My first politcal blog post. That has to mean something.
Have you seen the news about the bill recently passed into law? I just happened to stumble upon a blog mentioning the Military Commisions Act. This basically throws out anything about habeus corpus, and possibly the Geneva Conventions. And reports I'm reading say that even few Democrats voted against this bill. Freedoms? Pfft.. who needs 'em. We have terrorists knocking at our door! They might already be here!!!
I'm convinced the only way to send a message that we don't like what's going on is to get rid of all the incumbants. Apparently, other people think getting rid of incumbants might not be bad as well. The problem is that this will only work if we get rid of them all - all that are up for re-election this November. It doesn't even matter what the person's platform is you're voting in - they'll clean up their act if they see the people aren't willing to stand for what's going on. The biggest problem is that you can't just abstain from voting (that is, to show up to vote and submit an empty ballot). Much of our electoral system is done with plurality voting - meaning that the majority of voters who did vote will choose the winner.
Make sure you vote this November - and make sure you send a clear message!
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Not being contrary, but as far as I can see in the bill it's pretty clear that the bill does not apply to US citizens, only to 'aliens'.
Granted it's still bad, and should be replealed.
It appears that you're correct - but it was apparently unclear that this only applied to "aliens" when the bill was in draft. Previously "unlawful enemy combatant" wasn't defined and seemed to be able to be applied to anyone - citizen or not. See wikipedia for a bit more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Commissions_Act_of_2006#Applicabil...
An interesting piece I read this morning suggests that possibly citizens could be declared unlawful enemy combatants.
( http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15318240/from/RS.5/
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So I am not sure where this leaves us. I would expand on my point from yesterday "Granted it's still bad, and should be repealed."...Even if it does not pertain to US citizens, it's indeed a slippery slope and is a blackmark on the American history.
Heh, and allow us poor schmucks to add html to our posts! :)
Heh - that seems doubtful [that I'll allow HTML comments].
I've edited the HTML out of your comment - I believe it still "complies with ... the spirit" of your message ;-).