Make your perspective known!

[cherydactyl]

As a follow up to my recent post (which was reposted from djinnthespazz) about President Bush's quote saying that wiretaps need a court order while apparently ordering warrantless wiretaps...

moveon.org is currently gathering electronic signatures for a petition on this very issue. If you are as concerned as I about the actions of the Bush administration, please consider signing this petition!!! Here is information from moveon:

Subject: The President Broke the Law

President Bush admitted to personally authorizing thousands of allegedly illegal wiretaps, and he doesn't plan to stop. Circumventing the Constitution is serious business. This is a big moment. People from across the political spectrum are standing together to protect the rule of law and the principles that are core to our identity as Americans.

Can you sign this petition to show Congress that Americans want a thorough investigation of the president's secret wiretapping program?

http://political.moveon.org/ruleoflaw/

Comments

Re: Bushism...

[cherydactyl.livejournal.com]

I had heard about this morning on NPR. Teh Dian Rhiem show had somebody on talking about the fact that this is a fairly weak government, due to only winning a plurality, and about some implications of this. I remember then saying the new governent won't be able to make big changes because of that frailty. The example cited was messing with the CBC.

I have passing familiarity with Parlimentary government...mainly from having Canadian friends over the years, watching and hearing BBC (our local NPR station has an hour of BBC World News every morning and the PBS station here has BBC TV news in the evening, though I hardly ever watch that), and the references in cultural stuff such as Dr. Who. Living in SE Michigan means I even watch CBC sometimes...much better Olympics coverage than US networks, Saturday am curling when I was a kid, etc.

Oh, and I'm pretty sure 'satirists' IS a real word.