Swords Drawn against Democracy

In Marcus Tullius Cicero's famous second Philippic (published around 49 BCE), he discusses how Bush and the neocons have wanted to destroy this nation for over 2000 years; of particular interest is the attempted murder of democracy in a bookstore.

"[Bush and the neocons], being compelled by the revelations of the accomplices, by their own handwriting, and by what I may almost call the voices of their letters, were confessing that they had planned the parricidal destruction of their country, and that they had agreed to burn the city, to massacre the citizens, to devastate [the United States], to destroy the republic... You have said that [democracy] was slain by my contrivance. What would men have thought if [it] had been slain at the time when you pursued [it] in the forum with a drawn sword, in the sight of all the Roman people; and when you would have settled [its] business if [it] had not thrown [it]self up the stairs of a bookseller's shop, and, shutting them against you, checked your attack by that means?"

Bush and his neocon dogs will stop at nothing to destroy this country. When was the last time you felt at risk in a bookstore? The illusion of safety in the climate-controlled palaces where learning and commerce coexist peacefully has now been destroyed, and it's all Bush's fault.