Today's NY Times:

"It would be silly, of course, to overstate the parallels between 1776 and
2004. The signers of the declaration were colonial subjects of a man they had
come to see as a foreign king. One of their major grievances had to do with the
tax burden imposed on them to support the king's wars. In contrast, our taxes
have been reduced — especially for those who need the money least — and the
huge costs of war sloughed off to our children and grandchildren. Nor would it
be tactful to press the analogy between our George II and their George III, of
whom the British historian John Richard Green wrote: "He had a smaller mind
than any English king before him save James II."

But the parallels are there, and undeniable. "He has affected to render the
Military independent of and superior to the Civil power," the declaration said
of George III, and today the military is indulgently allowed to investigate its
own crimes in Iraq. George III "obstructed the Administration of Justice." Our
George II has sought to evade judicial review by hiding detainees away in
Guantánamo, and has steadfastly resisted the use of the Alien Tort Claims Act,
which allows non-U.S. citizens to bring charges of human rights violations to
U.S. courts."


Mo

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/04/op...04EHRE.html?th

These sorry Republican *******s have got to go.

Walt