Byron Williams: Time to Reclaim our Democracy

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Why send elected representation to Washington if the president believes he can unilaterally determine any policy that is remotely related to a war that has no definable end without regard for the rule of law or our democratic values?

We have long passed the point of moral self-reflection whenever the commander-in-chief can brazenly state publicly that he ordered wiretaps without oversight on US soil, justifying it by a notion supported only by a few, that the rule of law is trumped by the war on terror.

How long can we remain content believing that 9/11 changed everything? Was the impact of 9/11 so great that we now subliminally believe that the president is above the law?

If so, those of us in dissent owe the president and the vice president an apology. Moreover, we would also need to declare bin Laden the victor because he would have been successful in uncovering what Tocqueville observed in the 19th century.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/byron-williams/time-to-reclaim-our-democ_b_13214.html