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Sep. 30th, 2006 02:42 pmAhh, back to the politics:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6167856
This isn't just some random dudes from another country now. It's you. US citizens can be held as enemy combatants. That puts you outside your own system of laws and sticks you under the jurisdiction of King George III.
Material support... well, my tax money supports Bush's war, so I guess that makes me a terrorist!
Seriously, there is *no* definition of "material support." And with the suspension of habeus corpus, you have absolutely no right to demand you be told what you did wrong. In other words... they can pick you up for anything, and you cannot fight it. And they expect me to trust this guy??
"A writ of habeas corpus is a judicial mandate to a prison official ordering that an inmate be brought to the court so it can be determined whether or not that person is imprisoned lawfully and whether or not he should be released from custody." (italics mine) http://www.lectlaw.com/def/h001.htm
Various quotes from Supreme Court decisions:
"[The Court] recognized the fact that`[t]he writ of habeas corpus is the fundamental instrument for safeguarding individual freedom against arbitrary and lawless state action.'"
"[t]he writ of habeas corpus is one of the centerpieces of our liberties."
I gotta hand it to Specter. He introduced an amendment to get rid of the suspension of habeas corpus. It was voted down. Uh, hello? Habeas corpus means, literally, "you have the body." In other words, prove there was a crime committed. You can't have a suspect if there was no crime. Sorry, Georgie, we can't arrest people "at the will of His Majesty" here in the US. But now we can! And that scares the fuck out of me.
So if you would... Amnesty International is a good group against this kind of bullshit.
http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/site/c.goJTI0OvElH/b.2108611/k.C0B9/The_America_I_Believe_In_Leads_the_World_on_Human_Rights/apps/ka/ct/contactus.asp?c=goJTI0OvElH&b=2108611&en=hnLFLKNuG9KyEHMhE2LzENOnHfILKIOhH5KEIKMqFnLXE
You might also mention to your Congresspeople that they're shooting themselves in the foot. (Seriously. They're signing their own power away. WTF?) You can find out their contact info here: http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
Seriously, write your Congresspeople. You don't have to be eloquent. A piece of paper that says "You're an idiot for voting for this" will do. They just stick letters in the "yes" stack or the "no" stack and weigh them anyway. (Seeing some of the mass-produced responses I get from Bud Cramer, I don't think they even read them beyond that.) And then... vote with your vote! We have elections in November!
( Here are the Senators who voted yes )
WHY have we not impeached this chimpanzee?
Be loud. They know they can get away with it because Americans are lazy and only know what Fox News tells them. Prove them wrong!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6167856
This isn't just some random dudes from another country now. It's you. US citizens can be held as enemy combatants. That puts you outside your own system of laws and sticks you under the jurisdiction of King George III.
Material support... well, my tax money supports Bush's war, so I guess that makes me a terrorist!
Seriously, there is *no* definition of "material support." And with the suspension of habeus corpus, you have absolutely no right to demand you be told what you did wrong. In other words... they can pick you up for anything, and you cannot fight it. And they expect me to trust this guy??
"A writ of habeas corpus is a judicial mandate to a prison official ordering that an inmate be brought to the court so it can be determined whether or not that person is imprisoned lawfully and whether or not he should be released from custody." (italics mine) http://www.lectlaw.com/def/h001.htm
Various quotes from Supreme Court decisions:
"[The Court] recognized the fact that`[t]he writ of habeas corpus is the fundamental instrument for safeguarding individual freedom against arbitrary and lawless state action.'"
"[t]he writ of habeas corpus is one of the centerpieces of our liberties."
I gotta hand it to Specter. He introduced an amendment to get rid of the suspension of habeas corpus. It was voted down. Uh, hello? Habeas corpus means, literally, "you have the body." In other words, prove there was a crime committed. You can't have a suspect if there was no crime. Sorry, Georgie, we can't arrest people "at the will of His Majesty" here in the US. But now we can! And that scares the fuck out of me.
So if you would... Amnesty International is a good group against this kind of bullshit.
http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/site/c.goJTI0OvElH/b.2108611/k.C0B9/The_America_I_Believe_In_Leads_the_World_on_Human_Rights/apps/ka/ct/contactus.asp?c=goJTI0OvElH&b=2108611&en=hnLFLKNuG9KyEHMhE2LzENOnHfILKIOhH5KEIKMqFnLXE
You might also mention to your Congresspeople that they're shooting themselves in the foot. (Seriously. They're signing their own power away. WTF?) You can find out their contact info here: http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
Seriously, write your Congresspeople. You don't have to be eloquent. A piece of paper that says "You're an idiot for voting for this" will do. They just stick letters in the "yes" stack or the "no" stack and weigh them anyway. (Seeing some of the mass-produced responses I get from Bud Cramer, I don't think they even read them beyond that.) And then... vote with your vote! We have elections in November!
( Here are the Senators who voted yes )
WHY have we not impeached this chimpanzee?
Be loud. They know they can get away with it because Americans are lazy and only know what Fox News tells them. Prove them wrong!
