Posted on 11/17/2001 1:10:58 PM PST by forest
The ever-lying Bill Clinton is still going around acting and sounding like the complete fool he is. That’s far from “news” of course, until one stops to consider that the Clinton administration is directly responsible for most of the major problems our nation experiences today.
The economy took a downturn soon after Clinton’s Treasury Department stopped artificially (and illegally) pumping up the bond, money and stock markets with billions of dollars of federal money. Readers of this newsletter might remember that we started harping about the disaster that ploy could cause long before Dubya even announced as a Presidential candidate. That action by public officials was criminal. Now, here come the results and we all must pay.
Under Clinton, the Justice, Immigrations, and Customs Departments were all very negligent. Instead of protecting the American people, they allowed all sorts of riffraff to enter the country and stay illegally. It’s not just the tens of millions of illegal Mexicans we must now pay to keep in sustenance and free medical treatment, there were also a few hundred illegal aliens with strong terrorist connections the Clinton administration allowed to take up residence here. Clearly, federal officials did not obey their own laws, rules and regulations. Again, we are all paying for that official dereliction of duty.
These public officials were, in fact, criminally negligent. They should be made to account for their actions. From the leaders at Justice and the FBI to the lowest Customs agent and police officer on the street; if they let an illegal alien go without apprehension, they were criminally negligent. It’s time they pay, too.
It’s either that, or the laws do not really count and we need only obey the ones we agree with. It can’t be both ways. Illegal aliens should not have more leeway in violating our laws than the American citizens who pay the bills around here.
Congress is no better. Recently, a bill called the “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act.” -- also ironically known as the “USA Patriot Act” -- passed the House and the Senate. Nat Hentoff described it in the Village Voice, November 9, as “Terrorizing the Bill of Rights”(1):
“Congress has overwhelmingly passed, and the president has enthusiastically signed, an anti-terrorism bill that, as the ACLU says, gives ‘enormous, unwarranted power to the executive branch unchecked by meaningful judicial review.’ Moreover, ‘most of the new powers could be used against American citizens in counterterrorism investigations and in routine criminal investigations completely unrelated to terrorism.’ Also likely to be subject to this law: ‘those whose First Amendment activities are deemed to be threats to national security by the attorney general.’”
In effect, that new law is to our Constitutional and civil rights as water is to fire. Such laws were common in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and communist China, but have no business being passed by a government still claiming it represents a free people.
We had a lot of respect for Attorney General John Ashcroft. But, after Ashcroft proposed this abortion of our rights, we must reconsider. We should all remember that every public official takes an oath of office in which they promise God and the American people that they will “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic” and “bear true faith and allegiance to the same.”
There is no way whatsoever that atrocious “Patriot Act” comes anywhere close to supporting and defending what the Founding Fathers directed in our Constitution. Just the opposite, in fact. We didn’t really expect any better from Capitol Hill. We were, however, trusting in a strong display of honor from this new administration. That law is a gross violation of our trust.
It took the FBI two weeks to round up a few hundred of the aliens with strong terrorist ties who were living here -- most were here illegally. But, it took the tragedies of 9-11 before the FBI, Customs and INS would enforce the law they are sworn to uphold. Their dereliction of duty is directly responsible for the deaths of many thousands of American people. So, we have just one small -- yet ever so inconvenient -- question: Why are these negligent bureaucrats still drawing a federal paycheck instead of being arrested?
The negligence of those in the Clinton administration is responsible for most of the major problems our great nation realizes today. It also follows that many of the “mistakes” made by members (and lower bureaucrats) of the Clinton administration were also direct violations of the laws, rules and regulations of the federal government. These violators should, then, be apprehended and prosecuted.
Federal law (5 USC 3331) requires that: “An individual, except the President, elected or appointed to an office of honor or profit in the civil service or uniformed services, shall take the following oath:
“I, (name), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
A few hundred federal bureaucrats are culpable for allowing the terrorists free passage around our country. Now is the time for that be corrected.
Besides, if every public official were required, under pain of imprisonment, to obey every law completely, we would soon have a lot fewer laws.
1. http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0146/hentoff.php
Their dereliction of duty is directly responsible for the deaths of many thousands of American people. So, we have just one small -- yet ever so inconvenient -- question: Why are these negligent bureaucrats still drawing a federal paycheck instead of being arrested?
A few hundred federal bureaucrats are culpable for allowing the terrorists free passage around our country. Now is the time for that be corrected.
Besides, if every public official were required, under pain of imprisonment, to obey every law completely, we would soon have a lot fewer laws.
Isn't that the truth!
How so? Like most of the critics of this law, the author is long on hyperbole and short on facts. Citing the ACLU as a source does not exactly settle it either. What exact provisions are supposed to be "un-Constitutional"? If they are, the Supreme Court can nullify them. However most of them have already been ruled as Constitutional, but have only been applied to organized crime. Now those same provisions can be used against terrorists. At least that's the Bush administration explanation. If it's wrong it would be more persuasive to point out the actual details of the law, rather than talking in strident generalities.
H, How many "Non-terrorist" U.S. of A. citizens being ruined by the provisions of the "Patriot act" will it take for even you to denounce the bill? The administration isn't using the RICO {"organized crime"} bill today to indict various criminal activities occurring around this nation against U.S. of A. citizens. What makes you think that that selective enforcement will not continue??
HERE is but an example of the use to which the bill will be used. WORDS will become "actions" to be prosecuted. This is NOT good. Peace and love, George.
Well, at least one.
Again, neither one of you mentioned a specific item in the law and why it violates the Constitution. If you can I'm more than willing to hear about it.
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