--- 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. >
The Military Commissions Act of 2006 is an eradication of the most basic protections of liberty enshrined for over 200 years in our sacred Constitution. The all-encompassing powers granted to the president by this law potentially forbid any man, woman, or child deemed an enemy of the administration or its policies from seeking judicial relief from unlawful imprisonment. Most terrifying of all, this law enthrones President Bush and his successors, whether Democrat or Republican as the ultimate arbiters of justice to those suspected of being America's enemies. You can only hope that that person is not you. Those who fail to see the dire gravity of this legislation and who prefer to take refuge in the naive partisan belief that President Bush and the Republican Congress would never abuse this tremendous power, should contemplate well the fact that both the White House and Congress may very possibly change to Democrat control in the near future. Then will the supporters of the Bush administration's grasp for power have a leg to stand on to even protest, let alone stop, dictatorial exercise of the same power under a Democrat regime run by Clinton, Feinstein, Boxer, Pelosi, Schumer, and the like? This law, as well as other recently chronicled usurpations, sacrifices the due process of law on the altar of absolutism. There can be but one final obstacle to complete executive power the people of the United States of America. We must hold every member of Congress accountable who voted for this unprecedented and unconscionable breach of our constitutional rule of law, and we must seek out and support men and women determined to uphold the federal oath of office and courageously defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign or domestic. If we do not do this, are we really better than the terrorists? http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_4269.shtml 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/
