Doug’s Dynamic Drivel

Once Bush puts ink to the torture bill everyone in America who dares to voice opposition to the Bush agenda will be at risk of being arrested and the key thrown away, no right to habeas corpus. How America can go on claiming to be the home of the free and brave is beyond me. Everyone who voted for this bill, in both houses, should be lined up against a wall and shot, or better still thrown into some “black hole of gitmo” because that is the extent to which they value your freedoms. They do not deserve your respect. They do not deserve your vote. they DO NOT deserve to be in any position of power whatsoever. For the neocons habeas corpus seems to mean where’s the corpse (literal translation is something like “you have the body”) as in you’re dead sucker.

Wil Wheaton says it best:

What the House did yesterday, the Senate looks to do today, and the President will surely enact as soon as possible, is a direct assault on American values, and contrary to everything our country stands for. Though cynically and cowardly enacted as a purely political tool during an election, those who supported this bill do not speak for me, do not act in my name, and do not reflect my values.

Torture is not an American value. Torture is a totalitarian, sadistic value. Suspending access to courts and the right to face your accuser is not what Americans do. It is what tyrannical dictators and despots do, not a democratic republic like the one I was brought up in and love. Time and again, torture has proved unreliable to prevent or solve crimes, and it reduces our country to the level of the very terrorists we are supposedly fighting.

I believe in the right to a speedy and fair trial for everyone, even the most repugnant of defendants. No, especially for the most repugnant of defendants, because if we, as a society, can’t guarantee the most hideously accused among us that right, what is it worth to the rest of us?

George Bush and his enablers in the congress — Democrat and Republican — has done more damage to our country, and our once impeccable moral standing in the world than all the terrorists combined. President Bush and his Republican allies in congress like to say that “they hate us for our freedom,” but President Bush and his Republican allies in congress have spent the last five years working very hard to take that freedom away from the people they supposedly work for, and vest that power in something they call the Unitary Executive. If the Democrats won’t stand up to stop torture, what will they stand up for? If Congress won’t do its constitutional duty now, then when?

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