Woo-dee-flippin-hoo, baybee.
Some of you will remember my exuberant
posting last week of
C. Page's op-ed piece in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, scarlet bastion of East Los Angeles County.
Well.
Today it's my turn. Here's the
link, but since I wrote it (with many suggestions and ideas from you folks here, thank you very much), I guess I can blockquote it whole if I dern well please.
The Tribs, they are a-changing.
Spying outrages
The president's comments during his Dec. 17 radio address are deeply disturbing. He repeatedly ordered the National Security Agency to secretly spy on Americans and he's going to keep on doing it, to protect me?
The president proudly acknowledges violating: (1.) The Fourth Amendment guarantee against warrantless searches; (2.) the federal act that created the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court to oversee covert domestic investigations, and (3.) U.S. Signals Intelligence Directive 18, which prohibits domestic spying by the NSA.
These are federal crimes demanding impeachment.
Why did he circumvent the notably quick FISA secret court, which almost never rejects such requests? Might the FISA court have rejected these 30-plus requests and if so, on what grounds?
This president regards political opponents as terrorists. How many charges have been laid and how many terrorists brought to justice from this? Were his targets members of his own administration? Political rivals? Peace activists? Religious leaders? Are you on the spy list? Am I?
He has broken his oath to defend the Constitution and so does each member of Congress now supporting his actions. If this stands unchallenged, our Constitution is not worth the hemp it was written on.
Pat Duff
Covina
First paper of the new year....which can hardly help being better than the old one.
Nevermind my tinfoil theories about the editorial staff at the SGVTrib. I take it all back, mostly.
I learned to read
this paper.
They have granted me several unbelievably strategic moments over the past years and for that I have only two things more to say. The Tribune Rocks. Renew my subscription.