Traitorous Bitches and Bastards

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Traitorous Bitches & Bastards

 

By Doug Thompson

Capitol Hill Blue

2-18-6

 

Those bagpipes you hear playing in the background provide a much-

needed funeral dirge for freedom, which died this week at the hands

of the United States Congress.

 

Freedom has been on its deathbed for about five years now, mortally-

wounded in the post-9/11 frenzy that put political expediency above

the Constitution and gave paranoia supremacy over what used to be

guarantees of individual rights for all Americans.

 

Freedom went on the endangered-species list in the hours following

the 9/11 attacks when President George W. Bush turned to attorney

general John Ashcroft and said " John, take whatever steps you feel

are necessary to make sure something like this never, ever, happens

again. "

 

Turning a zealot like Ashcroft loose on the Constitution is like

giving Bill Clinton the keys to a sorority house. Someone is going to

get screwed big-time and in this case it was, collectively, the whole

concept of freedom and individual rights in this country.

 

Ashcroft crafted his personal vision of a new America, one ruled by a

police state reporting to a totalitarian government, and called it

the USA Patriot Act. It sailed through a shell-shocked Congress like

a fraternity on a panty raid and gave Bush and his gang of thugs all

they needed to create a new American Gestapo, detaining this nation's

citizens without due course, spying on Americans without warrants and

setting the country on a headlong rush to ruin.

 

The abuses of the Patriot Act proved so onerous that even firebrand

conservatives like Bob Barr joined forces with uber-liberals like the

American Civil Liberties Union to fight it.

 

Late last year, spurred by anger over Bush's admission that he

authorized the warrantless spying on Americans by the National

Security Act, the Patriot Act appeared to face serious opposition

when it came up for renewal. Congress twice granted temporary

extensions and promised to add new language to protect the civil

liberties of Americans.

 

But, as happens all too often in Washington, those promises vanished

into thin air as the Patriot Act this week cleared hurdle after

hurdle and heads for permanent renewal when the goons who call

themselves our elected representatives return from the President's

Day recess.

 

In the end, the White House " negotiated " a set of meaningless changes

with a handful of Republicans and the so-called compromise sailed

through the Senate Thursday on a 96-3 vote. Even worse, the

Republican-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee successfully

blocked attempts to open an inquiry in Bush's use of the National

Security Agency to spy on Americans.

 

Not that the Democrats did that much to stop it. Even those who spoke

out about Bush's spying on Americans said they supported the concept

but only opposed how the President went about it. As long as he got

warrants, they said, they didn't really care who the NSA snooped on.

And a bunch of Democrats joined with Republicans Thursday to keep the

rights-robbing USA Patriot Act the law of the land.

 

Which means virtually no one - Democratic or Republican, conservative

or liberal, left or right - can claim the high road when it comes to

destroying freedom in the United States. Only Sen. Russ Feingold, D-

Wis., seems to realize the dangers of the act, continuing to fight it

and saying the law, even as amended, allows " government fishing

expeditions " and an outright assault on the Constitution.

 

For the most part, the rest of Congress sold out the people who

elected them to office, all Americans who depend on Congress to serve

as a check and balance on the excesses of the White House and the

Constitution of the United States.

 

Yes, freedom died this week and just about every one of the bitches

and bastards who " serve " in Congress should take a long, hard look at

the blood on their hands. They stand guilty of high crimes and

treason against the United States of America. They are traitors and

should be treated as such.

 

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