So What's The Point?

Here's what bugs me most about Dubya's disregard for the FISA law:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic.

Meanwhile Bush issues these presidential findings, effectively dismissing any law passed by Congress, especially the one pertaining to the goings-on at Gitmo:

U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler said in a hearing yesterday that she found allegations of aggressive U.S. military tactics used to break the detainee hunger strike "extremely disturbing" and possibly against U.S. and international law. But Justice Department lawyers argued that even if the tactics were considered in violation of McCain's language, detainees at Guantanamo would have no recourse to challenge them in court.

You gotta love it -- or not -- that when it'll come down to brass tacks, the Bushies at Justice will almost certainly dismiss whatever a federal judge has to say against their right to party. And were the right-wing religious thugs in robes on 1st St NE, DC, to suddenly reexamine their fetish for executive privilege and say, "Oh hey, that ain't Constitutionally kosher!" you gotta believe Dubya would thumb his nose at them too.

And there it is! The oath of office, and the utter pointlessness of it.

By the way, what exactly does constitute a "domestic enemy"?

Whoooo coulditbeeeee... ??

I remember when I was in the National Guard back in the early 80s, I would engage in a hypothetical (because there was a lot of time on our hands those weekends -- the good ol' days) and contended that if the president declared martial law, we -- the U.S. soldier, reservist, guardsman, cub scout, what-have-u -- would instantly be freed from our contract and our oath to defend the Constitution... because when martial law is declared, the Constitution is suspended! Of course, on the flip side, we'd be obliged, arguably, to take up arms against the president (or governor) who declared martial law.

The enlisted personnel loved that shit. Not so much the company commander: "What're you, lookin' for a loophole!? Shaddap!!"

Something liberating in thinking as an anarchist...

Uhm, not to be confused with the anti-christ...

Anyway, Bush, as did Nixon, believes it's not against the law for the president to break the law. Now I don't care if he did go to Harvard and Yale on a legacy, that, and he, are just plain fucking wrong.