Bush Continues Clinton Agenda
By Chuck Baldwin
June 21, 2002
Referring to President G. W. Bush's new Homeland Security department, former
President Bill Clinton told a gathering of Council on Foreign Relations members
last week, "We have been building this for a long time." For once,
Clinton told the truth. What he began constructing following the Oklahoma
City bombing, Bush has succeeded in bringing to fruition. America is about
to have its very own Gestapo.
If Al Gore were president today, Republicans in Congress would no doubt rise
in righteous indignation to quickly kill such a plan.
However, with a fellow Republican in the White House, all such opposition
has vanished. The bottom line is Bush is pursuing
Clinton's agenda and getting a free pass.
Consider this: Bush has already issued 57 executive orders and has already
created 47 new federal agencies. His Justice Department has declared that
U.S. citizens, whom it declares to be "Enemy Combatants," have no
constitutional rights - none. Such people do not even have the fundamental
right of legal representation.
Georgetown University law professor David Cole rightly said, "This is
really an astounding assertion of authority. It's not just
that you have no right to a lawyer, it's that you have no right to even have
a hearing. If this is true, then there is really no limit to
the President's power to label U.S. citizens as bad people and then have them
held in military custody indefinitely."
Furthermore, Bush now says he has the right to initiate first strike attacks
on any nation or people at (his) will. Imagine how future
history will record America launching its own versions of Pearl Harbor.
Bill Clinton received more good news from the Bush White House. Just yesterday,
he learned that Attorney General John Ashcroft is ready to permanently close
the government's investigations into Clinton's criminal activities. In other
words, President Bush has declared that Bill and Hillary Clinton are above
the law.
Beyond that, Bush's support for liberal policies on things such as the federalization
of airport security, proposed amnesty for illegal
aliens, a boost in funding for Clinton's AmeriCorps program, a worst-ever
education bill, and a constitutionally-challenged
campaign finance reform bill simply reveal Bush's perpetual propensity to
continue Clinton-style government.
In spite of Bush's dismal record, he continues to receive the support and
approbation of conservatives, pastors, and Republicans
throughout the country. If Clinton would have known that a Bush administration
would be this successful in promoting his
policies and programs, he would have supported Bush and not Gore in the 2000
election.
Maybe he did.
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