{"id":183,"date":"2006-09-29T10:21:53","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T15:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/29\/happy-dictatorship-day\/"},"modified":"2006-09-29T10:21:53","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T15:21:53","slug":"happy-dictatorship-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/29\/happy-dictatorship-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Dictatorship Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prize for the headline of the year goes to today\u2019s <em>Washington Post<\/em> for the following gem:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/09\/28\/AR2006092801763_pf.html\">Many Rights in U.S. Legal System Absent in New Bill<\/a><\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Post article on the military tribunal bill the Senates passed yesterday\u00a0 details some of the legal and procedural rights that people seized as \u201cenemy combatants\u201d will not possess.\u00a0 (Amnesty International has a good summary of the bill <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.amnesty.org\/library\/index\/ENGAMR511542006\">here<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Post<\/em> article gives the impression that only aliens have to fear being treated\u00a0 slightly better than East Bloc dissidents. But as a superb piece in yesterday\u2019s<em> Los Angeles Times<\/em> by law professor Bruce Ackerman noted, the legislation \u201cauthorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When I clicked on the \u201cprint\u201d version of the \u201cabsent rights\u201d article, the page on the <em>Washington Post<\/em> website included a hefty ad:\u00a0 \u201cHelping to Deliver Air Dominance for the U.S. &#8211; the Lockheed Martin &#8211; Boeing &#8211; Pratt Whitney &#8211; F-22 Raptor.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Who the hell needs civil liberties when we have \u201cair dominance\u201d?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prize for the headline of the year goes to today\u2019s Washington Post for the following gem: \u201cMany Rights in U.S. Legal System Absent in New Bill\u201d The Post article on the military tribunal bill the Senates passed yesterday\u00a0 details some of the legal and procedural rights that people seized as \u201cenemy combatants\u201d will not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[659,22,6,10,32,658,7,656,12],"class_list":{"0":"post-183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"tag-attention-deficit-democracy","8":"tag-bovard","9":"tag-bush","10":"tag-bush-betrayal","11":"tag-congress","12":"tag-dictatorship","14":"tag-torture"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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