BushCo is as we speak working its way towards its greatest victory since this administration was foisted upon us by the Supreme Court in 2000. The torture act that will pass tonight and likely be signed by the President tomorrow has yielded the unchecked power to point his finger at anyone he pleases and call them an "enemy combatant" and they will then effectively disappear for as long as Bush wants. While they are disappeared they can also be tortured in whatever manner the President so chooses.
You say, "Hey, I'm not doing anything wrong so I've got nothing to worry about!" Well, enjoy your delusion while it lasts. It is one thing to have people listening to your phone calls for no reason at all, but I want you to know that being incarcerated is a much greater inconvenience. Being tortured is generally painful and unpleasant.
If your neighbor disappears and you are later told that he or she is an "enemy combatant", don't count on them coming back any time soon. If they have pets and you feel brave enough, go get them and take care of them because the owners won't be back for dinner.
So what do you do to prepare for being picked up? Well they won't let you bring a suit case or a book or anything like that. Then again the Germans did allow people to pack. It was a cynical ploy to get their victims' most valuable posessions. So my advice is that if they do allow you to pack, you don't bring your jewelry or family silver because they will only use it to fund more terror on their own people.
I hope that people like Dana Priest of the New York Times - who found the secret prisons in the first place - have gotten their plane ticket to France where I would guess she like others who the Bush Administration have already threatened would probably find asylum.
For the members of both chambers of the Capitol Building who have voted for this bill, there will be hell to pay on their judgement day. Or if you like, Karma will come back around. This piece of legislation is amoral, unpatriotic and unAmerican.
Vengence is mine sayeth the Lord. Well ladies and gentlemen, you have tread on the Lord's territory today and you will find out what that means. As the sun sets on the once great democracy in the United States of America, you'll probably attend your church thinking that you have done what your lord has directed you to do, but even the least pious among us know just how wrong your actions are. Those of us who have found morality in democracy alone know just how wrong you are.
19 terrorists on four planes did not destroy this country. You did. You people who wrote this bill, supported this bill, voted for this bill and lied to the American people {again} about this bill, are the ones who have destroyed this country today.
You set this country down a path of barbarism and history shows that barbarians are ultimately defeated and destroyed by their own barbarism. That is karma, that is God, that is the Yin answering the Yang. It matters not what theological or political theory you apply, your actions will come back to haunt you. They always do.
I may live the rest of my life subjected to your tyranny, but I know in my heart of hearts that the world will ultimately right itself. Unlike you, I will wake every day of the rest of my life - no matter how long or how short - able to look in the mirror knowing that I have given the best I could to human kind.
You, on the other hand, will see the evil in your hearts and it will eat you alive if your barbarian buddies don't get you first. There is no honor among thieves and you have entered the lair of the cabal today. Welcome to the Hotel Calif... torture - you can never leave. That is where the next power struggle begins and I and the many honest law abiding citizens in this country may have been a walk over, but your accomplices will not be so easy for you to survive. You think you have an agreement, but like all thieves and criminals they will turn on you eventually too. The tyranny that you will endure will be worse than what we will face. No matter how horrible it is for the victim, in the end it is always worse for the victimizer.
For the trully ignorant among you who did not read the history of Iraq, I would submit the story of how Saddam executed the men in his "congress" who disagreed with him. You too can become an "enemy combatant" and it probably won't take much. I hope you enjoy it.
A new class of citizen: "Enemy Combatant" was created this day, September 28th, in the year two thousand and six.
And thus begins your journey.