The Death of Habeas Corpus

Check how your Senator voted on the Military Commissions Act of 2006.

Summary: Sidesteps the Supreme Court's 2006 Hamdan v. Rumsfeld opinion that found the Administration's plans to hold military tribunals were unconstitutional. Gives Congress's OK to deny U.S. noncitizen detainees the writ of habeas corpus and to use coerced testimony and hearsay evidence against the defendant. Gives the President the power to name U.S. citizens and legal U.S. residents "unlawful enemy combatants."

This means that President Bush had despotic powers. This means that you can be held without trial, you can be tortured indefinitely. This means that democracy is dead.

Our founding fathers are rolling in their graves.

Olbermann: Death of habeas corpus

‘National yawn as our rights evaporate’

Please watch the above segments from MSNBC's Keith Olbermann. I cannot believe that U.S. citizens aren't picking up pitchforks.

Jesus.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. ~ Thomas Jefferson