More Evidence Neocons Are Destroying Bill of Rights
Monday March 20th 2006, 12:38 pm

I don’t know how much more evidence we need to demonstrate there is a plot underway to dismantle the Bill of Rights. Now we learn that soon after “the dark days” of nine eleven, “lawyers from the White House and the Justice Department began meeting to debate a number of novel legal strategies to help prevent another attack,” according to US News & World Report. “Meeting in the FBI’s state-of-the-art command center in the J. Edgar Hoover Building, the lawyers talked with senior FBI officials about using the same legal authority to conduct physical searches of homes and businesses of terrorism suspects–also without court approval,” that is to say in direct violation of the Fourth Amendment.

You know it is bad when the FBI—with its long and infamous history of trashing the Bill of Rights—resisted this effort. “FBI Director Robert Mueller was alarmed by the proposal,” two officials told the magazine. “Mueller was personally very concerned … not only because of the blowback issue but also because of the legal and constitutional questions raised by warrantless physical searches.” Apparently Mueller was so concerned he made it a point “to leave Washington—and sometimes the country—so as not to get pulled into the political crossfire. When Gonzales testified February 6 [before the Judiciary Committee], Mueller was on his way to Morocco.”

Of course, we are told by neocon cheerleaders in the corporate media the Bush White House and the Justice Department are only interested in “warrantless physical searches” against possible “al-Qaeda” bad guys. Most Americans have nothing to fear—that is so long as they do not fear the trashing of the Constitution.

But then, considering most Americans are woefully ignorant of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and know more about cartoon characters, the absence of such fear should not come as a surprise.