"Morton Davis" wrote in message
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"brainfart" wrote in message
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samsloan wrote...
Impeach Bush for Closing the Post Office

I just came back from the post office. I went there to mail some DVDs
that I had sold online. I was outraged to discover that the post office
was closed for the Funeral of President Ford.

The Post Office nationwide closed for a funeral! Outrageous. I have
bills to pay, work to get done, a family to support. Am I supposed to
stop everything just because a former president died?

Impeach Bush. How many billions of dollar will the US Economy lose
because the post office is closed one day for the former presidents
funeral?

Presidents often declare national days of mourning, such as when the
space shuttle crashed. I'm certain that it is completely legal and
constitutional, but what is illegal and unconstitutional is a
president who decrees himself the authority to ignore any or all
sections of any or all laws he disagrees with,

Like Bill Clinton?

A friend of mine, an unabashed, unrepenting, unreconstructed New Dealer,
commented last month to me that he *knows* torture and other mayhem occurred
during the administration of Bill Clinton (his hero). However, he was
appalled that such practices have become codified under this president. As a
conservative/libertarian, I must agree.

Like most red-blooded Americans I think no-good scumbag enemies of this
country who pose a serious threat should be tied to the celing, by their
testicles, and tortured until they sing. I don't even care what they sing.
They can sing "Sugar Magnolia" to the tune of "Autumn Leaves" for all I
care. But I *do not* want such policies codified or promulgated as "the law
of the land." Let me be clear: You can't stop official torture, but it's
sometimes (rarely) necessary as an exceptional form of coercion.

The effect of pronoucing it legal, however, is to desensitize citizens to
the abuse of such tactics. Did I smoke a joint last night? NO! But if Chief
Pritchett thinks I was smoking a joint, and he applied a cattle prod to my
gonads to extract information to the contrary, he would probably get it.

Torture is a slippery slope. Its justification in law is a flagpole covered
with Crisco.