Monday, March 21, 2005

Stooge has sprung

From road to surfdom - An intervention for the Bush intoxicated;

The current mantra of the Bush loyalists is that war sceptics will not give any credit for developments in the ME because that would involve praising the "hated" George W. Bush. Well, right back at ya. The pro-war crowd refuse to acknowledge what is happening right under their own noses--from lying about casus belli, to violations of civil rights at Guantanamo Bay, to torture at Abu Ghraib--because that would involve criticising Dear Leader. And really, is there anything less democratic than a bunch of apologists who not only utterly refuse to concede fault in their designated hero but also spend most their time trying to silence those who do dare to criticise him?

We have this type here, too. F*ckin' idiot sycophants are the enemy within.

Mostly harmless, until...

A bell rings: One of the more disturbing items in this morning's news is a report that not only are police pushing for special inquisitorial courts with reduced standards of proof for the trial of terrorism suspects, but that apparently the only objection our highly principled Amnesty International member Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock has to the idea is a budgetary one!!

From Ken Parish's post at Troppo Armadillo.

Same chap, same place, a post on the 'constitutional dimensions'.