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From Katherine at Obsidian Wings:

September 11 started the war. When will it end? Maybe never. Where is the battlefield? The entire world, including the United States. Who is an enemy combatant? Anyone the President says is an enemy combatant, including a U.S. citizen--no need for a charge, no need for a trial, no need for access to a lawyer. What if they're found not to be an enemy combatant? We can keep them in prison anyway, and we don't have to tell their families they're alive or their lawyers that they were cleared. What can you do to an enemy combatant? Anything you want. Detain him forever, for the rest of his life, because this is a war like any other and we have always been able to detain POWs for the duration of the war. But you don't need to follow the Geneva Conventions, because this is a war like no other in our history. And oh yes--if the President decides that we need to torture a prisoner for the war effort, it's unconstitutional for Congress to stop him. They took that position in an official memo, and they have not backed down from it. They have said it was "unnecessary" but they have never backed down from it.

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Gays need monitoring too

by ebuddha on Tue 20 Dec 2005 04:21 PM PST

Another happy saga in the overreach of the Pentagon.

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On the Bill of Rights

by ebuddha on Tue 20 Dec 2005 04:15 PM PST

This is a political day for me, it seems.

From War and Piece.

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Vegans Need Monitoring for their Terrorist Tendencies

by ebuddha on Tue 20 Dec 2005 03:44 PM PST

Or something like that.

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