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Is The President Above The Law?

// December 21st, 2005 // Business & Politics, Security & Privacy

Relating again to the previous post on the warrantless, domestic spying taking place at the direction of the President…

I’m no legal scholar, and won’t attempt to add anything beyond what has been covered and well cited in the article below and in the wider media in the past week.

The article below goes deeper into the limitless power the executive branch has granted itself in the name of fighting the Global War on Terror (GWOT) and the implications to our freedom if it continues unchecked.

From the article:

“This is indefinite dictatorial power. And I don’t use that term lightly; the very definition of a dictatorship is a system that puts a ruler above the law. In the weeks after 9/11, while America and the world were grieving, Bush built a legal rationale for a dictatorship. Then he immediately started using it to avoid the law.”

I encourage you to research the issue and if so compelled, to act. Write, email, call your members of Congress (Senate | House of Representatives) and express your concern.

Read more at Bruce Schneier’s Blog.