••can ye pass the acid test?••

ye who enter here be afraid, but do what ye must -- to defeat your fear ye must defy it.

& defeat it ye must, for only then can we begin to realize liberty & justice for all.

time bomb tick tock? nervous tic talk? war on war?

or just a blog crying in the wilderness, trying to make sense of it all, terror-fried by hate radio and FOX, the number of whose name is 666??? (coincidence?)

Saturday, September 16, 2006

what part doesn't he understand?


i still just don't get why bush doesn't get it.

that's not just rhetoric. he admits he doesn't get it, and he says it very forcefully.

but forget the manner. read the words [transcript]. he demands congress authorize his brand of kangaroo court. if they don't, detainees will get no trials of any kind.

how does he justify that?

simple: common article 3 [text] is "vague" and needs clarification in our law so our personnel don't accidentally commit war crimes.

has he even read article 3?

like, our troops are so dumb they can't figure out what "shall in all circumstances be treated humanely" means, or "cruel treatment," or "personal dignity," or "regularly constituted court, affording all the judicial guarantees...recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples"?

there's the rub. no matter how you slice it, his military commissions won't be regularly constituted courts that guarantee fair trials. the only thing they'll guarantee is convictions—even if the defendant is innocent.

what else would you expect for terrorists? they're such horrible characters we can't afford to give them the chance to refute all the evidence, so we'll keep some of it secret from them, but not from our officers who will decide their fate. and we'll allow hearsay evidence, so they won't be able to confront witnesses we don't want them to see. and we'll make coerced evidence admissible, even tho we know we get nothing useful that way. and we'll have military trials for civilians turned over to us by foreign authorities, even tho our own constitution forbids it!

remember: these are terrorists! they don't deserve presumption of innocence. they must be punished, now and forever! otherwise they'll come back and get us! we don't want that, do we?

never mind the geneva conventions! forget the 5th and 6th amendments! we're under siege here! a billion islamofascists are massed on the mexican border about to invade the white house!

what'll we do? what'll we do?

somebody help me!

DO something!

PLEASE!

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