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Olbermann: the beginning of the end of America :
Olbermann (Countdown, MSNBC) takes Bush on for the “Military Commissions Act” and the death of Habeas Corpus.
“And if you somehow think Habeas Corpus has not been suspended for American citizens but only for everybody else, ask yourself this: If you are pulled off the street tomorrow, and they call you an alien or an undocumented immigrant or an “unlawful enemy combatant” — exactly how are you going to convince them to give you a court hearing to prove you are not? Do you think this Attorney General is going to help you?
This President now has his blank check.
He lied to get it.
He lied as he received it.
Is there any reason to even hope, he has not lied about how he intends to use it, nor who he intends to use it against?”
Olbermann Addresses the Military Commissions Act
Olbermann (Countdown, MSNBC) Addresses the Military Commissions Act in a Special Comment.
“The power of the Executive to cast a man in prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government, whether Nazi or Communist.”
-Winston Churchill
‘Lying’ Bush as Much a ‘Threat’ as Terrorists :
Countdown, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann delivered the latest in a recent series of “Special Comment” attacks on President Bush, inspired by the recently passed Military Commissions Act, as he suggested Bush was as big a “threat” to America as the “terrorists.”
The Countdown host not only referred to the government “becoming just a little bit like the terrorists,” but he also labelled some of Bush’s “invocations” as “terroristic” and compared the wish of a 9/11 planner to end America to what President Bush himself “has wrought.”
Olbermann: “One of the terrorists believed to have planned the 9/11 attacks, you told us yesterday, said he hoped the attacks would be the beginning of the end of America. That terrorist, sir, could only hope. Not his actions nor the actions of a ceaseless line of terrorists, real or imagined, could measure up to what you have wrought…
These things you have done, Mr. Bush, they would constitute the beginning of the end of America.” Olbermann also charged that Bush has “imposed subjugation and called it freedom,” accused Bush several times of telling “lies,” and proclaimed, addressing Bush, that “the threat this generation of Americans needed to take seriously was you.”
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