Bush: Judges "simply do not understand the nature of the world in which we live."

I got this off Yahoo News:

CAMP DAVID, Md.--President Bush said those who agree with a federal judge that his warrantless surveillance program is unconstitutional "simply do not understand the nature of the world in which we live."

"This country of ours is at war," the president said Friday. "And we must give those whose responsibility it is to protect the United States the tools necessary to protect this country in a time of war."

The day before, a federal judge in Michigan struck down the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program, ruling it was an unconstitutional infringement on the right to privacy and free speech. Upon Bush's orders, the Justice Department appealed within hours.

"I strongly disagree with this decision. Strongly disagree," he said of the ruling by U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in a case brought by the
American Civil Liberties Union.

Bush suggested he sees the issue as a politically potent one in a year when most of Congress is up for re-election, and GOP control of the Capitol is in danger.

"I made my position clear," he said. "It'll be interesting to see what other policymakers — how other policymakers react."

This president is completely frickin' insane--he's lost it! Bush is claiming that a federal judge doesn't understand the "nature of the world we live in?" And because the judge doesn't understand the "nature of the world we live in" that judge had to strike down the NSA's illegal domestic spying program?

The only person who doesn't seem to understand the "nature of the world (and the United States) we live in" is President Bush himself. We live in a country where our rights and freedoms are protected by the Constitution and Bill of Rights. We have the freedom of speech, the freedom of privacy, and the freedom of unwarranted searches and seizures by the government. The NSA wiretapping program allows the government to domestically spy on American citizens by skirting, ignoring, and rejecting these constitutional rights that we have. This NSA spying program has been instituted without the need for the administration to get a search warrant from a judge. Mr. President--that is illegal under the Constitution and Bill of Rights. The Bush administration could have instituted the wiretaps first, and then have gone to the FISA courts to obtain a warrant 72 hours after first instituting the wiretaps. But that would still require getting a search warrant from a judge, which would require "probable cause." And if the judge says no, then the wiretap is nixed. The Bush administration doesn't like sharing power with the other two branches of government--President Bush would rather accumulate totalitarian power upon himself. Bush even said it would be easier to run the country as a dictatorship--"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier; there's no question about it." George Bush may have been joking about it, but the fact that he publicly made this statement shows the disdain and contempt he has for our constitutional system of checks and balances. This man's corrupted desire was not to become president of the United States, but rather become its first dictator. And for six years, he has been well on his way of achieving this goal.

That is--until a federal judge stomped him.