Olbermann: The Day Habeas Corpus Died »

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Today, 135 years to the day after the last American President (Ulysses S. Grant) suspended habeas corpus, President Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006. At its worst, the legislation allows President Bush or Donald Rumsfeld to declare anyone - US citizen or not - an enemy combatant, lock them up and throw away the key.

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FightWarNotWars1
Nov. 29, 2006, 4:16 a.m.
Has this "throat slicing act on peoples freedom" (dramatized little) been overlooked by everyome. Does not a single person understand what this suspension could lead to in the future. Goodbye (so called) democracy, seems were about a fascist country.