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R.I.P. United States Of America (1789 - 2006)

Submitted by Matt Fleming on Wed, 2006-10-18 12:14.

Instead of going after King George Bush II on his vast misuse of executive power, the weak-minded fundamentalist supplicants we call Congress made it legal.

The senate voted in favor of a torture and detention bill that legalizes some of the more egregious things Bush has previously had to do via his executive signing statements. It was bad enough when Bush was breaking the law but

Glenn Greenwald wrote:
There is a profound and fundamental difference between an Executive engaging in shadowy acts of lawlessness and abuses of power on the one hand, and, on the other, having the American people, through their Congress, endorse, embrace and legalize that behavior out in the open, with barely a peep of real protest. Our laws reflect our values and beliefs. And our laws are about to explicitly codify one of the most dangerous and defining powers of tyranny -- one of the very powers this country was founded in order to prevent.

I'm not really sure how long or how much damage has to happen for something like this to get repealed. I guess it will fall on the Supreme Court's shoulders at some point. Thankfully, the Supreme Court has said that

Harris v. Nelson, 394 U.S. 286, 290-91 (1969) wrote:
the writ of habeas corpus is the fundamental instrument for safeguarding individual freedom against arbitrary and lawless state action [and must be] administered with the initiative and flexibility essential to insure that miscarriages of justice within its reach are surfaced and corrected.
I just don't know how it is going to get to them (since you can't even question your imprisonment).

Here are the people that need to be voted out of office solely for their participation in this travesty.

Democrats - Carper (Del.), Johnson (S.D.), Landrieu (La.), Lautenberg (N.J.), Lieberman (Conn.), Menendez (N.J), Pryor (Ark.), Rockefeller (W. Va.), Salazar (Co.), Stabenow (Mich.), Nelson (Fla.), Nelson (Neb.)

All Republicans save Chafee (R.I.).

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