In America’s darkest hour, Franklin Delano Roosevelt urged the nation not to succumb to “nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror.” But that was then.

Today, many of the men who hope to be the next president — including all of the candidates with a significant chance of receiving the Republican nomination — have made unreasoning, unjustified terror the centerpiece of their campaigns.

The government of the United States no longer rules “with the consent of the governed,” as stipulated in its founding document, the Declaration of Independence. The White House is occupied by a usurper, installed by a seditious Supreme Court in 2000 and retained in office in 2004 through election fraud. The federal judiciary, once the protector of citizen rights and the rule of law, has become an instrument of oppression, as political opponents of the administration are selectively indicted, while political allies avoid indictment and conviction. Habeas Corpus has been suspended and most of the protections of the Bill of Rights have been set aside by a President who regards the Constitution of the United States as “just a goddam piece of paper.”

After six years of Congressional subservience to the President that a Soviet dictator would envy, in 2006 the American public voted to put the “opposition party” in control of the Congress, with a public demand that this party end the Iraq war, restore the rights of the citizens and the rule of law, and hold the ruling junta accountable for its crimes. After almost a year in power, the Congress has done none of these: the “opposition party” has simply refused to oppose.

Her machinations since Democrats took over the U.S. House in January 2007 show that Speaker Nancy Pelosi isn't scared of the Republicans - "her eagerness to cooperate with the Bush regime is matched only by her incompetence in leading Congress." Pelosi and her leadership clique have never had the slightest intention of seriously opposing George Bush, since they are quite content with a status quo of endless war, half of New Orleans abandoned, true universal health care on perpetual hold, and a growing police state. Every constituency of the Democratic Party has been betrayed, with the complicity of Pelosi and her crowd. And there must be pay-back for back-stabbing.