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President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution.
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Although US attorneys are often replaced at the start of a new presidential administration, it is not common to do so in mid-term.
"The dismissed US attorneys have testified under oath and said in public that they believe political influence was applied," the Democrat chairman of the Senate committee Patrick Leahy said at Thursday's hearing.
"If they are right ... then we have a situation highly improper. And it corrodes the public's trust in our system of justice."
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Originally posted by win 52
What is the point of saying people won't put up with this?
Originally posted by win 52
If they put the country under military law, the Pres. can do what ever he/she wants. There will be no such thing as democracy.
Originally posted by win 52
What then, will military people do what they do to ordinary people in countries they police? I have also heard stories from Dutch women about what allied troops did to them. The Iraqui women who were raped, and the list goes on.
Originally posted by win 52
Laugh if you want, but these are valid observations.
Originally posted by win 52
All it would take is one well placed blast and democracy is out the window.
Originally posted by win 52
I would hope we are above that, but power and greed make strange bedfellows.
So does all this "Iron mountain" "PAtriot Act" and whatever other means to disarm all you gun toting americans? really even relate to reality in the USA?
Im thinking just like the dictionary desribes constitution it is mearly a character or condition of mind; disposition; temperament.".
If they put the country under military law, the Pres. can do what ever he/she wants. There will be no such thing as democracy.
Originally posted by Infoholic
Originally posted by win 52
What is the point of saying people won't put up with this?
Because we won't.
Originally posted by win 52
If they put the country under military law, the Pres. can do what ever he/she wants. There will be no such thing as democracy.
Won't happen, because we won't let it happen.
Originally posted by win 52
What then, will military people do what they do to ordinary people in countries they police? I have also heard stories from Dutch women about what allied troops did to them. The Iraqui women who were raped, and the list goes on.
Again, won't happen.
Originally posted by win 52
Laugh if you want, but these are valid observations.
Valid observations, maybe, but not realistic.
Originally posted by win 52
All it would take is one well placed blast and democracy is out the window.
Take a step back and look at how the American people responded to 9/11 (even though that's an ongoing conspiratorial topic). You think for one second that the American people as a whole believe the lies that Bush tried to sell us? I don't. I'd hate to be in Bush's shoes when he ok's another 9/11 here in the homeland. He would have bitten off more than he can chew.
Originally posted by win 52
I would hope we are above that, but power and greed make strange bedfellows.
True, power and greed do make strange bedfellows, but the Heart of the American people as a whole, to give up their Constitution, Rights, and Freedoms will take more than the act of few select corrupt people.
Originally posted by seridium
Your come off way to righteous, with your statements.
Originally posted by seridium
Could you elborate of how you can stop them from changing the 750 laws that were already changed.
Originally posted by seridium
And just incase you missed the whoel 911 deal, Bush administred a Patriot act which give full authority to him and his governemnt to do what they want when they want, why did'nt you stop that?