I was reading through the website of the House, Government Reform and Oversight Committee today and I came across a news release from House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) dated 3/14/08 where he states that:
"We learned just yesterday that the FBI was continuing to misuse the authorities we granted it under the Patriot Act six years ago to unlawfully obtain information about law abiding Americans. We learned just four days ago that the National Security Agency was using its massive powers to create a nationwide data base of American citizens."
It seems that our fears have been realized that our government has been abusing all its powers against the American people. When I was younger and in school, we had a teacher that would tell us, "Never trust anyone that says, trust me." Oh how true that is. I was watching TV the other day and there was a television show on that showed all the times through our history when a president would get special rules to protect us from a perceived threat. Without exception every time special powers were supposedly needed to protect American citizens the special powers given were abused.
To hear Bush and Chaney talk, they are not our representatives to carry out the will of the American people, they are visionaries that need to stay the coarse no matter what the majority think because the majority are whimsical that are unable to appreciate the bigger picture to know what's good for them or their country. So we need to allow our president, his administration, and all their cronies to chose which laws that they are going to abide by or not and not question their actions because we are supposed to trust them to do what's right for the country and us. I didn't know that was how America was supposed to run. I was under the impression that the people in our government were chosen by the people to carry out the wishes of the people. I think people like Bush and Chaney were exactly the kind of people and ideas the founders of our country had in mind when they didn't give absolute power to the president and instead split it up among the president, the Senate, and the House. I think Thomas Jefferson would be rolling in his grave now with the state of the country being what it is. The big problem now is how to fix our government so that it runs the way it is supposed to.
