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Monday, June 28, 2004 |
CSMonitor: "President Bush acted beyond his constitutional authority as commander in chief when he ordered the indefinite detention of 'enemy combatants' seized on a foreign battlefield without giving them access to US courts."
Salon: "The Supreme Court's first review of the Bush administration's handling of the war on terrorism may force a fundamental reordering of constitutional priorities, especially in the way the government may deal with individuals caught up in that war. Amid all the writing by the Justices in today's three historic rulings, no sentence stands out as vividly as this one, 'A state of war is not a blank check for the President when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens'."
9:42:07 PM 
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Belfast Telegraph: "In a bid to blunt the impact of worsening violence, the US-led coalition suddenly handed over power to the interim Iraqi administration this morning - two days earlier than planned."
It looks like the Bush administration repeatedly takes its inspiration from the bible. 'Like a thief in the night' they make their decisions, break down the Bill of Rights (and the American Republic with it) and pass their laws.
"The Bush administration did not like the protections contained in the House bill [the first version of the PATRIOT Act] and, with the speaker of the house, worked through the night to strip it of all the civil rights protections the House Committees had voted for. It was finally submitted at 3:45 a.m. When Congress showed up a few hours later to vote on it, they thought they were voting on the language agreed to the previous day. Instead, they voted on the bill whose few protections were gutted by Attorney General John Ashcroft the night before. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, few members of Congress actually read the final version of the act. It was perhaps the most reckless and irresponsible action our Congress has ever taken."
(From Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore.)
Mother Jones: "The House of Representatives has had lots of reasons to keep its work out of the public eye this session. On the one hand, it's been 'spending money like a drunken sailor' (to quote John McCain); on the other, it's been slashing vital programs, including veterans' benefits and future Head Start funding. Who wants to see any of that in the morning papers? So it should come as little surprise that members of Congress have been working overtime - long past reporters' deadlines and under cover of darkness - to pass some of their most controversial bills."
2:57:33 PM
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TheNation: "A court ruling slams the Bush Administration for rewriting regulations to favor media corporations. The FCC must protect - not undermine - the public interest, the court says."
12:38:41 PM
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ICH: "In the Spring of 1941, as Nazi Germany was preparing to invade the Soviet Union, Adolf Hitler issued an infamous edict which has become known as the 'Commissar Order', to govern the conduct of German armed forces on the Eastern Front. This order provides a largely-unnoticed precedent for the 'legal' rationalizations found in a number of hitherto-secret Bush Administration legal memoranda, which have recently come to light."
Recently the Bush propaganda has been linking the image of Hitler to the democratic candidate Kerry. All evidence points to Bush as far as nazi-ideology is concerned (his family history as well as his mad politics).
11:20:39 AM
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© Copyright 2008 Hetty Litjens.
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