What Will Your Answer Be? • 10.25.07
Is waterboarding constitutional Whitehouse asked? “I don’t know what’s involved in the technique,” he responded. “If waterboarding is torture, torture is not constitutional.”
“Can a president put somebody above the law by authorizing illegal conduct?” Leahy inquired.
“The president doesn’t stand above the law. But the law emphatically includes the Constitution. It starts with the Constitution,” he replied.
These are a few key answers Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey offered last week before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The buzz is Mukasey is sure to be confirmed. Brace yourself anew. Our next United States Attorney General will occupy that noble office continuing the policies of torture, illegal warrantless wiretapping, and the President being above our laws and constitution.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy whimpered, “He’s at least answered the questions, which is better than his predecessor.”
We now have a bar so low for the highest law enforcement office in the land that an ant could jump it. Answering the questions. The content of the answers don’t matter. Is there a person reading this that could get a job with this pitiful standard?
I grew up a literal Bible believin’, Bible quotin’, Bible thumpin’, Bible memorizin’ guy.
Some of those teachings still have potent relevance. Jesus exhorted in the Sermon on the Mount, “Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.”
Mukasey’s tack is as old as humanity; using weasels words to bypass honesty.
How long will “we the people” allow this administration to blaspheme our sacred covenants and human dignity for imaginary security?
Mukasey, “at least answered the questions.”
Yesterday President Bush lectured Cuba, “You can bring about a future where your leaders answer to you.”
Friends and Fellow citizens, what will your answer be?
