Must we always pander?
As the Senate prepares to sell out much of what this country stands for – not for a little security, but for a big campaign issue – Democrats stew. We can’t decide who we’re angrier at, the Republicans for doing it, or the Democrats for letting them do it so easily. And we have plenty to be angry (and frightened) about.
This from as Op-Ed in the LA Times:
BURIED IN THE complex Senate compromise on detainee treatment is a real shocker, reaching far beyond the legal struggles about foreign terrorist suspects in the Guantanamo Bay fortress. The compromise legislation, which is racing toward the White House, authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights.
This dangerous compromise not only authorizes the president to seize and hold terrorists who have fought against our troops “during an armed conflict,” it also allows him to seize anybody who has “purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States.” This grants the president enormous power over citizens and legal residents. They can be designated as enemy combatants if they have contributed money to a Middle Eastern charity, and they can be held indefinitely in a military prison.
The New York Times, in an excellent editorial decrying this outrage, is actually kinder to congressional Democrats than many rank and file Democrats are inclined to be.
We don’t blame the Democrats for being frightened. The Republicans have made it clear that they’ll use any opportunity to brand anyone who votes against this bill as a terrorist enabler. But Americans of the future won’t remember the pragmatic arguments for caving in to the administration.
They’ll know that in 2006, Congress passed a tyrannical law that will be ranked with the low points in American democracy, our generation’s version of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
Alright, so congressional Democrats are justifiably scared, but does the response to political danger always have to be pandering and surrender? How about fighting like hell for our national values instead?
Why not — finally — counterattack full force on the real issue of how Bush and the Republicans have politicized the war against terror? For an administration immersed in disgrace, surely this is one of the worst examples. They took a nation united in common purpose following the Sept. 11 attacks and deliberately split it apart for political gain. I think many people see this, even know it intuitively. And it’s the worst sort of ugliness. It’s time to call them on it in a big way.
And it’s time to stop running away.
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September 28th, 2006 at 3:00 pm
800 years of magna carta down the tube? I want Thomas Paine back!
REBEL! I SAY!
“These are the times which try men’s souls.” “…for though the flame of liberty may sometimes ceease to shine, the coal can never expire.”
REBEL! REBELL! REBEL!
September 29th, 2006 at 2:41 pm
Just think. Writing this post can now get me put into an orange suit and shipped off to one of the Bush/Cheney torture chambers. (My guess is that they might have a few of them hidden in Kansas, Texas, or Brooklyn.)
Rebellion is something they’re ready for and the streets being lined with dead bodies won’t get any media coverage from what we still ignorantly refer to as “the media.”
There are no shortage of villians in our government. But to me, the most vile are the Democratic senators who voted for the oppression that now hovers over all of us. And it’s a lot easier to put in place than it is to remove.
I don’t believe in hell, but if such a place actually exists, I want the job of stoking the fire beneath the Democrats who sold their souls and voted for the darkness that has descended upon us.
September 30th, 2006 at 9:02 am
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INDICTMENT-*
INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL
Part III
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