If they actually go ahead with their witch-hunt of Bush Administration officials:
..The administration should tread carefully, since it is about to embark on something nefarious that could tear apart the country…
…Prior to President Obama, Americans did not go in for this sort of thing, because we knew where it led.
Politics and conditions change. What a conservative administration does at a time of national crisis to protect the public may subsequently, in the calm of an eighth consecutive year of safety, seem in retrospect illiberal to a new liberal government.
Dwight Eisenhower did not open hearings to pave the way for indictment of federal officials of the Roosevelt administration or California lawyers working for Gov. Earl Warren, who in concert planned and carried out the forced internment of American citizens into camps. Much less did he bring Truman & Co. up on charges of using nuclear weapons to incinerate Japanese civilians.
Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge did not seek indictment of Woodrow Wilson’s Justice Department, which did everything from strengthening segregation to jailing war critics and helping foster the odious vigilantes of the American Protective League. No subsequent administration tried to arrest Lincoln’s Cabinet members for signing off on the suspension of habeas corpus after Fort Sumter — unconstitutional decrees that eventually would mean some 15,000 Americans were held without charges for indeterminate length.
President Obama would not a want a putative President Palin to begin hearings on who ordered the targeted executions of two suspected Somali pirates, taken out in the middle of protracted negotiations. He would not wish a President Sanford one day to indict those Obama officials who approved the assassination-by-Predator-missile of suspected terrorists and their families in Pakistan — without habeas corpus, Miranda rights, or avenues of appeal. He would not enjoy a future President Giuliani’s bringing indictments of Obama officials over the NSA’s exceeding its allotted e-mail intercepts, or the CIA’s conducting overseas renditions of suspected terrorists without providing them the benefits of U.S. law.
President Obama, presumptively, will also not want to spark off the second American Civil War but at the end of this road is just that. I was watching a bit of O’Reilly and his opinion is that the left is trying to make conservatism odious in order to gain political advantage. There is that, but such a theory leaves out the plain fact that leftists hate, with a white-hot passion, anyone who doesn’t toe the leftwing line. One only has to see the way leftists smear people who become apostates of the left to see that, deep in their being, is a desire to lacerate, to maim, to utterly destroy those who oppose them. Whatever else may be assisting the motivation to prosecute Bush Administration figures, the primary impulse comes from hatred and a desire for revenge.
The left, of course, is a political minority. It has functional control of the United States at the moment because the President and the Speaker are both leftists…but while most Democrats are liberal, they are not of that hard left view which turns people into poor, twisted creatures capable of cruelty on a grand scale. Most liberals are kind of like Joe Lieberman…most leftists are like Jeremiah Wright. The problem with our liberals is that they long ago fell for the nonsense (started by the left) that liberals have no enemies on the left. Leftists use this to co-opt liberals and, when the can, destroy liberalism…but no matter how many times it happens, liberals seem to melt when some neo-Stalinist on the make starts mouthing words about social justice. But will liberals go down this road with the left?
It is to be doubted that Joe Lieberman will go along with such things – heck, just the rank anti-Semitism of the left is enough to turn off someone like Lieberman. But are there enough liberals with the sense and the courage to, in the end, stand fast against this leftwing attempt to destroy conservatism? To stand fast, that is, against what can easily spark an armed civil war in this nation? That will remain to be seen. I hope it ends up like that – with the left over-reaching and then getting smacked down by liberal and conservative patriots who won’t have anything to do with this wickedness.
I also hope that at least some on the left come to realize that however much they hate us, it isn’t worth it to try and criminalize us. It is, to use the leftwing mantra, time to “move on”. Enjoy the power you’ve won leftists. Attempt to implement as much of your leftist agenda as you can. Work diligently to thwart conservatism’s return to power…but don’t try to prosecute the Bush Administration. We really won’t stand for it – not for a moment.
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