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1. groucho February 12th, 2007 4:17 pm

   Thom Hartmann is the most articulate, easy to read and listen to person on the radio today. Thanks for the great analysis on this subject.

   When Thom replace Al Franken in my radio lineup on AirAmerica I was disappointed, I love Al. But Thom really won me over, he is my favorite part of the morning!

2. fpal February 12th, 2007 5:59 pm

   Bush was wrong. The terrorists don’t “hate our freedoms,” Bush does. And Bush taken away the freedom of Americans. The length of time before Americans realize this and change the law will be inversely proportional to length of American supremacy in the world.

3. Gail February 12th, 2007 9:21 pm

   “When Gonzales suggested we have no habeas corpus rights because the Constitution doesn’t grant them, his testimony betrayed a breathtaking ignorance of the history and meaning of the United States Constitution.”

   Was his testimony a betrayal of his ignorance or a betrayal of his patriotic duty to uphold the history and meaning of the U.S. Constitution?

   Is there any doubt that Constitutional experts are debating this possibility as we speak?

4. auspiciousbunny February 12th, 2007 9:43 pm

   This is something of an aside, but Democrats from New Jersey:

   Don’t support Menendez and Lautenberg. Find out what your elected senators are doing behind your back before you vote party line.

   Before the last election Menendez-sponsored signs pasted all over my town read:

   STOP BUSH ELECT MENENDEZ

   Meanwhile Menendez was already doing a bang-up job “stopping” Bush when he put in his “yes” vote to approve the Military Commissions Act of 2006. Way to go, I’m sure the innocent people who are tortured will thank you for that one.

   Launtenberg also voted “yes” to legalize torture, and call folks guilty before proven innocent, etc. Maybe he got some money tossed our way for brick pavers. The sidewalks in Secaucus are looking pretty spiffy. You know, New Jersey’s Democratic Senators seem to have their priorities.

5. GraemeF February 12th, 2007 11:42 pm

   There is one Australian being held at Gitmo and our government refuses to ask for his release because there are no laws here to charge him under.

   David Hicks, a muslim convert who fought in Bosnia, was captured by the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan and then sold to US forces. Hicks had gone there to fight with the Taliban against the Northern Alliance.

   Although most Australians think he was a complete nong for what he did, public opinion has now swung to a majority of people calling for his return to Australia instead of facing dodgy military commissions. He has been held for about 5 years without charge.

   We don’t expect our government to do the right thing and support his right to a fair trial until they fear losing too many votes.

   Australia already has its own version of indefinite detention but ours is for asylum seekers. John Howard’s government has designated large swathes of the Australian coastline as not being Australia for immigration purposes. This allows them to avoid allowing any asylum seeker to gain legal rights under Australian law. The asylum seekers are then transfered to remote island camps and held behind razor wire with no legal recourse. A High Court judement confirmed that the Australian government can keep these people detained indefinitely.

   There are many parallels between US and Aus willingness to remove peoples’ hard won rights.

6. auspiciousbunny February 13th, 2007 10:16 am

   I’m sorry to hear there are simliar things happening in Australia. I recently heard the president of Australia making a pro-Bush statement on the radio here.

   It is really grim, the extent to which the current U.S. administration (and our congress that has not held them in check in the very least) is able to threaten or destroy people’s lives. There has been a policy here of rounding up immigrants in towns in the U.S. and detaining them. According to reports I heard among them are U.S. immigrants who are legal residents but didn’t have IDs on them at the time.

7. Memory_Hole February 13th, 2007 11:18 am

   Sure, call your Congress person. But this has gone WAY too far for that to suffice. Torture-gate, illegal wars of aggression, warrantless surveillance, stolen elections, presidential signing statements…The time has come to organize a GENERAL STRIKE, and demand the commencement of an IMPEACHMENT INVESTIGATION, the immediate cut-off of funding for an illegal war, and trial for War Crimes of the perpetrators of these illegal actions, including the Bush Regime and many members of Congress. These people take an oath to DEFEND the Constitution, not gut it. The ONLY route to bring a rogue president to heel is impeachment. Time to impeach. IMPEACH! Enough talking already!

8. terry February 13th, 2007 12:04 pm

   Yeah Thom always a clear voice in the media battle for our attentions. I’d love the idea of a general strike, and for sure IMPEACHMENT. DO CALL YOUR CONGRESS PERSONS!! They are NOT doing THEIR job until they impeach. Remember they are not leaders. THEY ARE YOUR REPRESENTIVES! Send hand written letters. They are so rare in the age of email I’ve even got a return call.

9. ezeflyer February 13th, 2007 1:15 pm

   Terry, Not to discourage anyone from doing what you suggest, nowadays if you want them to listen, send them money, lots of it and keep sending them more and more. Or switch to the Green Party where you and the people, not bought politicians, are the deciders.

10. Vicki February 13th, 2007 2:05 pm

    Awe! Bullshit! Stop waving the goddamn flag. Uniquely American Human Right my eye! The English had habeus corpus for 600 years before this damn nation even existed. If America had invented it, then maybe an American Usurper has the right to revoke it. No!!!!! It is far more fundamental than that. It is a basic human right, all humans.

11. logrithmic February 13th, 2007 7:59 pm

    I look forward to listening to Thom on Air America. Al never spent much time on civil liberties and the threat posed to them by the Patriot Act, Homeland Security Act, and now The Military Commissions Act. Thanks Thom for this insightful piece!

12. Eric Larsen February 18th, 2007 1:23 pm

    What’s impossible to believe is that Americans have been willing to let it happen–to lose habeas corpus and legalize torture all at once in the War Commissions Act. My book, “A Nation Gone Blind,” explains how it was possible for it to happen–and why still worse could come. I called the Act “insane” at the time it was passed (http://www.ericlarsen.net/foodforthought6.html and http://www.ericlarsen.net/foodforthought9.html), and was ridiculed for it, but now many others, including Bob Herbert, are using the same word.
    If the situation is insane, how do we get repeal of the War Commissions Act?
    Advice?
    Eric Larsen
    http://www.ericlarsen.net

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