A Rare Occasion

[forsyth]

Tonight is one of the nights I wish I drank. Because then I could go drink myself into a stupor and not deal with the shit our country's become.

Comments

[kabbalist-mzdm.livejournal.com]

I'm behind on current events again. What'd we do now?

[kabbalist-mzdm.livejournal.com]

Wait...I think I just realized what you're talking about. It's that interrogation bill, isn't it? Yeah, things are getting scary.

[forsythferret.livejournal.com]

"getting"?

[surlyben.livejournal.com]

I console myself with the thought that while the bill passed, there is still a chance that it will be struck down by the Supremes. Yes, the bill removes judicial oversight, but it doesn't remove judicial oversite over whether judicial oversight can be removed, and that fight will go straight to the Supreme court in only two or three years. Sadly, that's no help for the people being tortured while in unlawful combatant limbo right now.

Also, there is a chance it could get repealed, eventually. (They got rid of the Alien and Sedition acts eventually, although not soon enough...)

[surlyben.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I meant the Sedition Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition_Act_of_1918) of 1918, not the Alien and Sedition Acts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_sedition_acts) of 1798. Although there are some remarkable similarities between both and the current adiminstration's agenda. It gives me hope, seeing as how both sedition acts are now pretty much universally reviled.