FISA Decision
by
©John F. Butterfield
One of my first watershed moments came while I was still a child pondering all the talk I heard about capital punishment.
Quite frankly I didn't like capital punishment then and I don't care much for it now.
The state can't bring a "convicted murderer" back to life if a mistake has been made.
There was a lot of talk about whether or not the death penalty was constitutional.
Finally, I heard a lawyer quote the Fifth Amendment,
"No person shall be . . . deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"
and state that that means that with due process a person may be deprived of life.
That's the end of the constitutional debate.
You can feel whatever you want,
but you are an idiot or a liar if you say the Constitution of the United States does not support capital punishment.
The FISA law is quite clear and the intent of Congress in passing the FISA law is quite clear.
You can say that Judge Anna Diggs Taylor is wrong.
But if you do, your are an idiot or a liar or both.
If there is anything hard to understand about the issue,
it is why a warrant has not been issued for the arrest of George W. Bush.
The other major watershed moment of my childhood was when I reasoned that the best way to keep from lying
was to make sure that I didn't do anything that I would want to deny.
I am astounded that George W. Bush and his reich wing supporters have not figured that out yet.
The due process of the FISA law is so easy to follow that a child could comply with its provisions.
I guess it just goes against the grain of born-to-be-wild Bush and his gang.
I'll give a little advice to the Bush gang, "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time."
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