[lbo-talk] King George can jail any of us

[Eubulides]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 9:46 AM
Subject: [lbo-talk] King George can jail any of us


> Village Voice - July 25, 2003
>
> <http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0331/hentoff.php>
>
> Who Made George W. Bush Our King? He Can Designate Any of Us an Enemy
Combatant
> Nat Hentoff

[snip]


> Some of the most glorious illuminations of the Bill of Rights in
> American history have been contained in Supreme Court dissents by,
> among others, Louis Brandeis, William Brennan, Hugo Black, and
> Thurgood Marshall. Equal to those was the stinging dissent by judge
> Diana Gribbon Motz when the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (8 to 4)
> gave George W. Bush a fearsome power - that can be found nowhere in
> the Constitution - the sole authority to imprison an American citizen
> indefinitely without charges or access to a lawyer.
>

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The vote on this wrecks any anger management strategy I thought would work
for the next 18 months.......

Ian