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• Sunday, June 14, 2009 07:50 PM

  Wow, that's a shift

  "(T)aking the potentiality of that danger as an excuse for the state to act to repress these organizations and individuals comes into direct conflict with the First Amendment's guarantee that people are allowed to think what they like and that like-minded people are free to assemble and to share their ideas with others.

  I just spent the better part of the last eight years listening to the Bush admin and their supporters (and unfortunately now the Obama admin and many of its supporters) telling me that we had to have things like indefinite preventive detention where we lock away people who have done nothing wrong without affording them the right to be charged or to have a trial where they might confront their accusers precisely because of the potential danger of what they might do based upon what they think, who they assemble with and the ideas that they share. Hell, we often don't even afford them the living hell of being detained forever. Sometimes we just fire up a fighter or bomber or Predator UAV and murd...er...kill in col...er...take 'em out.

  What's the difference between the alleged bad guys that it's OK to lock away or even kill based on the potential for what they might do and/or who they associate with and the bad guys right here in the US that happen to be (usually) white and Christian? Oh yeah...the alleged bad guys that it's OK to lock up and kill are usually brown and Muslim.

  (A)nyone is actively engaged in a conspiracy to violate the laws of this country and to do violence against its citizens, the conservative response is to arrest the conspirators, charge them, give them a fair trial in front of a jury of their peers and, if they're convicted, to jail them for a very long time.

  Really? Since when? Is that why conservatives are standing up for the Constitution and the rule of law by loudly and vigorously demanding that the people we have locked away at Guantanamo Bay be brought into the justice system, charged and given a fair trial where they can confront the evidence against them?

  Know what you are, Wingnut? I mean other than a Wingnut. You're a fucking hypocrite. A small minded "some animals are more equal than others" Orwellian hypocrite. It's because of you and people like you that we now have a "liberal" president who is cementing the madness of the Bush admin on things like preventive detention, state secrets, sovereign immunity and so-called preventive war.

  You and those like you have taken the Constitution of this nation, wadded it up and used it to wipe the sh*t from your ass.

  Fuck. You.

  —Roman Berry Read Roman Berry's other letters
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