Reply #144: Bush and his cronies believe that the ''President is above the law.''

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...at least when the President is Nixon or Ford or Reagan (read: Poppy) or Poppy or the crazy monkey.

In all seriousness, Frederick Schwarz, the man who led the staff assisting Sen. Frank Church investigate the domestic abuses of the FBI and CIA and now a law professor, said today's NSA snooping on Americans raises most troubling questions. And the PNAC Neocon Big Oil Wall Street NAZI Mafia Moonie Commie turdballs of the Bush Crime Family think they are above the law.

FREDERICK SCHWARZ: Well, you know, what I really think, what I'm really concerned about is the theory that Dick Cheney first voiced many years ago and he's continued to voice and Bush's lawyers have voiced, which is the theory that the President has the right to break the law. Now -- and indeed that the Constitution gives the President the right to break the law. That's never been suggested before. It's being suggested now, and if it's not put down and defeated, we are in a slippery slope moving toward a much more totalitarian government that's like the monarchy which we supposedly -- we tried to put behind us when we had the revolution 200 years ago.

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/17/159236&mode=thread&tid=25

Imagine the questions we could ask, given the authority of a Special Prosecutor? Imagine the issues we would raise? Imagine the public opinion, once the scales fell from the used ones' eyes. Anyway, Poppy, Hunt, Goss, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the rest of those crooks would fast discover Civil Rights and the Bill of Rights and the refrain to "I plead the Fifth Amendment."

Thanks for everything and for giving a damn, dammitann. And a very hearty welcome to DU.