During his interview with Stewart Rhodes last night, Bill O’Reilly strongly objected to Rhodes’s statement that bad weather is not a reason for suspending the Constitution.  Rhodes referred to how the “authorities” went door to door disarming every last little old lady in New Orleans who was trying to protect herself  in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. With his vintage bulging forehead vein, O’Reilly responded by speaking  the two magic words that every neocon thinks will justify any act of tyranny the state could ever devise.  These two words are  “Abraham Lincoln.”  “Abraham Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus!”, O’Reilly roared.  (All together now, … Continue reading The Two Magic Words that “Justify” Tyranny and Oppression