“Terrorists” can now be held by the US Government without reason, trial or representation… indefinitely… and tortured. Here’s the kicker though, the President gets to define what a ‘terrorist’ is.
President Bush this morning proudly signed into law a bill that critics consider one of the most un-American in the nation’s long history.
The new law vaguely bans torture — but makes the administration the arbiter of what is torture and what isn’t. It allows the president to imprison indefinitely anyone he decides falls under a wide-ranging new definition of unlawful combatant. It suspends the Great Writ of habeas corpus for detainees. It allows coerced testimony at trial. It immunizes retroactively interrogators who may have engaged in torture.
The Stephen Colbert-Ann Coulter Challenge: See if you can tell the difference between comments made by Colbert and Coulter.
1. “Even Islamic terrorists don’t hate America like liberals do. They don’t have the energy. If they had that much energy, they’d have indoor plumbing by now.”
2. “There’s nothing wrong with being gay. I have plenty of friends who are going to hell.”
3. “I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.”
4. “Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity, as opposed to other religions whose tenets are more along the lines of ‘Kill everyone who doesn’t smell bad and answer to the name Muhammad.’”
5. “I believe that everyone has the right to their own religion, be you Hindu, Muslim, or Jewish. I believe there are infinite paths to accepting Jesus Christ as your personal savior.”
6. “[North Korea] is a major threat. I just think it would be fun to nuke them and have it be a warning to the rest of the world.”
7. “Isn’t an agnostic just an atheist without balls?”
Jack Cafferty asks, “What are we becomming?” A provision of the war crimes bill that just passed the house and is about to pass the senate will pardon Bush and his administration from being prosecuted for potential war crimes commited since September 11, 2001. Does this bother you at all?
The fact that a pedophile congressman became the leader of the committee that protects missing and exploited children is weird and wrong. The fact that they get religious conservatives to turn up and vote with emotional pro-family and anti-gay ‘issues’ while their ranks include so many spinsters, bachelors, and closeted gays is also creepy. The fact that they preach ‘family values’ while they visit paid sex workers also suggests a hypocrisy that just might involve flawed character.
link (I make no claims about the authenticity of the content at the other end of this link, just that it’s an interesting theory that brings all the puzzle peices together nicely)