It's a Republic, if you can keep it...

This fall could be a make-or-break moment for the American Republic: Will the powerful forces that favor an empire abroad and an authoritarian state at home prevail?

Or will the country turn away from George W. Bush’s dark vision and insist instead on a revival of the constitutional Republic that the Founders built for “posterity,” for ours and future generations?

Will excessive fear about terrorism trump the noble ideal of inalienable rights? Will deceptive rhetoric about spreading democracy and liberty abroad continue to obscure the smothering of democracy and liberty at home?

At the Locust Fork Journal, ConsortiumNews.Com and other independent news outlets online, we have chronicled this extraordinary struggle between an aspiring empire consolidating its powers and an embattled republic fighting for its survival, the fight between an executive lusting for near-dictatorial powers confronted by bands of citizens determined to protect the Bill of Rights and the rule of law.

For the whole story, go to the independent ConsortiumNews.Com.