Heil, you Dick!

Old news in a new wrapper, and ultimately unsurprising, though frightful as hell:

Dick Cheney had no use for the Constitution of the United States when he was running the White House during the Bush Administration.

We've known that for years. The MSM has known that for years. But the MSM, fearful of losing "access" to the White House Lie Machine, and compromised by their corporate masters, let Dick Cheney get away with perfecting his anti-Constitutional agenda!

Heil, Dick!


The latest example comes from a NY Times article which reported Cheney, using a self-justifying DOJ memo from the nogoodniks, John Yoo and Robert Delahunty, pushed hard to use United States military forces "to arrest and detain American citizens, inside the U.S., who were suspected of involvement with al Qaeda."

Glenn Greenwald gives all the rotten details in a detail article at Salon.com.

Greenwald notes that "this October 23 Memo was one of the most significant events in American politics in the last several decades, because it explicitly declared the U.S. Constitution -- the Bill of Rights -- inoperative inside the U.S., as applied to U.S. citizens."


Although Cheney pushed hard for using of the military against American citizens, he was ultimately overruled by Bush. It is doubtful that George Jr. knew what the Constitution says about this or cared, but being first and foremost a political animal, he determined it would cause too much of an uproar and might lead to further investigations into the criminality of his administration.

Over the past eight years, while the MSM has been kissing the asses of the Bushites, many people in the blogosphere have been crying that a dictatorship is just a stroke of the pen away and that under Bush/Cheney we came closer to a full-fledged dictatorship than at any time in our history. The Bush/Cheney administration not only had no respect for the Constitution and laws of our country, but contrived over and over again to circumvent both!

Please read Greenwald's article here for a detailed and reasoned argument as to why we cannot allow this to happen again; under Obama or anyone else!