Monday, February 21, 2005; Page A26
Attorneys for the Justice Department appeared before a federal judge in Washington this month and asked him to dismiss a lawsuit over the detention of a U.S. citizen, basing their request not merely on secret evidence but also on secret legal arguments. The government contends that the legal theory by which it would defend its behavior should be immune from debate in court…
…It should have been unthinkable for the government to propose such a step.
Wow, do we live in a great country or what?
Can you imagine being in that situation? What is wrong with the people of this country that they can allow things like this to remain unchallenged. Have we all forgotten that if we allow this to one person, know matter who, we have given our permission for OUR government to do the same to us. Of course, after the morally twisted opinions and justifications by Gonzalez, et al, to allow torture, and unbridled power to the president bush, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to us.
But I can see where the president bush would see this as a time and money saver. Arrest a person on secret charges, using secret evidence, and base it all on secret legal arguments. Why would anyone need to go to court anymore. Just pop the bullet into his head at a cost of pennies to the taxpayer. Now, of course, for lesser crimes, we would still need to lock ‘em up, so our great corporations such as Microsoft, will continue to have a captive workforce, so to speak.
But how to sort them out? I guess without knowing any of the charges or evidence, we’ll just have to leave it to our betters to decide who gets the bullet, and who gets to work at taking airline reservations. And as an added benefit, we wouldn’t need all those pesky lawyers.
With all the savings from abolishing the criminal court system, I’m sure the president bush could eke out another couple of percentage points in tax cuts for our deserving rich.
I’m sure sorry Hunter S. Thompson decided to leave this dimension.
The Proverbial 'Live Boy'
We’ll miss you.
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