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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Oct 18, 2006 20:16:13 GMT -6
President Bush has now signed into law a bill that allows him to determine that anyone he pleases can be labeled an "unlawful combatant" and detained indefinitely without charges and without any legal recourse to challenge the arrest or his labeling as an "unlawful combatant." Though the popular interpretation of this by the Right-Wing media propagandists is that it "only" applies to terrorists, the President can determine that anyone is a terrorist and "unlawful combatant," and detain him without the rights even afforded common criminals, such as rapists and murderers. As Dick Cheney would say, we "should be scared, very scared." Bush's signing of this dictatorial document does have most Americans "very scared." Below is a link to Keith Olbermann's commentary and dialog with Constitutional Law Professor Johnathan Turley. msnbc.msn.com/id/15318240/
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Post by lc on Oct 19, 2006 9:20:10 GMT -6
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Oct 20, 2006 2:39:50 GMT -6
ULC, Not really trying to be funny, but have you considered changing your login name? LOL. I actually got the idea for my screenname from the Bush dictatorship's talking points about "unlawful combatants." l can't really say I've ever considered changing it. It seems even more appropriate than ever. Here is the latest on the death of Habeas Corpus from Keith Olbermann. Olbermann addresses the Military Commissions Act in a special comment. " SPECIAL COMMENT By Keith Olbermann Anchor, 'Countdown' Countdown
Updated: 12:00 p.m. PT Oct 19, 2006 We have lived as if in a trance.
We have lived as people in fear.
And now—our rights and our freedoms in peril—we slowly awaken to learn that we have been afraid of the wrong thing.
Therefore, tonight have we truly become the inheritors of our American legacy.
For, on this first full day that the Military Commissions Act is in force, we now face what our ancestors faced, at other times of exaggerated crisis and melodramatic fear-mongering:
A government more dangerous to our liberty, than is the enemy it claims to protect us from.
We have been here before—and we have been here before, led here by men better and wiser and nobler than George W. Bush...." msnbc.msn.com/id/15321167/
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Post by lc on Oct 20, 2006 8:20:52 GMT -6
Yeah I read both of Keith's pieces yesterday. He is quite a patriot in a time when people are completely asleep.
I doubt 1 in 40 Americans gets the gist of how significant this new law is. It certainly deserves it's own thread or it's own forum.
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