Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Save The Constitution

from AntiWar.com:
"Now Is the Time for a Left-Right Alliance
A rebel alliance already exists that could stop Bush administration attacks on the Constitution
". . .Because of a conversation I had with another conservative magazine writer recently. In frustration at the unconstitutional excesses of the Bush administration, I blurted out to him: 'The only people doing any good out there are the people at Air America.' I expected to shock him with the statement, but his two-word reply shocked me: 'And MoveOn.org. . '
"But my views haven't changed one bit since I joined the John Birch Society during the Reagan administration. So this is not a conversion story.

What's changed is that the Bush administration has simply gotten that bad and that, according to some polls, we are almost at the point where most genuine conservatives realize it. . "

". . .The issues the Right and Left are already working together on are related to the Constitution: (1) Exposing the Bush administration's policy to eliminate the right to trial, as in the case of Jose Padilla, (2) Stopping the Bush practice and advocacy of torture, (3) Ending the administration's unnecessary Iraq War, (4) Eliminating unconstitutional, warrantless wiretapping, and the most objectionable parts of the PATRIOT Act, (5) Stopping multilateral trade agreements such as CAFTA, renewal of the WTO, and the upcoming Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). . "

". . .With the Left unifying the Democratic Party, it would only take the swing of a couple of Republican representatives by the right in any committee in order to launch a Watergate-style investigation on the indefinite detention of American citizens without trial or the contemptible policy of "extraordinary rendition. . ."

A most interesting, and persuasive, post. Read it all here

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