Holte's corner

Signing away the fourteenth amendment

Bush thinks that history will be kind to him. It won't be.

"Here's a statement from the ACLU : "The president can now - with the approval of Congress - indefinitely hold people without charge, take away protections against horrific abuse, put people on trial based on hearsay evidence, authorize trials that can sentence people to death based on testimony literally beaten out of witnesses, and slam shut the courthouse door for habeas petitions. Nothing could be further from the American values we all hold in our hearts than the Military Commissions Act."

"Stephen Rickard writes in an op-ed in The Washington Post that CIA interrogators have not gotten the clarity they wanted. He writes that "if they yield to White House pressure to renew brutal interrogations, they will be at greater risk than they were last fall. . ."

But the President doesn't care. The purpose of the bill wasn't to protect underlings, it was to protect him, his cronies, and the top level people who work for him. You see for these folks, the Country has to be run by our "betters". And if we think we are equal to them and they are operating out of patriotism, well encouraging that illusion is what propaganda is for. That is what conservativism is about. Only so many people can join the country club or it will get too crowded.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html

Posted by cholte at October 17, 2006 09:41 PM