Last night I posted a link that included the Justice Departments opinion that the President has the right to do anything he wants, whenever he wants to. To hell with "your" rights, we want to know everything that your doing they said.
The Raw Story and other news outlets have released the
42 page Justice Department document that outlines the "inherent constitutional authority" of the POTUS to "conduct warrentless surveillance."
Bertrand Russell wrote that
"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." This has never been so true as it is today. We have been pushed into a closet of fear. We have been told that everything that we do (Bush Co. and Congressional Republicans) is for our own good. They are protecting us; they will keep the bad guys away.
The truth is that for them to do this they believe that some laws must be broken. It is also felt that some rights must be abandoned. The distrubing thing is that many, not most Americans believe that this is ok. If your one of these people WAKE UP! Our security blanket is being picked apart by vultures of fear.
The Constitution and the first ten amendments specifically were created to outline a boundary for actions by our government. It outlines our moral highground. When we abandon those standards in the name of "security" or "to protect our American Way of Life," we ultimatly give up what we are fighting for; freedom, justice, our right to live as we want on our own terms. If we allow this government or any other, Democrat included, to cut corners, we lose the fundamental ideas that helped us get to this point.
We cannot fear so much that it blurs the line between moral governing with Big Brother. This is our time to stand up and fight our enemies, foreign and domestic on OUR terms. If that means that we make it a little harder to do, so be it as long as we keep our democratic traditions and intergrity intact. 30 years from now, our grandchildren will be learning about this important turning point in our nations history. Will they be proud, or will they not know what they lost because we didn't stand up and say "NO, not this way."