...where there were actually Americans who are against the Constitution. And, not just one, but many, many Americans who are against the Constitution.
Never did I think I would see that. Stunning.
Where were you during the Bush years?
Bush claimed an inherent power to imprison American citizens when he (
without oversight) determined they were enemies of the state. He claimed these powers could be exercised without obtaining a warrant and thereby letting American citizens hear the charges against them. He claimed the right to send the national guard into Buffalo, completely destroying the autonomy of NYS to control its own destiny. He used the "War on Terrorism" to destroy the Constitution and grow the power of the executive.
The Bush legal team eroded the distinction between citizen and enemy combatant in ways eerily similar to the Soviet Union. He placed unchecked, unregulated, centralized power inside the hands of Government Bureaucrats to decide who was an enemy of the state. He destroyed judicial and congressional oversight, making it easier for the government to move against anyone they deemed dangerous.
Remember the Bush Fed's first big catch with the Patriot Act? It was a Democratic Governor, Eliot Spitzer, who had just published a shocking article in the Washington Post about Bush's role in the housing bubble. The Bush Fed used the Patriot Act to set up a surveillance web over Spitzer until they caught him doing something. When it turned out that his crime had nothing to do with Terrorism, rather than feeding the case down to local authorities (so the Feds could use their resources to fight terrorism), they stayed on Spitzer until he resigned. This is exactly what happened in the Soviet Union. The Soviet leadership said they needed more surveillance power to protect the country. Then they used that power to hunt political enemies. Constitution? Your party has eviscerated it.
The Bush Surveillance program gave the state vast new powers to monitor phone calls, consumer purchases, library cards, financial activity and internet use. Remember what he said when his leal aids warned him of the potential Constitutional issues?
“I don’t give a goddamn,” Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.”
“Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.”
“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”
And let's not talk about Reagan funding his illegal war in Nicaragua by selling weapons to Iran.
Ronald Reagan sold weapons illegally to the leading terrorist nation on planet earth. This is on the public record. Google Iran Contra.
(You are worried about the Constitution? Are you kidding?)
Your party has been shredding the Constitution for decades sir. Where are you getting your information. Turn off FOX News and Rush Limbaugh and start studying American History.
(You have been lied to)
