Bush's New Xenophobic Detention & Torture Law

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Bush's New Xenophobic Detention & Torture Law

Equally outrageous is the new 'two-tier' detention and torture law that Bush pushed for and signed today, after Congress approved it with the help of a bloc of redneck Democrats. The new law basically protects the constitutional rights of American citizens against illegal detention and torture of the kind that has become commonplace under the Bush Regime.

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That means that, as a Canadian, if I am visiting the US, or just passing through a US port, I can be arrested and sent to Guantanamo or any of the other secret US/CIA prisons abroad, without charge, or access to lawyers, and tortured for the rest of my life, on the say-so of any little American bureaucrat who decides he doesn't like the look of my face.

http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2006/10/18.html#a1678