One Step Closer To What – Or He’s Out Of Control

I must confess that I have been unable to write any post for this blog for several days.  You can call it writers block or whatever you like but I have been absolutely paralyzed when it comes to writing about this administration.  Their actions, and specifically the actions of our president, have crossed the line of sanity and into the realm of insanity.  The president of the United States has authorized “domestic surveillance” by the National Security Agency without acquiring a warrant from FISA.  For those of you who do not know, FISA is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court.  This is a court whose specific purpose is to look at requests from the executive branch and since the Patriot Act other agencies, and issue warrants authorizing domestic surveillance of American citizens.  This has the effect of protecting what the 4th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States provides the citizens of this country and that is being subjected to ‘unreasonable search and seizure’.  Some of you may remember that little Amendment.  What you may also not be aware of is that in the last 25 or so years the FISA court has declined exactly 4 requests for such warrants because they violated the constitution and were therefore deemed unreasonable requests.

Now as usual the president has said that these surveillances which he ordered without the required warrants were critical to our national defense.  Fine, but if these requests were so critical our national defense and to the war on terror why would he be concerned that such a friendly court would turn them down?  If the FISA court had turned down only 4 requests in the last 25 years why was he concerned about these?  Perhaps the president avoided requesting these warrants because he was ordering domestic surveillances that were totally unreasonable in constitutional terms.  That is they were perhaps illegal.  Wrong.  Not good.  I can think of no other reason the president of the United States would avoid requesting such vital warrants from so friendly a court unless he was doing something he shouldn’t be doing.  Bad president!

Not joking anymore………….and, with all seriousness, I believe it is time that our do nothing Congress got off its collective asses and started doing what the constitution of the United States says they are suppose to do and that is utilize their constitutionally mandated powers of oversight and checks and balances and begin an investigation into this administrations activities.

In case you haven’t noticed this nation is not an autocracy and yet this president acts more and more like it’s his own personal little sand box.  Oh, no, that would be Iraq wouldn’t it.

That’s my short post for the night.  I am very concerned about our nation and what this administration is doing to it.

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