So long 6th Amendment!

[TimeChaser]

"A federal appeals court ruled today that the president can indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen captured on U.S. soil in the absence of criminal charges, holding that such authority is vital during wartime to protect the nation from terrorist attacks.

The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit came in the case of Jose Padilla, a former Chicago gang member who was arrested in Chicago in 2002 and designated an "enemy combatant" by President Bush. The government contends that Padilla trained at al Qaeda camps and was planning to blow up apartment buildings in the United States."

But wait 'til you see the ending...


"The decision was written by Judge J. Michael Luttig, who is one of a number of people under consideration by President Bush for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/09/AR2005090900772.html

I apologize if this has been posted before.

[tom_paine]

1. The 4th Circuit is a "court" like Hitler's Courts were

The 4th Circuit has long ago been taken over by Bushevik Hacks. Their decsiions are no more based on law than if you'd gathered a group of kindergarteners together and dressed them up in black robes.

How grotesque and disgusting Imperial Amerika looks since it's Bushevik Makeover.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

2. Just another 'roo on the Kangaroo Court.

[elehhhhna]

3. Wow! The second & the sixth destroyed on the same day!

Whooda thunk it!

[Zenlitened]

4. A U.S. citizen. Detained. Indefinitely. No reason needed.

Could be you. Could be me. Could be Lady Liberty.

No reason needed, no reason at all.

Scared yet?

:scared:

[TimeChaser]

6. Of course I'm scared

We already know that Homeland Security has investigated Anti-War groups as "terrorists." And if the government can detain anyone they declare is a "terrorist," well...

I don't want to think about it too much...

[Loge23]

5. we're all "enemy combatants"

How about demonstrations? What if things get a little interesting? They will come for the organizer's certainly. This edict can effectivley stifle any organized protest.
I suppose the reich's opportunity will be coming with the 9/11 and 9/24 gatherings rapidly approaching.
A little here, a little there. All of a sudden, it's a very different Bill of Rights.

[charlie]

7. This'll thrill the happy idiots

Y'know the ones that squalled about jack-booted thugs in their rosebeds for 8 years.

[silverweb]

8. Just great.

We're almost all the way to totalitarianism, friends.

:(

So the only question left is, how will The People in the "land of the free and the home of the brave" respond now? Or are we, as the personification of an ideal, as nearly dead as our Bill of Rights is?

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Might buy that if there was a DECLARATION of war, but since there

isn't, I rule it unconstitutional!

[MsConduct]

10. What a pile of BS! king georgie is sooooo blatant in his dirty

dealings.

We all might as well just turn ourselves in. Let the feds house, feed, and clothe us.

[moodforaday]

11. That last line clinches it...

The decision was written by Judge J. Michael Luttig, who is one of a number of people under consideration by President Bush for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.

No end in sight, is there.