If I were an American, jesus, if I were a citizen of civilisation, I would be looking at the executive orders that have been made by George W. Bush.
Americans no longer have the ancient right to Habeus Corpus (to know why you are being arrested/detained/tortured)
Bush can declare martial law for anything that he alone considers worthy.
The power has been stripped from the American judicial and legislative systems, put into executive offices, and people who are appointed, not elected.
For Vulcan's sake, all the moves have been made. One more "terrrrrrrr attack" and goodbye to "business as usual".
I often think if I ever want to go into the states or not, I'm afraid I'd never be allowed back out!
I do hate to admit it, but there are some valid points there. Where Bush should've been rolling back government power, as he promised during his election campaign, he has expanded government power even further, something you Canadians should be a bit familiar with in your own land. In doing that Bush joined the long and hallowed tradition of expanding government power started by FDR and carried on by virtually every president since. Even sadder still is that fact that while the opposition will complain about that expansion while out of power, they never to meaningfully scale back that expansion when they get into power.
If Hillary comes to power, it'll be interesting to see what happens. After all, we are talking about the folks who saw nothing wrong with using the IRS as their own private little gestapo to attack their political opponents, nor killing dozens of kids in the name of Government power at Waco, Texas.
Forscher