yay

nay

Fuck oh dear.

Fuck-o-dear

but we voted this guy in, he's our man! we want him in charge and there ain't nothin' we are doing to stop it!

go team!

I didn't vote this guy in. Vas, was this your doing?

Well, we're really fucked now. He's got 2 whole years to figure out a way to suspend elections until the current terrorism crises is over. And any one who objects must be a terrorist sympathiser who is likely to be arrested in the middle of the night and sent to a terrorist detention and reeducation camp.

azron, what an excellent idea.

I know, let's start building them oh, I dunno about feb .

This is much better analysis. from my favorite local casandra. With gems such as this:

Yale law Professor Bruce Ackerman, who wrote in the L.A. Times, 'The compromise legislation....authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights.'

And a whole bunch of other shit in those 80 pages.

The worst part is how he's got the donkeys plus caving- ass McCain thinking that any sign of disloyalty is tantamount to treason. They've got their ammo for the elections and have set the stage and script.
Anything that is later ruled to be torture, illegal or just plain wrong will be irrelevant because they will have satisfied their election objectives.
We can only hope that stupid sick rich fucks like Allen and Foley and the wave of anti-incumbent sentiment will have enough effect to unseat them. Trouble is the Gopping mouthed crooks constituents vote for 'em anyway.

' He's got 2 whole years to figure out a way to suspend elections until the current terrorism crises is over.' They don't need to do that. They'll just choose their next puppet. Puppet one or Puppet two is still a puppet.

I told one of my staff about this and her reaction was, 'Oh, just like 'V for Vendetta', huh?'

At first, I thought how sad it was that 'V' is the only thing most people her age can associate with dystopic police state futures. But, at least it is something.

Torture is strange because it isn't necessarily more effective for finding out information. So, I'm never what the point of arguing for it so much is. I guess it makes them feel all tingly or something.