Power of the Small: Salus populi suprema lex

By Diana Nelson Mar 7, 2006, 1:14 GMT

Salus populi suprema lex - The health of the people is the supreme law. (Cicero)

There's something viscerally true about the words of Cicero, however, our elected leaders, schilling for mega-moneyed corporate interests are willing to leave a vast section of our American population in hopeless conditions as they have done in New Orleans; undermine The Constitution of The United States at its most basic level; deprive us of jobs and money and health care; place our major ports into the hands of the very enemies that thoseelected officials have told us are important enough to destroy a sovereign nation and depose its sitting leader, and they have now put the health and safety of Americans at the most basic level up for bid.

We learn from an editorial in The New York Times that a special interest bill will relieve the suppliers of our food of the very basic responsibility to tell us the truth on labels of containers, as well as make it nearly impossible for the individual states to change the federal law that will now govern our food supply.

These are just random and easily remembered examples of what the Bush administration has been getting away with at Americans' expense.

Bush and his criminally negligent friends may well have started the journey to the pokey that they so deserve. The good news lately is that America is starting to rise from her long sleep and to notice that this black-hearted administration has almost succeeded in destroying all the things that have made America great-out of greed and fear masquerading as Christian zealotry.

If America survives, and if historians have access to truth in future (another thing Bush is trying to tweak to his benefit), the Bush administration will go down in history as the worst disease that has ever touched North America and the world.

Hitler rode to power on ideology and so did Bush. Hitler was honest about hating Jews, at least. Bush hates only the poor, while hiding behind a curtain of allegiance to "born again" Christianity and truly only caring about his "chosen people"-the richest 100,000 Americans.

The rest of us are fodder for a madman.

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