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Today, I wear black

You know, normally, I leave my political leanings out of things here. Obviously, I'm one of those crazy progressive types, which I like to think is part of why I don't feel the need to wear hair shirts and punish myself for my wild ways.

Every once in a while, though, there's something so horrifying that I can't not say anything about it here, and today, I'm afraid I can't talk about sex because I'm too busy being depressed and nauseated by the "detainee bill" that's currently moving through the US Senate. Everything about this bill turns my stomach, and, more, scares me from my head to my toes about the direction that the US is headed.

"This is wrong. It is unconstitutional. It is un-American," said Patrick Leahy (VT). I could go on for pages about the horror of this, but I won't. If you haven't heard about it, read up on it. And then call your senators. You can reach them through the capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121

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From a post in my Livejournal Community, LJDemocrats...

“BURIED IN THE complex Senate compromise on detainee treatment is a real shocker, reaching far beyond the legal struggles about foreign terrorist suspects in the Guantanamo Bay fortress. The compromise legislation, which is racing toward the White House, authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights. . . .

“. . . What is worse, if the federal courts support the president's initial detention decision, ordinary Americans would be required to defend themselves before a military tribunal without the constitutional guarantees provided in criminal trials.�

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ackerman28sep28,0,619852.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail

Ever since Bush started the war in Iraq, I've been ashamed to be an American.

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