Bush, Congress trample our rights

In this misguided Age of Terrorism, President Bush has been pushing for Congress to give him the unadulterated leverage to spy on all of us without court approval or warrants.

Last week, he got it — thanks to the spineless Democrats and the rest of the Constitution-shredding varmints currently infesting the halls of Congress. (Thursday article, “Senate gives Bush wiretap overhaul.”)

Thinking about how our Founding Fathers gave this nation its fundamental rights and liberties, Bush must have been in some kind of drug-induced hallucination to believe that there aren’t 300 million Americans currently living and residing within this country of ours — after all — but discovered that he was really surrounded by 300 million Islamic extremists with deep ties to terrorist groups like Hamas, Hezbollah and al-Qaida instead.

So out with the Constitution, in with illegal spying for the last five years.

And when the government comes knocking on your door, accusing you of being a Muslim terrorist, be sure to thank your telephone carrier for its role in this whole mess as you’re being led out in handcuffs with a hood over your face.

Because it was they who illegally turned over all our personal phone and Internet records to the government in the first place.

All without a court-ordered warrant. All done in absolute secrecy.

In the name of fighting terrorism.

Schuyler Thorpe

Everett