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No Immunity for Torture, No Legal Whitewash

No Immunity for Torture, No Legal Whitewash

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So this is the new America. President Bush has now defended the cruel and humiliating treatment of detainees on national television. Instead of accepting constitutional role of the judgment of the Supreme Court, he has proposed legislation that would retroactively legalize the sham military commissions that the Supreme Court has repudiated. Bush wants legislation passed that would grant immunity from prosecution to administration officials who sanctioned (and possibly encouraged, codified, ordered) the use of torture and other cruel, inhuman and…

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No Immunity for Unconstitutional Spying – Take Action

No Immunity for Unconstitutional Spying – Take Action

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The idea that the rule of law – and even the Constitution itself – threatens our safety has been used to justify repeated attacks on civil liberties and the principle of checks and balances since 2001. And now Congress is about to consider new legislation that would further bloat the power of the executive branch by removing crucial judicial and congressional oversight. Legalizing the President’s warrantless domestic surveillance is not what the Founding Fathers meant by ‘checks and balances.’ I…

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Swift-Boating Clinton on 9/11 is Scummy

Swift-Boating Clinton on 9/11 is Scummy

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Tell ABC: 9/11 Lies and Propaganda are Unacceptable! Blame Clinton, let Bush off the hook? Anyone who has done the least bit of research into what happened on 9/11 should know better. See Clinton, 9/11 and the Facts, and it’s not only Democrats who are objecting to this thing. Follow the money… Who bankrolled the $40 million for the show? Comment if you know. Max Blumental’s article suggests some possibilities: “The Path to 9/11” is produced and promoted by a…

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Labor Day

Labor Day

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Have a good Labor Day, America! Labor Day is meant to celebrate the contributions of the working class. The labor unions promoted it as a testament to the cause of worker’s rights. I don’t expect to see much on the origins of the holiday in America’s media this year. In 1898, Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor, called it “the day for which the toilers in past centuries looked forward, when their rights and their wrongs would…

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No CoverYerA Pro-Torture Legislation

No CoverYerA Pro-Torture Legislation

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Ignoring the Supreme Court, the advice of top military lawyers, our nation’s laws, and the domestic and worldwide outcry against torture, the Bush Administration is aggressively fighting for the legal right to abuse detainees in U.S. custody. This administration is currently polishing up an amendment to the War Crimes Act (Section 2441 of title 18 US Code) that would legally permit abusive interrogations. This would further undermine Common Article 3 in the Geneva Conventions, and try to evade the recent…

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Freedom Religion Liberty

Freedom Religion Liberty

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That’s how I like to see it – religion flanked on either side by freedom and liberty. Liberty of religious belief and expression, freedom of religion from government intervention and freedom of government from religious intervention. Freedom of thought, freedom of mind, freedom of belief. When I was a kid, it was very common for us to say, “It’s a free country. You can’t tell me what to do.” We used it in a wide range of situations, some of…

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