George Bush actually supported looser border restrictions and amnesty for illegal aliens. He also denounced the Minute men as vigilanties. Also the reason for privatizing prisons was because its costing too much to take care of them and we no longer have the guts to execute the more violent and unrepentant ones.

We need to go back to what our founding fathers intended. Restitution for property crimes and in the middle crimes, Execution for murder rape and molestation.

Well... I for one know some things...

Your fear of having your guns taken away is unfounded.

Then why during Katrina did FEMA agents take guns away from law abiding citizens in New Orleans suburbs who did nothing instead of going after looters gang bangers and criminals?

Spying on the Internet began under President Bush.

Much sooner than that actually under the Echelon Project which was started in the sixties and expanded under President Clinton.

Under George Bush, people were kicked off of airplanes for wearing t-shirts with Arabic writing on them and for praying in Arabic despite the fact that terrorists who are Muslim try to look as Western as possible.

That's because this is a war started by militant Islam. These people were not US citizens and belonged to a religion that advocated genocide terrorism and tyranny. There is not one free Democracy in the Muslim World. They look western as possible so they can infiltrate us.

Under Bush, reporters were arrested at the 2008 presidential convention, peaceful activist groups were spied on and apprehended without wrongdoing, and one man was arrested for expressing disapproval to Dick Cheney about the Iraq War during a public event.

BZZZZZZZ!!! Nice try! Those were protesters from code pink who disrupted speeches and tried to shut down conservative rallies. Code pink are traitors who openly support Al-qaeda and the murder of US soldiers. Had conservatives done the same thing at Obama rallies they would have had worse happen.

Consequently, no one was arrested when the minute man project was shut down by liberal thugs at Columbia U (The same liberal thugs who gave standing ovations for Ahmedinijad) And no one was to blame for closing down Islamofascism week either.

People who wore anti-war t-shirts were kicked out of Bush rallies and taken into custody

And people who war NRA t-shirts at Million Mom events had the same thing happen to them ETC ETC ETC

people expressing anti-war sentiment found the FBI at their door to ask questions

I wonder what that sentiment WAS exactly... I was just thinking of how one woman who told a news reporter that Barack Hussein Obama was a socialist who murdered unborn babies had the ATF AND the FBI at her door. But true Americans don't count the way 5th columnists do.

George Bush advocated the privatization of the prison system, which caused the prison population to blossom to its current numbers.

So no mention about criminals running loose robbing and raping as the reason? MMMM??

The Bush administration illegally deported hordes of immigrants

You got it backwards. The immigrants were here illegally taking jobs, selling dope and using tax payer funded benefits.

The Bush administration planted false news stories via paid experts and rewrote climate science reports to be friendlier to oil companies.

Keep dreaming. Global warming is a theory not a fact. Its only false in your private little world.

George Bush and the Republican controlled Congress gave the president the power to name anyone an enemy for any reason and to detain that person without evidence indefinitely. He then attempted to violate the Constitution by stationing American troops in the US the way they are in foreign countries.

Anyone who was NOT a citizen. And that stationing of American troops is the result of decades of liberal progressivism giving us a tyrannical government that becomes bigger and more massive everyday!

George Bush ordered illegal spying, then had the Congress make it legal afterward.

Wrong... that was started under Reagan and expanded under Clinton.

George Bush ordered torture and then lied about doing it until he was out of office. He may currently be subject to arrest for violating international law if he travels out of the country.

Pouring water on a jihadist is torture? As Opposed to confiscating bank accounts from the elderly and disabled?

George Bush put corporate cronies in high positions overseeing regulation of the very industries they worked for and in every case made Americans less safe -- our food is less safe, our water is less safe, our miners work in less safe conditions.

We have corporate cronies under Obama as well. Everything is less safe because we rely MORE and MORE under the government which throughout history is inefficient and backward. Only the private sector knows what its doing.

Please know something before you choose to comment about a topic.

What I was going to suggest you do...

Freepers are devotees of freerepublic.com, one of the looniest sites on the Internet. You can learn things on that site like that all Muslims are rapists and that Obama plans to sell blacks back into slavery.

America already is a police state. We take people's money and property away from them at a whim, we disarm law abiding citizens, we regulate the 1st amendment (and it WILL get worse...) we ban people from traveling in their own country, we ban people from picking careers or even working, we declare anyone who supports liberty and freedom mentally ill and declare mentally ill anyone who is a victim of socialist policies and crime, we punish victims instead of criminals, we seize property, we punish success and reward laziness with welfare, we use social security to track people and block them from living the American dream, we force our children to go to government schools which are nothing more than gulags where they are brainwashed, shot at, raped tortured, traumatized become criminals and graduate/drop out as illiterate burger flippers.

But no... We'll just blame George W Bush and the little freedom we have left for everything wrong with this country. Big government knows whats best afterall...