Body Politics, by Chris Floyd

[The2ndWheel]

http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/11/18/120.html

Four years ago, President George W. Bush quietly assumed dictatorial powers with a secret executive order granting himself the right to imprison anyone on earth indefinitely, without charges or trial or indictment or evidence, simply by declaring them an "enemy combatant," on his say-so alone. This week, the assemblage of bootlickers and bagmen that befoul the U.S. Senate voted to codify the core of this global autocracy under the pretense of curtailing it.

With great self-fluffing fanfare, the Senate passed two measures ostensibly designed to stem the flood of torture and tyranny issuing from the White House. But the twinned amendments to a military spending bill have the curious effect of canceling each other out: The anti-torture measure leaves Bush's tyranny intact, while the anti-tyranny measure will allow torture to continue unabated. This switcheroo, we are told by one of the scam's sponsors, "will re-establish moral high ground for the United States," The Washington Post reports.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Here is how the moral high ground is "reestablished", it simply

isn't. Prisoners who have done less are on death row with no hope of
reprieve. A nation that does what we have done and doesn't turn its perps over to the Hague has no business talking about "reestablishing" anything much less the moral high ground. If you want to be above the law, just friggin say so. If you have no respect for international law, just friggin say so... but don't wrap it in the American flag and drag the whole gd nation down into the immoral cesspool of your own creation.

[WhiteTara]

2. isn't it amazing how things never change

even though the fight to make them happen sometimes seem to be won. I'm back in the deep mode of depression brought on by liars in the white house.