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go directly to jail, do not pass go...........
go directly to jail, do not pass go........... On 29 September, 2006, the U.S. Senate approved a bill which would suspend habeas corpus for anyone determined to be an "unlawful enemy combatant engaged in hostilities or having supported hostilities against the United States"[2], [1] by a vote of 65-34. (This was the result on the bill to approve the military trials for detainees; an amendment to remove the suspension of habeas corpus failed 48-51.) According to the ACLU, this bill "removes important checks on the president by: failing to protect due process, eliminating habeas corpus for many detainees, undermining enforcement of the Geneva Conventions, and giving a "get out of jail free card" to senior officials who authorized or ordered illegal torture and abuse." According to Christopher Anders, an ACLU Legislative Counsel, "nothing could be less American than a government that can indefinitely hold people in secret torture cells, take away their protections against horrific and cruel abuse, put them on trial based on evidence that they cannot see, sentence them to death based on testimony literally beaten out of witnesses, and then slam shut the courthouse door for any habeas petition, but that’s exactly what Congress just approved." the land of the free? cradle of liberty? the rights of the individual? one of the reasons this country was my country, is the bill of rights. when i was arrested last year for protesting the war, i was detained for 11 hours. i was arrested for breach of the peace. had they detained me longer, i would have had the right, THE RIGHT, to legal action. now i don't. our government is methodically stripping away the rights of its citizens if you aren't appalled, you aren't paying attention. You cannot conceive the many without the one. |
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10/6/2006 3:15 pm |
*runs through nekkid waving hello*
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The question is has the government earned the right to be entrusted with additional powers and restrict our freedom? The answer is a no-brainer! warm xx
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I don't think he got elected at all. The election was certainly hijacked the first time. There was massive election fraud and dirty tricks to keep voters from the polls in each case. We didn't read about it because it wasn't reported here. If either of those elections happened in other countries, we'd be reading reports of coups.
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10/8/2006 10:18 am |
Frank Rich recently wrote a great book on the selling of the administration policies....I recommend it very highly...and, I must add that voting is not going to make much of a change...if all you do is vote, then you're really not participating in the process...the other side is participating and if we don't, then we get what we get...our voice needs to be heard and it's not just in the ballot box every four years...it needs to be consistent on a regular basis.
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