Whatever Happened to Innocent Until Proven Guilty?

Recenty the New York Times printed a story about Jose Padilla. If you don't know who he is, what planet have you been living on is all I got to say about that.
Here's the link to the original NYT article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/04/us/04detain.html?th&emc=th
You will have to register to read it but it's free.

Jose is a born American citizen who is also a muslim. He's accused of planning to build and explode a dirty bomb. Held in Gitmo, Cuba for several years, his lawyers accuse the Bush Administration of torturing him and is now unable to assist in his defense.

The NYT's article made me cry. I cried for Jose, I cried for our lost Bill of Rights, I cried for the stupid Americans that think the Patriot Act keeps them safe from the terrorists. I cried for Habeus Corpus too, Habeus was the one thing we Americans had that protected us from EVIL DOERS.

What happened to Jose could happen to anyone now in America. Our Justice system can now be compared to that of Egypt, Sryia, Iraq or Afghanistan.
Each and every American can be arrested by our government, held without the right to a phone call or an attorney. They can even rendition you to another country and not tell anyone. You my friend can just DISAPPEAR. HOW can they do that you ask? Well first we can thank those beautiful people we elected up there in Washington, they voted and killed Habeus Corpus.

What I find appauling is that the people I talk to here in S.W. Missouri are clueless. Clueless about Jose, Clueless about what the Patriot Act really is and Clueless about Habeus Corpus. How the hell do you talk to people who are ignorant about their own DEMOCRACY? I'm sick of people saying "Well I'm not doing anything wrong". Gees people thats just it! You don't need to do something wrong! If a cop thinks you looked at him sideways he can arrest you without cause. They can kick your door in without knocking. Ask the 92 year old woman the police killed what she did wrong? http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/462/woman_92_shot_by_atlanta_police_in_drug_raid

Or the single father who recieved the death penalty after police invade his home but again had the wrong address. He shot and killed a policeman in the middle of the night, after they crashed thru his door. What did he do wrong? In the dark he killed a person in his mind was either going to kill him and hid little girl. I would have done the same thing.

In both of these cases the people thought they were being invaded by someone wanting to harm them and look what they got? One dead and one in prison. The Supreme Court now allows for no knock warrants.

If you think you are Innocent until proven guilty think again.

United States Bill of Rights
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights

Patriot Act
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act

Habeus Corpus
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeus_corpus

The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America (Paperback)
http://www.buzzflash.com/store/items/423
People this is a forty page book.



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