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Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo
Ask the Japanese who were held in camps what they feel about giving up democracy and due process.
It doesn't matter whether you think Bush would abuse this power. It is a matter of whether any future President will. He has given the power to any future leader to lock up anyone for any reason. Seriously, how can you call yourself a true conservative and be for big government like this?
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I'd throw in a comment in addition to your post.... What leader of any democracy has the rights to assume the level of power being claimed under the Military Commissions Act?
There is not one democratic country on this planet which passes powers to any leader to remove/amend/warp laws, flippantly change the constitution and give a leader a blank check book to engage, at his or her discretion, in eg removing habeas corpus and defining levels of "legal" torture which may be inflicted on others for whatever reason.
Stemming from the principle of habeas corpus, there are many laws which were passed and based on the foundation of habeas corpus - these laws are obviously now clearly in conflict.
Sadly we now have a rogue nation, a police state, which is in violation of several treaties - and the Geneva Convention. Prior to this day, almost all international on rights-related issues which have be ratified by the US, are not in practice, available for use by US citizens as a method of protection, but hindered by an obstacle course of Federal law. Even now, US children are not afforded the same rights as all children globally (excepting Somalia) under the Convention of the Rights of the Child.
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- Just find it utterly stunning that a nation has had so very little to say for itself in standing up for rights and the Constitution on which the country was founded - but sat back an watched while these rights have been removed from them.