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Oct. 18th, 2006 01:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsycheNext year, I predict, will be a dark year for our country.
Newspapers have been reporting that Bush and Rove are upbeat about the upcoming elections, not even planning for if they lose.
The polls, as they stand now, indicate that the House is lost for Republicans and the Senate, while a stretch, could be taken. Imagine this scenario: On November 7, the exit polls all indicate a sweep for Democrats, but the official results have Republicans still in power.
Those who contest the results may be designated unlawful enemy combatants and whisked away to the prisons the government has been building in the West that now stand empty but can house up to 300,000 people (last I heard).
What happens then?
This is all a figment of my imagination. We still have three weeks before the midterm elections. But the President now has the power--the legal authority--to designate anyone as an "unlawful enemy combatant" and set up tribunals of his own making for the trials. Habeas corpus is eliminated for these people.
What happens then?
I almost certainly will be among the disappeared in the coming years. I have been a lifelong Democrat, have consistently criticized the government, and am a student of American culture. My name was recently printed in Ms. Magazine regarding abortion. I already have an FBI file with fingerprints. I've signed countless petitions in the last six years protesting various laws and rules that the government has put in place. I've protested the war by walking in peace marches. I have deep-rooted liberal beliefs and a high regard for the Constitution. I've been a member of the ACLU.
It's only a matter of time before the New Inquisition begins.
Raw Story obtains CENTCOM email to bloggers
Newspapers have been reporting that Bush and Rove are upbeat about the upcoming elections, not even planning for if they lose.
The polls, as they stand now, indicate that the House is lost for Republicans and the Senate, while a stretch, could be taken. Imagine this scenario: On November 7, the exit polls all indicate a sweep for Democrats, but the official results have Republicans still in power.
Those who contest the results may be designated unlawful enemy combatants and whisked away to the prisons the government has been building in the West that now stand empty but can house up to 300,000 people (last I heard).
What happens then?
This is all a figment of my imagination. We still have three weeks before the midterm elections. But the President now has the power--the legal authority--to designate anyone as an "unlawful enemy combatant" and set up tribunals of his own making for the trials. Habeas corpus is eliminated for these people.
What happens then?
I almost certainly will be among the disappeared in the coming years. I have been a lifelong Democrat, have consistently criticized the government, and am a student of American culture. My name was recently printed in Ms. Magazine regarding abortion. I already have an FBI file with fingerprints. I've signed countless petitions in the last six years protesting various laws and rules that the government has put in place. I've protested the war by walking in peace marches. I have deep-rooted liberal beliefs and a high regard for the Constitution. I've been a member of the ACLU.
It's only a matter of time before the New Inquisition begins.
Raw Story obtains CENTCOM email to bloggers