The Death of Habeas Corpus, The Beginning of the End of America

There are four ways to look at the Military Commisions Act that was signed into law Tuesday:

1) Oh Fuck.

2) Surely this will wake up what few logical Republicans are left in that party who will turn their backs on this tyrannical group and do something other than re-elect these un-American power whores.

3) This is all a terrible nightmare.

4) Looks like I've got to run for President in 2008 with one simple campaign promise: to round up everyone in Congress who voted for this, along with the President of the United States and his administration, and find them all enemy combatants and hold them without representation, and torture them until I see fit, duh. And once they've screamed out all of their crimes, I will revoke this evil stain on our country, compile the ill-gotten confessions, and publish them, with the profits going to our public schools which are obviously failing because Americans not only vote these morons into office, but let them wipe their ass with the Constitution because America is too stupid to know what the fuck is going on.

Below we have Tuesday's segment on "Countdown" regarding this wicked law. Pay close attention to who the President sees as American enemies.

Kudos to Mr. Olbermann for being one of the very few press outlets who are taking this law as serious as it should be taken, particularily since this administration has repeatedly stated its disapproval towards the press for reporting on things like Domestic Spying, Secret CIA Prisons, and the news about the torture at Abu Ghraib. Under this new law, the press could go to prison without a trial, get tortured, and never get released, for reporting on those types of stories, simply if the President King George says that those pieces are detrimental to the safety and security of the United States.

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Olberman, brilliant as usual. I'm all for your plan, may we threaten them with the Comfy Chair?

hmmm... interesting commentary, lucky for you i was able to decipher and put into context for all:

john adams - birth of the greatest nation
woodrow wilson - triumphant in WW1
franklin roosevelt - triumphant in WW2

i see a pattern here... do you asshole?

"king george" would be funny if it didn't hit so close to home.

idiots like nyeah up there are the ones responsible for this country going to hell in a handbasket at the current alarmingly fast rate.

it still amazes me how many people are supportive of this administration pissing on everything this country was founded on and turning a blind eye to the insane abuse of power because gosh, they're just protecting us from those crazy terrorists!!

when you round up the current president and his administration, will you also round up civilian supporters and include them in your enemy combatant group? supporters of this ridiculous act deserve the very treatment it now allows.

you know i'm behind you all the way, tony!

clearly nyeah is not a member of #2

and yes im an asshole but i would never molest children, keep our troops in a country that had no wmds, blame Bill Clinton for my endless failures, sneak a gay male hooker into the white house press corps for a year, give tax breaks to the rich while turning the largest surplus ever into the biggest deficit ever, out a CIA agent because her husband wrote a column in the NYT, allow Jack Abramoff to own me and all of my friends, allow my Vice President to shoot a senior citizen in the face while drunk, let New Orleans drown for 5 days while i played guitar, ass rape the constitution while playing right into the hands of the alleged terrorists by stripping this country of what makes it so much different than our so-called enemies: freedoms.

yes i am an asshole nyeah, but at least i dont have my head up my asshole while my party fucks children while fucking the country.

asshole (tony) -

this is what is inherently wrong about you, your political opinions and your political affilitations (i'd assume democrat by your past "commentaries"), you offer no fresh political views, all you do is BITCH about this and that and hearsay that you have no idea if true or not.

your (and your democrate) moronic and idiotic thought process (such as 9/11 was a vast right-wing conspiracy and gas prices increases are at the whim of karl rove's mouse click) are so out of touch with reality, that you will squander this election year opportunity because all you do is BITCH and point fingers and develop misguided conspiracy theories.

1) when did i ever say that i was a democrate?

2) i gave you a list of reasons why the party you support blows, none of which included karl rove's stinky finger

3) when you get your head out of your ass and your party's ass, why don't you look at the approval ratings of the president, the vice president, and congress. clearly im not the only one "bitching".

4) if you're happy that the president is one step closer to being King, let's see how happy you will be if Hillary Clinton gets elected Queen and has the right to use the military commissions act on whoever she wants, and deny them a fair trial, and use torture up until the point of "serious injury". then we'll see who's the one bitching.

5) theres a reason you dont list your website or blog. my guess is it gets laughed at every day.

Imprisonment without reason is quite scary. Don't you people realise the implications?

Wait, I think I hear the secret police knocking at my door...

This infighting plays right into the hands of people who would divide a nation. The quarrel happening on this site and others is exactly what "They" like to see. Keep your eye on the ball America or you will continue to see your freedom flushed away by bad men in power. America's troubles go far beyond Left/Right, Conserv/lib, etc. It has gone far beyond that point.

The bad men of Enron were exposed, and it is just a matter of time untill bad men in political leadership are exposed for the Greed and Power they encompass. That day will come, be sure.

The real issues like global warming and peak Oil, demand our attention because with a uninhabitable planet all other issues are moot. What we are seeing now is a mad dash for critical control of global oil reserves. We are seeing young boys die for an out of date energy resource. Nikola Tesla had a solution for world energy needs 70 years ago, but again, Bad men would not hear of it.. As trillions of dollars in crude oil profit remained to be exploted from the earth. Now we are seeing severe weather like Katrina as a result.

We as a society, as a species will in time, return to what is important "Spiritual Awareness" not "religion" but knowing our collective souls. Then we will advance as a species.

Be well my friends.

cocklick (nyeah) -

all you do is build strawmen. no one said any of that crap you mentioned. it is YOU who has just added nothing in the way of fresh political views. YOU who has bitched and whined incessantly.

i'm willing to bet you're just a silly little bitch who can't muster the balls say these sorts of things to people's faces in the real world. so have fun with your passive agressive anonymous venom-spewing, sucka.

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