Now That You Could be Labeled an Enemy Combatant

[Robert]

Originally Posted by GT40FIED

It's nice to know I'm not the only one horrified by this. Of all the conventions to renig on I'm not sure the Geneva convention is one we want to back out of. This new law gives the president the right to interpret the rules of the Geneva convention how he sees fit which essentially means "torture away". He's only banned from mutilation, rape, and murder. Nevermind that torture is notorious for providing little to know useable intelligence. But hey...I'm sure there's a difference between regular torture and freedom torture. I miss my constitutional rights.

You know...I used to laugh when I'd read shit where people talked about America becoming a police state. Now it's not so funny. We seem to keep inching closer and closer.

I have come to realize that the media often predicts future events unfolding. I believe this is in an effort to accomlish the above. When I watch V for vendeta I just watched in horror. I too suspect the US gov't is heading in that direction.

What I particularly found interesting was the second article on disarming citizens.

Steve - we can agree on something, gov't has to change, military powers have to change adn they way large US corps must change as well.