We’ve Already Allowed Too Much

Bush has taken our right to privacy away and there doesn’t seem to be a damn thing we can do about it. His power is so great that he is accountable to no one. Just think about that for a second. Bush can do anything, legal or illegal, and there isn’t anything or anyone to stop him. He has absolute power and we are now in a position where we must simply trust that he is using that power for good. This is no longer America.

We have been hoping that the press will stop licking Bush’s boots and start looking into his dirty dealings, but if the President can track their phone calls, make sure that no one on the inside gives them information, perhaps even gather incriminating or embarrassing information on the reporters themselves, the chances of that happening become slimmer and slimmer.

We have been hoping that the Republican Congress would be frightened to action by Bush’s low poll numbers and start investigating the NSA secret domestic surveillance program, but chances are, their phone records have been collected too and what do you want to bet that most of them have something they’d rather keep hidden.

We have been hoping that Patrick Fitzgerald will be able to take down Rove and perhaps even Cheney and Bush too in the CIA leak case, but the special prosecutor isn’t special enough to avoid having his calls tracked. Lawyers defending the White House might know everything that Fitzgerald knows through these nefarious means.

We are hoping that the Democrats will take over at least one chamber of Congress in November, but we may see some of the worst dirty tricks ever this campaign season. If the NSA can gather information on Democrats running for office with impunity and turn that information over to the White House who can then pass it along to the political hacks, there may not even be a small chance of anything changing in DC.

The press, like the general public, seems to lack outrage when it comes to this administration and what we have allowed to pass does not bode well for our future. We have allowed elections that defy logic conducted on machines that are as secret as the NSA. We simply don’t know what the will of the people is anymore, there’s no way to measure it. We have allowed for American citizens to be held without trial. We have allowed for political operatives in the White House, with the knowledge of the President and Vice President, to expose a clandestine CIA agent under non-official cover. We have allowed an unprovoked invasion of a sovereign nation. We have allowed for secret prisons and torture. We have allowed the President to break the law and amass our personal information, calling habits and Internet use in direct violation of our forth amendment rights. A mere five years ago, any one of these things would have been unthinkable and would have sparked public outrage, but today, ALL of these things have been done and there have been NO repercussions.

What else are we going to allow before we say, “enough is enough”? Are we going to allow a pre-emptive attack on Iran? Are we going to sit idly by while we drop tactical nuclear weapons on a country that poses no threat to us? Will we allow more “upset” elections to go unnoticed? Will we continue to allow the erosion of our freedoms? Will we continue to allow a President to spit on our Constitution and claim it doesn’t apply to him?

If the press won’t do anything, the Congress refuses to do anything and our honest public officials can’t do anything about it, that leaves only the people. This President and Vice President must be impeached. We have already allowed too much, if we allow anymore, America will only be a memory and we will have to share in the blame.