Let me preface by saying I think the current administration – from the top all the way down to appointees who blindly cooperate – should be tried for treason. That way we bring any allegations of bias or slant to the forefront and you know where I stand. No need to bring in theories about what lies beneath the words; the words are out in the open.
That doesn't make me anti-Republican or anti-conservative. It makes me anti-this-administration, which has about 10 months left to screw with everything, and protesting against governmental abuses of power is the American way – not the liberal or conservative way.
So, what's fired me up this morning is Vice President Cheney's latest call to expand the government's ability to spy on the American people whenever it wants for whatever reason without accountability, whether it is Constitutional or not, and his demand that the people be denied their right to even the pursuit of justice via lawsuits against the telecommunications industry for participating in illegal government activities.
Is there anything less ideologically American than the US government not only abusing its power to get around Constitutional authority but also denying the people their right to hold them (and co-abusers) accountable for it? Wasn't that the whole point of our break from Britain? The madness of King George, redux.
In a speech to the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank (take "think tank" with a grain of salt – it's really about agenda-pushing, not thinking, like George Soros' Center for Public Integrity – it's all language designed to manipulate you), Cheney called for making permanent the Protect America Act, which is set to expire.
A law called the "
Remember all that talk, along time ago, about the balance of powers? The current administration isn't too crazy about that provision. Recently the administration has also pushed for surveillance of
So, not only is executive branch above the law, but the executive branch wants private companies to be above the law, too, so long as they're helping the government break the law. I suppose if the government wants to hire a burglar to break into your house without a good a reason, both the government and the burglar should be immune to accountability, too, so long as they label it as an action against terrorism. But how long until they don't need a convenient label either? What's worse, as
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