My Letter to Editor in Joliet Herald [View All]

[Wink]

Many abuses and violations


Just how blatantly criminal does one have to be before they are finally charged with a crime?
George W. Bush just admitted authorizing the illegal surveillance of American citizens. He didn't use the secret court system that was specifically set up to do this sort of thing. He had government intelligence employees violate the law, not to mention the Constitution, under the guise of protecting our country from attack, by authorizing these activities without warrants or any judicial review whatsoever. This comes on the heels of his administration's attempt to get torture legalized, the discovery of U.S.-run secret prisons in Europe, the exposure of most of the false and Bush-manipulated pre-war intelligence, and his justice department finally charging an American citizen (Jose Padilla) with a crime after he sat in prison for three years.

His administration has gone to war, snatched people off the streets of Europe, and had American citizens illegally incarcerated on much less evidence than we currently have on him. Isn't it about time we applied these same supposed laws and royal executive fiats on Bush himself? We, unlike Bush, won't have to "sex up" our evidence or try him in secret to get a conviction. The evidence is plain as day and a public trial might be enough of a deterrent to future presidents thinking about committing similar abuses of our Constitution.

Paul Winkelmann

Romeoville

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/opinions/letters/4_4_JO22_LETTERS_S1.htm