Wanna Make This About Who’s Hurting America? Bring it On!

Wanna Make This About Who’s Hurting America? Bring it On!

by Andrew Bard Schmookler

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_andrew_b_060320_wanna_make_this_abou.htm

Support Senator Feingold’s resolution to censure President Bush for his lawless conduct.

Here’s a chance to send politicians of both parties a strong clear message: We the People of the United States do really care about whether our president obeys the law or runs roughshod over it, and about protecting and defending the Constitution of the United States.


It has never been shown that the warrantless spying on Americans was necessary to protect this country from terrorists. It hasn’t been shown that he couldn’t have done everything necessary and obeyed the law. It hasn’t been shown that his illegal spying actually accomplished anything to defend the nation.

Even worse, no one outside the executive branch even knows how much defending the nation has to do with this presidential usurpation of powers. No one knows just whom this administration has been spying on, and why. Given what else we know of how they’ve dealt with critics, how can we know for sure that all this spying hasn’t included targets for other, illegitimate purposes—like going after their domestic opponents? Yet the administration gives no evidence-- demanding simply, “Trust us.”


Yes, although it may not be clear what Bush has been up to, it is clear that he broke the law. So has declared the American Bar Association, saying that the surveillance must either be brought into compliance with the law or be stopped. “We cannot allow the US Constitution and our rights to become a victim of terrorism," declared the head of the ABA’s task force on the subject.