Last Word: Presidential power

First I can't see spying on the homefront and not on.. uhh, let's just say our borders!! I can understand people of suspicious and criminal backgrounds but then consider the scrutiny(goverment tampering).this would make anyone with a parking ticket vunerable. Second the fact these faceless foreign men are probably here for some governmental reason.I sure the "alphabet boys" know who they are.Finally George W. Bush knew of this power( probably bought to his attention by Dick Chaney).this is why they decided on a "war on terror".It's a smoke screen.

You Rock Jami! We need to get you on the Alex Jones Show!

Kudos to you Jamie! I agree 100%. I get screening passengers on jets. I get metal detectors at public buildings. But snatching people of the streets for "I think he may be..." is just wrong.

See the movie "Rendition", it sure made me think about our 'freedoms'....and who decides what those are.

Well put and insightful comments Jami, as always.

The real problem I have with this sort of governmental abuse is that the government never gives power back. Most of the huge, sweeping powers, programs and policies of the government, from Income Tax to the ability of the president to deploy troops with a declaration of war from the Senate, have been intended as temporary measures.
The government just never got around to removing the powers once the 'crisis' was averted.

To suspend the writ of Habeus now means we suspend it for all time. The 'War on Terror' is a "war" without a defined start or stopping point. Terrorism has existed in the US since the revolution (when WE were the terrorists no less) and will exist until the end of time. To suspend a critical right for as long as an indefinite thing lasts is the essence of tyranny.

“Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security” – Benjamin Franklin

We have come a long way since Benjamin Franklin but seems to have come to a full circle as our government has become that in which we declared independence from in the first place. Post 9/11 we have had our rights stripped from us for security and for the greater good and we received nothing to make us safer and all the more enemies to hate us in the world. If our Four Fathers were around they would start another revolution over all the disgraceful acts our government has done to it's people. 9/11 was nothing more then a tool for the government to strip its people of liberties under a false guise of security. America has fallen from its grace after 9/11 that is for sure.

One thing I've learned in my admittedly short life is that there is no "last word".