The Momentous Constitutional Battle for Freedom

by Lucky7Star © September 2006 

Lindsey Graham (Senator Republican South Carolina) said this will determine how America is perceived around the world in 2006… Indeed  how we define these issues of the Geneva Conventions (and associate constitutional concerns) is even more important then how we are perceived just not by friend and foe alike but, from the historical perspective in 3006, how we perceived and defined our national character as the leader of the free world.  Generations may look upon the events taking form upon the Senate floor as the pivotal moment for shaping the future of what this country, indeed in large part what the free world will become in the next thousand years. 

The line has been drawn, not in the sands of some god forsaken desert,  but  upon the floor of the United States Senate and across the desk of Executive office desk of President George Walker Bush. In the Senate you have Senators John McCain of Arizona, John W. Warner of Virginia and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. The three were joined on Thursday by Colin L. Powell, formerly the secretary of state and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in challenging the administration’s approach.  At stake are the core principals of this nation in its battle over terrorism… but even deeper and more important are our Constitution and its cherished moral principals as they stand not just for Americans but for the world… Who we are, and what we stand for.  How we are different from the would be tyrants that oppose and loath freedom and will ultimately determine if Government of the people, by the people and for the people shall survive or perish from the face of the earth.  

Almost two years have passed since The Nation published The Moral Case Against the Iraq War  Indeed this has become more than just a war for democracy in Iraq but a test for the core and soul of this nation’s Constitution.  I wrote a piece that did not get much copy on an important discussion of the Supreme Courts decision as to the legal question branding the NSA wiretapping as unconstitutional. In the discussion I just called it as I plainly see it Spaghetti Cowboy logic because the reasoning behind the wire taps seems all nice and sound on the surface but contains the seeds of destruction to be twisted in such as fashion so as to destroy not only the Constitution but indeed peril the very future of freedom and basic human rights as to make them nonexistence.   This Sunday churches across America are encouraged to ring their bells on September 17th at 4:00 pm, the date and time of the original signing of the Constitution of the United State of American… To which I can only add, for those who believe in God and the power of prayer…  Now maybe a good time to pray for America and thank God for the freedoms for which she stands.