Scandal Alert: Congress Is Quietly Abandoning the 5th Amendment

[another_liberal]

8. It's the "War on Terror!"

Although our genuine "Terrorist Enemies" now only number a few hundred (at most) some security geeks still see this as a situation equivalent with the darkest days of the American Civil War. One hundred and fifty years ago President Lincoln suspended Americans' civil liberties in order to win a desperate struggle to save our national union. The Dick Cheney administration claimed that precedent as justification for every kind of extra-Constitutional outrage imaginable. Sadly, we are still operating under the assumption our country will be overrun with "Towel-headed murders" if we allow the rule of law to be reimposed. Nonsense, pure nonsense!

It is long past time to restore our Civil Rights and Constitutional protections to, at least, their pre-9/11 standing.