by James Glaser
December 21, 2005

President George Bush was caught in a crime with the executive order he signed that allows our government to spy on us without first having an American court issue a warrant.

Bush's backers are digging up any help they can find and now they are talking about how both Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter signed executive orders so that the government could do electronic surveillance on American citizens without a search warrant.

Before this week, these people thought Bill Clinton was the worst president we ever had, a criminal who should have been impeached and they spoke of Jimmy Carter as a buffoon. That was before they needed an excuse. These people thought everything Clinton did was bad, but now they hold up both of these former Presidents as some sort of an excuse for what George Bush has done.

Some how, if Clinton and Carter did the same thing, then George Bush must be in the right. I haven't researched it that close, but from what I have read, the Clinton administration was called out on the carpet by the Republicans in Congress, and Bill was told what he wanted to do was against the law and a subversion of our constitution.

It seems that at one time, long, long ago, the Republican Party was looking out for the privacy rights of the American people, but maybe that only happens when there are Democrats in the White House. Now there is a Republican in the White House, so all bets are off, and the Republican rank and file are ready to throw away any law George Bush wishes to subvert.

So, if Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter were wrong in their assertion that they could disregard the law of the land, then according to today's Republicans, it is perfectly ok for George Bush to disregard that same law.

That way of thinking makes no sense, but then George Bush's way of thinking doesn't either. Sad to say, all three of these Presidents were wrong. The President of the United States does not have the right to break any laws, that is why we have a Constitution. The Constitution protects the people of this land from government officials who feel that they are above the law.

The power one feels as president can be intoxicating, and it can cloud the mind. George Bush, like many Presidents before him, has decided that he can do what ever he thinks is best for us. It is up to Congress and the American people to bring him back down to earth.