From Newsday this morning:

After four years of growing international criticism of the Bush administration's treatment of war-on-terror suspects and dozens of lawsuits from prisoners who claim they are being held with no basis, it took the Senate barely an hour of debate late last week to reverse a year-old Supreme Court decision and strip the courts of the power to hear their cases.

If it survives a floor fight this week, legal experts and human rights advocates warned, the unexpected 49-42 vote could leave the roughly 500 military prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, without hope of legal relief, mark one of the rare occasions in U.S. history that the centuries-old writ of habeas corpus has been suspended, and damage the U.S. image abroad.


"It's been a bulwark of Western jurisprudence for a thousand years," said John Hutson, the dean of Franklin Pierce Law School in New Hampshire and a former judge advocate general for the U.S. Navy. "This is not an insignificant event."

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Suspending Habeas Corpus is a sure step toward fascism. Right now of course, it's just "them" so what diff, man. But in the arrogance typical of the Bush Gang, they are stepping onto a very slippery slope in disregard of their own history and the moral code that has been evolved over centuries.

Welcome to the Middle Ages, boys and girls. Guess what!! Evil King George is going on a CRUSADE!! Won't that be exciting???


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