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In reply to the discussion: Americans Are Outraged Because in Voting for Obama, They Thought They Were Rejecting Bush [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)the outrage when Congress changed a law that Bush broke when HE was caught using the Telecoms to spy on the American people, making it retroactive, so clear to those who had any functioning brain cells at the time, to safe Bush and his Telecoms spies from prosecution.
Obama spoke out eloquently, at first, against that 'adjustment' to the law and we who supported him were proud. But then, inexplicably at the time, though not any more, he turned around and voted for it, saving Bush, but though only technically, from being a law-breaker.
We had a law that made these actions illegal, it worked for decades until Bush violated it. Were you always in favor of spying on the American people btw? Or this something new we are seeing now from some Democrats? Did you oppose Church, support Nixon? Because this is what that law was about, to prevent another Nixon, and then we got worse than Nixon and this time we had a law that could have put him out of office, BUT, Congress intervened and saved him, with help from THIS president.
'The law is the law'!! Really? The 'law was the law' when African Americans were denied basic human rights, would you have said 'the law is the law' then? Are you really of the opinion that just because something gets passed into law, no matter how bad it is, it becomes acceptable??
Thankfully we have had people throughout history who do not agree that we are obliged to obey bad laws, otherwise would still be a British Colony. Those 'terrorists' weren't of the opinion that the laws that diminished their status as human beings, that made vulnerable to abuses, should be respected because the 'law is the law'.
Please find another excuse for this, 'the law is the law' just doesn't pass. The Patriot Act, do you support that too, it is the law after all.