Dictatorship in the Making?

Here is a blog by Bruce Scneier, that does a much better job explaining the threat of unchecked presidential power. It is interesting because he expands on the point that this is not a partisan issue, since all you need to do is picture the worse politician in your mind, having unlimited powers, that are not regulated by Congress or the Supreme Court.

This is indefinite dictatorial power. And I don't use that term lightly; the very definition of a dictatorship is a system that puts a ruler above the law. In the weeks after 9/11, while America and the world were grieving, Bush built a legal rationale for a dictatorship. Then he immediately started using it to avoid the law.

This is not a partisan issue between Democrats and Republicans; it's a president unilaterally overriding the Fourth Amendment, Congress and the Supreme Court. Unchecked presidential power has nothing to do with how much you either love or hate George W. Bush. You have to imagine this power in the hands of the person you most don't want to see as president, whether it be Dick Cheney or Hillary Rodham Clinton, Michael Moore or Ann Coulter.