Unba//anced

i was reading mark amerika's blog and he reported that bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006.

At its worst, the legislation allows President Bush or Donald Rumsfeld to declare anyone — US citizen or not — an enemy combatant, lock them up and throw away the key without a chance to prove their innocence in a court of law. In other words, every thing the Founding Fathers fought the British empire to free themselves of was reversed and nullified with the stroke of a pen, all under the guise of the War on Terror.

Jonathan Turley says:

"People have no idea how significant this is. Really a time of shame this is for the American system.—The strange thing is that we have become sort of constitutional couch potatoes. The Congress just gave the President despotic powers and you could hear the yawn across the country as people turned to Dancing With the Stars. It's otherworldly..People clearly don't realize what a fundamental change it is about who we are as a country. What happened today changed us. And I'm not too sure we're gonna change back anytime soon."

this is fucked up. i could go to jail because someone doesn't like something i say. you could go to jail because someone doesn't like the way you look.

i tried to find infomation about it on other news sites, but i couldn't find anything (except for msnbc - but that's because they were the ones with the original interview mentioned above).

and from CNN's Political page: "Just weeks before November's crucial midterm elections, a new poll says nearly three-quarters of Americans see Congress as out of touch..." - i believe that's the other way around. we are out of touch about what our government is doing to us.

you can read this article from a legal news site.

we are in some serious trouble people. all of us. anyone want to wake up with me and fuck some political shit up?

current mood: disturbed
current noise: the screaming going on inside my head