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Culture – Creativity – ConflictSovereign Immunity Must be Overruled
Posted onApril 9, 2009I agree with president Obama on a lot of things, like reducing the influence of the military industrial complex, or leveraging governmental authority to make health care affordable to the citizens of the United States, or being more open and diplomatic with Islamic countries but to name a few things. On his economic policies I think the things he has tried to do to help the average American taxpayer, like mortgage assistance and higher taxes on the wealthy are good too. He should not have agreed to bail out the banks in my opinion, but I realize that is pretty much a lost cause at this point.
Professor Turley from George Washington University is right in this case, to disagree with president Obama over the issues of sovereign immunity. To give the government a free hand to invade the privacy of its citizens, and to give the Bush administration a “get out of jail free” card for all of the illegal and immoral acts that it perpetrated while in power, is just plain wrong. This is something that every U.S. citizen should know about and should take steps to raise awareness and to create a discussion about where this kind of decision will lead us. We don’t want to go there. The government is powerful enough without closing the door on its citizens ability to question its actions.
The End is Near
Posted onAugust 31, 2008Is America really ready for a change? I hope so. I think that the rest of the world is ready too, at least the part I live in. This will be the second presidential election that I have witnessed from the Canadian side of the border, and I’m hoping that this time I won’t be so disappointed. Part of me still can’t believe that “W.” was re-elected but fortunately his chapter in history as “leader of the free world” will soon be over.
Since 2003 I have met only a single person in Toronto that said they would have voted for Bush if given the opportunity. I know that out west there are more Bush sympathizers, but here the opinion is that he was and is a terrible president, probably the worst president in the history of the United States. I would have to agree.
There was an article in the New York Times the other day about Bush’s decision for the troop surge in Iraq. This article praised Bush for sending in more troops and credited this decision to the decrease in violence there. I agree that tactically it was the right thing to do, the results speak for themselves. What the article failed to remind us was that Bush invaded Iraq illegally. He generated false intelligence and presented it to congress. It is quite simple, really, he is a traitor. Unfortunately being the president of the United States gives him a lot of legal and political clout and it looks like he will get away with it. In the past, U. S. citizens have been executed for much lesser crimes. It would be my greatest joy to see him prosecuted after he leaves office but I think the chances of that are quite slim.
As far as I am concerned the “troop surge” is one of the few things that Bush did right, but it wouldn’t have been necessary if Iraq hadn’t been invaded in the first place.
I’m still a registered voter in the state of Oklahoma, and I will be voting for Barak Obama this November. If you are an American reading this please remember all of the blood that has been spilled, relations soured, reputations tarnished, and ask yourself, Was it worth it? Are we any better off? Are Americans really safer? Saddam is dead but Osama is still out there. The rich are richer and the poor are poorer. It is time for a change. Open your eyes.
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