Now That You Could be Labeled an Enemy Combatant...

[Kefka]

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1004-35.htm

Since Congress recently handed Bush the power to identify American citizens as "unlawful enemy combatants" and detain them indefinitely without charge, it's worth examining the administration's record of prisoner abuse as well as the building of stateside detention centers

This legisation has struck a death-blow to the Constitution and Bill of Rights: I don't know if this country will ever recover from what happened last week.

The oddest thing I've noticed in peoples' reactions to this is the sense they know that something is overwhelmingly wrong here, but are waiting for other people to fix it.

Please understand: there will be no 'saviour', no 'star-man' who's going to plop down from another dimension or universe to get us out of this mess: it must be We the People who have to come up to the plate, and demand that this legislation be rescinded.

 

[Gonad]

What are YOU doing to fix it?

 

[Kefka]

PM you, and make many babies.

 

[Gonad]

lol I forgot to check back at this thread.

 

[Ogami]

Kefka wrote:

This legisation has struck a death-blow to the Constitution and Bill of Rights: I don't know if this country will ever recover from what happened last week.

Oh that's so ludicrous. But you don't need my opinion for that, let's go to historical fact: A Democrat, President Roosevelt, rounded up all Japanese-Americans and put them in concentration camps. Nothing Bush has done is even remotely comparable, yet the country survived FDR, and it survived Abraham Lincoln's suspension of Habeas Corpus during the Civil War.

The oddest thing I've noticed in peoples' reactions to this is the sense they know that something is overwhelmingly wrong here, but are waiting for other people to fix it.

By voting more Republicans into office! Democrats would have more voters these days if they hadn't aborted all of their children in the last several decades. But that's their own stupid fault, isn't it?

Please understand: there will be no 'saviour', no 'star-man' who's going to plop down from another dimension or universe to get us out of this mess: it must be We the People who have to come up to the plate, and demand that this legislation be rescinded.

The left is living in a dream world where they believe the American people think like they do, with all their nutty Michael Moore/moveon.org/Barbara Streisand/Algore/NoamChomsky conspiracy theories and worldview. Liberals have shrieked every day for five years that Bush is destroying the world and that the world would love us if only we'd vote Democrat.

Prove it.

-Ogami