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During the term of Bush the First, Congressman Henry Gonzalez of Texas lamented at how much the USA was beginning to resemble Rome. He said:

The Caesars weren't tyrannical. They were guys who wanted to be loved, like the president. But they exercised power unrestrained by a Constitution, just like the president.

When the president can bomb a foreign leader who's unpopular, we no longer have a constitutional democracy. If a president can do what Reagan did in Lebanon and Grenada and Nicaragua and Libya and what Bush did in Panama, we don't have a constitutional democracy. I'm still in kind of a daze. We have learned nothing. It demoralizes me. Makes me, not sad, but sick of heart. It's too great a country to go by default.

We have so traduced democracy, cut off the participatory side, that the people don't see any point. I find that the people can see through things. The people are there. But what can they do? When they have no choice between the two parties, no real choice between the overwhelming preponderance of candidates?

[COMMENT: Here are two things we can do if we have the will for it: 1) On the day after Bush the Second steals another election there should be a GENERAL STRIKE! ... and 2) The General Strike should be to support a new CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION to redraw the Constitution of the United States of America so as to take power out of the hands of corporations and place it back into the hands of We The People.

posted by LoZo 2:21 PM