A sad day for America ... Habeas Corpus is dead!

Americans may now be jailed indefinitely without having the council of an attorney ... not even hearing the charges against them in a writ of Habeas Corpus. I pray that you aren't pulled from a boarding line in an airport terminal or aren't hauled out of your home for posting a blog entry that is considered "unfriendly" to the current residents of the White House ... and then spend the next several years (under torture) wondering what it was that put you on "some list" -- a list that you can't even see with the current (still alive today, but not tomorrow) writ of Habeas Corpus rules applying. It's a truly sad day for America ... given to us by the Republican Congress despite the heroic efforts of Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), Judiciary Committee Chairman and a couple of other courageous Republicans, plus all of the Democrats. Although most Americans don't even know what "Habeas Corpus" means, the "Great Writ" dates back to the Magna Carta. A truly sad and humiliating day for the United States of America.