Amendment 4: United States Constitution

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

WE, as guaranteed by our nation, have the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure. Why the News Journal would take the other tack, that government has the right to violate the Constitution at will, boggles the mind. What on earth were they thinking?

Do they hate America? Or do they think that those who spend their money each day to keep the News Journal afloat, do not deserve the very protection they themselves have wrapped around them under Delaware’s Corporate Law?

Perhaps they are poorly informed. With a quick simple search they could certainly see that most of the early requests for wiretaps and spying were directed not at terrorists, but at former Clinton governmental employees still held over from the last administration.

With a quick and simple search, they could certainly see that this administration first broke the law days after entering office, long before 9/11 occurred, by instituting Gestapo style spying of Democrats and members of Congress, digging deep for black-mailable offenses no doubt.

With a quick and simple search, they could certainly see that these “Spying on America” bills were rushed through Congress, one along Republican party lines when they had the majority, the other with scare tactics just minutes before summer recess was to begin.

With a quick and simple search, they could certainly see that last summer, a secret FISA court stacked with appointees loyal to the administration, ordered Cheney/Bush to abandon their wiretapping. It was highly illegal. Which now explains why we had the unprecedented rush to pass the Protect America Act which mandates that any citizen can be wiretapped simply because the “administration says so” , and that no one would be allowed to monitor the Constitutional aspects of whether those listening devices were or were not illegal.

With a quick and simple search, they could certainly see that one company, Quest, refused to go along with the requests for spying before 9/11 and is now facing some type of harassment litigation by the Justice Department over some minor unrelated infraction………

With a quick and simple search, they could certainly see that scores of American citizens have been picked up, whisked overseas, tortured, and then been told, “sorry, we seem to have made a mistake.”

Currently there are forty some lawsuits around the country from victims of governmental mistakes. These citizens have had their lives ruined by a violation of the Fourth Amendment. If this legislation is allowed to continue, they are being forbidden their right to seed redress for their sufferings.

When you do something wrong, you should be held accountable.

But for some reason the News Journal thinks differently. They think anyone who gives information to Dick Cheney should be given a get out of jail card for free.

That argument is the equivalent of saying that any criminal who breaks into a families home, orders them on the ground, steals their belongs, and then murders them execution style, should be let go without charges because he was doing it on orders from someone else.

No! News Journal, what on earth were you thinking?

And next time could, get your facts right? It was not a Democrat leadership political ploy. They actually tried to get an extension passed to cover the recess. It was a combination of very conservative Republicans and very Liberal Democrats who were sick, tired, and disgusted with this Unconstitutional Administration violating the Constitution.

Like an OVERWHELMING number of Americans who hate this administration, they decided that the original FISA bill that we default to now that Bush legislation has expired, kept us fairly safe for twenty years of the cold war and beyond. It was only after we violated it secretly, January 20, 2001, that we got ourselves a 9/11.

Finally in an ironic twist of fate, let us use the president’s words themselves.

“He said either you are with us………or you are against us. “

After reading this:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

It is obvious that the News Journal is against us.

The real question is “why”? What are they hiding?