Monks Jazz Club
A Dark Day for America
RECEIVED Mon., Oct. 31, 2005
Dear Editor,
"Innocent until proven guilty" is an important precept of our court system. For the police, however, everyone is suspect until ruled out. And for persons outside the criminal justice system, these principles don't necessarily apply.
Scooter Libby, Vice-President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, has been indicted on perjury and obstruction of justice in the case of the CIA agent, whose cover company was blown, endangering her life and the lives of her fellow agents, in retaliation for her diplomat husband not falling in lockstep with the Bush administration's rush to war in Iraq.
Scooter Libby is a peon. He did not engineer this treason.
We can now safely say that Dick Cheney is a traitor and enemy to the United States of America.
For those of us who have suspected or believed this was the case for that past two-to-seven years (that America would invade Iraq for monetary gain), this is no joyous victory. It is a dark day for America. The office of the presidency has been blackened. We are under the rule of thugs.
As Saturday Night Live Weekend Update reported (Oct. 29), 66% of the American people now believe that George Bush is performing poorly in the war (less perhaps that he lied to entrap us there); the other 34% believe that Adam and Eve rode on the back of a dinosaur to church.
President Bush should no more be entrusted to nominate someone to the Supreme Court than bin Laden. Impeachment proceedings against him should begin immediately. That is, had the Democrats any balls.
"Innocent until proven guilty" is an important precept of our court system. For the police, however, everyone is suspect until ruled out. And for persons outside the criminal justice system, these principles don't necessarily apply.
Scooter Libby, Vice-President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, has been indicted on perjury and obstruction of justice in the case of the CIA agent, whose cover company was blown, endangering her life and the lives of her fellow agents, in retaliation for her diplomat husband not falling in lockstep with the Bush administration's rush to war in Iraq.
Scooter Libby is a peon. He did not engineer this treason.
We can now safely say that Dick Cheney is a traitor and enemy to the United States of America.
For those of us who have suspected or believed this was the case for that past two-to-seven years (that America would invade Iraq for monetary gain), this is no joyous victory. It is a dark day for America. The office of the presidency has been blackened. We are under the rule of thugs.
As Saturday Night Live Weekend Update reported (Oct. 29), 66% of the American people now believe that George Bush is performing poorly in the war (less perhaps that he lied to entrap us there); the other 34% believe that Adam and Eve rode on the back of a dinosaur to church.
President Bush should no more be entrusted to nominate someone to the Supreme Court than bin Laden. Impeachment proceedings against him should begin immediately. That is, had the Democrats any balls.
Sincerely,
Kenney C. Kennedy
Kenney C. Kennedy
