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Gitmo-eas corpus?
September 17, 2005 ( politics )
128 prisoners are refusing food in gitmo. 13 are hospitalized and are being force-fed by tubes.
US citizens on US soil can now be detained as 'enemy combatants'.
I guess I should take this opportunity to go by the National Archives and see the Constitution and Bill of Rights before they're hidden from public view as dissident documents written by anti-authoritarian deists and atheists rebelling against a government.
Read Wikipedia on habeas corpus.
I just watched the Daily Show with Kurt Vonnegut. I loved his mini-rant on democracy (paraphrasing): 100 years after you become a democracy, you have to let your slaves vote. 150 years after, you have to let your women vote. And at the begining, there's a lot of ethnic cleansing and genocide...
I feel that liberal, Constitution-supporting, types need to either reclaim "patriotism" or adopt a new phrase. I love the USA as a concept, but the current realities honestly disgust me on pretty much a daily basis, and currently identifying with "patriotism" means putting a magnetic $3.95 sticker on your gas-guzzling, oil-dependency-increasing SUV and voting for the Republican party, with a nice scoop of xenophobia with cultural imperialism on top.
I want my country back.
Posted by griffjon at September 17, 2005 06:49 PM
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