The Death of Habeas Corpus

I've been wondering how to express my disappointment and sadness after Congress passed the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which was signed into law on Tuesday by George W Bush. Nothing that I could have written could have captured my thoughts as eloquently or as forcefully as Keith Olbermann's Special Comment last night:



For further reading on this travesty, check out Glenn Greenwald's commentary here and here. The latter is a good recap of how Right Wing America will view the signing of this Act, based on the intellectual laziness and/or mental contortions required by Their Media to justify such a blatant backward step for this country.

In short, it's all one giant middle finger to the Promise of Democracy -- and, incidentally, an unnecessary step in the fight against terrorist extremists.