http://www.metafilter.com/tags/bush_fascism Posts tagged with 'bush_fascism' at MetaFilter. Fri, 06 Jan 2006 07:54:08 -0800 Fri, 06 Jan 2006 07:54:08 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/48062/american%2Dfascism <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060109/schell">The Hidden State Steps Forward</a> by (infamous Nation author) Jonathan Schell. A quote says it best: <i> The danger is not abstract or merely symbolic. Bush's abuses of presidential power are the most extensive in American history. <a href="http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/38/11222">He has launched an aggressive war ("war of choice," in today's euphemism) on false grounds.</a> <a href="http://www.discourse.net/archives/2004/06/olcs_aug_1_2002_torture_memo_the_bybee_memo.html">He has presided over a system of torture and sought to legitimize it by specious definitions of the word.</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Padilla_%28alleged_terrorist%29">He has asserted a wholesale right to lock up American citizens</a> and <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20060104-13241900-bc-us-guantanamo.xml">others indefinitely without any legal showing or the right to see a lawyer or anyone else.</a> He has <a href="http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/03/28/usint10379.htm">kidnapped people in foreign countries</a> and <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0811/dailyUpdate.html">sent them to other countries</a>, where they were <a href="http://www.sptimes.com/2003/11/16/Columns/Delivering_people_int.shtml">tortured.</a></i> tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.48062 Fri, 06 Jan 2006 07:54:08 -0800 bush bush_fascism fascism taumeson