Dems who vote to condone TORTURE and destroy HABEUS CORPUS!

[Joanne98]

WILL BE FIRED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[joemurphy]

1. Bush has made it plain that he wants to try people

whose confessions may have been extorted by torture in "military" (insert "kangaroo") courts. No one that believes in due process of law can support this.

[Joanne98]

2. the members of Congress take an oath to defend the constitution!

Bush is trying to repeal Habeus Corpus. A nine hundred year old law. The basis of everything. This is TREASON!

[Toots]

15. A nine hundred year old law.

Our country is only 240 years old.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. But our legal system is based on the British system, which has

had habeas corpus for 900 years.

[Skidmore]

3. Absofreakinglutely! People, if you don't draw the line here, where

will you draw it? This is where the rubber hits the road. We are in a position that, if such legislation passes and you are considered one of the administration's enemies, you will have no right to due process. This is where this is headed. He cannot just haave congress suspend habeous corpus for only noncitizens, given that there are also terrorists who are Americans too. We cannot afford to keep Dems who will line up behind this type of policy because they are no different than Republics.

[mmonk]

4. Yes. This is the crossroads all of this has led us to.

This is where our system of government has a chance to continue or it ENDS. There is no further road, I repeat, there is no further road whereby there is any sort of middle AT ALL.

[porphyrian]

5. Count on it.

But let's not cut our noses off to spite our faces. We need A branch of government...

[mmonk]

6. Anyone care to speculate if we will have

the constitution nullified by the congress?

[leftsideofbrain]

7. I doubt those are real terrorists

Most of those "terrorists" are probably just good people anyway caught up in an illegal war. Think about the families and the children!!!

[mmonk]

8. You can't have a president decide who or who isn't a terrorist,

judge them in secret, and punish them in secret. Only 8% in Gitmo are even accused of being terrorists and he plans none of this to even affect their fate at all because they want them to be untouchable by any courts (no jurisdiction outside of US).

[newyawker99]

14. Hi leftsideofbrain!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[gully]

9. Who's voting to condone torture?

Ya got some information I'm not privy to?

[indepat]

10. And I hope drawn and quartered and keel-hauled

[xyzpdq_us]

12. What do we do with the 300

that Bush said their countries don't want them back or will kill them if they're returned?

[mmonk]

13. Well, the 7 year olds at Camp Iguana could probably be adopted.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. Or, vote to OK the use of cluster bombs.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2062222&mesg_id=2062222


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