Senate Bill #3930

They legalized torture. They have legalized torture! THEY’VE LEGALIZED ELECTRODES TO YOUR FREAKEN NIPPLES TORTURE!!!
Think the Patriot times 22,000. The Military Commissions Act of 2006 (if your pre-law and want to get all technical and stuff; Pub. L. No. 109-366, 120 Stat. 2600 (Oct. 17, 2006), enacting Chapter 47A of title 10 of the United States Code) whose official purpose is to quote, “facilitate bringing to justice terrorists and other unlawful enemy combatants through full and fair trials by military commissions, and for other purposes,” be fearful of the “other purposes” part. Cutting through the needlessly esoteric criminal justice jargon, what the laws does is give the military the right to take any “alien unlawful enemy combatant” (a term that is not adequately defined in the act) permanently detain them, torture them, suspend their right to habeas corpus, then try them in front of a “competent tribunal” whatever the hell that means, then executed in that order. You can’t even bring up the fact you were tortured during trial, meaning any confessions obtained during, say, the removal of your fingernails, are good and valid.
The act is unprecedented in United States history, going over section 810, 831, and 832 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the recently won Supreme Court decision on Hamden vs. Rumsfeld, and the four Geneva Conventions to name a few. All of which have the general theme of giving enemies in time of conflict fair and humane treatment during detention and trial.
If it’s not bad enough that this abuse can be against foreigners, due the purposely hazy wording, it is possible for any American citizen to be declared an “unlawful enemy combatant”. Just for writing this article, tomorrow some D.C. douches can abduct me, shove some barbed wire down my urethra until I confess to being a terrorist (won’t take too long, I have a low threshold for pain), indefinitely hold me, try me with no right to see the evidence against me, then execute me without running into any legal friction. This has already happened with a guy Jose Padilla, the difference is he’s not dead yet, and they didn’t use barbed wire.
Proponents of the act like G-Bush (pansy) are spewing the same tired tripe we’ve be hearing for six years. “We have the protect the motherland from the infidels ... yadda yadda yadda … they weren’t born in America so they’re evil … dadada … something about how they hate freedom .. maybe a little racism thrown in for good measure,” we’ve heard the rants enough times for them to become clichés. Personally I’m a hell of a lot more scared of a super power gone mad with infinite tools of death-construction then some angry yokels who’d lose all their support anyway if we left them alone. Civil Liberty vs. Homeland Security, they’re two contradictory ideas, and I’d rather be free then safe any day of the week.