The Bill of Rights is for sissies!
  Don't you get it?!?

  We are in a new kind of war,
 with threats to our way of life.

 Either we do away with quaint notions
 such as "the fourth amendment"
 and "the eighth amendment",
 or the terrorists will take away our freedoms!


        Now read this story: Holy shit!

    Basically, the FBI coerced an innocent man
 into confessing by threatening his family with
 torture, and let's not forget...
 our government really did kidnap the family,
 so it's not like we can pretend that they were
 just bluffing.

    Eventually the man's innocence became clear
 and an appeals court ruled in his favor, but
 the opinion was swiftly pulled off the web.
 Then up came a new version:

    The court simply omitted from the revised
 decision facts about how the FBI agent extracted
 the false confession from Higazy. For some
 reason, this information is classified.

    Just as the opinion gets interesting,
 when we are about to learn howan FBI agent
 named Templeton squeezed the "truth" out of
 Higazy, the opinion reads: "This opinion has
 been redacted because portions of the record
 are under seal. For the purposes of the summary
 judgment motion, Templeton did not contest that
 Higazy's statements were coerced."

    The new rule of law --
 even when you get caught and exposed,
 you can use the cover of national security
 secrets to keep the facts obscured.

 Welcome to America.


     I must say that we live
   in very peculiar times...
   and it wont stop either


    The U.S. and its allies had the
 luxury of being the victors after WWII
 and imposing the Nuremburg trials on
 Nazi criminals. Who does the world
 turn to to mete out justice when the
 criminals are in charge of the mightiest
 military on the planet?

    Who hangs Bush and Cheney for their genocides,
 their torture, their waging of preemptive wars?
 Who calls bullshit when Bush declares himself
 not bound by domestic laws, declares his actions
 not subject to the Geneva Convention?

   Bush can effectively do whatever he wants
 and he's immune to any punishment.

    In other societies, in other times
 such defiance of laws and their consequences
 led more disgruntled factions to exercise
 extra judicial measures when dealing with such despots.