• Front page
• Receive letters on your RSS reader

Stephen A. Justino of Denver writes:

This letter is in response to the 9/17/07 OP-ED piece “Founders’ genius: leave power widely dispersed,” by Colorado Bar Association President Wm. David Lytle.
With all due respect to Mr. Lytle, he demonstrates the same depth of understanding of the Constitution that I would expect to see in my daughter’s 6th grade Social Studies homework.
In the past 6 and ½ years President Bush has: in the case of at least one U.S. Citizen, Jose Padilla, suspended Habeas Corpus (the one individual right that was so universally agreed upon by the Founding Fathers that it was put in the body of the Constitution itself, rather than in the Bill of Rights); ordered warrantless domestic spying on U.S. citizens; used so-called “presidential signing statements” to ignore laws passed by Congress; and, relegated political protest to so-called “free speech zones.” On Constitution Day, 2007, we, as Americans, find ourselves in the middle of a true CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS. Mr. Lytle, as President of the Colorado Bar Association, should be educating the public about the grave, hopefully-not-irreversible, damage that has been done to the Constitution in the name of fighting the “war” on terrorism, not reminding us that there are three branches of government.

This letter has not been edited.

READER COMMENTS

"...find ourselves in the middle of a true CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS."

Crisis? What crisis? If you have something to hide, then it might be a crisis. But for the other 99.99999999% of law respecting Americans, its business--very good business--as usual!

Abe Lincoln suspended H-C and America survived him. He's even on Mt. Rushmore! So what's the problem? Is Padilla all you got? That's it? Any other victim names?

Crisis my ass. Go back to writting your terrorist Bill of Rights---from Havana!

Hank, one moment of sanity. All tyranny starts out small and people like you are blind to it until it knocks on your door ever so briefly, then breaks it down. If you think Republicans are the only ones so devinely endowed with truth that they are untouchable, than you are a zealot that is unaware of anything that comes close to reality. When are you going to wake up to the fact that politicians as a whole are not to be trusted, but rather they should be questioned about all aspects of everything they want to enact into law or, set up special provisions, on a temporary basis, to suspend constitutional law in the name of protecting the public.

If you truly believe that it is only democrats that can't be trusted, you are delusional.

Hank is a strange sort of a fellow. He thinks that everyone opposed to Bush came here from Havana.

POST A COMMENT

• Organ & tissue donors needed
• Moving toward a totalitarian government
• Smoking ban
• Presidential candidate Ron Paul
• Bill Clinton
• 208 Commission’s “5” proposal
• Response to “Flatlanders”
• Bush administration comments