With Mid Term elections just around the corner maybe it’s time for us to start taking a harder look at what has happened to OUR civil liberties. What we once took for granted as the cornerstone of being an American would seem to be in the process of disappearing on an almost daily basis.
The White House got more than a little upset with the New York Times when it broke the news on their highly classified program of monitoring bank accounts. This story came just as the storm over Wire Taps had finally began to ease off. President Bush called them (the New York Times) disgraceful and said the story had caused Great Harm to America.
Can we or should we continue to allow OUR Presidents the right to use their constitutional responsibility for national security to trample over OUR civil liberties. Our First Amendment allows the press the freedom to question the government, Jefferson believed that democracy could easily descend into tyranny and a vigorous free press was necessary to prevent our future leaders from getting too full of themselves. We (the press) have not always got it right, but without us such matters as the Pentagon Pages, Watergate and the most...
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