Change the law?????????

Letter to the Washington Post

Re: Hill Battle Looms Over Tribunals (July 13, 2006)

Dear editor:

There's an old song with the line, "When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near."

Evidently the Republican Congress and the president feel we as a nation should use this type of convoluted thinking and apply it to the recent Supreme Court decision outlawing the military tribunals for prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

Evidently they want to change the line to, "When I'm not near the law I love, I change the law I'm near." This is a democracy governed by a constitution and laws? What a sad joke.