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The joys of living in a dictatorship

So you're an innocent civilian swept up in a dragnet and stuffed into the New American Gulag. Eventually (because the Evil Party hadn't get gotten around to abolishing Habeas Corpus yet) a lawsuit is started under the not unreasonable grounds that when you're innocent, it's not a fair cop to be tossed into a deathcamp indefinitely.

This particular judge could not be bribed with a Supreme Court seat, and stated that, um, no, "This indefinite imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay is unlawful". But, alas, the gulag is property of the president, so "I find that a federal court has no relief to offer".

Hmm.

  1. depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury;
  2. transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses;
  3. taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments;
  4. suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever;

And that's just with two kidnapped foreign nationals. Just think of what they're doing with the rest of the so-called war on terror.

(via Obsidian Wings)

—orc Fri Dec 23 16:51:00 2005

Comments

It is the end of the rule of law. Those who rule have decided that their agenda is more important than following the law, that they are above the law. Of course the laws will still apply to us peasants.

Mike Fri Dec 23 17:02:43 2005

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