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Bush's War on the Bill of Rights
(Anthony Gregory, LewRockwell.com, May 14, 2004)
In my first LewRockwell.com article, "Are Current Bill of Rights Erosions Unprecedented?" I argued that the Bush administration's attacks on the Bill of Rights, egregious as they are, do indeed have their precedents in history. I never meant to defend Bush on this basis, but merely to give historical perspective. I stand by what I said. Bush, bad as he is, has not violated the Constitution any worse than Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon or Harry Truman, and not as badly as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, or Abraham Lincoln. Nevertheless, Bush did swear an oath to uphold the Constitution, and he has shirked that duty considerably. We should not hold him to the standard of past American tyrants, but rather to the finest of America's founding principles. It is useful, though perhaps depressing, to see the many ways in which president Bush has trashed the most noble and inspiring of all attempts to limit government through law, the Bill of Rights. Even as he advocates a new amendment to the Constitution to set national standards on marriage, the most important amendments already in place have each fallen prey to the ravages of his government.
[COMMENT] ***** What follows in the original article are the 10 Amendments of the Constitution and and explanation of how Bush the Lesser has thumbed his nose at them. They are more emphatic when seen as a whole rather than the piece by piece occurances over the past 3.5 years...*****

posted by An Old Curmudgeon 6:08 PM