 | Democrats Against Barbara Mikulski |
It’s just six months until George W. Bush leaves the White House. He’s the most unpopular president in American history.
Desperate to cover up his crimes, Bush tells Congress to pass a law that will retroactively legalize his illegal spying programs that snooped on the private communications of millions of Americans. So, what does Democratic Senator Barbara Mikulski do? She agrees to do it.
Why? Why would Senator Mikulski betray her constituents like that, allowing for their constitutional rights to be trampled by George W. Bush?
This issue is too important just to forget about after the vote is cast. The law that Mikulski says she will vote for tomorrow, the FISA Amendments Act, allows the White House to continue spying on Americans’ private conversations, and even to search our homes, without any search warrant or other proof of suspicion, for years to come.
Senator Mikulski’s vote for the FISA Amendments Act is a blatant violation of the Oath of Office, and a grave breach of trust. For that reason, progressive Democrats in Maryland are organizing in opposition to Mikulski’s re-election campaign for 2010.
This article is our little bit to that effort - our statement of Maryland Democrats Against Mikulski.
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Legally, ethically logically and politically this whole retro-active immunity makes no sense.
It’s an admission of guilt, yet Congress will pass it anyway. How does that make the United States any better than Zimbabwe, where Mugabe does whatever he wants with complete immunity? Anyone looking at the long troubled history of our country (from the slaughter of the natives and the confiscation of their land through a “might makes right” policy to slavery of foreigners, to corporate America and unbridled capitalism which now has the U.S. military and the CIA at its disposal to regain foreign resources) cannot help but see what we really are - greedy thugs who manipulate the rules and the social contract to fit our purposes. We lie, cheat, steal, and destroy with impunity to get our way. We’re completely despicable and i can’t imagine anyone wanting to “be like us”.
Just what does the Congress’ ethics committee do? They certainly don’t argue about the FISA Amendment or the Patriot Act or any of the other fascist policies which Congress approved over the past 8 years. Congress is now a sad, cruel joke. The “Justice” department is no longer anything but a rubber stamp for the fascist in chief, who merely makes policy out of corporate desires.
Where are all the Constitutional lawyers? Why is it that no one challenges this stuff? Because at the end of the road the stacked “Supreme Court” will somehow see it the way the new policies dictate.
So much for “change we can believe in.”
Comment by Tom — 7/9/2008 @ 7:41 am