From MSNBC.com - ‘National yawn as our rights evaporate’
President Bush signed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 on October 17th.
What this means-> At the President's discretion a person anywhere in the galaxy can now be picked up, detained, and tortured indefinitely. Eventually you'll get a hearing in front of a military commission and there evidence seized without a search warrant and heresay will be presented against you.
Land of the Free?
I maintain that this is all part of Bush's masterful anti-terrorism campaign. Since the terrorists hate us because of our freedoms by making Americans less free we will defeat the terrorists.
Seriously though - the United States should be a moral superpower as much as a military superpower. Enacting despotic laws that enable torture is not how to be the "shining beacon of freedom".
I'm disappointed that Michigan's two Democratic Senators voted in favor of this legislation.
I sent each them the following comment:
Dear Senator [],
I am disappointed to see that you voted for the Military Commissions Act of 2006 despite the reservations you expressed in your last floor speech about the bill. I hope that if your party wins control of the Senate next month one of the first orders of business will be fixing this most shameful and un-American law.
