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Old 10-18-2006, 11:59 PM  
pocketkangaroo
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Originally Posted by Webby View Post
Kinda stunned that the removal of habeus corpus actually happened with the introduction of.. forget the name, the Military Commissions Act? For a nation which is supposed to be an example of democracy - this is some serious shit.

Dumping all politics (they went out the window years back) - the sooner this current regime is removed from office, the better.
The problem is that this can go beyond Bush. The next President can do this now, followed by the next. Once you stricken it, it's done. Government doesn't like to give rights back to their citizens after taking them.
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