The True Fourth of July for 2006

The theme of these years True Fourth Of July can be summed up in one word...IMPEACHMENT.

It is The considered opinion of this author, that it is more than a little likely that within a generation or two, the United States will cease to be a recognizable democracy. So deep are the divisions of race and class and religion, so single minded our double-headed foreign policy towards oil and Israel, so obsessed with security and the false Piety of spreading democracy, so unyielding our war posture towards the world in general and the middle east in particular, that before the middle of this century, unless there is some great change in our collective thinking, the united states will collapse as a democratic society from the weight of imperial ambitions abroad and deep divisions at home.

And while you may say that the end of America has been foretold before,

it is none the less true that America will know her demise more likely from within than without through the doctrines of hatred and disrespect

which undergurd American attitudes to the "outsider" and those who are different.

One of the defining areas of the American experience from which we can draw clues to our impending future is quantonimo Bay.

Quantonimo Bay

The very emblem of our nation disgrace, gitmo as it has come to be know

has been denounced by legal scholars, civil rights activist, clergymen,

Our European allies, protestors around the globe and ordinary citizens here in the US.

Bearing all the marks of an illegal gulag and legal black hole, the gitmo facility is the product of small minded, arrogant men who felt them selves to be above the law. Worse, the Bush Administration felt that the special circumstances of 9/11 were a golden opportunity to thumb their noses at civil society and the rule of law.

The truth is the rule of international law extends everywhere, to secret prisons, to gitmo and to the oval office.