Welkome to Amerika

As promised, tonight I'll comment on the more despicable Repugnican ploy, their attempt to convert the Guantanamo kangaroo courts into the norm for America. In the bill Bush submitted to have Congress authorize the tribunals was a provision that would allow the President to hold anyone suspected of terrorism, anyone including American citizens, on U. S. soil indefinitely without notification or access to a lawyer. Might as well name them gulags in my book.

Now, I'm sure all the Shrub and his most honorable legal staff, you know, the guys who played a shell game for years with Jose Padilla rather than grant him his civil rights, had only the country's best interest in mind. I'm sure they were just trying to close Guantanamo and provide for holding the detainees on American soil under the same legal status they held at Guantanamo and that the fact that their provision would grant the Administration the right to hold anyone based on a diktat was purely an oversight. Right.

This must be our line in the sand against the budding dictatorship of the Bush Administration. They aren't competent enough to lead, so now they attempt to rule. We must not allow that. Write your Representatives (unless, like me, you live in the Colorado 6th and have Tommy the Xenophobe Tancredo for a Representative) and Senators (Waste paper on Allard the Torturer but know it's a waste and vote accordingly) and oppose this unconstitutional attempt at absolute power.

Because that's all it is. By the time the Supreme Court overturns it - wait, it's stacked with Bushies. Disregard that. This bill must never become law.