I can't believe Senators McCain, Warner and Graham folded so damned easily!
Why are these worthless oligarchs of the 21st Century Fascist Regime, the New World Order, the Fourth Reich, who wallow in their own greed and self-importance, once again being allowed to contort laws to suit their private fancies?
What would society be if every municipal leader simply made up the rules as they went along?
Consider the mess were all 50 governors to bully the statehouses into arbitrarily enacting statutes to suit their whims.
Every person on Earth with even the slightest modicum of common sense knows you get more results with honey than vinegar.
It's a proven fact that torture usually only results in false information.
So, if we've done such a great job at capturing, renditioning and extracting information, why are there only 14 "terrorist biggies" being brought to Guantanamo Bay for possible trial - as soon as this Regime's consigliore, Grand Inquisitor Alberto Gonzales can figure out how to get away with proceedings that don't include any semblance of American jurisprudence, of course?
As to the "Dirty Dozen," the turncoat Democrat Senators who spat in the faces of their constituents, went weak-kneed at the thought of a face-off with Dark Lord the Dick, and voted "Yea" to King George's anti-Constitution, inhumane "Bill of No Rights": Carper (DE); Johnson (SD); Landrieu (LA); Lautenberg (NJ); Lieberman (CT); Menendez (NJ); Nelson (FL); Nelson (NE); Pryor (AR); Rockefeller (WV); Salazar (CO); Stabenow (MI); to you I offer the following quote from the great philosopher and USMC veteran, G. Pyle of Mayberry, NC, "For shame, for shame, for shame."
This bill is a travesty of many things we Americans hold dear, certainly reasons I served seven years in the U.S. Army. Absent for these prisoners are Constitutionally-guaranteed rights, among others, of: habeas corpus petitions - absolutely basic to any of our court procedures; hearsay and coercion will be acceptable as prosecutorial tools; limits will be placed on traditional rights to self-representation, making available only military defense attorneys. From square one any opportunity a defendant may have for a fair trial is reduced from slim to none.
The jury panel is to be made up exclusively of military officers. Add to that, the first appeal must go through a second panel of military officers.
Only then may any subsequent appeal be brought before a civilian Federal appellate court. This process can take years, perhaps decades.
That's perfectly okay, because the defendant is not privy to the right to a speedy trial. Therefore, an "enemy combatant," or someone simply tagged as a "suspected, dangerous terror evildoer" by King George (as is the case with American citizen Jose' Padilla) can languish in Federal custody for countless years without actually being charged or going to court.
The real beauty in this bill is in its immunization for U.S. officials from prosecution for cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment of detainees captured by the military and CIA prior to the end of last year.
The best answer I can come up with for shredding our Constitution along with the Geneva Convention is so with a new set of "laws" in place it will be much more difficult for the World Court (remember, the one our Fascisti overseers refuse to recognize?) to prosecute King George and his Metricious Court.
Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, summed the bill up thusly: "This is wrong. It is unconstitutional. It is un-American." In his opinion this was engineered to stifle access to Gitmo "to ensure that the Bush-Cheney administration will never again be embarrassed by a United States Supreme Court decision reviewing its unlawful abuses of power."
Hope springeth eternal, doth it not.
Why are these worthless oligarchs of the 21st Century Fascist Regime, the New World Order, the Fourth Reich, who wallow in their own greed and self-importance, once again being allowed to contort laws to suit their private fancies?
What would society be if every municipal leader simply made up the rules as they went along?
Consider the mess were all 50 governors to bully the statehouses into arbitrarily enacting statutes to suit their whims.
It's a proven fact that torture usually only results in false information.
So, if we've done such a great job at capturing, renditioning and extracting information, why are there only 14 "terrorist biggies" being brought to Guantanamo Bay for possible trial - as soon as this Regime's consigliore, Grand Inquisitor Alberto Gonzales can figure out how to get away with proceedings that don't include any semblance of American jurisprudence, of course?
As to the "Dirty Dozen," the turncoat Democrat Senators who spat in the faces of their constituents, went weak-kneed at the thought of a face-off with Dark Lord the Dick, and voted "Yea" to King George's anti-Constitution, inhumane "Bill of No Rights": Carper (DE); Johnson (SD); Landrieu (LA); Lautenberg (NJ); Lieberman (CT); Menendez (NJ); Nelson (FL); Nelson (NE); Pryor (AR); Rockefeller (WV); Salazar (CO); Stabenow (MI); to you I offer the following quote from the great philosopher and USMC veteran, G. Pyle of Mayberry, NC, "For shame, for shame, for shame."
This bill is a travesty of many things we Americans hold dear, certainly reasons I served seven years in the U.S. Army. Absent for these prisoners are Constitutionally-guaranteed rights, among others, of: habeas corpus petitions - absolutely basic to any of our court procedures; hearsay and coercion will be acceptable as prosecutorial tools; limits will be placed on traditional rights to self-representation, making available only military defense attorneys. From square one any opportunity a defendant may have for a fair trial is reduced from slim to none.
The jury panel is to be made up exclusively of military officers. Add to that, the first appeal must go through a second panel of military officers.
Only then may any subsequent appeal be brought before a civilian Federal appellate court. This process can take years, perhaps decades.
That's perfectly okay, because the defendant is not privy to the right to a speedy trial. Therefore, an "enemy combatant," or someone simply tagged as a "suspected, dangerous terror evildoer" by King George (as is the case with American citizen Jose' Padilla) can languish in Federal custody for countless years without actually being charged or going to court.
The real beauty in this bill is in its immunization for U.S. officials from prosecution for cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment of detainees captured by the military and CIA prior to the end of last year.
The best answer I can come up with for shredding our Constitution along with the Geneva Convention is so with a new set of "laws" in place it will be much more difficult for the World Court (remember, the one our Fascisti overseers refuse to recognize?) to prosecute King George and his Metricious Court.
Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, summed the bill up thusly: "This is wrong. It is unconstitutional. It is un-American." In his opinion this was engineered to stifle access to Gitmo "to ensure that the Bush-Cheney administration will never again be embarrassed by a United States Supreme Court decision reviewing its unlawful abuses of power."
Hope springeth eternal, doth it not.
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