BUSH ANTAGONISTIC TOWARD JUSTICE (as always)

Pretty much from day one, any time the word "investigation" comes up, Bush is against it. From the minute he took power, there were calls for investigations into what went wrong in the 2000 elections. He was against them. God forbid we should remove all doubt that he was the guy America actually wanted in the White House. After 911, one of the first things Bush said was that we should watch out for revisionist historians and conspiracy theorist who would try to redefine what happened on 911. In other words, anyone who differs from the official story was wrong to do so. This is Bush being antagonistic toward critical thinking and anything resembling an investigation on 911. Sure, they had an investigation, the point is that Bush was against it. There was an investigation into how to fix things in Iraq. The report from that Bush mostly ignored. Now, Bush is telling the Dems in the House and Senate to lick him regarding the subpoenas they're going to issue to his staff in the investigation into the firing of federal prosecutors for political reasons. Check out this cutting from [http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6496528,00.html|a March 21, 2007 article] from AP.org available at http://Guardian.co.uk :

A defiant President Bush warned Democrats Tuesday to accept his offer to have top aides speak about the firings of federal prosecutors only privately and not under oath, or risk a constitutional showdown from which he would not back down. Democrats' response was swift and firm: They said they would start authorizing subpoenas as soon as Wednesday for the White House aides. ``Testimony should be on the record and under oath. That's the formula for true accountability,'' said Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Bush, in a late-afternoon statement at the White House, said he would fight any subpoena effort in court. ``We will not go along with a partisan fishing expedition aimed at honorable public servants,'' he said. ``It will be regrettable if they choose to head down the partisan road of issuing subpoenas and demanding show trials when I have agreed to make key White House officials and documents available.''

Now, I think this whole "federal prosecutor firing" thing is a distraction from all of the other ways Bush has betrayed the public trust (a perfectly impeachable offense). However, this investigation is useful in showing off Bush's need to discourage critical thinking and any sort of investigating. The man seems to be convinced that we'll eventually learn something that will be so horrible he'll be run out of office by a horde of screaming citizens with pitch forks and torches. Of course, we should consider the oft-used excuse for why we citizens shouldn't worry about added invasions into our privacy. We are told that if we have nothing to hide we should have nothing to worry about. If they're going to use that argument on us, why can't we use it on them? Come on, Bush. If you've nothing to hide, what are you scared of?

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