Creative Disclaimer

We now hear that the Bush Justice Dept. is attempting to block a court order to end its warrantless wiretap program while the administration is appealing the decision. This sounds like a convict stating he needs to stay our of jail until his appeal is decided. This world is getting stranger every day.

In a related development, I recently received an email with the following disclaimer. Truth is stranger than fiction.

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WARNING: Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant, or notice, and certainly without probable cause. They may do this without any judicial or legislative oversight. We have no recourse nor protection save to call for the impeachment of the current President.

"Remember, all that Hitler did was legal in Germany at the time."
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." ~Theodore Roosevelt, 1918

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." ~James Madison

"Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedoms of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." ~James Madison

"Yes, we did produce a near perfect Republic. But will they keep it, or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction." ~Thomas Jefferson

"A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come from it." ~Wm. Penn

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