You Have No Life 1

You belong to George.

President Bush has quietly claimed sweeping new powers to open Americans’ mail without a judge’s warrant, the Daily News has learned.

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.

Warrant, shwarrent. He’s only the Preznit of the NooNited States. Why the heck should he have to obey the law?

All joking aside, does he not recognize the difference between Imperator and President? The underlying assumption of the Rule of Law is that persons should not be able to do whatever the heck they want to do, just because they want to do it.

Where there is no respect for the law, there is lawlessness.

Apparently, this concept was not taught at Yale. Or maybe it was only taught at the classes the Current Federal Administrator chose to cut.

The Current Federal Administrator has no respect for the law; indeed, he thinks he is the law, sort of like Louis “L’etat c’est moi” XIV. Since he thinks he is the law, we therefore suffer under the rule of lawlessness.

Each day of Bushness, I think that no more outrages can be committed.

Each day of Bushness, I am disabused of that thought.

My ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War.

They did not fight so that the government could arrogate to itself the right to read mail–or eavesdrop on conversations, or peek through windows–without having to show cause and obtain warrants.

Pah! I am sickened.

Sickened beyond imagining.