With the Protect America Act, Bush and his brownshirts are trying to establish the independence of the executive branch from statutory law and the Constitution.  The FISA law means that the president is accountable to federal judges for warrants.  Bush and the brownshirt Republicans are striving to make the president independent of all accountability.  The brownshirts insist that the leader knows best and can tolerate no interference from the law, the judiciary, the Congress, or the Constitution, and certainly not from the American people who, the brownshirts tell us, wont be safe unless Bush is very powerful.

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