Bush: Constitution Just A Goddamned Piece of Paper
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CAPITOL HILL BLUE
Last month, Republican Congressional leaders filed into the Oval Office to meet with President George W. Bush and talk about renewing the controversial USA Patriot Act.
Several provisions of the act, passed in the shell shocked period immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, caused enough anger that liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union had joined forces with prominent conservatives like Phyllis Schlafly and Bob Barr to oppose renewal.
GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous provisions of the act could further alienate conservatives still mad at the President from his botched attempt to nominate White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.
“I don’t give a goddamn,” Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.”
“Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.”
“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”
I’ve talked to three people present for the meeting that day and they all confirm that the President of the United States called the Constitution “a goddamned piece of paper.”
And, to the Bush Administration, the Constitution of the United States is little more than toilet paper stained from all the shit that this group of power-mad despots have dumped on the freedoms that “goddamned piece of paper” used to guarantee.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, while still White House counsel, wrote that the “Constitution is an outdated document.”
Put aside, for a moment, political affiliation or personal beliefs. It doesn’t matter if you are a Democrat, Republican or Independent. It doesn’t matter if you support the invasion or Iraq or not. Despite our differences, the Constitution has stood for two centuries as the defining document of our government, the final source to determine – in the end – if something is legal or right.
Every federal official – including the President – who takes an oath of office swears to “uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says he cringes when someone calls the Constitution a “living document.”
"Oh, how I hate the phrase we have—a 'living document,” Scalia says. “We now have a Constitution that means whatever we want it to mean. The Constitution is not a living organism, for Pete's sake.”
As a judge, Scalia says, “I don't have to prove that the Constitution is perfect; I just have to prove that it's better than anything else.”
President Bush has proposed seven amendments to the Constitution over the last five years, including a controversial amendment to define marriage as a “union between a man and woman.” Members of Congress have proposed some 11,000 amendments over the last decade, ranging from repeal of the right to bear arms to a Constitutional ban on abortion.
Scalia says the danger of tinkering with the Constitution comes from a loss of rights.
“We can take away rights just as we can grant new ones,” Scalia warns. “Don't think that it's a one-way street.”
And don’t buy the White House hype that the USA Patriot Act is a necessary tool to fight terrorism. It is a dangerous law that infringes on the rights of every American citizen and, as one brave aide told President Bush, something that undermines the Constitution of the United States.
But why should Bush care? After all, the Constitution is just “a goddamned piece of paper.”
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Bush on the Constitution: 'It's just a goddamned piece of paper' - Capitol Hill Blue (December 9, 2005 7:53am)
posted by Kentroversy at 7:41 PM
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Kent
This is all academic to me. If the following is true:
"It is the sacred principles enshrined in the United Nations charter to which the American people will henceforth pledge their allegiance."
- President George Bush addressing the General Assembly of the U.N., February 1, 1992
The Constitution cannot supercede the U.N. Charter. Therefore, it must be obsolete and totally worthless to these elites and globalists. We also need to be reminded of why such patriots as Patrick Henry and Sam Adams refused the wording of the final Constitution of 1788 until the "Bill of Rights" was included. Even after this task was accomplished, still Henry was not satisfied with the total wording of the BOR, and refused to sign the final instrument of governance in 1789. It was as though the Constitution was actually designed from it's implementation to be eventually replaced by a more global document.
You may find it quite interesting to get another complete perspective on the founding of this nation. I heartly recommend "RULERS OF EVIL." The first 8 of 25 chapters are available for free viewing online...
I have read 21 of 25 chapters thus far of this seminal work. I must heartly agree with the following reader:
"No doubt about it, in RULERS OF EVIL Saussy has written an important book. I'm finding it increasingly difficult to discuss current events with people who haven't read it.
"To everyone truly interested in the origin and nature of our constitutional republic, I say "Go, read Rulers of Evil, and then let's talk."
— Larry Becraft
If you are a student of Sun-tze's "Art of War", then you will appreciate this book more than I can express. If you have never read AOW, then after finishing ROE, you will then understand the mindset of the 5th century B.C. Tartan-Manchurian general...
For students of true history, one must not dispense of the wisdom of "Rulers of Evil."
I have the book RULERS OF EVIL, The ART OF WAR, and many other such books in my current political events library. I also collect rare out of print books that deal with the U.S. Constitution. I would like to also recommend that YOU go out and get a copy of SECRET PROCEEDINGS of the CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION of 1787, by Justice Robert Yates, who was a judge in my home state of New York.
This book was published in 1838, and current reprints are available for purchase as a paperback. Harry Atwood's book THE CONSTITUTION EXPLAINED is another excellent book, which was published in 1927. Finally, Dr. John Coleman's WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE U.S. CONSTITUTION and the BILL OF RIGHTS is another excellent and informative read, published in 1999.
Enjoy!
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