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Skriven 2006-01-02 11:19:08 av BOB SAKOWSKI (1:123/140)
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Ärende: L'etat, c'est moi?  Non!
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It would do well to remain focused in the upcoming fight over the
unauthorized spying upon Americans. The dispute is not about "security" but
about whether, in "wartime", a president must follow the law. It is not
about the speed one needs to react to threats for the FISA law clearly
allows immediate wiretaps requiring only that the warrant be submitted to
the FISA court within 72 hours.

It is, most certainly, about the oversight granted by the constitution to
the congress and the courts, over the executive branch. In other words, is
the Constitution of The United States still the supreme law of the land? If
it is, then the president committed an illegal act when he ordered the
wiretaps on the American people. If the constantly changing excuses made by
The Coward who would be king (and by extension, his law hating, unamerican
apologists) says anything it shouts that these psuedo patriots know damn
well that his actions were illegal under both the constitution and US Code.

The unique advice that a president, in his role as CIC, is somehow above
the law (L'etat, c'est moi) would be laughable were it not so serious. The
bootlickers will raise the example of Lincoln and Habeas Corpus but do not
be fooled for the question of whether the president must obey the law, at
all times, was settled when the SCOTUS ruled against Truman's attempt to
keep the steel plants open in 1952 during the Korean War.

Do not be mislead by claims that the constitution is not a suicide pact,
that extreme times call for extreme measures. The fact remains that the
principles of the founders, as vested in the constitution will not and
cannot be protected by a failure to act within the boundaries set forth by
them.

9/11 did not 'change everything' America is still a nation where the law is
king.

America is one village that we will not let be destroyed in an attempt to
"save" it.
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