Saturday January 27, 2007, 2:10 pm
It may be January of 2007 when we write this updated commentary on Vincent Bugliosi's indictment of the Supreme Court coup leaders, which Molly Ivins (now seriously ill with a relapse of cancer) called the "J'Accuse" of the new millenium, but we are not getting over it.

How can you get over a man who lost a presidential election by more than 540,000 votes acting like a dictator for six years -- and doing everything in his power to build the institutional constructs of fascism?

As a Washington Post columnist (Andrew Cohen) noted on January 26: "Over the past few years, whenever the White House has seen or sensed trouble looming for its most controversial and tenuous positions in the legal war on terrorism, it has suddenly changed course, altered the playing field, or unilaterally declared itself beyond the purview of the prevailing rule of law. No legal defeats for this administration, no explicit concession of limits on its authority, just a series of tactical or strategic retreats that allow it to show to the world a visage of supreme executive branch power-- while at the same time allowing it at some future date to advance the same losing arguments. And all of it is done in secret, under the cloak of national security, so as to hide not just true secrets but embarrassing facts and legal opinions."

There are terrorists in the world, but Bush and Cheney are not conducting a war against terrorism. They are conducting a war on democracy, a war against the will of the American people, a war against the truth.

In a January 26, 2007, Associated Press article, Nino "The Fixer" Scalia is quoted as dismissing those who believe democracy was stolen. "It's water over the deck — get over it," Scalia said on January 23, 2007.

Several years ago, BuzzFlash offered Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi's vital legal critique of the Supreme Court action that gave birth to this Bastard regime. We also interviewed Bugliosi, who -- interestingly enough -- was the lead prosecutor in the Charles Manson case.

Now, with the ongoing runaway administration steaming ahead toward Armageddon, it is important to read this book to remember that all of this current horror and destruction of democracy came about as the result of a partisan crime sanctioned by 5 members of America's top court.

It is both fitting and appropriate that the felonious Supreme Court five grace the cover of "The Betrayal of America" in the form of mugshots.

But we were the ones mugged by their theft of democracy.

Bugliosi dissects what the felonious five did and decides that if there were justice, they what they accomplished was the biggest heist in American history.

Since that time, we as a nation founded on Constitutional principles -- and the world -- have suffered grievously.

It is time to revisit the scene of the crime -- and Vincet Bugliosi serves as a legally incisive, impassioned guide through the mugging of democracy and the birth of a regime of insidious, carefully calculated tyranny.

Saturday January 27, 2007, 2:15 pm
That's a book I WANT to read. I want to see how criminal they really are.

Sunday January 28, 2007, 12:42 pm
Copy that!

Sunday January 28, 2007, 2:15 pm
it's easy for people who have benefitted from this regime to say "get over it". Tell that to the families of soldiers who have died in Iraq.....

Monday January 29, 2007, 5:15 am
Ditto - and - Ditto

Monday January 29, 2007, 8:46 am

Do you kiss your mother with that mouth? Move on if you don't care for the post.

You joined because you were paid to come in and disrupt. Must stink earning a living this way. Get a real job! It would help if you actually knew something about politics, but we all see you DO NOT!

PEACE

Monday January 29, 2007, 10:03 am
I write the following for those few, sad republican lurkers out there who are resorting to such tactics, as they see their murderous ideology crumble:

We will not be silenced. You do not frighten us- every time you spew your childish, impotent threats at us, we will redouble our efforts. You and your kind have held sway over our beloved nation for the past six years, but your time is coming to an end. You are not strong, nor courageous, nor even remotely human, as you engage in the tactics of klansmen and brownshirts of eras past- rather, you are casting about yourself, like wounded animals- you would be pitiable, if you were not so vile.

Long after you have been relegated to the ashbin of history, we'll still be here- do you know why? Because, as Martin Luther King said:

"The arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice."

Monday January 29, 2007, 10:20 am
Yes "Ken Starr" is definately a 'virus'. You just have to 'block' it whenever it shows up Patt...it is trying obviously to divert from the much needed news you so graciously post. Too bad thes viruses sneak in huh?
Thankyou for another great post.

Monday January 29, 2007, 10:30 am
Thanks, Anita, and everyone, for all the greenstars, the testimonials, the commentaries and the support and encouragement!

Tuesday January 30, 2007, 4:08 am
Congrats Patt H. for bringing this article to our attention-it should be mandatory reading in law schools (alongside the late Col. Prouty's book JFK).

I do have one gripe though-albeit not of the book.
It is this:
Although it's a deeply held belief by members of the media, various pundits and commentators, by elected officials, and various authors writing on politics, and by the general public, everyone seems to extol the notion that somehow US americans-contrary to actual fact-suffered a loss of democracy.
Historically speaking, the US Republic has never been a democracy! I don't want to take away from the importance of Bugliosi's Book, but it really bugs me whenever the subject is US politics, invariably someone will lament the "loss of democracy." This is appalling, the paucity of comprehension and ignorance by both representatives like the unelected Bush adn ilk, and the general public on the type of political system that's been in situ since the founding of the Republic.

Tuesday January 30, 2007, 4:17 am
Oh I forgot to mention that from day 1 I've considered the BushJunta to be the REAL TERRORISTS of the world!

Sunday April 22, 2007, 5:14 pm
copy that.

Monday April 23, 2007, 1:48 am
Yan K.

Do you always make accusations without naming names; who are you referring to?