Broken Democracy
by Patricia Taylor
Even as Democratic candidates are calling upon young citizens to organize on their behalf, and on behalf of the Democratic Party, on-line, they caved in to pressure in the Senate and the House and made the formerly illegal practice of domestic surveillance without a warrant legal.
The Bush Administration broke the back of the rule of law, insofar as it pertains to Habeas Corpus, the law SINCE 1215 when the Magna Carta granted English citizens the basic right to come before a judge so he could look at them and make sure they weren't being tortured by the king, when they opened up the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The Bush Administration broke our electoral system when they stole the vote in 2000 and, perhaps, in 2004.
The Bush Administration has broken Congress by defiantly lying to its committees in hearings of all sorts, or refused to testify under or not under oath on a variety of matters.
The Bush Administration has broken our civil liberties with this FISA ruling.
There is now nothing between them, who've proven they cannot be trusted time and time again, and their breaking down all our front doors and carting us off into the dead of night, from disappearing anyone they want to designate an enemy.
If some foreigner clicks onto Daily Kos, or a MySpace.com or FaceBook site, or a personal website (lurks, spams, or posts on it), or sends you computer spam, or calls the wrong number, or uses the same server you do, or the same telecommunications company or cellphone provider or the same website you visit, the government can now issue a wiretap on your phone, your computer, and (under the Patriot Act) they can enter your home, search it, bug it, and gather up your medical records, your bank records, your insurance records, your library record, and you will have no right to know it or to know what their case is against you, because of this new ruling.
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