McCain/Lieberman Together Again

When these two names appear on legislation proposed in the senate I shiver in anticipation of the horror contained. These two are the dynamic duo of the welfare / warfare state.

There simply is not any question or challenge facing the world today, that cannot be solved with more war, or more federal government, tomorrow. I do not think this an oversimplification of these anti-gentleman’s world view; quite the contrary.

The Patriot Act was not enough of an assault on the Bill of Rights. The Patriot Act has one glaring weakness to these men. It only implicitly is directed at American citizens. McCain and Lieberman in an effort to improve the clarity of our government’s mission wanted to ensure it is crystal clear that we are not going to deny rights to terrorist and foreigners; we will deny the bill of rights to American citizens now.

These two have no co-sponsored S.3081: “Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010”. Full text HERE.

There is nothing more American than secret arrests, without charges, followed by unlimited incarceration in which no one will be notified of your location; of course you do not have the right to anything, let alone an attorney or due process. Yes Joe Six pack, once and for all you will know firsthand if water boarding is torture.

Of course there are requirements in this bill that must be met before you can be treated in such a way:

(1) poses a threat of an attack on civilians or civilian facilities within the U.S. or U.S. facilities abroad;
(2) poses a threat to U.S. military personnel or U.S. military facilities;
(3) potential intelligence value;
(4) is a member of al Qaeda or a terrorist group affiliated with al Qaeda or
(5) such other matters as the President considers appropriate.

There are two of these which are every alarming. “Potential intelligence value” and “such other matters as the President considers appropriate”, are very loose statements and since this will prevent the accused from having any due process, if a mistake is made, well I guess you are just F&^*ed.

At lest we have the highest confidence in our government bureaucracies to avoid mistakes and promptly resolve the few that they make. right?

I think I will vomit now. Please right your senators and ask they not be party to such an assault on our liberty and heritage.