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Dec. 24, 2005 Should Presidents be allowed carte blanche to run amuck with our constitutional rights? I say not. We, the people of the United States, need to stand up for the rights we were all granted in the Constitution. The Patriot Act eroded many of those rights and now President Bush has spied on people with wiretaps having no legal authorization to do so-just what he calls Presidential Privilege. According to a poll in the Dallas News (www.dallasnews.com, 12/21/05 “Public Divided on Bush Wiretaps“) 51% of this Nation believes that we are headed in the wrong direction! I do too. Recall the original reason for this war with Iraq was because they had weapons of mass destruction. Well we never found any of those so the Bush Administration had to change their tact there and it became a quest to free the people of Iraq from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein. I do not disagree that perhaps Saddam ruled with an iron fist and repressed his people. I do not disagree that they may be better off without him, but it needed to be their decision and not Bush's. According to CNN News (12/22/05) the elections in Iraq are being contested because the people there feel that the vote was pushed toward a particular religious segment and may not actually represent the votes of the people there. Sound familiar? Look no further than the 2000 and 2004 elections where Bush's family bought him the vote and right to sit in the White House. If those elections had been free from bias we would have a very different man sitting in the White House and no doubt we would be far better off than we now are! Let's reflect back at the Patriot Act and all it allows. Congress and the Senate have not decided that we need to keep this act as it is. As a matter of fact they delayed their winter break because they could not agree on this delicate piece of legislation. 13 or so points will be up for contention when they come back in January. Consensus says that they have a short extension of the Patriot Act to determine the merits or lack thereof with these 13 points. I believe that the Patriot Act has given gross latitude to law enforcement agencies to harass and detain people without any real bearing on the facts. 45 days post 9/11 the Patriot Act was signed into law and from that point forward we have seen nothing but fallout from it. People are spirited to Gitmo without the right to call family or counsel. Most have sat there for years without any real charges being filed against them and no idea when they might be freed. Bush was exposed for spying on people right here at home with illegal, if not highly contestable, wiretaps that he claims are well within his purview as President. The last republican to act so boldly was impeached. How can we, as American's, continue to sit silently while Bush does more than Nixon was impeached for? Where is our sense of duty and right from wrong? During the Vietnam War those wiretaps that Nixon knew about and authorized created a giant mis-trust for him as a man and for the remainder of the world with regard to his credibility. He was impeached for this wrong-doing. Don't we see the same dangerous slippery slope developing with Bush? A pattern of lies and deception that is as far reaching as tentacles on an octopus. What I do see is a pattern of lies and deception beginning at the top. Lies and deception authorized and christened from the man that runs our country with the help of his deputized henchmen. This pattern needs to be stopped! I say we impeach Bush for his lies and deception regarding his war with Iraq and now his illegal wiretaps. If more of you believe as I do you can log onto the web site www.VoteToImpeach.org and cast your vote or call/write your state representatives/congress people. More that 600,000 people on the above mentioned web site have already done so. Sources; www.dallasnews.com CNN News www.VoteToImpeach.org ------------ About the author: Michelle Malsbury was born and raised in Champaign, Illinois. She attended Parkland College and the University of Illinois before graduating from the University of Phoenix with her degree in Business Management. Currently she is working on her master’s degree in Organizational Management while concurrently pursuing her lofty writing ambitions. Ms. Malsbury moved to south Florida in 1983 and resides between the Keys and Apalachicola, allowing her to experience the seasonal fluctuations between the southernmost and nearly northernmost beauty in the state of Florida. Travels have taken her from Europe through the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, and across much of the United States. Michelle has been a bartender, real estate agent, flight attendant, beauty contestant, yacht broker, and commodities broker over the years, but writing is her passion. She enjoys outdoor activities like sailing, waterskiing, hiking, bike riding, working out, and fishing as well as reading, music, theatre, playing with her two amusing pets (Abu Chez, her 6 year old Australian Blue Heeler and Zack, her two year old yellow tabby cat) and writing. Michelle is a regular featured author on the web site Useless-Knowledge.com and enjoys exchanging points of view with her comrades there. “Three Years With Adonis” is the first to be published of several books that she has written. In addition to “Three Years With Adonis”, she has authored four other books and three screenplays while continuing to explore all that life hands her. Check out my new web sites. They are; www.3yearswithadonis.com, www.threeyearswithadonis.com, and www.MichelleKayeMalsbury.com. Email Michelle Malsbury: zackywacks@aol.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. 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