You write like a Bush/Karl Rove fanboi, so I'll go straight to the heart of your arguments.
I refer you to Wired magazine and Slashdot.org for references in regards to the egregious errors of the Bush Administration and the wiretapping done *without a warrant* on
ALL US Internet traffic after 9/11. Provisions be damned - they were executed without a warrant in violation of the 4th Amendment and how the information was actually used seems to be something that we are unable to get a straight answer about!
I design and build global data networks for a living - mostly in scary, @#$%ty hellholes like Haiti, Iraq and, now, DC - so when it comes to traffic engineering for data, voice, and video I *do* know what I am talking about; the rerouting all of the Internet traffic through San Francisco so it could be copied sure did violate our 4th Amendment rights. The recent bill that basically excuses the behavior of the telcos - and gives them a pass in the future to do it again - was easily the biggest slap in the face to the Amercian public in 35 years.
I was correct on the Bush Administrations attempt to suspend Habeus Corpus;
the Bush Administration has made it so that *any* US citizen can be declared an enemy combatant and held indefinitely.. The outcome of this is chilling and we need to consider that if Obama comes to power that he could declare any of us 'enemy combatants' and held indefinitely without trial. The issue isn't what's today in law but how it could be used against us in the future. Think very, very hard about a scenario where the President or his designate declares the NRA, GOA, and VCDL 'terrorist organizations' and thier members 'enemy combatants'. Won't happen? Too extreme? History says that we can imprison our own citizens soley based on their national or racial origins much less any actual proof of participation in a terrorist act.
The statement that because of GWOT we're safe is a logical fallacy. We don't know for sure if that is true - we had over 45 years without an attack on US soil
without the jackboots of DHS - invading Iraq sure has pissed off more Muslims than it has made allies. 9/11 in and of itself forced the US intel community to reassess it's priorities and raised our own awarenessof the actual threat and that more than anything else has prevented terrorists from getting off of the x.
The Bush family has a long history of hostility toward 2A. Bush had his Attorney General file
in support of DC in the Heller case!
As far as Bush Senior goes, he said in his NWO speech
Now, we can see a new world coming into view. A world in which there is the very real prospect of a new world order. In the words of Winston Churchill, a "world order" in which "the principles of justice and fair play ... protect the weak against the strong ..." A world where the United Nations, freed from cold war stalemate, is poised to fulfil the historic vision of its founders
