For the President to argue that the US Government cannot bring legal actions against his office is tantamount to claiming absolute arbitrary authority. If the US Government lacks authority to bring charges against any of the citizens of the US, any one, then the US Government is incompetent to do the job for which Americans sacrifice their absolute liberty to conjoin in exercising.
If the government is incompetent to perform the duties for which the American people constituted it, then the American people themselve retain the authority which the President claims the government lacks.
There is no loophole, or legal technicality that dims our powers, nor blunts our sovereign authority. The President has no immunity to the will of the American people, whose authority he is to execute. If he has so executed our authority in a manner which is contrary to the laws the American people have established and ordained through the Congress, the President is damn well liable to even criminal
2007-07-21 05:33:31 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
justice, at the will of the people, and no law or agency has any authority to stand in the way.
Let Congress know, that the American people have no lack of sovereign authority to charge the President, or any other citizen of this country, with any lawful order or judgement, and that the Congress has the authority of the people in the matter, and can enforce the laws we have established to prevent crimes and treachery that disaffect and harm our people, and our nation.
No man is above the law, and the people have the authority they have delegated to government. If the government is claimed to be inadequate, then the people themselves are not, nor their representatives, the Congress, to enforce just laws of this nation.
The President, and his officers, can be charged, and are subject to the authority of the legislature, and the orders of US courts, and to the officers of the executive brance of government, just as is every equal and free citizen subject to the Constitution.
2007-07-21 05:34:19 · update #1
Thanx Craveman.
2007-07-21 05:36:35 · update #2
Links ? who wanted links?
well Im busy right now but heres one.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/White_House_to_Congress_You_cant_0720.html
2007-07-21 06:15:14 · update #3
Over the last 5 years 4000 American soldiers have died defending your rights to protect the constitution and to protect the USA from enemies foriegn and domestic, so who are these clowns that are trying to tell us that the constitution is history?
The constitution is the only phuking thing that America has to seperate itself from a fascist regime....... and you clowns who blindly apologise for this criminal government by declaring the constitution null and void are the real terrorists!!! yall need to be shot.
2007-07-21 06:13:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
He believes he is above the law. In fact, he has had lawyers assert that he is above the law. And even if he is not actually above the law, he has manipulated the system and stacked the court and the justice department to make him effectively immune from any limits on his power. Hence my statement that we've had a non-military coup.
And you are correct that a govt which cannot enforce its own laws has failed in its basic purpose to defend the people.
2007-07-21 07:18:58 · answer #2 · answered by coragryph 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Last time I looked the president and congress were there to do the will of the people, they work for YOU.......theyre not there to make things up as they go along, and especially not to cover their @sses everytime they shred a few more constitutional rights!!!!
2007-07-21 05:48:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
If you still think it's a "government by the people, for the people" then you are living in Lalaland, my friend.
Of course Bush is above the law! As are Cheney, Kerry, Pelosi, Kennedy, Reid, Clinton, Obama...
And, there is no such thing--nor has there EVER been such a thing---as "absolute liberty". It's an impossibility. We do not live in a vacuum! We live with other people in this world; we can't have "absoute liberty" because our actions have consequences so we must take others into acocunt. Only a truly selfish egocentric person would believe we can do whatever we want, however we want, whenever we want.
EDIT: To the people who are "THUMBS DOWN"ing me. Get your heads out of the sand. The questioner is only spouting rhetoric. He still thinks America is the savior it was in WWII. That's ancient history
2007-07-21 05:58:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
the entire government has no admire for our shape. The patriot act is unconstitutional, the federal reserve act is unconstitutional, etc. Congress is consistently in consultation making rules. The shape states that congress could desire to assemble a minimum of as quickly as a year. Why is that? because of the fact our founding fathers thought that congress might get lazy and not in any respect assemble because of the fact they does no longer have no longer something to do. in actuality Congress is consultation thank you to in many circumstances and is making rules and sticking their nostril in enterprise that they could desire to no longer be. As for the prevention of terrorism, if we are giving up our freedoms, then why even combat the conflict? -people who might sacrifice liberty for risk-free practices deserve neither- -Benjamin Franklin-
2016-10-09 04:53:40 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I think the past couple of presidents have gotten away with a lot of questionable acts. Some that are under the headlines. Some do get caught and are properly charged, Nixon for example. But a good president is going to make decisions that make him look like him or her are above the law. It's how the system works. So it's seems like a dictatorship to those who don't like the system, and there will always be people who don't like it. But you must ask yourself, can a president be effective if him or her is always looking over his shoulder and having to cover their butt. Of course not. It may not be the perfect system, but it's the best system the world has shown so far.
2007-07-21 05:45:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
He certainly thinks that he is above the law. I strongly think that the American people need to wake up and exercise their rights to remove an imcompetent president from power.
2007-07-21 05:41:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
My biggest fear is that he's changing the laws to allow him to declare martial law for almost any reason.
2007-07-21 06:22:27 · answer #8 · answered by hwinnum 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Apparently he is... Since Bush has been in power, he has acted like being president is like being God.
However, as much above the law as he is here on earth..one day.. oh yes.. one day he is going to answer to his maker.. then look out!
Well. I can only hope anyway.
2007-07-21 05:38:45 · answer #9 · answered by Debra H 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Of course Bush is above the Law, he says he is and that good enough for me. You need to stop hating our troops and living in the past. The Constitution is old news. Bush is the future, and anyone who thinks the Constitution is more important than bush is a communist.
Bush never Broke the law He is the law.
2007-07-21 05:36:51 · answer #10 · answered by Chuckles 4 · 2⤊ 6⤋