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	12/30/2005

Kook Update

Getting a little more dangerous these days to be a State Coordinator of the John Birch Society, especially when the home office is putting out stuff like:

"A president, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be a leader of a free people."

If we keep this up some people might start thinking we're a bunch of kooks!

A little more to ponder:

" 'A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.'

So declared George W. Bush in July 2001, just weeks prior to 9/11. This was at least the third occasion on which Mr. Bush spoke wistfully, in public and on the record, about exercising dictatorial powers.

Once would be a lame joke; twice, a symptom of a seriously impaired sense of humor. Three times, however, is suggestive of seriously malevolent intentions. In our system of government, which remains in form, if not in practice, a constitutional republic, chief executives simply do not joke about dictatorial ambitions.

Here's a useful parallel. It is a serious federal offense even to joke about wanting to kill the President of the United States. Doing so even one time is sufficient to provoke a visit from the Secret Service. Were someone to do so three times, he would almost certainly face prosecution, as well as an invasive psychological evaluation.

Shouldn't it be considered just as grave an offense for a president, who swore an oath in God's name to uphold our Constitution, to make jokes about murdering our republic in order to erect a dictatorship?"

11:12:22 PM

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