Okay, so Scooter Skates. It's unquestionably a travesty of justice, a particularly toxic icing on a radioactive (yellow) cake. Bush and Cheney are displaying what, in another era, would be a shocking disdain for the justice system.
Honestly, though, after the so-called election in 2000, the USA PATRIOT Act, after making a mockery of the counterattack in Afghanistan, after Iraq, after the actual outing of Valerie Plame, after the so-called election in 2004, after Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, after 'extraordinary rendition,' after illegal wiretapping, after Katrina and Rita, after Walter Reed, after the war on science, reason and facts, after the firing of the US Attorneys, after their butchery of Habeas Corpus -- the fundamental bedrock of the Western concept of liberty -- after all that and a thousand other ways, great and small, in which this vile, inhuman lot have wiped their collective asses with the Constitution and 225 years of struggle for a better nation and world...this is the straw? Seriously?
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