Warrantless Surrender 8-8-2007

8, August 2007                                   Warrantless Surrender

Once again, the Democrats buckled under pressure and collectively drove a giant stake through our vanishing democracy. Instead of holding Bush and company accountable for illegally spying on millions of Americans (arguably an impeachment offence), they granted the thoroughly disgraced Alberto Gonzalez and his boss unchecked powers. Once again, Bush’s use of the fear factor so paralyzed the Democrats that they succumbed and voted to grant legality to an illegal activity by rewriting the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, euphemistically called the Protect America Act. Largely ignored is the inherent danger of granting the Bush administration such powers which he has so consistently abused to stifle dissent and intensify the propaganda war which has drawn us into disastrous conflicts. As Anthony Romero of the ACLU ruefully reflected” This congress may prove to be as spineless in standing up to the Bush Administration as the one that enacted the PATRIOT Act or the Military Commissions Act.”