Letters to the Editor
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George Bush is not interested the legality
Didn't you get the memo? I can't the life of me think that the White House looses any sleep over the 4th C. Since when has Bush looked for legal permission? Since when does it even matter that you know he knows it doesn't matter?
C'mon, dictatorships aren't all bad. You'll get used to it.
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...liberal and conservative are merely two true faces of America, while wreckless and rogue, as in this president's regime, are not."
When the whole torture scandal broke, all one could hear, in the face of reality to the contrary, was the strange cry, "Americans don't torture!"
Well, ummm, yes we do. By the same token, one cannot look at reality and still make statements such as the one quoted above. America has many faces, all the ones that exist doing what Americans do. They are the very same faces as the rest of humanity, no different, no better, no more lofty, no more regal, just purely human.
How can you be a citizen of this country and not be certain that wrecklessness and rogue-ishness are fundamental to our character and "true" faces of our nation?
The denial of our national shadow, just like denial of any kind, allows it to exist with more power than it would have if we could just admit it is there and come to terms with it...wide awake. Deny the monster his name, and he goes killing in your name. It's an old story.
If I hear "I can't believe this happened" one more time, I'm going to lose it. Believe it can happen, for crying out loud!
As much as many of us would like to deny our national shadow, it is here and doing very well for itself. Lunatics like Scalia and Bush are Americans, as much as anyone else. Bigots, murderers, rapists, etc., all here in America, right along side of helpful, courageous, kind, generous Americans.
We are not our songs, we are humans and it's time we faced the fact that all of our problems are not unique, nor are they some temporary abberation.
Another poster put it right as well: If you would deny Bush the very rights you accuse him of demolishing, you have become your enemy.
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Please Impeach Bush - and lose
I’d love to see congress impeach Bush, to hear the debate, and to watch their poll numbers sink even further. Please contact your congressman or woman or “cash in the freezer doesn’t hide it as well as Harry Reid crook” and urge them to impeach Bush.
Blumenthal and many letter writers rant about Bush’s “imperial acts”, the destruction of the constitution, and then follow with examples of how the courts have used the constitution as a basis for limiting what Bush can do. That sounds like the constitution is working, not being destroyed. It also sounds like a strong case for appointing judges who look at the existing law to make decisions, as opposed to writing the law themselves.
We dropped a guided missile into the building where Zarqawi and his cohorts were meeting and blew them to smithereens. This was a meeting of the members of Al Qaeda in Iraq. . . (Al Qaeda + Iraq, . . . just like Hillary said). I hope no one objected to that, or do you want to add it to the list of impeachable offenses?
You can argue the legality of Bush’s detention and interrogation tactics, which is a good and important debate to have. But when the argument devolves to weekly rants based on paranoid fears and inconsistent (irrational) theories regarding Bush’s motivation, it really makes you look ignorant.
Keep it up.
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@A. Reader
So your attitude toward the Constitution is identical to Bush's: it is just a piece of paper when it stands in the way of your desired goals. I am not comforted that you have descended down the Nietzschean rabbit hole and become what you seek to destroy.
Not at all, not even close. I am simply taking the sharp edge of the "Constitution is not a suicide pact" argument off the necks of the citizens, where this administration has put it, and putting at the neck of the government, where it belongs.
I understand that the President has to be free to act within what he believes are the confines of the law without fear of criminal prosecution. I get that. Those laws are there to allow the President to do his job. They do not place him above the law, they take into consideration the nature of his position and allow for mistakes.
When the courts inform him that his actions are illegal and un-Constitutional, he's supposed to stop - period. If he continues to commit the same illegal acts, Congress is supposed to intervene through the impeachment process. But they haven't, and probably won't.
And in that case, the States themselves are supposed to intervene. And the only recourse they have, other than meaningless declarations (of which we already have several), is to either arrest and try his ass or return to the Articles of Confederation.
Your position seems to be that if the federal government fails to live up to their responsibilities, among which is to abide by the law and support, protect, and defend the Constitution, we're simply fucked - that whole Republic thing was nice but we can now see that it was quaint. I disagree. Defending the Constitution is something that has to be done. If the feds refuse or fail (which they have), the responsibility falls to the States. And if they refuse or fail, it falls to the People.
You would give the President the power to void the Constitution. I wouldn't.
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Where is the outrage?
I am astounded at the audacity of this administration's ability to ignore the people, the law and the Constitution.
Yet, unbelievably, all I see anyone doing is shopping for the next new thing! Have we all sold our souls to the God of Fear and Oil?
No one stands up and says "Enough, already!" The President squints down at the people from his lectern of sanctimony and points a bony finger at his weak-minded children: "I know what is best for you. Trust me to keep you safe." And, they look bewildered because they do not feel safe. Yet, because he promises safety and scorns all naysayers as anti-American and traitors, the people nod silently and huddle together in his shadow.
Not a pretty picture. Certainly, not a picture of the America I'd like to see painted in history.