January 04, 2007

Neither rain nor snow, but Bush

Wiretapping your telephones isn't sufficient for Bush, apparently. Now he says he can open your mail too.

The President asserted his new authority when he signed a postal reform bill into law on Dec. 20. Bush then issued a "signing statement" that declared his right to open people's mail under emergency conditions.

That claim is contrary to existing law and contradicted the bill he had just signed, say experts who have reviewed it.

When is this damned country going to wake up and be more afraid of the powers this man asserts for himself than it is of the supposed things he claims to protect us from?

Posted by Linkmeister at January 4, 2007 09:29 AM | TrackBack
Comments

Does that mean we won't be getting junk mail anymore?

Posted by: Serge at January 4, 2007 09:52 AM

Nope. Look for more letters from the IRS if you make less than $30K a year, though.

Posted by: Linkmeister at January 4, 2007 10:03 AM

wow - I hadn't seen that.

Posted by: cassie-b at January 5, 2007 02:19 AM

Sheesh.

"When in the Course of human events it becomes *necessary* for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." (emphasis added)

Posted by: shelley at January 5, 2007 07:39 AM