Roman Senator Cicero ended all his speeches by saying “Carthage Must Be Destroyed!”. After Hannibal crossed the Alps, Romans sailed against their commercial rivals, forcing Hannibal, who they could not defeat on the field, back home. Eventually, Rome would conquer Carthage, put all its people in slavery and salt the ground.

We face the same daily menace.

Not from a foreign threat.

Not even from terrorists.

From our own government.

We must resist this government, this fascist administration.

It threatens us and the world.

We are no longer free. Even if we sit in front of our televisions in our own homes, we are captives of cruel and cunning jailers.

President Bush not only admits to making 30 orders to violate the Fourth and Fifth Amendments by requiring the National Security Agency to intercept and monitor American citizens’ cell phone calls overseas without benefit of warrants, but he attacks those who question his decision as irresponsibly aiding and abetting terrorists.

He also warns Congress they must re-enact the Patriot Act, giving him war powers to roust Americans without warrants and lawyers and the possibility of being kidnapped and tortured in a North African dungeon. It is tantamount to the legislation passed in the 1930s by Germany after the phony Reichstag Fire, giving Adollph Hitler the power to be Der Fuerher.

How is Bush any different from Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, Napoleon, any of the dictators?

He even has a plan for world domination.

We must resist.

While we still can.