June 11, 2004, Soo Prahz Soo Prahz
Now that former President Reagan is safely on his way back to the Left Coast for final interment, we can go back to where we left off: the continued meltdown of the Bush Administration, as we have Abu Ghraib revisited. It now appears that in the "few bad apples" shtick (that I'm pretty sure isn't working, even here) we have at least five different soldiers who attempted to go up the chain of command to protest the abuses at that prison/worthless military intelligence factory. This all started, oh, last fall, which would coincide with the consensus of the Red Cross, General Taguba and others as to when the really bad shit started there...
Interesting. It would mean that NCO's like Sergeant Sam Provance and others who chose to hold back and go directly to the press rather than up the clearly futile chain of command, kind of had the right idea... The military wasn't going to do anything about this in order to cover a few bad apples: a few bad apples in charge of the White House and Pentagon, and a few bad apples in the "legalized torture" working group, the signatory of their work product being one Jay S. Bynby, then of the Justice Department and now of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, where this proud signatory of a document the Third Reich would have been proud of now has a guaranteed lifetime job ruling on our laws (one other participant is also up for Circuit Court Judge).
I have likened this not the banality of evil, but something infinitely worse as I see it: the evil of banality. The generation of liberal rabble-rousers we have come to equate the sixties with were... interesting. They read and wrote interesting things, had interesting drug experiences, lived interesting lives... the current generation of Federalist Society automatons, by contrast-- are the opposite of interesting. Let's face it: their hero in the White House famously says he doesn't read anything (besides children's books, and perhaps comic books). This is NOT an isolated incident. We have a group of people who have surrounded him to staff the imperium who... aren't very interested in anything... except power. Hence-- an antiseptic, lengthy, well-annotated document that can be produced... ostensibly stating that the President of the United States in an "emergency" (which presumaby he can decide upon) has unencumbered "intrinsic" dictatorial powers.
Um... no. No, he doesn't, and only three Supreme Court justices would support the proposition that he did (btw, one of whom-- the affirmative action hire who hsa devoted his life to making sure no one else gets the benefits he did-- used to work for "St." John Danforth, Reagan funeral presider, former Missouri Senator, and future United States representative to the United Nations). That means, by a 6-3 vote of the Supreme Court, the President of the United States is not an elected dictator. You heard it hear. The margin may be wider when the Padilla and Hamdi cases come down-- we'll see.
Oh well. The king is dead. Long live the king. Now, we'll go back to our regularly scheduled meltdown.
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