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A Hanging Jury

2.7.06 @ 12:01AM

READER REJECTION
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s Woolsey-Eyed Democrats:

Mr. Tyrell [sic],

Why CNN posts your crap I have no idea. Maybe I can find ONE Conservative Columnist that does not lie or stretch the truth like our president (I should say yours, not mine).

In typical factless fabrication, you said Saddam hosted terrorists before the war on Iraq. Would that be Rumsfeld or Cheney? You said that it was common knowledge. Really?

It is lying pieces of shit like you that make me sick to my stomach about the media. Truth, justice and the American Way has no use for you.

I would debate you in a minute (and George for that matter) and win because then you couldn't hide behind your computer screen.

Quit printing your crap.
-- Bob Dillman
Flagstaff, Arizona

NOOSE LIPS
Re: Jed Babbin's Getting With the NSA Program:

Personally I take the actions taken by the Senators you observed to be clearly High Crimes and Misdemeanors if proven. But I do find in sadly amusing that, we in a state of war, must ponder the consideration of legality if our phone numbers are listed on Bin Laden's global phone. But one might consider that as a disinformation process, putting 10-20 random numbers out of any U.S. phonebook would be beneficial to Al Qaeda.

But I wish to play devil's advocate. Under Article VI, Sec 3. -- "The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution;..." Then couple that with Amend. IV which defines search and seizure procedures and it becomes very clear that all the members of the Executive fall under the Constitution's restrictions, FISA or no. Does the Presidency have the right to spy in defense of the realm? Sure. Does that relieve the Presidency or Congress in fulfilling their duties under the Constitution? No.

So whether you consider FISA clumsy, the President is not relieved of his duty to follow some process as defined by Congress that fulfills the provisions set forth in Amend. IV. But you know we pay all of them fair sums of money to divine such solutions. If the Executive, Congressional and Judiciary cannot reach such an accord then pox on them all. Nothing in the Constitution states that all three branches have to be adversarial all the time. I believe this is one of those times.
-- John McGinnis
Arlington, Texas

Jed Babbin, in his excellent article on NSA and the need for it, cites that in December 2004 Jay Rockefeller, Dick Durbin and Ron Wyden were under criminal investigation for leaking.... Well, what was the outcome? My guess is nothing. There is never a "rest of the story" in Washington. Jim McDermott was never prosecuted for his part in public disclosure of the Martin's illegal picking up on their CB radio and taping a cell phone conversation between New Gingrich and John Boehner. Jay Rockefeller writes memos that go nowhere, designed solely as CYA documents. "Journalists" are quite sanguine when it comes for bird dogging a story on a Democrat. It doesn't happen.

Whatever happened to treason? Whatever happened to hanging for treason? How about tar and feathers? Too painful for our tolerant times? How about honey and feathers? Yellow feathers. Jay would look like Big Bird, Dick would look like a fat fryer and Wyden? Maybe a picked capon. I personally favor a gallows constructed on the mall. As the saying goes: Nothing concentrates the mind like the prospect of one's own hanging.... Our country is worth dying for -- at the end of a rope, if one betrays it.
-- Diane Smith
South San Francisco, California

Do the dunces running this circus comprehend the harm they've done to the country by broadcasting the eavesdropping programs existence? Can't they put their grandstanding aside and understand this was done to protect American lives? And why the breast-beating and shouting after the fact? Here's something else: Do Democrats realize this is a winner for the President? These antics make it look like they care more for the rights of terrorists and those in league with them rather than ordinary citizens! If President Bush gets really critical; watch liberals and their media cohorts retreat; shouting McCarthy as they retreat. Here's a prediction; Republicans pick up two additional Senate seats, based on the issue of national security.
-- Bob Montrose
Fort Lee, New Jersey

"We have met the enemy and he is us." Never were these words more true than they are today. Mr. Babbin is spot on in everything that he has said here. My problem is this, why haven't we heard this day after day and multiple times each day from everyone in the administration starting with George Bush?

Letter to the Editor

topics:
John Boehner, Constitution, Law, Iraq, Iran, NATO