Executive Powers

[Echewta]

Pretty amazing if you look at the past 7 years with this admin. So much power brought to the Executive branch and now with the Treasury department to be given "sweeping powers," its seeming less like a democracy, as if we actually were one.

Horrible.

[kaiser soze]

bush said it best when he said

"If this were a dictatorship it would be a heck of alot easier....as long as I'm the dictator"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD3xfT0c99g

[yeahwho]

This is why in modern history Jerald terHorst, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerald_terHorst) President Ford's press secretary is one of America's unsung heroes. He resigned when Ford gave Nixon a pardon before criminal charges had been made against Mr. Nixon;

So it is with great regret, after long soul-searching, that I must inform you that I cannot in good conscience support your decision to pardon former President Nixon even before he has been charged with the commission of any crime. As your spokesman, I do not know how I could credibly defend that action in the absence of a like decision to grant absolute pardon to the young men who evaded Vietnam military service as a matter of conscience and the absence of pardons for former aides and associates of Mr. Nixon who have been charged with crimes - and imprisoned - stemming from the same Watergate situation. These are also men whose reputations and families have been grievously injured. Try as I can, it is impossible to conclude that the former President is more deserving of mercy than persons of lesser station in life whose offenses have had far less effect on our national wellbeing.

Full Resignation Letter (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1974_resignation_letter_of_Jerald_terHorst)

At least someone realized at that time accountability and credibility must be upheld. Ever since that pardon we've become more and more a nation of lemmings than a nation that demands representative democracy.

[SobaViolence]

not with a bang, but a whimper...

[alien autopsy]

stealing america.

[alien autopsy]

it used to be about raiding other countries to make america wealthy. Now it is about redistributing that wealth and consolidating power. then comes police state, fascism and hopefully, revolution.

[Echewta]

^good point.