Archive for the 'civil rights' Category
Police State
uh-oh:
President Bush has the legal power to order the indefinite military detentions of civilians captured in the United States, the federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled on Tuesday in a fractured 5-to-4 decision.
Greenwald and Steven D. have more. LOTS more.
Steven:
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (one level below the Supreme Court) has just ruled [...]
Complicit Democrats
Glenn Greenwald confirms what I’ve been saying since 2007. he links to the same Washington Post article about Nancy Pelosi’s knowledge of torture too.
It is absolutely the case that, as Mayer pointed out yesterday and as I wrote about at the time, Bush officials faced serious danger of criminal liability in the wake of [...]
Cruelty x2
Disgusting treatment of illegal immigrants, and a must read.
“It is no secret that the Postville ICE raid was a pilot operation, to be replicated elsewhere, with kinks ironed out after lessons learned. Next time, “fast-tracking” will be even more relentless. Never before has illegal immigration been criminalized in this fashion. It is no longer enough [...]
A Whole New Meaning
Given his outrageous vote on FISA, following his broken promise to filibuster the bill, perhaps it’s time for Obama to redefine what “Listening to America” means:
It’s sure not his base he’s listening to. I joined the anti-FISA group at Obama’s website two weeks ago. I had to switch over to the “digest” version because my [...]
Read More..>>Memo to My Obama-Supporting Friends
Don’t EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER tell me who I should vote for EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER again.
If you so much as say ONE. FUCKING. WORD. in that motherfucker’s defense, you’re getting a beer shower and a Buffalo wing up your nose You know who you are.
Don’t tell me I [...]
Deluded in DC
So my question to them was — what are they going to do about this newfound sense of “fiscal responsibility” on the part of the Blue Dogs, who want to know how everything is going to be “paid for” now, despite the fact that they never met a war funding bill they wouldn’t vote for?
–Jane [...]
The Daily News gets It: Why Doesn’t Obama?
Nice flip flops, Barack!
IS BARACK OBAMA a Manchurian candidate after all? The minute that Obama became the Dems’ presumptive nominee, he traded his cloak of liberal-oriented change for the same thing that he saw John McCain wearing around town, a stylish pair of flip-flops.
Last week, he exhibited some convoluted back-tracking on campaign finance, but Friday’s [...]
Trouble for Pat Murphy and Joe Sestak
The roll call is in, and here’s who voted against your Fourth Amendment rights, Philadelphia!
Patrick Murphy< dishonored his oath of office, disrespected the Constitution, and stood up for the phone companies that broke the law rather than his constituents Constitutionally-guaranteed rights. You’d think someone with a law degree, and who served in the US [...]
Read More..>>Amber Alert!!!
Where is Senator Barack Obama, presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee, in the fight to save our Fourth Amendment rights?
How can we expect Senator Obama to lead our country if he hides like a scared little bunny from tough issues which, when you think about it, aren’t so tough. How hard can it be [...]
Also for Sale: Steny Hoyer
Steny Hoyer sold out our Fourth Amendment Rights today. And boy oh boy, did he take his opportunity to screw the American public but good:
It’s even worse than expected. When you read it, it’s actually hard to believe that the Congress is about to make this into our law. Then again, this is the [...]
