From UnderpaidGenius.com: Lieberman Is Off The Rails (you mean, STILL off the rails, right?

More pure, Bizarro Planet madness brought to us by Stowe Boyd at UnderpaidGenius.com:

NY Times, Fear Itself

Lawmakers like Senators John McCain of Arizona and Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and Representative Peter King of New York were immediately outraged that Mr. Shahzad — a United States citizen accused of an attempted attack on civilians in an American city — was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and eventually read his Miranda rights.

They are demanding that Mr. Shahzad be declared an illegal enemy combatant, stripped of any rights and brought before a military tribunal. They have opened another round of sneering at “the law enforcement approach” to terrorism. That is contemptuous, first of all, of the police officers whose quick actions may have saved untold numbers and the other people who identified and tracked Mr. Shahzad with amazing speed.

It also ignores reality. According to all reports, Mr. Shahzad started talking even before he was read his rights (“the law enforcement approach” allows investigators to question suspects immediately if there is an imminent threat to the public). When he was read his rights, Mr. Shahzad seems to have kept talking. The Times reported on Wednesday that he waived his right to a speedy arraignment — to go on talking.

To get around the inconvenient fact that Mr. Shahzad is a citizen, Mr. Lieberman is even calling for a law allowing Americans accused (not convicted) of unspecified crimes to be stripped of their citizenship and retroactively deprived of due process under the law.

This is not Mr. Lieberman’s first foray into this dark territory. He is co-author with Mr. McCain of a bill that would require that anyone arrested on any terrorism-related charge, including American citizens, be declared an enemy combatant and tried in a military court.

There is no basis that would lead the US to attempt to circumvent rights guaranteed by the constitution. This should lead to his censure by the Senate, and let’s hope the people of Connecticut come to their senses and dump him.

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My only gripe is that I've been bitching about this kind of thing for almost ten years now.

Our Constitution has been in tatters since the Patriot Act and so far we have yet to bring it back. I guess I should be happy people are still complaining about it--I just wish people wouldn't act like this was a new thing--like those idiot-Tea-Party types.

Government over-spending? O, RLY? The USG has been out of control since 911! In fact, the only thing we SHOULD have overspent on was holding a whole new election in Florida back in 2000.

Man am I sick of paying attention to all this stuff!

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