2006-09-22 06:07:10 · 9 answers · asked by AntiDisEstablishmentTarianism 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Is there a more blatant example than the Patriot Act?
2006-09-22 06:10:51 · answer #1 · answered by oceansoflight777 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Constitution clearly forbids searchs without a warrant. The Bush administration openly seaches peoples' communication without a warrant, and insists they don't need one even when the courts say yes you do. They even support the Cheney-Specter Surveillance Bill which would give the White House a blank check to spy on Americans without a warrant.
The Constitution also mandates swift justice, trial by jury, the right to face your accuser and the right to legal counsel. The Bush administration has denied all of these to prisoners.
The Constitution forbids "cruel and unusual punishment" which includes torture. The Bush administration has overseen torture committed on US prisoners--including "rendition" (sending prisoners to other countries where they will be tortured)--and keeps trying to change the law to legalize retroactively.
Is it clearer now?
Consider this also. If you are a conservative, do you really want a very liberal president in the future to have these kinds of powers over you? Would you want Howard Dean or Hilary Clinton to have the authority to tap your phones or grab anyone they didn't like to have them tortured?
2006-09-22 07:00:40 · answer #2 · answered by zahir13 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read reports by the Center for Constitutional Rights, a group that is trying to protect the Constitution. They have numerous examples.
2006-09-22 06:10:09 · answer #3 · answered by HawkEye 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yep, he is all about shredding the constitution.
Right after he fixes the next longhorn game, creates another hurricane and releases the Dominions of battle bots on the universe.
Get Real
2006-09-22 06:36:33 · answer #4 · answered by SVern 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For me its first act was the crooked shamlection and the resulting 1-20-01 Tragedy. Down with Dictator Dumbya!!!
2006-09-22 08:48:46 · answer #5 · answered by rhino9joe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
anti Bush people make blanket statements like Bush is shredding the constitution and other people jump on that band wagon and they don't even know what it means.
2006-09-22 06:14:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you have to ask you either wouldn't understand, or you don't really care. Just try torturing prisoners. Work through that or are you one that will try to justify it?
2006-09-22 06:12:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ya know, it isn't the wiretapping, and money tracking that we know about that bothers me,, it's the programs that we DON'T know about that bother me.
2006-09-22 06:12:00 · answer #8 · answered by tom l 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
By ignoring and/or subverting it.
2006-09-22 06:17:30 · answer #9 · answered by notme 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋