WASHINGTON, D.C. December 16, 2055 (A.F.P.) - In a stunning piece of historical irony, U.S. President
Melinda Salazar expressed gratitude today when the Supreme Court of the United States upheld her decision to wiretap, without a warrant the, phones of Texas Secretary of State Georgia W. Bush.
The court based its decision on the precedent of Penn v. Bush. In 2006, the actor and Academy Award winner Sean Penn sued Ms. Bush's grandfather, then-President George W. Bush for allowing the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Penn's phone calls and e-mails as they related to Penn's first and second trip to Iraq during the buildup to and aftermath of what is now known as the Iraq Crusade. At the time, Bush defended his actions by saying that these steps were within his powers as a wartime president, and were necessary to understand whether Penn was involved with terrorists. In, 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Bush's decision in a 5-4 opinion written by Recess-Appointee Justice Samuel Alito.
President Salazar argued that the
April 19 and
20, 2052 terrorist bombings of the U.S. Federal Buildings in Houston and Miami - and the War on White Supremacist Aggression (WOWSA) that she declared in its aftermath - justified her authorizing eavesdropping on those affiliated with White Supremacist Networks.
Salazar swept into power in November 2048 on 60% of the vote with an unprecedented coalition of Hispanic, Asian, Africa-American, Mixed Race and White Progressive Voters. Her election ignited protests among ultra-conservative White voters who have found their political influence diminishing over the past half-century, as their percentage of the population has decreased in comparison to other ethnic groups.
Salazar ran for President on a platform of continuing the work of her father - the late Senator Ken Salazar - who became a pioneer in bringing people together to fight intolerance and bigotry.
Georgia Bush was convicted in 2053 of abetting the White Supremacist, Timothy Cheney - grandson to the late Vice President, Dick Cheney - in his plot to blow up the Federal buildings in Houston and Miami. 2752 people died in those explosions. Cheney was executed earlier this year.
In explaining their verdict, the jurors in Georgia Bush's case cited one of Ms. Bush's comments in wire-tapped phone conversation with Cheney. "Tim, people like you and me, we're in what we call the reality-based community," she said. "We believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality. White America is an empire, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while the others are studying that reality we'll act again, creating other new realities, which they can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and them, all of them, will be left to just study what we do."
Bush's lawyer, Karl Lenhard, said in a prepared statement: "With this decision, the Supreme Court has violated the principles on which this nation was founded. We have no other recourse but to take our argument to the people! Ms. Bush's grandfather, the late great George W. Bush is turning over in his grave right now."