Top US Lawyer: Bush Directive Enables Unitary King George & Election Suspension

Top US lawyer Professor Marjorie Cohn warns that Bush's recent May 9 2007 directive could enable him to suspend elections in a "national emergency", rule as Fuhrer and prevent a successor Administration.

Professor Marjorie Cohn is at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, president of the National Lawyers Guild, and the US representative to the executive committee of the American Association of Jurists. Her new book, Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law, will be published in 2007.

KEY QUOTES from Professor Cohn: "unconstitutional bombshell that went virtually unnoticed by the corporate media ...The National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive, signed on May 9, 2007, would place all governmental power in the hands of the President and effectively abolish the checks and balances in the Constitution. If a "catastrophic emergency" - which could include a terrorist attack or a natural disaster - occurs, Bush's new directive says: "The President shall lead the activities of the Federal Government for ensuring constitutional government... What if, heaven forbid, some sort of catastrophic event were to occur just before the 2008 election? Bush could use this directive to suspend the election. This administration has gone to great lengths to remain in Iraq. It has built huge permanent military bases and pushed to privatize Iraq's oil. Bush and Cheney may be unwilling to relinquish power to a successor administration."

Comment: Is Mainstream media compliance, Bush-ite spin and public apathy leading America to Nazi-style dictatorship by the Oil-, Arms- and Racist Zionist-backed Bush, the World's number 1 terrorist? Could others e.g. the extreme right wing, warmongering climate criminal Bush-ite Australian Government, follow suit?