Olbermann: The Day Habeas Corpus Died

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Uploaded by on Oct 19, 2006

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 without a chance to prove their innocence in a court of law. In other words, every thing the Founding Fathers fought the British empire to free themselves of was reversed and nullified with the stroke of a pen, all under the guise of the War on Terror.

via crooksandliars.com

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  • The land of the free

  • MR.Olbermann really needs to be a politician representing us in Washington. He is unbiassed, and honest.I just hope that "they" don't use the new law to eventually shut him up.I have so much respect for him.

  • Since when did the British empire not have trial by jury we gave the very concept to the world

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