Climate disintegration, Katrina, and the Military Commissions Act are all thought of together in my view…
Newcomb: On the North American Indian tradition of liberty
SOURCEBush’s power grab, assisted by a Republican majority in Congress, has also threatened the Bill of Rights, which was intended to protect the civil liberties of the individual from abusive governmental actions and thereby prevent tyranny. With the recent passage of the Military Commissions Act that Bush signed into law on Oct. 17, he and Congress have even suspended the writ of habeas corpus that has been part of the English Common System since the Magna Carta of 1215 A.D.
This isn’t about politics. It’s about whether or not the United States of America gives it’s president the power to decide if an American citizen is an enemy of the state, can call the CIA, have someone kidnapped out of their home or off the street, put in a van, taken to a CIA prison or detention center, tortured and detained indefinitely, without trial, without a lawyer, taken away from family, taken away from friends, taken away from work, taken away from everything that they ever worked for in their entire life.
Military Commissions Act raises painful memories :
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Ghosts of Sioux warriors surround the controversy on the Military Commissions Act, 38 of them to be precise. They offer a warning that should not be ignored.On June 29, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the type of tribunal the Bush administration intended to use for terrorist trials. On Sept. 29, Congress passed a fix that met the court’s objections but left civil libertarians very nervous. The issues are an eerie echo of the debate over one of the most notorious of these tribunals, which 154 years ago ordered the largest mass execution in U.S. history. This was the military commission of Col. Henry Sibley, which tried and condemned alleged participants in the Minnesota Sioux uprising of 1862.
I still remember what KEITH OLBERMANNsaid:
We have been here when President Woodrow Wilson insisted that the Espionage Act was necessary to save American lives, only to watch him use that Act to prosecute 2,000 Americans, especially those he disparaged as “Hyphenated Americans,” most of whom were guilty only of advocating peace in a time of war.
Don’t just repeal the MCA.
BURN THE MCA:
Newcomb: On the North American Indian tradition of liberty
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The question at this point seems to be: ”Will the political experiment of the United States, which owes much to the North American Indian tradition of liberty, be able to survive this dark period of its history?”
New Idea:
Have a “Boston Tea Party of 2007” and take photos of everyone burning the MCA on line.
Thoughts?