Letter: Fight against tyranny must start in White House

Editor,

For 230 years, hundreds of thousands of Americans have died defending the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. These rights are about to be taken away, not by the terrorists, but by our own government. Americans are too stupid, lazy and cowardly to stop it.

It has been more than five years since Sept. 11, 2001. If President George Bush hadn't given himself authority for his illegal, secret programs, Congress wouldn't have to define torture and rape. If Bush hadn't ignored terrorist warnings, there wouldn't have been the worst attack on U.S. soil in history.

Bush is about to sign a new law that gives him the authority to designate legal American citizens as illegal enemy combatants who "purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the U.S." It also gives him the authority to search Americans without a warrant, to arrest Americans without charges, to execute Americans without a trial and to torture Americans. We no longer live in the land of the free.

Where are the Democrats? Were they afraid to filibuster this tyrannical bill because Bush would say they're soft on terror? I say throw them all out.

Last week, Bush said that war critics embrace the terrorist propaganda. Aren't the U.S. military and government conducting propaganda campaigns on the U.S. home audience? Didn't the U.S. military and government lie to start a war of conquest? Did they send enough troops to win?

The troops are never coming home, not until the end of time. Rigged elections are now irrelevant. Only direct citizen action will save the U.S.

Bush has a new public relations term for terrorists. He calls them "haters of humanity."

The definition of terror is the use of fear or violence for political gain. That would make Bush the world's No. 1 terrorist.

Whatever happened to Bush's global, democratic, color-coded revolutions and to the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world? I say we take Bush up on it and bring the entire U.S. government and corporate media to justice.

Brian Fejer

UNM student