Wetlands, Wetbacks and the W

Bush, Bush, Bush. Wonderous buffoon, or harbinger of the authoritarian state to come?

First, his Supreme court reeks of men hell-bent to remove as much power from the people and from their duly elected officials as possible, first by chipping away at the whole concept of civil rights, then by subordinating those rights to business interests in the name of imminent domain, and further by reducing avenues for redress of grievences. Like Basques stripped of treaty rights because they have no official flag, American citizens are being stripped of their basic rights because they have no dedicated lobbyists.

The Supreme court no longer doles out justice or clarification of the Constitution; the Bush court now deals out one continuous end-run around due-process. But that does not seem to matter because AMericans seem to be more fascinated by Britney Spears' red-neckin' ways than by what the an authoritarian future might mean for them.

Then there is the conundrum of the Wetback. Some of you readers have sent messages asking my opinion about the frontier wars. How ironic that only now, when Bush needs his party to pass his beloved guest-worker legislation, is the DHS stepping up raids and threatening to penalize business. Where was Bush after the failed Vidalia onion raids, or the failed Nebraska meatpacking raids, or the failed Maryland restaurant raids? Wal-Mart had the deep pockets to pay the fines, but what about small business operators?

Please people, take notes: When a State enters into an age of intolerance, the People who are "foreign", have bad reputations, or who attempt to collude to disobey intolerant laws, will suffer the disasterous consequences. Such a collision (intolerance and fear of the Other) always leads to certain disaster. History is filled with these stories. Please, lets not add to that list.

Tags:   Bush, Cheney, Intolerance

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Posted on 6/21/2006 ( Permanent Link )
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