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Well at least I can still keep the army out of my house…for now
Last week, I ranted a bit about the Military Commissions Act of 2006. Well Keith Olbermann took a swing at it last night on his daily “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” specifically focusing on its slaughter of habeas corpus. He notes Bush’s oath to uphold the Constitution, pointing out that when Bush gets around to actually signing this legislation, it may kinda’ go against that oath, what with the Constitution including a little statement that “the privilege of the writ of habeaus corpus shall not be suspended unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.” Olbermann then goes on to show how the elimination of this bill and its nixing of habeas corpus can be seen as killing all but one of rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights, leaving us with a Bill of Right. For example:
Ok, No. 1 is gone. I mean, if you’re detained without trial, you lose your freedom of religion and speech, press, assembly, all the rest of that. So, you don’t need that any more.
You can read the trasnscript and/or watch the video here on Keith’s site.
