Rare press coverage of Bush administration lawlessness, as policy, in some depth

[solarbird]

This American Life is talking about the Bush Administration's "unitary executive" authoritarian theories and policies, including the unilateral discarding of long-established treaties, ignoring and overriding of law, and so on. They're intentionally and specifically ignoring the big issues (tho' to their credit, they specifically, if briefly, talk about how the administration decided torture was okay, law be damned), showing instead how far down this hideousness goes. The first segment was about a 100-year-old international boundary clearing commission, and the raw politicisation and firing of the American half of the commission because they refused to bow to Mr. Bush and insisted upon actually engaging in their jobs.

The podcast is here, or will be in short order - once it finishes airing. If you're on Alaska or Hawai'i time, or if your NPR station delays broadcast, you could still catch it over the air.

Comments

[kvogel.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. Orwellian scary madness.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna do the reverse of pick a nit. Thanks for spelling Hawai'i as close to correctly as a "normal" keyboard allows. So many folks forget that; a bazillion others aren't even aware that the language is in fact quite different...

It's basic consideration and politeness and it's good to see it practiced. Mahalo.

[uniquecrash5.livejournal.com]

Freaky stuff... the mindset is just kinda scary. "We should be focus efforts on... ummm.. deporting widows! Yeah!"

The music as the end of the podcast is what really makes it for me though.

[solarbird]

I didn't listen to the podcast, and I don't remember the music from the end of the show - what was it?

[uniquecrash5.livejournal.com]

I wish I knew! Funky little punk song about being selfish, heh. I looked around and tried to find out but to no avail. :(