Where Were You, Congressman?

Here, I alluded to the point that I think Georgia Congressman Paul Broun is a few bricks shy of a full hod:

A Republican congressman from Georgia said Monday he fears that President-elect Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist dictatorship.

Now for a serious question: Where were you for the past eight years, Congressman Broun?

When the Bush Administration claimed the right to wiretap anyone it wanted without a warrant, where were you?

When the Bush Administration claimed the right to arrest anyone in the world, including American citizens, without a warrant or probable cause, where were you?

When the Bush Administration claimed the right to imprison anyone forever, without charges and without the right of habeus corpus, where were you?

When the Bush Administration claimed the ability to begin investigating anyone it chose for any reason or no reason whatsoever, where were you?

Where were you when the Bush Administration began secretly poring through the bank records of Americans?

Where were you when the Bush Administration began encouraging people to spy and inform on their neighbors?

What did you say when the Bush Administration proposed creating a huge database to collect the transactional records and emails of everyone?

When the Bush Administration began torturing people and then sought to use evidence collected by the use of torture at trial, where were you?

Don't bother to tell me, I'll tell you: You were probably one of the congressmen who decried the opponents of the Bush administration as being "terrorist sympathizers," "freedom-haters," "traitors" and worse. You probably condemned the legal actions to restore the use of habeus corpus as "an unwarranted limitation of the president's wartime powers." You likely supported every attempt by Dick Cheney and George Bush to exercise dictatorial powers.

But now, and only now, you voice a fear that our freedoms and liberties may be in jeopardy from an Obama Administration?

Give me a fucking break!

I, for one, find the new-found dedication of the Right to the Constitution and the rule of law to be, well, rather convenient.