What Congress Must Do To Restore Civil Liberties

    An editorial in the Sunday edition of the New York Times takes a look at some of the things that our Congress needs to tackle in order to undo some of the illegal attacks on the United States citizens civil liberties which the  Bush Department of Constitutional Shredding,Inc. has undertaken over the past six years not just against it's own people, but prisoner's of war also.

   Three of the major tasks to be looked at would be the restoration of Habeas Corpus, stopping the illegal spying on the citizens and actually banning torture, for real this time.      

NYT

Many of the tasks facing Congress involve the way the United States takes prisoners, and how it treats them. There are two sets of prisons in the war on terror. The military runs one set in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay. The other is even more shadowy, run by the C.I.A. at secret places.

Close the C.I.A. Prisons                                                           When the Military Commissions Act passed, Mr. Bush triumphantly announced that he now had the power to keep the secret prisons open. He cast this as a great victory for national security. It was a defeat for America’s image around the world. The prisons should be closed.

Ban Extraordinary Rendition

This is the odious practice of abducting foreign citizens and secretly flying them to countries where everyone knows they will be tortured. It is already illegal to send a prisoner to a country if there is reason to believe he will be tortured. The administration’s claim that it got “diplomatic assurances” that prisoners would not be abused is laughable.

   Maybe after Bush, Cheney, and the rest of the group of fools are indicted they can be subjected to some of the same which they have subjected prisoners to.

   If they want to get Christian about things how about, " An eye for an eye"?

 

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