"who protects us from you?"

[upfromsumdirt]

king george let's yall eat cake...

youtube.com/watch?v=SfPYWkh1dzM

what article S 3930 contains...

- Create a secret committee appointed by Bush and Rumsfeld that has the power to declare any person, even a US citizen, to be an enemy, instantly depriving them of their legal rights
- Revoke habeas corpus
- Revoke protection of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions
- Allow police to search your home without a search warrant
- Give amnesty to war criminals and protect George W. Bush from being impeached for any war crimes he has committed
- Allow for people to be put on trial in front of a military tribunal - even if they aren’t in any military, and have not engaged in military attacks against the USA
- Make it legal for the government to use testimony extracted through torture and end the legal right to be protected from forced self-incrimination
- Allow the government to imprison people without telling them what crimes they are being charged with
- Allow the government to convict people of crimes on the basis of secret evidence that the accused never sees and remove the right of the accused to cross-examine witnesses
- Allow for the records of trials to be kept secret from the American public
- Revoke away the right to a speedy trial
- Enable trials to begin even before a thorough investigation of the alleged crime has taken place


* A writ of habeas corpus is a judicial mandate to a prison official ordering that an inmate be brought to the court so it can be determined whether or not that person is imprisoned lawfully and whether or not he should be released from custody. A habeas corpus petition is a petition filed with a court by a person who objects to his own or another's detention or imprisonment. The petition must show that the court ordering the detention or imprisonment made a legal or factual error. Habeas corpus petitions are usually filed by persons serving prison sentences. In family law, a parent who has been denied custody of his child by a trial court may file a habeas corpus petition. Also, a party may file a habeas corpus petition if a judge declares her in contempt of court and jails or threatens to jail her.

[blueplanetii]

This is utterly insane. I cannot believe we as a country are going down this road. I'm upset that we hear more about the color of Paris Hilton's panties then about this destruction of more of our civil rights. Its an outrage that this administration is trying to pardon itself- retroactively. What is happening and why are sooo many Americans just willing to let this stand?

I hope you don't mind but I'm going to re-post this on my board.

[upfromsumdirt]

so... what color ARE her panties? um, i mean... yeah, sure... go right ahead!

[blueplanetii]

Stop making me laugh! LMAO..Im tryin to be angry, passionate, defiant, and full of righteous indignation..giggling (see? cant even keep a straight face while typing that)

[upfromsumdirt]

sorry, but ive been walkn 'round with my ass up on my shoulders for waaaay too long now...

if i didnt get back to laffin, i was gwan end up in gitmo bay or sumphn, i swair!

[blueplanetii]

In light of the elections and Rummfield getting the boot.. I have some new found hope..and the first thing I hope...is this shit gets repealed!!

[upfromsumdirt]

um. u do KNOW that peter pan aint real right?

[leftysergeant]

Good thing about the last elections, in re these "security" measures, Congress can damned well impeach on any grounds they choose, and if people start disappearing, even the few rational Republicans will go along with it. And if the supreme court tries to butt in, Congress can impeach their sorry asses, too. In fact, I would consider it a DUTY incumbent on all of them to be rid of ass clowns like Roberts and Alito, retro-active to 2000.

Doesn't "President Pelosi" have a nice ring to it?

[upfromsumdirt]

u, sir, are my new best friend ever!

[sunshine]

Damn. Still, can we even be surprised by all this considering who's in office? I dare to hope that this law won't remain forever.

[getchristielove]

they are blue...

now.
can you think straight?

i want to know when someone will get rid of the electoral college.
collage
whatever..

they need to abolish that crap.
we have computers now..if we can count the american idol votes
i am sure
we can handle counting the votes from every single person for president.

[blueplanetii]

^^^ FA REAL!!!

[sunshine]

I'm with you there getchristielove. I have been saying the same thing for years. Makes no sense.