bear signs criticizing GWB or wear emblems of opposition, we do not send cruise missiles against Al-Jazeera but only accidentally twice.
No, GWB doesn't order anything like those violations of our Constitution because he redefines whatever he pleases to mean whatever he pleases.
For one thing, God approves of whatever GWB does. Case Closed.