The Constitutional Crisis Continues

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Wed, 8 Feb 2006 22:05:56 -0600

DVO: Van Os commits to make Bush accountable

 

 

The Constitutional Crisis Continues

By David Van Os, seen in the picture last August with Cindy Sheehan &

Dave Haigler, below left

 

 

 

Haigler, left, & Van Os visit SheehanThe argument that George Bush's

puppet Alberto Gonzales uses to defend illegal wiretapping to the

United States Senate boils down to the outrageous assertion that

neither the Congress nor the courts have any authority to place limits

on whatever the president decides the Constitution means or an act of

Congress means. Gonzales and his master have made it as plain as day

that they do not consider themselves restrained by anybody's version

of the law other than their own. As far as they are concerned, there

are no checks and balances, and they are the law. This is a trait of

dictatorship, not democracy.

 

 

 

The Constitution and the Bill of Rights belong to Texans just as much

as to any other Americans. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott took an

oath to uphold the Constitution when he accepted the office. Where is

his voice in this crisis? Why has he not spoken up on behalf of the

Constitutional rights of his clients, the people of Texas? He sure

can't say that he has no authority to intervene, when he is

intervening in Georgia federal court right now on behalf of inserting

creationist doctrine in place of science in Georgia school textbooks.

Fellow Texans, there is a simple reason why Greg Abbott follows the

Bushites' power-grabbing ultra-right wing party line to the hilt. He

is one of them.

 

 

 

Fellow Texans, are you familiar with the name John Colyandro? You may

know that Colyandro was a central figure in the Tom DeLay-Republican

Party money-laundering plan that placed huge sums of illegal corporate

dollars in the hands of Texas Republican candidates in the general

election of 2002. But did you know that during that same 2002 general

election campaign Colyandro was a senior staff member in Greg Abbott's

campaign for Attorney General?

 

 

 

And are you familiar with the name Bob Perry of Perry Homebuilders?

You may know that Bob Perry is one of the biggest financial

contributors to Rick Perry and to various ultra-right wing campaigns.

You may know that Bob Perry was the primary financier for the lying

insults the so-called " Swift Boat Veterans " hurled at the honorable

John Kerry. But did you know that Greg Abbott is one of Bob Perry's

favorite candidates? Since 2001 Bob Perry and his wife have

contributed over $570,000 to Abbott's campaign accounts. In the month

of December 2005 alone, Perry gave Abbott $50,000 in a single payment.

 

 

 

Bush and his puppet attorney general Gonzales will probably still be

defying the Constitution and the rule of law and spying on American

citizens in January 2007 when I take office as Texas Attorney General.

As your new Attorney General, I will file the lawsuits against the

federal government and federal officials, including the president and

attorney general, which individual Texans do not have the means to

file on their own to stop this headlong rush to trash our

Constitution. And today, I challenge Greg Abbott to fulfill his oath

of office to the people of Texas and file those lawsuits now. The

people will be waiting.