--- In [email protected], new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oct 17,2006 -- the day America veered starkly towards a dictatorship. > > Today the president signed a republican congress passed bill, that any > american citizen can be named an enemy combatant by a panel set up by > the president. And an enemy combatant can be jailed for life with not > trual. We are now officially a type of dictatorship. Or vulnerable to > becoming one. Think the possibilities: first dissident students > jailed, without trial. Then clergymen speaking out. Then portesters in > the street. Then, fast-forward, gasp, congressmen that vote against > the president. > > I think of how easily the Germans progressively gave thir rights away > to strengthen the nation. Can you imagine this bill during Vietam? 20% > of the college population of that era could still be in jail. > > I think, pray, the American people will be justifiably OUTRAGED, and > vow never to vote for another Republican EVER. It is a dead party in > my book. MCain and Guilliani can speak all the sweet they want. If > they stay in the Republican farty well f*ck em! as cowards and > accomplisses to the OURAGE. > > Oct 17,2006 -- the day America leaped towards dictatorship. A FRIGGIN > sad day. >
...ACLU issued the statement from its Executive Director Anthony D. Romero: "[This is] one of the worst civil liberties measures ever enacted in American history. 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!" The ACLU's critics point out that habeas corpus protections were never intended to apply to terrorists and other sworn enemies of the USA. ----- The last paragraph is such a horror of double talk. Habeas corpus protections were CERTAINLY intended to apply to all US Citizens. Now a private panel appointed soley by the president can deem any US citizen as an enemy combatant, even for "aiding" such. It is not inconcievable that a letter to and editor, a protest march, a blog, a yahoo group post that criticizes adiministrations policy could be deemed aiding and abetting the enemy. Such things were common during vietnam -- and are today during the Iraq war. Critics are told to be silent else they aid the "enemy". If such a conclusion is drawn behind closed doors by the presidents panel that you are aiding the enemy, it is possible, it is NOW legal, to throw you in jail, even executed, with no due process. A knock on the door and you could be gone. Outrage! The founding fathers are turning in their graves. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
