Impeach President George W. Bush?
Robert Paul Reyes
December 29, 2005
We are a nation at war -- an epic struggle against terrorism.
Our enemy is very real and very ruthless, 9/11 was a sobering experience that demonstrated to us the nature of our adversary.
George W. Bush's mantra of "war on terrorism" comes in handy to excuse and justify any number of nefarious White House policies.
Thanks to the "New York Times" we recently learned that President Bush authorized spying on American citizens without court oversight.
We've long known that Dubya's grammar is suspect, but apparently he also needs to brush up on his civics. There's these pesky little doctrines called "separation of powers" and "checks and balances" that prevents any one branch of government from trampling over our civil rights.
Bush should also bone up on history, he should read about President Franklin Roosevelt's decision to imprison Japanese Americans during World War II, widely regarded as one of the darkest chapters in our history.
Whenever a president suspends civil liberties during wartime, it may help us defeat the enemy, but it stains our soul in the process.
But I can hear the president's defenders chanting, "If you haven't done anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about." Law-abiding, tax-paying citizens would be foolish to presume that the police and military wouldn't investigate anyone without reason.
Martin Luther King is almost universally revered as one of the most influential and righteous men in American history, but this giant of a man was wiretapped by the FBI.
President Bush's post re-election "political capital" evaporated faster than a drop of water in the Sahara Desert, now he attempts to brandish his authority by invoking the mantra of "the war on terrorism."
The president may act as if his authority cannot be challenged as long as he falls back on his "war on terrorism" mantra, but the press can expose him, and Congress can impeach and remove him from power if he flaunts the law.
Our enemy is very real and very ruthless, 9/11 was a sobering experience that demonstrated to us the nature of our adversary.
George W. Bush's mantra of "war on terrorism" comes in handy to excuse and justify any number of nefarious White House policies.
Thanks to the "New York Times" we recently learned that President Bush authorized spying on American citizens without court oversight.
We've long known that Dubya's grammar is suspect, but apparently he also needs to brush up on his civics. There's these pesky little doctrines called "separation of powers" and "checks and balances" that prevents any one branch of government from trampling over our civil rights.
Bush should also bone up on history, he should read about President Franklin Roosevelt's decision to imprison Japanese Americans during World War II, widely regarded as one of the darkest chapters in our history.
Whenever a president suspends civil liberties during wartime, it may help us defeat the enemy, but it stains our soul in the process.
But I can hear the president's defenders chanting, "If you haven't done anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about." Law-abiding, tax-paying citizens would be foolish to presume that the police and military wouldn't investigate anyone without reason.
Martin Luther King is almost universally revered as one of the most influential and righteous men in American history, but this giant of a man was wiretapped by the FBI.
President Bush's post re-election "political capital" evaporated faster than a drop of water in the Sahara Desert, now he attempts to brandish his authority by invoking the mantra of "the war on terrorism."
The president may act as if his authority cannot be challenged as long as he falls back on his "war on terrorism" mantra, but the press can expose him, and Congress can impeach and remove him from power if he flaunts the law.
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