bush calls for renewal of "PATRIOT" act

from the "scare the electorate" files

"Key elements of the Patriot Act are set to expire next year," Bush said in his weekly radio address. "Some politicians in Washington act as if the threat to America will also expire on that schedule."

We can only hope.

One of the greatest threats to America as we know it is the PATRIOT Act itself. Its name alone bodes doom for all who would believe in its innocence; the name is merely an acronym. There is precious little in the Act itself that might be called "patriotic." The Act is nothing more than a corruption of constitutional protections.

To be sure, there are actually a couple of good ideas in the Act - but they are completely overshadowed by the manifold perverse elements.

I have no doubt that the odious Act could actually be used against me, personally, based on some essentially innocuous comment found somewhere in the archives of this column. I have also repeatedly declared my patriotism and history of voting in our general elections. Nevertheless, any positive notes would be ignored within the context of the modern witchhunts conducted by the so-called "Justice" Department.

Our pResident and his cabal have implied that criticism of the Presidential administration is equivalent to sedition; the Alien and Sedition Act dating to the first Adams administration has been used as justification.

George W. Bush, however, has never mentioned John Adams among his idols. He has mentioned Theodore Roosevelt; he even went so far as to introduce the History Channel's "American Lion" show documenting Roosevelt's life. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: if T.R. was alive today, he'd sock Dubya in the nose. Sure, he'd be well over 100 years old, but he'd do it anyway.

Perhaps Dubya and his cohorts missed T.R.'s well-known quote, "Not only is it not unpatriotic to question the President, it is the duty of a patriotic American to do so when necessary."

'Nuff said.