Letter: Bush does no justice to American history

Monday, April 23, 2007 | 7:35 a.m.

"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest." - Benjamin Franklin.

The brave courageous men who declared independence from a despotic king more than two and a quarter centuries ago went on to win a decisive war and then write the great foundational document of our country. Knaves who practiced treachery in those days were done in, as it was said, sometimes by their own stupidity.

It is remarkable that today, in the 43rd president's administration, we find that we have a president who wants to be king, who wants to disavow that great Constitution we have. Aided and abetted by a feckless fake of an attorney general, who resembles a novice ballet clown prancing around a duncical prince, the pretentious nobility has inflicted much harm on our country, including the removal of the Great Writ of Habeas Corpus that would now enable the would-be king to jail me or anyone who disagrees with him.

The irony, the stupendous irony, is that the thug-like villains who have tried with all their cunning to undermine our country's fundamental laws, now try to hide behind the very document they've worked to ruin. Despite their efforts, it will take greater men than this administration's fools to even put into question our country's survival.

Paul Engel, Henderson