Like so many other things regarding politics, this joke of an attempt at journalism is so slanted and biased as to be without merit. I was trying to figure out if this was the internet equivalent of an Anti-Bush Fox News. (Both being so mopically slanted that I can't take either seriously.) The truth is that habeus corpus is not suspended for American citizens, simply those taken as "enemy combatants." In truth, it comes down to this: Foriegners who lack citizenship (i.e. those who are not naturalized) are subject to this new set of laws, be they legal or otherwise. My disagreement is that it can be applied to legal aliens suspected of terrorist connections. Those captured in the field are, for all intents and purposes, POWs. The failure here is that they are not classed as POWs, so they are geting screwed there as well. What bothers me is the limbo these people are placed in because it is inherently unfair. None the less, I have no objections what so ever to denying detainees the right to challenge their detention in an American civil or criminal court. We just need to do it better, not in this rough-shod Republican fiasco of legislation.
I don't think its scary to deny Constitutional rights to people who aren't citizens of our country and thus under the "law of the land" that is our Constitution. I think it's scary when "wiggle room" is introduced into our body of law that would allow one person (i.e. the President) to decide via fiat who should and shouldn't be covered by said rights.
I'd like to see the definition of "Enemy COmbatants" spelled out fully, not just "whoever the President thinks is bad for America." 'cause I bet that could apply to a whole lot of people not remotely involved in this whole "Islamic Radicals versus Western Society thing."
Yeah, I agree, its the wiggle room that's scary. And while I find Keith Oberman highly entertaining, he is not what I would call an honesty, unbaised journalist (not that those exsist anyway).
It's for reasons like that I'm voting Democratic this year. Mind you, I've been a right-leaning moderate most of my life, but this year, I think it's time to take some of that power away from the Republicans. They've had power for long enough. It's time to let the Dems take a swing at fucking this country up.
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Date: 2006-10-11 01:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-11 03:06 pm (UTC)I'd like to see the definition of "Enemy COmbatants" spelled out fully, not just "whoever the President thinks is bad for America." 'cause I bet that could apply to a whole lot of people not remotely involved in this whole "Islamic Radicals versus Western Society thing."
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Date: 2006-10-11 03:50 pm (UTC)no subject
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