| My question is, what's so surprising about this?? Congress has abdicated it's responsibility to declare war and allowed the president to unilaterally invade a sovereign nation, SCOTUS has remained silent in the face of a president that condones torture, abolishes habeas corpus, rules by executive order and signing statements, and routinely violates the protections guaranteed us by the Bill of Rights.
The decline of any civilization will always cause the elite power holders to use every means to maintain their position and status. Our current crop of "public servants" (snicker) are going to do everything in their power towards those ends.
"Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied." - Leonard Cohen |