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let's make it official....

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01061.html

Here's one from otherwise sympathetic folks:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/com ... t-opinions

Both discuss the vote which may suspend the right of habeas corpus review for "enemy combatants".
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I thought habeus corpus was a pretty fundamental and basic part of the justice system? Americans are nutty.
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Post by seremtan »

they already undermined it in the UK, but here there's no constitution to violate. they just do it. cunts
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seremtan wrote:they already undermined it in the UK, but here there's no constitution to violate. they just do it. cunts
:p
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Post by Foo »

seremtan wrote:they already undermined it in the UK, but here there's no constitution to violate. they just do it. cunts
There is a constitution in the UK :icon27:

Whether it violates it is a more in-depth question. I would say probably so from my limited understanding of it.
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This is quite serious indeed. I see mrd recognizes that.
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Post by Nightshade »

Clearly, the Senate is acting on a writ of habeus cuntheads.
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Post by bitWISE »

So the war on terror is a legitimate war and as such we can hold people as prisoners of said war. When exactly do we plan on winning this war on terror?
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Post by eepberries »

bitWISE wrote:So the war on terror is a legitimate war and as such we can hold people as prisoners of said war. When exactly do we plan on winning this war on terror?
We are the terror, so the answer is really never
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Post by andyman »

lol by the thread title I thought you were coming out or something
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Post by +JuggerNaut+ »

damn you, MQ
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the title is everything
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Post by +JuggerNaut+ »

and nothing.

i was expecting a pic, since Shaft even posted his.
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Post by bitWISE »

Geico should make that a commercial...

"Dad...I have something to tell you"
*awkward silence*
"I'm gay"
*awkward silence*
"Oh uh...and I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to Geico"
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no expectations, no disappointments
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