TWILIGHT OF OUR DEMOCRACY

by Allen L Roland
OpEdNews
June 8, 2007 at 16:38:53

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become victims of the darkness." Justice William O. Douglas

I feel the erie twilight of oppression descending on America because we are just one "Major incident" away from Martial law and Bush assuming legal dictatorial rule over our Republic.

It is also seen in Dick Cheney's speech to the West Point graduating class on May 25th when Cheney said ~ " your first day of Army life, each of you raised your right hand and took and oath. And you will swear again today to defend the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That is your vow, that is the business you're in "

However, Dick ' the natural state of man is war ' Cheney once again got it wrong ~ for the Military vow is the same as the presidential vow and reads as such ~ I will support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

A constitution that both Bush and Cheney have openly ridiculed as being irrelevant in their ongoing War on Terror which is, in reality, a War of Terror.

And that is the important change in the air ~ which may well lead to the darkness of oppression. We have been systematically untethered from our Constitution by the Cheney/Bush administration and are in dire danger of falling into the abyss of Oppression.

The similarities with Germany in the late 1930's are freightening and ominous and we may be beyond the point of no return ~ particularly in light of Congress's recent blank check to Bush's illegal occupation of Iraq and recent surge.

James Rothenberg and Otto Hinckelmann take this a step further and make the case " that the invasion of Iraq took place without UN authorization (illegally according to Kofi Annan) and therefore was an outright act of aggression, the “supreme international crime,” the crime for which the Nazi defendants were condemned."

Excerpt: "The difference between the totalitarian ruler and the democratic ruler is that the totalitarian can dispense with legal pretense. The similarity is that both can always find legal experts who will inevitably determine that the law permits the Leader to do what he thinks he needs to do."