Life on Mars

This is where The Times goes far left, off the charts. We are in a time of war where lunatics are desperately trying with every means possible to get nuclear weapons to destroy American cities. Many of the conspirators are right here, right now in the United States. For the safety of the nation the Bush Administration created the Patriot Act to protect the public from this exact sort of horrific event becoming a reality, a reality that remains very possible.

Like children, we have The Times ranting about abuses of civil liberties. Again they position it as if the Bush Team has ulterior motives, at work to manipulate as much as possible for some sort of personal and political gain. I truly think they are so far out of reality that it is scary. On one hand you have mass murderers vowed to kill as many of us as possible. On the other you have a government trying to adjust to an near endless number of potential loopholes.

Who would you be rooting for?

A Spy Program in From the Cold -
The New York Times Editorial on 01/18/07

Of the many ways that President Bush has trampled civil liberties and the balance of powers since the 9/11 attacks, one of the most egregious was his decision to order wiretaps of Americans’ international calls and e-mail without court approval. It was good news, then, when the administration announced yesterday that it would now seek a warrant from the proper court for that sort of eavesdropping.

The president’s decision hardly ends this constitutional crisis. Among other things, the public needs to know why Mr. Bush broke the law for more than five years and what should be done to ensure there will be no more abuses of the wiretap statute.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/18/opinion/18thu1.html