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Constitution Act of 2007

Wednesday, February 28 at 12:05 PM

Leroy Quet of Denver writes:

Subject: Restoring The Constitution Act Of 2007
I have submitted this letter to Colorado’s Senator Salazar. (Senator Allard is a lost cause.)
Dear Senator Salazar, I was very displeased with your recent vote in favor of such very unAmerican legislation, the “Military Commissions Act". But there is now an opportunity for you to still support the cause you wrote to me to say you were supporting by your vote — the “jump-starting” of trials for at least some US-held “War On Terror” detainees — while opposing the obscenely unconstitutional aspects of the Military Commissions Act — the removal of the once-charished habeas corpus rights of the accused, the almost omnipotent and unilateral powers of President Bush to declare anyone (including US citizens) to be “enemy combatants", and the also unilateral and omnipotent powers of the president himself to decide exactly what is and what is not torture.
PLEASE support the much-needed (and truthfully named) legislation put forth by Senator Dodd, the “Restoring The Constitution Act Of 2007".
And at the very least, please help publicize this very important legislation. Hopefully then the opponents of Dodd’s bill will be embarrassed when Americans realize just how unAmerican and, yes, UNpatriotic they truly are!

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READER COMMENTS

I'm told I hate America when I insist that our Constitution be safeguarded. My loyalist friends never cease to offer my vacation of our land if I hate it so much.

If Lincoln could rescind Habeus Corpus, why can't George Bush? The comparison of Bush to Lincoln may be described as fantasy, or delusional. Only the hard core Kool-aid drinking Rushie Bush lover would call it otherwise.

But granting the power of a king to any president, right or left, is against our defining document. Once the constitution dies, we will have a dictatorship left of our formerly free nation.

Posted by on February 28, 2007 04:15 PM

"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."
---Sinclair Lewis

We need to do all we can to UNDO the "fascism" Bush has created here!

Posted by Jan on February 28, 2007 06:15 PM

Why in the world would anyone write to Salazar?? He's another do-nothing official that should be out after one term. I am not an Allard fan either so don't give me the Allard hate spiel. I promise you Leroy Quet NOTHING will be done about this. Trust me!!

Posted by Mimi on March 1, 2007 05:16 PM