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Bush’s Absolute Power Grab

Republished from Consortium News
Editor’s Note: Many Americans are in denial about what is happening to the United States. They don’t want to believe that a totalitarian structure could be put in place in their own country. They don’t want to view the various pieces of George W. Bush’s “anti-terror” system in that broad a context. They hope that someone or something — the Supreme Court maybe — will strike down the excesses of the Republican-controlled Congress and the Executive Branch.

Though there are still obstacles that stand in Bush’s way — the Nov. 7 elections, for instance — America’s march down a road to a new-age totalitarianism has advanced farther than many understand, as freelance reporter Carla Binion argues in this disturbing guest essay:

On October 17, George W. Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006.  This new law gives Bush power similar to that possessed by Stalin or Hitler, and grants agencies within the Executive Branch powers similar to those of the KGB or Gestapo.

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