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Our nation is again under attack. The incursion is being launched from 1600 N. Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC.
The White House has decided to spin their little Right Wing Media machine and make it spit out the following talking point: "The New York Times was wrong to leak this story about the NSA spying on our own citizens, just like the leakers who talked about Valerie Plame were wrong."
INCORRECT. The Plame case was a CLEAR violation of a law which states that it is illegal for government officials to reveal the identification of an UNDERCOVER OPERATIVE. That's it. That's the law that was broken when Valerie Plame was outed.
ANYONE spying on Americans, without a warrant and probable cause, is Un-American. They are actively fighting for the destruction of the Constitution. They must be outed and their efforts nullified and destroyed.
I dare say, their attempts to destroy that Constitution can do nothing but bolster our enemies resolve to take the rest of it. They are giving aid and comfort to our enemies, both at home and abroad, by showing that we WILLINGLY give up our freedom to remain fat and happy.
The USA PATRIOT Act (and please, don't call it the Patriot Act. It's not an act for Patriots. USA PATRIOT is a giant, convoluted acronym. They just invented it to spell out Patriot. When the Gators had a chance at the national championship a few years back, I created the Paul Unified Nationalchampionship Theory. See.. PUNT. It's football related.)...
Anyhow. The USA PATRIOT Act along with this situation with Bush instructing the NSA (which was chartered SPECIFICALLY to NOT spy on Americans.) to spy on Americans, this kid in Massachusetts who ordered "The Little Red Book" through his inter-library loan for a project and got Feds showing up at his house.
All these things are part of the same attack. Right-wingers are saying, "Well, you shouldn't care about what they're doing if you're not a terrorist." The thing is though, that is EXACTLY where police states and dictatorships start.
It is also where the United States Constitution stops.
Amendment IV
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
It's pretty straight-forward folks. If you are an American, you have the right to a warrant being sworn out against you, with probable cause, before the government can search through your stuff. That is your right as AN AMERICAN.
We have given up our moral high ground as a people, as a democracy and as those who live under the banner of liberty. The terrorists advanced on our sovereign rights as a people and our President HAS CUT AND RUN. Rather than defending our rights jealously, and refusing to bastardize the Constitution to "keep us safe", he has cut and run, and allowed the Fourth Amendment to fall under the sword.
We have fought the First Battle of the American Constitution and we have lost.
Those Amendments are the Ten Commandments of our government. Can you imagine if the President said to Christians, "Henceforth, we're going to stop some of you from honoring your parents. I'm sorry, but it's in the best interests of our national security if we don't let a few of you follow all Ten Commandments?"
The entire Christian population in this country would riot, and, as a proud Christian, I would lead a division of them.
One of America's ten commandments are under attack from our own government. The ultra-right wingers, the "strict Constitutionalists", the executors of the "Constitutional option" are, to be frank, pissing on the graves of those who died to keep those National Commandments intact.
Those men and women who died in the DEFENSE of our country did so, in part, so our rule of law and the foundations of our national identity, stemming from the Constitution, would survive and prevail.
I can't link this to the campaign, I just can't. Other than to say, if Dave is elected, he will fight against these illegal, immoral and Un-American acts.
We MUST follow the lead of John McCain, Arlen Specter and Russ Feingold. We CANNOT allow the nobility of freedom, the moral high ground that liberty provides and the fundamental bulwark of our nation, the United States Constitution, to fall, whether the attack on it comes from within OR without.