Retroactive laws

You have to admit these Republicans are a creative bunch. They have come up and are promoting an entirely new approach to American jurisprudence. If you break a law just retroactively change that law. This is what they are attempting with the problem of warrantless wiretapping. You see, Bush has blatantly broken the law about wiretapping without a warrant (apparently because he just couldn't be bothered with all that red tape). He has even admitted to breaking this law. So what is the Republican solution - just retroactively change the law. Simple, no?

Now there is a better and much more important case. War crimes. It is obvious to anyone with even half a brain that Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rice and other of the neocons have committed serious war crimes. Everyone on earth pretty much knows about it (apparently except some one third of the American public which seems to know nothing at all about anything). Preemptively attacking a country that is of no threat to you (as in the case of Iraq) is a monumental war crime. Torture is a war crime. Hiding prisoners from the Red Cross is a war crime. Killing innocent civilians including children is a war crime. Using white phosphorous bombs is a war crime. War profiteering is a war crime. Need I go on. So...what is the Republican solution to this obvious problem? Why, of course, just retroactively change the laws so Bush/Cheney et al will no longer be guilty of war crimes. This is precisely what they are attempting to do.

There is one serious problem they need to overcome, as I understand it (and I admit I don't understand much of what is going on at all), and that is, according to American law, it is against the law to retroactively change a law to protect criminals. But, what the hell, why would Republicans be concerned with a minor matter like that? They have always done what they wanted with no regard either for law or constitution, so why should they change now. They'll just change this law as well. You have to hand it to them, they manage to operate as if there is no law, morality, or ethics whatsoever, and they continue to get away with it. Quite amazing, really.

What is most amazing about it is that nobody seems to care, certainly not the Democrats who are supposed to be an opposition party. As far as I am concerned the very fact that they are attempting to change the laws is an admission of guilt. If they didn't think they were guilty why would they need to change the laws? They know they are guilty. The whole world knows they are guilty. Will they ever be held accountable for their multiple and horrendous war crimes? Or does might truly mean right? The true "war" is just now being joined - the war between the corporate fascists and the ordinary and decent citizens of the world.