shame on you senator...

shortly after voting to finally condemn torture by american operatives, soldiers and anyone else acting on behest of the american government the senate has reversed course in one of the more shocking (to me anyhow) moves in awhile. by a slim majority the senate approved an amendment to a spending bill which will take away the right of prisoners at gitmo to challenge their detention through writ of habeus corpus.

as good old senator graham put it "It is not fair to our troops fighting in the war on terror to be sued in every court in the land by our enemies based on every possible complaint." god forbid the united states of america, the land of the free lest we forget, allow people deprived of their most sacred rights of liberty and the pursuit of happiness (not to mention property and possibly life) to ask their captures to simply justify their captivity to an impartial member of the judiciary. i propose it is not fair for our troops fighting terror to be risking their lives for yet another stain on this country, and yet another step from the ideals we claim to hold so dear.

49 senators voted for this provision...shame on them.

it's a long way down...