11.23.05
duck, duck — GOOSED!
let’s just ask the damned question already — how long does it take to determine whether someone is such a threat to these United States, that we have to lock them away for possible the rest of their lives?
i mean, Jose Padilla is finally brought up on charges — but, not the charges that had him locked up for more than three years… huh?
do i have this straight: we locked him up for years because he was such a threat to national security… but now claim we can’t actually charge him with what any of the thngs we detained him for because of — you guessed it — national security???
no, no, NO people!!! you can’t have it both ways… you can’t wave the "enemy combatant" thing in my face as an excuse for turning these United States into Russia circa 1937, then claim that the same reason you might lock me for the rest of my life, is why you can’t tell me why you’ve locked me up?!!
"they hate [us because of] our freedom"… isn’t that the rap? so why is our own government the only entity that has attacked freedom in these United States? i was told, weeks after September 11th, 2001 that if i didn’t go about spending money and living my life as before, then the terrorists would have already won.
but, if "their" goal is to attack and destroy our "freedoms", then it would seem that one of the biggest groups of "enemy combatants" is the bunch of lunatics in Tweedle-D.C. - just consider this here list:
- allegation of torture and abuse
- incarceration without charge, sentence or time limit
- suspension of civil liberties for its own citizens
- federal police force with ever-expanding powers to invade the private lives of said citizens
- the constant spectre of an unspecified enemy to justify otherwise unnacceptable government behavior