How do I put this in words as clearly as possible. If the U.S. government decides, for reasons of its own, that you are an “illegal enemy combatant,” i.e. that you are someone who
“has engaged in hostilities or who has purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States,”
they can detain you without charges indefinitely, granting you no legal recourse except to a military tribunal, and, under the proposed bill, “disappear” and torture you. This is not just restricted to aliens or foreigners, but applies to U.S. citizens as well. It can happen anywhere in the U.S. at any time. We are all at potential risk.
Apparently several members of the Republican leadership knew there was a man interested sexually in boys in their midst and they kept quiet about it.… Here is the question I want answered: is the Republican leadership so focused on holding on to power, to keeping their majority in the congress, that they were willing to keep quiet probable pedophilia?
With little public attention or even notice, the House of Representatives has passed a bill that undermines enforcement of the First Amendment’s separation of church and state. The Public Expression of Religion Act – H.R. 2679 – provides that attorneys who successfully challenge government actions as violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment shall not be entitled to recover attorneys fees. The bill has only one purpose: to prevent suits challenging unconstitutional government actions advancing religion.
I should no longer be surprised. It’s time to vote those rascals out…and vote these far better rascals in.