Bush has steadily stolen our rights

Roadside sobriety checks: lifesaver or violation of our Constitution?

Some perspective, if you please. We have a president who presented Congress with the Military Commissions Act of 2006. Lackey Republican and rollover Democrat members of Congress chewed up your Constitution and spit it in your face. They gave your rights to our dictator president and the jack-booted thug cronies who staff his administration.

We are spied on continuously. Without warrant your home can be entered and searched without your permission or knowledge. You might already be blacklisted and discriminated against just because of your political persuasions. You can be arrested and held in isolation for years without legal counsel. You can be tortured or killed, and no one will be held accountable. If you’re lucky your situation might leak out to the media. Then you may be released or be tried on charges that are just “too secret” to mention, so they’ll just release your broken body, and threaten to do it all over again if you tell anyone what happened to you. And there’s so much more our king can do to you.

All of this is happening right now, and it can happen to you or a member of your family. Ask your members of Congress why they would put you at such risk. Ask them why they would destroy your constitutional rights. Ask them why our dictator and his cronies aren’t in prison where they belong. And think twice about those candidates you will be voting for in upcoming elections. Vote out those politicians who sold you out.

Type “Naomi Wolf End of America” into your search engine, watch the presentation, and then get out there and worry about sobriety checks.

Ron Larsen

Everett

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