Wow! Maybe they DO listen!!

In response to suggestions on several 'progressive' blogs requesting folks to send Sen Chris Dodd (D-CT) reading material for his anti-telecom-immunity filibuster, yesterday I sent Sen Dodd an email including the exchange from Robt Bolt's A Man for All Seasons in which More asserts that, yes, he would give the Devil the benefit of law.

Reading the Congressional Record for 17 Dec 2007, I find the following:

Mr. DODD: ... I don’t know how many of my colleagues have ever seen the wonderful movie ‘‘A Man For All Seasons,’’ the story of St. Thomas More. There is a wonderful scene in that movie in which More is asked whether he’d be willing to cut down every law in England to get his hands on the devil.

And More replies, absolutely not. ‘‘When the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where you hide, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast—Man’s laws, not God’s! And if you cut them down . . . do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?’’

Maybe we could find excuses for every one of this president’s abuses of power: ‘‘It was just a little overreach.’’ ‘‘You just have to give a little.’’

But if you do that day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, all of a sudden you look up to find that all of the laws have been cut down, that there is nothing to protect us from the winds. Before that day comes, Mr. President, we must draw a line. I am here today to draw it.
[Congressional Record, 17 Dec 2007, S15743]

I cannot tell you how gratifying it was to see this!... even if I'm not in fact the source!!... I'll take credit for it anyway...