Obama and Congress see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil

[tom_paine]

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It’s time for real change and a new direction in Washington, DC. No more business as usual, those days are gone forever. No one is above the law. Do those words sound familiar? They should since they were presented to us continuously over the past two years by Barack Obama, the candidate.

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My point is this. We have heard this message before. In recent years, we heard on numerous occasions that impeachment is off the table from none other than Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, because it was time to move forward and not get embroiled in the past. Not even for probable high crimes and misdemeanors as our Constitution calls for in appropriate cases.

Now the word from President Obama, who I totally supported in his campaign for the presidency, is that prosecution for torture is something that would be a useless exercise; that we must only look forward. Well, I beg to differ. That entire question of the use of torture that violates the Geneva Convention, The UN Convention Against Torture and other international law cannot be ignored in this festering situation simply because the US Constitution says that our president must enforce the laws of the land and treaties made. That said, President Obama must do exactly that; he must review the past.

Our new president, that I once thought was ready to do battle with the thousands of lobbyists, special interest groups, the insurance and pharmaceutical industry now appears to have a deaf ear when it comes to a single-payer healthcare system that the majority of Americans want.

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