by Pancho Villa

Created on: June 20, 2008

No other President in the history of the United States has abused our constitution as much as President H. W. Bush our 43rd President. No other President has dared to limit from the citizens so many constitutional rights.

In addition to circumventing the constitution and eliminating rights guaranteed to the citizens of this great nation, no other United States President has been responsible for so much torture of so many humans. Not only of foreigners but also of its citizens.

President Bush has trampled on and violated the Geneva Convention Accords to the extent that he had to sneak a pardon into a war funding bill for himself and his henchmen. The pardon is retro active and covers acts more commonly know as "war crimes" which he or any one in his administration may have committed from September 11 forward.

Interesting thought here. If the present administration has always acted within the law, why then the self pardon for war crimes? If a president can pardon himself with regard to war crimes, why have other presidents of other nations not done so (Milosovich, Saddam, etc.)?

Now assuming that the pardon, hidden deep in a war funding bill, was put there for a reason, how does that make us any different from any other terrorist organization?

While you think about those facts let me proceed to another even more chilling fact. The President can enact laws simply by writing the law and then signing it. It is what is called a Presidential Directive. Wikipedia.org defines Presidential Directives thus:

"Presidential directives are a form of executive order issued by the President of the United States with the advice and consent of the National Security Council. As a form of executive order, a Presidential Directive has the "full force and effect of law." [1] Because of the nature of presidential directives as pertaining to the national security of the United States, many presidential directives are promulgated as classified. Various presidents since the administration of John F. Kennedy have issued such directives but under different names".

President Bush has issued two Directives that are of interest here. Both are the same except that they are issued as a directive to two different agencies. They are NSPD-51 (National Security Presidential Directive #51) and HSPD-20 (Homeland Security Presidential Directive #20). Both of these Presidential Directives supercede the National Emergency Act.

Under the old National Emergency Act the President could declare martial law

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