When did they change the terms of law ?

When in the hell is somebody going to ask Dick Cheney to shut up? He makes us look like unprincipaled and basically like a country that has lost it's sense of juris prudence. For the longest time, we were told that "we do not torture" people, the we were told that waterboarding isn't torture but not to worry because we only did it to three "terrorists" and that it was done to protect us from being attacked. Isn't this sort of a macabre twist on the Constitution? I take it that Cheney forgets that little 'ole thing. Apparently after having done it TWICE he forgot completely what he swore, on a Bible no less.

On Face The Nation, recently he looked right in the camera when asked about this whole mess about torture and said..."On January 20,2001, I swore to protect the people against all enemies foreign and domestic". Missed it by that much, Dick. Since 1933, the Vice President has taken the same oath as the President on the same day that chief executive assumes their oath. What he REALLY swore was "To uphold and defend the CONSTITUTION against all enemies foreign and domestic". BIG DIFFERENCE. Since we began this country, we have depended on this document for our ultimate protection.

This goes a long way toward understanding why Cheney doesn't get this thing about "cruel and unusual punishment" that we are prohited from doing as a sacred part of our values. It's ludicrous to state that it's perfectly OK to terrorize a person based on the presumption (without the benefit of a jury and judge) that they are truly guilty of something. If this sort of liberty can be taken to protect us, what guarantee will we have that any of us will be able to depend on juris prudence in the future? Presumption of innocent till proven guilty is PARAMOUNT. Without it NOBODY is safe here.

It's scary that people have taken this as if it's no big deal. It is HUGE. We truly are the people we were warned about if we lose this sense of humanity that we can accept terrorizing others for the benefit of a sense of security. We now know why Ben Franklin said at the Historical Review of Pennsylvania of 1759......"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Please note, this was pre-1776. There are no short cuts in protecting our rights and values. We must obey the laws or none of us will ever be safe again. We won't need to wait to be attacked by enemies foreign if we allow domestic enemies to destroy all we hold dear from within.....allegedly for our benefit. Go save somebody else Dick. We know all about the "enemies domestic". You are the worst of them.