Salon.com | Gore vs. Bush, Part 2

Gore vs. Bush, Part 2: "But a lot of other changes have taken place that a lot of people don't know about and that come as unwelcome surprises. For example, for the first time in our history, American citizens have been seized by the executive branch of government and put in prison without being charged with a crime, without having the right to a trial, without being able to see a lawyer, and without even being able to contact their families. President Bush is claiming the unilateral right to do that to any American citizen he believes is an 'enemy combatant.' Those are the magic words. If the president alone decides that those two words accurately describe someone, then that person can be immediately locked up and held incommunicado for as long as the president wants, with no court having the right to determine whether the facts actually justify his imprisonment." -- Al Gore Think about this, this isn't some conspiracy theory or wacky left-wing socialist blog, this is Al Gore. You can no longer doubt that fact that, "American citizens have been seized by the executive branch of government and put in prison without being charged with a crime, without having the right to a trial, without being able to see a lawyer, and without even being able to contact their families." There is NO excuse for this. There is NO state of affairs which makes this acceptable. There is abominable and unacceptable and we need to DO something. What, I'm not sure except do the best we can to elimante Bush in '04.