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By Mitchell Rabin
The tea is brewing, the coffee is being poured, and in other cases, the green juice is being Vita-mixed first thing in the morning in many American kitchens across the land. The sun is just beginning to peak in, another beautiful day, get the kids ready for school and then off to work.
Yes, it's another day in the urban, suburban and rural life of an American. He and she assume a level of certainty that they live in a free country with all the protections conferred through the Constitution and Bill of Rights. The assumption is so strong, it is veritably a 'way of life', nothing we have to think about, because it is at the heart of our American society. Right?
Free speech, freedom of religion, the 5th Amend-ment, and the rest, right? It was right until just last week. Now it's wrong. This is not an assumption we can any longer make, because the Senate has just passed a bill called The Military Authorization Act, which, more than the Patriot or the Military Commission Acts both passed during the Bush-Cheney Administration, eviscerates, disembowels Habeas Corpus and Posse Comitatus. Excuse me?
Yes: the right to due process, a day in Court and that the military is prohibited from coming onto domestic soil and act against its own people militarily. Further, any foreigner or any American can be picked up and placed into unrestricted indefinite detention. No lawyer, no day in court, Nada. Is this the American way?
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