No Warrant. George Bush says he has the Constitutional authority to violate the Constitution. I have read the Constitution. Nowhere do I see authority of any officer under the Constitution to violate the Constitution. Only an idiot could believe the Framers intended a Constitution that incorporated a Bill of Rights to permit the Government they set up to violate those rights.
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George Bush is just begging to be impeached. Alas, he is more likely successfully to set the Constitution aside than to be impeached, because he is using what men throughout history have used to become dictator: fear of violent death (from outside, first; from the Government, second) and promises of "security".
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No people has ever chosen freedom over security unless gripped by some mindless religious zeal that persuades them that death means nothing because eternal Paradise awaits. Americans don't believe in eternal life, not really. So they will consent to permit people who talk about "limited government" instead to carry off the greatest expansion of government in our history, from democracy to dictatorship.
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Dubya speaks of defending freedom by taking away our rights, and of violating the Constitution in pursuit of the Government's Constitutional authority. And Americans will buy it, as long as it doesn't strike too close to home. It's the old "and then they came for me" bit.
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You'd think we'd have learned from history. But Americans don't know history. And don't want to. All that matters is now and the future. History is heavy baggage. We travel lite, into a future of as much "freedom" as Government wants to grant us.
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So, enjoy today, because tomorrow is looking ever more grim. That minority of you who vote, use that vote to stop the Republican Dictatorship Machine. Use your freedom to write emails, make telephone calls, and send letters while you still have it. Urge your representatives at all levels to stop the Republicans while you are still protected by the Constitution. Because otherwise Guatanamo awaits us all.
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is 2,157.)
- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 1:35 PM