by Steve Osborn

I just re-read my article, Contract with America: Bill of Rights. I wrote it shortly after the mis-named Patriot Act was voted in, then revised it when the Dims took "charge." Perhaps I should now list some of the other draconian pieces of legislation since then?

Isn't it tragic that the Congress gave to the Executive, through misguided PATRIOTism, an ACT that would unconstitutionally repeal those rights guaranteed by the Constitution and turn it all over to Homeland Security?

Read your Constitution and Bill of Rights, then read the text of the Patriot Act and the amended Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, the amended FISA Act, the legislation allowing torture, banning habeas corpus, and the many Executive Orders giving the Executive ever more dictatorial powers over We the People, then think about it. We the People of the United States have been virtually stripped of those freedoms that the founders of our nation fought so hard to secure from an earlier King George.

Everybody heaved a great sigh of relief when the "Democrats" were back in power, but things quickly returned to business as usual. The rich get richer, the poor and middle class get poorer and the government gets still more power to do as it wills.

We have got to impeach and remove the cancer that has infected our nation before it becomes inoperable. We are facing widened wars of desperation as Bush and his gang looks desperately for a way of regaining control. They are not beyond a "Black Op" against the United States (remember the Maine, Tonkin Gulf, the WMD lies and the jury is still out on 9/11) followed by a declaration of martial law. The groundwork has been carefully laid and is available to review on many sites.

We must hold Congress to the Contract that We the People made with them over two centuries ago, restore the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, intact and functioning to the halls of government, and return to using them for the rule and guide of our actions.

Does that about cover it?

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
--Thomas Jefferson

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