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Thursday, December 22, 2005
W. Is there anything he can't do?
That's a serious question, actually. Under the Bush/Gonzolas/Yoo "We're at war" doctrine is there any act that the president is prevented by law from doing? We know he can spy on American citizens without judicial consent. We know he can arrest and hold American citizens without trial or even being charged. He can send people to be tortured in secret prisons in foreign countries. Knowing that, is it possible he could do the same to political enemies? What would happen if a senator or a journalist so bothered W with an anti-war stance that W declared him an enemy combatant and tossed him in prison? Now it's all well and good to say, "Oh he would never do that" and I'm not so cynical that I really think he would. But the real question is not would he, but could he. And again I am asking this in all seriousness, what, from a legal standpoint, prevents him from doing so? Someone describe for me the legal remedies available to a person so detained. And if this sort of thing doesn't happen only because the president does not choose to allow it how is that different from a dictatorship?
