This is pretty damn disappointing. I've documented on more than one occasion how George W. Bush and/or his administration has violated the law (here: http://thepete.com/bush-43-admin-lies-breaks-fed-law-again/ here: http://thepete.com/fisa-read-about-the-law-bush-has-broken/ and here: http://thepete.com/uns-annan-iraq-attack-illegal/ ) and have been incredibly disappointed in Congress for not impeaching Bush. His violations of the law are as clear as day if you just look.
Now it looks like President Obama will carry on the tradition of ignoring Bush's crimes against the law, the Constitution and, really, humanity in general. DemocracyNow.org reported this in the headlines of their January 12, 2008 show (original here: http://www.democracynow.org/2009/1/12/headlines#8 or check out the excerpted video attached to this post):
Obama Suggests No Prosecution for Bush Admin Crimes
During the same interview, Obama was asked if he will appoint a special prosecutor to independently investigate the crimes of the Bush administration, including torture and warrantless wiretapping.
President-elect Barack Obama: "We're still evaluating how we are going to approach the whole issue of interrogations, detentions, and so forth. And obviously we're going to be looking at past practices. And I don't believe that anybody is above the law. On the other hand, I also have a belief that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards… My orientation is going to be moving forward."
This is such a bad idea it's astounding.
The only reason I can think of for him to do this is that he is protecting his own future. In other words, if he doesn't want to prosecute Bush for his crimes, it may mean that he wants to protect himself from prosecution for his own future actions.
Remember how, just before the Iraq Attack, the US didn't want any part of that international criminal court thing only to go on to invade Iraq and get caught torturing people?
Yeah, it's like that.
Sure, Obama may just want to avoid causing trouble. But in that sense, he's lame, as well, since he got voted into office on a wave of 8 million more people who liked him better than McCain. This is a mandate. He can do whatever he wants and he's choosing to emphasize the future, rather than the law. Without our laws, do we even have a future? Without our laws should we even have a future?
I've never been sure whether America is said to be a country of laws or of men--but one thing is for sure, if Bush gets away with his crimes, America will be a country of neither.
If Bush gets away with his crimes, America will be a country of royalty and of peasants.
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