NEW WORLD ORDER

Judge likens election of Bush to rise of Facist dictators

A prominent federal judge has told a conference of liberal lawyers that President Bush’s rise to power was similar to the accession of dictators such as Mussolini and Hitler.
"In a way that occurred before but is rare in the United States…somebody came to power as a result of the illegitimate acts of a legitimate institution that had the right to put somebody in power. That is what the Supreme Court did in Bush versus Gore. It put somebody in power," said Guido Calabresi, a judge on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, which sits in Manhattan.
The 71-year-old Judge Calabresi, a former dean of Yale Law School, said Mr. Bush has asserted the full prerogatives of his office, despite his lack of a compelling electoral mandate from the public. “That’s got nothing to do with the politics of it.It’s got to do with the structural reassertion of democracy,” he said.

[Is Calabresi simply appeasing the masses by allowing them to believe that they still have the power to effect significant political changes, when the reality is that they don't?]