Bush Grants himself Immunity!!

We live in a truly amazing country, where men can pass laws that retro-actively grant them immunity for the crimes that they have been committing. Not just petty crimes either, but ones written out by international law makers.

That’s what happened last week when the house passed a bill that made it legal for the president to detain U.S. citizens illegally. Wait, what am I saying, cuz it is totally legal now… Recently the supreme court made a ruling that would specifically make political prisoner who were charged with being al-Qaeda or Taliban, to be treated fairly under the War Crimes Act of 1996 (ie. torture free). The bill that Bush passed last week will make it lawful to detain not only those charged as above, but any american citizen who is believed to be consorting with, or supporting terrorism. I don’t think I made that very clear. It is now legal to arrest anyone in the united states that either dissents against the war in Iraq, makes any supportive statement of any middle-eastern “terrorist” group, or speaks against the presidents actions. And the place for these detainees? Not Canon City Prison, or Joliet or any american prison. You can be sent to either Guantanamo, or a number of foreign CIA detention centers, WITH OUT ANY DUE PROCESS, TRIAL BY YOUR PEERS, OR EVEN A SIMPLE CHARGING. Your family will never hear about your arrest (unless you happen to be lucky enough to be released), and you will never be able to bring charges against your captives.

A lot of people are supposing that the passage of this bill, which if I didn’t mention was retroactive all the way back to 9/11, is in response to fear that all of the torture that has happened in dark prison cells would eventually bite ol’ George W in the ass. Especially with the cited supreme court ruling, it would have. Now Georgie and his croonies have their out, and they can’t be charged with some of the brutal treatment they have evoked on the people of this planet who opposed them.

I learned about this, it’s called Fascism. And not the old school fascism that existed in this country for the last few decades, but legal/constitutional fascism. While white Americans today have never had to deal with an in-your face police state (I argue that many black inner city citizens, and especially arab-americans in post-9/11 america have definitely had to deal with a police-state), this is a reality that many will be aware of in the next few years. Blogs that I have written, including this one, under the new bill would categorize me and an “Enemy Non-Combatant”. Legally the government could haul me off to a CIA detention center and torture me about my ties to Iraq. None of you would ever hear about it, and it would appear that I just left (which wouldn’t be a surprise for many of you). This is the reality in america now.

Please read up and see for yourself. You can search the google engine, simply entering: Bush Immunity.

Powerful video exploring illegal detention:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14989.htm

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9779
http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/torture_bill_gives_bush_retroactive_war_crimes_immunity.htm
http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=4273