Bush’s Paper Thin Court Rebuke Shows 2006 Elections Critical

For the past 230 years since the United States won independence from the British monarchy and set up a Democracy where people matter more than kings, it has fallen to the U.S. Supreme Court - as the final arbiter of law - to save Democracy from politicians eager to trash freedom to please the mob.

The 5-3 ruling this week from the John Roberts court striking down the Bush administration’s right to try so-called “enemy combatants” in military tribunals in violation of U.S. law and the Geneva Conventions shows just how close America is to losing Democratic rights and slipping back into a monarchy-like system where the president acts as king, with whatever rights he deems divine.

If Chief Justice Roberts had not recused himself, the ruling would have been 5-4. If the Republicans maintain majorities in the U.S. House and Senate in November 2006, the odds are that President George W. Bush will be in a position to appoint at least one more Supreme Court justice before he heads back to the ranch and joins the Carlyle Group as an ex-president.

If that is allowed to happen, freedom lovers everywhere can kiss the American experiment in Democracy goodbye, most likely forever.

So if you are a freedom lover of any kind - Democrat, Republican, independent, libertarian - it is imperative that you get involved somehow in the political process and fight with whatever means you have to save American Democracy.

Here are a couple of analysis pieces on the subject. Educate yourself and DO SOMETHING, ANYTHING to join and help win this fight.

ConsortiumNews.Com: Bush’s Court Rebuke Shows High Stakes for 2006 Elections

Washington Post Analysis: Tribunal Decision Strikes at Bush’s Core

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