"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error."The Roman masses finally figured out that their highly eccentric Emperor, Caligula, was a raving lunatic when it was revealed that he was having lavish dinner parties in honor of his favorite horse and that he had even considered making it a Consul! Caligula's reported incestuous relationships with his sisters was bad enough for them to stomach; the "horse thing," however, became the tipping point. [2] Caligula had to go! He was soon replaced, in a palace-orchestrated coup de' dictator, by the bookish Claudius. At that time, unfortunately for the batty Caligula, there wasn't an "impeachment process" or "censure proceedings" in place, to hasten his exit in a peaceful and dignified manner from the then chaotic political scene in the Eternal City. [3]
-- Cicero [1]
Recently, President George W. Bush, a/k/a "Bush II," --a would be "Emperor," if there ever was one--was forced to own up to the shocking fact that in Oct., 2001, he had covertly ordered the National Security Agency (NSA), to spy on countless U.S. residents. Is Bush, too, losing his mind? Coming on top of his damnable lies that got the U.S. into the Iraqi War, this is another very disturbing bombshell. [4] Bush has been spying on our citizenry without the required court orders and in direct violation of the liberties guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and in other laws of the land. Question: Is Bush's acting contemptuously, and above the law, in this latest disgusting scandal, going to be a tipping point for the American people? When are they going to stop putting up with his crazed antics? Will this repulsive episode be, like Caligula's "horse thing?" Well, I sure hope so!
