Many of the freedoms the founders of this country included in the U.S. Constitution, such as protection from unwarranted searches and the right to a trial, have been discarded by the current administration.
You can now be arrested without any charge, held indefinitely, denied the right to contact family or a lawyer, transferred to a foreign country that openly engages in torture or executed - all without any burden of proof, standard of evidence, legislative oversight or appeal. No judicial process whatsoever except a "tribunal" the president himself constructs, which some top military officers have denounced as nothing more than a sham kangaroo court.
On July 15 in a chilling decision a panel of federal appellate-court judges upheld Bush's sovereign right to designate anyone he chooses a legal non-person, throwing away the Geneva Conventions, American military and domestic law and the U.S. Constitution. One of the jurists on that panel was John G. Roberts.
Four days after he affirmed Bush's autocratic powers, Roberts was rewarded with a nomination to the Supreme Court.
Roberts is not the warm, fuzzy shoo-in he is being sold as in the media. His disdain for the freedom traditionally protected by the U.S. Constitution makes Roberts the exact opposite of the kind of person who should sit on the Supreme Court.
-Jay Miller,
Hills (IA).
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