How can we continue to stand by and watch the president and the Congress allow our rights to slip away?
For the Congress to grant approval to warrantless wiretapping is nothing short of absurd. The balance of powers has already erode to the point of being on the verge of an autocracy, with power being handed to a man who has little interest in the good of the nation.
Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, all the men who put their lives on the line for liberty (and even, I expect, those who opposed independency) would be appalled. George Washington wisely refused to be king, and left the office of the president before the people were willing to see him leave it, because he knew that it was important for the government to work.
Yes, terrorism is a terrible thing, and, yes, it it terrible partly because it circumvents the rules. But suspending the rules of the civilized world to try to eliminate it is not the answer. Like parenting, boundaries have to be set, and it is up to the people in charge to keep the boundaries. If we change the rules on the whim of the objector, we have anarchy.
We have a weak, wimpy Congress, with a majority that only does lip service to change, instead of forcing it. We need to see courageous choices, not safe, money-source-pleasing ones.
If we continue down this path, one of two things will happen. We will become a dictatorship under the rule of an idiot.
Or we will be governed by a Congress that is the pawn of the rich and influential.
It's not too late to change. Teddy Roosevelt stood up to corruption. Certainly the Congress can do the right thing.
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