American Civil Liberties Union on the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (now law)

[groovychk]

Originally published at Twixel.net. You can comment here or there.

Here’s a statement from the ACLU :

(The following can be attributed to Anthony D. Romero, ACLU Executive Director)

“With his signature, President Bush enacts a law that is both unconstitutional and un-American.  This president will be remembered as the one who undercut the hallmark of habeas in the name of the war on terror.  Nothing separates America more from our enemies than our commitment to fairness and the rule of law, but the bill signed today is an historic break because it turns Guantánamo Bay and other U.S. facilities into legal no-man’s-lands.”

“The president can now - with the approval of Congress - indefinitely hold people without charge, take away protections against horrific abuse, put people on trial based on hearsay evidence, authorize trials that can sentence people to death based on testimony literally beaten out of witnesses, and slam shut the courthouse door for habeas petitions.  Nothing could be further from the American values we all hold in our hearts than the Military Commissions Act.”

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Even if you disagree with the politics of some of the issues the ACLU supports - and I have my disagreements with them - what they say is absolutely correct about the law the President just signed.

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Welcome to The United States of Fascism

[(Anonymous)]

I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on joining a very exclusive club. There are very few nations on earth that have ever been part of it, and I would just like to say congrats. In joining this club you really have made a name for yourselves. Yes President Bush will be remembered among the hallowed names such as Benito Mussolini, Engelbert Dollfuss, Ioannis Metaxas, and of course good old adolf. Yes America now stands for something far different than it did in the past. And I for one am glad you didn't let little things like the Bill of rights or the constitution stand in the way of progress. I am overjoyed to see that liberty is alive and well, umm I mean liberty for those who follow party lines is alive and well in your United States.

I have one question though, how long until you will start needing "papers" to be able to travel across your own nation? oh that's right, you won't need "papers" when you start carrying your new national ID card. Don't you love Technology.

America, it was good while it lasted.
-just a random citizen of earth.

Re: Welcome to The United States of Fascism

[groovychk.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed. To say I'm sad doesn't do my emotion justice. I truly do weep for my country and its sleeping citizens.