Democracy for Vancouver

This is a bleak day for Democracy and human rights worldwide.
Edward Gomez has a nice article in at SF Gate:

The provisions of Bush’s new torture law mean that Americans have lost
the key, constitutional right on which Anglo-American criminal law (and
criminal-law procedures in true democracies in general) is founded;
that’s the basic right of an individual to know why he or she is being
apprehended and detained. Now, technically, as in Stalin’s Soviet Union, Hitler’s Germany, Mao’s China or Pol Pot’s Cambodia,
anyone labeled an “enemy combatant” - again, by whom; by Bush? - can be
whisked away and never heard from again. That kind of authority, in the
hands of corrupt or untruthful politicians, may or may not be an
effective tool in some kind of “war on terror,” but it certainly can be
a useful tool when it comes to silencing their opponents.

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