Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Robert Byrd speaks out
In a speech today Sen. Byrd, one of the last great speechifyers of the Senate, ripped into Our Dear Embattled Leaders illegal spying on Americans. One paragraph presnts in a clear and simple fashion what this country should fear most.
In the name of "fighting terror" are we to sacrifice every freedom to a President's demand? How far are we to go? Can a President order warrantless house-by-house searches of a neighborhood, where he suspects a terrorist may be hiding? Can he impose new restrictions on what can be printed, broadcast, or even uttered privately, because of some perceived threat to national security? Laughable thoughts? I think not. For this Administration has so traumatized the people of this nation -- and many in the Congress -- that some will swallow whole whatever rubbish that is spewed from this White House, as long as it is in some tenuous way connected to the so-called war on terror.
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