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Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Q. Can the president spy on Americans without a warrant?
A. The president has to spy on Americans without a warrant! We're at war, and the president's gotta defend America, and he's not gonna wait for a permission slip from a judge or a senator or America to do it! Q. That's just the kinda tough, no-nonsense thinking I like in a de facto dictator! Now some crazy people say the president broke some silly old laws like FISA and the National Security Act and the Fourth Amendment. Are these crazy people crazy? A. They sure are! Maybe those laws worked back in 1978 back when Leonid Brezhnev was snortin coke with Ayatollah Khomeini and groovin to the hits of the Bee Gees, but in today's dark and dangerous times they just aren't enough. Q. Things sure have changed since the innocent days of mutually assured destruction! But is it legal for the president to ignore the law? A. Maybe not according to plain ol stupid ol regular law, but we're at war! You don't go to war with regular laws, which are made outta red tape and bureaucracy and Neville Chamberlain. You go to war with great big strapping War Laws made outta tanks and cold hard steel and the American Fightin Man and WAR, KABOOOOOOM! Q. How does a War Bill become a War Law? A. It all begins with the president, who submits a bill to the president. If a majority of both the president and the president approve the bill, then it passes on to the president, who may veto it or sign it into law. And even then the president can override himself with a two-thirds vote. Q. See it's the checks and balances that make all the difference in our democratic system. A. It's true. Q. Can the president spy on me without a warrant? A. The president would never, ever spy on you, unless you're talking to a terrorist. Q. That sounds reasonable! A. Or an associate of a terrorist or a suspected associate of a terrorist or a possible suspected relative of a member of an affiliate of a terrorist or someone with a name that's spelled like a terrorist's or someone who's been mistakenly identified as a terrorist by an NSA algorithm. Q. That sounds like I should look into switching to smoke signals. A. Well if you want, the president can stop the illegal wiretapping just for you. Q. Really? Well thanks, that'd be great! A. And then the terrorists can come and eat you. Q. Wait! What? A. Cause without the wiretaps there's nothin to stop the terrorists from eatin you, yknow. The terrorists and their army of bees. Q. Oh no! I'm allergic to terrorists AND bees! A. Oh that's too bad, cause now the president hasta stop the illegal wiretaps and let alllll those terrorist bees eat you. Q. Quick! Put the wiretaps back, put the wiretaps back! A. No no, you just said you wanna get eaten. Eaten by terrorist bees. Q. I change my mind! Please let the president wiretap me, pleeeease. A. I dunno... Q. Please, I can change! I DO believe in terror, I DO believe in terror! A. Oh, alright. But just this once! Q. It's a Nine-Elevenmas miracle! Q. Is the president above the law? A. Nobody's above the law! As commander-in-chief the president just outranks the law. Q. So the president doesn't break the law. He just appoints new laws to fill vacancies in the office of law, as empowered by Acticle II of the Shmonstitution! A. In the presidential order of succession the law falls between Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson. Q. You can't put the law any higher. It would just slow down the War on Terror with bureaucratic rules and regulations like the Geneva Conventions and the Bill of Rights. A. If the law outranked the president we'd never get anything done! The president would go toss Osama bin Laden through a plate glass window and the law would call him into his office an go "Dammit president, you're outta control!" Q. And then the president'd be all "You're outta control, chief! The whole freakin system's outta control!" A. And then the president would totally turn in his badge and quit the force to fight crime! Q. Fight crime... with mind-powers. Q. Can the president eat a baby? A. If that baby has suspected ties to al Qaeda, then it's the president's duty to eat it - for the sake of national security. Q. The president doesn't want to eat sweet, delicious babies. He just wants to protect America from the growing threat of a rogue baby insurgency. A. Exactly. And nobody will have more compassion for that succulent baby barbecue than him. Q. How many non-terrorist babies would it be acceptible for the president to accidentally eat in the course of enforcing a rigorous terrorist baby-eating program? A. First of all, the president would never ever eat a baby unless it was reasonably suspected to be affiliated with possible terroresque program activities. Second of all, do we really wanna start tyin the president's hands when he's tryin to protect everybody from jihadist babies? They could be Islamifying our country's drool supply as we speak! Q. Sir, I demand the immediate establishment of a cabinet-level Department of Baby-Eating! A. Just til we win the War on Terror, of course! Q. And with our sophisticated baby-eating technology we should be taking the Terrorstani capital of Fearlamabad any day now! A. Of course! But the actual occupation could last quite some time, you understand... Q. Well, yes. But the fight has to be won. These people want to use terror to destroy our freedom. A. And that's just un-American. Labels: q and a, securitainment, the king of freedom
posted by fafnir at 8:14 PM
Could you please darken the font? Some of us have reduced eyesight abilities, not always correctable by lenses.
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