Are You Aware of This Backdoor Measure in the "Patriot Act"

[Clara T]

In yet another of those momentous degradations of public morality that go unremarked by the ever-vigilant watchdogs of the national media, Bush slipped a measure into the revamped "Patriot (sic) Act" he signed last week that will allow him to expedite the death penalty process across the land, the Austin American-Statesman reports.

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So now he has taken his revenge. The backdoor measure in the Patriot Act decrees that responsibility for awarding fast-track death-penalty status to the states will now be the sole prerogative of the U.S. Attorney General – one Alberto Gonzales. Yes, the fawning minion whose perversions of law on behalf of his boss have abetted murderous war, systematic torture, mass corruption, assassination, abduction, rendition, dictatorship – and the slipshod Texas death machinery – will now decide if states are legally scrupulous enough to resume lickety-split executions. You can hear those sausage grinders gearing up all over America.

God only knows what festering psychic wounds drive these spiritual cripples and their obsession with death. But for them, power isn't real unless it's written on the body of another human being – a prisoner, guilty or not; an "enemy," real or imagined; or the multitude of slaughtered innocents whose only crime was living in a land that the cripples wanted to conquer.

http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=542&Itemid=1

[sproutster]

1. wow - I wish it suprised me.

I really do.

[babydollhead]

2. kick

[BlackHeart]

3. Typical, the Bush Adminstration going for the back door

without the courtesy of a reach a round.

[mattclearing]

21. LOL. n/t

[ContraBass Black]

4. Wow.

Nothing else to say.

[Atman]

5. What, the PA makes backdoor illegal, too?

Oh, wait. Never mind.

[harpo]

6. I think its time to clean my guns

[tom_paine]

7. K & R -- Imperial Amerika is an ugly place

Getting uglier by the minute.

Everything good we have left is the wretched remnants of Old Free America. It cannot last for many more years...50 at the most, probably far less.

[Nite Owl]

8. They are pathologically

obsessed with death and inflicting pain on others. Whatever they say they are they are the opposite. They are the party of death and certainly not Christians.

[Clara T]

9. Like some strange Bush Death Cult

[hang a left]

10. Does anyone think this is constitutional.

I would think that the ammendment could be challenged. You can't make a law that is unconstitutional. Or can you in this day and age??

[magellan]

11. Bush** and the neocons don't care about the Constitution

...except to dance around it and thumb their noses at it.

[hang a left]

12. Well someone will eventually challenge it to the Robert's court.

As it should be.

[autorank]

13. He's mad. Period. Bush is "The MESSENGER OF DEATH"

I'm just stunned. Of course, you know that he gets pictures of all this. That's the dirty little secret I predict comes out of all this. Also, we'll find that the soldiers in Iraq prisons didn't take those pictures for themselves. They went straight to 1600 Pennsylvania.

We are at great peril.

[MazeRat7]

14. I had a different kind of "back door" in mind re: The Patriot Act

But hey..getting screwed against your will is as bad no matter how its done.

MZr7

[Zinfandel]

15. They just keep throwing it at us, every direction, another there, in such

heaps, we just can't seem to keep up with these fascist, they come out of nowhere, out of the woodwork... these fucking republicans are relentless!

Just a very long & early St.Paddy's day week-end celebration...

[TheModernTerrorist]

16. so when are they gonna start "disappearing" us?

it's only a matter of time :-(

[flamingpie2500]

17. Dead Men don't talk--this administration puts laws into effect to protect

themselves--eventually we will learn the REAL reason for this atrocity.

[Starfury]

18. Ah, so THAT's what that burning sensation was from... :-)

Just out of curiosity, are the full contents of the patriot act online somewhere? I can't even begin to imagine all the horrors that are surely lurking in there.

[knitter4democracy]

19. He'll lose Michigan for sure for that.

We're the oldest English speaking government to get rid of the death penalty--we've never had it and made it illegal in our state constitution. There are occasional pushes to get a death penalty in our state, but they always fail.

I have to get the word out on this. Can they really override our state constitution and make us have the death penalty? That sure seems like what this guy is saying.

[Clara T]

20. kick

[corbett]

22. Remember: It Written BEFORE 9/11!

Everyone needs to remember that the PATRIOT act was written before 9/11 and most of it is permanent, as in not subject to sunsetting or Congressional review.

www.loosechange911.com

[eppur_se_muova]

23. I can't help but remember that Herblock cartoon...on Stalin's death...

He showed Stalin, bloody sickle in hand, being led away by Death (skull, robes, scythe, you know), while Death said "You were always a great friend of mine, Joseph".

Who in this country's history has been a better friend of Death than GWB?