Amputating the Bill of Rights: Kurt Nimmo

[teryang]

http://www.counterpunch.org/nimmo01142004.html

Good piece on the regime's "...dogged effort to convert America into a police and surveillance state."

<The Sixth Amendment was lopped off the Constitution earlier this week.

AG Ashcroft can now have you arrested -- more accurately, abducted and detained -- and thrown in a military brig or sent to the Guantanamo concentration camp. Like military dictators in Chile or Guatemala, or the Gestapo in Nazi Germany, the Bushites don't have tell your family where you are, or even acknowledge your detention.

They can detain you for years, decades -- or until Bush's war on "terr'sim" is over -- that is to say forever.>

[Virgil]

1. It is all very disturbing indeed

As important as the Constitution is, you would think that there would be 6 weeks of education devoted to it about the 9th grade. Actually, as important as it is you would think there would be a television show on the Constitution considering there are hundreds of channels. There is a http://www.constitution.org that bears news as disturbing as this article.

[LibertyorDeath]

2. Kick

[Snappy]

3. Sad

The American people mostly don't give a damn about this because they don't think it effects them in any way. It's just for terrorists and they would rather have them shot instead of detained.