the bush administration is a criminal conspiracy

do you know what “criminal conspiracy” means, in a legal sense? according to findlaw.com:

A criminal conspiracy exists when two or more people agree to commit almost any unlawful act, then take some action toward its completion. The action taken need not itself be a crime, but it must indicate that those involved in the conspiracy knew of the plan and intended to break the law. One person may be charged with and convicted of both conspiracy and the underlying crime based on the same circumstances.

For example, Andy, Dan, and Alice plan a bank robbery. They 1) visit the bank first to assess security, 2) pool their money and buy a gun together, and 3) write a demand letter. All three can be charged with conspiracy to commit robbery, regardless of whether the robbery itself is actually attempted or completed.

interesting, eh? so, when bush and his friends decided to violate the geneva conventions and use torture and detain people indefinitely without trial and without treating them in accordance with the rules that international law requires for prisoners of war, and when bush and his friends decided to violate the bill of rights and the fisa law and do wiretaps without warrants or any court approval, in both of those cases, the bush administration was, according to how the law is defined, a criminal conspiracy. so, from now on, instead of calling it an “administration”, let’s just call it “the bush criminal conspiracy”. other people sometimes like to call it “the bush crime family”, but i think that is demeaning towards the president’s father, and also excludes all of the criminals in the bush administration of today. just remember, if you are an executive branch federal government employee, you are serving as a low-level operative of the world’s largest criminal conspiracy. and if you pay taxes, you are actually paying protection money to the people that you need to be protected against. the greatest threat to our nation does not come from terrorists or from anyone outside our borders; it comes from within. we need to defend america against itself, because the only enemy powerful enough and devious enough to defeat the united states of america is the united states of america. as the world’s only superpower, we cannot take any chances when we decide who should be in charge of all that super power. and yet, every election is a chance, a gamble. someday, our luck will run out. at least we can be thankful that bush has failed so catastrophically as president. he would have been much more dangerous to our nation if he had actually succeeded in enacting all of his agenda. he is probably not much of a threat any longer, because of his low poll numbers. but future presidents could be like him, in the ways in which he is bad, except much, much worse. there is no foolproof mechanism to prevent a psychotic genocidal sociopath from becoming president, and it will probably happen someday, just like adolf hitler got elected in germany. george w. bush turned out not to be another hitler, but someday we will almost certainly have our hitler, except one even worse than hitler, because of the tremendous devastation that could be caused by a renegade madman who is president of the united states. let us try and prevent that from happening, at least in our lifetimes.