The Senate Debate
The final vote on the torture and detainee bills is coming soon.
“What this bill would do is take our civilization back 900 years,” to before the adoption of the writ of habeus corpus in medieval England, Senator Specter said.
And the President:
“Our most important responsibility is to protect the American people from further attack. And we cannot be able to tell the American people we’re doing our full job unless we have the tools to do so.”I'll leave it to the commenters to talk about what this means.
posted by Joshua @ 4:01 PM
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My biggest question is, if this passes, will the newcomer in '09 care enough to repeal it?
My answer, sadly, is, "Depends on who the newcomer is."
What does that mean? It means that the situation we've hoped to avoid for more than two centuries may come to pass: our liberties are dependent on the individual character of our executive.
Any day now I'm getting out the V mask and short swords. I've had the training.
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