Keep your eye the ball

GratisNet: "It would do well to remain focused in the upcoming fight over the unauthorized spying upon Americans. The dispute is not about 'security' but about whether, in 'wartime', a president must follow the law. It is not about the speed one needs to react to threats for the FISA law clearly allows immediate wiretaps requiring only that the warrant be submitted to the FISA court within 72 hours.

It is, most certainly, about the oversight granted by the constitution to the congress and the courts, over the executive branch. In other words, is the Constitution of The United States still the supreme law of the land? If it is, then the president committed an illegal act when he ordered the wiretaps on the American people. If the constantly changing excuses made by The Coward who would be king (and by extension, his law hating, unamerican apologists) says anything it shouts that these psuedo patriots know damn well that his actions were illegal under both the constitution and US Code.

The unique advice that a president, in his role as CIC, is somehow above the law (L'etat, c'est moi) would be laughable were it not so serious. The bootlickers will raise the example of Lincoln and Habeas Corpus but do not be fooled for the question of whether the president must obey the law, at all times, was settled when the SCOTUS ruled against Truman's attempt to keep the steel plants open in 1952 during the Korean War.

Do not be mislead by claims that the constitution is not a suicide pact, that extreme times call for extreme measures. The fact remains that the principles of the founders, as vested in the constitution will not and cannot be protected by a failure to act within the boundaries set forth by them.

9/11 did not 'change everything' America is still a nation where the law is king.

America is one village that we will not let be destroyed in an attempt to 'save' it."