http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html Comments & Reviews of http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html on StumbleUpon en-us Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:34:08 -0800 Thu, 29 May 2008 17:39:42 -0700 http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/logo_su_36x36.png Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:03:14 -0800 http://deanmetcalfe.stumbleupon.com/review/3089243/ DeanMetcalfe - From the page: "Congressman Barr and I have disagreed many times over the years, but we have joined together today with thousands of our fellow citizens-Democrats and Republicans alike-to express our shared concern that America's Constitution is in grave danger. In spite of our differences over ideology and politics, we are in strong agreement that the American values we hold most dear have been placed at serious risk by the unprecedented claims of the Administration to a truly breathtaking expansion of executive power."]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html Tue, 17 Jan 2006 23:22:11 -0800 http://joelondon.stumbleupon.com/review/3069988/ JoeLondon - Excerpt from Gore's great speech: "Where we disagree is on the proposition that we have to break the law or sacrifice our system of government in order to protect Americans from terrorism. When in fact, doing so would make us weaker and more vulnerable. And remember that once violated, the rule of law is itself in danger. Unless stopped, lawlessness grows. The greater the power of the executive grows, the more difficult it becomes for the other branches to perform their constitutional roles. As the executive acts outside its constitutionally prescribed role and is able to control access to information that would expose its mistakes and reveal errors, it becomes increasingly difficult for the other branches to police its activities. Once that ability is lost, democracy itself is threatened and we become a government of men and not laws."]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:57:14 -0800 http://voyyaghar.stumbleupon.com/review/3068501/ voyyaghar -
Comment: Loud applause!

In Martin Luther King Day address, Gore compares wiretapping of Americans to surveillance of King

From the page: "In an address delivered in Washington to multiple standing ovations, Vice President Al Gore repeatedly attacked the Bush Administration for the expansion of executive power -- the ability of the government to wiretap its own citizens without legal authority and kidnap Americans abroad.

His speech -- which compares the wiretapping of Martin Luther King to the broad surveillance now imposed on Americans by President Bush -- called on Congress to resume its oversight responsibilities, and enjoined Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to appoint a special prosecutor. Gore was to be introduced by former Rep. Bob Barr, a Georgia Republican who has advocated for the constitutional right to privacy. The full text of his speech follows.",br>
Thanks to drdreus for sharing this...

]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:02:15 -0800 http://henrymiller.stumbleupon.com/review/3063785/ henrymiller - "Can it be true that any president really has such powers under our Constitution? If the answer is "yes" then under the theory by which these acts are committed, are there any acts that can on their face be prohibited? If the President has the inherent authority to eavesdrop, imprison citizens on his own declaration, kidnap and torture, then what can't he do?"]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html Tue, 17 Jan 2006 07:50:11 -0800 http://noksagt.stumbleupon.com/review/5086532/ noksagt - Perhaps a new spirit is rising among us. If it is, let us trace its movements and pray that our own inner being may be sensitive to its guidance, for we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us.]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:22:48 -0800 http://don-keehotay.stumbleupon.com/review/3056535/ Don-Keehotay - From the page: "An executive who arrogates to himself the power to ignore the legitimate legislative directives of the Congress or to act free of the check of the judiciary becomes the central threat that the Founders sought to nullify in the Constitution - an all-powerful executive too reminiscent of the King from whom they had broken free. In the words of James Madison, "the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."" Clear and Present Danger]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:11:28 -0800 http://drdreus.stumbleupon.com/review/3056465/ drdreus - "In an address delivered in Washington to multiple standing ovations, Vice President Al Gore repeatedly attacked the Bush Administration for the expansion of executive power -- the ability of the government to wiretap its own citizens without legal authority and kidnap Americans abroad. His speech -- which compares the wiretapping of Martin Luther King to the broad surveillance now imposed on Americans by President Bush -- called on Congress to resume its oversight responsibilities, and enjoined Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to appoint a special prosecutor. Gore was to be introduced by former Rep. Bob Barr, a Georgia Republican who has advocated for the constitutional right to privacy." And what does the MSM cover instead? An overturned truck on the freeway. Stupid liberal media!]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:29:23 -0800 http://mskrazykat.stumbleupon.com/review/3055749/ MsKrazyKat - (The link above will get you the transcript. The photo will take you to an AP account of the speech.) "Congressman Barr and I have disagreed many times over the years, but we have joined together today with thousands of our fellow citizens-Democrats and Republicans alike-to express our shared concern that America's Constitution is in grave danger. "In spite of our differences over ideology and politics, we are in strong agreement that the American values we hold most dear have been placed at serious risk by the unprecedented claims of the Administration to a truly breathtaking expansion of executive power..." -- Al Gore just gave a terrific speech in Washington, D.C. about Bush's abuse of power and the current constitutional crisis. It was carried live on CSPAN and if you go to http://www.CSPAN.org and look under the "recent programs" heading, you'll find the video.]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html