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poetic justice .....

‘And there, of course, was the same old problem. To protect the British people - and the American people - from "Islamic terror", we must have lots and lots of heavily armed policemen and soldiers and plainclothes police and endless departments of anti-terrorism, homeland security and other more sordid folk like the American torturers - some of them sadistic women - at Abu Ghraib and Baghram and Guantanamo.

Yet the only way to protect ourselves from the real violence that may - and probably will - be visited upon us, is to deal, morally, with courage and with justice, with the tragedy of Lebanon and "Palestine" and Iraq and Afghanistan.

And this we will not do.’

If You Want The Roots Of Terror, Try Here

US President violated First and Fourth


from the New York Times

Federal Judge Orders End to Warrantless Wiretapping
By DAVID STOUT
Published: August 17, 2006
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 — A federal judge in Detroit ruled today that the Bush administration’s eavesdropping program is [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/17/washington/17cnd-nsa.html?hp&ex=1155873600&en=a6f8950517248da0&ei=5094&partner=homepage|illegal and unconstitutional], and she ordered that it cease at once.District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor found that President Bush exceeded his proper authority and that the eavesdropping without warrants violated the First and Fourth Amendment protections of free speech and privacy.

“It was never the intent of the Framers to give the president such unfettered control, particularly where his actions blatantly disregard the parameters clearly enumerated in the Bill of Rights,” she wrote, in a decision that the White House and Justice Department said they would fight to overturn. A hearing will be held before Judge Taylor on Sept. 7, and her decision will not be enforced in the meantime pending the government’s appeal.

Read more at the NYT

the rule of law .....

Gee, thanks Judge Diggs .....

How about locking up some offenders for a change?

America's prisons are bulging at the seams with felons of all description, except crooked suits, intelligence agents & politicians, who treat the law & the US Consitution with contempt but who also seem immune to prosecution.

Whilst the bushit administration says it will "fight to overturn" the good judge's ruling, we all know that they'll just ignore it, just like they ignore every other domestic & international law that doesn't suit their purposes .....