Is President Bush Above the Law?
Posted by kevin Mon, 02 Jan 2006 23:21:48 GMT
I’ve been a bit of a bandwagon hater when it comes to President Bush. Living in Berkeley, it wasn’t hard, there were anti-bush marches outside my house every other day in Berkeley (my neighbor was an organizer, though who isn’t in that town?).
The latest hazzah went through the papers pretty quickly, because it doesn’t sound like much: Bush authorized government agencies to use electronic surveillance on suspects without requiring them to get a warrant first. He’s protecting our country by any means necessary, sounds like his job, right?
Wrong, the law shows that unauthorized electronic surveillance is a federal crime punishable by up to five years in prison. Bush admitted to doing this over 30 times, and has every intention of doing so again. This is the first time a United States President has openly admitted to authorizing a federal crime, in effect declaring himself above the law.
Changing the law is one thing, breaking it is another.
This article, by John Conyer of the House of Representatives, goes into the details about his messing up the iraq war thing.
Some people are calling for him to be impeached. After all, we impeached Clinton for having sex, and how healthy is that? :) Myself, I worry about the constantly growing drift between republican and democrat. The republicans think that the republican party stands for C for Conservative, at the democrats are bleeding liberals, but both have lost sight of the real party lines we’re supposed to be aligning on here – small vs. large government in particular being my favorite. I think impeaching Bush might just push that gap further wider…
