Bush vs. Our Constitutional Rights

Dear Editor:

On Wednesday President Bush is planning to visit the National Security Agency to bolster his claim that he has the constitutional authority to let intelligence officials listen in on international (or probably domestic too) calls of Americans. He has stated in the past that he will do whatever he deems necessary to “protect” our country against terrorism. But who is going to protect us from him?

Without legal cause or warrant will he next claim authority to open our mail that comes from another country? Will he also claim authority to break, enter, and search our homes because some unidentified person suspects we are not “good” Americans? Furthermore, will he next claim authority to arrest and jail indefinitely anyone who disagrees with his power to protect us from terrorists? Will he trample all over the freedom of the press by closing newspapers that he feels hurt his “war on terror” by reporting the truth? What if he decides that he has the constitutional authority to use the army to suspend the Congress because it will not give him the backing he needs?

Does that all sound extreme and ridiculous? Not according to his thinking and the constitutional powers he claims have precedence and override our laws. Who’s to stop him? Where does it end?