Sunday, October 08, 2006
Why does sex trump all else?
Lot’s of important things get done on a Friday afternoon in Washington DC because everyone knows that it will probably get lost in the weekend news cycle. While this news cycle has been completely taken over by the Foley sex scandal, we missed a lot.
Congress voted on a Homeland Security Bill that said because of the Hurricane Katrina fiasco, “it is imperative for the head of FEMA to have knowledge of emergency management and not less than 5 years of executive leadership”. On Friday, the President signed the bill while adding yet another signing statement, saying that he could ignore the new restrictions.
On 28th September the U.S. Constitution as we know it, ended. The Military Commission’s Bill now allows the President at his pleasure to put any American citizen, legal U.S. resident or green card holder in prison for as long as he wishes with no ability to have their day in court, (Habeas Corpus). Non-citizens could be held until “the war on terror” is over!
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., chairman of the Senate judiciary committee, announced, "I'm not going to support a bill that's blatantly unconstitutional ... that suspends a right that goes back to the Magna Carta (Habeas Corpus) in 1215." He then went ahead and voted for it!
Congress voted on a Homeland Security Bill that said because of the Hurricane Katrina fiasco, “it is imperative for the head of FEMA to have knowledge of emergency management and not less than 5 years of executive leadership”. On Friday, the President signed the bill while adding yet another signing statement, saying that he could ignore the new restrictions.
On 28th September the U.S. Constitution as we know it, ended. The Military Commission’s Bill now allows the President at his pleasure to put any American citizen, legal U.S. resident or green card holder in prison for as long as he wishes with no ability to have their day in court, (Habeas Corpus). Non-citizens could be held until “the war on terror” is over!
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., chairman of the Senate judiciary committee, announced, "I'm not going to support a bill that's blatantly unconstitutional ... that suspends a right that goes back to the Magna Carta (Habeas Corpus) in 1215." He then went ahead and voted for it!
# posted by Florence Vincent @ 12:45 AM 
