On Friday, November 30, 2001, at 07:55 AM, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Dubbya should be impeached, and both he and Asscruft arrested for treason.
Quite interesting the language they keep using: "Terrorists don't have rights." The 1200 persons detained without due process, without habeas corpus, for close to three months, are presumed to be "terrorists" and thus are denied the rights guaranteed by the Constitution. (Note that the C. does _not_ say these rights are held by citizens. It says these rights existed _prior_ to the writing and ratification of the Constitution and apply to everyone. There are a few rights, such as voting, which are spelled out as applying to citizens above a certain age (varies according to Congress' whims), and so on, but it is clear which rights these are. To see this, imagine if it were decreed that only legal citizens who are not felons could practice a particular religion. Or could publish their ideas. Slam dunk violations of the First, regardless of citizenship status.) The police state measures rushed into law by Congress will be used to suppress dissidents long after this war is over. The one good thing about this action is that we won't have to hear from Congressvarmints complaining about some radical chick (not to be confused with radical chic) in Columbia given a secret military trial...we're now doing the same thing to our Constitution-spouting radicals! ObBeckett: "Will no one rid us of that accursed city on the Potomac?" --Tim May, Occupied America "They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759.