Sunday, August 20, 2006
Better to die with our rights on then to live in your fascist world
When boneheads launch this kind of argument it has to be with a complete lack of an appreciation of the victory we are handing to the "terrorists" by abandoning the protections of our Constitutional law (So as to quickly dispense with the very thin Constitutional justification often used by the right; nowhere in the Constitution does it say that any of the duties of the Executive branch are exempt from review by the Judicial and Legislative branches. That is the very reason for the dynamic of tripartite government).
The FISA law was written by the Legislative branch (and is hence adjudicated by the Judicial branch) because of abuses by the Executive branch of our government. This law was crafted by responsible lawmakers acting as representatives of the people and provides adequate means for the protection of the citizenry. We fought the Evil Empire and won with this law. The Communist Block had means that the "terrorists" can only have in their deranged dreams. The law even provides for an after the fact review when a fast moving situation allows for nothing else. BushCo says they can't even work within that constraint. The only other group of idiots claiming to be beyond earthly review are the mullahs.
Abuses such as these are the more mundane side of the evil of any autocratic system and we've seen far worse historically from our own government: Again, the reason why the law was written. BushCo, and their sycophants, have sought to remove the administration from the reviews and criticisms our democratic system enables. Even now, as our democratic process is working, BushCo is saying that it is producing "victory for the terrorists". It is not a coincidence that they have been largely successful in their efforts to shut down democracy to then find ourselves bamboozled into a war that has turned out to be a miserable morass, the exact opposite of what BushCo said it would be.
Judge Taylor's admonition on monarchy was ably made. People are fallible and even the best of us, when called upon to make these momentous decisions, could use the guiding hand of democracy. Everything in the BushCo record points to the need for more intense scrutiny. ¶ 8/20/2006 11:23:00 AM
The FISA law was written by the Legislative branch (and is hence adjudicated by the Judicial branch) because of abuses by the Executive branch of our government. This law was crafted by responsible lawmakers acting as representatives of the people and provides adequate means for the protection of the citizenry. We fought the Evil Empire and won with this law. The Communist Block had means that the "terrorists" can only have in their deranged dreams. The law even provides for an after the fact review when a fast moving situation allows for nothing else. BushCo says they can't even work within that constraint. The only other group of idiots claiming to be beyond earthly review are the mullahs.
Abuses such as these are the more mundane side of the evil of any autocratic system and we've seen far worse historically from our own government: Again, the reason why the law was written. BushCo, and their sycophants, have sought to remove the administration from the reviews and criticisms our democratic system enables. Even now, as our democratic process is working, BushCo is saying that it is producing "victory for the terrorists". It is not a coincidence that they have been largely successful in their efforts to shut down democracy to then find ourselves bamboozled into a war that has turned out to be a miserable morass, the exact opposite of what BushCo said it would be.
Judge Taylor's admonition on monarchy was ably made. People are fallible and even the best of us, when called upon to make these momentous decisions, could use the guiding hand of democracy. Everything in the BushCo record points to the need for more intense scrutiny. ¶ 8/20/2006 11:23:00 AM
