Political Rant of the day.

I was going to blog about my labor day weekend, but something else got into my head. Again, it becomes too apparent that the President of the United States has no regard for the rule of law or fundamental human rights. It's odd to see that statement in print. He should be at the forefront of defending such principles, but that's obviously not the case.

Gitmo. So the Supreme Court actually shut him down for trying to skirt the rules and recreate military tribunals to serve his purposes. So instead of trying to treat the Gitmo bad guys in accordance with the Geneva accords, he's working with Congress to rewrite the law so he can ignore the law.

Today he also admitted to covert CIA prisons. Bad guys are bad guys for a reason. They need to be interrogated, but all indications are that tortured confessions aren't real confessions. There's also the ugly stain on America that we're essentially outsourcing our torture. We have laws in place, and there are the Geneva accords, so we're sending people to other countries where they can be tortured. I get that these are bad guys, but this still leaves an ugly stink. We've signed up to abide by some basic principles and we're not following them. Also, in many cases, we seem to have done this without informing our allies what we were doing, putting other governments in violation of international treaties as well. Nice.

And for the umpteenth time, this demonstrates a President with no qualms about lying to the American people. It just adds to the litany. Yes, Iraq had weapons. Yes, there were ties between Osama and Iraq. No, they didn't out Ms. Plame for political purposes, no, they were not conducting unconstitutional wiretapping and no we do not torture.

The lies won't stop, until we stop believing them.