Connecting the dots re Bush's power grab

Jerry Policoff wrote this to me in email. I'm posting it here with his permission, as it is the simplest, most succinct summary of my own fears that I've seen to date:

You know, no one seems to be connecting the dots on this stuff. Every one talks about the scary potential of these Bush initiatives, but no one is asking why he is amassing all of these police-state powers to himself if he doesn’t intend to make use of them.

I have no doubt Nixon would have invoked the Huston Plan if Watergate had not intervened.

We need another intervention or we’ll all be in Guantanamo soon (or maybe they’ll just pack us into those detention camps Halliburton has been building all over the place).

Now why would Bush get rid of Habeas Corpus, declare the right to run all three branches of government in the event of some undefined “national emergency,” radically expand his right to eavesdrop on us, eliminate the prohibition against the Federal Government deploying the National Guard here at home, and build Concentration Camps strategically placed all over the country, unless there was some scheme behind it all?

And why is he trying to provoke a Constitutional showdown with Congress now that he has all of this in place?

Am I being paranoid or justifiably suspicious?

(Of course, my answer is, he is absolutely justifiable suspicious!)

Robert Parry has done some excellent articles connecting the dots on this whole nightmare over at Consortium News. For example, see his story today - New Spy Law Broader Than Thought. This is serious. And if we don't even try to impeach and undo some of this damage, all this remains in place for the next despot who comes along....