TPM Muckraker has garnered opinions from various lawyers and civil liberties types (and a fat lot of good they’ve done us so far) who say that the Presidential directive I blogged about. the one that givies supreme power to Bush follwing any catastrophic incident at home or abroad (as defined by guess who, Bush.) is nothing to worry about. Nothing to see here, move along, you’re all a bunch of paranoids, calm down.
And I’m Marie of Rumania.
What’s important are the secret annexes to the order, the ones that are classified, the ones no-one’s allowed to see. These secret annexes:
23) Annex A and the classified Continuity Annexes, attached hereto, are hereby incorporated into and made a part of this directive.
But of course they’re not hereto attached.
Who knows what they actually say, but in the light of Bushco’s ongoing power grab I have a pretty good guess. Halliburton didn’t get that open-ended domestic detention centre contract for nuthin’.
Typical bloody soft centrists though, to assign benign motives to a president whose every action in office has been the very opposite of benign.
Did it not even occur to these experts to ask themselves, if they are still of the opinion that the order changes nothing: why now? Why issue it at all?
It’s all in the secret annexes, dummies. And we won’t see those until the Deciderer decides to decide he’s the Dictator (cue the manufactured attack by Iran) or Cheney executes his domestic coup, whichever comes soonest.
[Added to later because I thought it was skimpy]
