So, had enough yet?

The president bush is a vindictive, little, insecure man. You do know, that he's just going to attach one of his super secret signing statements that says the Torture and Tyranny Act means just what he says it means, no more, no less.

And the congress went along. Like with everything else. Frightened little shits.

And now, a new case of pedophilia, aided and abetted, by the speaker of the house, and the rest of the republican leadership.

And the corruption. Convictions and jail time for so many republicans and their sponsors. Nepotism. Cronyism. Bribery and extortion. Yes, and even murder. And now, even legal torture. With our money. They don’t even have the good taste to use their own, for chrissakes.

And, in the meantime, those lost, bush, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continue. Just gonna stay the course till he’s out of office.

So, had enough yet?


Military Commissions Act 2006—Unchecked Powers?
by Anup Shah; Global Issues; October 02, 2006
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=40&ItemID=11095

US Senate votes to rollback habeas corpus, use torture, and provide immunity for US officials from torture prosecution

September 29, 2006, the US Senate agreed to the Military Commissions Act of 2006 which gives US President George Bush unprecedented power to detain and try people as part of their “War on Terror.” President Bush is then expected to sign the Act into law. Broadly, the new Act does 3 things:

1. Strips the right of detainees to habeas corpus (the traditional right of detainees to challenge their detention);

2. Gives the US President the power to detain indefinitely anyone—US or foreign nationals, from within the US, and from abroad—it deems to have provided material support to anti-US hostilities, and even use secret and coerced evidence (i.e. through use of torture) to try detainees who will be held in secret US military prisons;

3. Gives US officials immunity from prosecution for torturing detainees that were captured before the end of 2005 by US military and CIA.

The bill was passed by the Senate sixty five votes in favor, thirty four against. Twelve Democrats joined the Republican majority. The House passed virtually the same legislation a few days earlier on Wednesday, 27 September.

The New York Times noted the far-reaching powers the Act will give the president, and other top officials observing that, “Rather than reining in the formidable presidential powers … asserted since Sept. 11, 2001, the law gives some of those powers a solid statutory foundation. In effect it allows the president to identify enemies, imprison them indefinitely and interrogate them—albeit with a ban on the harshest treatment—beyond the reach of the full court reviews traditionally afforded criminal defendants and ordinary prisoners.” Furthermore, not only does the Act allow the president to determine the meaning and application of the Geneva Conventions, “it also strips the courts of jurisdiction to hear challenges to his interpretation.”

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