For the past 32 plus years, during the time I have been providing security training snd support services, it has been obvious that most people and companies would rather leave their security duties, both personal and business, to someone other than themselves or a hired security contractor. For those people, security is a burden, a dirty word. It is much better, they say through their actions, to concentrate on the happer things of life. Let's ignore the problems, these deniers say, and they will go away.

For a long time, I felt (and I'm sure that I'm not the only one),that many people would be happy to have a dictator running the country, since that would absolve them of taking any responsibility for making such weighty decisions as for whom they should vote and all those obligations and duties for which those of us living a free society have responsibility.

Unfortunately, it appears those who would (or think they would) be happy under a ("benign") dictatorship may have seen that realty come a step closer. President Bush's signing of the recent military commission act leads us all a step closer to that realty.


Now I do not want to appear paranoid, but since this act now does away with habeas corpus, I can picture a scenario in which, comes the 2008 presidential elections, our president uses the act to claim that the campaign issues the Democrats, or other parties, present aids and comforts terrorists, therefore those people are enemy non-combatants, and are seized and thrown in some prison without legal representation - a truly futuristic novel scenario!

There is no question that security is extremely important, and that securing the nation's borders is a vital and required task of our governmnent. But the internal destruction of the United States - a country personified by our constitution - is a terrible thing. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (who also made a major constitutional mistake during WWII) said in his first inauguaral speech that "we have nothing to fear but fear itself". Unfortunaely, that warning has been forgotten by those in governmental power who had the ability to prevent the current assault upon the rights of our citizenry. In my opinion, President Bush and those who acquiesced to the military commission act, have failed this country. As a long time Republican voter, I can only say that the actions of our current adminstration are shameful and calculated, and go against everything for which our governmant should support.