How much farther can they erode my confidence?
Ok, now I'm really pissed. Just how many times will our government betray us? We are taught from grade school to respect the "authority" of our government and yet time and time again that same entity either fails or betrays us.
Today, Judge John D. Bates dismissed the Valerie Plame case against the WH administration officials who leaked her name to the lump of seditious crap known as Robert Novak. But why would you be surprised at this?
Judge John D. Bates also dismissed the lawsuit seeking to find who met with Cheney and now that we know he met with the big oil companies and their names, why would Bates suddenly want to uphold the law? His decisions to dismiss cases where clearly there is a public interest raise the question, Where do you go to get justice?
As it is now, the judge sits on the same court that rubber stamps Bush's searches of your inner most records, allows them to even ignore his FISA court, and yet when we seek to know who met with Cheney, or when Valerie Plame seeks restitution for the damage done to her career, he decides he has no juristiction and that nothing was proven.
I don't care what college he went to, or even who appointed him. This decision has really destroyed any further faith I have that our government is of the people, by the people and for the people. Instead we have a government for the powerful, by the powerful, and for the explicit purpose to use, betray, and deny the citizens of the United States.
I don't know what appeal process follows his current decision, but I hope CREW and the Wilson's continue to fight to out all the traitors.
Even to this day, Robert Novak says he'd publish the information again. So please explain to me,...How in the hell is he not a traitor?
And Bates worked enthusiastically under Starr, being eager to go through the White House's drawers, as Leahy put it.
The easy way out for suits like this is jurisdictional, when the court says either it or the plaintiffs have no standing. Bates ruled that the Wilsons did not have standing under one version of law that applies to individual officers. They say they can appeal that. There is another provision that allows suing the government itself, but CREW said it is not planning that avenue, maybe with an implied "yet".
Muckraker's got the details.
I begin to wonder if it's already too late.
July 19, 2007 9:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, Sloan and CREW announced that they will press for an Appeal, but what is more sad is that I forgot that the Federal Court isn't the highest court in the land...so why did I forget that? ....because the Supreme Court is now a void of justice branch of the government.
All those hours of teaching my children basic civics and now its like..new math...gotta teach it all over again against the new paradigm.
Further, it turns out that the case for contempt of congress charges against Josh Bolton for failing to turn over the documents about DOJ attorney firings is another Republican wonk appointed by Alberto Gonzales. He can simply ignore it like his boss does.
Press the Judiciary Committee to review the merits of officials being exempt while performing official duties. The notion that these guys can get away with anything while in office and be void of responsibility is counter to the interests and understanding of the citizens.
July 19, 2007 11:19 PM | Reply | Permalink