Can't Dismantle 217 Years of Contstitutional Government Fast Enough

Before the ink was dry on Bush's signature the DOJ rushed over to rub the torture bill in the Judiciary's face. Habeas who?

Moving quickly to implement the bill signed by President Bush this week that authorizes military trials of enemy combatants, the administration has formally notified the U.S. District Court here that it no longer has jurisdiction to consider hundreds of habeas corpus petitions filed by inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.

How long before this is used on a US citizen?

Beyond those already imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay or elsewhere, the law applies
to all non-U.S. citizens, including permanent U.S. residents.

I think that sentence is a little to certain - the bill does leave the door open for US citizens to be classified as enemy combatants, and thus, to fall under this statute.

And even if you aren't a US citizen, certain basic human rights are guaranteed. That's what a "society of laws" means. Yes, there are some very bad people down at Gitmo, but that doesn't justify the US government's abandonment of moral and legal principal.

We don't have to piss our pants just because these very bad people want to attack us and kill a lot of people - we don't need to suspend or repeal the Constitution to protect this nation. Anyone who thinks this is a coward and a fascist. They are probably also a republican.