Your Rights Slowly Taken Away

Two items. First, as Ron Davis pointed out, the Bush administration has seen fit to suspend the Second Amendment in New Orleans. Now the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals says they can imprison you without trial, indefinitely.

A decision by the 4th Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the federal government's right to hold an American citizen in custody indefinitely a so-called "enemy combatant" without bringing criminal charges against him.

The case was brought by attorneys for Jose Padilla, am American citizen who has been held in a brig in a naval brig for more than three years without charge after being arrested on American soil.

The government has alleged that Padilla had trained at al-Qaeda terrorist camps and had plans to blow up buildings in the United States. To date, Padilla has not been charged with any specific crime.

Padilla's attorneys and civil rights advocates said the detention was illegal and could easily lead to abuses by the government who could then arrest almost anybody for protesting against government policy or even taking out the "wrong" books from the public library.

No right to meet with an attorney. No right to face your accusers. Bush can label you an "enemy combatant" and imprison you until the day you die. Do you feel safer with George W. Bush as president?