three wishes

I just wrote this as a bulletin for Myspace and thought I'd post it here too. Why not...

So, the president of the United States of America has decided that he knows best and removed the judiciary from the rights-sensitive activity of wire-tapping. After all, who needs a judge to rubber stamp a presidential request to spy on Americans? Bah! Dubya is King President and no old fart in a silly black robe is gonna get in his way! Come to think of it, who needs the Congress either? Bush is the kind of go-getter to create his own laws, even if it means needlessly overriding one that did the same exact thing, just with a little judicial oversight (again, the silly black robes thing). Pfft, for that matter, who needs the Constitution, especially that ridiculous Bill of "Rights". Right?

His defense is that we should trust him. Hey, I can go for that, when has he ever lied before? When has he ever usurped authority that wasn't his or defined language so it's convenient to his own purposes? I can't think of any. A man of such integrity can always be trusted completely.

...It shouldn't surprise us, he told us his intentions at least three times before...

"You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier." -- Governing Magazine July 1998

"I told all four that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator," -- CNN December 2000 (transcript here

"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it" -- Business Week July 2001 (transcript here












note to the NSA (I know you're reading this): I didn't mean any disrespect, please don't render me