The European Union’s parliament is fuming.  The Brits are screaming (for Blair to step down.)  And here we sit.  Congress isn’t even whispering - politicizing, yes, but fuming or screaming that the man and his administration seemingly determined to return the world to the stone age, the guy responsible for the fuming and screaming is apparently perfectly acceptable to us?

Where is OUR outrage? At the least, where is the “check” that we pay such fond lip service to.  Did some Congressional committee in the dead of night amend it out of the Constitution?

Is it going to take the mighty force of the American people marching on Washington to save the world.  The world’s watching.

In December of 2005 ABC news reported that the secret prisons have been in existence since March 2002.

Were the secret prisons created for this anti terrorism activity by President Bush?  or were the secret prisons in place prior to his election?

Lie down with dog; get fleas.

We’re talking REAL fear now.

Fear amongst the Bushies and Neocons of doing hard time for high crimes and misdemeanors ... that unless they can get a retroactive “Get Out Jail Free” card from Congress, they are in deep, deep do-do.

Does anyone think they would change course so radically if the recent Supreme Court decision hadn’t put the fear of prison in ‘em up front and personal?

And it’s like the CIA is telling us for each bit of information extracted from the current set of “detainees” we have lost an exponential amount of potential information because of becoming the moral (and legal) pariah of the world.

The Bushies don’t have a clue about what they have done, because they have NEVER had to operate in the real world of human interaction ... they have always been protected from failure by loyal ass-kissers. Well, they’ve overreached the ability of the camp-followers to bail them out this time ... and we all are paying the price.

Replace competence with loyalty as the hallmark of success and you have what? feudalism?