So President Obama signed a defense authorization bill that included brand new abridgments for the First, Fourth, Fifth and Eighth Amendments (invalidating 40% of the Bill of rights at once! - impressive). The new LAW requires that anyone accused of terrorism be held at a military base without access to public counsel, without access to a legal or civil court and with all investigations to be done exclusively by the military.
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This LAW was opposed by the Judicial Department, the CIA, the FBI and the Military. It was threatened to be veto'ed by President Obama - who (of course) did no such thing.
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President Obama threatening to Veto a bill is like me threatening to have sex with Jeremy Renner - a fine idea until you think about it - then absurd in the abstract and impossible in reality.
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This bill was the brain child of John McCain (who never misses an opportunity to turn the United States into a branch of the military) and some idiot Democrat from Michigan. The New York Times, in an otherwise spot-on editorial, blames this on Republicans - but it took both idiot parties to pass this travesty of our Constitution.
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Oh this law will expired when the War on Terror is over. I am guessing that will happen right after the War on Drugs and the War on Common Sense (we have apparently capitulated on the War on Poverty).
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PS - Why a picture of Jeremy Renner you ask? Because otherwise the bleakness of this post might collapse it into a black hole. I didn't blog about this yesterday because I didn't want to screw up my mood. I am trying to get it out of the way right now.