A "Nation of Laws" Whose Government Violates Its Own Laws

December 16, 2005:

Remember this?

“It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”
George Orwell – “1984”

Bush now admits having ordered U.S. Citizens - people like me in particular - spied upon without court approval. That's without even approval from the Nachtgericht affair unconstitutionally provided for by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, that's totally on his own. Like a goddamned dictator. That's without approval of the United States Constitution too, you'll notice. More vindication (see my article above here) for my book "Letters to Aaron, of course. Vindication, too, for essays written for sites like UselessKnowledge.com, Yahoo 360, Google Blogsite, and others; all of which drew howls of indignation from Bush and federal government sycophants. "We don't do things like that." Now the same people will attempt double-talking and equivocating justification.

Well, let me point out a couple of things to people like my UselessKnowledge friend Dr. Brooks Mick and his ilk: What your fearless while feckless leader has done is a crime. It is unconstitutional - which you somehow choose to forget is a law. For an official of the federal government - and I remind us all that the President of the United States is an official of the U.S. Government - to ignore the Constitution of the United States is "a high crime and a misdemeanor." You may also recall that that is grounds for impeachment, and I have begun writing my representatives in the U.S. Congress to demand just that.

This president is not only incompetent, he is a criminal. The same day he admitted his crime, he "changed his mind" about torturing prisoners. CHANGED HIS MIND! ABOUT TORTURE! This man has not only lied for the purpose of serving the interests of the military industrial complex who bought and paid for him, and to send us into an illegal war, he permitted, either by knowing silence or by order, torture of prisoners. Now this. What the hell does it take to impeach this son of a bitch?

I said "demand." I'm going to do more than that. I'm going to file my lawsuit against the federal government again, adding this latest outrage to the already ample grounds. There is no doubt whatever than I was among those illegally abused, and I have proof in the form of both computer records data and witnesses. I wrote about it at the time, besides.

The question that remains is what will the public do? What will the Congress do? What will the lawyers and the courts do? To know that a crime has been committed and do nothing, let me again remind us all, is a crime, a crime known as "subornation." In other words, for George W. Bush to stay in office makes the other branches of federal government criminals, should they fail to act. More, it makes criminals of everyone in the nation who does nothing to have him impeached.

Lawyers all over the country know that everything I say here is true. Yet I can predict with a high degree of probability that I will be right when I say that nothing will be done by any of them. But it will prove one thing incontrovertibly, and before the world. This, "The Nation of Laws," is a nation that contemptuously violates law, including its own. Then, if that weren't enough, people like Ward Churchill, Fidel Castro - and, yes, me - face a Greek chorus of sycophants like Fox News, the good Doctor Mick, and the all the "patriots" of the right wing when we wonder how a nation and government that can't be trusted to obey its own enactments can be expected to obey any other law, including international.

IF GEORGE W. BUSH ISN'T IMPEACHED, THAT FACT WILL HAVE REMOVED ANY REMAINING DOUBT ABOUT THE UNITED STATES AND THE THREAT IT REPRESENTS FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD. Professor Ward Churchill and President Fidel Castro will have been vindicated. EVERYONE WILL KNOW WHAT I HAVE LONG KNOWN, AND WHAT PEOPLE LIKE THE PEOPLE OF NEW ORLEANS HAVE RECENTLY LEARNED - THAT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND ITS GOVERNMENT CANNOT BE TRUSTED.

I suggest you think about that.