If You are an American Citizen You Just Lost all the Freedom

[Mosliima]

If you are an American citizen you just lost all the freedoms your country has held for 200 years. Yesterday, President Bush signed the Military Commissions Act of 2006.

In short, the act does away with Habeas Corpus and the Geneva Convention. The contrast to Hitler's rise in Nazi Germany is startling. Bush can basically arrest any American citizen without reason on suspicions that they may be an "enemy combatant".

Further, the Geneva Convention's safeguards against torture are now meaningless in the United States.

Today, 135 years to the day after the last American President (Ulysses S. Grant) suspended habeas corpus, President Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006.

At its worst, the legislation allows President Bush or Donald Rumsfeld to declare anyone — US citizen or not — an enemy combatant, lock them up and throw away the key without a chance to prove their innocence in a court of law.

In other words, every thing the Founding Fathers fought the British empire to free themselves of was reversed and nullified with the stroke of a pen, all under the guise of the War on Terror.

Jonathan Turley joined Keith to talk about the law that Senator Feingold said would be seen as "a stain on our nation's history."

Turley: "People have no idea how significant this is. Really a time of shame this is for the American system.—

The strange thing is that we have become sort of constitutional couch potatoes. The Congress just gave the President despotic powers and you could hear the yawn across the country as people turned to Dancing With the Stars.

It's otherworldly..People clearly don't realize what a fundamental change it is about who we are as a country. What happened today changed us. And I'm not too sure we're gonna change back anytime soon."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg4gdPW_I_A

[muslim-man]

Thanks god, i am not an american citi3en

[Steeler [Crawler2]]

Yeah I can see that. All the political opponents of Bush have been arrested and thrown into jail. He just announced that there will be no election in 2008. That due to the emergency his administration has been extended forever. Rumsfeld is being brought back in. The recent congressional elections have been rendered null and void. And all Somalis in the US who insult the US or the administration here on the net will be executed post with.