Presidential Arrogance

Dear Editor:

Today in his news conference the president made the statement that the FISA law was passed in 1978 and is no longer relevant. He claimed that the world today is a different place and that law just can’t handle today’s needs. This means that he alone has decided what laws we can live under and that he can sweep aside any law that was passed before his term in office as not being relevant to today’s world.

Who gave him this power? Does this mean that he can override Congress at any time? Has he decided that since the Declaration of Independence was written in 1776 and the Constitution was written in 1789 that they are no longer relevant because he says so? Are we to lose our rights as citizens and human beings because the laws granting them to us were written in a different time?

It is about time for the Congress, the Supreme Court, and the electorate of this country to rise up and put down this arrogant, power grabbing, failed president and put him in his place. We cannot allow a single person to decide which of our laws will be applicable to “today’s world.”