Letters to the Editor
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Now that's funny
However... people that throw out ignorant assertions in troll-like fashion to me, that are ill disguised attempts to muddy the water or just start a fight, will get one. It's all up to you.
Oooooh, the sheer toughness of scooter is giving me chills.
"It's all up to you." Punk.
I haven't laughed so hard at anything I've read posted here, maybe ever. I can picture scootie there in the spooky woods of Maine, his laptop set up on the cabin countertop, his framed 8x11 autographed Sean Hannity picture that he takes everywhere with him set up right next to it, his Dittohead combo flashlight cassette with its recorded Best of the Rush Limbaugh Show continuous loop playing in his headset, and a dartboard with a picture of Glenn Greenwald tacked to the wall next to him with all the darts planted firmly by hand right on the bullseye of Glenn's nose.
Shoots will be here all weekend I suspect. His wife will be out hiking around the woods with the family, and maybe even doing a little adventuring on the water, but lil' shooty won't be going with her. He doesn't go anywhere he can't watch FOXNews on TV. And it's scary outside in Maine. His wife understands and got him a bear whistle in case he gets real scared and needs her to come back in a hurry. She wishes he wasn't such a pussy, but that's her little man, and she loves him all the same.
You're a funny guy there shooter number two hundred and forty two out of the many thousands of wannabe cowboys who wanted to choose that moniker but found out they weren't the only "shooter" in the world.
Best to stick with the adolescent insults. When you try to actually engage you just look like the ignorant partisan hack you truly are.
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FYI... on The NewsHour
Harold Meyerson will be filling in for Mark Shields tonight, opposite David Brooks.
That should be an interesting match-up.
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Habeas Corpus
Wait, American Government and Constitutional Law books need major revisions now. They need to take out all those parts about Habeas Corpus. Students are bad at learning Latin concepts anyway.
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No, I'm not a guest of Hotel Halliburton yet, shooter
Along with the AUMF, the package of legislation consisting of the Patriot Act, the MCA, and the recent revision of FISA represents dangers to our civil liberties virtually without precedent since the end of WWII.
The President can argue that the former justifies attacks on just about any country which he -- and he alone -- considers a threat to our military operations in Iraq, and the latter can clearly be stretched to justify imprisoning virtually any resident of the U.S., citizen or not, at the whim of the Administration.
Shooter may take some comfort in the fact that GWB hasn't done so on a large scale, at least not yet, but no one who has any sense can be comfortable with the legal justifications already there and waiting for him, or for any President who succeeds him.
On a related note, did everyone catch the announcement today of the Hu/Putin doctrine, warning ambitious powers from across the ocean to reconsider meddling in Central Asia?
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Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments
Unless that marriage is church and state.
In May 2006, we exposed the existence of a nationwide FEMA program which is training Pastors and other religious representatives to become secret police enforcers who teach their congregations to "obey the government" in preparation for the implementation of martial law, property and firearm seizures, mass vaccination programs and forced relocation.
A whistleblower who was secretly enrolled into the program told us that the feds were clandestinely recruiting religious leaders to help implement Homeland Security directives in anticipation of a potential bio-terrorist attack, any natural disaster or a nationally declared emergency.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2007/160807_quell_dissent.htm
You can view the KSLA TV (Shreveport, Louisiana) news story here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-BtWhs8qlg
Remember that the president has now been given the right under law to assume absolute authority over all government in time of national emergency.
I tell myself all of this is a mote of dust in the grand scheme of things. I have always believed that Love is the parent of Gravity, Gravity the parent of the Universe and the Universe the parent of Life.
To remind myself of the good that comes from civilization:
Sonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.-- William Shakespeare
Time and the flesh fail, but love will never fail.
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@Michael Harold re: We hold these truths to be self-evident
Thanks, Paul. People should keep a little copy of the Constitution and Bill of Rights in their bedroom and office to read every once in a while.
It doesn't take two to three minutes of reading these documents to realize how far away from their intent we, as a people, have allowed our current government to take us.
I have two other books, in addition, Quotations of Abraham Lincoln and Quotations of Thomas Jefferson.
I discovered something else yesterday while responding to a post by Martin Gale -- Earl Warren's Miranda decision. It is fascinating in light of current discussions of civil rights, especially when red in light of torture, interrogation, and detention.
(aside) By the way, shooter, I liked the post, I think you do much better when you actually express yourself. I don't agree with it though, principally because it contains too much trust me with respect to the Administration. Our system isn't based on trust, it's based on oversight and checks and balances. I didn't trust them to experiment with moving the goalposts in the first place, so I continue not to trust them to figure out if the place they moved them to is the right one.
Also to shooter, because habeas corpus is a guarantee of a day in court, it doesn't work if it requires a review process to find out if someone is entitled to it. That is what Jebbie was trying to tell you. Since you don't gain the right to challenge your detention until your status is reviewed, you have no such right until the review (in the case of Guantanamo, that would be the CSRT). Since the review is also necessary before you have a right to a speedy trial (another provision of the same MCA 2006 law), you can, in fact, be held indefinitely before you are allowed the opportunity to prove you are a U.S. citizen.