We can recall particular days in the past six years that etch themselves into our collective mind. Of course there is September 11, 2001, and there is March 20, 2003 the start of the Iraq War.
But it is September 28, 2006 that will go down as the nail in the coffin of American Democracy. Please read the article and research its implications:
Senate approves new presidential powers which strip rights guaranteed under the US Constitution
The right of Habeus Corpus is now effectively stripped from non-citizens deemed suspect in the war on terror. Non-citizens who have lived in the US for years, as well. Also the president may now hold any suspect, citizen or not, indefinitely in prison, and torture the suspect. The president has assumed the powers of a dictator.
Wake up call folks. We are in big trouble, big big trouble. Do not gloss over this one, read about the implications.
Artwork by Faith Ringgold
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