George W. Bush Reaching for Dictatorship?
Bruce Schneier may overshoot his target every now and then, but he summarizes the Bush administration’s actions in a very tought-provoking way in his blog entry “The Security Threat of Unchecked Presidential Power”. Read it, but keep a critical mindset.
A couple of selected quotes:
If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so
long as I’m the dictator.
—George W. Bush, December 18, 2000
In the weeks after 9/11, while America and the world were grieving,
Bush built a legal rationale for a dictatorship. Then he immediately
started using it to avoid the law.
—Bruce Schneier