The newspapers call him “Moderate Republican Scott Brown”. To “moderate” is to deflect the impact of excessive force. To “moderate” is to keep the exercise of power within a set of limits. A “moderate” is someone who stands in the way of extreme action. S. 3081 is a bill put forward with formal support by [...]
Many Democrats currently in Congress capitulated to George W. Bush back in 2006 and voted in favor of the Military Commissions Act. It seems that many of these Democrats are too ashamed of their own moral weakness to work to undo their past mistakes.
Torture, arbitrary imprisonment, government spying and searches without warrants can still take place – and the Democrats in Congress don’t appear to be interested in doing anything about it.
It’s plainly stupid for the American government to play hardball with people who have been mistakenly imprisoned – people who never had anything to do with terrorism in the first place. Restoring the right to habeas corpus helps our government to finally get smart, and start focusing its efforts on suspects who actually have some likelihood of being connected to terrorist conspiracies.
In spite of rumors to the contrary, it is clear that Democrat Michael Arcuri continues his support for George W. Bush and the Republican Party on the Military Commissions Act. This bizarre stand may cost Mike Arcuri his victory over Ray Meier in New York’s 24th congressional district this year.
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