Muhammad Idrees Ahmad

Kucinich tries to impeach Bush on the 9th, the Supreme Court voted to restores the rule of law to Guantánamo on the 12th and today Shadow home secretary David Davis has resigned as an MP as a stand against the government’s “assaults” on civil liberties.  Newton states that for every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction: are we starting to see a swing back for civil liberties?  I bloody hope so.  Nice to see Bush, Blair and their cabal getting a little scare.

Truthdig: As I listened to Rep. Kucinich invoke the great engine of impeachment—he listed some 35 crimes by these two faithless officials—we heard, like great bells tolling, the voice of the Constitution itself speak out ringingly against those who had tried to destroy it.

ACLU: NEW YORK – In a stunning blow to the Bush administration’s failed national security policies, the Supreme Court ruled today 5-4 that the U.S. Constitution applies to the government’s detention policies at Guantánamo. The Court concluded that detainees held at Guantánamo have a right to challenge their detention through habeas corpus.

BBC Online: Shadow home secretary David Davis has resigned as an MP. He is to force a by-election in his Haltemprice and Howden constituency which he will fight on the issue of the new 42-day terror detention limit. Mr Davis, 59, told reporters outside the House of Commons he believed his move was a “noble endeavour” to stop the erosion of British civil liberties.