“Let me put it to you bluntly. In a changing world, we want more people to have control over your own life.” President Bush, August 9th 2004
2000: Today’s newspapers report president-elect Bush’s comment of yesterday: “If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator”.
2005: Bush Attorney General Gonzales tries to defend the president’s decision to allow spying on Americans without obtaining the warrants required by U.S. law. Gonzales claims today that Congress authorized this when it granted Bush the power to fight terrorism in a resolution, the ‘Authorization to use Military Force’, passed days after 9/11. Senator Russ Feingold responded: “This is just an outrageous power grab. Nobody, nobody, thought when we passed a resolution to invade Afghanistan and to fight the war on terror, including myself who voted for it, thought that this was an authorization to allow a wiretapping against the law of the United States. There’s two ways you can do this kind of wiretapping under our law. One is through the criminal code, Title III; the other is through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. That’s it. That’s the only way you can do it. You can’t make up a law and deriving it from the Afghanistan resolution. The president has, I think, made up a law that we never passed”.
“How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words” Colonist and Patriot Sam Adam
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