Who Made George Bush our King?

[mourningdove92]

Who Made George W. Bush Our King?
He Can Designate Any of Us an Enemy Combatant
July 25th, 2003 6:00 PM

Courts have no higher duty than protection of the individual freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution. This is especially true in time of war, when our carefully crafted system of checks and balances must accommodate the vital needs of national security while guarding the liberties the Constitution promises all citizens. —Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals judge Diana Gribbon Motz, dissenting, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, July 9


Some of the most glorious illuminations of the Bill of Rights in American history have been contained in Supreme Court dissents by, among others, Louis Brandeis, William Brennan, Hugo Black, and Thurgood Marshall. Equal to those was the stinging dissent by judge Diana Gribbon Motz when the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (8 to 4) gave George W. Bush a fearsome power that can be found nowhere in the Constitution—the sole authority to imprison an American citizen indefinitely without charges or access to a lawyer.

This case is now on appeal to the Supreme Court, which will determine whether this president—or his successors until the end of the war on terrorism—can subvert the Bill of Rights to the peril of all of us.

Judge Motz began her dissent—which got only a couple of lines in the brief coverage of the case in scattered media reporting—by stating plainly what the Bush administration has done to scuttle the Bill of Rights:

"For more than a year, a United States citizen, Yaser Esam Hamdi, has been labeled an enemy combatant and held in solitary confinement in a Norfolk, Virginia, naval brig. He has not been charged with a crime, let alone convicted of one. The Executive will not state when, if ever, he will be released. Nor has the Executive allowed Hamdi to appear in court, consult with counsel, or communicate in any way with the outside world."

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0331/hentoff.php

[DagmarK]

1. Thanks for posting this, mourningdove........

This insane abuse of our rights by our alleged govt of, by an for the people just sinks my heart!!!!!!

What do we do? What do we do? What do we do?

As you can tell, I am having a HIGH frustration day.....feeling very panicked and defeated about how we can take our country back. :-(

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. I Know, I Know.......

5 People did so!!!!!! Can you guess which 5????????

[Darranar]

3. Those five in the Supreme Court?

Anyway, there are five others who have made Bush our King aside from those: Karl Rove, Donald Rumsfeld, Pal Wolfowitz, John AshKKKroft, and Dick Cheney.

[JohnKleeb]

4. It wasnt me but I feel like puking now

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: fascism is a sick game.

[HungryLoser]

5. Gere's a few things

that King George III was accused of in the Declaration of Independance, there's so many that sound really familiar, I could list them all

..He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance...

..For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury...

.. For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: ..

..He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation...

and this too:

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.