Domestic spying funds threatened by GOP senator / Specter wants Bush to stop 'walking all over Congress'
I just read a very disturbing newspaper article: “Domestic spying funds threatened by GOP senator” marking Senator Arlen Specter, a Republican from Pennsylvania, a hero.
Although he doesn’t seem to posses the will to do anything more serious than talk about it, at least he is raising the issue, again, and that issue is President Bush’s disregard for civil rights and his arrogance to do any thing he wants, specifically, domestic spying. Senator Specter wants to know where the outrage is. Doesn’t he recall this was an issue about two months ago? Isn’t it obvious that the administration at the White House diverted the attention to immigration and more recently the price of oil has taken over as hot topics? The senator does make an excellent point, people don’t think it is their problem, it is someone else’s civil rights that are in danger. This is very reminiscent of the beginnings of genocidal holocaust, isn’t it? The fact that people do not think the violation of the rights of others concerns them is timeless. It has always been with us, the French Revolution, Nazi Germany, the Tutsis and the Hutus. We don’t want to stand up and we don’t care about others, plain and simple. I have always been proud that this country has watch dog groups that fight to keep greatest atrocities away, the erosion of any one’s civil rights. The largest group responsible for this should be the US Congress.
I am ashamed of our short attention spans. I saddened more by the Democrat senators who are only reacting to every distraction created by the Republicans to divert attention away from this important issue. Dianne Feinstein of California and Russ Feingold of Wisconsin don’t want senate action to limit President Bush’s ability to spy on me. They say doing anything is legislating in the dark because they don’t know what the investigation will turn up, and the president needs to come to them to make the case that current law is inadequate. From the arrogant president’s point of view, why would he need to do anything? He is just as happy as can be because the senators have no stomach to stop him. The argument that Senator Feingold makes that there are no assurances the president would abide by any restrictions as his logic not to do anything is insulting. I want all of congress to stay on message, defend our constitution and our civil rights. I might not be a subject of domestic spying, how would I know, but any instance of subverting or ignoring laws to protect any one of us is wrong.
Remember the poem by John Donne: No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main.... Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
Saturday, April 29, 2006
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
VILLIAN: Arrest Warrant Sought for Rep. McKinney
Arrest Warrant Sought for Rep. McKinney
Hey, come on. Racism is what Representative Cynthia McKinney is claiming because a US Capitol Police Officer did his job.
When an officer, who is tasked with security at a place where the lawmakers of this country meet, he or she will prevent you from entering if you are not properly creditentialed. How arrogant of McKinny to think that she is so well known that an officer should know who she is and just let her by when she does not have proper identification. Just how many faces would an officer have to memorize to let the ID issue slide, just this once? How many congress members are there? It is over 450. She must think, 'I'm special because I am an important elected official.'
All the officer did was ask McKinny to stop after she just waltzed right by without her ID pin, which she must have forgotten at home, her purse, who knows, she isn't saying, because all she wants to talk about is how victimized she is as an African American. Don't pay attention to the issue of personal responsibility she had in this event, she just start trumping with the race card. She must think, 'I'm special because I am an African American elected official.'
Where our laws are made is a special case, specifically guarded to protect the congress members, and our precious liberty, republic, and democratic ways. But nothing the officer did should have provoked McKinny striking an officer. It was her arrogance and reliance upon special treatment that made her do it. I hope the law triumphs and justice is served.
Hey, come on. Racism is what Representative Cynthia McKinney is claiming because a US Capitol Police Officer did his job.
When an officer, who is tasked with security at a place where the lawmakers of this country meet, he or she will prevent you from entering if you are not properly creditentialed. How arrogant of McKinny to think that she is so well known that an officer should know who she is and just let her by when she does not have proper identification. Just how many faces would an officer have to memorize to let the ID issue slide, just this once? How many congress members are there? It is over 450. She must think, 'I'm special because I am an important elected official.'
All the officer did was ask McKinny to stop after she just waltzed right by without her ID pin, which she must have forgotten at home, her purse, who knows, she isn't saying, because all she wants to talk about is how victimized she is as an African American. Don't pay attention to the issue of personal responsibility she had in this event, she just start trumping with the race card. She must think, 'I'm special because I am an African American elected official.'
Where our laws are made is a special case, specifically guarded to protect the congress members, and our precious liberty, republic, and democratic ways. But nothing the officer did should have provoked McKinny striking an officer. It was her arrogance and reliance upon special treatment that made her do it. I hope the law triumphs and justice is served.
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