Posted on 12/19/2005 1:50:24 PM PST by mhking
ATLANTA (AP) -- U.S. Representative John Lewis said in a radio interview on Monday that President Bush should be impeached if he broke the law in authorizing spying on Americans.
The Democratic congressman from Georgia told WAOK-AM that he would sign a bill of impeachment if one was drawn up and that the House of Representatives should consider such a move.
Lewis is among several Democrats who have voiced discontent with Sunday night's television speech, where Bush asked Americans to continue to support the Iraq War. Lewis is the first major House figure to suggest impeaching Bush.
Lewis said --quote-- "It's a very serious charge, but he violated the law.The president should abide by the law. He deliberately, systematically violated the law. He is not King, he is president."
More impeachment talk.
Now that is a clever idea.
Maybe the good Congressman should figure out that the legislation that guides wiretaps specifically states that US citizens can be wiretapped without FISA warrants if that citizens if in contact with an enemy of the United Stats.
This is the appropriate legislation:
Posted by Peach to Alter Kaker
On News/Activism 12/19/2005 4:41:01 PM EST · 60 of 63
Does everything have to be in the Constitution and legislation doesn't apply to anything in your worldview?
This is the legislation that pertains to US citizens who correspond with foreign enemies:
Return to section 1801, subsection (i): "United States person," which includes citizens, legal aliens, and businesses, explicitly "does not include a corporation or an association which is a foreign power."
Well sure, but does that mean that even if you are a citizen you cash in your abovementioned rights by collaborating with terrorists? Yes you do. You have then become an "Agent of a foreign power" as defined under subsection (b)(2)(C). Such agents include anyone who "knowingly engages in sabotage or international terrorism, or activities that are in preparation therefor, for or on behalf of a foreign power," and even includes those who aid and abet or knowingly conspire with those engaged in such behavior.
Wait, that includes anyone, even citizens? Yes — subsection (b)(1) is the part that applies to foreigners; (b)(2) covers everybody. And the whole point of the act is to collect "foreign intelligence information," which is defined under section 1801 subsection (e)(1)(B) as "information that relates to, and if concerning a United States person is necessary to, the ability of the United States to protect against sabotage or international terrorism by a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power."
"President Bush should be impeached if he broke the law in authorizing spying on Americans."
We'd have to go back further than Pres. Bush - Clinton did it, too, only he "spied" on Americans communicating with other Americans inside the country, not Americans communicating with suspected terrorists outside the country.
Let me re-do that legislation:
to section 1801, subsection (i): "United States person," which includes citizens, legal aliens, and businesses, explicitly "does not include a corporation or an association which is a foreign power."
Well sure, but does that mean that even if you are a citizen you cash in your abovementioned rights by collaborating with terrorists? Yes you do. You have then become an "Agent of a foreign power" as defined under subsection (b)(2)(C). Such agents include anyone who "knowingly engages in sabotage or international terrorism, or activities that are in preparation therefor, for or on behalf of a foreign power," and even includes those who aid and abet or knowingly conspire with those engaged in such behavior.
Wait, that includes anyone, even citizens? Yes — subsection (b)(1) is the part that applies to foreigners; (b)(2) covers everybody. And the whole point of the act is to collect "foreign intelligence information," which is defined under section 1801 subsection (e)(1)(B) as "information that relates to, and if concerning a United States person is necessary to, the ability of the United States to protect against sabotage or international terrorism by a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power."
The Congressman on Katrina. Missed a few there too.
We had a radio show host here in Atlanta back sometime in the late 80's Ed Tyl was his name...a real JK/OFF...called Lewis, Buckwheat...maybe he was right. John Lewis is an icon of the civil rights movement as he should be, but has really out lived usefulness in Atlanta
He must have been speaking through an interpreter.
Nice guy, well-intentioned, hero of the civil rights movement, but-- talkin' Geechee?
Man, does he ever!
Thus barketh the moonbat.
Hey Jeff,
It will be a good day when that communist POS is buried in the ground.
He is a perfect example of what the democrats stand for in life. Pure and simple(Communism&Socialism)
As I See It,
NSNR-FATD&S
He is truely an affirmative action congress critter. If John Lewis took an iq test, {I'm not sure he can read} he'd be in the low teens. He can never be prosecuted for a crime, too stupid and can't make a rational decision.
Tell me Rep. Lewis where was your outrage when Jimmy Carter, the man who appointed you to run ACTION passed the FISA law that makes this wire-tapping legal?
Sadly, tragically, we have allowed many such enemies within the gate...sappers who abett and assist the abject external enemies of this nation in trying to destroy it, the liberty it represents, and all it has been founded upon,
Yes OBL did need a lesson.
On the topic, I have it firsthand that one of the "Top Ten" names for the initial operations in Afganistan was going to be "Operation Sleeping Giant," but it was rejected as too obscure. (Jap Gen on Pearl Harbor . . "I am afraid we have merely awoken a sleeping giant.")
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