Sep 14, 2006 20:48
This is it. Not to sound alarmist, but well, I believe that there is genuine cause for alarm. Eleven score and ten years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. In order to become such a nation, we have also proudly been a nation "dedicated to the rule of law, not of men," since well before Chief Justice Marshall phrased it just so two centuries ago. That rule of law is now in jeopardy, with the terrorism tribunal bill that President Bush is presently trying to railroad through Congress in order to wave it in front of the public before the midterm elections. The bill as proposed allows far to many people to be deemed enemy combatants, far too easily. Google and then write your elected representatives.