Suspending the Constitution,
one defendant at a time: a United States citizen has been placed in a military prison on the orders of President Bush, who declared him an “enemy combatant.”
Watch the magician’s hands carefully: simply declare that the rules of war apply, and presto! the rights of the accused can be made to vanish into thin air. This is ironic in the extreme, given the fact that the rules of war apparently do NOT apply to those enemy combatants who bore arms against the U.S. in Afghanistan. It’s also a bit shocking, or should be shocking, coming as it does from someone who swore at his unfortunate inauguration to uphold the Constitution of the United States.
Remember what Bush said after September 11? “America was targeted for attack because we’re the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world,” he said. His true agenda, which was clear already on September 11, is to drastically curtail our freedom, exactly as he accuses the permanent terrorist enemy of doing.