May 2, 2007
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Where Are We?
Glenn Greenwald tells us.
I've been saying this stuff for a while, and frankly I got tired of saying it and having people try to attack what I've said on the facts. It's simply plain to see: The Republican party is the party of lawlessness. They believe that the President should not be restrained by the law.
Greenwald, of course, puts the legitimacy on the message. And I hate to be a 'me too!' and just link to him, but that's what I'll do.
His point of departure is an op-ed that appears in the Wall Street Journal, which says things like this: "Much present-day thinking puts civil liberties and the rule of law to the fore and forgets to consider emergencies when liberties are dangerous and law does not apply."
One item he points out, and which I agree is absolutely necessary, is that Presidential candidates should be asked if they agree with this sentiment:
That is why -- as jarring as it is -- it is actually necessary to ask presidential candidates whether they intend to exercise the power to imprison American citizens with no charges of any kind. The dominant political movement in this country believes in that power and has defended and exercised it. Mansfield's beliefs may be twisted and tyrannical and radical and profoundly un-American. But they are also the beliefs that have propelled our government for the last six years and -- absent some serious change -- very well may continue to propel it into the future.
So do you know where your favorite candidate stands on the issue of.... THE CONSTITUTION??
Comments (3)
Republicans do not approve of the Constitution at all. They only approve of the exercise of political and economic power by the haves against the have nots. The very idea expressed of "liberty being dangerous" would roll those revered founding fathers over in their graves, as would every single thing done by the Bush Administration. Last week I actually saw a Republican citing John Adam's "Alien and Sedition Acts" as precedent. Funny, it took 2002 years for those to go from the most reviled laws in US history to something to base a Presidency on. Forget Berkeley, go north to a nation with laws.
Your congress is ruled by money hungy heratics ... I'm not sure if I spelt that right, but me thinks there by problems with old "uncle sam" he is no longer regarded as "uncle" more like dictator
Tin Soldiers and Nixon coming...were finally on our own...this summer I hear the drumming...4 DEAD in OHIO.....history does repeat itself under the Republican rule.....there is no doubt about it!
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