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The way our government has deteriorated over the past nearly eight years is so depressing I'm wondering why more people haven't stuck their heads in the oven a la Sylvia Plath. The structure of rights and responsibilities that used to define us has been sat upon and desecrated.
If we ever want to be the United States again, we are going to have to launch an investigation, probably by the Justice Committees of the House and Senate, of what went so tragically wrong. If President Obama doesn't want to have trials of those who committed crimes against the Constitution, we can at least have a kind of Truth and Reconciliation Commission to air what happened so that everyone knows what the rules actually are.
Refusal to appear would not be an "old" crime but rather a new one. Lying to the Commission would be a "new" crime, too and the witnesses could be given the choice of telling the truth under immunity or going to jail for contempt or perjury.
