"Shining City on the Hill"; "Beacon of Liberty" and all that other stuff...

Shat upon JUST in time for Veterans Day (oh, and they shat on them too):

The Senate voted Thursday to strip captured "enemy combatants" at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, of the principal legal tool given to them last year by the Supreme Court when it allowed them to challenge their detentions in United States courts.

The vote, 49 to 42, on an amendment to a military budget bill by Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, comes at a time of intense debate over the government's treatment of prisoners in American custody worldwide, and just days after the Senate passed a measure by Senator John McCain banning abusive treatment of them.

If approved in its current form by both the Senate and the House, which has not yet considered the measure but where passage is considered likely, the law would nullify a June 2004 Supreme Court opinion that detainees at Guantánamo Bay had a right to challenge their detentions in court.

This legislation makes these folks, forever, prisoners without any right of review of their treatment.

This is simply bestial, the type of legislation a Hitler or a Stalin would have loved.

We're one Mao away from crapping our country and our legacy down the shitter completely.