Seizing Dictatorial Power: ‘Misadvised by a frustrated and panic-stricken attorney general, a president of the United States has just assumed what amounts to dictatorial power to jail or execute aliens. Intimidated by terrorists and inflamed by a passion for rough justice, we are letting George W. Bush get away with the replacement of the American rule of law with military kangaroo courts.’ NY Times William Safire, bless his heart, adds his conservative spleen to the rising hue and cry about what it has occurred to some for the past several weeks to call the Bush Dictatorship.