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by Paul Craig Roberts

01/28/08

Thanks to a government that has turned its back on the US Constitution, Americans now have an unaccountable Department of Homeland Security that is already asserting tyrannical powers over US citizens and state governments. Headed by the neocon fanatic Michael Chertoff, the Orwellian-sounding Department of Homeland Security has mandated a national identity card for Americans, without which Americans may not enter airports or courthouses.There is no more need for this card than there is for a Department of Homeland Security. Neither are compatible with a free society …. Bush can do whatever he wants, because Congress has taken its only remaining power–impeachment–off the table. …. The Democrats are not adverse to inheriting the powers in Bush’s precedents. The Democrats, of course, will use the elevated powers for good rather than for evil. Instead of having a bad dictator, we’ll have a good one...

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