This little gem flitted across my feed reader a moment ago and made me completely speechless. I don’t even know what to say. I know how the mainstream media missed it – they miss quite a bit these days, being so busy puckering up for the Presidential Ass. I must say I’m surprised it hasn’t been burning up more of the blogosphere and “citizen journalist” sites. What is this news item that has me so floored? A sneaky little thing that just passed, the National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive.
In this directive, Bush declares that in the event of a “Catastrophic Emergency” the President will be entrusted with leading the activities to ensure constitutional government. The language in this directive would in effect make the President a dictator in the case of such an emergency.
I would comment further on this, but my head hurts just thinking about it. What do you think? Let me know in the comments.
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May 22, 2007 at 6:42 am |
I assume that would be over the USA, and not necessarily the whole world, right?
While I’m not one to bash Bush (I figure that he’s doing the best he can – whether that’s good enough… that’s a different debate), that thought kind of scares me.
Also, who decides what a “catastrophic emergency” is?