Goose the Blog 2.0

How will you feel about super secret Executive struggle-time powers to ignore acts of Congress and various Constitutional protections when Queen Hillary rules in 2009? Look, I know that taxation is slavery. But you know what? Slavery is also slavery.

Update: I like this perspective from Amanda at Pandagon.

Update 2: Judge Richard Posner, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in a WaPo editorial:

The goal of national security intelligence is to prevent a terrorist attack, not just punish the attacker after it occurs, and the information that enables the detection of an impending attack may be scattered around the world in tiny bits. A much wider, finer-meshed net must be cast than when investigating a specific crime. Many of the relevant bits may be in the e-mails, phone conversations or banking records of U.S. citizens, some innocent, some not so innocent. The government is entitled to those data, but just for the limited purpose of protecting national security.

Really? Entitled? I thought the American people got to decide what the American government was entitled to, and we did when Congress passed a law against warrantless wiretaps of American citizens.

Update 3: From the very conservative Washington Times, in an editorial by Bruce Fein, a former Associate Deputy Attorney General under President Reagan:

President Bush presents a clear and present danger to the rule of law. He cannot be trusted to conduct the war against global terrorism with a decent respect for civil liberties and checks against executive abuses. Congress should swiftly enact a code that would require Mr. Bush to obtain legislative consent for every counterterrorism measure that would materially impair individual freedoms.

(via Boing Boing)

Update 4: Sometimes you have to turn to music to find the right words. (Bobby Conn is the singer, Rox Populi is the blog)