According to the Bush doctrine in practice and principle, we can straight up come in during the middle of the night, snatch someone, transport them halfway around the world while crossing lord knows how many borders, breaking lord knows how many laws, issued by lord knows how many despicable despots like our very own Mister Bush, and we don't even need a reason for an indeterminable amount of time to take someone anymore? We expect no ramifications for these actions? We can torture our newly kidnapped victims at will?
We can even do that to our own citizens if we feel like it? And this process is deciphered and determined by the same people that misinterpreted falsified intelligence a few years ago to start a war, finish a war, whatever? We now presume guilt before innocence? Did I miss a memo? When did E Pluribus Unum morph into taxation and incarceration without representation?
Maybe I've been wrapped up in my own personal life too long, maybe we all have, but it seems I heard we were champions of Democracy somewhere. Apparently that's not the case these days. Democracy is great, until it becomes too hard to enforce or protect, then for your own safety we have to think for you.
We say 'I can't kill the message, but I can kidnap the messenger and blindfold him and stick him in a Gestapo camp and scare him to death' to the rest of the world.
I agree that desperate times call for desperate measures, but cannot democratic times call for democratic measures?
Can't we vote on who we're gonna' screw before we just go ahead and screw 'em? Can't we at least pretend that our framers founding laws were not gutted and neutered by the Patriot Act.
Only seems fair, I mean, Dictators pick the targets, politicians vote in the dictator's laws, then they bill us. What is that? It's time we fix the mistake that we made in 2000. We need to cash in that blank check that was written for Mr. Bush after September 11th. I really wished I would've paid attention to that psychic.