Griper Blade: The GOP to Rescue Civil Rights?

A writ of habeas corpus is a civil proceeding that allows an arrestee to challenge the legality of their detention. If a federal cop throws you in jail for hitting on his wife, you're pretty much guaranteed to get sprung. In 2006, you lost that right when President Bush signed the Military Commissions Act, which allows you to be held indefinitely, without charge. "[N]o court, justice, or judge shall have jurisdiction to hear or consider an application for a writ of habeas corpus filed by or on behalf of an alien detained by the United States who has been determined by the United States to have been properly detained as an enemy combatant or is awaiting such determination," it reads. Now, if you weren't born here and the cop says you're a terrorist, he can lock you up for hitting on his wife and there's not a damned thing you can do about it. Even if you're a US citizen.

Considering that, tell me which left wing, blame-America-first, terrorist loving organization put out this press release:

When President Bush signed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA) into law, it was a gross usurpation of powers by the Executive branch. Unfortunately, members of Congress allowed that usurpation to take place when both the House (by a vote of 250-170) and Senate (by a vote of 65-34) passed the legislation.

One component of the bill authorizes the president to suspend the right of habeas corpus -- the Constitutionally-protected right that allows a prisoner to request the reason for his/her incarceration from a lawful judge. Habeas corpus is specifically discussed in Article 1, Section 9, of the U.S. Constitution: "The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it."

That's like MoveOn.org or some other lefty group, right?

Nope. That'd be the John Birch Society, a group that thinks Sen. Joe McCarthy was an american hero, that Republicans aren't conservative enough, and that social security is a communist plot. The John Birch Society is the rightest of the right.

Which makes it a once in the lifetime of the universe event when they're on the same page as the American Civil Liberties Union:...

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