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Bush’s Detainee Trial Plan: Taking away the rights of others and putting U.S. troops in even greater risk - to save his, and his party’s asses

Is it just me, or is it truly surreal that not more of a fuss is being made about all of this?

From the AP:

Bush wants Congress to support new legislation the White House drafted for prosecuting suspected terrorists for war crimes. A new plan was needed after the Supreme Court ruled in June that an earlier plan violated U.S. and international law.

Translation: The President has, and continues to break the law in this case, one of several laws he’s broken as President. Now, he again needs to change the law.

The president’s new plan for trying detainees would authorize the defense secretary to convene military tribunals to prosecute terrorism suspects and omit rights common in military and civil courts, such as the defendant’s right to access all evidence and a ban on coerced testimony.

This is basically the “guilty until we prove you guiltier, even if it requires torture” plan.

Gulags, torture, eavesdropping on U.S. citizens without warrants or any oversight whatsoever, and then changing laws to make them fit your illegal actions after the facts.

Is this the U.S. we were taught to be so proud of?

–WKW

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One Response to “Bush’s Detainee Trial Plan: Taking away the rights of others and putting U.S. troops in even greater risk - to save his, and his party’s asses”

  1. Paul Dirks Says:
    September 10th, 2006 at 4:03 pm

    Is this the U.S. we were taught to be so proud of?

    No, it’s the US we were taught we could never become…..