Re: The U.S. War on Journalists

On May 15, 11:12=A0pm, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)" <fin...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
> "Andrew Swallow" <am.swal...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> coughed up....
>
> > The US
> > Constitution had clauses inserted to limit the powers of the
> > president. =A0Any limitations in the US Constitution are self
> > imposed rather than international law and only apply within
> > the jurisdiction of the USA Federal Government.
>
> The President of the USA, especially George W. Bush, can take a big,
> fat dump on the US Constitution any time he so chooses... and the
> only people who can do anything about it are the military.
Unfortunately,
> their balls are in a more serious set of shackles than the ordinary
civili=
an.
>
> The Presidential =A0"Signing Statement"
=A0dictator****p...http://www.tenth=
amendmentcenter.com/2007/02/13/the-signing-statement-...http://www.abanet.or=
g/media/releases/news072406.htmlhttp://www.fff.org/comment/com0610c.asphttp:=
//writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20060113.htmlhttp://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/sig=
ningstatements.phphttp://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060721/21signin=
g.htmhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/US/07/25/dobbs.july26/index.htmlhttp://www.time=
..com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1149361,00.htmhttp://www.boston.com/news/n=
ation/articles/2006/04/30/bush_challenges...http://www.coherentbabble.com/si=
gningstatements/TOCindex.htmhttp://www.fff.org/comment/com0610c.asphttp://ww=
w.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/27/AR200...http://www.gu=
ardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1828114,00.html?gusrc=3Drsshttp://www.antiwar.com/=
ips/fisher.php?articleid=3D9222
> And over one million
more....http://www.google.com/search?hl=3Den&q=3DGeor=
ge+Bush%2C+signing+statement...
>
> _____________________________________
>
> "It's just a goddamned piece of paper." =A0 =A0 =A0-- George W. Bush
>
> Capitol Hill Blue - Dec 9,
2005http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publi=
sh/article_7779.shtml
>
> Bush on the Constitution: 'It's just a goddamned piece of paper'
> By DOUG THOMPSON
>
> Last month, Republican Congressional leaders filed into the Oval Office
> to meet with President George W. Bush and talk about renewing the
> controversial USA Patriot Act.
>
> Several provisions of the act, passed in the shell shocked period
> immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, caused enough anger
> that liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union had joined
> forces with prominent conservatives like Phyllis Schlafly and Bob Barr
> to oppose renewal.
>
> GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous
> provisions of the act could further alienate conservatives still mad at
> the President from his botched attempt to nominate White House Counsel
> Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.
>
> "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!"
>
> I've talked to three people present for the meeting that day and they
> all confirm that the President of the United States called the
> Constitution a goddamned piece of paper.
>
> And, to the Bush Administration, the Constitution of the United States
> is little more than toilet paper stained from all the **** that this
> group of power-mad despots have dumped on the freedoms that goddamned
> piece of paper used to guarantee.
>
> Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, while still White House counsel,
> wrote that the Constitution is an outdated document.
>
> Put aside, for a moment, political affiliation or personal beliefs. It
> doesn't matter if you are a Democrat, Republican or Independent. It
> doesn't matter if you sup****t the invasion or Iraq or not. Despite our
> differences, the Constitution has stood for two centuries as the
> defining document of our government, the final source to determine in
> the end if something is legal or right.
>
> Every federal official including the President who takes an oath of
> office swears to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United
> States."
>
> Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says he cringes when someone calls
> the Constitution a living document.
>
> "Oh, how I hate the phrase we have a 'living document," Scalia says.
> "We now have a Constitution that means whatever we want it to mean. The
> Constitution is not a living organism, for Pete's sake"
>
> As a judge, Scalia says, "I don't have to prove that the Constitution
> is perfect; I just have to prove that it's better than anything else."
>
> President Bush has proposed seven amendments to the Constitution over
> the last five years, including a controversial amendment to define
> marriage as a union between a man and woman. Members of Congress have
> proposed some 11,000 amendments over the last decade, ranging from
> repeal of the right to bear arms to a Constitutional ban on abortion.
>
> Scalia says the danger of tinkering with the Constitution comes from a
> loss of rights.
>
> "We can take away rights just as we can grant new ones," Scalia warns.
> "Don't think that it's a one-way street."
>
> And don't buy the White House hype that the USA Patriot Act is a
> necessary tool to fight terrorism. It is a dangerous law that infringes
> on the rights of every American citizen and, as one brave aide told
> President Bush, something that undermines the Constitution of the
> United States.
>
> But why should Bush care? After all, the Constitution is just a
> goddamned piece of paper.

  We didn't really except Bush to care. Since GPS, AUVs,
  and PV Cells were invented primarily for the wanks from
  the Ivy League schools like Bush.