April 13, 2008
Eva Knapp
... I do know that silence in our country today poses a very real threat to our democracy. Waging wars of aggression, violating international laws and treaties, secret prisons, torture, a president declaring himself above the law, illegal wire tapping, denial of habeas corpus, mercenaries on our streets, arresting and "disappearing" citizens - all sound more like fascism than democracy ...
The president has morphed into a buffoon; our soldiers are trapped in a $3 trillion quagmire; crises are worsening in the Middle East; war profiteering has become a lawless enterprise; working Americans are facing economic disaster as jobs go overseas and wealth trickles up; the national debt is approaching $10 trillion; and our civil liberties and human rights are being steadily stripped away ...
The question is: who's going to challenge their policies of aggression and empire? Who's going to demand fidelity to the Constitution, accountability to the people and balance of power in government? Certainly not our invertebrate Congress or the "unitary executive" ideologues on the Supreme Court.
We're it! ...
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