There's not much time left, you know

No, there's not much time left, between now and January 20, 2009, when this administration is no longer with us. It's too much time, though, we're finding out, because these people are really trying to dismantle the environmental and constitutional protections that are already in place.

What am I talking about, beyond my entry a few days ago, when I showed how they were trying to take apart the Endangered Species Act?

Yesterday it was announced that the FBI, via Attorney General Michael Mukasey, is planning on getting rid of rules that were put in place after the Republican Watergate nightmare. Yeah. They want to make it easier yet for the FBI to spy on us, the American public.

Once again, unbelievable. Truly unbelievable.

They've already taken down so many protections that used to be in the Constitution, to protect the American people from the government and now they want more.

Remember Nixon's "enemies list"? That's what these post-Watergate rules were created to protect the country from, for pity's sake. AND THEY WANT TO TAKE THOSE DOWN.

For a refresher course on Tricky Dick's list, it included many, prominent US citizens. Several of them were senators, big-name media people (like Dan Schorr, for God's sake), a governor, the mayor of New York at the time, Union leaders, celebrities--Carol Channing, of all people--business people, heads of corporations, and more. For a complete list, go to this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_list_of_Nixon_political_opponents.
It's a real hoot.

Ol' Dick (Cheney, this time) must be dying to go after what he--or they--see as "enemies of the White House", ya' think?

In so many ways and on so many different spheres, it seems that we, as a country, as a people, don't learn our lessons from our actions, or preemptively, from history.

(For more information and the original story, go here:
http://www.truthout.org/article/fbi-get-freer-rein-gather-domestic-information)

No surprise--with the fox guarding the chicken coop

Mukasey: No prosecutions in Justice Dept. hiring scandal

He "used his sharpest words yet to criticize the senior leaders who took part in or failed to stop illegal hiring practices during the tenure of his predecessor, Alberto Gonzales."

Gosh.

Laws were broken, sure, and the constitution was trampled on, once more, by these clowns but, hey, no big thing, right? Just get back to breaking our justice system--I mean, to your work. Get back to your jobs.

Get a load of this quote, from AG Mukasey: "Not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime."

Whah?

What did he say?

Not every violation of the law is a crime?

I thought that was the EXACT definition of a crime--a violation of the law.

Oh, yeah. I get it. Not every violation of the law THAT THEY COMMIT is a crime.

Sure. I see that.

It's the way they operate in this Bush Administration.

Boy, when the Bushies went looking for a lapdog to head the Justice Department, they sure found it in Mukasey, in spite of Congress' best intention.

Original article here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080812/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/mukasey_lawyers