Rant of the Week

The Bush Police State

“The law has recognized that force (including deadly force) may be legitimately used in self-defense,” Mr. Yoo and Mr. Delahunty wrote to Mr. Gonzales. Therefore any objections based on the Fourth Amendment’s ban on unreasonable searches are swept away, they said, since any possible privacy offense resulting from such a search is a lesser matter than any injury from deadly force. NY Times, March 3, 2009.

Mr. Yoo and Mr. Delahunty were Bush Administration officials who believed they could justify unconstitutional and illegal actions because someone might die. This rationale would come as a huge surprise to Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. How could they not have foreseen that lives would be endangered if the police were not allowed to enter your house and search it at will?

It's just one final piece-- the release of memos detailing how the Bush Administration, in hysterics after 9/11, contemplated a police state.

Don't ever again ever believe a "Conservative" when he tells you he loves freedom and democracy and especially if he claims he loves the constitution.

And if he claims to be a Christian and he loves George Bush because he stood for Christian values then, lest you believe that Christians do not believe in freedom, let me tell you these people are not Christians.

They have all either spoken out clearly in condemnation of these memos, or they are all cold-blooded, contemptible liars.