"President Washington, President Lincoln, President Wilson, President Roosevelt have all authorized electronic surveillance on a far broader scale."
Alberto Gonzales, U.S. Attorney General during Monday's NSA hearings
Nobody said that the Bush Administration was smart, but at least they should know a little bit about history.
The duties of the Attorney General is to defend the United States Constitution. Alberto Gonzales, though, doesn't qualify for a legitimate defender of the Constitution. The quote by which he claimed that Presidents from the past. From Washington to Lincoln, to Wilson and Roosevelt have used electronic surveillance was a smug attempt to protect the Bush Administration from further damage.
The thought that President Washington used electronic surveillance during his time as President was absolutely laughable. What, did he use tin cans to spy on enemy soldiers? What proof does the Bush Administration have that our very 1st President broke the law in order to spy on the citizens of the United States?
The answer is none.
Attorney General Gonzales thought it would be cool to throw out the names of Presidents just so he can sucker people into believing that hey, if Washington can do it, so can Bush. And, because there are so many brain dead Americans who'll just about believe anything that comes out of the Conservative media, no one will take him to task for it, except the blogosphere.
The Bush Administration is run like a Mafia Syndicate. A group of imperial thugs who sprinkle voodoo powder on the brain dead of America who'll follow their every lead like good little school boys and girls.
Everyone knows that the Bush Administration is the most evil and corrupt in the history of this great nation. Look what happened in New Orleans. Only a crooked President and his thugs could conjure up a tragedy like that and blame the poor on New Orleans for their hardships.
The War in Iraq is a diaster. The debt is soaring to record highs. Politicians are heading to jail and Osama Bin Laden is still on the loose. So, does that mean everyone will come to their senses and vote the Republicans out of office?
The answer is a maybe. Americans who agree with Democrats on Domestic issues will piss those away to vote for Republicans. Because, in the eyes of many Americans, Democrats=Terrorism. And, Conservatives will use every dirty trick in the book to persuade half of the population to vote for their perverse ideology.
Attorney General Gonzales knows his man, President Syphillis broke the law. That's why he conjure up some fairy tale about Presidents Washington and Lincoln using electronic surveillance.
Doesn't this joke of a man have any common sense? There was no electronic surveillance in Washington's time. Who does he think we are, fools? But the joke's on us. We've allowed ourselves to be made into fools by an administration that has made America into a nation of zombiesque morons. We could throw Gonzales quote away like dirty underwear and laugh it off. After all, the Conservative media has taught us to give our Government the benefit of the doubt.
If McCarthyism, Vietnam, Watergate, Iran-Contra, Lewinsky-Gate, and the Iraq War has taught us, is to never give our Government the Benefit of the doubt. To do so, will allow them to make fools of us. And, it has happened and will continue to happpen.
But hey, nobody knows history like Conservatives. After all, in their eyes, George Washington was a electronic genius.