The Very Voice of Evil

"It's my belief that they're very sensitive of the fact that we've got an election scheduled," he said. Cheney said the insurgents believe "they can break the will of the American people," and "that's what they're trying to do."

Bush Says 'America Loses' Under Democrats - washingtonpost.com

Where is the sense of urgency!? The OUTRAGE!?

In our lifetimes there has never been a greater, more urgent political issue that has come before the people of the U.S.A. With this single act, this single stroke of a pen, President Bush has ceded the win of the War on Terror to the terrorists. We have been terrorized into giving up our most basic civil liberties.
Does this not make the President of the U.S.A. guilty of providing support to the terrorists? Doesn't this then make the PoTUSA an unlawful enemy combatant?
Only if he or Rumsfeld declare him to be, it turns out. Interesting how that works, isn't it.

October 17, 2006 Black Tuesday

Many web users and bloggers are too young to remember the web based protest to President Clinton's enactement of the Communications Decency Act (http://www.cdt.org/speech/cda/960203_48hrs_alert.htm ). Web sites were encouraged to change the background color of their web pages to black for 48 hours to protest the CDA. Belief it or not, before that day, there were very few web pages that had black backgrounds. Since then, as you can see for yourself they have become quite common. But even so, it was an act of protest that was widely participated in.

I now humbly suggest this form of visible web protest be practiced again. We need another Black Day/Week/Month/Year(????) on the web to protest the United States of America's decline into petty despotism with signing by President George W. Bush of the Military Commissions Act of 2006.

To kick it off, my blog page will now be black and remain black, until this act is struck down by the Supreme Court or overturned in some fashion.

October 17, 2006 was indeed a black day for the U.S.A, and the world.

The Day Habeas Corpus Died.

October 17, 2006 - The Day Habeas Corpus Died. One hundred thirty five years to the day after the last American President (Ulysses S. Grant) suspended habeas corpus, President Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006. At its worst, the legislation allows President Bush or Donald Rumsfeld to declare anyone — US citizen or not — an enemy combatant, lock them up and throw away the key without a chance to prove their innocence in a court of law. In other words, every thing the Founding Fathers fought the British empire to free themselves of was reversed and nullified with the stroke of a pen, all under the guise of the War on Terror.