Imperial Presidency and Some Food for Thought

The United States, today, suffers from a plethora of public ills. Most of them can be traced to the militarism and imperialism that have led to the near-collapse of our Constitutional system of checks and balances. This got me thinking about what this Presidency has been all about.
Bush and Cheney have had the most secretive Presidency since Nixon.
Below are several articles that I have been looking at and found to be interesting and thought you might to.

I know that this Presidency is almost at an end, thankfully, but do you really think that this upcoming election and the resulting new President is going to change anything? I don't think it really is going to change much at all.

In My View of It we have allowed the President's since JFK to have entirely too much power, almost like we have been lulled and hypnotized by our own apathy, I doubt if that is going to change as we move forward. Have you heard any of the Candidates talk about bringing this Country back to the Constitution because I sure haven't.

"The aim of the party out of power is not to cut the presidency down to size but to seize it, not to reduce the prerogatives of the executive branch but to regain them."

Imperial Presidency
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Can We End the American Empire Before It Ends Us?
By Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com

Brilliant historian and essayist Chalmers Johnson argues that unless we face up to the tremendous strain our empire is having on America, we will lose our democracy, and then it will not matter much what else we lose. Read more »

Can the President of the United States arrest any American he suspects of being a terrorist and toss him in a military brig, deny him a lawyer, omit to bring any charges against him -- yet indefinitely keep him imprisoned nonetheless?
Can the President kidnap foreigners charged with violating federal law, and bring them to the United States to stand trial? How about Osama bin Laden, for starters?
These are only a few of the issues raised by cases now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court that will examine the limits of presidential powers. As David Savage, the legal writer for the Los Angeles Times, has noted, this is a remarkable collection of cases.
How President Bush Is Testing the Limits of His Presidential Powers

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