SERIOUSLY NOW we have got to arrest this moron!

SERIOUSLY NOW, we really have to arrest this moron and his goons…I mean even the god damn Sheeple in this country have got to see him for what he really is…a despot, a tyrant, an out of control ideologue who should be in prison…

Published on Monday, December 19, 2005 by Agence France Presse
Bush Faces Growing Storm Over Secret Wire Taps

"US lawmakers said that President George W. Bush may have broken the law by approving the secret monitoring of phone calls and emails within the United States after the September 11 attacks.
But the administration insisted the wire taps, even without a court warrant, were legal and Vice President Dick Cheney criticised those who he said were not committed to "doing everything" to guard against new terrorist attacks on the United States.
Members of Bush's Republican party and opposition Democrats called, however, for an inquiry into the eavesdropping.
"Whether it was legal is a matter that ought to be examined," Senator Arlen Specter, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told CNN television.
"There are limits to what the president can do under the constitution," Specter said, adding that his committee would hold hearings on the new rights controversy..."

Published on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 by Newsweek
Bush's Snoopgate
The president was so desperate to kill The New York Times'; eavesdropping story, he summoned the paper's editor and publisher to the Oval Office. But it wasn't just out of concern about national security.
by Jonathan Alter

"Finally we have a Washington scandal that goes beyond sex, corruption and political intrigue to big issues like security versus liberty and the reasonable bounds of presidential power. President Bush came out swinging on Snoopgate—he made it seem as if those who didn’t agree with him wanted to leave us vulnerable to Al Qaeda—but it will not work. We’re seeing clearly now that Bush thought 9/11 gave him license to act like a dictator, or in his own mind, no doubt, like Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War..."

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1220-20.htm

Published on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 by The Olympian (Olympia, Washington)
Bush Must Be Held Accountable
George Bush Cannot Protect Democracy by Destroying It.
Editorial

"Every American should be outraged by the president's attempt to justify domestic spying. It's wrong, and the president should acknowledge that fact. He must be held accountable.
Congress should immediately launch a truly bipartisan investigation into the administration's spying campaign. If the Constitution and laws of the United States were broken, Congress should censure the president. And if the lies, the deceit and lawbreaking continue, Congress should take even more drastic action..."
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1220-35.htm

Published on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 by Pierre Tristam/Candide's Notebooks
Trifler, Fibber, Sophist, Spy: How Bush Abolished the Constitution
by Pierre Tristam

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1220-33.htm

"Monday's White House news conference showed President Bush at his craven worst. He defended his decision to authorize spying by citing his reliance on - as he put it - "the constitutional authority to protect our country. Article II of the Constitution gives me that responsibility and the authority necessary to fulfill it." That's the sort of misleading inaccuracy you'd expect from a fast talker in a high school debating match. You don't expect it from a president, though this president has lowered the bar of credible discourse so much that American political discourse usually reeks of barroom skank..."

Published on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 by the Huffington Post
The King's Red Herring
by Kristen Breitweiser

"Recently, President Bush has admitted to carrying out surveillance on U.S. citizens in the interest of national security. He unabashedly admits to doing it. He offers no apologies. With his bellicose swagger, he once again uses 9/11 as his justification for breaking our constitutional laws. The President's justification of 9/11 to carry out such surveillance begs a closer examination. President Bush should be stopped in his tracks with regard to his use of 9/11 scare tactics to circumvent constitutional laws that are meant to protect U.S. citizens. His justification for doing so -- the inability to conduct surveillance on the 9/11 hijackers -- is a red herring. History will bear out the truth -- our intelligence agencies held a treasure trove of intelligence on the 9/11 hijackers, intelligence that was gathered through their initially unencumbered surveillance. President Bush should busy himself by investigating why that information was then stymied and not capitalized upon to stop the 9/11 attacks..."