Article: What the hell, it's only a goddamned piece of paper

Yet.

And no one they know has suddenly gone missing.

Yet.

But appearances can be deceiving. (Except, like, in Dubya’s case. Think back to when you first saw him. Didn’t you just know?)

‘Cause here’s the skinny, my friends: if you think you have any liberties left, stop that right now. The sooner you get used to the fact you are rights-less, the faster you’ll settle into your cell at that spankin’ new detention facility, one of several the government contracted with Halliburton in January 2006 to have built in the U.S. “in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants...” (Uh, right.)

Still not convinced your constitutional protections are deader’n critical thinking at a born-again revival?

OK, then: How about Bush’s Executive Order of July 17, 2007, in which he states the assets of any individual can be blocked for “threatening the peace or stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq, or undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people…”

What does that mean, exactly? Good question. Maybe your lawyer can get clarification following your arrest for traitorously attending last week’s anti-war protest.

Except, whoops! Thanks to your new designation as an unlawful enemy combatant courtesy of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, you’re not entitled to any stinkin’ explanation, since habeas corpus is now simply a corpus.

What’s that, you say? You’re not an unlawful enemy combatant? Well, I guess you can appeal that to Bush himself, since he’s got the power to deem you just that.

Good luck!

So it goes in today’s America, where funny business is the (dis)order of the day.

Except, this time? I’m not laughing.

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