Originally Posted by
LuvAirFrance
One of the things I love in all this is the fact that virtually no one in Congress is putting their bodies in the way of the looming state power. If they don't defend the rights of citizens, who is left? The reason for the separation of powers is not to pay more people, it is to create some sort of capacity for the action of one branch to be criticized from separate and independent branches. I guess the Founding Fathers didn't consider what would be if all three branches went insane together.
I guess it doesn't really surprise me. Our congress folks have shown in many ways that they are not 'us'. They are the 'state power' and we are the 'citizens'.
They do not see any loss of citizen rights as affecting them.
A good example is the 'no-fly' list. When Ted Kennedy and Kat Stevens (wife of Sen. Ted Stevens, confused with 'Cat Stevens') started getting flak because they were on the 'no fly' list, it got straightened out. No months of redress numbers, harassment, et cetera.
Of course, once their personal problems were resolved, neither one of them tried to ensure that other innocent American citizens wouldn't be caught up in the same nightmare.